List of people from Bihar
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Contents
- 1 Ancient
- 2 Nationalists and independence activists
- 3 Writers and scholars
- 4 Authors
- 5 National/ International Award Winners
- 6 Holders of High Constitutional Offices
- 6.1 President
- 6.2 Prime Minister
- 6.3 Attorney General of India
- 6.4 Governor Of Other State
- 6.5 Governor Of Reserve Bank of India
- 6.6 Lieutenant Governor Of Other State
- 6.7 Speaker of Lok Sabha
- 6.8 Chief Justices
- 6.9 Chief Minister
- 6.10 Deputy Chief Minister
- 6.11 Lok Sabha
- 6.12 Rajya Sabha
- 6.13 Spokesperson
- 6.14 Politics
- 7 Entertainment
- 8 Arts
- 9 Religion
- 10 Mathematics and science
- 11 Sports
- 12 Bureaucracy
- 13 Business
- 14 Others
- 15 References
Ancient
- Aryabhata
- Ashoka
- Chanakya
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Gonu Jha
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Samudragupta
- Sher Shah Suri
- Vātsyāyana
- Veer Kunwar Singh
Nationalists and independence activists
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Portrait of Veer Kunwar Singh
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Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the son of a Bihari immigrant, with David Ben Gurion at Lod airport, Israel, in 1962.
- Babu Kunwar Singh
- Rajendra Prasad
- Sri Krishna Singh
- Anugrah Narayan Sinha
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Jagjivan Ram
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- Syed Hasan Imam
- Baikuntha Shukla
- Karyanand Sharma
- Satyendra Narayan Singh
- 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
Writers and scholars
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Yaseen Anwer discussing poetry with renowned Bollywood lyricist Irshad Kamil at Delhi Poetry Festival, 2013
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- Abdul Qavi Desnavi
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- Ram Sharan Sharma
- Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
- Balmiki Prasad Singh
- Vidyapati
- 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
- Birbal Jha
- Ramjee Singh
- Tabish Khair
- Acharya Ramlochan Saran
- Gopal Singh Nepali
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Binod Bihari Verma
- Acharya Rameshwar Jha
- Nagarjun
- Acharya Shivpujan Sahay
- Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
- Amitava Kumar
- Hetukar Jha
- Phanishwar Nath Renu
- Ravindra Prabhat
Journalists
Authors
Hindi
- Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Rambriksh Benipuri
- Sahajanand Saraswati
- Gopal Singh Nepali
- Kalanath Mishra
- Nawal Kishore Dhawal
Maithili
Bengali
English
National/ International Award Winners
Bharat Ratna
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1st Chief Minister of Bihar Dr Sri Krishna Sinha(Right) with 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Dr Anugrah Narayan Sinha (Left)
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shree
Jnanpith Award
Magasaysay Award
Dada Saheb Phalke Award
Holders of High Constitutional Offices
President
Prime Minister
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Navinchandra Ramgoolam, former Prime Minister of Mauritius
Attorney General of India
Governor Of Other State
- Balmiki Prasad Singh current Governor of Sikkim
- Nikhil Kumar current Governor of Kerala
- Rameshwar Thakur Former Governor of Madhya Pradesh
- Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh former Governor of Punjab
- Lallan Prasad Singh former Governor of Assam
- Ram Dulari Sinha former Governor of Kerela
- Srinivas Kumar Sinha former Governor of Assam
- Prabhat Kumar former Governor of Jharkhand
- Dinesh Nandan Sahay former Governor of Chhattisgarh
- Kailashpati Mishra former Governor of Gujrat
- Siddheshwar Prasad former Governor of Tripura
Governor Of Reserve Bank of India
Lieutenant Governor Of Other State
Speaker of Lok Sabha
Chief Justices
Chief Minister
Deputy Chief Minister
# | Name | Took Office | Left Office | Party |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Anugrah Narayan Sinha [3] | 2 April 1946 | 5 July 1957 | ![]() |
2 | Karpoori Thakur | 5 March 1967 | 31 January 1968 | Socialist Party |
3 | Sushil Kumar Modi | 24 Nov 2005 | 24 Nov 2010 | Bharatiya Janata Party |
4 | Sushil Kumar Modi | 26 Nov 2010 | jun 2013 | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Lok Sabha
Rajya Sabha
NO. | Political Party | Member of Parliament |
---|---|---|
1 | Lok Janshakti Party | Ram Vilas Paswan |
