Kham as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. 9th Dalai Lama (1805-1815), Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer (1939-1987), 6th Karmapa): Dalai Lama 09 Lungtok Gyatso, Chögyam Trungpa, Tongwa Donden and some more.
Celebrities from Kham