Prominent personalities

* **Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama**: The spiritual leader of Tibet and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has resided in McLeod Ganj since 1960. * **Penpa Tsering**: The current Sikyong (political leader/President) of the Central Tibetan Administration. * **Lobsang Sangay**: A legal scholar and politician who previously served two terms as the Sikyong. * **Ogyen Trinley Dorje**: The 17th Karmapa, a major figure in Tibetan Buddhism who resided for many years at the nearby Gyuto Tantric Monastery.