100 Notable alumni of
Aligarh Muslim University
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Aligarh Muslim University is 386th in the world, 74th in Asia, and 6th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Aligarh Muslim 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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Naseeruddin Shah
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- film actorfilm directorstage actor
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Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian actor. He is notable in Indian parallel cinema and has starred in various international productions. He has won numerous awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan awards for his contributions to Indian cinema.
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Dhyan Chand Bais
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- autobiographerfield hockey player
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Major Dhyan Chand was an Indian field hockey player, regarded by many as the greatest field hockey player in history. He was known for his extraordinary ball control and goal-scoring feats, in addition to earning three Olympic gold medals, in 1928, 1932 and 1936, during an era where India dominated field hockey. His influence extended beyond these victories, as India won the field hockey event in seven out of eight Olympics from 1928 to 1964.
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Javed Akhtar
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- writerscreenwriterpoetpoliticiansongwriter
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Javed Akhtar is an Indian screenwriter, lyricist and poet. Known for his work in Hindi cinema, he has won five National Film Awards, and received the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2007, two of India's highest civilian honours.
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Mohammad Hamid Ansari
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- diplomat
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Mohammad Hamid Ansari is an Indian politician and retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who was the 12th vice president of India from 2007 to 2017.
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Liaquat Ali Khan
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Liaquat Ali Khan was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. He was one of the leading figures of the Pakistan Movement and is revered as Quaid-e-Millat (transl. "Leader of the nation").
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Kulbhushan Kharbanda
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. He is best known for his role as the antagonist Shakaal in Shaan (1980), Starting off with the Delhi-based theatre group 'Yatrik' in the 1960s, he moved to films with Sai Paranjpye's Jadu Ka Shankh in 1974. He worked in several parallel cinema films before working in the mainstream Hindi film industry. He appeared in Mahesh Bhatt's classic Arth (1982), Ek Chadar Maili Si (1986), Waaris (1988), and in all three parts of Deepa Mehta's Elements trilogy: Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005). After nearly two decades he was seen on the theatre stage at the Padatik Theatre in Kolkata in the production of Atmakatha, directed by Vinay Sharma.
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Anubhav Sinha
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Anubhav Sinha is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi films. He is notable for movies like Ra.One, Tum Bin (2001), Dus (2005), Mulk (2018), Article 15 (2019), Thappad (2020) and Bheed (2023).
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Surekha Sikri
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Surekha Sikri was an Indian actress widely known for her performance in theatre, films and television. She has received several awards, including a Filmfare Award and three National Film Awards.
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Dalip Tahil
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- television actoractor
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Dalip Tahil is an Indian film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his work in Baazigar (1993), Raja (1995), Hum hai rahi pyar ke (1993) and Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988), Pyaar Ki Miss Call (2009) along with actor Gaurav Prateek. In the UK, he appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Dan Ferreira, the head of the Ferreira family, from June to December 2003.
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Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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- politicianfreedom fighter
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Abdul Ghaffār Khān BR, also known as Bacha Khan (باچا خان, 'King of Chiefs') or Badshah Khan (بادشاه خان) was a Pashtun independence activist, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.
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Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
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- chemistpoliticianwriter
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Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was an Indian politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir. Abdullah was the founding leader of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (later renamed Jammu and Kashmir National Conference) and the 1st elected Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir after its accession to India. He agitated against the rule of the Maharaja Hari Singh and urged self-rule for Kashmir.
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Arif Mohammad Khan
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- politician
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Arif Mohammad Khan is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is currently the Governor of Kerala. He is a former Union Minister. He has held several portfolios ranging from energy to civil aviation.
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Azam Khan
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- politician
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Mohammad Azam Khan is an Indian politician, lawyer and elected representative who has served as the Member of Parliament from Rampur. He is one of the founding members of the Samajwadi Party and was a member of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He was also the senior most Cabinet Minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh and has been elected member of the legislative assembly ten times from Rampur assembly constituency. He was disqualified from his elected seat when he received a two-year prison sentence from the court.
