This is a list of notable people from Bihar, India.
Deities and avatars Sita Vimalakirti Janaka The Buddha Mahavira Mallinatha Munisuvrata Naminatha Vasupujya
Ancient Ajatashatru – King of Magadha Dhana Nanda – Last Nanda king Chandragupta Maurya – Founder of Maurya Empire Bindusara – Chandragupta's son Ashoka – Great Mauryan emperor Dasharatha Maurya – Ashoka's grandfather Samprati – Buddhist patron Shalishuka – Known for conflicts Devavarman – Mauryan ruler Shatadhanvan – Contemporary of Ashoka Brihadratha Maurya – Last Mauryan king Aryabhata – Ancient mathematician Samudragupta – Conqueror and ruler Chandragupta I – Established Gupta Empire Chanakya – Political strategist Vātsyāyana – Author of Kamasutra
Medieval rulers Gangadeva - second king of the Karnats of Mithila Narsimhadeva - third king of the Karnats of Mithila Ramasimhadeva - fourth king of the Karnats of Mithila Harisimhadeva - final ruler of the Karnat dynasty Shri Pratapa - ruler of the Khayaravala dynasty Mahasenagupta - king belonging to the Later Gupta dynasty Sher Shah Suri – Padishāh of the Sur Empire
Buddhist figures
Śāriputra - one of the Buddha's ten principle disciples Maudgalyayana - one of the Buddha's ten principle disciples Mahākāśyapa - one of the Buddha's ten principle disciples Ratnākaraśānti - 11th century Buddhist philosopher Maitripada - 11th century Mahasiddha Prabhakāramitra - 7th century monk and translator active in China Dhyānabhadra - 14th century monk and translator active in Korea Śāriputra - 15th century monk and translator active in China
Sufi saints Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri Makhdoom Shah Muhammad Munim Pak Ata Hussain Fani Chishti Khwaja Abdullah Chishti Ibrahim Yukpasi
Nationalists and independence activists
Ajit Kumar Mehta Babu Kunwar Singh Rajendra Prasad Ranjit Singh Yadav Rash Bihari Lal Mandal Chandradeo Prasad Verma Sri Krishna Singh Anugrah Narayan Sinha Jayaprakash Narayan Jagjivan Ram Jubba Sahni Ram Subhag Singh Kameshwar Singh Upendra Nath Verma 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 Babu Amar Singh Shashi Prasad Singh (died 1942), General Secretary of Bhagalpur District Congress Committee and martyr of the Quit India Movement.
Writers and scholars
Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura Prem Kumar Mani 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 Acharya Rameshwar Jha Nagarjun Acharya Shivpujan Sahay Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Amitava Kumar Sanjeev K Jha Hetukar Jha Phanishwar Nath Renu Ravindra Prabhat Gajendra Thakur Kapil Muni Tiwary Shiv Khera Acharya Sarangdhar George Orwell
Journalists
Ajit Anjum M. J. Akbar Anuranjan Jha Ravish Kumar Ravindra Kishore Sinha Manoj Bhawuk Nivedita Jha Vikas Kumar Jha Arvind Narayan Das Dr. Amarendra Jha
Authors
+ Authors by Language Language 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 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 Tabish Khair Urdu Bismil Azimabadi Manazir Ahsan Gilani Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri Kalim Aajiz Hussain Ul Haque Mazhar Imam Sohail Azimabadi Shad Azimabadi Raza Naqvi Wahi Rashid-un-Nisa Mukhtaruddin Ahmad
National and international award winners
+ Award Winners Award Winners Bharat Ratna Bidhan Chandra Roy Rajendra Prasad Jayaprakash Narayan Bismillah Khan Padma Bhushan Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' Acharya Shivpujan Sahay Bindeshwar Pathak Sharda Sinha 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' Ramon Magsaysay Award Ravish Kumar Jayaprakash Narayan Dadasaheb Phalke Award Ashok Kumar Tapan Sinha
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 Kailash Purryag, former president of Mauritius Cheddi Jagan, former president of Guyana
Vice-Presidents of other countries Parmanand Jha, first vice-president of Nepal
Prime ministers of other countries
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, first 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 Kerala 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 Tejendra Khanna Nagendra Nath Jha
Speakers of Lok Sabha Bali Ram Bhagat Meira Kumar
Chief justices of India Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha Lalit Mohan Sharma
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 Dal 6 Satish Prasad Singh 28 January 1968 1 February 1968 Indian National Congress 7 B. P. Mandal 1 February 1968 2 March 1968 Shoshit Dal_ref(s)_
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 Janata Dal (United) 33 Jitan Ram Manjhi 20 May 2014 22 Feb 2015 Janata Dal (United) 34 Nitish Kumar 22 Feb 2015 Present Janata Dal (United)
Deputy chief ministers # Name Took office Left office Party 1 Anugrah Narayan Sinha 2 April 1946 5 July 1957 Indian National Congress 2 Karpoori Thakur 5 March 1967 31 January 1968 Socialist Party3Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav3 June 19719 January 1972Indian National Congress 4 Sushil Kumar Modi 24 Nov 2005 16 June 2013 Bharatiya Janata Party5Tejashwi Yadav20 November 201526 July 2017Rashtriya Janata Dal 6 Sushil Kumar Modi 27 July 2017 16 November 2020 Bharatiya Janata Party7Tarkishore Prasad16 November 20209 August 2022Bharatiya Janata PartyRenu Devi8Tejashwi Yadav10 August 202228 January 2024Rashtriya Janata Dal9Vijay Sinha28 January 2024IncumbentBharatiya Janata PartySamrat Choudhary
Members of Lok Sabha