Extracting using a string pattern in Regex- Python

Cant we give a string in the Regex? For example, re.compile('((.*)?=<Bangalore>)'), in the below code i have mentioned <Bangalore> but its not displaying.

I want to extract the text before Bangalore.

import re

regex = re.compile('((.*)?=<>)')

line = ("Kathick Kumar, Bangalore who was a great person and lived from 29th 

March 1980 - 21 Dec 2014")

result = regex.search(line)

print(result)

Desired output: Kathick Kumar, Bangalore