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Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
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- politicianlawyer
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Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was an Indian politician who served twice as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, during November 2002–November 2005 and March 2015–January 2016. He was also Minister of Tourism in Rajiv Gandhi's cabinet and Home Minister of India in V. P. Singh's cabinet. He started in the wing of the National Conference led by G. M. Sadiq, which later merged into the Indian National Congress. He switched to Janata Dal in 1987, eventually founding his own regional party, People's Democratic Party (PDP). The PDP continues to be a political force in Jammu and Kashmir, currently led by his daughter Mehbooba Mufti.
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Kaifi Azmi
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- poetsongwriterwriterlyricist
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Kaifi Azmi was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jaun Elia and others he participated in many memorable Mushaira gatherings of the twentieth century. His wife was theatre and film actress Shaukat Kaifi.
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Begum Para
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- actor
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Begum Para was an Indian Hindi film actress who was active mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. After almost 50 years of absence in the industry, she returned to films with her last role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya (2007) as Sonam Kapoor's grandmother. In her times in 1950s, she was considered a glamour girl of Bollywood, so much so, that Life magazine had a special session with her devoted to her fine sensuous photographs.
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Lala Amarnath
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- cricketer
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Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj is considered to be the father figure of Indian cricket. He scored the first ever century for India in Test Cricket in 1933 He was independent India's first cricket captain and captained India in their first Test series win against Pakistan in 1952.
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Zakir Husain
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- politician
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Zakir Hussain Khan was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the third president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969.
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Khawaja Nazimuddin
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- barristerpolitician
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Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the second governor-general of Pakistan from 1948 to 1951 and later as the second prime minister of Pakistan from 1951 to 1953. He was one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan and the first Bengali to have governed Pakistan.
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Ayub Khan
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- financiermilitary personnelautobiographerpolitician
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Muhammad Ayub Khan was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the second president of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969. He previously served as the third Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from 1951 to 1958.
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Malik Ghulam Muhammad
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- financierchartered accountantpolitician
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Sir Malik Ghulam Muhammad was a Pakistani politician and economist who served as the third governor-general of Pakistan from 1951 to 1955.
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K. Asif
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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K. Asif was an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who is known for his epic film, Mughal-e-Azam (1960).
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Maulana Mohammad Ali
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- journalistauthortranslatorfreedom fighter
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Muhammad Ali Jauhar was an Indian Muslim activist, founding member of the All-India Muslim League, a preeminent member of Indian National Congress, journalist and a poet, a leading figure of the Khilafat Movement and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia.
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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
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- columnistfilm directorfilm producerautobiographerwriter
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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English.
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M. A. G. Osmani
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani, was a Bengali military leader. Osmani's career spanned five decades, beginning with service in the British Indian Army in 1939. He fought in the Burma Campaign during World War II. After the partition of India in 1947, he joined the Pakistan Army and served in the East Bengal Regiment, retiring as a colonel in 1967. Osmani joined the Provisional Government of Bangladesh in 1971 as the commander-in-chief of the nascent Bangladesh Forces. Regarded as the founder of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, Osmani retired as a four-star general from the Bangladesh Army in 1972.
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Hasrat Mohani
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- poetwriterpoliticianfreedom fighter
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Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan, known by his pen-name Hasrat Mohani, was an Indian activist, freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement and a noted poet of the Urdu language. He coined the notable slogan Inquilab Zindabad (translation of "Long live the revolution!") in 1921. Together with Swami Kumaranand, he is regarded as the first person to demand complete independence for India in 1921 at the Ahmedabad Session of Congress. Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi supported the complete independence motion demanded by Hasrat Mohani. He wrote the famous ghazal 'Chupke chupke raat din' which was picturised in a bollywood movie 'Nikaah' (1982) and sung by Gulam Ali.
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Irfan Habib
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- university teacherhistorian
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Irfan Habib is an Indian Marxist historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of Marxist historiography in his contributions to economic history. He identifies as a Marxist and is well known for his strong stance against Hindutva and Islamic fundamentalism. He has authored a number of books, notably the Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707, an Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps With Detailed Notes, and an Atlas of Ancient Indian History (with Faiz Habib). As the general editor, he is also the driving force behind the A People's History of India series, volumes of which continue to be released.
