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Patna Patna ( ), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...

(formerly

Pataliputra Pataliputra (IAST: ), adjacent to modern-day Patna, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE as a small fort () near the Ganges river.. Udayin laid the foundation of the city of Pataliputra at the ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

, India.

Historical

* Aryabhata, great mathematician-astronomer * Ashoka, Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty *

Bhai Jiwan Singh Baba Jiwan Singh (Gurmukhi: ਬਾਬਾ ਜੀਵਨ ਸਿੰਘ; 13 December 1661 – 22 December 1704), born Jaitha, was a Sikh general and companion of Guru Gobind Singh. Early life Bhai Jaita was born in 1661 at Patna, Bihar (India) ...

, Sikh General and friend of Guru Gobind Singh *

Chanakya Chanakya (Sanskrit: चाणक्य; IAST: ', ; 375–283 BCE) was an ancient Indian polymath who was active as a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and royal advisor. He is traditionally identified as Kauṭilya o ...

, teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor *

Chandragupta Maurya Chandragupta Maurya (350-295 BCE) was a ruler in Ancient India who expanded a geographically-extensive kingdom based in Magadha and founded the Maurya dynasty. He reigned from 320 BCE to 298 BCE. The Maurya kingdom expanded to become an empi ...

, founder of the Mauryan Empire *

Guru Gobind Singh Guru Gobind Singh (; 22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708), born Gobind Das or Gobind Rai the tenth Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, warrior, poet and philosopher. When his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, was executed by Aurangzeb, Guru Gobind Sing ...

, tenth of the ten Sikh Gurus *

Moggaliputta-Tissa Moggaliputtatissa (ca. 327–247 BCE), was a Buddhist monk and scholar who was born in Pataliputra, Magadha (now Patna, India) and lived in the 3rd century BCE. He is associated with the Third Buddhist council, the emperor Ashoka and the B ...

, 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 communist leader * Jagannath Sarkar, leader, freedom fighter, and writer * Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian independence activist, social reformer and political leader *

K. B. Sahay Krishna Ballabh Sahay ( hi, कृष्ण बल्लभ सहाय; 31 December 1898 – 3 June 1974) ,fondly known as K B Sahay was an Indian freedom fighter, who after Indian Independence became the Revenue Minister of Bihar and then ...

, former Chief Minister of unified Bihar * K.P. Jayaswal, also a historian and lawyer * Shah Ozair Munemi, Indian independence activist. * Syed Abuzar Bukhari, a prominent figure of the freedom movement of undivided India; Pakistani Muslim scholar, orator, poet, writer, former president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam * Tarkeshwari Sinha, active role in the Quit India Movement *

Thakur Ramapati Singh Thakur Ramapati Singh (1912 – 12 October 1999) (also known as Thakur Ramapati Sinha), was a freedom fighter, politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), MLA and Minister of Bihar, Member of Indian Parliament and a prominent social ...

, freedom fighter, politician, former MLA and Minister of Bihar, former MP *

Yogendra Shukla Yogendra Shukla (1896 – 19 November 1960) was an Indian nationalist and freedom fighter from Bihar. He served in the Cellular Jail (''Kalapani''), and he was among the founders of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA). Along with ...

, Indian nationalist and freedom fighter.

Writers and scholars

* HMJ Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh, Eminent

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

and Hindustani

Scholar A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researche ...

, Founder of Khuda Bakhsh library * Abdul-Qādir Bīdel, representative of Persian poetry and Sufism in India and Central Asia *

Acharya Kishore Kunal Kishore Kunal (born 1950) is a former officer of the Indian Police Service from the state of Bihar, India. During his police career, he was appointed as the Officer on Special Duty (Ayodhya) by the prime minister V. P. Singh to mediate between t ...

, retired IPS Officer and Sanskrit scholar *

Bhabatosh Datta Bhabatosh Datta (21 February 1911 – 11 January 1997) was a noted Indian economist, academic and writer. He taught at Chittagong College and later became Professor of Economics, Presidency College, Kolkata, where he later Emeritus Professor. ...

