57 Notable alumni of
University of Lucknow

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The University of Lucknow is 701st in the world, 145th in Asia, and 12th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 57 notable alumni from the University of Lucknow sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Suresh Raina

    Suresh Raina
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1986-.. (age 38)
    Occupations
    cricketer
    Biography

    Suresh Raina is an Indian former international cricketer. He occasionally served as stand-in captain for Indian men's national cricket team as well as in IPL for Chennai Super Kings during the absence of the main captain, MS Dhoni. He played for Uttar Pradesh (UP) in domestic cricket circuit. He is an aggressive left-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional off-spin bowler. He is the second-youngest player ever to captain India. He was the captain of Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League (IPL), and he also served as vice-captain of the Chennai Super Kings. He is the first Indian batsman to hit a century in all three formats of international cricket. During his time with India, he won the 2011 Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. Raina made history being the first Indian to score a century in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, which he did with his 101 runs against South Africa at the 2010 Tournament.

  2. Dimple Yadav

    Dimple Yadav
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Dimple Yadav is an Indian politician and the incumbent member of parliament from Mainpuri of Uttar Pradesh since December 2022. She has earlier served as member of the Lok Sabha for two terms from Kannauj. She is married to Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav.

  3. Shankar Dayal Sharma

    Shankar Dayal Sharma
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1918-1999 (aged 81)
    Enrolled in the University of Lucknow
    Graduated with Master of Laws
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Shankar Dayal Sharma was an Indian lawyer and politician from the state of Madhya Pradesh who served as the ninth president of India, from 1992 to 1997.

  4. Arif Mohammad Khan

    Arif Mohammad Khan
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  5. Naresh Trehan

    Naresh Trehan
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    surgeon
    Biography

    Naresh Trehan is an Indian cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon. After graduating from King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India, he went on to practice at New York University Medical Center, Manhattan, USA from 1971 to 1988. He returned to India and started Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre. He serves as the chairman and managing director and chief cardiac surgeon of Medanta™-The Medicity. He has served as personal surgeon to the President of India since 1991, has received numerous awards, including the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award and Dr. B. C. Roy Award.

  6. Ajit Singh

    Ajit Singh
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1939-2021 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Chaudhary Ajit Singh was an Indian farmer leader and politician. He was the founder and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a political party recognised in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was son of the former Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Charan Singh. He tested positive for COVID-19 and was subsequently admitted to a hospital in Gurugram. He died on 6 May 2021 after his condition deteriorated.

  7. Vijayaraje Scindia

    Vijayaraje Scindia
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1919-2001 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Vijaya Raje Scindia, born Lekha Divyeshwari Devi in Nepal and known popularly as the Rajmata of Gwalior in India, was a prominent Indian political personality. In the days of the British Raj, as consort of the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior, Jivajirao Scindia, she ranked among the highest royal figures of the land. In later life, she became a politician of considerable influence and was elected repeatedly to both houses of the Indian parliament. She was one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

  8. Chinmayananda Saraswati

    Chinmayananda Saraswati
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1916-1993 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    guru
    Biography

    Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati, born Balakrishna Menon; 8 May 1916 – 3 August 1993, was a Hindu spiritual leader and a teacher. In 1951, he founded Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide nonprofit organisation, in order to spread the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and other ancient Hindu scriptures. Through the Mission, Chinmayananda spearheaded a global Hindu spiritual and cultural renaissance that popularised these spiritual texts and values, teaching them in English all across India and abroad.

  9. Shivpal Singh Yadav

    Shivpal Singh Yadav
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Shivpal Singh Yadav is a politician and educationis from Uttar Pradesh, India. He was born in Saifai village, Etawah district, and is a younger brother of Samajwadi Party leader late Mulayam Singh Yadav and uncle of the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav. He is a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, representing the Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah district, from 1996 till now. He is also the National General Secretary of Samajwadi Party and was appointed on 29 January 2023.

  10. Harish Rawat

    Harish Rawat
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Harish Singh Rawat is an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2014 to 2017. A five-time Member of Parliament, Rawat is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party. As a member of 15th Lok Sabha, Rawat served as Union Minister of Water Resources in the cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from 2012 to 2014. He also worked as Minister of State at the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Food Processing Industries (2011–2012) and Ministry of Labour and Employment (2009–2011).

  11. Surjit Singh Barnala

    Surjit Singh Barnala
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1925-2017 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Surjit Singh Barnala was an Indian politician who served as the 11th chief minister of Punjab state from 1985 to 1987. Following that he served as the governor of Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, lieutenant governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and a Union Minister on handling various portfolios.