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Habib Tanvir
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- theatre managerwriterdirectorplaywrightactor
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Habib Tanvir was one of the most popular Indian Urdu, Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He was the writer of plays such as, Agra Bazar (1954) and Charandas Chor (1975). A pioneer in Urdu and Hindi theatre, he was most known for his work with Chhattisgarhi tribals, at the Naya Theatre, a theatre company he founded in 1959 in Bhopal. He went on to include indigenous performance forms such as nacha, to create not only a new theatrical language, but also milestones such as Charandas Chor, Gaon ka Naam Sasural, Mor Naam Damad and Kamdeo ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna.
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Bijan Abdolkarimi
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- poettranslatorwriterphilosopher
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Bijan Abdolkarimi is an Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator, and editor. His main interests are ontology, political philosophy and the critique of religious and intellectual traditions. He claims to challenge the dominant ideological discourse in Iran. He has participated in debates at Iranian universities and also in IRIB TV4 in which he has opposed the notion of Islamic humanities. He is also a scholar of Heidegger's thought and philosophy.
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Syed Mujtaba Ali
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- writerjournalist
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Syed Mujtaba Ali was a Bangladeshi writer, journalist, travel enthusiast, academic, scholar and linguist. He lived in Bangladesh, India, Germany, Afghanistan and Egypt.
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Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
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- ministerpoliticianlawyer
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Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry was a Pakistani politician who served as the fifth president of Pakistan from 1973 to 1978 prior to the martial law led by Chief of Army Staff General Zia-ul-Haq. He also served as the deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1965 to 1969 and the eighth speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1972 to 1973.
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Shakeel Badayuni
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- poetsongwriterwriterlyricist
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Shakeel Badayuni was an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Hindi / Urdu language films.
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Munier Choudhury
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- author
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Munier Choudhury was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident. He was a victim of the mass killing of Bangladeshi intellectuals in 1971. He was awarded Independence Day Award in 1980, by the then president Ziaur Rahman's government, posthumously.
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Mushtaq Ali
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- cricketer
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Syed Mushtaq Ali was an Indian cricketer, a right-handed opening batsman who holds the distinction of scoring the first overseas Test century by an Indian player when he scored 112 against England at Old Trafford in 1936. He batted right-handed but was a slow left arm orthodox spin bowler. He bowled frequently enough in domestic matches to be classified as an all-rounder but only occasionally in test matches. Mushtaq Ali was noted for his graceful batting style and a flair which often cost him his wicket by being over-adventurous too soon in an innings. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995, the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.
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Sahib Singh Verma
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- politician
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Sahib Singh Verma was an Indian politician and the former senior vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998) and was member of 13th Lok Sabha, Parliament of India (1999–2004). He served as the Union Labour Minister of India.
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KK Muhammed
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- archaeologist
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Karingamannu Kuzhiyil Muhammed is an Indian archaeologist who served as the Regional Director (North) of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Muhammed is credited for the discovery of Ibadat Khana, as well as various prominent Buddhist Stupas and Monuments. During his career, he undertook the restoration of the Bateshwar Complex, successfully convincing naxal insurgents and dacoits to cooperate, as well as facelift and restoration of the Dantewada and Bhojeshwar temples.
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Muhammad Mansur Ali
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- politician
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Muhammad Mansur Ali was a Bangladeshi politician who was a close confidant of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh. A senior leader of the Awami League, Mansur also served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 1975.
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Mahendra Pratap
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- 1886-1979 (aged 93)
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- authorjournalistpolitician
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Raja Mahendra Pratap was an Indian freedom fighter, journalist, writer, revolutionary, President in the Provisional Government of India, which served as the Indian Government-in-exile during World War I from Kabul in 1915, and social reformist of British India. He also formed the Executive Board of India in Japan in 1940 during the Second World War. He formed the original Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) in 1915 in Kabul which was supported by many Nations including Japan. He also took part in the Balkan War in the year 1911 along with his fellow students of Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College. He is popularly known as "Aryan Peshwa".
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Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi
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- 1923-2018 (aged 95)
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- writercomedian
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Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi was a Pakistani Urdu satirist and humourist. Yousufi also served as the head of several national and international governmental and financial institutions. He received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award in 1999 and the Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award in 2002, the highest literary honour given by the Government of Pakistan.