, economist, academic and writer * Hrishikesh Sulabh, Hindi writer * Kumari Radha, Magahi poet *

Muhammad Shams-ul-Haq Azimabadi Abu-al-Tayyab Muhammad Shams-al-Haq bin Shaikh Ameer ‘Ali bin Shaikh Maqsood ‘Ali bin Shaikh Ghulam Haidar bin Shaikh Hedayetullah bin Shaikh Muhammad Zahid bin Shaikh Noor Muhammad bin Shaikh ‘Ala’uddin, also known as Shams-ul-haq Azeem ...

, Islamic scholar *

R. K. Sinha Radha Krishna Sinha (1 January 1917 – 27 August 2003) was an Indian scholar of English literature. He came from a family of elite intellectuals and academics. He was a Doctor of Philosophy, DPhil from the University of Oxford and the head of ...

, English scholar *

Ram Avatar Sharma Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma (1877–1929) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and academic, apart from being an indologist and historian. He was born in a Bhumihar Brahmin family of scholars and pursued the same path of scholarship, beco ...

, Sanskrit scholar and academic * Ram Karan Sharma, Sanskrit poet and scholar * Siyaram Tiwari, Hindi scholar and author *

Sulaiman Nadvi Syed Sulaiman Nadvi (—; 22 November 1884 – 22 November 1953) was a Pakistani historian, writer and scholar of Islam. He co-authored ''Sirat-un-Nabi'' and wrote ''Khutbat-e-Madras''.Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari (Urdu سید عطاء اللہ شاہ بخاری) (23 September 1892 – 21 August 1961), was a Muslim Hanafi scholar, religious and political leader from the Indian subcontinent. He was one of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e ...

, Islamic Hanafi Deobandi scholar *

Talib Jauhari Talib Johri (27 August 1929 – 21 June 2020) ( ur, ) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, poet, historian and philosopher of the Shia Sect of Islam. He is widely renowned as the most prominent Shia scholar, and his sermons were broadcast on PTV ...

, Pakistani Islamic scholar, religious leader *

Raza Naqvi Wahi Raza Naqvi Wahi (born Syed Mohammad Raza Naqvi; 19 January 1914 – 5 January 2002) was an Indian Urdu-language poet during his time. He used the ''takhallus'' (pen name) of Wahi. Creative Journey And Evolution * The creation of first Shair ...

, preeminent Indian

Urdu language Urdu (;"Urdu"
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poet; known for Tanz-o-Mazah

Shayari Urdu poetry ( ur, ) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the cultures of South Asia. According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu which are Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghali ...

Authors

Anurag Anand Anurag Anand (born 2 November 1978) is an Indian artist, corporate professional, and author with several bestselling titles in the self-help, general fiction and historical fiction genres. His corporate experience pansHetukar Jha Hetukar Jha (5 March 1944 – 19 August 2017) was an Indian author, professor, researcher, and Fulbright Scholar. He was an honorary managing trustee of the Maharajadhiraja Kameshwar Singh Kalyani Foundation. Early life and family Jha was bor ...

, author, professor, researcher, and Fulbright Scholar * Kalanath Mishra * Sahajanand Saraswati * Satinath Bhaduri, novelist and politician * Saurav Jha, writer *

Vikram Seth Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crosswor ...

, novelist and poet

Holders of high constitutional offices

* HMJ Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh, former Chief Justice of

Hyderabad State Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...

, Founder of

khuda bakhsh oriental library Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library, in Patna, Bihar, is one of the national libraries of India. It was opened to the public on the 29th of October in 1891 by HMJ Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh. Its collection started with 4,000 of Bakhsh's own manus ...

Abdul Ghafoor ʻAbd al-Ghaffār ( ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الغفار) is a male Muslim given name, and, in modern usage, surname, built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and '' al-Ghaffār'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to ...

