List of people from Patna

This is a list of notable residents of Patna (formerly Pataliputra), Bihar, India.

Historical

• Aryabhata, great mathematician-astronomer
• Ashoka, Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
• Bhai Jiwan Singh, Sikh General and friend of Guru Gobind Singh
• Chanakya, teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor
• Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire
• Guru Gobind Singh, tenth of the ten Sikh Gurus
• Moggaliputta-Tissa, Buddhist monk and scholar
• Samudragupta, third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty
• Shad Azimabadi, 18th-19th century poet from Patna
• Ali Ibrahim Khan, 18th century statesmen and poet from Patna
• Sheikh Zainuddin, 18th century painter from Patna

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, former chief minister of unified Bihar
• K.P. Jayaswal, also a historian and lawyer
• Shah Ozair Munemi, Indian independence activist
• 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
• Tarkeshwari Sinha, had active role in the Quit India Movement
• Thakur Ramapati Singh, freedom fighter, politician, former MLA and Minister of Bihar, former MP
• Yogendra Shukla, Indian nationalist and freedom fighter

Writers and scholars

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

Authors

• Anurag Anand
• Hetukar Jha, author, professor, researcher, and Fulbright Scholar
• Kalanath Mishra
• Sahajanand Saraswati
• Satinath Bhaduri, novelist and politician
• Saurav Jha, writer
• 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

• Ashok Kumar, Bihar MLA
• C. P. Thakur, current member of Rajya Sabha and Vice-President of Bhartiya Janata Party
• Digvijay Narain Singh, former member of parliament
• Ganesh Prasad Singh, 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, 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, Member of Parliament
• Nitish Kumar, chief minister of Bihar
• Prem Chandra Mishra, 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, former member of parliament
• Ram Kripal Yadav, Member of Parliament
• Ram Govind Singh, former mayor, former chairman, Legislative Council
• Ranjan Prasad Yadav, former member of parliament
• Ravi Shankar Prasad, 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, former deputy chief minister and Finance Minister of Bihar
• Shyama Singh, former member of parliament
• Surur Hoda, socialist politician
• Syed Hasan Imam, former president of the Indian National Congress
• Uday Singh, former member of parliament
• Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister of India

Entertainment

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

Arts

• Pranava Prakash
• Shambhavi Singh, painter
• Subodh Gupta, painter

Sports

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

Bureaucracy

• Abhayanand, 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, former Indian Administrative Service and now Member of Parliament
• Prasun Mukherjee, 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

Journalists

• Amitava Kumar, writer and journalist
• Kanchan Gupta, 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, works in the NDTV
• Mammen Mathew, works at the Hindustan Times

Others

• A. A. Khan, physicist
• Anand Kumar, mathematician and founder member of Super 30
• Narendra Kumar Pandey, Padma Shri awardee (2014), medical surgeon, founder of Asian Institute of Medical Sciences
• Ashutosh Mukherjee, educator
• Bindeshwar Pathak, sociologist
• Brajkishore Prasad, lawyer
• Creighton Carvello, British mnemonist
• Faz Husain, pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and politician
• Gauri Ayyub, 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, Sufi saint
• Manish Mehrotra, award-winning chef
• Marshall D. Moran, American Jesuit priest, missionary
• Nidhi Yasha, Indian costume designer
• Papiya Ghosh, historian and professor
• Pravrajika Shraddhaprana, third president of Sri Sarada Math
• Ram Sharan Sharma, historian and academic
• Ratan Kumar Sinha, 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, 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, lawyer
• Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, physicist

See also

• List of people from Bihar