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Mohammed Abdur Rahiman
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- autobiographerpoliticianrevolutionaryfreedom fighter
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Mohammed Abdur Rahiman Sahib was an Indian freedom fighter, Muslim leader, scholar, and politician from Kerala. He served as president of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee(Malabar) in 1939.
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Tazeen Fatma
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tazeen Fatma is an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. She belongs to the Samajwadi Party and is a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Rampur assembly constituency of Rampur district. She is pro-vice-chancellor of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University.
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Ross Masood
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- scientist
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Syed Sir Ross Masood bin Mahmood Khan, was the Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University starting in 1929.
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Punathil Kunjabdulla
- Enrolled in Aligarh Muslim University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in medicine
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- writer
- Biography
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Punathil Kunjabdulla was an Indian writer from Kerala. A medical doctor by profession, Kunjabdulla was a practitioner of the avant-garde in Malayalam literature. His work includes more than 45 books, including 7 novels, 15 short story collections, memoirs, an autobiography and travelogues. His work Smarakasilakal (Memorial Stones) won the Central and State Akademi Awards.
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Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
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- politician
- Biography
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Rafi Ahmed Kidwai was a politician, an Indian independence activist and a socialist. Kidwai served as a Minister of Communications in the first Cabinet of Independent India (First Nehru Ministry). He hailed from Barabanki District of Uttar Pradesh, in north India.
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Abdur Rab Nishtar
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- politician
- Biography
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Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar was a Pakistani independence activist and politician from the North-West Frontier Province (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). He served as the first Minister of Communications of Pakistan from August 1947 to August 1949 and then as the second Governor of West Punjab from August 1949 to November 1951.
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Majaz
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- writerpoet
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Asrar-ul-Haq, better known as Majaz Lakhnawi, was an Indian Urdu poet. He is known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry. He composed ghazals and nazms in Urdu. He was the maternal uncle of poet and screenplay writer Javed Akhtar and Indian-American psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar.
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Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman
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- academic
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Md. Akhtaruzzaman is a Bangladeshi academic who served as the 28th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka. Prior to this position, he served in different academic, administrative and co-curricular development activities at the University of Dhaka including the pro-vice chancellor (administration), dean (Faculty of Arts), chairman, Department of Islamic History & Culture, and provost of the Kabi Jashim Uddin Hall, University of Dhaka.
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Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari
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- politician
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Lieutenant Colonel Saeed ul-Mulk Nawab Sir Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan, Nawab of Chhatari also generally referred to as Nawab of Chhatari was Governor of the United Provinces, Chief Minister of United Provinces, President of the Executive Council of the Nizam of Hyderabad (i.e. Prime Minister of Hyderabad) and Chief Scout of India.
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Ashok Seth
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- cardiologistwriterinterventional cardiologist
- Biography
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Ashok Seth is an Indian interventional cardiologist, credited with the performance of over 50,000 angiograms and 20,000 angioplasties, which has been included in the Limca Book of Records, a book for achievements and records from an Indian perspective. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh and Ireland and serves as the chief cardiologist, holding the chairs of the department of cardiovascular sciences and cardiology council at the Fortis Healthcare. Seth, a recipient of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, was honored by the Government of India with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri, in 2003, followed by Padma Bhushan, the third highest Indian civilian award, in 2015.
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Kalbe Sadiq
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- 'ālim
- Biography
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Kalbe Sadiq was an Indian Islamic scholar.
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Iqbal Khan
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- chief executive officerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Iqbal Khan is the founding board member and chief executive officer of Fajr Capital, and a member of the board of directors of Jadwa Investment in Saudi Arabia, Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam in Brunei and MENA Infrastructure Fund.
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Asghar Wajahat
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Syed Asghar Wajahat, popularly known as Asghar Wajahat, is a Hindi scholar, fiction writer, novelist, playwright, an independent documentary filmmaker and a television scriptwriter, who is most known for his work, 'Saat Aasmaan' and his acclaimed play, 'Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya, O Jamyai Nai', based on the story of an old Punjabi Hindu woman who gets left behind in Lahore, after the Partition of India, and then refuses to leave.
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Frank F Islam
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Frank Islam is an information technology entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, civic leader, and writer who heads the FI Investment Group. He was the founder and CEO of the QSS Group. US President Barack Obama appointed him to be the General Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2013.