  12. Ritu Karidhal

    Ritu Karidhal
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Ritu Karidhal Srivastava is an Indian scientist and aerospace engineer working in the Indian Space Research Organisation. She was a Deputy Operations Director to India's Mars orbital mission, Mangalyaan. She has been referred to as one of the many "Rocket Women" of India. Giving tribute to her excellence in Mangalayaan mission, a Bollywood film Mission Mangal was created where Indian actress Vidya Balan did her role.

  13. Kavi Pradeep

    Kavi Pradeep
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1915-1998 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    poetsongwriterlyricistsinger
    Biography

    Kavi Pradeep, was an Indian poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song "Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo" written as a tribute to the soldiers who had died defending the country during the Sino-Indian War.

  14. Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan

    Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1905-1990 (aged 85)
    Enrolled in the University of Lucknow
    In 1927 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
    In 1927 graduated with Bachelor of Theology in religious studies
    In 1929 graduated with Master of Science in economics and sociology
    Occupations
    diplomatpoliticianuniversity teachermilitary personneleconomist
    Biography

    Begum Ra'ana Liaqat Ali Khan was the First Lady of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951 as the wife of Liaquat Ali Khan who served as the 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was also the first female governor in Pakistan, serving Sindh. She was one of the leading woman figures in the Pakistan Movement, and a career economist, and prominent stateswoman from the start of the cold war till the fall and the end of the cold war.

  15. Malini Awasthi

    Malini Awasthi
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    singer
    Biography

    Malini Awasthi is an Indian folk singer. She sings in Bhojpuri, Awadhi and Hindi, She also presents Thumri and Kajri. The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2016. She is known for her contribution in Bhojpuri music.

  16. Vartika Singh

    Vartika Singh
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1991-.. (age 33)
    Occupations
    beauty pageant contestantmodel
    Biography

    Vartika Brij Nath Singh is an Indian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was appointed as Miss Universe India 2019 and represented India at 68th edition of the Miss Universe pageant. She was previously crowned as Femina Miss India Femina Miss India Grand International in 2015. The GQ magazine had ranked her among the hottest women of India in 2017.

  17. Rajiv Kumar

    Rajiv Kumar
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    economist
    Biography

    Rajiv Kumar is an Indian economist who had served as the second vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog. He also serves as the chancellor of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune His earlier stint in government was initially with the Ministry of Industry and subsequently in the Ministry of Finance, as economic advisor during the reform years of 1991-1994. He has wide experience of having worked in government, academia, industry associations, as well as in international financial institutions. He also served as an independent director on the central boards of the Reserve Bank of India and the State Bank of India.

  18. Suresh Kumar Khanna

    Suresh Kumar Khanna
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Suresh Kumar Khanna is an Indian politician and a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly in India. Currently he is serving as Cabinet Minister for Finance, Parliamentary affairs Departments in Yogi Adityanath ministry. He represents the Shahjahanpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janta Party political party. He has won 9 times MLA election consecutively in his constituency.

  19. Belle Monappa Hegde

    Belle Monappa Hegde
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1938-.. (age 86)
    Occupations
    surgeon
    Biography

    Belle Monappa Hegde is a cardiologist, professor of medicine, and author. He was the Vice Chancellor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2010 and Padma Vibhushan in 2021. He has supported homeopathy and quantum healing.

  20. Yashwant Singh Parmar

    Yashwant Singh Parmar
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1906-1981 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Yashwant Singh Parmar was an Indian politician. He was a leader of the Indian National Congress and the first Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh state. Upon the formation of the constituent assembly of India in 1946, he represented Himachal Pradesh in the constituent assembly. For his key role in the formation of the Himachal Pradesh state, from the 1940s until 1977, Parmar is hailed as the architect, the founder, or the creator of the Himachal Pradesh state. In Hindi, he is widely referred to as 'Himachal Nirmata' (the creator of Himachal').

  21. PL Punia

    PL Punia
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1945-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    politiciancivil servant
    Biography

    Panna Lal Punia, usually known as P. L. Punia, is an Indian politician and Member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh from 2014 till 2020. He was member of the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014 and represented Barabanki. He is a Dalit leader of the Indian National Congress party. He was also chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes between 2013 and 2016 and as such sat ex officio on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

  22. K. C. Pant

    K. C. Pant
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1931-2012 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Krishna Chandra Pant was an Indian Member of Parliament for 26 years and was the prime minister's interlocutor on Kashmir. He was a cabinet minister in the Government of India and held several constitutional positions over a period of 37 years. Pant had held the positions of Minister for Defence, Minister of state for Home Affairs, Minister of Steel and Heavy Engineering, Finance, Atomic Energy and Science and Technology. He was the first chairman of the Advisory Board on Energy, chairman of the 10th Finance Commission and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India, the economic planning body of India; his Vision 2020 document was published as India's Development Scenario, Next Decade and Beyond.

