- 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
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Mahaveer Jain
* Buddha
* Panini
*Aryabhatta
*Vatsyayana
*Chanakya , Prime Minister in the Magadh Empire
*Ashvaghosha
* EmperorAshoka the GreatNationalists and independence activists
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Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
*Rajendra Prasad
*Basawon Singh (Sinha)
*Jayaprakash Narayan
*Yogendra Shukla
*Sheel Bhadra Yajee
*Anugrah Narayan Sinha Writers and scholars
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Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
*Acharya Shivpujan Sahay
*Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
* Ramvriksh Benipuri
*Devaki Nandan Khatri
*Tabish Khair
*Kalanath Mishra
*Vidyapati , the first poet ofMaithili
*Acharya Ramlochan Saran , Hindi literateur, grammarian and publisher
*Gopal Singh Nepali
*Ram Sharan Sharma
*Binod Bihari Verma
*Acharya Rameshwar Jha
*Raghav Sharan Sharma
* BabaNagarjun Movies
Directors
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Prakash Jha
*Manjul Sinha
*Manish Tiwary Actors
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Shatrughan Sinha
*Shekhar Suman
*Manoj Bajpai
*Afsar Azmi Actresses
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Neetu Chandra
*Priyanka Chopra (Mother is a Bihari Hindu Kyastha. Priyanka was born in Jamshedpur, now in Jharkhand)
*Rajkumari Arts
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Kalpana
*Shovana Narayan Music
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Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan Ashehnai maestro
* Bihar KokilaPadmashri Sharda Sinha
*Chitragupta Music Director
*Udit Narayan One of all time greatest playback singer
*Aditya Narayan Budding host and singer. [Udit's son]Religion
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Sita
*Hanuman
*Mahavir
*Gautam Buddha
*Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami
*Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
*Guru Gobind Singh
*Yahya Sharfuddin Ahmad Maneri
*Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar cience, mathematics and medicine
* Padmashri Dr.Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur
* Dr. Ramananda Prasad
*Tathagat Avatar Tulsi
*Vinayak Ranjan Politics
* Dr.
Rajendra Prasad
* Dr.Anugrah Narayan Sinha
*Jayaprakash Narayan
*Kailashpati Mishra
*Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
*Deep Narayan Singh
*Faz Husain (U.S.)
*Bidhu Jha (Canada)
*Abdul Ghafoor
*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 spelledKarpuri Thakur )
*Nawal Kishore Dhawal ports
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni
*Saba Karim
*Kirti Azad
*Zafar Iqbal (field hockey) Bureaucracy
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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, BiharBusiness
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Samprada Singh Founder & Chairman, Alkem Labs
*Sanjay Kumar - Founder & Chairman, Enaviya Technology Inc,USA
*Manish Kumar - Founder & Chairman, Enaviya Information Technology, BangaloreOthers
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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 Bihari in Media
*Sanjay Ahirwal- News Editor-NDTV India
*Deepak Chaurasia- Star News
*Amit Joy-Digital Distribution Head-ETV Network
*Unnati Sinha- Head Content-Tatasky
*Onkerashwar Pandey-Sunday India
*Archana Masih-India Abroad (Rediffmail.com)
*Neeraj Jha- TEN sports / Zee Network
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