This is a list of notable people from Bihar, India.
thumb|Sita
thumb|Lord Mahavir
thumb|Lord Buddha
thumb|Chandragupta Maurya
Deities and avatars
- Sita
- Vimalakirti
- Janaka
- The Buddha
- Mahavira
- Mallinatha
- Munisuvrata
- Naminatha
- Vasupujya
thumb|Samrat Ashoka
thumb|Chanakya
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
thumb|310x310px|Portrait of Veer [[Kunwar Singh]]
thumb|318x318px|[[Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi]]
thumb|329x329px|Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the son of a Bihari immigrant, with [[David Ben Gurion at Lod airport, Israel, in 1962]]
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- 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 (died 1942), General Secretary of Bhagalpur District Congress Committee and martyr of the Quit India Movement.
Writers and scholars
thumb|[[Satyapal Chandra (noted author, entrepreneur)]]
thumb|Balmiki Prasad Singh
- 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
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{| class="wikitable"
|+ Authors by Language
|-
! Language !! Authors
|-
| Hindi ||
- Bhikhari Thakur
- Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
- 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
- Tabish Khair
|-
| Urdu ||
- Bismil Azimabadi
- Manazir Ahsan Gilani
- Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri
- Kalim Aajiz
- Hussain Ul Haque
- Mazhar Imam
- Sohail Azimabadi
- Shad Azimabadi
- Raza Naqvi Wahi
- Rashid-un-Nisa
- Mukhtaruddin Ahmad
|}
thumb|Bhikari Thakur
thumb|Rajendra Prasad
National and international award winners
thumb|The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Dr. (Smt.) Sharda Sinha
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Award Winners
|-
! Award !! Winners
|-
| 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'
|-
| Ramon Magsaysay Award ||
- Ravish Kumar
- Jayaprakash Narayan
|-
| Dadasaheb Phalke Award ||
- Ashok Kumar
- Tapan Sinha
|}
Military Gallantry Award winners
thumb|Jyoti Prakash Nirala, Ashok Chakra, Indian Air Force
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
thumb|Ramvilas Paswan
Prime ministers of other countries
thumb|Navinchandra Ramgoolam, former [[Prime Minister of Mauritius |317x317px]]
- 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
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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
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Speakers of Lok Sabha
- Bali Ram Bhagat
- Meira Kumar
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Chief justices of India
- Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
- Lalit Mohan Sharma
thumb|Shri Krishna Singh, First chief minister of Bihar
thumb|220x220px|Mahatma Gandhi in Bihar
thumb|220x220px|Lalu Yadav
thumb|Karpoori Thakur
thumb|Ram Subhag Singh
thumb|Ustad Bismillah Khan
Chief ministers
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Name
! Took office
! Left office
! Political party
|-
| 1
| Shri Krishna Sinha
| 2 April 1946
| 31 January 1961
| 30px Indian National Congress
|-
| 2
| Deep Narayan Singh
| 1 February 1961
| 18 February 1961
| 30px Indian National Congress
|-
| 3
| Binodanand Jha
| 18 February 1961
| 2 October 1963
| 30px Indian National Congress
|-
| 4
| Krishana Ballabh Sahay
| 2 October 1963
| 5 March 1967
| 30px Indian National Congress
|-
| 5
| Mahamaya Prasad Sinha
| 5 March 1967
| 28 January 1968
| Jana Kranti Dal
|-
| 6
| Satish Prasad Singh
| 28 January 1968
| 1 February 1968
| 30px Indian National Congress
|-
| 7
| B. P. Mandal
| 1 February 1968
| 2 March 1968
| Shoshit Dal
|-
| 8
| Bhola Paswan Shashtri
| 22 March 1968
| 29 June 1968
| Indian National Congress (O)
|-
|
| President's rule
| 29 June 1968
| 26 February 1969
|
|-
| 9
| Harihar Singh
| 26 February 1969
| 22 June 1969
| Indian National Congress
|-
| 10
| Bhola Paswan Shashtri
| 22 June 1969
| 4 July 1969
| Indian National Congress (O)
|-
|
| President's rule
| 6 July 1969
| 16 February 1970
|
|-
| 11
| Daroga Prasad Rai
| 16 February. 1970
| 22 December 1970
| Indian National Congress
|-
| 12
| Karpuri Thakur
| 22 December 1970
| 2 June 1971
| Socialist Party
|-
| 13
| Bhola Paswan Shashtri
| 2 June 1971
| 9 January 1972
| Indian National Congress
|-
|
| President's rule
| 9 January 1972
| 19 March 1972
|
|-
| 14
| Kedar Pandey
| 19 March 1972
| 2 July 1973
| Indian National Congress
|-
| 15
| Abdul Gafoor
| 2 July 1973
| 11 April 1975
| Indian National Congress
|-
| 16
| Jagannath Mishra
| 11 April 1975
| 30 April 1977
| Indian National Congress
|-
|
| President's rule
| 30 April 1977
| 24 June 1977
|
|-
| 17
| Karpuri Thakur
| 24 June 1977
| 21 April 1979
| Janata Party
|-
| 18
| Ram Sunder Das
