List of people from Patna

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

Ancient

Aryabhata, great mathematician-astronomers

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, the tenth of the ten Sikh Gurus

Moggaliputta-Tissa, Buddhist monk and scholar

Samudragupta, third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty

Nationalists and independence activists

Bindeshwari Dubey, freedom fighter and former Chief Minister of Bihar

Bachhu Singh, freedom fighter and social activist Vill-Bandhuganj Distt - Jehanabad Bihar

Indradeep Sinha, freedom fighter and veteran 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

Syed Abuzar Bukhari, prominent figure of the freedom movement of undivided India. Muslim Pakistani scholar, orator, poet, writer, and a former president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam.

Tarkeshwari Sinha, active role in the Quit India Movement

Thakur Ramapati Singh, freedom fighter, politician, former MLA and Minister of Bihar, former MP

Yogendra Shukla

Writers and scholars

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, the preeminent Indian Urdu language poet. Famous for Tanz-o-Mazah Shayari

K.P.Sinha, Scholar and founder principal of T.P.S college .

Ar Nagendra Narayan, Architect, Poet, Motivational Speaker and Social Worker, Alumnus National Institute of Technology , Patna .

Authors

Anurag Anand

Birbal Jha, author, academician, social thinker, and entrepreneur

Hetukar Jha, author, professor, researcher, and Fulbright Scholar

Kalanath Mishra

Khawaja Reazuddin Atash, Urdu poet and writer from Pakistan

Sahajanand Saraswati

Satinath Bhaduri, novelist and politician

Saurav Jha,writer

Vikram Seth, novelist and poet.

Holders of High Constitutional Offices

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

C. P. Thakur, current member of Rajya Sabha and Vice-President of Bhartiya Janata Party

Dilip Sinha, the 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

Jagat Prakash Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare

Krishna Singh, first chief minister of Bihar

Lalit Mohan Sharma, 24th Chief Justice of India.

Lieutenant General (Retd.) Srinivas Kumar Sinha, former Governor of the states of Jammu & Kashmir and Assam.

Meira Kumar, former speaker of Lok Sabha

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 Kumar, chief minister of Bihar

Nitish Mishra, Former Minister of the Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar

Ram Dulari Sinha, former Union Minister and former Governor of Kerala

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.

Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary, Government of India.

Sushil Kumar Modi, former Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Bihar

Tejendra Khanna, former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi

Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister of India

Politicians

Nitish Kumar

Lalu Prasad Yadav

Ashok Kumar, Bihar MLA

Digvijay Narain Singh, former Member of Parliament

Ganesh Prasad Singh, former Member of Parliament

Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha), former Member of Parliament

Kiran Ghai, national vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Kishori Sinha, former Member of Parliament

Madan Prasad Jaiswal, founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party, former MP.

Mehboob Ali Kaiser, Member of Parliament

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

Ranjan Prasad Yadav, former Member of Parliament

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

Entertainment

Abhimanyu Singh, actor

Amardeep Jha, film actress and television personality.

Bijoya Ray, filmmaker

Chhavi Pandey, Indian television & movie actress and singer.

Daler Mehndi, singer

Deepali Kishore, singer

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

Mika Singh, singer, composer, performer and songwriter

Pankaj Jha, TV actor and painter

Pariva Pranati, actress

Poonam Sinha, actress

Prachi Sinha, Bollywood actress

Pranati Rai Prakash, winner of India's Next Top Model 2016 edition and also 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 presently member of parliament

Shekhar Suman, film actor and a television personality.

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, filmmaker, producer, film archivist and restorer.

Siyaram Tiwari (musician), Indian classical singer

Sonakshi Sinha, actress

Suhasini Mulay, actress

Sushant Singh Rajput, theater, television and film actor.

Vineet Kumar, veteran Indian actor

Saksham Cnha,Future Entertainer

Arts

Neeraj Goswami, contemporary painter and sculptor.

Pranava Prakash

Shambhavi Singh, Painter

Subodh Gupta, Painter

Sports

Amikar Dayal, cricketer

Kunal Datta, cricketer

Moin-ul-Haq, former General secretary Indian Olympic Association

Saba Karim, cricketer

Subroto Banerjee, cricketer

Bureaucracy

Abhash Kumar, renowned police officer in Tamil Nadu

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)

Uday Sahay, retired Indian Police Service officer

Business

Anil Agarwal, founder and Executive Chairman of the United Kingdom-based Vedanta Resources PLC.

Tanveer Akhter Khan, Entrepreneur and founder of world top modeling agency Yash Models.

Iqbal Z. Ahmed, leading businessman and philanthropist of Pakistan.

Siddhant Vats, entrepreneur

Ahrar Alam, Entrepreneur, Founder of Glocal Industries, Thinker & Writer

Journalist

Amitava Kumar, writer and journalist

Kanchan Gupta, Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist

Rahul Kanwal, anchor of an Indian news channel Headlines Today and Aaj Tak

Robert Andrew Loughnan, New Zealand farmer, journalist and politician.

Subhash K. Jha, veteran Indian film critic, journalist, editor, film trade analyst

Sweta Singh, anchor of a Hindi news channel Aaj Tak

Anjana om kashyap, anchor of a Hindi news channel Aaj tak

Vanita Srivastava, presently working in the Hindustan Times

Ravish Kumar, presently working in the NDTV

Others

A. A. Khan, physicist

Anand Kumar, mathematician and founder member of Super 30

Narendra Kumar Pandey, A Padma Shri Awardee (2014) medical surgeon and Founder of Asian Institute of Medical Sciences

S.P Singh - A Notable Engineer, Educationist and Social Worker. Internationally awarded.

Ashutosh Mukherjee, educator

Bindeshwar Pathak, sociologist

Brajkishore Prasad, lawyer

Creighton Carvello, British mnemonist.

Faz Husain, pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and politician

Ganesh Dutt Singh, Indian administrator and educationist.

Gauri Ayyub, social worker, activist, writer and teacher

Gopal Prasad Sinha, neurologist, politician and a 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 a 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

Sunil Kumar Pal, Engineer

Syed Naiyer Haroon, Engineer, Qatar Petroleum

References

List of people from Patna Wikipedia

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