47 Notable alumni of Patna University
Updated: June 07, 2026 EliteDegrees
Patna University is 5093st in the world, 1st in North America, and 259st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 47 notable alumni from Patna 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 Patna University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Dilip Sinha
1954-. (aged 72)
diplomat
Dilip Sinha is an Indian diplomat and former public administrator. He served in the Indian Foreign Service from 1978 to 2014 and as chairman of the Manipur Public Service Commission, India, from 2015 to 2016. Ambassador Sinha is a public speaker on international security, Afghanistan-Pakistan-Iran and environmental diplomacy. He is the author of Legitimacy of Power: The Permanence of Five...
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2. Dinesh Bhramar
1939-. (aged 87)
poet
Dinesh Bhramar is a Hindi and Bhojpuri poet from Bihar, India. He has been credited to introduce the Ghazal and Ruba'i in Bhojpuri literature.
3. Ravi Ranjan
1960-. (aged 66)
Justice Ravi Ranjan is a retired Indian judge and former Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court. He also served as a judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Patna High Court.
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4. Papiya Ghosh
1953-2006 (aged 53)
historian
author
Papiya Ghosh was a historian of South Asian history and a professor of the University of Patna, Patna, India. She was found murdered on 3 December 2006, along with her elderly housemaid, Malti Devi, apparently as a result of an attempted burglary.
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5. Suvira Jaiswal
1934-. (aged 92)
historian
Suvira Jaiswal is an Indian historian. She is known for her research into the social history of ancient India, especially the evolution of the caste system and the development and absorption of regional deities into the Hindu pantheon.
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6. Devendra Prasad Gupta
1933-2017 (aged 84)
botanist
philosopher
Devendra Prasad Gupta was an Indian pre-democratic political sufferer, botanist and academician.
7. Hrishikesh Sulabh
1955-. (aged 71)
writer
Hrishikesh Sulabh is a Hindi writer. He is the recipient of the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2019), among various other awards. While he is best known for writing short stories and plays in Bideshiya Shaili, he has recently emerged as a boundary pushing novelist over the last decade. He worked with the All India Radio between 1980 and 2015....
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8. Abdul Ghafoor
1959-2020 (aged 61)
politician
Abdul Ghafoor: was an Indian politician who served as Minister of Minority Welfare in government of Bihar from 20 November 2015 to 26 July 2017. He served as a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly representing Mahishi vidhan sabha for 4 terms in 1995, 2000, 2010 and 2015. His political party was Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
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9. Vijaya Mulay
1921-2019 (aged 98)
author
screenwriter
film director
Vijaya Mulay was a documentary filmmaker, film historian, writer, educationist and researcher.
10. Lalit Mohan Sharma
1928-2008 (aged 80)
judge
Lalit Mohan Sharma was the 24th Chief Justice of India, serving for 85 days, from 18 November 1992 until 11 February 1993. He was the son of L.N. Sinha, former Attorney General of India.
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11. Ratan Kumar Sinha
1951-. (aged 75)
nuclear physicist
mechanical engineer
physicist
Ratan Kumar Sinha, is an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He had served as the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Government of India from April 2012 to October 2015. Prior to that, Ratan Kumar Sinha had served as Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai...
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12. Rita Verma
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
Rita Verma is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is a former Minister of State of Mines and Minerals in the Indian government. She is a member of the faculty at SSLNT Women's College, Dhanbad in the subject of History.
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13. Chhedi Paswan
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Chhedi Paswan is a former member of 16th Lok Sabha and a former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. He represented the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2024. At various points, he has been with Janata Party, then its Charan Singh faction, then the reunited Janata Dal, Bahujan Samaj Party, Nationalist Congress Party, Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD and Nitish...
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14. Sunit Kumar
1955-. (aged 71)
civil servant
Sunit Kumar, is a retired Indian Police Service (I.P.S.) officer of Bihar cadre in India and served as Chairman of Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC) in the state of Bihar from April 2017 to November 2020. He has also served as Director General of Police in the state of Bihar retiring from service in November 2015. He belongs to...
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15. Bali Ram Bhagat
1922-2011 (aged 89)
politician
Bali Ram Bhagat was an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress (INC). He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) in Lok Sabha representing Patna-cum-Shahabad from 1952 to 1957 and Shahabad (Arrah) from 1957 to 1977. Bhagat has also served as the 6th Speaker of the Lok Sabha and 13th Foreign Minister of India.
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16. Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
1899-1986 (aged 87)
judge
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha [Title: Sinha] of Shahabad, Bengal Presidency (1 February 1899 – 12 November 1986) was the 6th Chief Justice of India (1 October 1959 – 31 January 1964). He also served as the president of the Bharat Scouts and Guides from April 1965 to February 1967.
