Hmar is a Kuki ethnic group living in Northeast Indian state of Manipur, Mizoram, Assam and western Myanmar (Burma) and eastern Bangladesh.^[5] They use Meitei language as their second language (L2) in Manipur.^[6][7][8] They speak Mizo language as their L1 in Mizoram.^[9]

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According to the 2011 Indian Census, there were 98,988 Hmar speakers.^[10]

An overwhelming majority of the Hmar people practice Christianity.

The majority of the Hmars were cultivators. The Hmars in South Manipur were introduced to Christianity in the year 1910 by Watkin Roberts, a Welsh missionary.^[14]

After the signing of the Mizo Accord in July 1986, some Hmar leaders in Mizoram formed the Mizoram Hmar Association (later renamed the Hmar People's Convention (HPC)). The HPC spearheaded a political movement for self-governance of the Hmars in Mizoram, demanding an Autonomous District Council (ADC) comprising Hmar-dominated areas in north and northwest of Mizoram for the protection of their identity, culture, tradition, language, and natural resources.

To quell and suppress the political movement, the Mizoram government deployed the Mizoram Armed Police (MAP) against the HPC activists, which forced the HPC to take up an armed struggle by forming an armed wing, the Hmar Volunteer Cell (HVC). The armed confrontation continued until 1992 when HPC representatives and the Government of Mizoram mutually agreed to hold ministerial-level talks. After multiple rounds of talks, a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) was signed in Aizawl on 27 July 1994 between the Government of Mizoram and the HPC. Armed cadres of the HPC surrendered along with their weapons in October 1994 and later the Sinlung Hills Development Council (SHDC) was established. Some of the HPC leaders and cadres, however, rejected the Memorandum of Settlement and broke away from the main HPC, forming the Hmar People's Convention - Democratic (HPC-D), which continued an armed movement for autonomy in the form of an Autonomous District Council under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India within Mizoram.^[15] Over one hundred militants of HPC-D surrendered with their weapons in April 2018 following a peace pact signed with the Mizoram state government, which led to the formation of the Sinlung Hills Council^[16]

• Rochunga Pudaite, included the Hmar as well as Paite, Zou, Vaiphei, Gangte, and other clans as one of the Schedule Tribe of India, 1956 and the founder of Bibles for the world
• HT Sangliana, Lok Sabha MP
• Robert Romawia Royte, current MLA from Aizawl and Minister of State. He is the owner of Aizawl FC
• Esther Hnamte, Singer
• Mami Varte, Mizo singer
• Jason Azzopardi
• Lalnghinglova Hmar, Journalist and sports promoter of Mizoram
• Lalremsiami, India women's national field hockey team player
• Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl, Politician from Tripura
• Lalram Luaha, Indian Footballer
• Lal Dena, Hmar historian and Vice Chancellor of Sangai International University, Churachandpur
• Lalthlamuong Keivom, writer and composer of Mizo literature and Hmar literature
• Zirsangzela Hnamte, Writer of Mizo literature
• Alfred Lalroutsang, youngest-ever player to play in the Indian Super League at the age of 16 years.
• Lalrinliana Hnamte, Indian Footballer
• Lalvarmoi Hmar, Indian Footballer
• Hmar Zothanchhunga, Indian Cricketer

• Bnei Menashe