List of people from Bihar

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



Deities and avatars

 * Guru Gobind Singh
 * Janaka
 * Mahavira
 * Mallinatha
 * Munisuvrata
 * Naminatha
 * Vasupujya

Ancient

 * Ajatashatru
 * Dhana Nanda
 * Chandragupta Maurya
 * Bindusara
 * Ashoka
 * Dasharatha Maurya
 * Samprati
 * Shalishuka
 * Devavarman
 * Shatadhanvan
 * Brihadratha Maurya
 * Aryabhata
 * Samudragupta
 * Chandragupta I
 * Chanakya
 * Gonu Jha
 * Sher Shah Suri
 * Vātsyāyana

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
 * Ranjit Singh Ahir
 * Rash Bihari Lal Mandal
 * Chandradeo Prasad Verma
 * Sri Krishna Singh
 * Anugrah Narayan Sinha
 * Jayaprakash Narayan
 * Jagjivan Ram
 * Ram Subhag Singh
 * Kameshwar Singh
 * 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

Writers and scholars

 * 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

Journalists

 * M. J. Akbar
 * Anuranjan Jha
 * Ravish Kumar
 * Sweta Singh
 * Manoj Bhawuk
 * Vikas Kumar Jha
 * Arvind Narayan Das

Hindi

 * Bhikhari Thakur
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 * Rambriksh Benipuri
 * Gopal Singh Nepali
 * Phanishwar Nath Renu
 * Shankar Dayal Singh
 * Ramesh Chandra Jha
 * Sahajanand Saraswati
 * Kalanath Mishra
 * Nawal Kishore Dhawal

Maithili

 * Vidyapati
 * Nagarjun

Bhojpuri

 * Avinash Chandra Vidyarthi
 * Bhikhari Thakur
 * Dharni Das
 * Harihar Singh
 * Heera Dom
 * Mahendar Misir
 * Manoranjan Prasad Sinha
 * Manoj Bhawuk
 * Parichay Das
 * Ramesh Chandra Jha
 * Rameshwar Singh Kashyap
 * Raghuveer Narayan

Bengali

 * Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
 * Upamanyu Chatterjee
 * Malay Roy Choudhury

English

 * Ram Sharan Sharma
 * Raj Kamal Jha
 * Satyapal Chandra
 * George Orwell

Urdu

 * Manazir Ahsan Gilani
 * Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri

Bharat Ratna

 * Bidhan Chandra Roy
 * Rajendra Prasad
 * Jayaprakash Narayan
 * Bismillah Khan

Padma Bhushan

 * Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
 * Acharya Shivpujan Sahay
 * Bindeshwar Pathak
 * Sharda Sinha

Padma Shree

 * Ramchandra Manjhi
 * Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain
 * Mohan Mishra
 * Narendra Kumar Pandey
 * Janki Ballabh Shastri
 * Sharda Sinha
 * Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur

Jnanpith award

 * Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'

Magasaysay award

 * Ravish Kumar
 * Jayaprakash Narayan

Dada Saheb Phalke award

 * Ashok Kumar
 * Tapan Sinha

Param Vir Chakra

 * Albert Ekka

Ashoka Chakra

 * Jyoti Prakash Nirala

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 Kerela
 * 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

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
 * Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
 * Ram Dulari Sinha
 * 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
 * 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

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 (actor)
 * 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

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

Singers

 * Daler Mehndi
 * Kiran Ahluwalia
 * Sundar Popo
 * Sharda Sinha
 * Manoj Tiwari
 * Pawan Singh
 * Khesari Lal Yadav
 * Nilkamal Singh
 * Deepali Kishore
 * Aishwarya Nigam
 * Parmanand Singh
 * Maithili Thakur

Music directors

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

Arts

 * Vidyapati
 * Nagarjun
 * Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
 * 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

 * Anand Kumar
 * H. C. Verma
 * Rajit Gadh
 * Vashishtha Narayan Singh
 * Tathagat Avatar Tulsi

Sports

 * Saba Karim
 * Kirti Azad
 * 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
 * Lal Mohan Hansda
 * Aruna Mishra
 * Jaipal Singh
 * Sharad Kumar
 * Pramod Bhagat

Indian Civil Service

 * L.P. Singh
 * Sir Sultan Ahmed

Indian Administrative Service

 * Balmiki Prasad Singh
 * N. K. Singh
 * Pankaj Rag
 * R. K. Singh
 * U. K. Sinha
 * Upamanyu Chatterjee
 * Yashwant Sinha

Indian Foreign Service

 * Aftab Seth

Indian Police Service

 * Abhayanand
 * J. K. Sinha
 * Chandan Kushwaha
 * Lipi Singh
 * Nikhil Kumar
 * Acharya Kishore Kunal
 * Randhir Prasad Verma
 * Amitabh Thakur
 * Ranjit Sinha
 * Anil Sinha

Business

 * Anil Agarwal, founder and Executive Chairman of Vedanta Group
 * Arunabh Kumar, CEO of TVF
 * Aditya Jha
 * Sanjay Jha
 * Subrata Roy, founder of Sahara Group
 * Samprada Singh
 * Satyapal Chandra, founder and CEO of MagTapp

Others

 * Anand Kumar
 * Anil Kumar
 * Dashrath Manjhi
 * Ganesh Dutt
 * Gurusharan Sharma
 * 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