Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (; Jñanendra Sah; born 7 July 1947) was the King of
Nepal from 2001 to 2008. As a child, he was also briefly king from 1950 to 1951, when his grandfather,
Tribhuvan, went into exile in
India with the rest of his family. Following the
Nepalese royal massacre in 2001, he again became king.