  23. Shalini Kapoor

    Shalini Kapoor
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Occupations
    computer scientist
    Biography

    Shalini Kapoor is the India's first woman IBM Fellow. She is working as President and Chief Technologist for AWS, India.

  24. Adarsh Sein Anand

    Adarsh Sein Anand
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1936-2017 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    judge
    Biography

    Adarsh Sein Anand was the 29th Chief Justice of India, serving from 10 October 1998 to 31 October 2001.

  25. Supriya Sahu

    Supriya Sahu
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    civil servant
    Biography

    Supriya Sahu, born on 27 July 1968, is a high-ranking Indian bureaucrat belonging to the 1991 batch of the Indian Administrative Service. Presently, she holds the position of Additional Chief Secretary to the Government in the Department of Environment, Climate Change, and Forests. Previously, she also assumed additional responsibilities as Principal Secretary-cum-Managing Director of The Tamil Nadu Small Tea Growers' Industrial Cooperative Tea Factories' Federation Limited, Coonoor. Before that, Sahu served as the Director-General of Doordarshan from July 2016 to September 2017. Additionally, she was elected as the Co-Vice President of the Asian Broadcasting Union during the 55th General Assembly of ABU.

  26. Anuj Sharma

    Anuj Sharma
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Biography

    Anuj Sharma is an officer of the Indian Police Service. He was the 40th and 42nd Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, having served from 19 February to 5 April 2019 and from 26 May 2019 to 7 February 2021. On 26 May 2019, Anuj Sharma was reinstated as the 42nd Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, replacing Dr. Rajesh Kumar.

  27. Vikram Nath

    Vikram Nath
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    judge
    Biography

    Vikram Nath is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court and former judge of the Allahabad High Court. He was earlier recommended as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court but the centre disapproved the recommendations. He is the first chief justice of a High Court in India to live stream its proceedings on Youtube during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

  28. Abdul Majid Daryabadi

    Abdul Majid Daryabadi
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1892-1977 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    university teacherwriter'ālimcriticjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  29. Atul Kumar Anjaan

    Atul Kumar Anjaan
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Atul Kumar Anjaan is a senior CPI leader and national secretary of the Communist Party of India. He is the General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha.

  30. Ram Niwas Mirdha

    Ram Niwas Mirdha
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1924-2010 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    ministerpoliticianjurist
    Biography

    Ram Niwas Mirdha was an Indian politician from Rajasthan. He served as member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1953 to 1967 and as speaker of the assembly from 1957 to 1967. Mirdha was a cabinet minister of the Government of India for several departments during the 1970s and 1980s and became of member of the Lok Sabha for Barmer, Rajasthan, from 1991 to 1996. He was a member of the executive board of UNESCO from 1993 to 1997. He served as chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi until his death from multiple organ failure. He also served as Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha from 1977 to 1980.

  31. Iftikhar Arif

    Iftikhar Arif
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    linguistpoet
    Biography

    Iftikhar Hussain Arif, is an Urdu poet, scholar and littérateur from Pakistan. His style is romantic Urdu poetry. He has headed the Pakistan Academy of Letters and the National Language Authority. He has received the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Presidential Pride of Performance awards, the highest literary awards given by the Government of Pakistan.

  32. Attia Hosain

    Attia Hosain
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1913-1998 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    Attia Hosain was a British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor. She was a woman of letters and a diasporic writer. She wrote in English although her mother tongue was Urdu. She wrote the semi-autobiographical Sunlight on a Broken Column and a collection of short stories named Phoenix Fled. Her career began in England in semi-exile making a contribution to post-colonial literature. Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Aamer Hussein and Kamila Shamsie have acknowledged her influence.

  33. Kirti Nidhi Bista

    Kirti Nidhi Bista
    Born in
    Nepal Flag Nepal
    Years
    1927-2017 (aged 90)
    Enrolled in the University of Lucknow
    In 1951 graduated with Master of Political Science
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Kirti Nidhi Bista was a Nepali politician and 25th Prime Minister of Nepal.

