# List of Bhojpuri people

This article provides lists of famous and notable Bhojpuriya-sawb or Bhojpuri people in the Indian subcontinent and other countries like Suriname, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana and people with Bhojpuri ancestry or people who speak Bhojpuri as their primary language.

## President
### Presidents of India

* Mohammad Hidayatullah, (20 July 1969 – 24 August 1969; 6 October 1982 – 31 October 1982), Acting President of India
* Rajendra Prasad, (26 January 1950 – 13 May 1962), 1st President of India. He was born in Ziradei, a village in Chhapra, Bihar. Chhapra is a Bhojpuri speaking district.

### Presidents of Seychelles

* Wavel Ramkalawan, 5th President of Seychelles

### Presidents of Mauritius

* Anerood Jugnauth, (7 October 2003 – 31 March 2012), 4th President of Mauritius
* Kailash Purryag, (21 July 2012 – 29 May 2015), 5th President of Mauritius

### Presidents of Guyana

* Mohamed Irfaan Ali, (2 August 2020 – ), 10th President of Guyana
* Cheddi Jagan, (9 October 1992 – 6 March 1997), 4th President of Guyana
* Bharrat Jagdeo, (11 August 1999 – 3 December 2011), 7th President of Guyana
* Donald Ramotar, (3 December 2011 – 16 May 2015), 8th President of Guyana

### Presidents of Suriname

* Fred Ramdat Misier, (8 February 1982 – 25 January 1988), 3rd President of Suriname
* Chan Santokhi, (16 July 2020 – ), 9th President of Suriname
* Ramsewak Shankar, (25 January 1988 – 24 December 1990), 4th President of Suriname

### President of Trinidad and Tobago

* Noor Mohamed Hassanali, (20 March 1987 – 17 March 1997), 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago

## Prime Ministers
### Prime Ministers of India

* Lal Bahadur Shastri, (9 June 1964 – 11 January 1966), 2nd Prime Minister of India
* Chandra Shekhar Singh, (10 November 1990 – 21 June 1991), 8th Prime Minister of India

### Prime Ministers of Mauritius

* Anerood Jugnauth, (17 December 2014 – 23 January 2017), 2nd Prime Minister of Mauritius
* Pravind Jugnauth, 5th Prime Minister of Mauritius
* Navin Ramgoolam, (5 July 2005 – 17 December 2014), 3rd Prime Minister of Mauritius
* Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, (12 March 1968 – 30 June 1982), 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius

### Prime Minister of Suriname

* Pretaap Radhakishun, (17 July 1986 – 7 April 1987), 6th Prime Minister of Suriname

### Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

* Basdeo Panday, (9 November 1995 – 24 December 2001), 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
* Kamla Persad-Bissessar, (26 May 2010 – 9 September 2015), 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

## Chief Ministers
### Chief Ministers of Bihar (India)

* Harihar Singh (1969-1969)
* Lalu Prasad Yadav (1990-1995)
* Rabri Devi (1997-2005)
* Daroga Prasad Rai (1970, for 10 months)
* Kedar Pandey (1972-1973)
* Abdul Ghafoor (1973-1975)
* Ram Sundar Das (1979-1980)
* Bindeshwari Dubey (1985-1988)

### Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh (India)

* Sampurnanand (1954-1960)
* Kamlapati Tripathi (1969-70)

## Governor of Indian States

* Anant Sharma, (10 March 1983 – 14 August 1984), 11th governor of West Bengal
* Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, 18th governor of Uttar Pradesh and 2nd governor of Punjab.
* Kailashpati Mishra, (7 May 2003 – 2 Jul 2004), 15th Governor of Gujarat

## Politicians
### Deputy Prime Ministers of India

* Jagjivan Ram, First Labour Minister of India, first Dalit Deputy PM of India and founder of All India Depressed Classes League & Congress (Jagjivan).

### Deputy Chief Ministers

* Tejashwi Yadav, Bihar (2015-2017)
* Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav, Bihar (1971-1972)
* Renu Devi, Bihar (2020-2022)

### Governors and Governors-General

* Lallan Prasad Singh, Governor of Assam (1973–80), Manipur (1973–80, 1982–83), Meghalaya (1973–80), Nagaland (1973–81), and Tripura (1973–80).
* Anand Satyanand, Governor-General of New Zealand (2006-2011)
* Ram Dulari Sinha, Governor of Kerala (1988-1990)

### Lok Sabha Speakers

* Meira Kumar (2009-2014)
* Bali Ram Bhagat (1976-1977)

### Cabinet Ministers

* Ram Subhag Singh

#### Council Ministers

* Pankaj Chaudhary
* Kamlesh Paswan

## National and International Award winners
### Ashok Chakra

* Jyoti Prakash Nirala

### Bharat Ratna

* Bismillah Khan
* Jayaprakash Narayan
* Rajendra Prasad

### Magasaysay Award

* Jayaprakash Narayan
* Ravish Kumar

### Padma Shree

* Narendra Kumar Pandey
* Ramchandra Manjhi

## Freedom Fighters

* Babu Amar Singh
* Indradeep Sinha
* Jayaprakash Narayan
* Kunwar Singh
* Mangal Pandey

