List of people from Patna
This is a list of notable residents of Patna (formerly Pataliputra), Bihar, India.
Ancient
- Aryabhata, great mathematician-astronomers[1]
- Ashoka, Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
- Bhai Jiwan Singh, Sikh General and friend of Guru Gobind Singh
- Chanakya, teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor.
- Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire
- Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth of the ten Sikh Gurus
- Moggaliputta-Tissa, Buddhist monk and scholar
- Samudragupta, third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty
Nationalists and independence activists
- Bindeshwari Dubey, freedom fighter and former Chief Minister of Bihar
- Indradeep Sinha, freedom fighter and veteran communist leader.
- Jagannath Sarkar, leader, freedom fighter, and writer
- Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian independence activist, social reformer and political leader
- K. B. Sahay, former Chief Minister of unified Bihar.
- K.P. Jayaswal, also a historian and lawyer.
- Mulana Mazharul Haque, close associate of Mahatma Gandhi
- Shah Ozair Munemi
- Syed Abuzar Bukhari, prominent figure of the freedom movement of undivided India. Muslim Pakistani scholar, orator, poet, writer, and a former president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam.
- Tarkeshwari Sinha, active role in the Quit India Movement
- Thakur Ramapati Singh, freedom fighter, politician, former MLA and Minister of Bihar, former MP
- Yogendra Shukla
Writers and scholars
- Acharya Kishore Kunal, retired IPS Officer and Sanskrit scholar
- Allama Tamanna Imadi, Muslim scholar, theologian and writer.
- Bhabatosh Datta, economist, academic and writer.
- Hrishikesh Sulabh, Hindi writer
- Kumari Radha, maghi poet
- Muhammad Shams-ul-Haq Azimabadi, Muslim scholar
- R. K. Sinha, English scholar
- Ram Avatar Sharma, Sanskrit scholar and academic
- Ram Karan Sharma, Sanskrit poet and scholar.
- Siyaram Tiwari, Hindi professor, scholar and author
- Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, litterateur and scholar of Islam.
- Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Muslim Hanafi Deobandi Scholar
- Talib Jauhari, Pakistani Islamic scholar, religious leader
Authors
- Anurag Anand
- Birbal Jha, author, academician, social thinker, and entrepreneur
- Hetukar Jha, author, professor, researcher, and Fulbright Scholar
- Kalanath Mishra
- Khawaja Reazuddin Atash, Urdu poet and writer from Pakistan
- Sahajanand Saraswati
- Satinath Bhaduri, novelist and politician
- Vikram Seth, novelist and poet.
- Yaseen Anwer, poet
Holders of High Constitutional Offices
- Abdul Ghafoor, former chief minister of Bihar
- Anugrah Narayan Sinha, first Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar
- Arun Singh, former union minister of state for defence in the Government of India.
- Ashok Sekhar Ganguly, industry expert and former chairman of Hindustan Lever, former member of Rajya Sabha
- Bali Ram Bhagat, former speaker of Lok Sabha
- Balmiki Prasad Singh, 14th Governor of Sikkim
- Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, 6th Chief Justice of India
- Bidhan Chandra Roy, second chief minister of West Bengal
- C. P. Thakur, current member of Rajya Sabha and Vice-President of Bhartiya Janata Party
- Dilip Sinha, the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to United Nations in Geneva.
- Dinesh Nandan Sahay, former Governor of Tripura and Governor of Chhatisgarh.
- Hamoodur Rahman, seventh Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Jagat Prakash Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare
- Krishna Singh, first chief minister of Bihar
- Lalit Mohan Sharma, 24th Chief Justice of India.
- Lieutenant General (Retd.) Srinivas Kumar Sinha, former Governor of the states of Jammu & Kashmir and Assam.
- Meira Kumar, former speaker of Lok Sabha
- Mohammad Yunus, first Prime Minister (Premier) of Bihar province in British India
- Muni Lall, minister of state for labour and employment in Third Vajpayee Ministry.
- Nikhil Kumar, former governor of Nagaland and Governor of Kerala
- Nitish Kumar, chief minister of Bihar
- Nitish Mishra, Minister of the Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar
- Rahul Gunderjaharagand, 23rd Viceroy of Patna
- Ram Dulari Sinha, former Union Minister and former Governor of Kerala
- Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and Information Technology and Minister of Law and Justice in Government of India
- Rita Verma, former Minister of State of Mines and Minerals in the Indian government.
- Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary, Government of India.
- Sushil Kumar Modi, former Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Bihar
- Tejendra Khanna, former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
- Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister of India
Politicians
- Ashok Kumar, Bihar MLA
- Digvijay Narain Singh, former Member of Parliament
- Ganesh Prasad Singh, former Member of Parliament
- Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha), former Member of Parliament
- Kiran Ghai, national vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Kishori Sinha, former Member of Parliament
- Madan Prasad Jaiswal, founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party, former MP.
