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This is a '''list of notable people from [[Bihar]], [[India]]'''. | |||
==Ancient== | ==Ancient== | ||
* < | * [[Ajatashatru]] | ||
* [[Bindusara]] | |||
* [[Brihadratha Maurya]] | |||
* [[Chandragupta I]] | |||
* [[Dhana Nanda]] | |||
* [[Dasharatha Maurya]] | |||
* [[Devavarman]] | |||
* [[Guru Gobind Singh]] | |||
* [[Janaka]] | |||
* [[Mahavira|Lord Mahavira]] | |||
* [[Shalishuka]] | |||
* [[Shatadhanvan]] | |||
* [[Samprati]] | |||
* [[Sita]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/546790/Sitamarhi | title=Sitamarhi | publisher=Britannica | access-date=30 January 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427100105/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/546790/Sitamarhi | archive-date=27 April 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://sitamarhi.bih.nic.in/profile/index.htm | title=History of Sitamarhi | publisher=Official site of Sitamarhi district | access-date=30 January 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220171523/http://sitamarhi.bih.nic.in/profile/index.htm | archive-date=20 December 2014 }}</ref> | |||
* [[Aryabhata]] | |||
* [[Ashoka]] | |||
* [[Chanakya]] | |||
* [[Chandragupta Maurya]] | |||
* [[Gonu Jha]] | |||
* [[Samudragupta]] | |||
* [[Sher Shah Suri]] | |||
* [[Vātsyāyana]] | |||
* [[Veer Kunwar Singh]] | |||
==Nationalists and independence activists== | ==Nationalists and independence activists== | ||
[[File:Kunwarsingh.jpg|thumb|150px|Portrait of Veer [[Kunwar Singh]]]] | [[File:Kunwarsingh.jpg|thumb|150px|Portrait of Veer [[Kunwar Singh]]]] | ||
[[File:Seewoosagur Ramgoolam - David Ben Gurion 1962.jpg|thumb|150px|Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the son of a Bihari immigrant, with [[David Ben Gurion]] at [[Lod airport]], Israel, in 1962]] | [[File:Seewoosagur Ramgoolam - David Ben Gurion 1962.jpg|thumb|150px|Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the son of a Bihari immigrant, with [[David Ben Gurion]] at [[Lod airport]], Israel, in 1962]] | ||
* | <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:AnugrahNarayanSinha.jpg|thumb|100px|Bihar Vibhuti Dr [[Anugrah Narayan Sinha]]]] --> | ||
* | <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha.JPG|thumb|Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha]] --> | ||
* | |||
* [[Babu Kunwar Singh]] | |||
* [[Rajendra Prasad]] | |||
* [[Sri Krishna Singh]] | |||
* [[Anugrah Narayan Sinha]] | |||
* [[Jayaprakash Narayan]] | |||
* [[Jagjivan Ram]] | |||
* [[Ram Subhag Singh]] | |||
* [[Kameshwar Singh]] | |||
* [[Swami Sahajanand Saraswati]] | |||
* [[Syed Hasan Imam]] | |||
* [[Baikuntha Shukla]] | |||
* [[Karyanand Sharma]] | |||
* [[Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha]] | |||
* [[Satyendra Narayan Singh]] | |||
* [[Ram Dulari Sinha]] | |||
* [[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]] | |||
* [[Yadunandan Sharma]] | |||
* [[Babu Amar Singh]] | |||
==Writers and scholars== | |||
[[File:Irshadandyaseendpf01.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Yaseen Anwer]] discussing poetry with renowned Bollywood lyricist [[Irshad Kamil]] at [[Delhi Poetry Festival]], 2013]] | |||
[[File:Satyapal chandra.jpg|thumb|[[Satyapal Chandra]] (Noted Author, Entrepreneur)]] | |||
[[File:R.C.Jha.jpg|thumb|Ramesh Chandra Jha (poet, novelist, journalist, freedom fighter)]] | |||
* [[Syed Hasan (writer)|Syed Hasan]] | |||
* [[Abdul Qavi Desnavi]] | |||
* [[Swami Sahajanand Saraswati]] | |||
* [[Ram Sharan Sharma]] | |||
* [[Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay]] | |||
* [[Balmiki Prasad Singh]] | |||
* [[Vidyapati]] | |||
* [[Manoj Bhawuk]] | |||
* [[Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar']] | |||
* [[Ramavriksha Benipuri|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]] | |||
* [[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]] | |||
* [[Gajendra Thakur]] | |||
* [[Kapil Muni Tiwary]] | |||
* [[Shiv Khera]] | |||
==Journalists== | |||
[[File:M. J. Akbar.jpg|thumb|M. J. Akbar, journalist]] | |||
* [[M. J. Akbar]] | |||
* [[Anuranjan Jha]] | |||
* [[Ravish Kumar]] | |||
* [[Sweta Singh]] | |||
* [[Manoj Bhawuk]] | |||
* [[Vikas Kumar Jha]] | |||
* [[Arvind Narayan Das]] | |||
==Authors== | |||
===Hindi=== | |||
* [[Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar']] | |||
* [[Ramesh Chandra Jha]] | |||
* [[Rambriksh Benipuri]] | |||
* [[Sahajanand Saraswati]] | |||
* [[Gopal Singh Nepali]] | |||
* [[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]] | |||