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17. Randhir Prasad Verma
1952-1991 (aged 39)
writer
Randhir Prasad Verma, AC was an Indian police officer who was killed in action while fighting off a robbery attempt at a bank in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. He was posthumously awarded the gallantry award Ashoka Chakra. The Government of India also issued a commemorative postage stamp in his honor in 2004.
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18. Apoorvanand Jha
university teacher
Apoorvanand Jha is professor at the Hindi Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi. He has worked on Marxism in Hindi. He is also a regular columnist and political commentator.
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19. Raghunath Murmu
1905-1982 (aged 77)
writer
playwright
linguist
school teacher
poet
Raghunath Murmu was an Indian writer and educator. He developed the Ol Chiki script for the Santali language.
20. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary
1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Vijay Kumar Chaudhary is an Indian politician. He has been a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly since 1982, and is currently serving as the Cabinet Minister for Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs ministries in the Government of Bihar.
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21. Bhagwat Jha Azad
1922-2011 (aged 89)
politician
Bhagwat Jha Azad was an Indian independence activist and politician who was Chief Minister of Bihar from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989. He was at various times a member of parliament and a member of the Bihar state legislature.
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22. Akhilesh Prasad Singh
1962-. (aged 64)
politician
Akhilesh Prasad Singh is an Indian politician from Bihar, India. He is a member of the Indian National Congress. In 2018, he was elected to Rajya Sabha from Bihar as member of Congress. He was appointed Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee President on 5 December 2022.
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23. Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur
1931-. (aged 95)
politician
Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur also known as C. P. Thakur, is an Indian physician and politician. He is former member of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, a former minister in the Government of India, and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a cabinet minister from 1999 to 2004 in the BJP government.
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24. Bindeshwar Pathak
1943-2023 (aged 80)
sociologist
Bindeshwar Pathak was an Indian sociologist and social entrepreneur. He was the founder of Sulabh International, an India-based social service organisation promoting human rights, environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources of energy, waste management and social reforms through education. He was the Brand Ambassador for Swachh Rail Mission of Indian Railways, a complement to the broader Swachh Bharat Mission. His work is...
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25. Sushil Kumar Modi
1952-2024 (aged 72)
politician
Sushil Kumar Modi was an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who was a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He was a Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar as well as the Finance Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2013 and 2017 to 2020. He was a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was...
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26. Pankaj Jha
painter
television actor
actor
film actor
Pankaj Jha is an Indian actor, painter, writer and director. His filmography includes Black Friday,23rd March 1931: Shaheed, Gulaal, Chameli, Anwar and Matrubhoomi. He is known for his role as Vidhayak ji in Panchayat.
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27. Ashwini Kumar Choubey
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
Ashwini Kumar Choubey is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party who was the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Environment, Forest and Climate Change and a member of the 17th Lok Sabha. He is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha representing Buxar (Lok Sabha constituency) and a former health minister of...
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28. Sachchidananda Sinha
1871-1950 (aged 79)
author
barrister
journalist
politician
Sachchidananda Sinha was an Indian lawyer, statesman, administrator and educationist. He was the first President of the Indian Constituent Assembly which drafted the Constitution of India. He also served as the vice chancellor of Patna University, secretary of the Indian National Congress, and deputy speaker of the Indian Legislative Assembly.
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29. Ram Vilas Paswan
1946-2020 (aged 74)
politician
Ram Vilas Paswan was an Indian politician from Bihar and the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the first and second Modi ministries. Paswan was also the president of the Lok Janshakti Party, nine-times Lok Sabha member and two-time Rajya Sabha MP. He started his political career as a member of Samyukta Socialist Party and was...
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30. Yashwant Sinha
1937-. (aged 89)
civil servant
politician
Yashwant Sinha is an Indian politician and retired Indian Administrative Service officer. He served as the Minister of Finance from 1990 until 1991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and again from March 1998 to July 2002 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He also served as the Minister of External Affairs from July 2002 until May 2004. He was a...
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31. Ravi Shankar Prasad
1954-. (aged 72)
lawyer
politician
Ravi Shankar Prasad is an Indian politician and lawyer who serverd as 1st Minister of Electronics and Information Technology from 2016 to 2019 and 2019 to 2021. He is the member of Bharatiya Janata Party and Member of Parliament since 2000, first in the Rajya Sabha (2000–2019) and then in the Lok Sabha (since 2019), Prasad has served as Union...
