List of people from Bihar

This is a list of notable personalities from Bihar, India. This list is not based on the extent of their popularity.

Ancient

• Aryabhatta
• Chanakya
• Panini
• Vatsyayana
• Ashvaghosha

Arts

• Bhikhari Thakur
• Sharda Sinha

Literature

• Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar
• Ramvriksh Benipuri
• Phaneeshwar Nath Renu
• Devaki Nandan Khatri
• Raja Radhika Raman Prasad Sinha
• Vidyapati, the first poet of Maithili

Movies

Directors

• Prakash Jha
• Manjul Sinha
• Karan Anshuman

Actors

• Shatrughan Sinha
• Shekhar Suman
• Manoj Bajpai
• Liliput

Actresses

• Kumud Chugani
• Helen
• Pratibha Sinha
• Neetu Chandran

Music

• Udit Narayan
• Kumar Sanu

Politics

Freedom Fighters

• Dr Rajendra Prasad
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Braj Kishore Prasad
• Satyendra Narayan Sinha
• Raj Kumar Shukla
• Babu Kuer Singh

Post Independence

• Sri Krishna Sinha
• Anugraha Narayan Singh
• Krishna Ballabh Sahay
• Jagjivan Ram
• Lakshmi Narayan Mishra
• Karpoori Thakur
• Laloo Prasad Yadav
• Nitish Kumar
• Ram Vilas Paswan
• Yashwant Sinha

Religion

• Bhagwan Mahavir
• Gautam Buddha
• Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
• Syed Nazeer Huasain
• Sharf-u-din Ahmad bin Yahya Manairi
• Ibraheem Arwi
• Syed Nazeer Huasain
• Qazi Mohib-u-llah Bihari

Science, Maths, Medicine

• Dr Vashisht Narayan Singh
• Dr R V P Sinha
• Dr B Mukhopadhyaya
• Dr B B Sinha
• Dr Lala Suraj Nandan

Sports

• Saba Karim
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni [born in what was then Bihar; now Jharkhand]

Others

• Gorakh Nath, economist,
• Dhirendra Brahmachari (A Yoga Master)

See also: List of people by India state