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Mohsina Kidwai
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohsina Kidwai is an Indian politician and former union minister and parliamentarian from the Indian National Congress party belonging from the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh. She served as an union minister under Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi holding several important portfolios.
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N. R. Madhava Menon
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- legal scholarcivil servant
- Biography
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Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon was an Indian civil servant, lawyer and legal educator, considered by many as the father of modern legal education in India. He is the founder of National Law Universities system and first director of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) and the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal and the founder-vice-chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS). He has also served as Chairman of Indian Statistical Institute from 2002 to 2003.
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Roedad Khan
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Roedad Khan is a Pakistani politician and retired civil servant. He was a leading figure in Pakistan from the start to the end of the Cold War. During his long career, Khan was one of the most senior civil servants of Pakistan.
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Ziauddin Ahmad
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- mathematicianpoliticianphilosopherpedagogue
- Biography
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Sir Ziauddin Ahmad CIE was an Indian mathematician, parliamentarian, logician, natural philosopher, politician, political theorist, educationist and a scholar. He was a member of the Aligarh Movement and was a professor, principal of MAO College, first pro vice-chancellor, vice chancellor and rector of Aligarh Muslim University, India.
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Mehboob Ali Kaiser
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- politician
- Biography
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Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from Khagaria Lok Sabha Constituency. He started his political career from Indian National Congress. He was Member of Legislative Assembly where he represented Simri-Bakhtiarpur constituency for three terms. He also served as Cabinet Minister in Bihar Government. After being denied ticket by Indian National Congress for General Elections in 2014, he joined Lok Janshakti Party days before 2014 general election and successfully contested from Khagaria constituency.
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Abdul Majid Daryabadi
- Occupations
- university teacherwriter'ālimcriticjournalist
- Biography
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Abdul Majid Daryabadi was an Islamic scholar, philosopher, writer, critic, researcher, journalist and exegete of the Quran in Indian subcontinent in the 20th century. He was as one of the most influential Indian Muslim scholar and was much concerned with modernism and comparative religions and orientalism in India. In his early life, he became sceptical of religion and called himself a "rationalist". For almost nine years, he remained away from religion but repented and became a devout Muslim. He was actively associated with the Khilafat Movement, Royal Asiatic Society, Aligarh Muslim University, Nadwatul Ulama, Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy and several other leading Islamic and literary organisations. He was disciple of Ashraf Ali Thanwi and Hussain Ahmed Madani.
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Talat Ahmad
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- geologist
- Biography
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Talat Ahmad is an Indian Earth scientist and former professor at department of Geology, University of Delhi. Currently, he is serving as Chairman of Governing body which oversees Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun from December 2021 onwards and has taken full charge from 1 June 2022. Previously, he commenced his second stint as vice chancellor of University of Kashmir on 6 August 2018 and served the office till 20 May 2022. After serving as vice chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, he resigned from the post a few months short of his full term. He was shortlisted by a committee constituted by the governor to shortlist a panel for the post. He had earlier taken over as Vice-chancellor of University of Kashmir from Professor Riyaz Punjabi on 1 June 2011. Prior to this, he was teaching geology at the University of Delhi.
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Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
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- historianpathologistacademicbiographerjournalist
- Biography
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Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman is an Indian scholar of Unani medicine. He founded Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000. He had earlier served as Professor and chairman, Department of Ilmul Advia at the Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, for over 40 years before retiring as Dean Faculty of Unani Medicine. Presently, he is serving AMU as "Honorary Treasurer". In 2006, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri for his contribution to Unani Medicine.
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Gauhar Raza
- Occupations
- film directorwriterscientist
- Biography
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Gauhar Raza is an Indian scientist by profession, and a leading Urdu poet, social activist and documentary filmmaker working to popularize the understanding of science among general public, known for his films like Jung-e-Azadi, on the India's First War of Independence, and Inqilab (2008) on Bhagat Singh. He was also the honorary director of Jahangirabad Media Institute.
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Majid Husain
- Years
- 1940-2019 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- geologist
- Biography
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Majid Husain was an Indian geographer, known for his contributions to geography.