2 | Rashtriya Janata Dal | Ram Kripal Yadav |
3 | Rashtriya Janata Dal | Prem Chand Gupta |
4 | Janata Dal (United) | Mahendra Prasad |
5 | Janata Dal (United) | Ali Anwar |
6 | Janata Dal (United) | Sabir Ali |
7 | Janata Dal (United) | Anil Kumar Sahani |
8 | Janata Dal (United) | K C Tyagi |
9 | Janata Dal (United) | Shivanand Tiwari |
10 | Janata Dal (United) | Ramchandra Prasad Singh |
11 | Janata Dal (United) | Bashistha Narain Singh |
12 | Janata Dal (United) | N. K. Singh |
13 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Dharmendra Pradhan |
14 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Ravi Shankar Prasad |
15 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Rajiv Pratap Rudy |
16 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur |
Spokesperson
- Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (Bharatiya Janata Party)
- Ravi Shankar Prasad (Bharatiya Janata Party)
- Shakeel Ahmad (Indian National Congress)
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy (Bharatiya Janata Party)
Politics
- Rajendra Prasad
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Anugrah Narayan Sinha
- Sri Krishna Sinha
- Jagjivan Ram
- B.P.Mandal
- lalit Narayan Mishra
- Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
- Ram Dulari Sinha
- Satyendra Narayan Singh
- Karpoori Thakur
- Daroga Prasad Rai
- Deep Narayan Singh
- Abdul Ghafoor
- Laxmi Narayan Singh
- Chandrashekhar Singh
- Chirag Paswan
- Faz Husain
- Kailashpati Mishra
- Lalu Prasad Yadav
- Nitish Kumar
- 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
- Prabhat Jha
- Sanjay Nirupam
- Mohammad Yunus
- Nawal Kishore Dhawal
- Ranjit Kumar Gupta
Entertainment
Film Directors
- Prakash Jha
- Imtiaz Ali
- Neeraj Pandey
- Sushil Rajpal
- Tapan Sinha
- Satyen Bose (director)
- Ram Gopal Bajaj
- Ajit Pal Mangat
- Manish Jha
- Manjul Sinha
- Pritish Nandy
- Kabeer Kaushik
Actors
- Aham Sharma
- Manish Vatsalya
- Sushant Singh Rajput
- Roshan Seth
- Ashok Kumar
- Shatrughan Sinha
- Manoj Bajpai
- Akhilendra Mishra
- Abhimanyu Singh
- Adhyayan Suman
- Luv Sinha
- Pankaj Tripathi
- Shekhar Suman
- Sanjay Mishra (actor)
- Vinay Pathak
- Gurmeet Choudhary
- Vineet Kumar
- Narendra jha
- Rajesh Kumar (actor)
- Manoj Tiwari
- Pankaj Jha
- Dinesh Sharma
- R. Madhavan
- Vishal Aditya Singh
- Chandrachur Singh
Actress
- Pooja Sharma
- Prachi Sinha
- Poonam Sinha
- Sonakshi Sinha
- Neha Sharma
- Sandali Sinha
- Shilpa Shukla
- Neetu Chandra
- Swati Sen
- Kaveri Jha
- Neelima Azeem
- Amardeep Jha
- Suhasini Mulay
- Shilpa Singh
- Shreya Narayan
- Richa Chadda
- Anurita Jha
- Rati Pandey
- Ratan Rajput
- Sriti Jha
- Richa Soni
- Ulka Gupta
- Chhavi Pandey
Singers
- Kiran Ahluwalia
- Aditya Narayan
- Daler Mehndi
- Sharda Sinha
- Manoj Tiwari
- Deepali Kishore
- Aishwarya Nigam
- Parmanand Singh
- Mika Singh
Music Directors
Arts
Religion
- Gautama Buddha
- Mahavira
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Tenzin Priyadarshi
- Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi
- Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi
- Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- Syed Ibrahim
- Dhirendra Brahmachari
Mathematics and science
Sports
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Saba Karim
- Kirti Azad
- Subroto Banerjee
- Shivnath Singh
- Thomas Jameson
- Zafar Iqbal
- Rashmi Kumari
- Rajesh Chauhan
- Kavita Roy
- M.S.Dhoni
- Veer Pratap Singh
Bureaucracy
Indian Civil Service(ICS)
Indian Administrative Service
Indian Police Service
Business
- Anil Agarwal, (Vedanta Group)
- Arunabh_Kumar, (CEO of TheViralFever)
- Aditya Jha
- Sanjay Jha
- Subrata Roy, (Sahara Group)
- Anil Sharma, [Amrapali Group]
- Samprada Singh
Others
- Shaibal Gupta
- Malati Choudhury
- Subhav Sinha
- Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary
- Shyamanand Jalan
- Dashrath Manjhi
- Anand Kumar
- Anil Kumar
References
- ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/After-11-novels-Bihar-lad-set-for-Bollywood-debut/articleshow/20938614.cms
- ↑ http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail2/story103712/noted-author-birbal-jha-calls-for-support-for-special-status-for-bihar.html
- ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Bihar-chief-minister-Nitish-Kumar-resigns/articleshow/35260238.cms
- ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nitish-Kumar-takes-oath-as-Bihar-CM/articleshow/46332933.cms
- ↑ http://www.ndtv.com/cheat-sheet/nitish-kumar-takes-oath-as-bihar-chief-minister-mamata-banerjee-present-for-swearing-in-741500