This is a list of notable residents of the Indian city of Patna (formerly Pataliputra), Bihar.

Contents

• Historical
• Nationalists and independence activists
• Writers and scholars
• Writers
• Holders of high constitutional offices
• Politicians
• CM of Bihar
• Central Cabinet Minister
• Other
• Entertainment
• Visual arts
• Sports
• Bureaucracy
• Businesspeople
• Journalists
• Scientists
• Others
• See also
• References

Historical

• Aryabhata, mathematician-astronomer ^[1]
• Ashoka, Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
• Shad Azimabadi, 18th- and 19th-century poet
• Chanakya, teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor
• Ali Ibrahim Khan, 18th-century statesmen and poet
• Dean Mahomed (1759–1851), British Indian traveller, soldier, surgeon, and entrepreneur
• Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire
• Samudragupta, third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty
• Bhai Jiwan Singh, Sikh General and friend of Guru Gobind Singh
• Guru Gobind Singh, tenth of the ten Sikh Gurus
• Moggaliputta-Tissa, Buddhist monk and scholar
• Sheikh Zainuddin, 18th-century painter

Nationalists and independence activists

• Syed Abuzar Bukhari, prominent figure of the freedom movement of undivided India; Pakistani Muslim scholar, orator, poet, writer, former president of Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam
• Bindeshwari Dubey, freedom fighter and former chief minister of Bihar
• K. P. Jayaswal, also a historian and lawyer
• Shah Ozair Munemi, independence activist
• Jayaprakash Narayan, independence activist, social reformer and political leader
• K. B. Sahay, former chief minister of unified Bihar
• Jagannath Sarkar, leader, freedom fighter, and writer
• Yogendra Shukla, nationalist and freedom fighter
• Thakur Ramapati Singh, freedom fighter, politician, former MLA and Minister of Bihar, former member of Parliament
• Indradeep Sinha, freedom fighter and communist leader
• Tarkeshwari Sinha, had active role in the Quit India Movement

Writers and scholars

• Muhammad Shams-ul-Haq Azimabadi, Islamic scholar
• HMJ Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh, Persian, Arabic and Hindustani scholar; founder of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library
• Abdul-Qādir Bīdel, representative of Persian poetry and Sufism in India and Central Asia
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Islamic Hanafi Deobandi scholar
• Bhabatosh Datta, economist, academic and writer
• Talib Jauhari, Pakistani Islamic scholar, religious leader
• Acharya Kishore Kunal, retired Indian Police Service officer and Sanskrit scholar
• Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, litterateur and scholar of Islam
• Ram Avatar Sharma, Sanskrit scholar and academic
• Ram Karan Sharma, Sanskrit poet and scholar
• R. K. Sinha, English scholar
• Hrishikesh Sulabh, Hindi writer
• Siyaram Tiwari, Hindi scholar and author
• Raza Naqvi Wahi, Urdu-language poet; known for Tanz-o-Mazah Shayari

Writers

• Anurag Anand
• Satinath Bhaduri, novelist and politician
• Hetukar Jha, writer, professor, researcher, and Fulbright scholar
• Saurav Jha, writer
• Kalanath Mishra
• Sahajanand Saraswati
• Vikram Seth, novelist and poet

Holders of high constitutional offices

• HMJ Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh, former Chief Justice of Hyderabad State, Founder of khuda bakhsh oriental library
• 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
• Dilip Sinha, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to United Nations in Geneva
• Dinesh Nandan Sahay, 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, 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, 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 and former deputy NSA of India
• Shyam Saran, former foreign secretary, Government of India
• Tejendra Khanna, former lieutenant governor of Delhi

