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This is a '''list of notable people from [[Bihar]], [[India]]'''.
{{Dynamic list}}
==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==
[[File:Kunwarsingh.jpg|thumb|150px|Portrait of Veer [[Kunwar Singh]]]]
[[File:Mahendra_Gop.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Mahendra Gop]]
[[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]]



* [[Babu Kunwar Singh]]
* [[Mahendra Gop]]
* Ranjeet Ahir
* [[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
* Ramphal Mandal

==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===
* [[Bhikhari Thakur]]
* [[Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar']]
* [[Rambriksh Benipuri]]
* [[Gopal Singh Nepali]]
* [[Phanishwar Nath Renu]]
* [[Shankar Dayal Singh]]
* [[Ramesh Chandra Jha]]
* [[Sahajanand Saraswati]]
* [[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===


* [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
* [[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]]
* [[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 (Indian politician)|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]]
* [[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 (politician)|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 (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>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/music/i-m-proud-to-be-from-bihar-daler-mehndi/article1-1033035.aspx |title=Archived copy |website=www.hindustantimes.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921004213/http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/music/i-m-proud-to-be-from-bihar-daler-mehndi/article1-1033035.aspx |archive-date=21 September 2014 |url-status=dead}}</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==
* [[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]]
* [[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==
{{cmn|
* [[Anand Kumar]]
* [[Anil Kumar]]
* [[Dashrath Manjhi]]
* [[Ganesh Dutt]]
* [[Gurusharan Sharma]]
* [[Malati Choudhury]]
* [[Maṇḍana Miśra]]
* [[Natwarlal]]
* [[Nirupama Pandey]]
* [[Pranati Rai Prakash]]
* [[Shaibal Gupta]]
* [[Shilpa Singh]]
* [[Shyamanand Jalan]]
* [[Subhav Sinha]]
* [[Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary]]
* [[Supriya Aiman]]
}}

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Bihar-related lists|People]]
[[Category:Lists of people by state or union territory in India|Bihar]]
[[Category:People from Bihar]]

List of people from Bihar - Revision history

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