List of Bhojpuri people

This article provides lists of famous and notable Bhojpuriya-sawb or Bhojpuri people in the Indian subcontinent and other countries like Suriname, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana and people with Bhojpuri ancestry or people who speak Bhojpuri as their primary language.

• Mohammad Hidayatullah, (20 July 1969 – 24 August 1969; 6 October 1982 – 31 October 1982), Acting President of India
• Rajendra Prasad, (26 January 1950 – 13 May 1962), 1st President of India. He was born in Ziradei, a village in Chhapra, Bihar. Chhapra is a Bhojpuri speaking district.^[1]

• Wavel Ramkalawan, 5th President of Seychelles

• Anerood Jugnauth, (7 October 2003 – 31 March 2012), 4th President of Mauritius
• Kailash Purryag, (21 July 2012 – 29 May 2015), 5th President of Mauritius

• Mohamed Irfaan Ali, (2 August 2020 – ), 10th President of Guyana
• Cheddi Jagan, (9 October 1992 – 6 March 1997), 4th President of Guyana
• Bharrat Jagdeo, (11 August 1999 – 3 December 2011), 7th President of Guyana
• Donald Ramotar, (3 December 2011 – 16 May 2015), 8th President of Guyana

• Fred Ramdat Misier, (8 February 1982 – 25 January 1988), 3rd President of Suriname
• Chan Santokhi, (16 July 2020 – ), 9th President of Suriname
• Ramsewak Shankar, (25 January 1988 – 24 December 1990), 4th President of Suriname

• Noor Mohamed Hassanali, (20 March 1987 – 17 March 1997), 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago

• Lal Bahadur Shastri, (9 June 1964 – 11 January 1966), 2nd Prime Minister of India
• Chandra Shekhar Singh, (10 November 1990 – 21 June 1991), 8th Prime Minister of India

• Anerood Jugnauth, (17 December 2014 – 23 January 2017), 2nd Prime Minister of Mauritius
• Navin Ramgoolam, (5 July 2005 – 17 December 2014), 3rd Prime Minister of Mauritius
• Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, (12 March 1968 – 30 June 1982), 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius

• Pretaap Radhakishun, (17 July 1986 – 7 April 1987), 6th Prime Minister of Suriname

• Basdeo Panday, (9 November 1995 – 24 December 2001), 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• Kamla Persad-Bissessar, (26 May 2010 – 9 September 2015), 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

• Harihar Singh (26 February 1969 – 22 June 1969)
• Lalu Prasad Yadav (10 March 1990 – 25 July 1995), also served as Railway Minister in Union government (2004-2009)
• Rabri Devi (1997-2005)

• Anant Sharma, (10 March 1983 – 14 August 1984), 11th governor of West Bengal
• Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, 18th governor of Uttar Pradesh and 2nd governor of Punjab.
• Kailashpati Mishra, (7 May 2003 – 2 Jul 2004), 15th Governor of Gujarat

• Jagjivan Ram

• Tejashwi Yadav, Bihar (2015-2017)

• Lallan Prasad Singh, Governor of Assam (1973–80), Manipur (1973–80, 1982–83), Meghalaya (1973–80), Nagaland (1973–81), and Tripura (1973–80).
• Anand Satyanand, Governor-General of New Zealand (2006-2011)
• Ram Dulari Sinha, Governor of Kerala (1988-1990)

• Meira Kumar, (2009-2014)

• Ram Subhag Singh
• Tej Pratap Yadav

• Jyoti Prakash Nirala

• Bismillah Khan
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Rajendra Prasad

• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Ravish Kumar

• Narendra Kumar Pandey
• Ramchandra Manjhi

• Babu Amar Singh
• Indradeep Sinha
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Kunwar Singh
• Mangal Pandey

• Amitava Kumar
• Anjana Om Kashyap
• Ravish Kumar^[2]

• Ananda Prasad, Doctor
• Gupteshwar Pandey, Former DGP of Bihar
• Kapil Muni Tiwary, Linguist
• Sachchidananda Sinha, Lawyer

Bhojpuri cinema

• Nazir Hussain
• Khesari Lal Yadav
• Neetu Chandra
• Pankaj Tripathi
• Akhilendra Mishra
• Vishal Aditya Singh

Hindi cinema

• Akhilendra Mishra
• Abhimanyu Singh
• Vinay Pathak
• Siddhant Chaturvedi
• Manoj Bajpayee
• Nazir Hussain
• Neetu Chandra
• Padma Khanna
• Pankaj Tripathi
• Satyakam Anand
• Sujit Kumar
• Vishal Aditya Singh

Bhojpuri cinema

• Baleshwar Yadav
• Bihari Lal Yadav, founder of Biraha genre
• Chandan Tiwari
• Hiralal Yadav
• Raj Mohan
• Ramdew Chaitoe
• Sundar Popo

• Acharya Shivpujan Sahay, Hindi and Bhojpuri
• Bhikhari Thakur, Bhojpuri
• Heera Dom, Bhojpuri
• Rahul Sankrityayan, Bhojpuri and Hindi
• Raghuveer Narayan, Bhojpuri, English and Hindi
• Ram Karan Sharma, Sanskrit and English
• Teg Ali Teg, Bhojpuri
• Premchand, Hindi

• Shailendra
• S. H. Bihari

• Bismillah Khan, Shehnai player
• Chitragupt, Music Director

• Ramchandra Manjhi

• Sakibul Gani, First player in the world to score a Triple century on First class debut.

• Mobashir Rahman
• Gurmeet Singh
• Sarpreet Singh