Nam Singh Thapa

Nam Singh Thapa (, ; 8 August 1946 – 3 January 2026) was a Nepalese boxer. He competed in the flyweight event at the 1964 Summer Olympics, being among the first Nepalese to compete at the Olympics.

Biography Thapa was born on 8 August 1946, in Manakamana, Gorkha, Nepal. He recalled that he grew up in a remote village where he herded cattle and "had to walk 45 minutes to get water". "I learned about suffering from birth", he said. His father, Kesh Bahadur Thapa, was a military officer, and he made Thapa enlist in the army in Malaysia when he was age 14, as part of the Brigade of Gurkhas. Thapa recalled that, "That was where I first heard the name of boxing. It was a compulsory sport in the platoon, which I ran away from so that I wouldn't have to play. I was arrested that day."

According to the Asia Times, each of the boxers who competed for Nepal at the 1964 Olympics also had invitations to compete at the 1968 Summer Olympics, but "the Brigade of Gurkhas refused to send them. As a result, their boxing careers came to premature ends". He was married and had a son and four daughters.