* [[Pandey Kapil]] | |||
* [[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== | |||
== | ===Bharat Ratna=== | ||
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[[ | * [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] | ||
* [[Rajendra Prasad]] | * [[Rajendra Prasad]] | ||
* | * [[Jayaprakash Narayan]] | ||
=== | * [[Bismillah Khan]] | ||
===Padma Bhushan=== | |||
* Rashtrakavi [[Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar']] | |||
* [[Acharya Shivpujan Sahay]] | |||
* [[Bindeshwar Pathak]] | |||
===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']] | |||
===Magasaysay award=== | |||
* [[Ravish Kumar]] | |||
* [[Jayaprakash Narayan]] | |||
===Dada Saheb Phalke award=== | |||
* [[Ashok Kumar]] | |||
* [[Tapan Sinha]] | |||
==Military Gallantry Award winners== | |||
===[[Param Vir Chakra]]=== | |||
* [[Albert Ekka]] | |||
===[[Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)|Ashoka Chakra]]=== | |||
* [[Jyoti Prakash Nirala]] | |||
==Holders of high constitutional offices== | |||
===Presidents of India=== | |||
* [[Rajendra Prasad]] first President of India | |||
===Presidents of other countries=== | |||
* [[Sir Anerood Jugnauth]] former President of [[Mauritius]] | |||
* [[Kailash Purryag]] former President of Mauritius | |||
===Vice-President of other countries=== | |||
* [[Parmanand Jha]] first Vice-President of [[Nepal]] | |||
===Prime ministers of other countries=== | |||
[[File:Navin Ramgoolam Portrait 2014.jpg|thumb|Navinchandra Ramgoolam, former [[Prime Minister of Mauritius]] ]] | |||
* [[Seewoosagur Ramgoolam]] first Prime Minister of Mauritius | |||
* [[Sir Anerood Jugnauth]] current 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, India|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 [[Kerela]] | |||
* [[Siddheshwar Prasad]] former Governor of [[Tripura]] | |||
* [[Srinivas Kumar Sinha]] former Governor of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] and Assam | |||
===Governor of Reserve Bank of India=== | |||
* [[Lakshmi Kant Jha]] | |||
===Lieutenant governors of other states=== | |||
* [[Tejendra Khanna]] | |||
* [[Nagendra Nath Jha]] | |||
===Speakers of Lok Sabha=== | |||
* [[Bali Ram Bhagat]] | * [[Bali Ram Bhagat]] | ||
* [[Meira Kumar]] | |||
===Chief justices=== | |||
* [[Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha]] | |||
* [[Lalit Mohan Sharma]] | |||
===Chief ministers=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! # | |||
! Name | |||
! Took office | |||
! Left office | |||
! Political party | |||
|- | |||
| 1 | |||
| [[Sri Krishna Sinha]] | |||
| 2 April 1946 | |||
| 31 January 1961 | |||
| [[File:1931 Flag of India.svg|30px]] [[Indian National Congress]] | |||
|- | |||
| 2 | |||
| [[Deep Narayan Singh]] | |||
| 1 February 1961 | |||
| 18 February 1961 | |||
| [[File:1931 Flag of India.svg|30px]] Indian National Congress | |||
|- | |||
| 3 | |||
| [[Binodanand Jha]] | |||
| 18 February 1961 | |||
| 2 October 1963 | |||
| [[File:1931 Flag of India.svg|30px]] Indian National Congress | |||
|- | |||
| 4 | |||
| [[K.B.Sahay|Krishana Ballabh Sahay]] | |||
| 2 October 1963 | |||
| 5 March 1967 | |||
| [[File:1931 Flag of India.svg|30px]] Indian National Congress | |||
|- | |||
| 5 | |||
| [[Mahamaya Prasad Sinha]] | |||
| 5 March 1967 | |||
| 28 January 1968 | |||
| Jana Kranti Dal1 | |||
|- | |||
| 6 | |||
| [[Satish Prasad Singh]] | |||
| 28 January 1968 | |||
| 1 February 1968 | |||
| [[File:1931 Flag of India.svg|30px]] Indian National Congress | |||
|- | |||
| 7 | |||
| [[B. P. Mandal]] | |||
| 1 February 1968 | |||
| 2 March 1968 | |||
| [[File:1931 Flag of India.svg|30px]] Indian National Congress | |||
|- | |||
| 8 | |||
| [[Bhola Paswan Shashtri]] | |||
| 22 March 1968 | |||
| 29 June 1968 | |||
| [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)|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 (India)|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 Ghafoor (politician)|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 | |||
| [[File:Janata Dal symbol.svg|30px]] [[Janata Dal]] | |||
|- | |||
| 26 | |||
| [[Laloo Prasad Yadav]] | |||
| 4 April 1995 | |||
| 25 July 1997 | |||
| [[File:Janata Dal symbol.svg|30px]] Janata Dal, [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] | |||
|- | |||
| 27 | |||
| [[Rabri Devi]] | |||
| 25 July 1997 | |||
| 11 February 1999 | |||
| [[File:RJD Flag.svg|30px]] Rashtriya Janata Dal | |||
|- | |||
| 28 | |||
| [[Rabri Devi]] | |||
| 9 March 1999 | |||