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Maulana Shaukat Ali
- Occupations
- freedom fighter
- Biography
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Shaukat Ali was an Indian Muslim member of the Khilafat Movement. He was the elder brother of the renowned political leader Mohammad Ali Jouhar.
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Baharul Islam
- Years
- 1918-1993 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Baharul Islam was an Indian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress. In 1972 he resigned from the Rajya Sabha to become a judge in the Gauhati High Court after retiring from the role of chief justice of the Gauhati High Court. He was later recalled and made a Judge of the Supreme court. In that position he passed a judgement absolving the then-Chief Minister of Bihar Jagannath Mishra in the urban cooperative bank scandal. He later resigned from the Supreme court to contest elections as a Congress party candidate and was elected back to the Rajya Sabha.
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Obaid Siddiqi
- Occupations
- biologistgeneticist
- Biography
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Obaid Siddiqi FRS was an Indian National Research Professor and the Founder-Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) National Center for Biological Sciences. He made seminal contributions to the field of behavioural neurogenetics using the genetics and neurobiology of Drosophila.
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Nazir Ahmed
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Nazir Ahmed OBE (1 May 1898 – 30 September 1973) was an experimental physicist and the first chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1956 to 1960.
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Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Syed Sajjad Haider "Yaldram" was an Urdu short story writer, travel writer, translator, linguist, essayist, and humorist from British India.
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Mohsin Wali
- Occupations
- cardiologist
- Biography
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Mohsin Wali is an Indian cardiologist and a former honorary physician to R. Venkataraman and Shankar Dayal Sharma and the serving physician to Pranab Mukherjee. His first assignment as a physician to the President of India was with R. Venkataraman, at the age of 33, making him the youngest physician to serve an Indian President. He is the only physician to have served three Presidents of India. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for his contributions to Indian medicine.
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Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
- Occupations
- politician
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Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo was a Pakistani politician from Balochistan. He served as the 3rd Governor of Balochistan.
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Liaqat Hayat
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Khan Bahadur Nawab Sir Liaqat Hyat Khan, (February 1887 – 1948) was an Indian official who served for most of his career as a minister and later Prime Minister of Patiala State, in British India.
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Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai
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- lobbyist
- Biography
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Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, is an American citizen of Kashmiri origin, and a Jamaat-e-Islami activist. He founded the organisation Kashmiri American Council in the United States and carried out lobbying on behalf of Kashmiri separatist groups and the Government of Pakistan. In 2011, the US government stated that this was a front group for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence.
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Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi
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- politician
- Biography
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Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Darbhanga constituency of Bihar for 13 years with 4 terms and was a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) political party. Recently he was terminated by Lalu Prasad Yadav's son - Tejashwi Yadav as he showed disrespect to him on no grounds. He joined Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) and declared to fight from Madhubani Constituency, from Bihar but withdrew his candidature the next day. He also declared his disassociation with BSP. On 29 July 2019, fatmi joined JDU.
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Shahid Jameel
- Occupations
- virologist
- Biography
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Shahid Jameel is an Indian virologist and academic. Dr. Jameel is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He serves as the Principal Investigator for the Centre's project on Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim societies. Previously he was the director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences since its inception in the year 2020 at Ashoka University. He was formerly head of the scientific advisory group to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortia (INSACOG) established in December 2020, and the chief executive officer of Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance. Known for his research in hepatitis E virus, Jameel is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2000.
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Rajeev Kumar Varshney
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- researchergeneticist
- Biography
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Rajeev Kumar Varshney is an Indian agricultural scientist, specializing in genomics, genetics, molecular breeding and capacity building in developing countries. Varshney is currently serving as Director, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Center; Director, Centre for Crop & Food Innovation; and International Chair in Agriculture & Food Security with the Food Futures Institute at Murdoch University, Australia since Feb 2022. Before joining Murdoch University, Australia he served International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), a global agriculture R&D institute, for more than 16 years in different scientific and research leadership roles including Research Program Director for three global research programs– Grain Legumes, Genetic Gains and Accelerated Crop Improvement Program. He has the onus of establishing and nurturing the Center of Excellence in Genomics & Systems Biology (CEGSB), a globally recognized center for genomics research at ICRISAT that made impacts on improving agriculture and development of human resources in several countries including India, China, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, etc. Varshney holds Adjunct/Honorary/Visiting Professor positions at 10 academic institutions in Australia, China, Ghana, Hong Kong and India, including The University of Western Australia, University of Queensland, West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (University of Ghana), University of Hyderabad, Chaudhary Charan Singh University and Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University.
