List of Aligarh Muslim University alumni

Aligarh Muslim University (abbreviated as AMU) is a public central university in Aligarh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875. Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920. Many notable individuals have been affiliated with the college as graduates, non-graduating attendees, faculty, staff, or administrators. The following is a list of notable Aligarh Muslim University alumni.^{[note 1]}

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Arts and letters

Literature and journalism

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Syed Mujtaba Ali	1926		Bengali author, journalist, academic, scholar and linguist	[1][2]
Ahmed Ali			Urdu writer	[3]
Akshay Kumar Jain	1940	LLB	journalist; former editor of Navbharat Times; Padma Bhushan recipient	[4]
Arfa Khanum Sherwani			journalist	[5]
Asghar Wajahat		Phd	Hindi scholar, fiction writer, novelist and playwright	[6]
Asrar ul Haq Majaz	1936	BA	Urdu poet (better known as Majaz Lakhnawi)	[7]
Azarmi Dukht Safavi			master of Persian literature, established Persian Language Research Center of the Aligarh University	[8][9]
Bashir Badr		BA, MA, PhD	Urdu poet	[10]
Basharat Peer			journalist, author, and political commentator	[11]
Deeba Salim Irfan			author and poet
Fani Badayuni		LLB	Urdu poet	[12]
Hakim Ahmad Shuja			poet, playwright and scholar	[13]
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman	1955	BUMS	author and writer
Hayatullah Ansari			author, journalist and politician	[14]
Ismat Chughtai		BEd	Urdu novelist	[15][16]
Kabir Ahmad Jaisi	1963; 1965; 1973	BA; MA in Persian; PhD	writer
Punathil Kunjabdulla	1970	MBBS	writer	[17]
Qazi Abdul Sattar		PhD	author	[18]
Rahi Masoom Raza			author and poet	[19]
Raja Rao			author, professor, and Padma Bhushan recipient	[20]
Saadat Hasan Manto			Writer, playwright and author born in British India.	[21]
Sajida Zaidi			educationist and Urdu writer	[22]
Salma Siddiqui			Urdu novelist	[23]
Salman Al-Azami			senior lecturer in English language at Liverpool Hope University	[24]
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee			Urdu poet	[25]
Zafar Ali Khan			founder of Zamindar.	[26][27]
Zahida Zaidi			scholar, poet, playwright, and literary critic	[28]
Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi		LLB	Pakistani writer and satirist	[29]
Munier Choudhury			Bangladeshi educationist, playwright and literary critic	[30]
Muzammil H. Siddiqi			Indian-American writer	[31]
Nabakanta Barua			Assamese novelist and poet	[32]
Khaleel-Ur-Rehman Azmi			Urdu poet	[33]

Film and television

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan			urdu poet and lyricist (better known as Shahryar)	[34]
Akhtar ul Iman		MA in Urdu	urdu poet and screenwriter in Hindi cinema	[35]
Ali Sardar Jafri			urdu poet, critic, Hindi/Urdu film lyricist	[36]
Anubhav Sinha	1998		film director	[37]
Dalip Tahil			film actor
Habib Tanveer			Hindi/urdu film actor and theater director	[36]
Jan Nisar Akhtar		MA	urdu poet, Hindu/Urdu film lyricist	[38]
Javed Akhtar			urdu poet, Hindu/Urdu film lyricist
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas			Hindi/Urdu film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist	[36]
Muzaffar Ali	1966	BSc	film director	[39]
Naseeruddin Shah	1971	BA	Bollywood actor	[40]
Saeed Jaffrey			British-Indian actor	[41]
Shaheed Latif			writer and director	[42]
Surekha Sikri			film actress	[43]

Business

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Frank F Islam		MSc	entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist; head of the FI Investment Group; founder and CEO of the QSS Group	[44]

Humanities and Social Sciences

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Abdul Haq			Urdu scholar and linguist	[45]
Abul Kalam Qasmi	1973, 1975, 1980	BA, MA, PHD	Urdu critic and former dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Aligarh Muslim University	[46]
Irfan Habib			historian
Ishwari Prasad			historian	[47][48][49][50]
K. K. Muhammed	1975		Archeologist and Padma Shri recipient
Obaidur Rahman Siddiqui			well known historian from Ghazipur
Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb			Historian and a literary critic	[51]
Haroon Khan Sherwani			historian	[52][53]
Jalaluddin Umri			writer and religious scholar	[54]
Abul Lais Siddiqui			Pakistani author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics.	[55]