| 2 March 2000 | |||
| [[File:RJD Flag.svg|30px]] Rashtriya Janata Dal | |||
|- | |||
| 29 | |||
| [[Nitish Kumar]] | |||
| 3 March 2000 | |||
| 10 March 2000 | |||
| [[File:JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG|30px]] Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
| 30 | |||
| [[Rabri Devi]] | |||
| 11 March 2000 | |||
| 6 March 2005 | |||
| [[File:RJD Flag.svg|30px]] Rashtriya Janata Dal | |||
|- | |||
| | |||
| [[President's rule]] | |||
| 7 March 2005 | |||
| 24 November 2005 | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
| 31 | |||
| [[Nitish Kumar]] | |||
| 24 November 2005 | |||
| 24 November 2010 | |||
| [[File:JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG|30px]] Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
| 32 | |||
| [[Nitish Kumar]] | |||
| 26 November 2010 | |||
| 17 May 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Bihar-chief-minister-Nitish-Kumar-resigns/articleshow/35260238.cms|title=Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar resigns - Times of India ►|access-date=10 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704194508/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Bihar-chief-minister-Nitish-Kumar-resigns/articleshow/35260238.cms|archive-date=4 July 2017}}</ref> | |||
| [[File:JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG|30px]] Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
| 33 | |||
| [[Jitan Ram Manjhi]] | |||
| 20 May 2014 | |||
| 22 Feb 2015 | |||
| [[File:JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG|30px]] Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
| 34 | |||
| [[Nitish Kumar]] | |||
| 22 Feb 2015 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nitish-Kumar-takes-oath-as-Bihar-CM/articleshow/46332933.cms|title=Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar CM - Times of India ►|access-date=10 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225004515/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nitish-Kumar-takes-oath-as-Bihar-CM/articleshow/46332933.cms|archive-date=25 February 2015}}</ref> | |||
| Present <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/cheat-sheet/nitish-kumar-takes-oath-as-bihar-chief-minister-mamata-banerjee-present-for-swearing-in-741500|title=Nitish Kumar Takes Oath as Bihar Chief Minister; Mamata Banerjee, Tarun Gogoi Attend Swearing In|access-date=10 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630164734/http://www.ndtv.com/cheat-sheet/nitish-kumar-takes-oath-as-bihar-chief-minister-mamata-banerjee-present-for-swearing-in-741500|archive-date=30 June 2017}}</ref> | |||
| [[File:JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG|30px]] Janata Dal (United) | |||
|} | |||
===Deputy chief ministers=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! # | |||
! Name | |||
! Took office | |||
! Left office | |||
! Party | |||
|- | |||
| 1 | |||
| [[Anugrah Narayan Sinha]] [3] | |||
| 2 April 1946 | |||
| 5 July 1957 | |||
| | [[File:1931 Flag of India.svg|30px]] [[Indian National Congress]] | |||
|- | |||
| 2 | |||
| [[Karpoori Thakur]] | |||
| 5 March 1967 | |||
| 31 January 1968 | |||
| [[Socialist Party (India)|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 | |||
|} | |||
[[ | ===Members of Lok Sabha=== | ||
* [[ | {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | ||
|-|- | |||
!# | |||
!Constituency | |||
!Member of Parliament | |||
!Political party | |||
|- | |||
|1 | |||
|[[Valmiki Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Valmiki Nagar]] | |||
|[[Baidyanath Prasad Mahto]] | |||
|[[Janata Dal (United)]] | |||
|- | |||
|2 | |||
|[[Paschim Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency)|Paschim Champaran]] | |||
|[[Sanjay Jaiswal]] | |||
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] | |||
|- | |||
|3 | |||
|[[Purvi Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency)|Purvi Champaran]] | |||
|[[Radha Mohan Singh]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|4 | |||
|[[Sheohar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Sheohar]] | |||
|[[Rama Devi (Bihar politician)|Rama Devi]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|- | |||
|5 | |||
|[[Sitamarhi (Lok Sabha constituency)|Sitamarhi]] | |||
|[[Arjun Roy]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|- | |||
|6 | |||
|[[Madhubani (Lok Sabha constituency)|Madhubani]] | |||
|[[Hukmadeo Narayan Yadav]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|7 | |||
|[[Jhanjharpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jhanjharpur]] | |||