, former chief minister of Bihar *

Anugrah Narayan Sinha Anugrah Narayan Sinha (18 June 1887 – 5 July 1957), known as '' Bihar Vibhuti'', was an Indian nationalist statesman, participant in Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhian & one of the architects of modern Bihar, who was the first Deputy Chief Minis ...

, first Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar * Arun Singh, former union minister of state for defence in the Government of India *

Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Dr Ashok Shekar Ganguly noted industry expert and former chairman of Hindustan Lever, was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. His term ended on 17 November 2015. Early life and education He was born on 28 July 1935 in Patna to Sekhar Nath an ...

, industry expert and former chairman of Hindustan Lever, former member of Rajya Sabha *

Bali Ram Bhagat Bali Ram Bhagat (7 October 1922 – 2 January 2011) was an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress (INC). He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) in Lok Sabha representing Arrah from 1952 to 1977 and 1984 to 1989. Bhaga ...

, former speaker of Lok Sabha *

Balmiki Prasad Singh Balmiki Prasad Singh (born 1 January 1942) was the 14th Governor of Sikkim, India. He is a retired IAS officer and has written books and articles relating to Indian culture, in particular the culture of North-East India. Among his prominen ...

, 14th Governor of Sikkim * Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, 6th Chief Justice of India *

Bidhan Chandra Roy Bidhan Chandra Roy (1 July 1882 – 1 July 1962) was an Indian physician, educationist, and statesman who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1948 until his death in 1962. Roy played a key role in the founding of several institutio ...

, second chief minister of West Bengal * Dilip Sinha, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to United Nations in Geneva *

Dinesh Nandan Sahay Dinesh Nandan Sahay (also known as D.N. Sahay) (2 February 1936 – 28 January 2018) was a police officer turned politician and served as DGP of Bihar and later as Governor of Tripura and Governor of Chhattisgarh. He was born in Madhepur, ...

, former Governor of Tripura and Governor of Chhattisgarh * Hamoodur Rahman, seventh Chief Justice of Pakistan * Lalit Mohan Sharma, 24th Chief Justice of India *Lieutenant General (Retd.)

Srinivas Kumar Sinha Lieutenant General Srinivas Kumar Sinha, PVSM, ADC (January 7, 1926 – November 17, 2016) was an Indian Army General who served as the Vice Chief of Army Staff. After his retirement, he served as Governor of the states of Jammu and Kashmir, ...

, former Governor of the states of Jammu & Kashmir and Assam * 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 Mishra Nitish Mishra (born 9 July 1973) is an Indian politician hailing from eastern Indian state of Bihar, India. He represented Jhanjharpur assembly constituency in Madhubani district in 13th, 14th and 15th Bihar Legislative Assembly. Presently, h ...

, former Minister of the Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar * Ram Dulari Sinha, former Union Minister and former Governor of Kerala * R. N. Ravi,

Governor of Tamil Nadu The governor of Tamil Nadu is the head of state of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The governors have similar powers and functions at the state level as those of the president of India at central level. They exist in the state appointed by th ...

and Former Deputy

NSA The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collectio ...

of India * Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary, Government of India *

Tejendra Khanna Tejendra Khanna (born 16 December 1938) is the former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi twice, from January 1997 to April 1998 and again from April 2007 - July 2013. He also served as Chancellor of Delhi Technological University, Indraprastha Instit ...

, former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi

Politicians

* Ashok Kumar, Bihar MLA *

C. P. Thakur Dr Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur or C. P. Thakur (born 3 September 1931) is a former member of Rajya Sabha, a former minister in the Government of India, a physician and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a cabinet minister from 1999 ...

, current member of Rajya Sabha and Vice-President of Bhartiya Janata Party * Digvijay Narain Singh, former Member of Parliament *

Ganesh Prasad Singh Ganesh Prasad Singh also known as Ganesh Yadav (born 1 July 1947) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Jahanabad constituency of Bihar. He has supported the view that voluntary repatriation of refugees is the best and ...

