This is a list of notable personalities from Bihar, India. This list is not based on the extent of their popularity. For other uses, see Bihar (disambiguation). ...

Ancient

• Mahaveer
• Buddha
• Rishi Yajnavalkya
• Rishi Ashtavakra
• Videh Janaka
• Panini
• Aryabhatta
• Vatsyayana
• Chanakya
• Ashvaghosha
• Aryabhatta
• Ashoka
• Chandra Gupta Maurya, native of Patliputra, rival and successor of Mahapadma Nanda

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Media:Example. ... Indian postage stamp depicting (2004), with the implication that he used (IPA ) was an ancient Gandharan grammarian (approximately 5th century BC, but estimates range from the 7th to the 3rd centuries) who is most famous for formulating the 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology known as the . ... Aryabhata (आर्यभट) (Āryabhaṭa) is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. ... Vatsyayana is a scholar (Rishi) from India. ... Chānakya (Sanskrit: चाणक्य) (c. ... Ashvaghosha (Aśvaghoṣa; 馬鳴; b. ... Aryabhata (आर्यभट) (Āryabhaṭa) is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. ... Allegiance: Magadhan Empire Rank: Emperor Succeeded by: Dasaratha Maurya Reign: 273 BC-232 BC Place of birth: Pataliputra, India Battles/Wars Kalinga War Emperor Ashoka the Great (Devanagari: अशोक(:); IAST transliteration: , pronunciation: ) (304 BC–232 BC) (Imperial Title:Devanampiya Piyadassi ie He who is the beloved of the Gods who, in...

Writers and scholars

• George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
• Acharya Shivpujan Sahay
• Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
• Ramvriksh Benipuri
• Phaneeshwar Nath Renu
• Devaki Nandan Khatri
• Raja Radhika Raman Prasad Sinha
• Gopal Hari Banerjee
• Kalanath Mishra
• Vidyapati, the first poet of Maithili
• Acharya Ramlochan Saran, Hindi literateur, grammarian and publisher
• Himanshu Shrivastava
• Gopal Singh Nepali
• Ram Sharan Sharma
• Binod Bihari Verma
• Nawal Kishore Dhawal
• Dr.Kumar Indubhusan Nehru
• Acharya Rameshwar Jha
• Dr.Kumar Vimal
• Ila Kumar
• Prof. Rana Pratap Sinha - Psychologist,Writer,Noted Theatre personality,Director,Actor,Ex-Member CBFC Min.of I&B,Gov.of India.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 [1] [2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ... Acharya Shivpujan Sahay is a Hindi litterateur, a novelist (Dehati Duniya 1926), a short story writer (Vibhuti 1935), editor (Matwala 1923, Madhuri 1924, Ganga 1931, Jagaran 1932, Himalaya 1946, Sahitya 1950- ), and prose writer. ... Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (रामधारी सिंह दिनकर) (September 23, 1908 - April 24, 1974) was an Indian Hindi poet, who is considered as one of the most important modern Hindi poets. ... Ramavriksha Benipuri (1902-1968) was a prominent writer of Hindi literature. ... Devaki Nandan Khatri was the first author of the mystery novels in Hindi. ... Kalanath Mishra Kalanath mishra is one of the important Hindi auther. ... Vidyapati (1352? – 1448?) was born in the village of Bisapi, Madhubani district, Bihar state, India. ... Maithili is of the family of Indo-Aryan languages, which are part of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. ... Acharya Ramlochan Saran (1889 -1971) is a Hindi literateur, grammarian and publisher. ... Gopal Singh Nepali (1911 - 1963) was an eminent poet of Hindi literature and a famous lyricist [1] of Bollywood. ... Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) is Emeritus Professor, Department of History, Patna University and a historian of Ancient India. ... Dr. Binod Bihari Verma Binod Bihari Verma(1937 - 2003) was a maithili literateur by soul, medical doctor by profession and a defence officer by career. ... Acharya Rameshwar Jha (20th century C.E.) was an expert on Kashmir Shaivism. ...

