13 Notable alumni of
Magadh University
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Magadh University is 2268th in the world, 559th in Asia, and 60th 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.
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Pankaj Tripathi
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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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 television series Powder (2010).
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Jitan Ram Manjhi
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- politician
- Biography
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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 as minister for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes welfare in Nitish Kumar's cabinet. He has been a minister in several Bihar state governments, under multiple chief ministers like Chandrashekhar Singh, Bindeshwari Dubey, Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Jagannath Mishra, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi.
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Giriraj Singh
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- politician
- Biography
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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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Lilliput
- Enrolled in Magadh University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- screenwriterstage actortelevision actorcomedianactor
- Biography
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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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Rajiv Pratap Rudy
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- politician
- Biography
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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 Dal in 1990. He is also a licensed pilot.
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Ram Kripal Yadav
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- politician
- Biography
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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 Janata Party. He was first a mayor in Bihar, and later the Minister of State for Rural Development in central cabinet in Delhi from 2014 to 2019.
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Prem Kumar
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- politician
- Biography
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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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Kaushalendra Kumar
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- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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 Indian general election. He won by a narrow margin of 9,627 votes. In the 2019 general election, he got a record 540,888 votes and defeated his nearest rival by 256,137 votes.
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Dhammānandā
- Occupations
- university teacherwriternun
- Biography
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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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Gopal Prasad
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- mathematician
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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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Pranava Prakash
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- painter
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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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Bhikkhu Pāsādika
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- Indologist
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Bhikkhu Pāsādika is a German indologist and a Buddhist monk. His Dharma or religious name Pāsādika is a Pali word meaning "amiable".
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Vinodini Terway
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- 1931-2002 (aged 71)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Vinodini Tarway was a female Indian academic, born in the heritage city of Gaya, Bihar.
