List of people from Bihar

This is a list of notable people from Bihar, India.

Deities and avatars

• Sita
• Vimalakirti
• Janaka
• The Buddha
• Mahavira
• Mallinatha
• Munisuvrata
• Naminatha
• Vasupujya

Ancient

• Ajatashatru – King of Magadha
• Dhana Nanda – Last Nanda king
• Chandragupta Maurya – Founder of Maurya Empire
• Bindusara – Chandragupta's son
• Ashoka – Great Mauryan emperor
• Dasharatha Maurya – Ashoka's grandfather
• Samprati – Buddhist patron
• Shalishuka – Known for conflicts
• Devavarman – Mauryan ruler
• Shatadhanvan – Contemporary of Ashoka
• Brihadratha Maurya – Last Mauryan king
• Aryabhata – Ancient mathematician
• Samudragupta – Conqueror and ruler
• Chandragupta I – Established Gupta Empire
• Chanakya – Political strategist
• Vātsyāyana – Author of Kamasutra

Medieval rulers

• Gangadeva - second king of the Karnats of Mithila
• Narsimhadeva - third king of the Karnats of Mithila
• Ramasimhadeva - fourth king of the Karnats of Mithila
• Harisimhadeva - final ruler of the Karnat dynasty
• Shri Pratapa - ruler of the Khayaravala dynasty
• Mahasenagupta - king belonging to the Later Gupta dynasty
• Sher Shah Suri – Padishāh of the Sur Empire

Buddhist figures

• Śāriputra - one of the Buddha's ten principle disciples
• Maudgalyayana - one of the Buddha's ten principle disciples
• Mahākāśyapa - one of the Buddha's ten principle disciples
• Ratnākaraśānti - 11th century Buddhist philosopher
• Maitripada - 11th century Mahasiddha
• Prabhakāramitra - 7th century monk and translator active in China
• Dhyānabhadra - 14th century monk and translator active in Korea
• Śāriputra - 15th century monk and translator active in China

Sufi saints

• Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri
• Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri
• Makhdoom Shah Muhammad Munim Pak
• Ata Hussain Fani Chishti
• Khwaja Abdullah Chishti
• Ibrahim Yukpasi

Nationalists and independence activists

• Ajit Kumar Mehta
• Babu Kunwar Singh
• Rajendra Prasad
• Rash Bihari Lal Mandal
• Chandradeo Prasad Verma
• Sri Krishna Singh
• Anugrah Narayan Sinha
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Jagjivan Ram
• Jubba Sahni
• Ram Subhag Singh
• Kameshwar Singh
• Kameshwari Devi
• Upendra Nath Verma
• Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
• Syed Hasan Imam
• Baikuntha Shukla
• Karyanand Sharma
• Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
• Satyendra Narayan Singh
• Ram Dulari Sinha
• Basawon Singh (Sinha)
• Yamuna Karjee
• Yogendra Shukla
• Sheel Bhadra Yagee
• Yadunandan Sharma
• Rambriksh Benipuri
• Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha)
• Ram Narain Sharma
• Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
• Radhanandan Jha
• Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
• Babu Amar Singh
• Shashi Prasad Singh (died 1942), General Secretary of Bhagalpur District Congress Committee and martyr of the Quit India Movement.

Writers and scholars

• Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura
• Prem Kumar Mani
• Syed Hasan
• Abdul Qavi Desnavi
• Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
• Ram Sharan Sharma
• Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
• Balmiki Prasad Singh
• Vidyapati
• Manoj Bhawuk
• Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
• Ramvriksh Benipuri
• Devaki Nandan Khatri
• Indradeep Sinha
• Ram Karan Sharma
• Satyapal Chandra
• Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma
• Nalin Vilochan Sharma
• Ganganath Jha
• R. K. Sinha
• Ramjee Singh
• Tabish Khair
• Acharya Ramlochan Saran
• Gopal Singh Nepali
• Ramesh Chandra Jha
• Acharya Rameshwar Jha
• Nagarjun
• Acharya Shivpujan Sahay
• Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
• Amitava Kumar
• Sanjeev K Jha
• Hetukar Jha
• Phanishwar Nath Renu
• Ravindra Prabhat
• Gajendra Thakur
• Kapil Muni Tiwary
• Shiv Khera
• Acharya Sarangdhar

Journalists

• Ajit Anjum
• M. J. Akbar
• Anuranjan Jha
• Ravish Kumar
• Ravindra Kishore Sinha
• Manoj Bhawuk
• Nivedita Jha
• Vikas Kumar Jha
• Arvind Narayan Das
• Dr. Amarendra Jha

