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आरिफ शेख

Batter for the Nepal national cricket team and former Under-19 vice-captain

आसिफ शेख

Wicket-keeper-batter who holds Nepal's record for the most ODI half-centuries

आङरिता शेर्पा

First person to summit Mount Everest ten times without supplemental oxygen; nicknamed the "Snow Leopard"

आङ थर्के

Pioneering Sherpa mountaineer and sirdar who introduced Tenzing Norgay to mountaineering

आङ चेरिङ

Sherpa mountaineer on the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition and a survivor of the 1934 Nanga Parbat disaster

आङ छिरिङ शेर्पा

Founder of Asian Trekking, Nepal's oldest still-operating mountaineering and trekking company

अञ्जन विष्ट

Forward for the Nepal national football team, gold medallist at the 2016 South Asian Games

अन्जिला तुम्बापो सुब्बा

Goalkeeper and captain of the Nepal women's national football team; subject of Nepal's first sportsperson biopic

अपा शेर्पा

Mountaineer who held the record for most Everest summits (21) from 2000 to 2018

अर्जुन कुमार बस्नेत

Marathon runner who represented Nepal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

अरुणा शाही

Former captain of the Nepal women's national volleyball team, silver medallist at the South Asian Games

बाबु छिरी शेर्पा

Set the record for the fastest Everest ascent and for spending 21 hours on the summit without oxygen

वसन्त रेग्मी

Left-arm spinner who played in Nepal's first-ever One Day International

भावना घिमिरे

First CEO of the Cricket Association of Nepal and current CEO of the Nepal Premier League's Lumbini Lions

बिक्रम लामा

Longtime Three Star Club captain nicknamed "Tackle Lama"; president of the Nepal Football Player Association

विमल घर्ती मगर

Footballer; youngest player to debut and score for the Nepal national team

दावा स्टेभन शेर्पा

Mountaineer, entrepreneur, and environmentalist who leads Asian Trekking and Nepal's Eco Everest Expedition clean-up campaigns

दीपक महर्जन

Boxer who won Nepal's only medal at the 2010 Asian Games

दिपेन्द्र सिंह ऐरी

All-rounder and Nepal's T20I captain, holder of the fastest T20I fifty

गंगा बहादुर थापा

Nepal's first-ever Olympic athlete, competing in the marathon at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

ज्ञानेन्द्र मल्ल

Former captain of the Nepal national cricket team, now head coach of the national side

हरि कुमार रिमाल

Long-distance runner who competed in the 5,000m at the 2016 Rio Olympics

इन्दु बर्मा

Captain of the Nepal women's national cricket team

Holds the world record for the most ascents of Mount Everest (32 as of May 2026) and the most ascents of peaks above 8,000 metres (43)

कान्छा शेर्पा

Last surviving member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition, which achieved the first ascent of Everest

करण केसी

Fast bowler for the Nepal national cricket team

करिश्मा कार्की

Olympic swimmer who set a Nepali national record with 12 gold medals at the Fifth National Games

खिमलाल गौतम

Government surveyor and the only Nepali civil servant to have climbed Mount Everest twice; helped measure Everest's official new height

कृष्ण बहादुर बस्नेत

Marathon runner who represented Nepal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics

कुशल मल्ला

Cricketer; youngest man to score an ODI half-century and a former holder of the fastest T20I century

ल्हाक्पा शेर्पा

Mountaineer with the record for most Everest summits by a woman (11)

मणि शाह

Former captain of the Nepal national football team, gold medallist at the 1993 South Asian Games

मनिता श्रेष्ठ प्रधान

Judoka who represented Nepal at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the -57kg category

मिङ्मा ग्याल्जे शेर्पा

Mountaineer and IFMGA guide who led the first winter ascent of K2 without supplemental oxygen

मोनालिशा खम्बू

First Women's Chess Champion of Nepal and the country's first female International Arbiter

Mountaineer who climbed all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre peaks in 6 months and 6 days (Project Possible, 2019); former British Army Gurkha and Special Boat Service member

पलेशा गोवर्धन

First Nepali athlete to win an Olympic or Paralympic medal, taking Para taekwondo bronze at the 2024 Paris Paralympics

पारस खड्का

Former captain of the Nepal national cricket team (2008–2019)

पासाङ ल्हामु शेर्पा

First Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest

प्रसिद्ध जंग शाह

Two-time Olympic swimmer who was Nepal's flag bearer at the 2012 London Olympics

पूर्णिमा श्रेष्ठ

First woman to summit Mount Everest three times in a single climbing season

राजकुमारी पाण्डे

Among Nepal's earliest female Olympians, competing in the marathon at the 1988 Seoul Olympics

रोहित चन्द

Long-serving Nepal national football team defensive midfielder with a lengthy professional career in Indonesia

रोहित पौडेल

Cricketer and former captain of the Nepal national cricket team

रुबिना क्षेत्री

Former captain of the Nepal women's national cricket team and the first Nepali woman to take a T20I hat-trick

साबित्रा भण्डारी

Captain and all-time record goalscorer of the Nepal women's national football team; first Nepalese player to play and score in a top-tier European league

सन्दीप लामिछाने

Leg-spin bowler and the first Nepali cricketer to play in the Indian Premier League

सन्तु श्रेष्ठ

First Nepali table tennis player to qualify for the Olympic Games, at Paris 2024

सन्तोषी श्रेष्ठ

Set a new Nepali athletics record winning gold in the women's 10,000m at the 2019 South Asian Games

श्रीजना घिसिङ

First Nepali athlete to win a World Taekwondo Para Grand Prix Final, defeating the reigning world number one

सोमपाल कामी

Fast-medium bowler and bowling all-rounder for the Nepal national cricket team

First person, alongside Sir Edmund Hillary, confirmed to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on 29 May 1953