List of people from Bihar

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

Sita
Lord Mahavir
Lord Buddha
Chandragupta Maurya

Deities and avatars

Samrat Ashoka
Chanakya

Ancient

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

See also: Nalanda § Notable scholars, and Vikramashila § Notable scholars
  • 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

Portrait of Veer Kunwar Singh
Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the son of a Bihari immigrant, with David Ben Gurion at Lod airport, Israel, in 1962

Writers and scholars

Satyapal Chandra (noted author, entrepreneur)
Balmiki Prasad Singh

Journalists

Authors

Statue of Maha Kavi Kokil Vidyapati
Authors by Language
Language Authors
Hindi
Maithili
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
English
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
Bhikari Thakur
Rajendra Prasad

National and international award winners

The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Dr. (Smt.) Sharda Sinha
Award Winners
Award Winners
Bharat Ratna
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shree
Jnanpith Award
Ramon Magsaysay Award
Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Military Gallantry Award winners

Jyoti Prakash Nirala, Ashok Chakra, Indian Air Force

Param Vir Chakra

Ashoka Chakra

Holders of high constitutional offices

Presidents of India

Presidents of other countries

Vice-Presidents of other countries

Ramvilas Paswan

Prime ministers of other countries

Navinchandra Ramgoolam, former Prime Minister of Mauritius

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
Mridula Sinha

Governors of Indian states

Governor of Reserve Bank of India

Lieutenant governors of other states

  • Tejendra Khanna
  • Nagendra Nath Jha
Smt. Meira Kumar

Speakers of Lok Sabha

Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha

Chief justices of India

Shri Krishna Singh, First chief minister of Bihar
Mahatma Gandhi in Bihar
Lalu Yadav
Karpoori Thakur
Ram Subhag Singh
Ustad Bismillah Khan

Chief ministers

# Name Took office Left office Political party
1 Shri Krishna Sinha 2 April 1946 31 January 1961 Indian National Congress
2 Deep Narayan Singh 1 February 1961 18 February 1961 Indian National Congress
3 Binodanand Jha 18 February 1961 2 October 1963 Indian National Congress
4 Krishana Ballabh Sahay 2 October 1963 5 March 1967 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 Indian National Congress
7 B. P. Mandal 1 February 1968 2 March 1968 Shoshit Dal[3]
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 Janata Dal
26 Laloo Prasad Yadav 4 April 1995 25 July 1997 Janata Dal, Rashtriya Janata Dal
27 Rabri Devi 25 July 1997 11 February 1999 Rashtriya Janata Dal
28 Rabri Devi 9 March 1999 2 March 2000 Rashtriya Janata Dal
29 Nitish Kumar 3 March 2000 10 March 2000 Janata Dal (United)
30 Rabri Devi 11 March 2000 6 March 2005 Rashtriya Janata Dal
President's rule 7 March 2005 24 November 2005
31 Nitish Kumar 24 November 2005 24 November 2010 Janata Dal (United)
32 Nitish Kumar 26 November 2010 17 May 2014[4] Janata Dal (United)
33 Jitan Ram Manjhi 20 May 2014 22 Feb 2015 Janata Dal (United)
34 Nitish Kumar 22 Feb 2015[5] Present[6] Janata Dal (United)

Deputy chief ministers

#[7] Name Took office Left office Party
1 Anugrah Narayan Sinha 2 April 1946 5 July 1957 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
7 Tarkishore Prasad 16 November 2020 9 August 2022 Bharatiya Janata Party
Renu Devi
8 Tejashwi Yadav 10 August 2022 28 January 2024 Rashtriya Janata Dal
9 Vijay Sinha 28 January 2024 Incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party
Samrat Choudhary

Members of Lok Sabha

# 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)
Rajo Singh
Nitish Kumar
Giriraj Singh

Members of Rajya Sabha (2022)

#[8] 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

Jayaprakash Narayan with Jawaharlal Nehru
Jagjivan Ram
Lalit Narayan Mishra

Politics

Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav
Bali Ram Bhagat
Prakash Jha
Tapan Sinha

Entertainment

Film directors

Sushant Singh Rajput
Shatrughan Sinha
Manoj Bajpayee
Sanjeev K Jha
Pankaj Tripathi

Actors

Sriti Jha
Suhasini Mulay
Sonakshi Sinha

Actresses

Daler Mehndi
Manoj Tiwari
Khesari performing in a stage show

Singers

Music directors

Arts

Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

Religion

Anand Kumar

Mathematics and science

Sharad Kumar

Doctors

  • Vinay Kumar (psychiatrist)

Sports

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy
Service Notable Figures
Indian Civil Service
Indian Administrative Service
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
Anil Agarwal (industrialist)

Business

Others

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