, former Member of Parliament * Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha), former Member of Parliament * Jagat Prakash Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare * Kiran Ghai, national vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party * Kishori Sinha, former Member of Parliament *

Lalu Prasad Yadav Lalu Prasad Yadav (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). He is a former List of Chief Ministers of Bihar, Chief Minister of Bihar (1990-1997), a former Ministry of Railways (India), Railway ...

, former Chief Minister of Bihar. * Meira Kumar, former speaker of Lok Sabha * Madan Prasad Jaiswal, founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party, former MP *

Mehboob Ali Kaiser Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from Khagaria (Lok Sabha constituency), Khagaria Lok Sabha Constituency. He started his political career from Indian National Congress. He was Member of Legislative As ...

, Member of Parliament *

Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician, who is serving as Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previous held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The leader of the Janata Dal (Unite ...

, chief minister of Bihar *

Prem Chandra Mishra Prem Chandra Mishra is an Indian politician and member of the Bihar Legislative Council. In the elections on 23 March, 11 candidates were elected unopposed. He is also the AICC media panelist. Early life and career Mishra was born on 25 Decem ...

, Member of Legislative Council, Former Bihar NSUI Chief * Putul Kumari, former Member of Parliament * Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Member of Parliament and Minister of State for Skill development and Entrepreneurship *

Rajiv Ranjan Singh Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh (born 24 January 1955) is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament representing Munger in the 17th Lok Sabha from Janata Dal (United). He is National party president of JDU (Janta Dal United). He was ...

, former Member of Parliament *

Ram Kripal Yadav Ram Kripal Yadav (born 12 October 1957) is an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Lok Sabha from the Pataliputra parliamentary constituency in Bihar. He was a member of Rashtriya Janata Dal and was a close confidant of Lalu Yadav. Later ...

, Member of Parliament *Ram Govind Singh, Former Mayor, Former Chairman, Legislative Council * Ranjan Prasad Yadav, former Member of Parliament *

Ravi Shankar Prasad Ravi Shankar Prasad (born 30 August 1954) is an Indian politician and lawyer, from the Bharatiya Janata Party. A Member of Parliament since 2000, first in the Rajya Sabha (2000-2019) and then in the Lok Sabha (since 2019), Prasad has served as Un ...

, 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 *

Sushil Kumar Modi Sushil Kumar Modi (born 5 January 1952) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He is a former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar as well as the Finance Minister of Bihar ...

, former Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Bihar *

Shyama Singh Shyama Singh (born 26 November 1942 – 11 September 2017) was an Indian politician and a former Member of Parliament from the Aurangabad (Bihar) (Lok Sabha constituency) and was married to the former Governor of Nagaland and Kerala, Nikhil Ku ...

, former Member of Parliament *

Surur Hoda Surur Hoda (1928-2003), also known as M. S. Hoda, was a socialist politician and trade unionist who believed in the ideals promoted by Mahatma Gandhi. Life Hoda was born in Chhapra in India, on 5 May 1928 into a Muslim family. He obtained an en ...

, socialist politician *

Syed Hasan Imam Syed Hasan Imam (31 August 1871 – 19 April 1933) was an Indian politician who served as the President of the Indian National Congress and was elected in September 1918.Uday Singh, former Member of Parliament * Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister of India

Entertainment

* Abhimanyu Singh, actor * Amardeep Jha, film actress and television personality *

Anshuman Singh Anshu Singh (7 July 1935 – 8 March 2021) was an Indian politician who served as governor of Rajasthan. He was governor of the state from January 1999 to May 2003. Earlier he was governor of Gujarat state in 1998. Biography Born in 1935 in A ...

, actor and superstar *

Bijoya Ray Bijoya Ray ('' née'' Das; 27 October 1917 – 2 June 2015) was the wife of the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Their son Sandip Ray is also a film director. Bijoya and Satyajit were first cousins. Bijoya's father was the eldest half brother of ...