| 21 April 1979
| 17 February 1980
| Janata Party
|-
|
| President's rule
| 17 February 1980
| 8 June 1980
|
|-
| 19
| Jagannath Mishra
| 8 June 1980
| 14 August 1983
| Indian National Congress (I)
|-
| 20
| Chandrashekhar Singh
| 14 August 1983
| 12 March 1985
| Indian National Congress (I)
|-
| 21
| Bindeshwari Dubey
| 12 March 1985
| 13 February 1988
| Indian National Congress (I)
|-
| 22
| Bhagwat Jha Azad
| 14 February 1988
| 10 March 1989
| Indian National Congress (I)
|-
| 23
| Satyendra Narayan Singh
| 11 March 1989
| 6 December 1989
| Indian National Congress (I)
|-
| 24
| Jagannath Mishra
| 6 December 1989
| 10 March 1990
| Indian National Congress (I)
|-
| 25
| Laloo Prasad Yadav
| 10 March 1990
| 3 March 1995
| 30px Janata Dal
|-
| 26
| Laloo Prasad Yadav
| 4 April 1995
| 25 July 1997
| 30px Janata Dal, Rashtriya Janata Dal
|-
| 27
| Rabri Devi
| 25 July 1997
| 11 February 1999
| 30px Rashtriya Janata Dal
|-
| 28
| Rabri Devi
| 9 March 1999
| 2 March 2000
| 30px Rashtriya Janata Dal
|-
| 29
| Nitish Kumar
| 3 March 2000
| 10 March 2000
| 30px Janata Dal (United)
|-
| 30
| Rabri Devi
| 11 March 2000
| 6 March 2005
| 30px Rashtriya Janata Dal
|-
|
| President's rule
| 7 March 2005
| 24 November 2005
|
|-
| 31
| Nitish Kumar
| 24 November 2005
| 24 November 2010
| 30px Janata Dal (United)
|-
| 32
| Nitish Kumar
| 26 November 2010
| 17 May 2014
| 30px Janata Dal (United)
|-
| 33
| Jitan Ram Manjhi
| 20 May 2014
| 22 Feb 2015
| 30px Janata Dal (United)
|-
| 34
| Nitish Kumar
| 22 Feb 2015
| Present
| 30px Janata Dal (United)
|}
Deputy chief ministers
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Name
! Took office
! Left office
! Party
|-
| 1
| Anugrah Narayan Sinha
| 2 April 1946
| 5 July 1957
| | 30px Indian National Congress
|-
| 2
| Karpoori Thakur
| 5 March 1967
| 31 January 1968
| Socialist Party
|-
|3
|Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav
|3 June 1971
|9 January 1972
|Indian National Congress
|-
| 4
| Sushil Kumar Modi
| 24 Nov 2005
| 16 June 2013
| Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|5
|Tejashwi Yadav
|20 November 2015
|26 July 2017
|Rashtriya Janata Dal
|-
| 6
| Sushil Kumar Modi
| 27 July 2017
| 16 November 2020
| Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
| rowspan="2" |7
|Tarkishore Prasad
| rowspan="2" |16 November 2020
| rowspan="2" |9 August 2022
| rowspan="2" |Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|Renu Devi
|-
|8
|Tejashwi Yadav
|10 August 2022
|28 January 2024
|Rashtriya Janata Dal
|-
| rowspan="2" |9
|Vijay Sinha
| rowspan="2" |28 January 2024
| rowspan="2" |Incumbent
| rowspan="2" |Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|Samrat Choudhary
|}
Members of Lok Sabha
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-|-
!#
!Constituency
!Member of Parliament
!Political party
|-
|1
|Valmiki Nagar
|Sunil Kumar
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|2
|Paschim Champaran
|Sanjay Jaiswal
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|3
|Purvi Champaran
|Radha Mohan Singh
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|4
|Sheohar
|Rama Devi
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|-
|5
|Sitamarhi
|Sunil Kumar Pintu
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|-
|6
|Madhubani
|Ashok Kumar Yadav
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|7
|Jhanjharpur
|Ramprit Mandal
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|8
|Supaul
|Dileshwar Kamait
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|9
|Araria
|Pradeep Kumar Singh
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|-
|10
|Kishanganj
|Mohammad Jawed
|Indian National Congress
|-
|11
|Katihar
|Dulal Chandra Goswami
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|12
|Purnia
|Santosh Kumar
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|13
|Madhepura
|Dinesh Chandra Yadav
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|14
|Darbhanga
|Gopal Jee Thakur
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|15
|Muzaffarpur
|Ajay Nishad
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|16
|Vaishali
|Veena Devi
|Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)
|-
|17
|Gopalganj
|Alok Kumar Suman
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|18
|Siwan
|Kavita Singh
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|19
|Maharajganj
|Janardan Singh Sigriwal
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|20
|Saran
|Rajiv Pratap Rudy
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|21
|Hajipur
|Chirag Paswan
|Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)
|-
|22
|Ujiarpur
|Nityanand Rai
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|23
|Samastipur
|Shambhavi Choudhary
|Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)
|-
|24
|Begusarai
|Giriraj Singh
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|25
|Khagaria
|Rajesh Verma
|Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)
|-
|26
|Bhagalpur
|Ajay Kumar Mandal
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|27
|Banka
|Giridhari Yadav
| Janata Dal (United)
|-
|28
|Munger
|Lalan Singh
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|29
|Nalanda
|Kaushalendra Kumar
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|30
|Patna Sahib
|Ravi Shankar Prasad
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|31
|Pataliputra
|Ram Kripal Yadav
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|32
|Arrah
|Raj Kumar Singh
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|33
|Buxar
|Ashwini Kumar Choubey
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|34
|Sasaram
|Chhedi Paswan
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|35
|Karakat
|Mahabali Singh
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|36
|Jahanabad
|Chandeshwar Prasad
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|37
|Aurangabad
|Sushil Kumar Singh
|Bharatiya Janata Party
|-
|38
|Gaya
|Vijay Kumar Manjhi
|Janata Dal (United)
|-
|39
|Nawada
|Vivek Thakur
|BJP
|-
|40
|Jamui
|Arun Bharti
|Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)
|}
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thumb|276x276px|Nitish Kumar
thumb|217x217px|Giriraj Singh
Members of Rajya Sabha (2022)
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #!! Political party !! Member of Parliament
|-
| 1 || Rashtriya Janata Dal|| Manoj Kumar Jha
|-
| 2 || Rashtriya Janata Dal || Misa Bharti
|-
| 3 || Rashtriya Janata Dal || Dr. Faiyaz Ahmad
|-
| 4 || Rashtriya Janata Dal || Prem Chand Gupta
|-
| 5 || Rashtriya Janata Dal || Amarendra Dhari Singh
|-
| 6 || Rashtriya Janata Dal || Ahmad Ashfaque Karim
|-
| 7 || Janata Dal (United)|| Harivansh Narayan Singh
|-
| 8 || Janata Dal (United) || Ram Nath Thakur
|-
| 9 || Janata Dal (United) || Khiru Mahto
|-
| 10 || Janata Dal (United) || Bashistha Narain Singh
|-
| 11 || Janata Dal (United) || Anil Hegde
|-
| 12 || Indian National Congress|| Akhilesh Prasad Singh
|-
| 13 || Bharatiya Janata Party|| Vivek Thakur
|-
| 14 || Bharatiya Janata Party || Sushil Kumar Modi
|-
| 15 || Bharatiya Janata Party || Shambhu Sharan Patel
|-
| 16 || Bharatiya Janata Party || Satish Chandra Dubey
|}
Spokesperson
- Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (Bharatiya Janata Party)
- Ravi Shankar Prasad (Bharatiya Janata Party)
- Shakeel Ahmad (Indian National Congress)
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy (Bharatiya Janata Party)
thumb|220x220px|Jayaprakash Narayan with Jawaharlal Nehru
thumb|Jagjivan Ram
thumb|Lalit Narayan Mishra
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
thumb|Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav
thumb|Bali Ram Bhagat
thumb|Prakash Jha
thumb|Tapan Sinha
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
thumb|Sushant Singh Rajput
thumb|209x209px|Shatrughan Sinha
thumb|258x258px|Manoj Bajpayee
thumb|258x258px|Sanjeev K Jha
thumb|274x274px|Pankaj Tripathi
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
thumb|298x298px|Sriti Jha
thumb|277x277px|Suhasini Mulay
thumb|217x217px|Sonakshi Sinha
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
thumb|292x292px|Daler Mehndi
thumb|Manoj Tiwari
thumb|Khesari performing in a stage show
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
thumb|Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
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
thumb|Anand Kumar
Mathematics and science
- Amalendu Krishna
- Anand Kumar
- H. C. Verma
- Rajit Gadh
- Vashishtha Narayan Singh
- Tathagat Avatar Tulsi
thumb|Sharad Kumar
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
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Bureaucracy
|-
! Service !! Notable Figures
|-
| Indian Civil Service ||
- L.P. Singh
- Sir Sultan Ahmed
- Harnandan Prasad
|-
| Indian Administrative Service ||
- Amir Subhani
- Balmiki Prasad Singh
- N. K. Singh
- Pankaj Rag
- R. K. Singh
- U. K. Sinha
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Yashwant Sinha thumb|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
- Quaiser Khalid
- Amitabh Thakur
- Ranjit Sinha
- Anil Sinha
- Javeed Ahmad
|}
thumb|Anil Agarwal (industrialist)
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
- Malati Choudhury
- Maṇḍana Miśra
- Martha Dodray
- Mona Das
- Mukesh Hissariya
- Natwarlal
- Nirupama Pandey
- Pranati Rai Prakash
- Shaibal Gupta
- Shilpa Singh
- Shyamanand Jalan
- Subhav Sinha
- Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary
- Supriya Aiman