|[[Mangani Lal Mandal]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|8 | |||
|[[Supaul (Lok Sabha constituency)|Supaul]] | |||
|[[Vishwa Mohan Kumar]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|9 | |||
|[[Araria (Lok Sabha constituency)|Araria]] | |||
|[[Pradeep Kumar Singh]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|- | |||
|10 | |||
|[[Kishanganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kishanganj]] | |||
|[[Mohammad Asrarul Haque]] | |||
|Indian National Congress | |||
|- | |||
|11 | |||
|[[Katihar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Katihar]] | |||
|[[Nikhil Kumar Choudhary]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|12 | |||
|[[Purnia (Lok Sabha constituency)|Purnia]] | |||
|[[Uday Singh]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|13 | |||
|[[Madhepura (Lok Sabha constituency)|Madhepura]] | |||
|[[Sharad Yadav]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|14 | |||
|[[Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency)|Darbhanga]] | |||
|[[Kirti Azad]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|15 | |||
|[[Muzaffarpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Muzaffarpur]] | |||
|[[Jai Narain Prasad Nishad]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|16 | |||
|[[Vaishali (Lok Sabha constituency)|Vaishali]] | |||
|[[Raghuvansh Prasad Singh]] | |||
|[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] | |||
|- | |||
|17 | |||
|[[Gopalganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Gopalganj]] | |||
|[[Purnmasi Ram]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|18 | |||
|[[Siwan (Lok Sabha constituency)|Siwan]] | |||
|[[Om Prakash Yadav]] | |||
|Independent | |||
|- | |||
|19 | |||
|[[Maharajganj (Bihar) (Lok Sabha constituency)|Maharajganj]] | |||
|[[Uma Shankar Singh]] | |||
|[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] | |||
|- | |||
|20 | |||
|[[Saran (Lok Sabha constituency)|Saran]] | |||
|[[Rajiv Pratap Rudy]] | |||
|[[Bhartiya Janata Party]] | |||
|- | |||
|21 | |||
|[[Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Hajipur]] | |||
|[[Ram Vilas Paswan]] | |||
|[[Lok Janshakti Party]] | |||
|- | |||
|22 | |||
|[[Ujiarpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ujiarpur]] | |||
|[[Aswamedh Devi]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|23 | |||
|[[Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Samastipur]] | |||
|[[Maheshwar Hazari]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|24 | |||
|[[Begusarai (Lok Sabha constituency)|Begusarai]] | |||
|[[Monazir Hassan]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|25 | |||
|[[Khagaria (Lok Sabha constituency)|Khagaria]] | |||
|[[Dinesh Chandra Yadav]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|26 | |||
|[[Bhagalpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bhagalpur]] | |||
|[[Syed Shahnawaz Hussain]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|27 | |||
|[[Banka (Lok Sabha constituency)|Banka]] | |||
|[[Putul Kumari]] | |||
| Independent | |||
|- | |||
|28 | |||
|[[Munger (Lok Sabha constituency)|Munger]] | |||
|[[Rajiv Ranjan Singh]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|29 | |||
|[[Nalanda (Lok Sabha constituency)|Nalanda]] | |||
|[[Kaushalendra Kumar]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|30 | |||
|[[Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency)|Patna Sahib]] | |||
|[[Shatrughan Sinha]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|31 | |||
|[[Pataliputra (Lok Sabha constituency)|Pataliputra]] | |||
|[[Ranjan Prasad Yadav]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|32 | |||
|[[Arrah (Lok Sabha constituency)|Arrah]] | |||
|[[R. K. Singh]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|33 | |||
|[[Buxar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Buxar]] | |||
|[[Jagada Nand Singh]] | |||
|[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] | |||
|- | |||
|34 | |||
|[[Sasaram (Lok Sabha constituency)|Sasaram]] | |||
|[[Meira Kumar]] | |||
|Indian National Congress | |||
|- | |||
|35 | |||
|[[Karakat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Karakat]] | |||
|[[Mahabali Singh]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|36 | |||
|[[Jahanabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jahanabad]] | |||
|[[Jagdish Sharma]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|37 | |||
|[[Aurangabad (Bihar) (Lok Sabha constituency)|Aurangabad]] | |||
