100 Notable alumni of
Aligarh Muslim University
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Aligarh Muslim University is 414th in the world, 82nd in Asia, and 7th 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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- stage actorfilm directorfilm actor
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Naseeruddin Shah is an Indian actor. He is notable in Indian parallel cinema. He has also starred in 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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- field hockey playerautobiographer
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Major Dhyan Chand was an Indian field hockey player, widely regarded as one of the greatest field hockey players 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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- lyricistsongwriterpoliticianpoetscreenwriter
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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
- Biography
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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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Kulbhushan Kharbanda
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- television actorstage actorfilm 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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Zakir Husain
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- politician
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Zakir Husain 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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Anubhav Sinha
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- film 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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Dalip Tahil
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- actortelevision actor
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Dalip Tahil is an Indian film, television and theatre actor. He studied at Sherwood College in Nainital, India. After attending Aligarh Muslim University for a year, he graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Tahil is best known for his work in Baazigar (1993), Raja (1995), Hum hai rahi pyar ke (1993) and Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988).
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Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
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- writerpoliticianchemist
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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. He served as the 1st elected Prime Minister of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir and was later jailed and exiled. He was dismissed from the position of Prime Ministership on 8 August 1953 and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad was appointed the new Prime Minister. The expressions 'Sadr-i-Riyasat' and 'Prime Minister' were replaced with the terms 'Governor' and 'Chief Minister' in 1965. Sheikh Abdullah again became the Chief Minister of the state following the 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord and remained in the top slot till his death on 8 September 1982.
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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- politician
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Abdul Ghaffār Khān BR, also known as Bacha Khan (باچا خان, 'King of Chiefs') or Badshah Khan (بادشاه خان), and honourably addressed as Fakhr-e-Afghan (فخرِ افغان, 'Pride of Afghans'), was a Pashtun independence activist, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India. He was a political and spiritual leader known for his nonviolent opposition and lifelong pacifism; he was a devout Muslim and an advocate for Hindu–Muslim unity in the subcontinent. Due to his similar ideologies and close friendship with Mahatma Gandhi, Khan was nicknamed Sarhadi Gandhi (सरहदी गांधी, 'the Frontier Gandhi'). In 1929, Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar, an anti-colonial nonviolent resistance movement. The Khudai Khidmatgar's success and popularity eventually prompted the colonial government to launch numerous crackdowns against Khan and his supporters; the Khudai Khidmatgar experienced some of the most severe repression of the entire Indian independence movement.
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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 was originally a member of the Indian National Congress, but resigned after the Congress party's U-turn on the Shah Bano case. 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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Ayub Khan
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- financierpoliticianautobiographermilitary personnel
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Muhammad Ayub Khan, was the second President of Pakistan. He was an army general who seized the presidency from Iskander Mirza in a coup in 1958, the first successful coup d'état in the country's history. Popular demonstrations and labour strikes supported by the protests in East Pakistan ultimately led to his forced resignation in 1969. During his presidency, differences between West and East Pakistan arose to an enormous degree, that ultimately led to the Independence of Bangladesh following the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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Kaifi Azmi
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- lyricistwritersongwriterpoet
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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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Azam Khan
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- politician
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Mohammad Azam Khan is an Indian politician who has several criminal cases against him and 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 a member of the legislative assembly for ten terms from Rampur assembly constituency.
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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 Bharadwaj was an Indian cricketer. He scored a century on test debut and became the first player to score a century for the India national cricket team in Test cricket. 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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Khawaja Nazimuddin
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- politicianbarrister
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Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin KCIE was a Pakistani politician and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan. He is noted as being the first Bengali to have governed Pakistan, first as a Governor-General (1948–51), and later as a Prime Minister (1951–53).
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Malik Ghulam Muhammad
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- politicianchartered accountantfinancier
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Sir Malik Ghulam Muhammad, was a Pakistani politician who served as the third governor-general of Pakistan, appointed in this capacity in 1951 until being dismissed in 1955 due to health conditions.
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K. Asif
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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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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- translatorjournalistauthor
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Muhammad Ali Jauhar, was an Indian Muslim activist, prominent member of the All-India Muslim League, 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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- film directorcolumnistjournalistscreenwriterwriter
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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English. He won four National Film Awards in India. Internationally, his films won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm Grand Prize) at Cannes Film Festival (out of three Palme d'Or nominations) and the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. As a director and screenwriter, he is considered one of the pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realistic cinema.
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M. A. G. Osmani
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- military personnelpolitician
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Muhammad Ataul Goni 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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- poetwriterpolitician
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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.