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Syed Amir Uddin Kedwali
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Syed Amir-uddin Kedwaii was a Pakistani nationalist barrister, politician and independence activist. He is the designer of the national flag of Pakistan. Kedwaii was awarded a posthumous Pakistan Movement Gold Medal in 1991 by the Government of Pakistan, for his efforts during the Pakistan Movement in the British Raj.
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Ikbal Ali Shah
- Occupations
- biographer
- Biography
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Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah was an Indian-Afghan author and diplomat descended from the Sadaat of Paghman. Born and educated in India, he came to Britain as a young man to continue his education in Edinburgh, where he married a young Scotswoman.
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Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi
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Syed Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi is an Indian Sufi leader and spiritual master from Kichchouchcha Sharif, the famous Sufi shrine of Ashraf Jahangir Semnani in Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. Kichhauchhwi is a patron of various social, academic and other developmental activities of Sufi Sunni Muslims in India. He is the Founder and National President of the All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB), a Sufi movement in India.
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Ishwari Prasad
- Years
- 1888-1986 (aged 98)
- Occupations
- authorhistorian
- Biography
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He was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh in a village called Kurra Chittarpur. His father Lt. Shobharam Upadhyay was head-master in a school. His father's untimely death left a very young Ishwari Prasad, a student of class 12th to look after his younger siblings.
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Zahoor Qasim
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- oceanographermarine biologist
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Sayed Zahoor Qasim was an Indian marine biologist. Qasim helped lead India's exploration to Antarctica and guided the other seven expeditions from 1981 to 1988. He was a Member of the Planning Commission of India from 1991 to 1996. He was the Vice Chancellor of Jamia Milia Islamia from 1989 to 1991 and an Honorary Professor of universities including Aligarh Muslim University, Madurai Kamaraj University, Anna Malai University, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and Jamia Millia Islamia. He was awarded the highest civilian awards Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.
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Asma Hussain
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- fashion designer
- Biography
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Sahibzadi Asma Hussain is an Indian fashion designer.
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Yasar Shah
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- politicianMember of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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Yasar Shah is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He represents the Matera constituency of Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district and is a member of the Samajwadi Party. He was also Minister of State in Uttar Pradesh Government for Power, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy, Minister Of State for Transport, and Minister for Commercial Taxes.
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Pir Ilahi Bux
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- politician
- Biography
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Pir Ilahi Bux or Pir Ilahi Buksh was a Pakistani politician and activist who was a prominent member of the Pakistan Movement and who served as the Chief Minister of Sindh from 1948 to 1949.
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Prerna Kohli
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- clinical psychologist
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Dr. Prerna Kohli is a clinical psychologist, social worker and author. She was awarded the ‘100 Women Achievers of India’ in 2016 by the President of India for her work on mental health.
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K M Baharul Islam
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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K M Baharul Islam is presently the Chairperson of Centre of Excellence in Public Policy and Government at Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. He served as the Dean during 2019-2021 at the same institute. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland on 18 March 2020. Since October 2021, he is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
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Abdul Qaiyum Ansari
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Abdul Qaiyum Ansari was a participant in the freedom struggle of India. He was known for his commitment to national integration, secularism, and communal harmony. He was a leader who worked against the demand of the Muslim league for creation of a separate Muslim nation from India as an independent state. Mr. Ansari fought against Jinnah's two nation theory through All India Momin Conference of which he was the President.
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Syed Ziaur Rahman
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- pharmacologisttranslator
- Biography
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Syed Ziaur Rahman is a permanent member of 'Board of Trustees' and Chair of the Advisory Council, International Association of Medical Colleges (IAOMC). He also serves as Chairman, Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh, Elected Secretary of IAOMC and Society of Pharmacovigilance, India (SoPI).