- Mehboob Ali Kaiser, Member of Parliament
- Putul Kumari, former Member of Parliament
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Member of Parliament
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh, former Member of Parliament
- Ram Kripal Yadav, Member of Parliament
- Ranjan Prasad Yadav, former Member of Parliament
- Shyama Singh, former Member of Parliament
- Surur Hoda, socialist politician
- Syed Hasan Imam, former President of the Indian National Congress.
- Uday Singh, former Member of Parliament
Entertainment
- Abhimanyu Singh, actor
- Amardeep Jha, film actress and television personality.
- Bijoya Ray, filmmaker
- Chhavi Pandey, Indian television & movie actress and singer.
- Daler Mehndi, singer
- Deepali Kishore, singer
- Imtiaz Ali, Indian film director, actor and writer.
- Kabeer Kaushik, Bollywood film director and screenwriter.
- Manjul Sinha, TV director
- Mika Singh, singer, composer, performer and songwriter
- Pankaj Jha, TV actor and painter
- Pariva Pranati, actress
- Poonam Sinha, actress
- Prachi Sinha, Bollywood actress
- Prasun Banerjee, singer
- Rajesh Kumar, TV actor
- Roshan Seth, British actor
- Sandeep Das, Tabla player and composer.
- Sanjai Mishra, comedian and film actor
- Shatrughan Sinha, actor and presently member of parliament
- Shekhar Suman, film actor and a television personality.
- Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, filmmaker, producer, film archivist and restorer.
- Siyaram Tiwari (musician), Indian classical singer
- Sonakshi Sinha, actress
- Suhasini Mulay, actress
- Sushant Singh Rajput, theater, television and film actor.
- Vineet Kumar, veteran Indian actor
Arts
- Neeraj Goswami, contemporary painter and sculptor.
- Pranava Prakash
- Shambhavi Singh, Painter
- Subodh Gupta, Painter
Sports
- Amikar Dayal, cricketer
- Kunal Datta, cricketer
- Moin-ul-Haq, former General secretary Indian Olympic Association
- Saba Karim, cricketer
- Subroto Banerjee, cricketer
- Tejashwi Yadav, cricketer
Bureaucracy
- Abhash Kumar, renowned police officer in Tamil Nadu
- Abhayanand, Director General of Police, Bihar and educationalist
- J. K. Sinha, former IPA and Special Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
- N. K. Singh, former Indian Administrative Service and now Member of Parliament
- Prasun Mukherjee, former Commissioner of Police in Kolkata Police department
- S. K. Majumdar (IAF officer)
- Uday Sahay, retired Indian Police Service officer
Business
- Anil Agarwal, founder and Executive Chairman of the United Kingdom-based Vedanta Resources PLC.
- Iqbal Z. Ahmed, leading businessman and philanthropist of Pakistan.
- Siddhant Vats, entrepreneur
Journalist
- Ajay Kumar, Currently heading News Nation
- Amitava Kumar, writer and journalist
- Kanchan Gupta, Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist
- Rahul Kanwal, anchor of an Indian news channel Headlines Today and Aaj Tak
- Robert Andrew Loughnan, New Zealand farmer, journalist and politician.
- Subhash K. Jha, veteran Indian film critic, journalist, editor, film trade analyst
- Sweta Singh, anchor of a Hindi news channel Aaj Tak
- Vanita Srivastava, presently working in the Hindustan Times
- Ravish Kumar, presently working in the NDTV
Others
- A. A. Khan, physicist
- Anand Kumar, mathematician and founder member of Super 30
- Ashutosh Mukherjee, educator
- Bindeshwar Pathak, sociologist
- Brajkishore Prasad, lawyer
- Creighton Carvello, British mnemonist.
- Faz Husain, pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and politician
- Ganesh Dutt, Indian administrator and educationist.
- Gauri Ayyub, social worker, activist, writer and teacher
- Gopal Prasad Sinha, neurologist, politician and a member of the Institutional Ethical Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research
- Makhdoom Yahya Maneri, Sufi saint
- Manish Mehrotra, award winning chef
- Marshall D. Moran, American Jesuit priest, missionary
- Nidhi Yasha, Indian costume designer
- Papiya Ghosh, historian and a professor
- Pravrajika Shraddhaprana, third president of Sri Sarada Math
- Ram Sharan Sharma, historian and academic
- Ratan Kumar Sinha, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India
- Sake Dean Mahomed, traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur
- Sanjaya Lall, development economist
- Shahn Majid, mathematician and theoretical physicist
- Shaibal Gupta, social scientist, Founder Member-Secretary of Asian Development Research Institute
- Subhav Sinha, innovator
- Sujoy K. Guha, biomedical engineer.
- Syed Ata-ul-Mohsin Bukhari, leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
- Syed Ata-ul-Muhaimin Bukhari, president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Pakistan.
- T. Sher Singh, lawyer
- Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, physicist
