List of people from Patna

Last updated September 22, 2025

This is a list of notable residents of the Indian city of Patna (formerly Pataliputra), Bihar.

Historical

Aryabhata, mathematician-astronomer^[1]
Ashoka, Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
Shad Azimabadi, 18th- and 19th-century poet
Chanakya, teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor
Ali Ibrahim Khan, 18th-century statesmen and poet
Dean Mahomed (1759–1851), British Indian traveller, soldier, surgeon, and entrepreneur
Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire
Samudragupta, third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty
Bhai Jiwan Singh, Sikh General and friend of Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Gobind Singh, tenth of the ten Sikh Gurus
Moggaliputta-Tissa, Buddhist monk and scholar
Sheikh Zainuddin, 18th-century painter

Nationalists and independence activists

Syed Abuzar Bukhari, prominent figure of the freedom movement of undivided India; Pakistani Muslim scholar, orator, poet, writer, former president of Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam
Bindeshwari Dubey, freedom fighter and former chief minister of Bihar
K. P. Jayaswal, also a historian and lawyer
Shah Ozair Munemi, independence activist
Jayaprakash Narayan, independence activist, social reformer and political leader
K. B. Sahay, former chief minister of unified Bihar
Jagannath Sarkar, leader, freedom fighter, and writer
Yogendra Shukla, nationalist and freedom fighter
Thakur Ramapati Singh, freedom fighter, politician, former MLA and Minister of Bihar, former member of Parliament
Indradeep Sinha, freedom fighter and communist leader
Tarkeshwari Sinha, had active role in the Quit India Movement

Writers and scholars

Muhammad Shams-ul-Haq Azimabadi, Islamic scholar
HMJ Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh, Persian, Arabic and Hindustani scholar; founder of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library
Abdul-Qādir Bīdel, representative of Persian poetry and Sufism in India and Central Asia
Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Islamic Hanafi Deobandi scholar
Bhabatosh Datta, economist, academic and writer
Talib Jauhari, Pakistani Islamic scholar, religious leader
Acharya Kishore Kunal, retired Indian Police Service officer and Sanskrit scholar
Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, litterateur and scholar of Islam
Kumari Radha, Magahi poet
Ram Avatar Sharma, Sanskrit scholar and academic
Ram Karan Sharma, Sanskrit poet and scholar
R. K. Sinha, English scholar
Hrishikesh Sulabh, Hindi writer
Siyaram Tiwari, Hindi scholar and author
Raza Naqvi Wahi, Urdu-language poet; known for Tanz-o-Mazah Shayari

Writers

Anurag Anand
Satinath Bhaduri, novelist and politician
Hetukar Jha, writer, professor, researcher, and Fulbright scholar
Saurav Jha, writer
Kalanath Mishra
Sahajanand Saraswati
Vikram Seth, novelist and poet

Holders of high constitutional offices

HMJ Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh, former Chief Justice of Hyderabad State, Founder of khuda bakhsh oriental library
Abdul Ghafoor, former chief minister of Bihar
Anugrah Narayan Sinha, first Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar
Arun Singh, former union minister of state for defence in the Government of India
Ashok Sekhar Ganguly, industry expert and former chairman of Hindustan Lever, former member of Rajya Sabha
Bali Ram Bhagat, former speaker of Lok Sabha
Balmiki Prasad Singh, 14th Governor of Sikkim
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, 6th Chief Justice of India
Bidhan Chandra Roy, second chief minister of West Bengal
Dilip Sinha, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to United Nations in Geneva
Dinesh Nandan Sahay, former Governor of Tripura and Governor of Chhattisgarh
Hamoodur Rahman, seventh Chief Justice of Pakistan
Lalit Mohan Sharma, 24th Chief Justice of India
Lieutenant General (Retd.) Srinivas Kumar Sinha, former Governor of the states of Jammu & Kashmir and Assam
Mohammad Yunus, first Prime Minister (Premier) of Bihar province in British India
Muni Lall, minister of state for labour and employment in Third Vajpayee Ministry
Nikhil Kumar, former governor of Nagaland and Governor of Kerala
Nitish Mishra, former Minister of the Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar
Ram Dulari Sinha, former Union Minister and former Governor of Kerala
R. N. Ravi, Governor of Tamil Nadu and former deputy NSA of India
Shyam Saran, former foreign secretary, Government of India
Tejendra Khanna, former lieutenant governor of Delhi

Politicians

CM of Bihar

Krishna Ballabh Sahay, Former Chief Minister of Bihar
Mahamaya Prasad Sinha, Former Chief Minister of Bihar, Former MP Patna

Central Cabinet Minister

Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister of India
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ex-Cabinet Minister in Narendra Modi Ministry, Member of Parliament, Patna Sahib
Shatrughan Sinha, Member of Parliament,Asansol, Ex-Member of Parliament Patna Sahib, Former Cabinet Minister in Third Vajpayee Ministry
Rita Verma, former Minister of State of Mines and Minerals in the Indian government