|[[Sushil Kumar Singh]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|- | |||
|38 | |||
|[[Gaya (Lok Sabha constituency)|Gaya]] | |||
|[[Hari Manjhi]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|39 | |||
|[[Nawada (Lok Sabha constituency)|Nawada]] | |||
|[[Bhola Singh]] | |||
|Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
|- | |||
|40 | |||
|[[Jamui (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jamui]] | |||
|[[Bhudeo Choudhary]] | |||
|Janata Dal (United) | |||
|} | |||
===Members of Rajya Sabha=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! # !! 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 || Janata Dal (United) || [[Ram Nath Thakur]] | |||
|- | |||
| 14 || [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] || [[Dharmendra Pradhan]] | |||
|- | |||
| 15 || Bharatiya Janata Party || [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]] | |||
|- | |||
| 16 || Bharatiya Janata Party || [[Rajiv Pratap Rudy]] | |||
|- | |||
| 17 || 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=== | |||
{{main|List of politicians from Bihar}} | |||
* [[Rajendra Prasad]] | |||
* [[Jayaprakash Narayan]] | |||
* [[Anugrah Narayan Sinha]] | |||
* [[Sri Krishna Sinha]] | |||
* [[Jagjivan Ram]] | * [[Jagjivan Ram]] | ||
* [[Ram Subhag Singh]] | * [[Ram Subhag Singh]] | ||
* [[B.P.Mandal]] | |||
* [[Lalit Narayan Mishra]] | |||
* [[Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha]] | |||
* [[Ram Dulari Sinha]] | * [[Ram Dulari Sinha]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Satyendra Narayan Singh]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Karpoori Thakur]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Daroga Prasad Rai]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Deep Narayan Singh]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Abdul Ghafoor (politician)|Abdul Ghafoor]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Chandrashekhar Singh]] | ||
* [[Chirag Paswan]] | |||
* [[Faz Husain]] | |||
* [[Kailashpati Mishra]] | |||
* [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]] | |||
* [[Nitish Kumar]] | * [[Nitish Kumar]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Nikhil Kumar]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Indradeep Sinha]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Digvijay Narain Singh]] | ||
* [[Kapildeo Singh]] | |||
* [[Bidhu Jha]] | |||
* [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]] | * [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Gauri Shankar Pandey]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Tarkeshwari Sinha]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra]] | ||
* [[Krishna Kumar Mishra]] | |||
* [[Srinivas Kumar Sinha]] | |||
* [[Yashwant Sinha]] | |||
* [[Prabhat Jha (politician)|Prabhat Jha]] | |||
* [[Sanjay Nirupam]] | |||
* [[Mohammad Yunus (politician)|Mohammad Yunus]] | |||
* [[Nawal Kishore Dhawal]] | |||
* [[Ranjit Kumar Gupta]] | |||
* [[Ram Kripal Sinha]] | |||
* [[Veena Devi]] | |||
* [[Ramgulam Chaudhary]] | |||
* [[Jayant Sinha]] | |||
*[[Kanhaiya Kumar]] | |||
==Entertainment== | |||
===Film directors=== | |||
* [[Ajit Pal Mangat]] | |||
* [[Imtiaz Ali (director)|Imtiaz Ali]] | |||
* [[Kabeer Kaushik]] | |||
* [[Manish Jha]] | |||
* [[Manish Vatsalya]] | |||
* [[Manjul Sinha]] | |||
* [[Neeraj Pandey]] | |||
* [[Prakash Jha]] | |||
* [[Pritish Nandy]] | |||
* [[Ram Gopal Bajaj]] | |||
* [[Satyen Bose]] | |||
* [[Sushil Rajpal]] | |||
* [[Tapan Sinha]] | |||
===Actors=== | |||
* [[Aham Sharma]] | |||
* [[Manish Vatsalya]] | |||
* [[Sushant Singh Rajput]] | |||
* [[Roshan Seth]] | |||
* [[Ashok Kumar]] | |||
* [[Shatrughan Sinha]] | |||
* [[Manoj Bajpai]] | |||
* [[Manoj Bhawuk]] | |||
* [[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 (politician)|Manoj Tiwari]] | |||
* [[Pankaj Jha]] | |||
* [[Dinesh Sharma (actor)|Dinesh Sharma]] | |||
* [[R. Madhavan]] | |||
* [[Vishal Aditya Singh]] | |||
* [[Chandrachur Singh]] | |||
* [[Alok Nath]] | |||
* [[Khesari Lal Yadav]] | |||
=== | ===Actresses=== | ||
* [[Pooja Sharma (Indian actress)|Pooja Sharma]] | |||
* [[Prachi Sinha]] | |||
* [[Neha Sharma]] | |||
* [[Sandali Sinha]] | |||
* [[Shilpa Shukla]] | |||
* [[Neetu Chandra]] | |||
* [[Swati Sen]] | |||
* [[Kaveri Jha]] | |||
* [[Neelima Azeem]] | |||
* [[Amardeep Jha]] | |||
* [[Suhasini Mulay]] | |||
* [[Shilpa Singh]] | |||
* [[Shreya Narayan]] | |||
* [[Anurita Jha]] | |||
* [[Rati Pandey]] | |||
* [[Ratan Rajput]] | |||
* [[Sriti Jha]] | |||
* [[Richa Soni]] | |||
* [[Ulka Gupta]] | |||
