We all know that we Biharis are normally hard working. This allows us to excel in many fields from science and technology to administrative fields and not to mention political fields. Therefore, it is no surprise that Bihar sends a large numbers of IAS officers to cater for the administrative needs of great India.

Here are some of the many people that are famous. Feel free to add more especially form the modern era.

Ancient India: Aryabhatta, ChandraGupta Maurya, Asoka the great, Chanakya, Panini, Vatsyayana (Kamasutra), Ashvaghosha

Religion: Sita mata (Hinduism), Mahavira (Jainism), Gautam Buddha (Buddhism), Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami, Guru Gobind Singh ji (Sikhism), Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi (Islamic scholar)

Poets/witters: Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Vidyapati, Ram Sharan (R. S.) Sharma, Nagarjuna (Vaidya Nath Mishra)

Freedom Fighters/Politicians: Dr Rajendra Prasad, Jayaprakash Narayan, Jagjivan Ram, Karpoori Thakur, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Yogendra Shukla, Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Baikuntha Shukla, Veer Kunwar Singh

Sports: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Saba Karim, kirti azad

Movie Directors: Prakash Jha, Manjul Sinha, Karan Anshuman

Actors: Shatrughan Sinha, Shekhar Suman, Manoj Bajpai, Helen, Pratibha Sinha

Music: Udit Narayan, Shyam Sagar, Bishmila Khan, Manoj Tiwari, Sharda Sinha

Arts: Bhikhari Thakur