Freedom Fighters

• Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
• Yogendra Shukla
• Dr Rajendra Prasad
• Sri Krishna Sinha (Singh)
• Anugrah Narayan Sinha (Singh)
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Basawon Sinha (Singh)
• Baikuntha Shukla
• Ram Nandan Mishra
• Sheel Bhadra Yajee
• Brajkishore Prasad
• Satyendra Narayan Sinha (Singh)
• Raj Kumar Shukla
• Babu Veer Kunwar Singh
• Pandit Yamuna Karjee
• Pandit Ram Nirikshan Sinha
• Sarangdhar Sinha (Singh)
• Rameshwar Prasad Sinha(Singh)
• Gaya Prasad Sharma
• Gaya Prasad Singh
• Guptanath Singh

Swami Sahajananad Saraswati (1889-1950), was born in a Jujhoutia Bhumihar Brahmin family of Gazipur of Uttar Pradesh state of India, was an ascetic Dandi sanyasi as well as a peasant leader of eastern India. ... Yogendra Shukla: Among the greatest nationalist the country has produced and who also served in the Cellular Jail, Andamans(Kalapani), among the founders of HSRA (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army)Yogendra Shukla (1896-1966) as well as his nephew Baikunth Shukla (1907-1934) hailed from village Jalalpur in Muzaffarpur (now Vaishali... Dr. Rajendra Prasad (Hindi: डाक्टर राजेन्द्र प्रसाद) (December 3, 1884 – February 28, 1963) was the first President of India. ... Jayaprakash Narayan (Devanāgarī: जयप्रकाश नारायण; October 11, 1902 - October 8, 1979), widely known as JP, was an Indian freedom fighter and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s. ... Sheel Bhadra Yajee (1906-1996) was a freedom fighter from Bihar who was associated with the non-violent and the violent form of freedom struggle. ... Brajkishore Prasad was born in 1877 in Shrinagar to Ramjivan Lal a zamindar now in Siwan district in Bihar. ... Rameshwar Prasad Sinha (also transliterated as Rameshwar Prasad Singh) was an Indian politician and a participant in the Indian independence movement. ...

Business

• Samprada Singh Founder & Chairman, Alkem Labs
• Manish Kumar Founder & Chairman, Enaviya Information Technolgy, Bangalore
• Alok Sinha COO REANS GROUP OF COMPANIES,New Delhi
• Shafquat perwez Founder of biotech industry,bangalore
• Ravendra pratap verma senior scientist in ITRC,Lucknow
• Hari kishan founder of prawn industry,kakinada

Movies

Directors

• R P SINHA
• Prakash Jha
• Manjul Sinha
• AMBER SINHA

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Actors

• Shatrughan Sinha
• Shekhar Suman
• Manoj Bajpai
• Hari kishan

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Actresses

• Kumud Chugani

• Pratibha Sinha
• Neetu Chandra
• Priyanka Chopra (born in Jamshedpur now in Jharkhand)
• Rajkumari

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Arts

• Bhikhari Thakur
• Sharda Sinha
• Manoj Tiwari
• Kalpana
• Guddu Rangila
• Bharat Vayas
• Shovana Narayan

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Music

• Bishmila Khan
• Shyam Sagar Music Director
• Chitragupta Music Director

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Religion

• Sita
• Mahavir
• Gautam Buddha
• Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami
• Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
• Siddartha Gautama (Buddha)
• Syed Nazeer Huasain
• Qazi Mohib-u-llah Bihari
• Guru Gobind Singh

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Science, Mathematics, Medicine

• Dr. Ramananda Prasad
• Gopal Bhattacharya
• vasisth naryan singh
• Dr.Sanjeev Ranjan Desai
• Dr.Brajbanshi Prasad
• Dr.Shiv Narayan Singh
• Dr.Swaminandan
• Dr.S.N.Arya
• Kumar Prabhat Ranjan
• Dr.Anil Kumar Sinha, Pathologist

Dr. Ramananda Prasad Ramananda Prasad (born 1938) is the founder of the International Gita Society. ...

Politics

All the last three Railway Ministers of India have been from Bihar to date.

