List of people from Bihar

Last updated September 08, 2025

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

Deities and avatars
Ancient
Medieval rulers
Buddhist figures
Sufi saints
Nationalists and independence activists
Writers and scholars
Journalists
Authors
National and international award winners
Military Gallantry Award winners
Param Vir Chakra
Ashoka Chakra
Holders of high constitutional offices
Presidents of India
Presidents of other countries
Vice-Presidents of other countries
Prime ministers of other countries
Attorneys general of India
Advocate General of state of Bihar
Governors of Indian states
Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Lieutenant governors of other states
Speakers of Lok Sabha
Chief justices of India
Chief ministers
Deputy chief ministers
Members of Lok Sabha
Members of Rajya Sabha (2022)
Spokesperson
Politics
Entertainment
Film directors
Actors
Actresses
Singers
Music directors
Arts
Religion
Mathematics and science
Sports
Bureaucracy
Business
Others
References

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

Nationalists and independence activists

Portrait of Veer Kunwar Singh Kunwarsingh.jpg — Portrait of Veer Kunwar Singh

Journalists

Authors

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
Urdu	Manazir Ahsan Gilani Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri

National and international award winners

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

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

Ramvilas Paswan Ram Vilas Paswan.jpg — Ramvilas Paswan

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

L.N. Sinha

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

Lakshmi Kant Jha

Lieutenant governors of other states

Speakers of Lok Sabha

Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha Justice Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha.jpg — Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha

Chief justices of India

Ram Subhag Singh Ram Subhag Singh.jpg — Ram Subhag Singh

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
7	Renu Devi	16 November 2020	9 August 2022	Bharatiya Janata Party
8	Tejashwi Yadav	10 August 2022	28 January 2024	Rashtriya Janata Dal
9	Vijay Sinha	28 January 2024	Incumbent	Bharatiya Janata Party
9	Samrat Choudhary	28 January 2024	Incumbent	Bharatiya Janata Party

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)

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

Politics

Entertainment

Film directors

Actresses

Manoj Tiwari Manoj Tiwari.jpg — Manoj Tiwari

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Singers

Music directors

Religion

Anand Kumar AnandKumarJI1.jpg — Anand Kumar

Mathematics and science

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy
Service	Notable Figures
Indian Civil Service	L.P. Singh Sir Sultan Ahmed Harnandan Prasad
Indian Administrative Service	Balmiki Prasad Singh N. K. Singh Pankaj Rag R. K. Singh U. K. Sinha Upamanyu Chatterjee Yashwant Sinha 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 Amitabh Thakur Ranjit Sinha Anil Sinha

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
Shubham Singh, CMD of Bharat Oorja Distilleries

Others

References

↑ Government of India. "Kameshwari Devi". Digital District Repository.
↑ "Amarendra Jha: Read Latest News from Amarendra Jha". The Times of India. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
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- Jaffrelot, Christophe (2010). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. p. 464. ISBN 978-93-80607-04-7. The lower castes may have lent themselves to manipulations by political entrepreneurs like B.P. Mandal, but greater caste consciousness also implied a stronger rejection of vertical arrangements and a growing solidarity between lower caste MLAs from different parties. These phenomena had become so pronounced that to topple the SVD government the Congress had no other choice but to support one of the Shoshit Dal leaders; thus in February 1968 B.P. Mandal became the first OBC chief minister of Bihar.
- Jaffrelot, Christophe; Kumar, Sanjay (2012). Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-136-51661-0. ...given the instability of the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal (SVD) due to coalition politics based on narrow political gains, the first non-Congress government fell in January 1968. Thus, a Congress-backed Shoshit Dal government was formed in February with Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal (a Yadav) as chief minister.
- Mohan, R. (2025). India's Federal Setup: A Journey Through Seven Decades. Taylor & Francis. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-04-034657-0. ...B.P. Mandal (Heath Minister, resigned and defected with 16 legislators) formed a political party called the Shoshit Dal and was sworn in as Chief Minister with the support of the Congress.
↑ "Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar resigns - Times of India ►". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
↑ "Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar CM - Times of India ►". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
↑ "Nitish Kumar Takes Oath as Bihar Chief Minister; Mamata Banerjee, Tarun Gogoi Attend Swearing In". Archived from the original on 30 June 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
↑ "BIHAR VIDHAN SABHA/ DY. CHIEF MINISTER". vidhansabha.bih.nic.in. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
↑ "List of current members of the Rajya Sabha", Wikipedia, 2022-10-01, retrieved 2022-10-01
↑ "I'm proud to be from Bihar: Daler Mehndi - Hindustan Times". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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[1] Government of India. "Kameshwari Devi". Digital District Repository.

