List of people from Patna
This is a list of notable residents of the Indian city of Patna (formerly Pataliputra), Bihar.
Historical
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
- Kumari Radha, Magahi poet
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]CM of Bihar
[edit]- Krishna Ballabh Sahay, Former Chief Minister of Bihar
- Mahamaya Prasad Sinha, Former Chief Minister of Bihar, Former MP Patna
Central Cabinet Minister
[edit]- Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister of India
- Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ex-Cabinet Minister in Narendra Modi Ministry, Member of Parliament, Patna Sahib
- Shatrughan Sinha, Member of Parliament,Asansol, Ex-Member of Parliament Patna Sahib, Former Cabinet Minister in Third Vajpayee Ministry
- Rita Verma, former Minister of State of Mines and Minerals in the Indian government
Other
[edit]- Sarangdhar Sinha Former MP of Patna
- Ramavatar Shastri Former MP of Patna
- Kiran Ghai, national vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party
- Syed Hasan Imam, former president of the Indian National Congress
- Madan Prasad Jaiswal, founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, former member of Parliament
- Ashok Kumar, Bihar MLA
- Putul Kumari, former member of Parliament
- Sushil Kumar Modi, former deputy chief minister and finance minister of Bihar
- Digvijay Narain Singh, former member of Parliament
- Ganesh Prasad Singh, former member of Parliament
- Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha), former member of Parliament
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh, former member of Parliament
- Shyama Singh, former member of Parliament
- Uday Singh, former member of Parliament
- Nitin Nabin, Cabinet Minister in Ninth Nitish ministry
- Ram Kripal Yadav, member of Parliament
- Ranjan Prasad Yadav, former member of Parliament
- Arun Kumar Sinha, MLA Kumhrar
Entertainment
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Subodh Gupta, painter
- Pranava Prakash, pop artist, installation artist
- Shambhavi Singh, painter
Sports
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Chaudary, Pranava K. (30 October 2012). "Aryabhata: Govt to Develop Astro-Tourism Circuit". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
