Nirupama Rao
 Nirupama Menon Rao (Malayalam: നിരുപമ മേനോന്‍ റാവു; born 6 December 1950) is a 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service officer and was Indian Ambassador to the United States . Prior to this assignment she had served as the Foreign Secretary of India for a period of 2 years.In July 2009 she became the second woman (after Chokila Iyer) to hold the post of Indian Foreign Secretary the head of the Indian Foreign Service.