, filmmaker *

Chhavi Pandey Chhavi Pandey is an Indian television actress known for playing Tara in Life OK's ''Ek Boond Ishq'', Namrata Singh in Star Bharat's mystery thriller ''Kaal Bhairav Rahasya'' and Prarthana Kashyap in Sony TV's '' Ladies Special 2''. Career ...

, Indian television and movie actress and singer *

Daler Mehndi Daler Singh (born 18 August 1967), better known as Daler Mehndi, is an Indian singer, songwriter, author, and record producer. He has helped to make Bhangra popular worldwide, as well as Indian pop music independent of Bollywood music. He is be ...

, singer *

Deepali Kishore Deepali Kishore ( bho, दीपाली किशोर; born 6 January 1989) is an Indian singer. She was a finalist of ''Indian Idol 3''. She also appeared along with Bollywood actor John Abraham and performed a group song from film ''Goal' ...

, singer * Imtiaz Ali, Indian film director, actor and writer * Kabeer Kaushik, Bollywood film director and screenwriter *

Kranti Prakash Jha Kranti Prakash Jha (born 2 November 1988) is an Indian Bollywood actor, film producer, television personality, businessman and model from Begusarai, Bihar, best known for his roles of Santosh Lal in the 2016 Indian biographical sports film '' M ...

, Bollywood film actor * Manjul Sinha, TV director * Manoj Bajpayee, Actor * Mika Singh, singer, composer, performer and songwriter * Nitu Chandra, actress *

Pankaj Jha Pankaj Jha is an Indian actor and painter, based out of Mumbai, India. His filmography includes Black Friday, Gulaal, Chameli, Anwar and Matrubhoomi. He has also acted in the television serial, Kashi. Filmography * Nirmal Pathak Ki Ghar ...

, TV actor and painter * Pankaj Tripathi, Actor *

Pariva Pranati Pariva Pranati is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Hindi soap operas. She has acted in''Vaada Raha'', ''With Love, Delhi''. Most recently, she was playing Amrita in the series ''Hamari Sister Didi''. She is currently starring as Vandana ...

, actress *

Poonam Sinha Poonam Sinha (''née'' Chandiramani) is an Indian politician and former actress, fashion model. She acted in Hindi cinema under the screen name Komal in her early career. She was crowned Miss Young India in 1968. She is married to actor and pol ...

, actress *

Prachi Sinha Prachi Sinha is an Indian model and actress. She is best known for playing the role of ''Vardaan'' in the popular television soap opera ''Vishkanya'' on Zee TV Zee TV (stylised as ZEE TV) is a Hindi general entertainment pay television ch ...

, Bollywood actress *

Prakash Jha Prakash Jha (born 27 February 1952) is an Indian film producer, actor, director and screenwriter, mostly known for his political and socio-political films such as “Hip Hip Hurray” (1984), ''Damul'' (1984), ''Mrityudand'' (1997), ''Gangaaja ...

, filmmaker * Pranati Rai Prakash, winner of ''India's Next Top Model'' 2016 edition; a finalist of Miss India 2015 *

Prasun Banerjee Prasun Banerjee is an Indian former professional footballer and politician who is serving as an MP in the Lok Sabha from Howrah. He is an Arjuna Award winner (1979). Younger brother of the Pradip Kumar Banerjee, Prasun had also captained the ...

, singer * Rajesh Kumar, TV actor * Roshan Seth, British actor *

Sandeep Das Sandeep Das is an Indian tabla player and composer currently based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma for The Silk Road Ensemble - Sing Me Home - won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album at the 59th ...

, Tabla player and composer *

Sanjai Mishra Sanjay Mishra (born 6 October 1963) is an Indian actor known for his works predominantly in Hindi cinema and television. Also workingfor Telugu cinema An alumnus of National School of Drama, he made his acting debut in the 1995 film '' Oh Darl ...

, comedian and film actor *

Shatrughan Sinha Shatrughan Prasad Sinha (born 9 December 1945) is an Indian actor and politician. He is a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency), Asansol constituency as a member of All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). Earlier he ...