Authors

National and international award winners

Military Gallantry Award winners

Param Vir Chakra

• Albert Ekka

Ashoka Chakra

• Jyoti Prakash Nirala

Holders of high constitutional offices

Presidents of India

• Rajendra Prasad, first President of India

Presidents of other countries

• Kailash Purryag, former President of Mauritius
• Cheddi Jagan, former president of Guyana

Vice-Presidents of other countries

• Parmanand Jha, first vice-president of Nepal

Prime ministers of other countries

• Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, first Prime Minister of Mauritius
• Navin Ramgoolam, former Prime Minister of Mauritius
• Girija Prasad Koirala, former Prime Minister of Nepal
• Basdeo Panday, former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• Kamla Persad-Bissessar, former first female Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Attorneys general of India

• L.N. Sinha

Advocate General of state of Bihar

• Rambalak Mahto, longest serving Advocate General of Bihar and legal advisor of Nitish Kumar

Governors of Indian states

• Anant Sharma, former Governor of Punjab and West Bengal
• Balmiki Prasad Singh, current Governor of Sikkim
• Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, former Governor of Punjab
• Dinesh Nandan Sahay, former Governor of Chhattisgarh
• Kailashpati Mishra, former Governor of Gujarat
• Lallan Prasad Singh, former Governor of Assam
• Mridula Sinha, current Governor of Goa
• Nikhil Kumar, current Governor of Kerala
• Prabhat Kumar, former Governor of Jharkhand
• Rameshwar Thakur, former Governor of Madhya Pradesh
• Ram Dulari Sinha, former Governor of Kerala
• Siddheshwar Prasad, former Governor of Tripura
• Srinivas Kumar Sinha, former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir and Assam

Governor of Reserve Bank of India

• Lakshmi Kant Jha

Lieutenant governors of other states

• Tejendra Khanna
• Nagendra Nath Jha

Speakers of Lok Sabha

• Bali Ram Bhagat
• Meira Kumar

Chief justices of India

• Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
• Lalit Mohan Sharma

Chief ministers

Deputy chief ministers

Members of Lok Sabha

Members of Rajya Sabha (2022)

Spokesperson

• Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (Bharatiya Janata Party)
• Ravi Shankar Prasad (Bharatiya Janata Party)
• Shakeel Ahmad (Indian National Congress)
• Rajiv Pratap Rudy (Bharatiya Janata Party)

Politics

• Rati Lal Prasad Verma
• Ramdeo Mahto
• Ajit Kumar Mehta
• Chandradeo Prasad Verma
• Rajendra Prasad
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Anugrah Narayan Sinha
• Sri Krishna Sinha
• Chandipat Sahay
• Jagjivan Ram
• Ram Subhag Singh
• B.P.Mandal
• Lalit Narayan Mishra
• Lalita Kumari
• Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
• Ram Dulari Sinha
• Shatrughan Prasad Singh
• Satyendra Narayan Singh
• Karpoori Thakur
• Daroga Prasad Rai
• Deep Narayan Singh
• Abdul Ghafoor
• Chandrashekhar Singh
• Gopal Jee Thakur
• Chirag Paswan
• Faz Husain
• Kailashpati Mishra
• Lalu Prasad Yadav
• Nitish Kumar
• Upendra Kushwaha
• Nikhil Kumar
• Indradeep Sinha
• Digvijay Narain Singh
• Kapildeo Singh
• Bidhu Jha
• Ravi Shankar Prasad
• Gauri Shankar Pandey
• Tarkeshwari Sinha
• Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
• Krishna Kumar Mishra
• Srinivas Kumar Sinha
• Yashwant Sinha
• Ravindra Kishore Sinha
• Prabhat Jha
• Sanjay Nirupam
• Mohammad Yunus
• Nawal Kishore Dhawal
• Ranjit Kumar Gupta
• Ram Kripal Sinha
• Veena Devi
• Ramgulam Chaudhary
• Jayant Sinha
• Kanhaiya Kumar
• Bali Ram Bhagat
• Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav
• Awadhesh Kumar Rai
• Ram Ratan Singh
• Vishwajeet Kumar (politician)

Entertainment

Film directors

• Ajit Pal Mangat
• Imtiaz Ali
• Kabeer Kaushik
• Manish Jha
• Manish Vatsalya
• Manjul Sinha
• Neeraj Pandey
• Prakash Jha
• Pritish Nandy
• Ram Gopal Bajaj
• Sanjeev K Jha
• Satyen Bose
• Sushil Rajpal
• Tapan Sinha

