The Most Famous People from Nepal
Top 9 of 9 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →
First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.
The Most Famous People from Nepal is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Buddha celebrity | 13.1 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  Balen Shah politicianAlive | 10.4 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Nirmal Purja celebrityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  Manisha Koirala celebrityAlive | 7.1 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  Pushpa Kamal Dahal politicianAlive | 6.2 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Ram Bahadur Bomjon celebrityAlive | 3.6 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Apa Sherpa celebrityAlive | 3.4 | iFANN → |
| 8 |  Amita Suman celebrityAlive | 2.3 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  Ram Sahaya Yadav politicianAlive | 2.1 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks people from Nepal by their overall worldwide fame rather than local attention, as assessed for September 2026: the top 9 of 9 names, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 8 of the 9 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
The Buddha is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind The Buddha come Balen Shah and Nirmal Purja.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About Nepal
Nepal is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.
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iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.
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"The Buddha, No. 1 on The Most Famous People from Nepal", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org