List of people from Patna

This is a list of notable residents of Patna (formerly Pataliputra), Bihar, India.

Ancient

• Aryabhata, great mathematician-astronomers
• Ashoka, Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
• Bhai Jiwan Singh, Sikh General and friend of Guru Gobind Singh
• Chanakya, teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor.
• Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire
• Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth of the ten Sikh Gurus
• Moggaliputta-Tissa, Buddhist monk and scholar
• Samudragupta, third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty

Nationalists and independence activists

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

Writers and scholars

• Abdul-Qādir Bīdel, representative of Persian poetry and Sufism in India and Central Asia
• Acharya Kishore Kunal, retired IPS Officer and Sanskrit scholar
• Bhabatosh Datta, economist, academic and writer.
• Hrishikesh Sulabh, Hindi writer
• Kumari Radha, maghi poet
• Muhammad Shams-ul-Haq Azimabadi, Muslim scholar
• R. K. Sinha, English scholar
• Ram Avatar Sharma, Sanskrit scholar and academic
• Ram Karan Sharma, Sanskrit poet and scholar.
• Siyaram Tiwari, Hindi professor, scholar and author
• Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, litterateur and scholar of Islam.
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Muslim Hanafi Deobandi Scholar
• Talib Jauhari, Pakistani Islamic scholar, religious leader
• Raza Naqvi Wahi, the preeminent Indian Urdu language poet. Famous for Tanz-o-Mazah Shayari

Authors

• Anurag Anand
• Birbal Jha, author, academician, social thinker, and entrepreneur
• Hetukar Jha, author, professor, researcher, and Fulbright Scholar
• Kalanath Mishra
• Khawaja Reazuddin Atash, Urdu poet and writer from Pakistan
• Sahajanand Saraswati
• Satinath Bhaduri, novelist and politician
• Saurav Jha,writer
• Vikram Seth, novelist and poet.

Holders of High Constitutional Offices

• 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
• C. P. Thakur, current member of Rajya Sabha and Vice-President of Bhartiya Janata Party
• Dilip Sinha, the 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
• Jagat Prakash Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare
• Krishna Singh, first chief minister of Bihar
• Lalit Mohan Sharma, 24th Chief Justice of India.
• Lieutenant General (Retd.) Srinivas Kumar Sinha, former Governor of the states of Jammu & Kashmir and Assam.
• Meira Kumar, former speaker of Lok Sabha
• 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 Kumar, chief minister of Bihar
• Nitish Mishra, Minister of the Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar
• Ram Dulari Sinha, former Union Minister and former Governor of Kerala
• Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and Information Technology and Minister of Law and Justice in Government of India
• Rita Verma, former Minister of State of Mines and Minerals in the Indian government.
• Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary, Government of India.
• Sushil Kumar Modi, former Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Bihar
• Tejendra Khanna, former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
• Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister of India

Politicians

• Lalu Prasad Yadav
• Ashok Kumar, Bihar MLA
• Digvijay Narain Singh, former Member of Parliament
• Ganesh Prasad Singh, former Member of Parliament
• Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha), former Member of Parliament
• Kiran Ghai, national vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
• Kishori Sinha, former Member of Parliament
• Madan Prasad Jaiswal, founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party, former MP.
• Mehboob Ali Kaiser, Member of Parliament
• Putul Kumari, former Member of Parliament
• Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Member of Parliament
• Rajiv Ranjan Singh, former Member of Parliament
• Ram Kripal Yadav, Member of Parliament
• Ranjan Prasad Yadav, former Member of Parliament
• Shyama Singh, former Member of Parliament
• Surur Hoda, socialist politician
• Syed Hasan Imam, former President of the Indian National Congress.
• Uday Singh, former Member of Parliament