Science and Technology

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Pucadyil Ittoop John	1972	PhD	Plasma physicist, Padma Shri recipient
Mohammad Sami		BSc	Cosmologist, Physicist Saif SR, Author, Poet and Pharmacologist, Honoured as the Youngest Medical AUthor in the world, Library of Congress USA C No RM105S252005
Asad Ullah Khan			microbiologist, N-Bios laureate	[56]
Ashok Seth	1978	MBBS	cardiologist
Divya Jain			software engineer	[57]
Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie	1954; 1956	BSc; MSc	marine geologist, Padma Shri recipient and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[58]
K. P. Mohanakumar	1979	MSc	chemical biologist, N-Bios laureate	[59]
Kazi Mobin-Uddin			inventor of the inferior vena cava filter	[60]
Mansur Hoda			scientist in the area of appropriate technology in India	[61]
Qudsia Tahseen	1984; 1987;1989	MSc; MPhil; PhD	zoologist
Shahid Jameel	1977	BSc	virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[62]
Syed Ziaur Rahman	1995; 2000; 2015	MBBS, MD	pharmacologist
Ishrat Hussain Usmani			Pakistani atomic physicist	: 57 [63]

Politics and law

Heads of state and government

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Ayub Khan	did not graduate		2nd President of Pakistan	[36][64]
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry	1924	LLB	5th President of Pakistan	[65]
Khawaja Nazimuddin		BA in Sociology	2nd Governor General of Pakistan; 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan	[36][66]
Liaquat Ali Khan	1918	BSc in Political Science; LLB	first Prime Minister of Pakistan	[36][67]
Malik Ghulam Muhammad		BA in accountancy	3rd Governor General of Pakistan
Mohamed Amin Didi			first President of the Maldives	[36]
Mohammad Hamid Ansari			12th Vice President of India	[36][68]
Muhammad Mansur Ali		MA	3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh	[36]
Zakir Husain			3rd President of India	[69]

Chief ministers and governors

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Abdul Ghafoor		MA; LLB	former Chief Minister of Bihar	[70]
Arif Mohammad Khan			Governor of Kerala
Babu Parmanand		LLB	former Governor of Haryana	[71]
Fida Mohammad Khan	1945	LLB	former Governor of North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan
Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq			former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir	[72]
Ghulam Mohammad Shah			former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir	[73]
Mohammed Usman Arif		LLB	former Governor of Uttar Pradesh	[74]
Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg		LLB	former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir	[75]
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed			former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and Minister of Home Affairs
Sahib Singh Verma		MA in Library Science	former Chief Minister of Delhi
Sardar Bahadur Khan		LLB	former Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Sheikh Abdullah	1930	MSc in Chemistry	former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir	[76]
Sikandar Hayat Khan			former Governor of United Punjab and former President of BCCI	[77]
Syeda Anwara Taimur			former Chief Minister of Assam
Syed Mir Qasim			former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir	[78][79]
Abdul Qayyum Khan			former Chief Minister of North-West Frontier Province	[80]

Other politicians, civil servants, and diplomats

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Abdul Ghani Lone			Kashmiri politician	[81]
Abdur Rab Nishtar		LLB	Muslim League leader	[82]
Abdullah Rasheed		BA. Econ	Regional Director, Asia-Pacific Region, World Organization of the Scout Movement
Ali Ahmed Fazeel			former Attorney General of Pakistan	[83]
Azam Khan	1974	LLB	Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Begum Abida Ahmed			Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Khan Habibullah Khan	1926		1st Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan
Khwaja Haleem			Member of Legislative Assembly	[84]
Hamidullah Khan			the last ruling Nawab of Bhopal	[85]
Humayun Rashid Choudhury	1947		former President of the United Nations General Assembly and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh	[86]
Inamul Haque Khan		BA and MA in English literature	former Minister of Interior and Minister of Housing and Works of Pakistan
Jamal Khwaja		M.A. in Philosophy	Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Kazi Syed Karimuddin			Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan			Pashtun Leader and Indian independence activist	[36]
M. A. Gaffar	1933	BEd	Member of the Chamber of Nationalities of Burma
Mohsina Kidwai			Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Moinul Hoque Choudhury	1946; 1947	MA in History; LLB	Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Ormsin Chivapruck
P. K. Abdu Rabb			Member of Legislative Assembly of Kerala
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai			Leader of Indian National Congress; Independent India's first Communication Minister	[36]
Roedad Khan	1946	MA in English history in	former Minister of Accountability of Pakistan
Shabnam Gani Lone			Kashmiri lawyer and politician	[87]
Syed Zafar Islam		BSc; MSc	Investment Banker and Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, former Director at Deutsche Bank and Spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party
M. A. G. Osmani	1938		Military leader and politician from Bangladesh	[88]
Yusuf Dadoo			South African leader and activist	[89]
Kasim Razvi		LLB	Indian politician in the princely state of Hyderabad	[90]
Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi			Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha	[91]
Manzoor Alam Quraishi			Indian Civil Service 1941 batch
M. Riaz Hamidullah			High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India

