Ancient
- Lord Buddha
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Lord Mahavira
- Goddess Sita
- Aryabhata
- Ashoka
- Chanakya
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Gonu Jha
- Samudragupta
- Sher Shah Suri
- Vātsyāyana
- Veer Kunwar Singh
Nationalists and independence activists
- Babu Kunwar Singh
- Rajendra Prasad
- Sri Krishna Singh
- Anugrah Narayan Sinha
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Jagjivan Ram
- Kameshwar Singh
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- Syed Hasan Imam
- Baikuntha Shukla
- Karyanand Sharma
- Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
- Satyendra Narayan Singh
- Ram Dulari Sinha
- Basawon Singh (Sinha)
- Yamuna Karjee
- Yogendra Shukla
- Sheel Bhadra Yagee
- Yadunandan Sharma
- Rambriksh Benipuri
- Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha)
- Ram Narain Sharma
- Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
- Radhanandan Jha
- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
- Yadunandan Sharma
- Babu Amar Singh
Writers and scholars
- Syed Hasan
- Abdul Qavi Desnavi
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- Ram Sharan Sharma
- Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
- Balmiki Prasad Singh
- Vidyapati
- Manoj Bhawuk
- Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
- Ramvriksh Benipuri
- Devaki Nandan Khatri
- Indradeep Sinha
- Ram Karan Sharma
- Satyapal Chandra
- Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma
- Nalin Vilochan Sharma
- Ganganath Jha
- R. K. Sinha
- Ramjee Singh
- Tabish Khair
- Acharya Ramlochan Saran
- Gopal Singh Nepali
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Binod Bihari Verma
- Acharya Rameshwar Jha
- Nagarjun
- Acharya Shivpujan Sahay
- Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
- Amitava Kumar
- Hetukar Jha
- Phanishwar Nath Renu
- Ravindra Prabhat
- Gajendra Thakur
- Kapil Muni Tiwary
- Shiv Khera
Journalists
- M. J. Akbar
- Anuranjan Jha
- Ravish Kumar
- sweta singh
- Manoj Bhawuk
- Vikas Kumar Jha
- Arvind Narayan Das
Authors
Hindi
- Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Ramvriksh Benipuri
- Sahajanand Saraswati
- Gopal Singh Nepali
- Kalanath Mishra
- Nawal Kishore Dhawal
Maithili
Bhojpuri
- Manoj Bhawuk
Bengali
- Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
English
- Ram Sharan Sharma
- Raj Kamal Jha
- Satyapal Chandra
- George Orwell
National and international award winners
Bharat Ratna
Padma Bhushan
- Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
- Acharya Shivpujan Sahay
- Bindeshwar Pathak
Padma Shree
- Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain
- Mohan Mishra
- Narendra Kumar Pandey
- Janki Ballabh Shastri
- Sharda Sinha
- Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur
Gyanpith award
- Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
Magasaysay award
Dada Saheb Phalke award
- Ashok Kumar
- Tapan Sinha
Military Gallantry Award winners
Ashoka Chakra
Holders of high constitutional offices
Presidents of India
- Rajendra Prasad first President of India
Presidents of other countries
- Sir Anerood Jugnauth former President of Mauritius
- Kailash Purryag former President of Mauritius
Vice-President of other countries
- Parmanand Jha first Vice-President of Nepal
Prime ministers of other countries
Navinchandra Ramgoolam, former Prime Minister of Mauritius
- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam first Prime Minister of Mauritius
- Sir Anerood Jugnauth current Prime Minister of Mauritius
- Navin Ramgoolam former Prime Minister of Mauritius
- Girija Prasad Koirala former Prime Minister of Nepal
- Basdeo Panday former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
- Kamla Persad-Bissessar former first female Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Attorneys general of India
Governors of Indian states
- Anant Sharma former Governor of Punjab and West Bengal
- Balmiki Prasad Singh current Governor of Sikkim
- Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh former Governor of Punjab
- Dinesh Nandan Sahay former Governor of Chhattisgarh
- Kailashpati Mishra former Governor of Gujarat
- Lallan Prasad Singh former Governor of Assam
- Mridula Sinha current Governor of Goa
- Nikhil Kumar current Governor of Kerala
- Prabhat Kumar former Governor of Jharkhand
- Rameshwar Thakur Former Governor of Madhya Pradesh
- Ram Dulari Sinha former Governor of Kerela
- Siddheshwar Prasad former Governor of Tripura