Entertainment

• Abhimanyu Singh, actor
• Amardeep Jha, film actress and television personality.
• Bijoya Ray, filmmaker
• Chhavi Pandey, Indian television & movie actress and singer.
• Daler Mehndi, singer
• Deepali Kishore, singer
• Imtiaz Ali, Indian film director, actor and writer.
• Kabeer Kaushik, Bollywood film director and screenwriter.
• Manjul Sinha, TV director
• Mika Singh, singer, composer, performer and songwriter
• Pankaj Jha, TV actor and painter
• Pariva Pranati, actress
• Poonam Sinha, actress
• Prachi Sinha, Bollywood actress
• Sriti Jha,TV actress
• Prasun Banerjee, singer
• Rajesh Kumar, TV actor
• Roshan Seth, British actor
• Sandeep Das, Tabla player and composer.
• Sanjai Mishra, comedian and film actor
• Shatrughan Sinha, actor and presently member of parliament
• Shekhar Suman, film actor and a television personality.
• Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, filmmaker, producer, film archivist and restorer.
• Siyaram Tiwari (musician), Indian classical singer
• Sonakshi Sinha, actress
• Suhasini Mulay, actress
• Sushant Singh Rajput, theater, television and film actor.
• Vineet Kumar, veteran Indian actor

Arts

• Neeraj Goswami, contemporary painter and sculptor.
• Pranava Prakash
• Shambhavi Singh, Painter
• Subodh Gupta, Painter

Sports

• Amikar Dayal, cricketer
• Kunal Datta, cricketer
• Moin-ul-Haq, former General secretary Indian Olympic Association
• Saba Karim, cricketer
• Subroto Banerjee, cricketer

Bureaucracy

• Abhash Kumar, renowned police officer in Tamil Nadu
• Abhayanand, Director General of Police, Bihar and educationalist
• J. K. Sinha, former IPA and Special Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
• N. K. Singh, former Indian Administrative Service and now Member of Parliament
• Prasun Mukherjee, former Commissioner of Police in Kolkata Police department
• S. K. Majumdar (IAF officer)
• Uday Sahay, retired Indian Police Service officer

Business

• Anil Agarwal, founder and Executive Chairman of the United Kingdom-based Vedanta Resources PLC.
• Iqbal Z. Ahmed, leading businessman and philanthropist of Pakistan.
• Siddhant Vats, entrepreneur

Journalist

• Amitava Kumar, writer and journalist
• Kanchan Gupta, Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist
• Rahul Kanwal, anchor of an Indian news channel Headlines Today and Aaj Tak
• Robert Andrew Loughnan, New Zealand farmer, journalist and politician.
• Subhash K. Jha, veteran Indian film critic, journalist, editor, film trade analyst
• Sweta Singh, anchor of a Hindi news channel Aaj Tak
• Vanita Srivastava, presently working in the Hindustan Times
• Ravish Kumar, presently working in the NDTV

Others

• A. A. Khan, physicist
• Anand Kumar, mathematician and founder member of Super 30
• Ashutosh Mukherjee, educator
• Bindeshwar Pathak, sociologist
• Brajkishore Prasad, lawyer
• Creighton Carvello, British mnemonist.
• Faz Husain, pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and politician
• Ganesh Dutt, Indian administrator and educationist.
• Gauri Ayyub, social worker, activist, writer and teacher
• Gopal Prasad Sinha, neurologist, politician and a member of the Institutional Ethical Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research
• Makhdoom Yahya Maneri, Sufi saint
• Manish Mehrotra, award winning chef
• Marshall D. Moran, American Jesuit priest, missionary
• Nidhi Yasha, Indian costume designer
• Papiya Ghosh, historian and a professor
• Pravrajika Shraddhaprana, third president of Sri Sarada Math
• Ram Sharan Sharma, historian and academic
• Ratan Kumar Sinha, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India
• Sake Dean Mahomed, traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur
• Sanjaya Lall, development economist
• Shahn Majid, mathematician and theoretical physicist
• Shaibal Gupta, social scientist, Founder Member-Secretary of Asian Development Research Institute
• Subhav Sinha, innovator
• Sujoy K. Guha, biomedical engineer.
• Syed Ata-ul-Mohsin Bukhari, leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
• Syed Ata-ul-Muhaimin Bukhari, president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Pakistan.
• T. Sher Singh, lawyer
• Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, physicist

See also

• List of people from Bihar