Singh Negi (braille editor and social worker, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan recipient) Sunderlal Bahuguna (environmentalist, Chipko movement leader, Padma Vibhushan recipient) Indian independence movement Nagendra Saklani (Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter) Ram Prasad Nautiyal (Indian freedom fighter and politician) Sri Dev Suman (Indian freedom fighter, journalist and civil rights leader) Historical figures Teelu Rauteli, folk heroine of Garhwal, Uttarakhand Religion Dabral Baba (Indian yogi and mystic) Hans Maharaj (Indian spiritual leader) Prem Rawat (Indian American spiritual leader, founder of the Divine Light Mission) Swami Rama (founder of the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust) Swami Satyanand saraswati Science and academics Anand Sharan Raturi (economist and first vice-chancellor of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University) Aditya Narayan Purohit (Plant physiologist, Padma Shri awarded and vice-chancellor of H.N.B. Garhwal University) Anirudh Kala (psychiatrist) Chandra Prakash Kala (ecologist) Prem Lal Joshi (accounting researcher and professor) Ruchi Badola (ecologist) Vijay Prasad Dimri (geophysical scientist, Padma Shri recipient) Indian Armed Forces Gallantry award recipients Naik Darwan Singh Negi, Victoria Cross from 1st Battalion of 39th Garhwal Rifles Rifleman Gabar Singh Negi, Victoria Cross from 2nd Battalion, 39th Garhwal Rifles (posthumous) Havildar Gajender Singh Bisht, Operation Black Tornado 2008, Ashoka Chakra (posthumous) Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat, hero of Indo-China War, 1962; Maha Vir Chakra (posthumous) Prominent names General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff and former Chief of the Army Staff Lt. Gen. Anil Chauhan, Director General of Military Operations (DGMO), Indian Army Lt. Gen. Anil Kumar Bhatt, General Officer Commanding (GOC) XV Corps, also called as the "Chinar Corps" of the Indian Army, former Director-General of Military Operations (DGMO), Indian Army. Lt. Gen. Jaiveer Singh Negi, Commandant of Indian Military Academy, Indian Army Lt. Gen. Balwant Singh Negi (Retd.), former General Officer Commander-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Central Command, Indian Army Lt. Gen. Madan Mohan Lakhera (Retd.), former Governor of Mizoram, former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Lt. Gen. Tejpal Singh Rawat (Retd.), former Director General of the Assam Rifles, Indian Army and former MP Lok Sabha Director-General Rajendra Singh, former Director General of the Indian Coast Guard Maj. Gen. B. C. Khanduri (Retd.), former Union Minister of Surface Transport, former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and former MP Lok Sabha Air Marshal Arvindra Singh Butola, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief (AOC-in-C), Training Command, Indian Air Force Brigadier Surendra Singh Panwar (Retd.) Brigadier S. K. S. Negi (Retd.) Colonel Ajay Kothiyal (Retd.), Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra recipient Bureaucracy Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser