List of people from Bihar
This is a list of notable people from Bihar, India.
Deities and avatars
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
- Ranjit Singh Yadav
- Rash Bihari Lal Mandal
- Chandradeo Prasad Verma
- Sri Krishna Singh
- Anugrah Narayan Sinha
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Jagjivan Ram
- Jubba Sahni
- 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
- Shashi Prasad Singh, 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
Journalists
- Ajit Anjum
- M. J. Akbar
- Anuranjan Jha
- Ravish Kumar
- Ravindra Kishore Sinha
- Manoj Bhawuk
- Vikas Kumar Jha
- Arvind Narayan Das
Authors
National and international award winners
Military Gallantry Award winners
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Holders of high constitutional offices
Presidents 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
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
Lieutenant governors of other states
Speakers of Lok Sabha
Chief justices of India
Spokesperson
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
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
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
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