Jurists

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Baharul Islam			former Judge of the Supreme Court of India	[92]
Mufti Baha-ud-din Farooqi			former Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court	[93]
Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali			former Judge of the Supreme Court of India	[94]
Saiyed Saghir Ahmad			former Judge of the Supreme Court of India	[95]
Ram Prakash Sethi	1961		former Judge of the Supreme Court of India	[96]
N. R. Madhava Menon		LLM, PhD	legal educationist	[97]
Zahirul Hasnain Lari	1930	LL.B	Justice, Sindh High Court

Religion

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Abul Kalam Qasmi Shamsi			Islamic scholar and author	[98]
Muhibbullah Lari Nadwi			Islamic scholar and Principal of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama
Aziz al-Hasan Ghouri			Urdu poet	[99]
Bashir-ud-din Farooqi			former Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir.	[100]
Syed Babar Ashraf			former General Secretary, All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board and member	[101][102]
Fateh Muhammad Sial			Ahmediyaa missionary	[103]

Academics

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Moonis Raza			Vice Chancellor of Delhi University, Founder chairman and Rector of Jawaharlal Nehru University	[104][105][106]
Masud Choudhary			Founder- Vice Chancellor of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University	[107]
Mijanur Rahman			Vice Chancellor of Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abdul Aleem				[108]
Javed Musarrat				[109]
Masud Husain Khan			5th Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia; father of Urdu-linguistics
Faizan Mustafa			Vice Chancellor of Nalsar University of Law	[110][111]
Abdulaziz Sachedina			professor and Islamic scholar	[112]
Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi		MA; MPhil; PhD	Former director of the Institute of Islamic Studies of Aligarh Muslim University	[113]
Talat Ahmad		MSc	professor of geology and Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia
Abu Bakr Ahmad Haleem			political scientist and first Vice Chancellor of Karachi University	[114]
Akhtarul Wasey			academician and Padma Shri recipient	[115]
K M Baharul Islam	1992	MA English	Director, Institute of Management Technology Hyderabad, India.
Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi	1986	PhD	Former chairman of the department of Arabic and former dean of the faculty of arts, AMU	[116]
Shad Saleem Faruqi		LLB; LLM	Professor of Law in the University of Malaya
Syed Anwarul Haq Haqqi		MA; PhD		[117]
Obaid Siddiqi		MSc		[118]
Ahmad Salahuddin	1962	PhD	Founder Director Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Institute AMU	[119]
Shamim Jairajpuri		Ph.D	Former Vice Chancellor Maulana Azad National Urdu University	[120]

Sports

Name	Class year	Degree	Notability	Ref.
Akhtar Hussain			field hockey player	[121]
Annu Raj Singh	2006		sport shooter	[122][123]
B. P. Govinda			field hockey player	[124]
Dhyan Chand			field hockey player and captain of the Indian men's field hockey team	[125]
Ghaus Mohammad			tennis player
Jamshed Nasiri			Iranian footballer	[126]
Joginder Singh			field hockey player
Lala Amarnath			cricketer and captain of the Indian national cricket team
Majid Bishkar			Iranian footballer	[127]
Syed Mushtaq Ali			cricketer
Zafar Iqbal			field hockey player and captain of the Indian men's field hockey team	[128]
Syed Ali			field hockey player	[128]
Inam-ur Rahman			field hockey player	[128]
Latif-ur Rehman			field hockey player	[128]
Ahsan Mohomed Khan			field hockey player	[128]
Wazir Ali			cricketer	[129]
Khwaja Saeed Hai			Pakistani tennis player	[130]

See also

• List of Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of Aligarh Muslim University