List of people from Bihar

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

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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

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! Service !! Notable Figures

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| Indian Civil Service ||

• L.P. Singh
• Sir Sultan Ahmed
• Harnandan Prasad

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| 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

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| Indian Foreign Service ||

• Aftab Seth

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| 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

References