List of people from Bihar
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This is a list of notable personalities from Bihar, India. This list is not based on the extent of their popularity.
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[edit] Ancient
[edit] Writers and Scholars
- Acharya Shivpujan Sahay
- Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
- Ramvriksh Benipuri
- Devaki Nandan Khatri
- Tabish Khair
- Kalanath Mishra
- Vidyapati, the first poet of Maithili
- Acharya Ramlochan Saran, Hindi literateur, grammarian and publisher
- Gopal Singh Nepali
- Ram Sharan Sharma
- Binod Bihari Verma
- Acharya Rameshwar Jha
[edit] Movies
[edit] Directors
[edit] Actors
[edit] Actresses
- Neetu Chandra
- Priyanka Chopra (Mother is a Bihari Hindu Kyastha. Priyanka was born in Jamshedpur, now in Jharkhand)
- Rajkumari
[edit] Arts
[edit] Music
- Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan A shehnai maestro
- Chitragupta Music Director
- Udit Narayan One of all time greatest playback singer
- Aditya Narayan Budding host and singer.[Udit's son]
[edit] Religion
- Sita
- Hanuman
- Mahavir
- Gautam Buddha
- Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami
- Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
- Siddartha Gautama (Buddha)
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Yahya Sharfuddin Ahmad Maneri
[edit] Science, Mathematics, Medicine
[edit] Politics
- Kailashpati Mishra
- Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
- Deep Narayan Singh
- Faz Husain (U.S.)
- Bidhu Jha (Canada)
- Abdul Ghafoor(Former Chief Minister of Bihar)
- Nitish Kumar
- Jagjivan Ram
- Satyendra Narayan Sinha
- B.P. Mandal
- Dr. Jagannath Mishra
- Lalit Narayan Mishra
- Ram Vilas Paswan
- Lalu Prasad Yadav
- Nikhil Kumar
- Lallan Prasad Singh
- S. K. Sinha
- Yashwant Sinha
- Karpoori Thakur (also spelled Karpuri Thakur)
[edit] Sports
[edit] Bureaucracy
- Nikhil Kumar- IPS, former Delhi Police Commissioner, Ex-Director General NSG.
- Abhayanand - IPS, present Additional Director General of Police, Government of Bihar.
- Ram Chandra Sinha - IAS, Former Chief Secretary of Bihar Chief Minister, Founder of the Sudha Co-Operative, now senior Advocate.
- Krishna Chandra Sinha - IPS, Former Director General Police, Bihar
[edit] Business
- Samprada Singh Founder & Chairman, Alkem Labs
- Sanjay Kumar- Founder & Chairman, Enaviya Technolgy Inc,USA
- Manish Kumar- Founder & Chairman, Enaviya Information Technolgy, Bangalore
[edit] Others
- Chandrashekhar Prasad
- Gen. S. K. Sinha, PVSM - Vice-Chief of Army Staff, Ambassador to Nepal, Governor of Assam, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
- Dhirendra Brahmachari
- Kumar Amresh Mishra