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32. Rajiv Gauba
1958-. (aged 68)
civil servant
Indian Administrative Service
Rajiv Gauba is a retired Indian bureaucrat and IAS officer who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India from 30 August 2019 to 30 August 2024. As of March 2025, he serves as a full time member of NITI Aayog, the Indian Government's apex public policy think tank. He served for five years as Cabinet Secretary making him longest serving...
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33. Laxmi Prasad Devkota
1909-1959 (aged 50)
playwright
novelist
lyricist
poet
essayist
Laxmi Prasad Devkota was a Nepalese poet, playwright, novelist, and politician. Honored with the title of Mahakabi (Nepali: महाकवि, lit. 'Greatest poet') in Nepali literature, he was known as a poet with a golden heart, and is considered one of the most famous literary figures in Nepal. Some of his popular works include Muna Madan, Sulochana, Kunjini, Bhikhari, and Shakuntala.
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34. Lalu Prasad Yadav
1948-. (aged 78)
politician
Lalu Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1991 to 1997 and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founding president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), a prominent political party in Bihar. He is also a former member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha...
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35. Digvijay Singh
1955-2010 (aged 55)
politician
Digvijay Singh was an Indian politician from the state of Bihar, and an associate of George Fernandes of Janata Dal and later Samata Party, now led by Uday Mandal its President. He represented Banka in the Lok Sabha a few times. He was elected to Rajya Sabha twice. He died on 24 June 2010 in London after suffering a brain...
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36. Jagat Prakash Nadda
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Jagat Prakash Nadda is an Indian lawyer and politician who is serving as the 34th Minister of Health, 25th Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers since 2024 and served as the 10th national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2020 to 2026. He is also the member of the Rajya Sabha representing Gujarat since 2024. A key decision maker...
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37. Mirza Faizan
computer scientist
Mirza Faizan is an Indian-American aerospace scientist who developed the Ground Reality Information Processing System.
38. 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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39. Gopala Krushna Rath
1945-2016 (aged 71)
poet
lawyer
writer
Gopal Krushna Rath was an Indian Odia poet. He won Sahitya Akademi award for Odia literature in 2014 for his poetry collection Bipula Diganta.
40. Gopinath Mohanty
1914-1991 (aged 77)
civil servant
academic
writer
Gopinath Mohanty, winner of the Jnanpith award, and the first winner of the National Sahitya Akademi Award in 1955 – for his novel, Amrutara Santana – was a prolific Odia writer of the mid-twentieth century. Satya Prakash Mohanty, professor of English, Cornell University says: "In my opinion, Gopinath Mohanty is the most important Indian novelist in the second half of...
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41. Jayanta Mahapatra
1928-2023 (aged 95)
poet
writer
translator
Jayanta Mahapatra was an Indian poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. He was the author of poems such as "Indian Summer" and "Hunger", which are regarded as classics in modern Indian English literature. He was awarded a Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour in India in 2009, but he...
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42. Tapan Sinha
1924-2009 (aged 85)
screenwriter
film director
lyricist
composer
author
Surgeon Vice Admiral Tapan Sinha, SM is the Director General Medical Services of the Indian Navy and a former Additional Director General Armed Forces Medical Services.
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43. Vinodini Terway
1931-2002 (aged 71)
academic
Vinodini Tarway was a female Indian academic, born in the heritage city of Gaya, Bihar.
44. Shankar Dayal Singh
1937-1995 (aged 58)
author
politician
Litterateur and parliamentarian Shankar Dayal Singh was twice elected to the Parliament of India. He was one of the youngest members of the Fifth Lok Sabha, in which he represented the Chatra parliamentary constituency in Bihar (now in Jharkhand). Contesting his maiden Lok Sabha election in 1971, he defeated Smt. Vijaya Raje, the wife of Sri Kamakhya Narayan Singh, Raja...
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45. Dwijendra Narayan Jha
1940-2021 (aged 81)
historian
author
Dwijendra Narayan Jha was an Indian historian who studied and wrote on ancient and medieval India. He was a professor of history at Delhi University and a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research. Some of his books include Ancient India: In Historical Outline (1997), The Myth of the Holy Cow (2001), and Early India: A Concise History (2004)....
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46. Anugrah Narayan Sinha
1887-1957 (aged 70)
politician
Anugrah Narayan Sinha, known as Bihar Vibhuti, was an Indian nationalist politician, participant in Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhian, and one of the architects of modern Bihar. He served as the first Deputy Chief Minister and the Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar from 1946 to 1957. He was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, which was...
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47. Jagadish Ghimire
1946-2013 (aged 67)
writer
Jagdish Ghimire was a Nepalese writer, political analyst and development worker.