• Kailashpati Mishra
• Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
• Deep Narayan Singh
• Faz Husain (U.S.)
• Bidhu Jha (Canada)
• Nitish Kumar
• Jagjivan Ram
• Satyendra Narayan Sinha
• B.P. Mandal
• Dr. Jagannath Mishra
• Lalit Narayan Mishra
• K.B. Sahay
• Karpoori Thakur
• Ram Vilas Paswan
• Lalu Prasad Yadav
• Nikhil Kumar
• Lallan Prasad Singh

Kailashpati Mishra is a leader of Bharatiya Janta Party and a former governor of Gujarat and Rajasthan states in India. ... Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra briefly served as the Minister of External Affairs of India. ... Deep Narayan Singh was an Indian politician, participant in the Indian independence movement, and a former Chief Minister of Bihar. ... Faizi Faz Husain (1952 - March 9, 2006) was a pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and local politician in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area of Michigan. ... Bidhu Jha is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. ... Nitish Kumār (Hindi: ) (born 1 March 1951, Bakhtiarpur, Bihar, India) is the Chief Minister of the north Indian state of Bihar. ... Jagjivan Ram (5 April 1908 - 6 July 1986), known popularly as Babuji was a freedom fighter and a social reformer hailing from the backward classes of Bihar in India. ... Satyendra Narayan Sinha (also transliterated as Satyendra Narayan Singh) (born July 12, 1917 ) was an Indian politician, participant in the Indian independence movement, and the 23rd Chief Minister of Bihar. ... B.P. Mandal - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Dr. Jagannath Mishra is an Indian politician and a former Chief Minister of Bihar. ... Lalit Narayan Mishra was railway minister of India from 1973 to 1975 and the probe in his death from bomb blast in 1975 still remains unresolved. ... Ram Vilas Paswan (born 5 July 1946) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. ... Lalu Prasad Yadav, sometimes spelt as Laloo Prasad[1] or Lalloo Prasad, (Devanāgarī: लालू प्रसाद यादव) (born June 11, 1948 Goplaganj, Bihar[2]) is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar. ... Nikhil Kumar (born 15 July 1941) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. ... Lallan Prasad Singh was governor of Assam (1973-80), Manipur (1973-80, 1982-83), Meghalaya (1973-80), Nagaland (1973-81), and Tripura (1973-80) . He died in 1998. ...

Sports

• Subrat Banerjee
• Saba Karim
• Chandera Shekhar Prasad
• Bharat Chettry
• Shiv Nath Singh
• Kirti Azad

Saba Karim (born November 14, 1967 in Patna) is an Indian cricketer. ... Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad (born January 2, 1959, Purnea, Bihar) is a former Indian cricketer who played in 7 Tests and 25 ODIs from 1980 to 1986. ...

Media

• Adarsh Kumar
• AMBER RANA - CEO - REANS, Ad Film Director

Bureaucracy

• T. P. Singh (Senior) - A prominent ICS officer during the Nehru era, commissioner of Tirhut Division.
• T.P. Singh (Junior)-former ICS officer.
• Jagadanand-Ex-IPS, former DGP Bihar.
• N. K. Singh-IAS, Ex-Deputy Chairman , Planning Commission Of India.
• Abhayanand-IPS, ADGP Bihar, Chief mentor of "Super 30".
• Nikhil Kumar- IPS, former Delhi Police Commissioner, Ex-Director General NSG .
• Ram Chandra Sinha, Former IAS Officer, Former Secretary to the Chief Minister of Bihar, Chairman of Patna Improvement Trust, Divisional Commissionor (Bhaglpur), Commissioner (Agriculture, Education), Sub Divisional Officer, District Magistrate, now Senior Advocate.
• Sir S.P. Sinha - first Indian member of the Viceroy's Executive Council
• Alakh Kumar Sinha, OBE, CIE - first Indian IG of Police
• Mithilesh Kumar Sinha, King's Police Medal, President's Police Medal - longest serving Indian IG of Police and social worker
• Anil Sinha - IPS(1979 batch), IGP,HQ, BIHAR

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Others

• Chandrashekhar Prasad
• Gen. S. K. Sinha, PVSM - Vice-Chief of Army Staff, Ambassador to Nepal, Governor of Assam, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
• Dhirendra Brahmachari
• Himanshu Goel
• Rajiv Ranjan Desai
• Sri Prabhat Kumar Desai
• Sri Nishikant Patwardhan
• Sri Arun Kumar Mehta
• Sri Rajani Ranjan
• Sri Mrigendra Kumar
• ravi kant
• Shashikant
• Arpan Pushp
• Kumar Amresh
• Dr Anant Prasad
• Lalit Kumar Jha