* [[Chhavi Pandey]] | |||
* [[Shweta Prasad]] | |||
* [[Sonakshi Sinha]] | |||
=== | ===Singers=== | ||
* [[Daler Mehndi]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140921004213/http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/music/i-m-proud-to-be-from-bihar-daler-mehndi/article1-1033035.aspx</ref> | |||
* [[Kiran Ahluwalia]] | |||
* [[Sundar Popo]] | |||
* [[Sharda Sinha]] | |||
* [[Manoj Tiwari (politician)|Manoj Tiwari]] | |||
* [[Pawan Singh]] | |||
* [[Deepali Kishore]] | |||
* [[Aishwarya Nigam]] | |||
* [[Parmanand Singh]] | |||
* [[Maithili Thakur]] | |||
* [[ | ===Music directors=== | ||
* [[ | * [[Chitragupta (composer)|Chitragupta]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Anand-Milind]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Bapi Tutul]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Ramashreya Jha]] | ||
* [[Norman Hackforth]] | |||
==== | ==Arts== | ||
* [[Vidyapati]] | |||
* [[Nagarjun]] | |||
* [[Ramdhari Singh Dinkar]] | |||
* [[Bismillah Khan]] | |||
* [[Chandan Tiwari]] | |||
* [[Bhikhari Thakur]] | |||
* [[Jaydeva]] | |||
* [[Jyotirishwar Thakur]] | |||
* [[Srimanta Sankardeva]] | |||
* [[Govindadas]] | |||
* [[Acharya Ramlochan Saran]] | |||
* [[Baldev Mishra]] | |||
* [[Surendra Jha 'Suman']] | |||
* [[Radha Krishna Choudhary]] | |||
* [[Jaykant Mishra]] | |||
* [[Rajkamal Chaudhary]] | |||
* [[Binod Bihari Verma]] | |||
* [[Parichay Das]] | |||
* [[Gajendra Thakur]] | |||
* [[Bindhyabasini Devi]] | |||
* [[ | ==Religion== | ||
* [[Syed | * [[Dharni Das]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Dhyanyogi Madhusudandas]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Dhirendra Brahmachari]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]] | ||
* [[Sahadeo Tiwari]] | |||
* [[Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi]] | |||
* [[Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi]] | |||
* [[Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi]] | |||
* [[Syed Ibrahim]] | |||
* [[Tenzin Priyadarshi]] | |||
* [[Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri]] | |||
== | ==Mathematics and science== | ||
*[[ | * [[Anand Kumar]] | ||
* [[ | * [[H. C. Verma]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Rajit Gadh]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Vashishtha Narayan Singh]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Tathagat Avatar Tulsi]] | ||
* | |||
==== | ==Sports== | ||
* [[Saba Karim]] | |||
* [[Kirti Azad]] | |||
* [[Subroto Banerjee]] | |||
* [[Shivnath Singh]] | |||
* [[Thomas Jameson (cricketer, born 1908)|Thomas Jameson]] | |||
* [[Zafar Iqbal (field hockey)|Zafar Iqbal]] | |||
* [[Rashmi Kumari]] | |||
* [[Rajesh Chauhan]] | |||
* [[Kavita Roy]] | |||
* [[Veer Pratap Singh]] | |||
* [[Ishan Kishan]] | |||
* [[Deepika Kumari]] | |||
* [[Purnima Mahato]] | |||
* [[Randhir Singh (cricketer)|Randhir Singh]] | |||
* [[Premlata Agarwal]] | |||
* [[Sanjay Balmuchu]] | |||
* [[Lal Mohan Hansda]] | |||
* [[Aruna Mishra]] | |||
* [[Jaipal Singh]] | |||
* [[Sharad Kumar (athlete)|Sharad Kumar]] | |||
* [[Pramod Bhagat]] | |||
==Bureaucracy== | |||
===Indian Civil Service=== | |||
* [[Lallan Prasad Singh|L.P. Singh]] | |||
* [[Sir Sultan Ahmed]] | |||
===Indian Administrative Service=== | |||
* [[Balmiki Prasad Singh]] | |||
* [[N. K. Singh]] | |||
* [[Pankaj Rag]] | |||
* [[R. K. Singh]] | |||
* [[U. K. Sinha]] | |||
* [[Upamanyu Chatterjee]] | |||
* [[Yashwant Sinha]] | |||
===[[Indian Foreign Service]]=== | |||
*[[ | * [[Aftab Seth]] | ||
===Indian Police Service=== | |||
*[[ | * [[Abhayanand]] | ||
*[[Lipi Singh]] | |||
* [[J. K. Sinha]] | |||
* [[Nikhil Kumar]] | |||
* [[Acharya Kishore Kunal]] | |||
* [[Randhir Prasad Verma]] | |||
* [[Amitabh Thakur]] | |||
* [[Ranjit Sinha]] | |||
* [[Anil Sinha]] | |||
== | ==Business== | ||
* [[ | * [[Anil Agarwal (businessman)|Anil Agarwal]], Founder and Executive Chairman of [[Vedanta Resources|Vedanta Group]] | ||
* [[Arunabh Kumar]], CEO of [[The Viral Fever|TVF]] | |||
* [[Aditya Jha]] | |||
* [[Sanjay Jha (businessman)|Sanjay Jha]] | |||
* [[Subrata Roy]], Founder of [[Sahara India Pariwar|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]] | |||
* [[Shilpa Singh]] | |||
* [[Supriya Aiman]] | |||
* [[Pranati Rai Prakash]] | |||
* [[Maṇḍana Miśra]] | |||
* [[Ganesh Dutt]] | |||
* [[Natwarlal]] | |||
* [[Nirupama Pandey]] | |||
== | ==References== | ||
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This is a list of notable people from Bihar, India.