## Journalists

* Amitava Kumar
* Anjana Om Kashyap, managing editor of Aaj Tak
* Ravish Kumar, former NDTV journalist
* George Orwell, born in Motihari
* Afroz Alam Sahil
* Upendra Rai, Chairman, M.D and Editor-in-Chief of Bharat Express
* Ram Bahadur Rai, former editor in Jansatta
* Shaukat Pardesi, poet writer & lyricist
* Vidya Niwas Mishra, Padma Bhushan awardee and journalist
* Zafar ul Islam Khan, editor in The Milli Gazette

## Scholars

* Ananda Prasad, biochemist
* Gupteshwar Pandey, former DGP of Bihar
* Kapil Muni Tiwary, linguist
* Sachchidananda Sinha, lawyer and parliamentarian

## Actors
### Bhojpuri cinema

* Nazir Hussain, Bollywood actor and pioneer of Bhojpuri fim industry
* Dinesh Lal Yadav, Bhojpuri actor, singer and politician.
* Khesari Lal Yadav, Bhojpuri actor and singer
* Manoj Tiwari, former Bhojpuri actor, singer and politician
* Pawan Singh, Bhojpuri actor, singer and politician.

### Hindi cinema

* Ravi Kishan, Hindi-Bhojpuri film actor and politician
* Kunal Singh, Bollywood-Bhojpuri actor
* Akhilendra Mishra, Hindi film & TV actor
* Abhimanyu Singh
* Vinay Pathak
* Siddhant Chaturvedi
* Manoj Bajpayee
* Pankaj Tripathi
* Satyakam Anand
* Sujit Kumar
* Vishal Aditya Singh

## Singers

* Baleshwar Yadav, Bhojpuri folk singer
* Bihari Lal Yadav, founder of Biraha genre
* Chandan Tiwari, Bhojpuri singer
* Hiralal Yadav, birha and kajri
* Raj Mohan, Bhojpuri singer
* Ramdew Chaitoe, Bhojpuri folk singer
* Ritesh Pandey, Bhojpuri singer and actor
* Sundar Popo
* Krishna Kant Shukla, physicist, musician, poet, ecologist and educator
* Rajan and Sajan Mishra, singers of the khyal style of Indian classical music
* Pandit Chhannulal Mishra, Hindustani classical singer
* Husna Bai, Thumri singer from Banaras
* Rajkumari Dubey, playback singer worked in Hindi cinema of 1930-40s
* Nirmala Devi, Indian actress, Hindustani classical vocalist and mother of Bollywood actor, Govinda
* Rasoolan Bai, Indian Hindustani classical musician
* Siddheswari Devi, legendary Hindustani singer
* Girija Devi, Indian classical singer of the Seniya and Banaras gharanas

## Writers

* Kabir, poet, saint and social reformer
* Ravidas, poet, saint and social reformer
* Lachhimi Sakhi, saint and poet
* Dariya Saheb, saint, poet and the founder of Dariya or Dariyadasi sect
* Dharani Das, Ramanandi saint and poet
* Acharya Shivpujan Sahay, Hindi and Bhojpuri
* Bhikhari Thakur, Bhojpuri dramatist and writer
* Heera Dom, Bhojpuri writer and pioneer of modern Bhojpuri Dalit literature
* Rahul Sankrityayan, Bhojpuri and Hindi
* Raghuveer Narayan, Bhojpuri, English and Hindi
* Ram Karan Sharma, Sanskrit and English
* Teg Ali Teg, Bhojpuri writer
* Rameshwar Singh Kashyap, playwright, screenwriter and professor
* Premchand, one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent
* Agyey, poet, literary critic, journalist and pioneer of the experimentalism movement in modern Hindi literature
* Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, novelist, essayist, critic
* Doodhnath Singh, poet, writer and critic
* Amarkant, Hindi writer
* Kedar Nath Pandey, CPI leader and writer
* Atul Kumar Rai, novelist and screenwriter
* Baldev Upadhyaya, Sanskrit writer
* Viveki Rai, Bhojpuri writer
* Namvar Singh, literary critic, linguist, academician, theoretician and founder of Centre of Indian Languages at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi)

## Lyricist

* Shailendra, famous Hindi film lyricist
* Sameer Anjaan, a Guinness World Record holder lyricist from Bollywood
* S. H. Bihari, lyricist

## Musicians

* Bismillah Khan, Shehnai player
* Chitragupt, music director
* Shri Nath Tripathi, music composer
* Anokhelal Mishra, tabla artist

## Dancers

* Ramchandra Manjhi

## Sports Persons
### Cricketers

* Sakibul Gani, first player in the world to score a Triple century on First class debut.
* Akash Deep, plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL
* Mukesh Kumar, plays for Delhi Capitals in IPL
* George Wyatt, English first class cricketer
* Rahul Shukla, plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL

### Footballers

* Mobashir Rahman
* Ansha Singh, defender in women's national football team

### Field Hockey

* Preeti Dubey, played in 2016 Summer Olympics
* Sumit Kumar, played in Sultan of Johor Cup
* Raj Kumar Pal, played in 2020–21 Men's FIH Pro League and 2024 Summer Olympics
* Mohammed Shahid, Arjuna Awardee and won gold in 1980 Olympics
* Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, won bronze in 2020 Olympics and gold in 2022 Asian Games
* Vivek Singh, played in 1988 Summer Olympics

### Athlete

* Rakesh Kumar Yadav, Indian hammer thrower
* JCO Shivpal Singh, javeline thrower
* Shivnath Singh, one of the greatest long-distance runners in India.