title: List of people from Arunachal Pradesh
text: # List of people from Arunachal Pradesh
  
  This is a list of people who were born in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
  
  ## Mountaineers
  
  * Tapi Mra – mountaineer from India and the first person from Arunachal Pradesh to scale Everest
  * Anshu Jamsenpa – Everester 4 times
  * Tine Mena – Everester
  
  ## Social activists
  
  * Nabam Atum
  * Binny Yanga
  
  ## Freedom Fighters
  
  * Moje Riba
  
  ## Journalists
  
  * Mamang Dai – journalist, author, poet, and former civil servant based in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
  * Dibang – Aaj Tak journalist; his mother is from Arunachal Pradesh; his father is Punjabi
  
  ## Politics and bureaucracy
  
  * Pema Khandu – CM of Arunachal Pradesh
  * Kalikho Pul – ex-CM of Arunachal Pradesh
  * Gegong Apang – former CM of Arunachal Pradesh
  * Mukut Mithi – former CM of Arunachal Pradesh; Lt. Governor of Puducherry
  * Rajani Kanta Patir – former Chief Secretary of Arunachal Pradesh
  * Kiren Rijiju – BJP Member of Parliament; Union minister
  * Takam Sanjoy – INC Member of Parliament
  * Jomin Tayeng – first IAS Officer of Arunachal Pradesh; MLA from Dambuk
  * Prem Khandu Thungon – first Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
  * Nabam Tuki – ex-CM of Arunachal Pradesh
  * Ninong Ering – Member of Parliament from Arunachal Pradesh and Former Union Minister
  * Jarbom Gamlin – ex-CM and former MP
  * Shakuntala Doley Gamlin – former Chief Secretary and secretary for department of empowerment of person with disabilities
  * Daying Ering – politician
  
  ## Religious leaders
  
  * Talom Rukbo – father of the Donyi-Polo movement
  
  ## Philosophers
  
  * Tamo Mibang – Vice-Chancellor; Head of Department of Tribal Studies of Rajiv Gandhi University
  