  34. Anil Bhardwaj

    Anil Bhardwaj
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Enrolled in the University of Lucknow
    1983-1985 graduated with Bachelor of Science
    1985-1987 graduated with Master of Science
    Occupations
    researcherphysicistastronomer
    Biography

    Anil Bhardwaj is an Indian astrophysicist. He is the director of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), which is a unit of the Department of Space of Government of India in Ahmedabad, India.

  35. Syed Sibtey Razi

    Syed Sibtey Razi
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1939-2022 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Syed Sibtey Razi was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress who served as the governor of Assam and Jharkhand, in addition to also serving as the Deputy Home minister of India.

  36. L. P. Vidyarthi

    L. P. Vidyarthi
    Years
    1931-1985 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    anthropologist
    Biography

    Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi was an Indian anthropologist.

  37. Rajanala Kaleswara Rao

    Rajanala Kaleswara Rao
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1925-1998 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    actor
    Biography

    Rajanala Kaleswara Rao, known mononymously by his surname as Rajanala, was an Indian actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema, Telugu theatre, and a few Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi films. In a film career spanning more than four decades, Rajanala acted in more than 1400 feature films in a variety of characters. Regarded as one of the finest method actors, Rajanala was known for his gruesome portrayals of lead antagonist roles during the Golden age of Telugu cinema. The Government of Andhra Pradesh and the film industry felicitated him for his achievements and contribution to Indian Film Industry. He won several Filmfare Awards South and Nandi Award.

  38. Zafar Ali Naqvi

    Zafar Ali Naqvi
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Zafar Ali Naqvi is an Indian politician and former Member of parliament, Lok Sabha, from Lakhimpur Kheri constituency. His political party is the Indian National Congress. He was also cabinet minister for Home and Environment in U.P. Government.

  39. Prafulla Chandra Pant

    Prafulla Chandra Pant
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1952-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    judgeauthor
    Biography

    Prafulla Chandra Pant is an Indian judge and author who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2014 to 2017. He later served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission of India from 2019 to 2021, and briefly acted as its chairperson. Prior to his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of India, he had previously served as chief justice of the Meghalaya High Court at Shillong and as a judge of the Uttarakhand High Court at Nainital.

  40. Naiyer Masud

    Naiyer Masud
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1936-2017 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    academictranslatorwritercritic
    Biography

    Naiyer Masud was an Indian Urdu scholar and short story writer.

  41. V. Mohini Giri

    V. Mohini Giri
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1938-2023 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    writersocial worker
    Biography

    V. Mohini Giri was an Indian community service worker and activist, who was Chairperson of the Guild of Service, a New Delhi-based social service organisation. Established in 1979, it provides advocacy for women's and children's rights for education, employment, and financial security. She founded War Widows Association, New Delhi in 1972, and was Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (1995–1998).

  42. Shoaib Sultan Khan

    Shoaib Sultan Khan
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1933-.. (age 91)
    Occupations
    social worker
    Biography

    Shoaib Sultan Khan NI is one of the pioneers of rural development programmes in Pakistan. As a CSP Officer, he worked with the Government of Pakistan for 25 years, later on he served Geneva based Aga Khan Foundation for 12 years, then UNICEF and UNDP for 14 years. Since his retirement, he has been involved with the Rural Support Programmes (RSPs) of Pakistan full-time, on voluntary basis. Today, the Rural Support Programmes have helped form 297,000 community organisations in 110 districts including two Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.

  43. Ravindra Nanda

    Ravindra Nanda
    Born in
    Pakistan Flag Pakistan
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    university teacherdental surgeondental persondentiststomatologist
    Biography

    Dr. Ravindra Nanda is a professor and Head of the Department of Craniofacial Sciences and Chair of the Division of Orthodontics at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. He is part of the founding faculty of School of Dental Medicine and has been at the University of Connecticut since 1972 where he also holds an Alumni Chair in the Orthodontics Division. He is an innovator of various appliances in orthodontics. His research and clinical interests include adolescent and adult orthodontics, the biology of tooth mobility, craniofacial orthopedics, biomechanics and developing efficient mechanics to deliver orthodontic care.

  44. Mathuradas Mathur

    Mathuradas Mathur
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1918-1993 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Mathura Das Mathur was an Indian politician from Rajasthan. He was born at Jodhpur and studied at Lucknow University. He joined Indian National Congress. In 1948, he became the Health and Education minister of the first government of Marwar state. He was elected to the 2nd Lok Sabha from Nagaur in 1957. He was the Home Minister in the Rajasthan government from 1962–67. He was the First Chief Whip in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1952-1957.

