List of Famous people with last name Chaliha

Ashmita Chaliha is an Indian badminton player. Born and brought up in Guwahati, she began playing badminton at the age of seven, and trained at the Assam Badminton Academy under Indonesian coach Edwin Iriawan and India’s Suranjan Bhobora, she was also coached by Pullela Gopichand for the asian games. Chaliha was part of the national junior team that competed at the 2017 World and Asian Junior Championships. She has been selected to be part of the Indian team for the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. Chaliha won her first senior international title at the 2018 Dubai International Challenge in the women's singles event. She was the gold medalists at the 2019 South Asian Games in the women's singles and team events.

Kuladhar Chaliha was a freedom fighter and prominent leader of Assam from Indian National Congress. Chaliha was one of the elected member of 1934 Indian general election from Assam state. He was first president of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee when it was founded. He was also first speakers of the Assam Legislative Assembly from March 1952 to June 1957.