, actor and member of parliament * Shekhar Suman, film actor and a television personality * Siyaram Tiwari, Indian classical singer * Sonakshi Sinha, actress *

Suhasini Mulay Suhasini Mulay (born 20 November 1950) is an Indian actress in Assamese, Bollywood and Marathi films as well as television. She won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999, for her performance in Gulzar's film ''Hu Tu Tu''. ...

, actress * Sushant Singh Rajput, theater, television and film actor *

Vineet Kumar Vineet Kumar is an Indian actor. The veteran actor from National School of Drama, is known for his works in Hindi, Telugu, and English language films and Television. He is best known for his works in films such as ''Masaan'','' Drohkaal'', '' ...

, Indian actor

Arts

Pranava Prakash Pranava Prakash ( hi, प्रणव प्रकाश; born in Patna in 1979) is an Indian artist working in neopop style. He is known for helping to create the "tuchchart" style with a group of Delhi artists, which he debuted in a 2007 show ...

* Shambhavi Singh, painter *

Subodh Gupta Subodh Gupta, (born 1964) is an Indian contemporary artist based in New Delhi. His work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance and video. Early life and education Gupta was born in Khagaul, a small town in Bih ...

, painter

Sports

* Kunal Datta, cricketer *

Moin-ul-Haq Sayyid Muhammad Moin-ul-Haq OBE (popularly known as ''Moin Saab'') (died 1970), was an Indian coach who made important contributions to sports and education. He was a pioneer of Olympic movement in India, championing the cause for sports all his ...

, former General secretary Indian Olympic Association * Saba Karim, cricketer * Subroto Banerjee, cricketer * Christopher Oldfield, cricketer * Veer Pratap Singh, cricketer

Bureaucracy

Abhayanand Abhayanand is an IPS officer and educationalist who, along with Anand Kumar, conceptualised Super 30 to teach poor students to crack IIT JEE. Following his graduation from Patna Science College, Abhayanand was selected as the IPS officer for t ...

, 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 Nand Kishore Singh is an Indian politician, economist and former Indian Administrative Service officer. He is a senior member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since March 2014 after having served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha ...

, former Indian Administrative Service and now Member of Parliament *

Prasun Mukherjee Prasun Mukherjee (born 1950) the former Commissioner of Police in the city of Kolkata (Kolkata Police), West Bengal, India and a senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. In 2006 he was elected President of the Cricket Association of Bengal but ...

, former Commissioner of Police in Kolkata Police department * S. K. Majumdar, IAF officer

Business

* Anil Agarwal, founder and Executive Chairman of the United Kingdom-based Vedanta Resources PLC * Iqbal Z. Ahmed, Pakistani businessman and philanthropist *Nikhil Sinha, software development engineer, Amazon Web Services

Journalists

Amitava Kumar Amitava Kumar (born 17 March 1963) is an Indian writer and journalist who is Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College. Early life Kumar was born in the city of Arrah in the Indian state of Bihar on 17 March 1963. He ...

, writer and journalist *

Kanchan Gupta Kanchan Gupta (Bengali: কাঞ্চন গুপ্ত) is an Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist. Early life and education Born to Bangladeshi refugee parents, Kanchan Gupta was raised in Jamshedpur and Patna where he at ...

, Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist * Robert Loughnan, New Zealand farmer, journalist and politician * Sweta Singh, anchor of the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak *

Ravish Kumar Ravish Kumar (born 5 December 1974) is an Indian journalist, author and media personality. He was the Senior Executive Editor of NDTV India. He hosted a number of programmes including the channel's flagship weekday show ''Prime Time'', ''Hum ...

, works in the NDTV * Mammen Mathew, works in the Hindustan Times

Others

* A. A. Khan, physicist * Anand Kumar, mathematician and founder member of Super 30 *

Narendra Kumar Pandey Narendra Kumar Pandey is an Indian surgeon, hospital administrator, and founder of the ''Asian Institute of Medical Sciences'', known for his expertise in Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). He was honoured by the Government of India i ...

