diff --git a/parlai/agents/hugging_face/README.md b/parlai/agents/hugging_face/README.md
index 2a670da9fce..f242c21b8e4 100644
--- a/parlai/agents/hugging_face/README.md
+++ b/parlai/agents/hugging_face/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 We offer wrappers for generative transformers from [Hugging Face's transformers repository](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) for fine-tuning and evaluating in ParlAI.
 
 ## GPT2
-To use GPT2, run your command with the flag: `-m hugging_face/gpt2`.
+To use GPT2, run your command with the flag: `-m hugging_face/gpt2`. And suppose you want to use another model other 
+than the default English GPT2 (small, medium, large and xl version), in that case, you can use `-m hugging_face/gpt2 --model_name <gpt2 model name>`,
+where `<gpt2 model name>` can be any GPT2 model hosted in Huggingface such as **anonymous-german-nlp/german-gpt2**
+or **indonesian-nlp/gpt2**
 
 ### Examples
 **Talk to GPT2 large in interactive mode, with beam size 10, 3-gram beam blocking, and minimum beam length 25:**
diff --git a/parlai/agents/hugging_face/dict.py b/parlai/agents/hugging_face/dict.py
index 2a22b8551d0..ed83c3bda7a 100644
--- a/parlai/agents/hugging_face/dict.py
+++ b/parlai/agents/hugging_face/dict.py
@@ -140,23 +140,26 @@ def get_tokenizer(self, opt):
         """
         Instantiate tokenizer.
         """
-        model_sz = opt["gpt2_size"]
-        if model_sz == "small":
-            model_key = "gpt2"
-        elif model_sz == "distilgpt2":
-            model_key = "distilgpt2"
-        else:
-            model_key = f"gpt2-{model_sz}"
-        # check if datapath has the files that hugging face code looks for
-        hf_dir = os.path.join(opt["datapath"], "hf", model_key)
-        if all(
-            PathManager.exists(os.path.join(hf_dir, file_name))
-            for file_name in ["merges.txt", "vocab.json"]
-        ):
-            fle_key = PathManager.get_local_path(hf_dir, recursive=True)
-
+        if opt["model_name"]:
+            fle_key = opt["model_name"]
         else:
-            fle_key = model_key
+            model_sz = opt["gpt2_size"]
+            if model_sz == "small":
+                model_key = "gpt2"
+            elif model_sz == "distilgpt2":
+                model_key = "distilgpt2"
+            else:
+                model_key = f"gpt2-{model_sz}"
+            # check if datapath has the files that hugging face code looks for
+            hf_dir = os.path.join(opt["datapath"], "hf", model_key)
+            if all(
+                PathManager.exists(os.path.join(hf_dir, file_name))
+                for file_name in ["merges.txt", "vocab.json"]
+            ):
+                fle_key = PathManager.get_local_path(hf_dir, recursive=True)
+
+            else:
+                fle_key = model_key
         return GPT2Tokenizer.from_pretrained(fle_key)
 
     def add_additional_special_tokens(self, additional_special_tokens: List[str]):
diff --git a/parlai/agents/hugging_face/gpt2.py b/parlai/agents/hugging_face/gpt2.py
index 6adcf466793..b4a7afcd30f 100644
--- a/parlai/agents/hugging_face/gpt2.py
+++ b/parlai/agents/hugging_face/gpt2.py
@@ -58,23 +58,26 @@ def __init__(self, opt, dict):
 
     def _init_from_pretrained(self, opt):
         # load model
-        model_sz = opt["gpt2_size"]
-        if model_sz == "small":
-            model_key = "gpt2"
-        elif model_sz == "distilgpt2":
-            model_key = "distilgpt2"
+        if opt["model_name"]:
+            fle_key = opt["model_name"]
         else:
-            model_key = f"gpt2-{model_sz}"
-
-        # check if datapath has the files that hugging face code looks for
-        hf_dir = os.path.join(opt["datapath"], "hf", model_key)
-        if all(
-            PathManager.exists(os.path.join(hf_dir, file_name))
-            for file_name in ["pytorch_model.bin", "config.json"]
-        ):
-            fle_key = PathManager.get_local_path(hf_dir, recursive=True)
-        else:
-            fle_key = model_key
+            model_sz = opt["gpt2_size"]
+            if model_sz == "small":
+                model_key = "gpt2"
+            elif model_sz == "distilgpt2":
+                model_key = "distilgpt2"
+            else:
+                model_key = f"gpt2-{model_sz}"
+
+            # check if datapath has the files that hugging face code looks for
+            hf_dir = os.path.join(opt["datapath"], "hf", model_key)
+            if all(
+                PathManager.exists(os.path.join(hf_dir, file_name))
+                for file_name in ["pytorch_model.bin", "config.json"]
+            ):
+                fle_key = PathManager.get_local_path(hf_dir, recursive=True)
+            else:
+                fle_key = model_key
         return GPT2Model.from_pretrained(fle_key)
 
     def forward(self, input, encoder_state, incr_state=None):
@@ -237,6 +240,12 @@ def add_cmdline_args(
         cls, parser: ParlaiParser, partial_opt: Optional[Opt] = None
     ) -> ParlaiParser:
         agent = parser.add_argument_group("Gpt2 Args")
+        agent.add_argument(
+            "--model-name",
+            type=str,
+            default=None,
+            help="Any GPT-2 model names.",
+        )
         agent.add_argument(
             "--gpt2-size",
             type=str,