Ancient
- Ajatashatru
- Bindusara
- Brihadratha Maurya
- Chandragupta I
- Dhana Nanda
- Dasharatha Maurya
- Devavarman
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Janaka
- Lord Mahavira
- Shalishuka
- Shatadhanvan
- Samprati
- Sita[1][2]
- Aryabhata
- Ashoka
- Chanakya
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Gonu Jha
- Samudragupta
- Sher Shah Suri
- Vātsyāyana
- Veer Kunwar Singh
Nationalists and independence activists

Portrait of Veer Kunwar Singh

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
- Ram Subhag Singh
- Kameshwar Singh
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- Syed Hasan Imam
- Baikuntha Shukla
- Karyanand Sharma
- Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
- Satyendra Narayan Singh
- Ram Dulari Sinha
- 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
- Yadunandan Sharma
- Babu Amar Singh
Writers and scholars
File:Irshadandyaseendpf01.jpg
Yaseen Anwer discussing poetry with renowned Bollywood lyricist Irshad Kamil at Delhi Poetry Festival, 2013

Satyapal Chandra (Noted Author, Entrepreneur)
File:R.C.Jha.jpg
Ramesh Chandra Jha (poet, novelist, journalist, freedom fighter)
- Syed Hasan
- Abdul Qavi Desnavi
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- Ram Sharan Sharma
- Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
- Balmiki Prasad Singh
- Vidyapati
- Manoj Bhawuk
- 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
- 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
- Gajendra Thakur
- Kapil Muni Tiwary
- Shiv Khera
Journalists
Authors
Hindi
- Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Rambriksh Benipuri
- Sahajanand Saraswati
- Gopal Singh Nepali
- Kalanath Mishra
- Nawal Kishore Dhawal
Maithili
Bhojpuri
- Avinash Chandra Vidyarthi
- Bhikhari Thakur
- Dharni Das
- Harihar Singh
- Heera Dom
- Mahendar Misir
- Manoranjan Prasad Sinha
- Manoj Bhawuk
- Pandey Kapil
- Parichay Das
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Rameshwar Singh Kashyap
- Raghuveer Narayan
Bengali
English
Urdu
National and international award winners
Bharat Ratna
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shree
- Ramchandra Manjhi
- Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain
- Mohan Mishra
- Narendra Kumar Pandey
- Janki Ballabh Shastri
- Sharda Sinha
- Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur
Jnanpith award
Magasaysay award
Dada Saheb Phalke award
Military Gallantry Award winners
Param Vir Chakra
Ashoka Chakra
Holders of high constitutional offices
Presidents of India
- Rajendra Prasad first President of India
Presidents of other countries
- Sir Anerood Jugnauth former President of Mauritius
- Kailash Purryag former President of Mauritius
Vice-President of other countries
- Parmanand Jha first Vice-President of Nepal
Prime ministers of other countries

Navinchandra Ramgoolam, former Prime Minister of Mauritius
- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam first Prime Minister of Mauritius
- Sir Anerood Jugnauth current 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
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 Kerela
- Siddheshwar Prasad former Governor of Tripura
- Srinivas Kumar Sinha former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir and Assam
Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Lieutenant governors of other states
Speakers of Lok Sabha
Chief justices
Chief ministers
# | Name | Took office | Left office | Political party |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sri Krishna Sinha | 2 April 1946 | 31 January 1961 | ![]() |
2 | Deep Narayan Singh | 1 February 1961 | 18 February 1961 | ![]() |
3 | Binodanand Jha | 18 February 1961 | 2 October 1963 | ![]() |
4 | Krishana Ballabh Sahay | 2 October 1963 | 5 March 1967 | ![]() |
5 | Mahamaya Prasad Sinha | 5 March 1967 | 28 January 1968 | Jana Kranti Dal1 |
6 | Satish Prasad Singh | 28 January 1968 | 1 February 1968 | ![]() |
7 | B. P. Mandal | 1 February 1968 | 2 March 1968 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
26 | Laloo Prasad Yadav | 4 April 1995 | 25 July 1997 | ![]() |
27 | Rabri Devi | 25 July 1997 | 11 February 1999 | ![]() |
28 | Rabri Devi | 9 March 1999 | 2 March 2000 | ![]() |
29 | Nitish Kumar | 3 March 2000 | 10 March 2000 | |
30 | Rabri Devi | 11 March 2000 | 6 March 2005 | ![]() |
