Editing Nainital (section)

==Notable people==
{{main category|People from Nainital}}
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* [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Bollywood]] actor. Educated at Sherwood College.
* [[Sonam Bajwa]], Indian actress.
* [[Kabir Bedi]], Bollywood actor. Educated at Sherwood College.
* [[Jim Corbett]], hunter of man-eating tigers, author, conservationist and namesake of [[Jim Corbett National Park]]. Educated at St. Joseph's College and lived in [[Gurney House]].
* [[Jessie Landale Cumberland]], British suffragette
* [[Danny Denzongpa]], Bollywood actor studied in Birla Vidya Mandir
* [[Shekhar Pathak]], noted historian, editor, travel-writer, and activist
* [[B K Goyal]], cardiologist, educated at Birla Vidya Mandir{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
* [[Percy Hobart]], British major general and military engineer
* [[Elsie Inglis]], physician and social reformer
* [[Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay]], first secretary general of [[NATO]]
* [[Anup Jalota]], singer
* [[Sukirti Kandpal]], TV actress
* [[Gopal Datt]], Indian actor and writer. Graduated from Kumaon University
* [[Sudhir Kakar]], renowned psychoanalyst
* [[Field Marshal]] [[Sam Manekshaw]], Indian Army Chief of Staff during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Educated at Sherwood College.
* [[Anku Pande]], Film Producer. Educated at St. Mary's Convent High School
* [[Eric Maturin]], British actor
* [[Lalit Modi]], [[Indian Premier League]] (IPL) chairman. Educated at St. Joseph's College.
* [[Rajendra K. Pachauri]], chairman of the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]]
* [[Manish Pandey]], cricketer who plays for [[Karnataka]] and [[Bangalore]]
* [[Nirmal Pandey]], Bollywood actor and singer
* [[Ram Kapoor]], TV actor. Educated at Sherwood College.
* [[Govind Ballabh Pant]], statesman and leader of India's independence movement, first Indian Premier of British India, the first Chief Minister of [[Uttar Pradesh]] and the third Home Minister of India
*[[K. C. Pant|Krishna Chandra Pant]], former Deputy Chairman of the [[Planning Commission of India]]. Educated at St. Joseph's College.
*[[Hamida Saiduzzafar]], ophthalmologist
*[[Henry Stephens Salt]], considered as the 'father of animal rights'. Born in Nainital. 
* [[Naseeruddin Shah]], Bollywood actor. Educated at St. Joseph's College.
* Major [[Som Nath Sharma]], India's first [[Param Vir Chakra]] award winner. Educated at Sherwood College.
* [[Shivani]], Hindi poet
* [[Billy Arjan Singh]], Tiger conservationist of India, Educated in Nainital.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Davison |first1=Phil |title="Billy" Arjan Singh: Honorary Tiger |url=https://sikhchic.com/people/_billy_arjan_singh_honorary_tiger |website=sikhchic.com |access-date=7 August 2022}}</ref>
* [[Dalip Tahil]], Bollywood actor. Educated at Sherwood College.
* [[Narayan Dutt Tiwari]], Indian leader and politician, former Governor of [[Andhra Pradesh]], former Chief Minister of [[Uttarakhand]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]], and former Finance Minister of India.
* [[Orde Charles Wingate]], British general and commander of the Chindits in [[Burma]] during [[World War II]]