Prem Kumar Dhumal (pronounced [preːmə kʊmaːrə d̪ʱuːmələ], Hindi: प्रेम कुमार धूमल [??] ( listen); born 10 April 1944) is the 12th and current chief minster of Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. He is an Indian politician who is a 2 time Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh from March 1998 to March 2003 and again since 31 December 2007.

Prem Kumar Dhumal was born to Capt. Mahant Ram and Smt. Phulmu Devi on 10 April 1944, in the Samirpur of Hamirpur District, Punjab, British India.

Mr. Dhumal started his career as an Assistant with the Life Insurance Corporation of India, having completed his Post Graduation in English literature and a degree in Law, while, first working with LIC and later as a teacher with the Panjabi University Evening College Jalandhar and then educated from Doaba College, Jalandhar city. He had also captained College volleyball team for three consecutive years.

Controversy technically Mr. Dhumal is not Prof. Dhumal because he is not awarded with a Phd and he worked as an English lecturer for a private college. Another controversy his media advisor with some other big fishes were found in company of call girls in Shimla. Rajinder Rana was sacked after few days.. Rajinder rana was later given clean chit ironically investigation in this case was also made by state CID which is under Mr. Dhumal himself as he is the head of home ministry.

  Prem Kumar is a Malayalam film artist. He did many notable roles in Tele films and TV Operas. He acted in more than 100 films in which he was the hero in 18 films.^{[citation needed]}

During college days, Prem Kumar was very active in arts and literature. He has won many State level awards as Best Actor in drama competitions. He was selected as the panel artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan during his college days. He has staged many classic characters like Macbeth, Coreo launus, Oedipus, Othello, etc. His performance as these characters were very much appreciated by critics as well as audience.

After that he landed into the malayalam film industry starting off his career with some petty roles as a side actor. He is best known his comedy roles in Malayalam movies. His movies in the lead role which did not find much success in the box office.