, Padma Shri awardee (2014), medical surgeon, founder of

Asian Institute of Medical Sciences Asian Institute of Medical Sciences is a tertiary care hospital and institute located in Faridabad, India. It was established in 2010 and is accredited by NABH and NABL. The hospital was founded by Padmashri awardee Dr. Narendra Kumar Pandey ...

Ashutosh Mukherjee Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (anglicised, originally Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awar ...

, educator *

Bindeshwar Pathak Bindeshwar Pathak is an Indian sociologist and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Sulabh International, an India-based social service organisation which works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources o ...

, sociologist *

Brajkishore Prasad Brajkishore Prasad (1877–1946) was a lawyer inspired by Mohandas Gandhi during the Indian Independence Movement. Early life and education Born in a Kayastha family in Srinagar, Siwan district, Prasad gained his early education in Chhap ...

, lawyer * Creighton Carvello, British mnemonist * Faz Husain, pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and politician *

Gauri Ayyub Gauri Ayyub (13 February 1931 – 13 July 1998) was a social worker, activist, writer and teacher based in Kolkata (Calcutta) for most of her life. Married to the philosopher and literary critic, Abu Sayeed Ayyub (1906–1982), Gauri was a wr ...

, social worker, activist, writer and teacher * Gopal Prasad Sinha, neurologist, politician, member of the Institutional Ethical Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research *

Makhdoom Yahya Maneri Makhdoom Yahiya Maneri ( ur, , hi, Makhdoom) was an Indian Sufi saint of the 13th century. His tomb in courtyard of a mosque, located in Maner, 29 km from Patna, Bihar, India. Biography His complete name is Kamaaluddin Yahya Maneri. He wa ...

, Sufi saint *

Manish Mehrotra {{Infobox chef , name = Manish Mehrotra , image = Manish Mehrotra, Culinary Director, Indian Accent Restaurants.jpg , birth_date = {{Birth date and age, df=yes, 1974, 1, 20{{cite web, author=, url=http://www.indianfoodfre ...

, award-winning chef *

Marshall D. Moran Marshall D. Moran was born in Chicago on May 29, 1906, and died April 14, 1992, in Delhi, India. He was an American Society of Jesus, Jesuit Catholic priest, priest, missionary in India and Nepal, where he founded several schools, amongst them the ...

, American Jesuit priest, missionary *

Nidhi Yasha Nidhi Yasha (born 26 April 1983) is an Indian costume designer. Nidhi designs costumes for ''Zee TVs ''Buddha and Star Plus TV'' series Mahabharat (2013 TV series)(2013) with Bhanu Athaiya as her consulting faculty for the show. Yasha said t ...

, Indian costume designer *

Papiya Ghosh Papiya Ghosh was a historian of South Asian history and a professor of the University of Patna, Patna, India. She was found murdered on 3 December 2006, along with her elderly housemaid, Malti Devi, apparently as a result of an attempted burgla ...

, historian and professor * Pravrajika Shraddhaprana, third president of Sri Sarada Math * Ram Sharan Sharma, historian and academic *

Ratan Kumar Sinha Ratan Kumar Sinha, is an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He had served as the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Government of India ...

, 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 Shaibal Gupta ( – 28 January 2021) was an Indian social scientist and political economist whose work focused on the economy of the Indian state of Bihar. He was the founder and member-secretary of the Asian Development Research Institute in Patn ...

, 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 Tapishar Sher Singh (born 1949) is a former lawyer who was disbarred in 2007 by the Law Society of Upper Canada. He was one of eight recipients of the Order of Canada who had their honour revoked by the Order's Advisory Council. Early years ...

, lawyer *

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (born 9 September 1987) is an Indian physicist and a former child prodigy. He completed high school at the age of 9 years, earned a BSc at the age of 11 years, and a MSc at the age of 12 years from Patna Science College (P ...

, physicist

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