# List of people from Patna

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

## Historical

* Aryabhata, mathematician-astronomer
* 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
* 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

* 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
### CM of Bihar

* Krishna Ballabh Sahay, FormerChief Minister of Bihar
* Mahamaya Prasad Sinha, FormerChief Minister of Bihar, Former MP Patna

### Central Cabinet Minister

* 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

* 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

* 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, criketer
* 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