President's rule | 7 March 2005 | 24 November 2005 | ||
31 | Nitish Kumar | 24 November 2005 | 24 November 2010 | |
32 | Nitish Kumar | 26 November 2010 | 17 May 2014[3] | |
33 | Jitan Ram Manjhi | 20 May 2014 | 22 Feb 2015 | |
34 | Nitish Kumar | 22 Feb 2015 [4] | Present [5] |
Deputy chief ministers
# | Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
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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 |
Members of Lok Sabha
Members of Rajya Sabha
# | 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 | Janata Dal (United) | Ram Nath Thakur |
14 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Dharmendra Pradhan |
15 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Ravi Shankar Prasad |
16 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Rajiv Pratap Rudy |
17 | 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
- Ram Subhag Singh
- 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
- 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
- Ram Kripal Sinha
- Veena Devi
- Ramgulam Chaudhary
- Jayant Sinha
- Kanhaiya Kumar
Entertainment
Film directors
- Ajit Pal Mangat
- Imtiaz Ali
- Kabeer Kaushik
- Manish Jha
- Manish Vatsalya
- Manjul Sinha
- Neeraj Pandey
- Prakash Jha
- Pritish Nandy
- Ram Gopal Bajaj
- Satyen Bose
- Sushil Rajpal
- Tapan Sinha
Actors
- Aham Sharma
- Manish Vatsalya
- Sushant Singh Rajput
- Roshan Seth
- Ashok Kumar
- Shatrughan Sinha
- Manoj Bajpai
- Manoj Bhawuk
- 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
- Alok Nath
- Khesari Lal Yadav
Actresses
- Pooja Sharma
- Prachi Sinha
- Neha Sharma
- Sandali Sinha
- Shilpa Shukla
- Neetu Chandra
- Swati Sen
- Kaveri Jha
- Neelima Azeem
- Amardeep Jha
- Suhasini Mulay
- Shilpa Singh
- Shreya Narayan
- Anurita Jha
- Rati Pandey
- Ratan Rajput
- Sriti Jha
- Richa Soni
- Ulka Gupta
- Chhavi Pandey
- Shweta Prasad
- Sonakshi Sinha
Singers
- Daler Mehndi[6]
- Kiran Ahluwalia
- Sundar Popo
- Sharda Sinha
- Manoj Tiwari
- Pawan Singh
- Deepali Kishore
- Aishwarya Nigam
- Parmanand Singh
- Maithili Thakur
Music directors
Arts
- Vidyapati
- Nagarjun
- Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
- Bismillah Khan
- Chandan Tiwari
- Bhikhari Thakur
- Jaydeva
- Jyotirishwar Thakur
- Srimanta Sankardeva
- Govindadas
- Acharya Ramlochan Saran
- Baldev Mishra
- Surendra Jha 'Suman'
- Radha Krishna Choudhary
- Jaykant Mishra
- Rajkamal Chaudhary
- Binod Bihari Verma
- Parichay Das
- Gajendra Thakur
- Bindhyabasini Devi
Religion
- Dharni Das
- Dhyanyogi Madhusudandas
- Dhirendra Brahmachari
- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- Sahadeo Tiwari
- Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi
- Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
- Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi
- Syed Ibrahim
- Tenzin Priyadarshi
- Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri
Mathematics and science
Sports
- Saba Karim
- Kirti Azad
- Subroto Banerjee
- Shivnath Singh
- Thomas Jameson
- Zafar Iqbal
- Rashmi Kumari
- Rajesh Chauhan
- Kavita Roy
- Veer Pratap Singh
- Ishan Kishan
- Deepika Kumari
- Purnima Mahato
- Randhir Singh
- Premlata Agarwal
- Sanjay Balmuchu
- Lal Mohan Hansda
- Aruna Mishra
- Jaipal Singh
- Sharad Kumar
- Pramod Bhagat
Bureaucracy
Indian Civil Service
Indian Administrative Service
- Balmiki Prasad Singh
- N. K. Singh
- Pankaj Rag
- R. K. Singh
- U. K. Sinha
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Yashwant Sinha
Indian Foreign Service
Indian Police Service
- Abhayanand
- Lipi Singh
- J. K. Sinha
- 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
- Aditya Jha
- Sanjay Jha
- Subrata Roy, Founder of 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
- Shilpa Singh
- Supriya Aiman
- Pranati Rai Prakash
- Maṇḍana Miśra
- Ganesh Dutt
- Natwarlal
- Nirupama Pandey
References
- ↑ "Sitamarhi". Britannica. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "History of Sitamarhi". Official site of Sitamarhi district. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar resigns - 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 ►". 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.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140921004213/http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/music/i-m-proud-to-be-from-bihar-daler-mehndi/article1-1033035.aspx