- Srinivas Kumar Sinha former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir and Assam
Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Lieutenant governors of other states
- Tejendra Khanna
- Nagendra Nath Jha
Speakers of Lok Sabha
- Bali Ram Bhagat
- Meira Kumar
Chief justices from bihar
- Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
- Lalit Mohan Sharma
Politics
List of politicians from Bihar
- Rajendra Prasad
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Anugrah Narayan Sinha
- Sri Krishna Sinha
- Jagjivan Ram
- B.P.Mandal
- Lalit Narayan Mishra
- Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
- Ram Dulari Sinha
- Satyendra Narayan Singh
- Karpoori Thakur
- Daroga Prasad Rai
- Deep Narayan Singh
- Abdul Ghafoor
- Laxmi Narayan Singh
- Chandrashekhar Singh
- Chirag Paswan
- Faz Husain
- Kailashpati Mishra
- Lalu Prasad Yadav
- Nitish Kumar
- Nikhil Kumar
- Indradeep Sinha
- Digvijay Narain Singh
- Kapildeo Singh
- Bidhu Jha
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Gauri Shankar Pandey
- Tarkeshwari Sinha
- Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
- Krishna Kumar Mishra
- Srinivas Kumar Sinha
- Yashwant Sinha
- Prabhat Jha
- Sanjay Nirupam
- Mohammad Yunus
- Nawal Kishore Dhawal
- Ranjit Kumar Gupta
- Ram Kripal Sinha
- Veena Devi
- Ramgulam Chaudhary
- Jayant Sinha
Entertainment
Film directors
- Ajit Pal Mangat
- Imtiaz Ali
- Kabeer Kaushik
- Manish Jha
- Manish Vatsalya
- Manjul Sinha
- Neeraj Pandey
- Prakash Jha
- Pritish Nandy
- Ram Gopal Bajaj
- Satyen Bose
- Sushil Rajpal
- Tapan Sinha
Actors
- Aham Sharma
- Manish Vatsalya
- Sushant Singh Rajput
- Roshan Seth
- Ashok Kumar
- Shatrughan Sinha
- Manoj Bajpai
- Manoj Bhawuk
- Akhilendra Mishra
- Abhimanyu Singh
- Adhyayan Suman
- Luv Sinha
- Pankaj Tripathi
- Shekhar Suman
- Sanjay Mishra (actor)
- Vinay Pathak
- Gurmeet Choudhary
- Vineet Kumar
- Narendra jha
- Rajesh Kumar (actor)
- Manoj Tiwari
- Pankaj Jha
- Dinesh Sharma
- R. Madhavan
- Vishal Aditya Singh
- Chandrachur Singh
- Alok Nath
Actresses
- Pooja Sharma
- Prachi Sinha
- Poonam Sinha
- Sonakshi Sinha
- Neha Sharma
- Sandali Sinha
- Shilpa Shukla
- Neetu Chandra
- Swati Sen
- Kaveri Jha
- Amardeep Jha
- Suhasini Mulay
- Shilpa Singh
- Shreya Narayan
- Richa Chadda
- Anurita Jha
- Rati Pandey
- Ratan Rajput
- Sriti Jha
- Richa Soni
- Ulka Gupta
- Chhavi Pandey
- Tanushree Dutta
- Swara Bhaskar
- Priyanka Chopra
- Mannara Chopra
- Shweta Prasad
Singers
- Kiran Ahluwalia
- Aditya Narayan
- Daler Mehndi
- Sundar Popo
- Sharda Sinha
- Manoj Tiwari
- Deepali Kishore
- Aishwarya Nigam
- Parmanand Singh
- Mika Singh
Music directors
- Chitragupta
- Anand-Milind
- Bapi Tutul
- Ramashreya Jha
- Norman Hackforth
Arts
- Vidyapati
- Satyapal Chandra
- Shovana Narayan
- Bismillah Khan
- Subodh Gupta
- Bhikhari Thakur
- Ritwik Sanyal
Religious workers
- Dhyanyogi Madhusudandas[
- Dhirendra Brahmachari
- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- Sahadeo Tiwari
- Sa’id Akhtar Rizvi
- Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
- Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi
- Syed Ibrahim
- Tenzin Priyadarshi
Mathematics and science
- Rajit Gadh
- Vashishtha Narayan Singh
Sports
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Saba Karim
- Kirti Azad
- Subroto Banerjee
- Shivnath Singh
- Thomas Jameson
- Zafar Iqbal
- Rashmi Kumari
- Rajesh Chauhan
- Kavita Roy
- MS Dhoni
- Veer Pratap Singh
- Varun Aaron
- Ishan Kishan
- Deepika Kumari
- Purnima Mahato
- Randhir Singh
- Premlata Agarwal
- Sanjay Balmuchu
- Lal Mohan Hansda
- Aruna Mishra
- Jaipal Singh
- Shahbaz Nadeem
- Sharad Kumar
Bureaucracy
Indian Civil Service
- L.P. Singh
- Sir Sultan Ahmed
Indian Administrative Service
- Balmiki Prasad Singh
- N. K. Singh
- Pankaj Rag
- R. K. Singh
- U. K. Sinha
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Yashwant Sinha
Indian Foreign Service
- Aftab Seth
Indian Police Service
- Abhayanand
- J. K. Sinha
- Nikhil Kumar
- Acharya Kishore Kunal
- Randhir Prasad Verma
- Amitabh Thakur
- Ranjit Sinha
- Anil Sinha
Business
- Anil Agarwal, Vedanta Group
- Arunabh Kumar, CEO of TheViralFever
- Aditya Jha
- Sanjay Jha
- Subrata Roy, Sahara Group
- Anil Sharma, Amrapali Group
- Samprada Singh
Others
- Shaibal Gupta
- Malati Choudhury
- Subhav Sinha
- Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary
- Shyamanand Jalan
- Dashrath Manjhi
- Anand Kumar
- Anil Kumar
- H. C. Verma
- Shilpa Singh
- Supriya Aiman
- Pranati Rai Prakash
- Maṇḍana Miśra
- Ganesh Dutt
- Natwarlal