Nilima

Nilima Ghose (born 15 June 1935) was the first female track athlete from India to compete at the Summer Olympics, when she took part in two events at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland.

Nilima Sheikh (born 18 November 1945, in New Delhi) is a visual artist based in Baroda, India. Since the mid-80s, Sheikh has done extensive research about traditional art forms in India, advocated for the sustainability of the practice of traditional painters, and used a wide range of visual and literary sources in her work. Her work focuses on displacement, longing, historical lineage, tradition, communal violence, and the ideas of femininity.

Nilima Sen (1928–1996) was a famous Rabindrasangeet singer. She founded the music school "Surangama" along with Prasad Sen and later joined Sangit Bhavana as a Faculty. For a couple of years, she taught music at Bardhhaman University.

Nilima Ibrahim (11 October 1921 – 18 June 2002) was a Bangladeshi educationist, littérateur and social worker. She is well known for her scholarship on Bengali literature but even more so for her depiction of raped and tortured women in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War in her book Ami Birangana Bolchi. She was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1969, Begum Rokeya Padak (1996) and Ekushey Padak in 2000 by the Government of Bangladesh for her contributions to Bangla literature.