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Mian Ghulam Jilani
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- military personneldiplomatpolitician
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Major General Mian Ghulam Jilani also known as Kaka, Speen Dada, and Jilly, was a politician, businessman, and former two-star general in the Pakistan Army. As a British Indian Army officer during World War II, he survived a Japanese POW camp in Singapore. He played a key role in establishing the ceasefire during the First Kashmir War. During his stint as the Military attaché of Pakistan to Washington (1952-1955), he helped negotiate Pakistan's membership in the Baghdad Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
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Jamal Khwaja
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- politicianphilosopheracademic
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Jamal Khwaja was an Indian philosopher.
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M. A. Gaffar
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- politician
- Biography
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Mohammed Abdul Gaffar, also known as Abdul Gaffar, was a politician from Arakan, Burma (now Rakhine State, Myanmar). He was elected to the Legislature of Burma in British Burma from Buthidaung in 1947. After Burmese independence in 1948, the President of Burma Sao Shwe Thaik appointed Gaffar as one of the seven members of the Inquiry Commission of Arakan in 1949. Gaffar was elected to the Chamber of Nationalities from Akyab West constituency in 1952. He was elected from Maungdaw in 1956. He also served as Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Health in the government of Prime Minister U Nu.
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Syed Hamidul Hasan
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- writer
- Biography
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Syed Hamidul Hasan is a Shia scholar from Lucknow, India. He is also the current principal of Jamia Nazmia.
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Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari
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Maulana Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari was an Islamic scholar from Hyderabad, India. He served as the khateeb and imam of the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad and the vice chancellor of Jamia Nizamia University.
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S M Khan
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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S.M. Khan was a 1982-batch IIS officer of Government of India and retired on 30 January 2017.
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Divya Jain
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Divya Jain is an Indian software engineer and entrepreneur. Jain has been called a "data doyenne" by Fortune. She is currently a Director of ML at Google. Previously she was the Director of ML at Adobe and prior to that a Data Analysis Engineer at Box Data.
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Roohi Zuberi
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- social worker
- Biography
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Roohi Zuberi is an Indian social worker and women's rights activist. Zuberi has also served as a senior cabinet member at Aligarh Muslim University.
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Syed Ali Nawab
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- engineermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Major-General Syed Ali Nawab, was an engineering officer in the Pakistan Army Corps of EME, and a mechanical engineer with an MIMechE from UK and two bachelor's degrees, one in Electrical Engineering, and the other in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). He was known for his classified works in the development of atomic bomb at PAEC and the Engineering Research Laboratories (ERL) in the 1970s.
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Farhat Basir Khan
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- journalistphotographerphotojournalist
- Biography
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Farhat Basir Khan is an Indian photographer. He has made contributions to photography and media studies in India, both as an academic as well as an industry professional.
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Mohammad Gulrez
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Mohammad Gulrez is an International Relations & Global Governance expert. On April 2nd 2023, Prof Gulrez took over the charge as officiating Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University. Previously he served as the Pro Vice Chancellor from June 2022 till April 2023. He has also served as Dean, Faculty of International Studies, Director, Centre for South African & Brazilian Studies & Coordinator for Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies Programme at Aligarh Muslim University. Prof Gulrez was on a Deputation from Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt of India for a period of 6 months to the India Chair at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka from July 2017 to December 2017. From January 1999 to January 2004, he worked as visiting Faculty, Department of Political and Administrative Sciences at the National University of Rwanda, Central Africa. Prof Gulrez was the Consultant/Researcher, Good Governance for the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Project, Govt. of Rwanda (2002). Prof Gulrez is also on the International Advisory Board, Asian Review Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is also the Member of Academic Forum, Asia Pacific Observatory, Montevideo, Uruguay. He has also been associated with the Foreign Policy Analysis Program, Mershon Centre, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio and Muslim Politics Project, Council On Foreign Relations Programme, New York, United States of America.
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Bilal Nazki
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- judge
- Biography
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Justice Bilal Nazki is an Indian jurist. He is a former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and has served as High Court Judge in the High Courts of Jammu & Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh and Bombay. He has also served as the Chairman of the Jammu & Kashmir State Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Commission of Bihar. He also headed the committee set up by the Government of India to review the functioning of the Haj Committee of India and its state units.
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Faisal Hawar
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Faisal Ahmed Yusuf "Hawar" is a Somali Entrepreneur. He is the CEO/President and co-founder of the International Somalia Development Foundation as well as the Maakhir Resource Company.