Politicians

Entertainment

• Imtiaz Ali, film director, actor and writer
• Manoj Bajpayee, actor
• Prasun Banerjee, singer
• Nitu Chandra, actress
• Sandeep Das, tabla player and composer
• Amardeep Jha, film actress and television personality
• Kranti Prakash Jha, Bollywood film actor
• Pankaj Jha, television actor and painter
• Prakash Jha, filmmaker
• Kabeer Kaushik, Bollywood film director and screenwriter
• Rajesh Kumar, television actor
• Vineet Kumar, actor
• Daler Mehndi, singer
• Sanjai Mishra, comedian and film actor
• Anando Mukerjee, opera singer
• Suhasini Mulay, actress
• Chhavi Pandey, television and film actress and singer
• Pranati Rai Prakash, winner of India's Next Top Model 2016 edition; a finalist of Miss India 2015
• Pariva Pranati, actress
• Sushant Singh Rajput, theater, television and film actor
• Bijoya Ray, filmmaker
• Roshan Seth, British actor
• Abhimanyu Singh, actor
• Anshuman Singh, actor
• Mika Singh, singer, composer, performer and songwriter
• Manjul Sinha, television director
• Poonam Sinha, actress
• Prachi Sinha, Bollywood actress
• Shatrughan Sinha, actor and member of parliament
• Sonakshi Sinha, actress
• Shekhar Suman, film actor and television personality
• Siyaram Tiwari, classical singer
• Pankaj Tripathi, actor

Visual arts

• Subodh Gupta, painter
• Pranava Prakash, pop artist, installation artist
• Shambhavi Singh, painter

Sports

• Subroto Banerjee, cricketer
• Kunal Datta, cricketer
• Saba Karim, cricketer
• Ishan Kishan, cricketer
• Ashish Sinha, cricketer
• Moin-ul-Haq, former general secretary, Indian Olympic Association
• Christopher Oldfield, cricketer
• Veer Pratap Singh, cricketer

Bureaucracy

• Abhayanand, Bihar Director General of Police; educationalist
• S. K. Majumdar, Indian Air Force officer
• Prasun Mukherjee, former commissioner of police in the Kolkata Police department
• N. K. Singh, former Indian Administrative Service officer and now member of Parliament
• Jyoti Kumar Sinha, former director general of the Central Reserve Police Force and former special secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)

Businesspeople

• Ravindra Kishore Sinha, Founder of Security and Intelligence Services
• Anil Agarwal, founder and executive chairman of the United Kingdom-based Vedanta Resources PLC
• Iqbal Z. Ahmed, Pakistani businessman and philanthropist

Journalists

• Amitava Kumar, journalist and academic
• Ravish Kumar, works at the NDTV
• Robert Loughnan, New Zealand farmer, journalist and politician
• Mammen Mathew, works at the Hindustan Times

Scientists

• Gopal Prasad Sinha, neurologist, politician, member of the Institutional Ethical Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research
• Amita Das, physicist
• Shaibal Gupta, social scientist; founder member-secretary of the Asian Development Research Institute
• A. A. Khan, physicist
• Anand Kumar, mathematician; founding member of Super 30
• Sanjaya Lall, development economist
• Shahn Majid, mathematician and theoretical physicist
• Bindeshwar Pathak, sociologist
• Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, physicist

Others

• Gauri Ayyub, social worker, activist, writer and teacher
• Syed Ata-ul-Muhaimin Bukhari, Pakistani; president of Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam
• Syed Ata-ul-Mohsin Bukhari, leader of Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam
• Creighton Carvello, British mnemonist
• Papiya Ghosh, historian and professor
• Sujoy K. Guha, biomedical engineer
• Faz Husain, pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and politician
• Sake Dean Mahomed, traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur
• Makhdoom Yahya Maneri, Sufi saint
• Manish Mehrotra, award-winning chef
• Marshall D. Moran, American Jesuit priest, missionary
• Ashutosh Mukherjee, educator
• Narendra Kumar Pandey, Padma Shri awardee (2014), medical surgeon, founder of the Asian Institute of Medical Sciences
• Brajkishore Prasad, lawyer
• Ram Sharan Sharma, historian and academic
• Pravrajika Shraddhaprana, third president of Sri Sarada Math
• T. Sher Singh, lawyer
• Ratan Kumar Sinha, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India
• Subhav Sinha, innovator
• Nidhi Yasha, costume designer

See also

• List of people from Bihar

References