Actors

• Aham Sharma
• Manish Vatsalya
• Sushant Singh Rajput
• Roshan Seth
• Ashok Kumar
• Shatrughan Sinha
• Manoj Bajpai
• Manoj Bhawuk
• Akhilendra Mishra
• Abhimanyu Singh
• Adhyayan Suman
• Luv Sinha
• Pankaj Tripathi
• Shekhar Suman
• Sanjay Mishra
• Vinay Pathak
• Gurmeet Choudhary
• Vineet Kumar
• Narendra jha
• Rajesh Kumar (actor)
• Manoj Tiwari
• Pankaj Jha
• Dinesh Sharma
• R. Madhavan
• Vishal Aditya Singh
• Chandrachur Singh
• Alok Nath
• Khesari Lal Yadav
• Lilliput
• Zeishan Quadri

Actresses

• Aisha Sharma
• Pooja Sharma
• Prachi Sinha
• Neha Sharma
• Sandali Sinha
• Shilpa Shukla
• Neetu Chandra
• Swati Sen
• Kaveri Jha
• Neelima Azeem
• Amardeep Jha
• Suhasini Mulay
• Shilpa Singh
• Shreya Narayan
• Anurita Jha
• Rati Pandey
• Ratan Rajput
• Sriti Jha
• Richa Soni
• Ulka Gupta
• Chhavi Pandey
• Shweta Prasad
• Sonakshi Sinha
• Aishwarya Sushmita
• Kumkum

Singers

• Daler Mehndi
• Kiran Ahluwalia
• Sundar Popo
• Sharda Sinha
• Manoj Tiwari
• Pawan Singh
• Khesari Lal Yadav
• Nilkamal Singh
• Aishwarya Nigam
• Parmanand Singh
• Maithili Thakur
• Ritviz Srivastava (Ritviz)

Music directors

• Chitragupta
• Anand–Milind
• Bapi Tutul
• Ramashreya Jha
• Norman Hackforth

Arts

• Vidyapati
• Nagarjun
• Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• Ramesh Chandra Jha
• Bismillah Khan
• Chandan Tiwari
• Bhikhari Thakur
• Jaydeva
• Jyotirishwar Thakur
• Srimanta Sankardeva
• Govindadas
• Acharya Ramlochan Saran
• Baldev Mishra
• Surendra Jha 'Suman'
• Radha Krishna Choudhary
• Jaykant Mishra
• Rajkamal Chaudhary
• Parichay Das
• Gajendra Thakur
• Bindhyabasini Devi

Religion

• Dharni Das
• Dhyanyogi Madhusudandas
• Dhirendra Brahmachari
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
• Sahadeo Tiwari
• Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi
• Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
• Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi
• Syed Ibrahim
• Tenzin Priyadarshi
• Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri

Mathematics and science

• Amalendu Krishna
• Anand Kumar
• H. C. Verma
• Rajit Gadh
• Vashishtha Narayan Singh
• Tathagat Avatar Tulsi

Doctors

• Vinay Kumar (psychiatrist)

Sports

• Saba Karim
• Kirti Azad
• Kaiser Rehan - Taekwondo Player
• Subroto Banerjee
• Shivnath Singh
• Thomas Jameson
• Zafar Iqbal
• Rashmi Kumari
• Rajesh Chauhan
• Kavita Roy
• Veer Pratap Singh
• Ishan Kishan
• Deepika Kumari
• Purnima Mahato
• Randhir Singh
• Premlata Agarwal
• Sanjay Balmuchu
• Aruna Mishra
• Jaipal Singh
• Sharad Kumar
• Pramod Bhagat

Bureaucracy

Business

• Anil Agarwal, founder and Executive Chairman of Vedanta Group
• Arunabh Kumar, CEO of TVF
• Ravindra Kishore Sinha, Founder of Security Intelligence Service
• Sanjay Jha
• Subrata Roy, founder of Sahara Group
• Samprada Singh
• Satyapal Chandra, founder and CEO of MagTapp
• Mahendra Prasad, Aristo Pharmaceuticals Founder

Others

• Anand Kumar
• Anil Kumar
• Dashrath Manjhi
• Ganesh Dutt
• Gurusharan Sharma
• Khan Sir
• Prem Singh (Bihar), Gold Man of Bihar
• Malati Choudhury
• Maṇḍana Miśra
• Martha Dodray
• Mona Das
• Natwarlal
• Nirupama Pandey
• Pranati Rai Prakash
• Shaibal Gupta
• Shilpa Singh
• Shyamanand Jalan
• Subhav Sinha
• Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary
• Supriya Aiman

References