List of people from Bihar
Appearance
This is a list of notable personalities from Bihar, India. This list is not based on the extent of their popularity.
Ancient
Arts
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
Actors
Actresses
Music
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
- Dr Qaiser Rasheed, One of the only board certified Interventional Cardiologists
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