[2] "Amarendra Jha: Read Latest News from Amarendra Jha". The Times of India. Retrieved 2025-08-27.

[3] _ref(s)_
Jaffrelot, Christophe (2010). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. p. 464. ISBN 978-93-80607-04-7. The lower castes may have lent themselves to manipulations by political entrepreneurs like B.P. Mandal, but greater caste consciousness also implied a stronger rejection of vertical arrangements and a growing solidarity between lower caste MLAs from different parties. These phenomena had become so pronounced that to topple the SVD government the Congress had no other choice but to support one of the Shoshit Dal leaders; thus in February 1968 B.P. Mandal became the first OBC chief minister of Bihar.
Jaffrelot, Christophe; Kumar, Sanjay (2012). Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-136-51661-0. ...given the instability of the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal (SVD) due to coalition politics based on narrow political gains, the first non-Congress government fell in January 1968. Thus, a Congress-backed Shoshit Dal government was formed in February with Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal (a Yadav) as chief minister.
Mohan, R. (2025). India's Federal Setup: A Journey Through Seven Decades. Taylor & Francis. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-04-034657-0. ...B.P. Mandal (Heath Minister, resigned and defected with 16 legislators) formed a political party called the Shoshit Dal and was sworn in as Chief Minister with the support of the Congress.

[mwCMg] Jaffrelot, Christophe (2010). Religion, Caste, and Politics in India. Primus Books. p. 464. ISBN 978-93-80607-04-7. The lower castes may have lent themselves to manipulations by political entrepreneurs like B.P. Mandal, but greater caste consciousness also implied a stronger rejection of vertical arrangements and a growing solidarity between lower caste MLAs from different parties. These phenomena had become so pronounced that to topple the SVD government the Congress had no other choice but to support one of the Shoshit Dal leaders; thus in February 1968 B.P. Mandal became the first OBC chief minister of Bihar.

[mwCNM] Jaffrelot, Christophe; Kumar, Sanjay (2012). Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-136-51661-0. ...given the instability of the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal (SVD) due to coalition politics based on narrow political gains, the first non-Congress government fell in January 1968. Thus, a Congress-backed Shoshit Dal government was formed in February with Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal (a Yadav) as chief minister.

[mwCN8] Mohan, R. (2025). India's Federal Setup: A Journey Through Seven Decades. Taylor & Francis. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-04-034657-0. ...B.P. Mandal (Heath Minister, resigned and defected with 16 legislators) formed a political party called the Shoshit Dal and was sworn in as Chief Minister with the support of the Congress.

[4] "Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar resigns - Times of India ►". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2018.

[5] "Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar CM - Times of India ►". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2018.

[6] "Nitish Kumar Takes Oath as Bihar Chief Minister; Mamata Banerjee, Tarun Gogoi Attend Swearing In". Archived from the original on 30 June 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2018.

[7] "BIHAR VIDHAN SABHA/ DY. CHIEF MINISTER". vidhansabha.bih.nic.in. Retrieved 2022-10-01.

[8] "List of current members of the Rajya Sabha", Wikipedia, 2022-10-01, retrieved 2022-10-01

[9] "I'm proud to be from Bihar: Daler Mehndi - Hindustan Times". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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