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

Ancient

Nationalists and independence activists

Portrait of Veer Kunwar Singh

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Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi, Indian freedom fighter and political activist

Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the son of a Bihari immigrant, with David Ben Gurion at Lod airport, Israel, in 1962

Writers and scholars

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Yaseen Anwer discussing poetry with renowned Bollywood lyricist Irshad Kamil at Delhi Poetry Festival, 2013

Satyapal Chandra (Noted Author, Entrepreneur)

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Ramesh Chandra Jha (poet, novelist, journalist, freedom fighter)

Journalists

M. J. Akbar, journalist

Authors

Hindi

Maithili

Bhojpuri

Bengali

English

Urdu

National and international award winners

Bharat Ratna

Padma Bhushan

Padma Shree

Jnanpith award

Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'

Magasaysay award

Dada Saheb Phalke award

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

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

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 Kerela
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

Chief justices

Chief ministers

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Political party
1	Sri 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 Dal1
6	Satish Prasad Singh	28 January 1968	1 February 1968	Indian National Congress
7	B. P. Mandal	1 February 1968	2 March 1968	Indian National Congress
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^[3]	Janata Dal (United)
33	Jitan Ram Manjhi	20 May 2014	22 Feb 2015	Janata Dal (United)
34	Nitish Kumar	22 Feb 2015 ^[4]	Present ^[5]	Janata Dal (United)

Deputy chief ministers

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
1	Anugrah Narayan Sinha [3]	2 April 1946	5 July 1957	Indian National Congress
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

#	Constituency	Member of Parliament	Political party
1	Valmiki Nagar	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto	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	Arjun Roy	Janata Dal (United)
6	Madhubani	Hukmadeo Narayan Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party
7	Jhanjharpur	Mangani Lal Mandal	Janata Dal (United)
8	Supaul	Vishwa Mohan Kumar	Janata Dal (United)
9	Araria	Pradeep Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
10	Kishanganj	Mohammad Asrarul Haque	Indian National Congress
11	Katihar	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party
12	Purnia	Uday Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
13	Madhepura	Sharad Yadav	Janata Dal (United)
14	Darbhanga	Kirti Azad	Bharatiya Janata Party
15	Muzaffarpur	Jai Narain Prasad Nishad	Janata Dal (United)
16	Vaishali	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal
17	Gopalganj	Purnmasi Ram	Janata Dal (United)
18	Siwan	Om Prakash Yadav	Independent
19	Maharajganj	Uma Shankar Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal
20	Saran	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Bhartiya Janata Party
21	Hajipur	Ram Vilas Paswan	Lok Janshakti Party
22	Ujiarpur	Aswamedh Devi	Janata Dal (United)
23	Samastipur	Maheshwar Hazari	Janata Dal (United)
24	Begusarai	Monazir Hassan	Janata Dal (United)
25	Khagaria	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Janata Dal (United)
26	Bhagalpur	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	Bharatiya Janata Party
27	Banka	Putul Kumari	Independent
28	Munger	Rajiv Ranjan Singh	Janata Dal (United)
29	Nalanda	Kaushalendra Kumar	Janata Dal (United)
30	Patna Sahib	Shatrughan Sinha	Bharatiya Janata Party
31	Pataliputra	Ranjan Prasad Yadav	Janata Dal (United)
32	Arrah	R. K. Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
33	Buxar	Jagada Nand Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal
34	Sasaram	Meira Kumar	Indian National Congress
35	Karakat	Mahabali Singh	Janata Dal (United)
36	Jahanabad	Jagdish Sharma	Janata Dal (United)
37	Aurangabad	Sushil Kumar Singh	Janata Dal (United)
38	Gaya	Hari Manjhi	Bharatiya Janata Party
39	Nawada	Bhola Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
40	Jamui	Bhudeo Choudhary	Janata Dal (United)

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

Politics

Entertainment

Film directors

Actors

Actresses

Singers

Music directors

Arts

Religion

Mathematics and science

Sports

Bureaucracy

Indian Civil Service

Indian Administrative Service

Indian Foreign Service

Aftab Seth

Indian Police Service

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

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.
↑ "Archived copy". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[1] "Sitamarhi". Britannica. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2015.

[2] "History of Sitamarhi". Official site of Sitamarhi district. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2015.

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

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

[5] "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.

[6] "Archived copy". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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