  45. Syed Hamidul Hasan

    Syed Hamidul Hasan
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    Syed Hamidul Hasan is a Shia scholar from Lucknow, India. He is also the current principal of Jamia Nazmia.

  46. Ali Jawad Zaidi

    Ali Jawad Zaidi
    Years
    1916-2004 (aged 88)
    Biography

    Syed Ali Jawad Zaidi was an Indian Urdu poet, scholar, and author of over 80 books in several languages. He was also an Indian independence activist, lawyer and later, a civil servant, but is best known for his work in Urdu literature.

  47. Fakhar Zaman

    Fakhar Zaman
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    writernovelistliterary criticpoetlinguist
    Biography

    Fakhar Zaman was the chairman of the Pakistan Academy of Letters from 11 May 2008 to 12 March 2012, when Abdul Hameed replaced him as the next appointed chairman of the body. A leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the chairman of the World Punjabi Congress, he has also been playing a notable role in politics to achieve his sociopolitical ideals.

  48. Kailash Vajpeyi

    Kailash Vajpeyi
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1936-2015 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    writeropinion journalistpoet
    Biography

    Kailash Vajpeyi was an Indian poet, writer, and lyricist who chiefly wrote Hindi language poems throughout his literary career. He wrote more than 28 books, including one of his publications Hawa Mein Hastakshar which translates to "signature in the air" for which he was awarded a literary honour Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009. The University of Lucknow awarded him Vachaspati (Lord of speech) title in recognition of his contribution to Hindi literature.

  49. Mohsin Zaidi

    Mohsin Zaidi
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1935-2003 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    poet
    Biography

    Mohsin Zaidi was an Indian Urdu poet who used the pen name 'Mohsin'. He is best known as a writer of ghazals, who expressed new ideas with this traditional form.

  50. Ajai Pal Singh

    Ajai Pal Singh
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Ajai Pal Singh is an Indian politician and former Member in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was a MLA from Dalmau Vidhan Sabha Seat from 2007 until 2012.

  51. Pramod Tandon

    Pramod Tandon
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    botanist
    Biography

    Pramod Tandon is an India Plant Biotechnologist and academic. He is a former Professor of Botany & Vice-Chancellor of North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong and Chief Executive Officer of Biotech Park, Lucknow. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour Padma Sri in 2009, for his contributions to science.

  52. V. P. Appukutta Poduval

    V. P. Appukutta Poduval
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1923-.. (age 101)
    Occupations
    activist
    Biography

    V. P. Appukutta Poduval is an Indian independence activist and Gandhian social activist from Kerala, India. He was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2023.

  53. Triloki Nath Madan

    Triloki Nath Madan
    Years
    1933-.. (age 91)
    Occupations
    sociologistanthropologist
    Biography

    Triloki Nath Madan is an anthropologist, with a Ph.D from the Australian National University (1960). He is currently Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow (Adjunct), Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Of the teaching positions he held earlier, those at Lucknow and Dharwar lasted longest. He taught for short periods at several universities in India and abroad.

  54. Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi

    Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi
    Years
    1899-1959 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Vishwambhar Dayalu Tripathi was an Indian lawyer and politician. He died in 1959 after being injected with penicillin from Hindustan Antibiotics at Pimpri.

  55. S. P. Chakravarti

    S. P. Chakravarti
    Years
    1904-1981 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    engineeracademic
    Biography

    Prof. Siddheshwari Prasad Chakravarti was an Indian engineer, researcher, and educator. He was known as the father of electronics and telecommunications engineering in India.

  56. Afsar Madad Naqvi

    Afsar Madad Naqvi
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1933-1997 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    sculptorpainter
    Biography

    Syed Afsar Madad Naqvi, was a prominent 20th-century's sculptor. He is best known for his pure realistic monumental sculptures which can be seen in many places around the country (such as Roshan Khan/Jahangir Khan Squash Complex, Fleet Club, Arts Council of Pakistan, Markaz-e-Sadaat-e-Amroha Centre, Hasan Square Karachi, Star Gate Karachi, Quaid-e-Azam International Airport, Village Restaurant, Metropol Hotel etc.). Afsar Madad Naqvi was a master Pakistani sculptor and painter. He was a founder member of the Central Institute of Arts and Crafts Karachi.

  57. Mahipal Shastri

    Mahipal Shastri
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1924-1994 (aged 70)
    Enrolled in the University of Lucknow
    Studied in 1949
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Mahipal Shastri or Mahipal Singh Shastri Yadav was an Indian politician who served as Governor of the state of Gujarat during 1990. He died in Lucknow on 23 August 1994, at the age of 70.