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List of people from Bihar

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Lordess Sita
Guru Gobind Singh
Lord Mahavir
Lord Buddha
Aryabhatta
Chandragupta Maurya

Deities and avatars

 
Samrat Ashoka
 
Chanakya

Ancient

Sufi Saints

Nationalists and independence activists

 
Portrait of Veer Kunwar Singh
 
Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
 
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the son of a Bihari immigrant, with David Ben Gurion at Lod airport, Israel, in 1962

Writers and scholars

 
Satyapal Chandra (Noted Author, Entrepreneur)
 
Balmiki Prasad Singh

Journalists

Authors

Hindi

 
Statue of Maha Kavi Kokil Vidyapati

Maithili

 
Anugrah Narayan Singh

Bhojpuri

Bengali

English

Urdu

 
Rajendra Prasad

National and international award winners

Bharat Ratna

Padma Bhushan

 
The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Dr. (Smt.) Sharda Sinha

Padma Shree

Jnanpith award

Magasaysay award

Dada Saheb Phalke award

 
Jyoti Prakash Nirala, Ashok Chakra, Indian Air Force

Military Gallantry Award winners

Param Vir Chakra

Ashoka Chakra

Holders of high constitutional offices

Presidents of India

Presidents of other countries

Vice-President of other countries

 
Ramvilas Paswan

Prime ministers of other countries

 
Navinchandra Ramgoolam, former Prime Minister of Mauritius

Attorneys general of India

Advocate General of state of Bihar

 
Mridula Sinha

Governors of Indian states

Governor of Reserve Bank of India

Lieutenant governors of other states

 
Smt. Meira Kumar

Speakers of Lok Sabha

 
Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha

Chief justices of India

 
Shri Krishna Singh,First chief minister of Bihar
 
Mahatma Gandhi in Bihar
 
Lalu Yadav
 
Karpoori Thakur
 
Ram Subhag Singh
 
Ustad Bismillah Khan

Chief ministers

# Name Took office Left office Political party
1 Shri 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[1]   Janata Dal (United)
33 Jitan Ram Manjhi 20 May 2014 22 Feb 2015   Janata Dal (United)
34 Nitish Kumar 22 Feb 2015 [2] Present [3]   Janata Dal (United)

Deputy chief ministers[4]

# 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 Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav 3 June 1971 9 January 1972 Indian National Congress
4 Sushil Kumar Modi 24 Nov 2005 16 June 2013 Bharatiya Janata Party
5 Tejashwi Yadav 20 November 2015 26 July 2017 Rashtriya Janata Dal
6 Sushil Kumar Modi 27 July 2017 16 November 2020 Bharatiya Janata Party
7 Tarkishore Prasad 16 November 2020 9 August 2022 Bharatiya Janata Party
Renu Devi
8 Tejashwi Yadav 10 August 2022 Incumbent Rashtriya Janata Dal

Members of Lok Sabha

# Constituency Member of Parliament Political party
1 Valmiki Nagar Sunil Kumar 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 Sunil Kumar Pintu Janata Dal (United)
6 Madhubani Ashok Kumar Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party
7 Jhanjharpur Ramprit Mandal Janata Dal (United)
8 Supaul Dileshwar Kamait Janata Dal (United)
9 Araria Pradeep Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
10 Kishanganj Mohammad Jawed Indian National Congress
11 Katihar Dulal Chandra Goswami Janata Dal (United)
12 Purnia Santosh Kumar Janata Dal (United)
13 Madhepura Dinesh Chandra Yadav Janata Dal (United)
14 Darbhanga Gopal Jee Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party
15 Muzaffarpur Ajay Nishad Bharatiya Janata Party
16 Vaishali Veena Devi Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party
17 Gopalganj Alok Kumar Suman Janata Dal (United)
18 Siwan Kavita Singh Janata Dal (United)
19 Maharajganj Janardan Singh Sigriwal Bharatiya Janata Party
20 Saran Rajiv Pratap Rudy Bharatiya Janata Party
21 Hajipur Pashupati Kumar Paras Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party
22 Ujiarpur Nityanand Rai Bharatiya Janata Party
23 Samastipur Prince Raj Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party
24 Begusarai Giriraj Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
25 Khagaria Mehboob Ali Kaiser Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party
26 Bhagalpur Ajay Kumar Mandal Janata Dal (United)
27 Banka Giridhari Yadav Janata Dal (United)
28 Munger Lalan Singh Janata Dal (United)
29 Nalanda Kaushalendra Kumar Janata Dal (United)
30 Patna Sahib Ravi Shankar Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party
31 Pataliputra Ram Kripal Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party
32 Arrah Raj Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
33 Buxar Ashwini Kumar Choubey Bharatiya Janata Party
34 Sasaram Chhedi Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party
35 Karakat Mahabali Singh Janata Dal (United)
36 Jahanabad Chandeshwar Prasad Janata Dal (United)
37 Aurangabad Sushil Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
38 Gaya Vijay Kumar Manjhi Janata Dal (United)
39 Nawada Chandan Singh Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party
40 Jamui Chirag Paswan Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)
 
Rajo Singh
 
Nitish Kumar
 
Giriraj Singh

Members of Rajya Sabha (2022)[5]

# Political party Member of Parliament
1 Rashtriya Janata Dal Manoj Kumar Jha
2 Rashtriya Janata Dal Misa Bharti
3 Rashtriya Janata Dal Dr. Faiyaz Ahmad
4 Rashtriya Janata Dal Prem Chand Gupta
5 Rashtriya Janata Dal Amarendra Dhari Singh
6 Rashtriya Janata Dal Ahmad Ashfaque Karim
7 Janata Dal (United) Harivansh Narayan Singh
8 Janata Dal (United) Ram Nath Thakur
9 Janata Dal (United) Khiru Mahto
10 Janata Dal (United) Bashistha Narain Singh
11 Janata Dal (United) Anil Hegde
12 Indian National Congress Akhilesh Prasad Singh
13 Bharatiya Janata Party Vivek Thakur
14 Bharatiya Janata Party Sushil Kumar Modi
15 Bharatiya Janata Party Shambhu Sharan Patel
16 Bharatiya Janata Party Satish Chandra Dubey

Spokesperson

 
Jayaprakash Narayan with Jawaharlal Nehru
 
Jagjivan Ram
 
Lalit Narayan Mishra

Politics

Main article: List of politicians from Bihar
 
Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav
 
Bali Ram Bhagat
 
Prakash Jha
 
Tapan Sinha

Entertainment

Film directors

 
Sushant Singh Rajput
 
Shatrughan Sinha
 
Manoj Bajpayee
 
Sanjeev K Jha
 
Pankaj Tripathi

Actors

 
Sriti Jha
 
Suhasini Mulay
 
Sonakshi Sinha

Actresses

 
Daler Mehndi
 
Manoj Tiwari
 
Khesari performing in a stage show

Singers

Music directors

Arts

 
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

Religion

 
Anand Kumar

Mathematics and science

 
Sharad Kumar

Sports

Bureaucracy

Indian Civil Service

 
Yashwant Sinha

Indian Administrative Service

Indian Foreign Service

Indian Police Service

 
Anil Agarwal (industrialist)

Business

Others

References

  1. ^ "Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar resigns - Times of India ►". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar CM - Times of India ►". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "BIHAR VIDHAN SABHA/ DY. CHIEF MINISTER". vidhansabha.bih.nic.in. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
  5. ^ "List of current members of the Rajya Sabha", Wikipedia, 2022-10-01, retrieved 2022-10-01
  6. ^ "I'm proud to be from Bihar: Daler Mehndi - Hindustan Times". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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