13 Notable alumni of Magadh University
Updated: June 06, 2026 EliteDegrees
Magadh University is ranked #4,783 in the world and #233 in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Magadh University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Magadh University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Ram Kripal Yadav
1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Ram Kripal Yadav is an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Lok Sabha from the Pataliputra parliamentary constituency in Bihar. He currently serves the Agricultural minister in the Bihar Government since 2025. He represents the Danapur Assembly constituency. He was a member of Rashtriya Janata Dal and was a close confidant of Lalu Yadav. Later he joined Bharatiya...
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2. Prem Kumar
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Dr. Prem Kumar is an Indian politician who currently serves as the eighteenth Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly since 2025. He is a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly elected nine times from Gaya Town assembly constituency.
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3. Kaushalendra Kumar
1959-. (aged 67)
politician
Kaushalendra Kumar is a Member of Parliament for the Nalanda constituency of the India Lok Sabha. He is a representative of the Janata Dal party. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in the 2009 Indian general election, when he succeeded and was nominated by Nitish Kumar in the constituency. He again won the Nalanda seat in the 2014...
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4. Pranava Prakash
1979-. (aged 47)
painter
Pranava Prakash is an Indian artist working in neopop style. He is known for helping to create the "tuchchart" style with a group of Delhi artists, which he debuted in a 2007 show in Delhi entitled "Tuchchart".Prakash is also known for drawing inspiration for his works from various sociopolitical issues such as xenophobia, frequently depicting various persons in the nude.
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5. Bhikkhu Pāsādika
1939-. (aged 87)
Indologist
Bhikkhu Pāsādika is a German indologist and a Buddhist monk. His Dharma or religious name Pāsādika is a Pali word meaning "amiable".
6. Giriraj Singh
1952-. (aged 74)
politician
Giriraj Singh is an Indian politician who is serving as the 21st Minister of Textiles since 2024. He is the Member of Parliament from the Begusarai Loksabha constituency in 17th and 18th Lok Sabha. He has also formerly served as Minister of Cooperative, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Resources Development in the Government of Bihar.
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7. Lilliput
1950-. (aged 76)
screenwriter
stage actor
television actor
comedian
actor
M. M. Faruqui, known professionally as Lilliput, is an Indian actor and writer, known for the TV series Vikram Vetaal and Bollywood films. He adopted his screen name taking a cue from Lilliput and Blefuscu, two island nations in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels where Gulliver lands onto an island inhabited by little people.
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8. Pankaj Tripathi
1976-. (aged 50)
actor
television actor
Pankaj Tripathi, born as Pankaj Tiwari, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi films and series. He is the recipient of two National Film Awards and a Filmfare Award. After studying acting at the National School of Drama, Tripathi had minor roles in such films as Omkara (2006) and Agneepath (2012), and had a supporting role in the...
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9. Jitan Ram Manjhi
1944-. (aged 82)
politician
Jitan Ram Manjhi is an Indian politician who is serving as the 15th Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises since 2024. He is currently a Member of Parliament from Gaya constituency and was Bihar's 23rd Chief Minister from 20 May 2014 to 20 February 2015. He was the founding President of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM). Previously, he had served...
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10. Gopal Prasad
1945-. (aged 81)
mathematician
Gopal Prasad is an Indian-American mathematician. His research interests span the fields of Lie groups, their discrete subgroups, algebraic groups, arithmetic groups, geometry of locally symmetric spaces, and representation theory of reductive p-adic groups.
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11. Rajiv Pratap Rudy
1962-. (aged 64)
politician
Rajiv Pratap Rudy is an Indian politician from Bihar. He is a four-time Member of Parliament representing Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2024, he won from Saran (Lok Sabha constituency) in Bihar. Earlier, he won three times in 1996, 1999 and 2014 from Chapra Assembly Constituency, which later became Saran. He was also an MLA from Taraiya Assembly Constituency representing Janata...
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12. Vinodini Terway
1931-2002 (aged 71)
academic
Vinodini Tarway was a female Indian academic, born in the heritage city of Gaya, Bihar.
13. Dhammānandā
1944-. (aged 82)
university teacher
writer
nun
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh (Thai: ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์) or Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Shatsena (Thai: ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์ ษัฏเสน; 1944), is a Thai bhikkhuni ("Buddhist nun"). On 28 February 2003, Kabilsingh received full monastic ordination as a bhikkhuni of the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka. She is Abbess of Songdhammakalyani Monastery, the only temple in Thailand where there are bhikkhunis.
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