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Irfan Habib
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- historianuniversity teacher
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Irfan Habib is an Indian 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 managerpoliticianactorplaywrightdirector
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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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Syed Mujtaba Ali
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- journalistwriter
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Syed Mujtaba Ali was a Bengali writer, journalist, travel enthusiast, academic, scholar and linguist. He lived in Bangladesh, India, Germany, Afghanistan and Egypt.
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Bijan Abdolkarimi
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- philosopherwritertranslatorpoet
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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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Maulana Shaukat Ali
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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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Shakeel Badayuni
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- lyricistwritersongwriterpoet
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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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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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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.
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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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Mohammed Abdur Rahiman
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- revolutionarypoliticianautobiographer
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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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Mahendra Pratap
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- 1886-1979 (aged 93)
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- politicianjournalistauthor
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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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Tazeen Fatma
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- 1949-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- politician
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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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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
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Rafi Ahmed Kidwai was a politician, an Indian independence activist and a socialist. He hailed from Barabanki District of Uttar Pradesh, in north 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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Abdur Rab Nishtar
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- politician
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Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar was a Pakistani Muslim League politician from North-West Frontier Province (now called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).
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Majaz
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- poetwriter
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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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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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Kalbe Sadiq
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- 'ālim
- Biography
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Kalbe Sadiq was an Indian Islamic scholar.
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Ashok Seth
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- interventional cardiologistwritercardiologist
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Dr Ashok Seth,born on 12th October 1954 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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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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Iqbal Khan
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- businesspersonchief executive officer
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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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Frank F Islam
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- writer
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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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Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman
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- academicteacher
- Biography
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Md. Akhtaruzzaman is a Bangladeshi academic who is the current and 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, 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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Asghar Wajahat
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- 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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Ziauddin Ahmad
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- pedagoguephilosopherpoliticianmathematician
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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. He served as vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University for three terms.
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Talat Ahmad
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- geologist
- Biography
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Talat Ahmad is an Indian Earth scientist and professor at department of Geology, University of Delhi. He commenced his second stint as vice chancellor of University of Kashmir on 6 August 2018 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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- historianjournalistbiographeracademicpathologist
- 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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Roedad Khan
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Roedad Khan is a Pakistani politician and former 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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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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Gauhar Raza
- Occupations
- scientistwriterfilm director
- 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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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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Obaid Siddiqi
- Occupations
- geneticistbiologist
- 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 a Pakistani experimental physicist and the first chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1956 to 1960.
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Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai
- Occupations
- 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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Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
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- politician
- Biography
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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 Hayat 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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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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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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Rajeev Kumar Varshney
- Occupations
- geneticistresearcher
- Biography
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Rajeev Kumar Varshney is an 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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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
- Biography
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Maulana Syed Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi is a prominent 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, a Sufi movement in India.
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Ishwari Prasad
- Years
- 1888-1986 (aged 98)
- Occupations
- historianauthor
- 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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Asma Hussain
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Sahibzadi Asma Hussain is an Indian fashion designer.
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Zahoor Qasim
- Occupations
- marine biologistoceanographer
- Biography
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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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Yasar Shah
- Occupations
- Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assemblypolitician
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- 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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Syed Ziaur Rahman
- Occupations
- translatorpharmacologist
- 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 elected secretary of IAOMC and Society of Pharmacovigilance, India (SoPI).
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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. In October 2021, he was invited as a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
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Abdul Qaiyum Ansari
- Biography
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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 Hamidul Hasan
- Occupations
- 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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Jamal Khwaja
- Occupations
- academicphilosopherpolitician
- Biography
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Jamal Khwaja was an Indian philosopher.
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Mian Ghulam Jilani
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Major General Mian Gulam Jilani was a two-star general officer in the Pakistan Army who, as an Indian Army officer during the Second World War had survived a Japanese PoW camp at Singapore. He subsequently rose to help negotiate Pakistan's membership in the Baghdad Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. An ethnic Pashtun, he retired from the Pakistan Army in 1962 and was jailed 1973 for his political beliefs. Amnesty International declared him a prisoner of conscience in 1974. He escaped from custody and took political asylum in the United States in 1975.
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Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari
- Biography
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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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M. A. Gaffar
- Occupations
- 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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Md. Ghulam Rabbani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Md. Ghulam Rabbani is an Indian politician who has served as Cabinet Minister of State for Minority Affairs & Madrassah Education in Government of West Bengal from 2021 to 2023. Rabbani belongs to All India Trinamool Congress. He was elected as MLA of Goalpokhar Vidhan Sabha Constituency in 2011, 2016 and 2021.