Other

Sarangdhar Sinha Former MP of Patna
Ramavatar Shastri Former MP of Patna
Kiran Ghai, national vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Syed Hasan Imam, former president of the Indian National Congress
Madan Prasad Jaiswal, founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, former member of Parliament
Ashok Kumar, Bihar MLA
Putul Kumari, former member of Parliament
Sushil Kumar Modi, former deputy chief minister and finance minister of Bihar
Digvijay Narain Singh, former member of Parliament
Ganesh Prasad Singh, former member of Parliament
Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha), former member of Parliament
Rajiv Ranjan Singh, former member of Parliament
Shyama Singh, former member of Parliament
Uday Singh, former member of Parliament
Nitin Nabin, Cabinet Minister in Ninth Nitish ministry
Ram Kripal Yadav, member of Parliament
Ranjan Prasad Yadav, former member of Parliament
Arun Kumar Sinha, MLA Kumhrar

Entertainment

Imtiaz Ali, film director, actor and writer
Manoj Bajpayee, actor
Prasun Banerjee, singer
Nitu Chandra, actress
Sandeep Das, tabla player and composer
Amardeep Jha, film actress and television personality
Kranti Prakash Jha, Bollywood film actor
Pankaj Jha, television actor and painter
Prakash Jha, filmmaker
Kabeer Kaushik, Bollywood film director and screenwriter
Rajesh Kumar, television actor
Vineet Kumar, actor
Daler Mehndi, singer
Sanjai Mishra, comedian and film actor
Anando Mukerjee, opera singer
Suhasini Mulay, actress
Chhavi Pandey, television and film actress and singer
Pranati Rai Prakash, winner of India's Next Top Model 2016 edition; a finalist of Miss India 2015
Pariva Pranati, actress
Sushant Singh Rajput, theater, television and film actor
Bijoya Ray, filmmaker
Roshan Seth, British actor
Abhimanyu Singh, actor
Anshuman Singh, actor
Mika Singh, singer, composer, performer and songwriter
Manjul Sinha, television director
Poonam Sinha, actress
Prachi Sinha, Bollywood actress
Shatrughan Sinha, actor and member of parliament
Sonakshi Sinha, actress
Shekhar Suman, film actor and television personality
Siyaram Tiwari, classical singer
Pankaj Tripathi, actor

Visual arts

Subodh Gupta, painter
Pranava Prakash, pop artist, installation artist
Shambhavi Singh, painter

Sports

Subroto Banerjee, cricketer
Kunal Datta, cricketer
Saba Karim, cricketer
Ishan Kishan, cricketer
Ashish Sinha, cricketer
Moin-ul-Haq, former general secretary, Indian Olympic Association
Christopher Oldfield, cricketer
Veer Pratap Singh, cricketer

Bureaucracy

Abhayanand, Bihar Director General of Police; educationalist
S. K. Majumdar, Indian Air Force officer
Prasun Mukherjee, former commissioner of police in the Kolkata Police department
N. K. Singh, former Indian Administrative Service officer and now member of Parliament
Jyoti Kumar Sinha, former director general of the Central Reserve Police Force and former special secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)

Businesspeople

Ravindra Kishore Sinha, Founder of Security and Intelligence Services
Anil Agarwal, founder and executive chairman of the United Kingdom-based Vedanta Resources PLC
Iqbal Z. Ahmed, Pakistani businessman and philanthropist

Journalists

Amitava Kumar, journalist and academic
Ravish Kumar, works at the NDTV
Robert Loughnan, New Zealand farmer, journalist and politician
Mammen Mathew, works at the Hindustan Times

Scientists

Gopal Prasad Sinha, neurologist, politician, member of the Institutional Ethical Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research
Amita Das, physicist
Shaibal Gupta, social scientist; founder member-secretary of the Asian Development Research Institute
A. A. Khan, physicist
Anand Kumar, mathematician; founding member of Super 30
Sanjaya Lall, development economist
Shahn Majid, mathematician and theoretical physicist
Bindeshwar Pathak, sociologist
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, physicist

Others

Gauri Ayyub, social worker, activist, writer and teacher
Syed Ata-ul-Muhaimin Bukhari, Pakistani; president of Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam
Syed Ata-ul-Mohsin Bukhari, leader of Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam
Creighton Carvello, British mnemonist
Papiya Ghosh, historian and professor
Sujoy K. Guha, biomedical engineer
Faz Husain, pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and politician
Sake Dean Mahomed, traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur
Makhdoom Yahya Maneri, Sufi saint
Manish Mehrotra, award-winning chef
Marshall D. Moran, American Jesuit priest, missionary
Ashutosh Mukherjee, educator
Narendra Kumar Pandey, Padma Shri awardee (2014), medical surgeon, founder of the Asian Institute of Medical Sciences
Brajkishore Prasad, lawyer
Ram Sharan Sharma, historian and academic
Pravrajika Shraddhaprana, third president of Sri Sarada Math
T. Sher Singh, lawyer
Ratan Kumar Sinha, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India
Subhav Sinha, innovator
Nidhi Yasha, costume designer

References

↑ Chaudary, Pranava K. (30 October 2012). "Aryabhata: Govt to Develop Astro-Tourism Circuit". The Times of India . Retrieved 2 March 2025.

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[1] Chaudary, Pranava K. (30 October 2012). "Aryabhata: Govt to Develop Astro-Tourism Circuit". The Times of India . Retrieved 2 March 2025.

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