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S M Khan
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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S.M. Khan, is a senior Indian Information Service officer of Government of India. Prior to his current assignment he served as the Director General of Doordarshan News for over 3 years.
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Roohi Zuberi
- Occupations
- 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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Akhter Husain
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Akhter Husain, HPk, OBE, (1 August 1902 – 15 July 1983) was a senior statesman and civil servant of Pakistan. He was appointed Governor of West Pakistan in September 1957 succeeding Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani and then continued in this office during the regime of General Muhammad Ayub Khan until April 1960.
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Divya Jain
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Divya is a 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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Syed Ali Nawab
- Occupations
- military personnelengineer
- 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
- Occupations
- photojournalistphotographerjournalist
- 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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Prerna Kohli
- Occupations
- clinical psychologist
- Biography
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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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Faisal Hawar
- Occupations
- 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.
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Bilal Nazki
- Occupations
- 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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Yakub Hasan Sait
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maulana Yakub Hasan Sait or simply Yakub Hasan Sait was an Indian businessman, freedom-fighter and politician who served as the Minister for Public Works in the Madras presidency from 1937 to 1939.
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Ahmed Hossain
- Years
- 1896-1961 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ahmed Hossain, minister for agriculture, forest and fisheries department in Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy's cabinet 1946/47, chairman of Rangpur District Board (Undivided Bengal), minister for agriculture in East Pakistan in Abu Hossain Sarkar's cabinet 1955–56. Represented his Shagata and Fulchari constituency, of Gaibandha District as MLA and MP from 1937 to 1958.
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Obaidur Rahman Siddiqui
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- historianwriter
- Biography
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Obaid-ur-Rehman Siddiqui, is an Indian historian. He is the only Historian from Ghazipur who has written the History of Ghazipur beginning from the ancient time till Mughal time. He compiled his work era-wise of lost ancient era, Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire. For this work he was awarded the title of "Ghazi Pur Ka Fahian" by the Samrat Ashok Club of Ghazipur. Beside history he has a Literary Blog known as "Ghazipur Wala Ubaid" which is very popular among Literary, Social and Political Circles.
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Khan Habibullah Khan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Khan Habibullah Khan, (also known as Khan Habibullah Khan Marwat, Urdu: خان حبیب اللہ خان مروت) (14 October 1901 – 5 December 1978) was the 1st Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan and former Peshawar High Court judge. He also served as the 10th Interior Minister of Pakistan during Ayub Khan's regime before serving two terms as Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan during Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's administration. In 1937, Habibullah Khan joined the Khaksar movement and worked in the North West Frontier Province.
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Zulfiqar Naqvi
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Zulfiqar Naqvi, born in Gursai village in Mendhar Tehsil near LoC in District Poonch of Jammu and Kashmir. He is an Urdu poet and has authored Three Books, ZAAD-E-SAFAR in 2011, UJAALU'N KA SAFAR in 2013, DASHT-E-WAHSHAT in 2021.
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Saeeda Faiz
- Occupations
- historianautobiographer
- Biography
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Saeeda Faiz was an educationalist and social reformer from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. She actively participated in educational reforms, especially for women in Ghazipur.
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Syed Babar Ashraf
- Born in
- India
- Biography
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Syed Babar Ashraf is an Indian Sufi leader.
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Mushtaq Ahmed Azmi
- Years
- 1919-2011 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Mushtaq Ahmed Azmi, was a mass literacy expert. He was one of the first non-officials to be associated with the development of Adult Education program in India from the early 1950s, and was an early leader of the mass literacy movement. As an officer of UNESCO, he was posted in Africa and seconded to lead mass literacy programs in Nigeria and Zambia. He was offered a position in the UNESCO by the British diplomat and head of fundamental education at UNESCO John Bowers.
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Chaudhry Abdul Hameed Khan
- Biography
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Chaudhary Abdul Hameed Khan was in British Indian civil service
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Abul Hasan Siddiqi
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Abul Hasan Siddiqi was an Indian mathematician and Professor of Applied Mathematics. Siddiqi was the President of Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ISIAM). He was Editor-in-Chief of a series of Industrial and Applied Mathematics of Springer Nature.
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Harish Vaswani
- Occupations
- poetliterary criticwriter
- Biography
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Harish Hansraj Vaswani was a Sindhi writer, poet and critic. and academic. He was a professor of Political Science and English literature. He is known as a pioneer of new Sindhi poetry and he was influential writer of Sindhi literature. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi award in 1987.
