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List of Aligarh Muslim University Notable Alumni (AMU)

Globally, Aligarh Muslim University students and Amu Notable Alumni are dispersed. Exactly as predicted by Sir Syed when the cornerstone for MAO College was set. The little plant will eventually grow into a massive tree whose branches will touch every continent. Aligarh Muslim University Notable Alumni

Because of its residential nature, where students spend their first five to ten years of life with others their age, AMU was and continues to be a singular experience. Sharing everything, dining, studying, and living together forges strong familial ties, and this is frequently what keeps the Aligarians motivated even later in life. When they get together again, they try to recreate the good times from their youth and rekindle their common aspirations and goals, which revives the renowned “Aligarh Spirit.” All members of the AMU fraternity refer to themselves as “Aligns” or “Aligarians,” regardless of whether they are students, instructors, or other university employees. Aligarh Muslim University Notable Alumni

Following are AMU Famous Personalities (Aligarh Muslim University Notable Alumni)

  • Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  • Sheikh Abdullah
  • Arif Mohammad khan
  • Naseeruddin Shah
  • Zakir Hussain
  •  Irfan Habib
  • Jawed Akhtar
  • Lala Amarnath
  • Dilip Tahil
  • Anubhav Sinha
  • Saadat Hassan Mant
  • Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
  • Majid Hussain
  • Anwara Taimur
  • Mohammad Azam Khan
  • Frank Islam
  • Liaqat Ali Khan
  •  Khan Abdul Gaffar
  • Major Dhyan Chand
  • Ashok Seth
  • and there are many more

1. Mohammad Hamid Ansari

  • Indian Politician & retired Indian Foreign Service officer
  • Birthday – 01 April 1937
  • Place of Birth – Kolkata (West Bengal)
  • Parents – Mohammad Abdul Aziz Ansari & Aasiya Begum

Study in A.M.U. –

  • B.A. (Political Science
  • M.A. (Political Science)

Achievements –

  1. Ambassador to UAE – 1976-1979
  2. Permanent Represent to the United Nation – 1993-1995
  3. Vice President of India – 11 Aug 2007, 11 Aug 2017
  4. Vice Chancellor, AMU – 2000-2002
  5. Padma Shri – 1984
Mohammad Hamid Ansari

2. Sheikh Abdullah

  • Kashmiri Politician
  • Birthday – 5th Dec 1905
  • Death – 8th Sept 1982
  • Place of Birth – Soura Sri Nagar, Jammu, and Kashmir India
  • Parents – Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim
  • Study in A.M.U. – Sc. in Chemistry – 1930
  • Achievements –
    • Referred as “Sher-e-Kashmir” (Lion of Kashmir)
    • Prime Minister of Jammu & Kashmir on 17 March 1948 – 8 August 1953
    • Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir 25 Feb 1975 – 26 Mar 1977
Sheikh Abdulla

3. Arif Mohammad khan

  • Indian Politician
  • Birthday – 18 November 1951
  • Place of Birth – Barabasti, Bulandshahr.
  • Parents – Ashfaq Mohammad Khan
  • Study in A.M.U. – A. (Hons)

Achievements/Notable Work –

  1. Honorary Secretary of AMU Students Union (1971–72)
  2. President of AMU Students’ Unionin the year 1972-73
  3. He defended the Supreme Court judgment on the Shah Bano case in Parliament.
  4. Run the Samarpanfor physically challenged people.
  5. Governor of Kerala1 September 2019

4. Naseeruddin Shah

  • Indian film and stage Actor and Director
  • Birthday – 20 July 1950
  • Birth Place – Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Parents – Aley Mohammed Shah & Farrukh Sultan
  • Study in A.M.U. – A. (Hons) in 1971
  • Achievements/Notable Work –
  1. Padma Shri – 1987
  2. Padma Bhushan – 2003
  3. National Film Award for Best Actor – Sparsh 1979 and Paar 1984
  4. National Film Award for Best Actor – 2006 Iqbal 
  5. International Film Academy Awards – Sarfarosh 2000
  6. The Volpi Cup Awards Best Actor – Paar 1984

5. Zakir Hussain

  • Indian Economist and Politician
  • Birthday – 8 February 1897
  • Death – 3 May 1969
  • Birth Place – Kaimganj, Farrukhabad, Hyderabad State
  • Parents – Fida Husain Khan & Naznin Begum
  • Study in A.M.U. – A. (1918) & M.A. (1920)
  • Achievements/Notable Work –
  1. Padma Vibhushan – 1954
  2. Bharat Ratna – 1963
  3. Governor of Bihar (1957-62)
  4. 2nd Vice President of India (1962-67)
  5. 3rd President of India (1967-69)
  6. Founded Jamia Milia Islamia University

6. Irfan Habib

  • Indian Historian following the methodology of Marxist historiography
  • Birthday – 12 August 1931
  • Place of Birth – Vadodara, Gujarat
  • Parents – Mohammad Habib & Sohaila Habib
  • Achievements/Notable Work –
  1. Professor Department of History of the AMU
  2. Elected Corresponding Fellow of British Royal Historical Society since 1997
  3. Chairman of Indian Council of the Historical Research during 1986-90
  4. Watumull Prize of American Historical Association, 1982.
  5. Padma Bhushan, 2005
  6. Ibn Sina Memorial Lecture, 2009
  7. Yash Bharti, 2016

7. Jawed Akhtar

  • Indian Political activist, Poet, Lyricist, and Screenwriter
  • Birthday – 17 January 1945
  • Place of Birth – Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
  • Parents – Safia Akhtar and Jan Nisar Akhtar
  • Achievements/Notable Work –
  1. Padam Shri – 1999
  2. Padam Bhushan – 2007
  3. Sahitya Akademi Award – 2013
  4. Richard Dawkins Award – 2020
  5. National Film Awards Best Lyrics – Saaz, Border, Godmother, Refugee, and Lagaan

8. Lala Amarnath

  • Cricketer and Captain of the Indian national cricket team
  • Birthday – September 11, 1911
  • Death – 5 August 2000
  • Birth Place – Kapurthala, Kapurthala State, Punjab, India
  • Parents – Azmat Rana and Shafqat Rana 
  • Achievements/Notable Work –
  1. First player ever to score a century for India Test cricket
  2. Only bowler to dismiss Donald Bradmanhit’s wicket.

9. Dilip Tahil

  • Film Actor
  • Birthday – 30 October 1952
  • Birth Place – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Parents – Ghansham Jethanand Tahilramani 
  • Study in A.M.U. – Attended AMU for a year
  • Achievements/Notable Work –
  1. Known for his work in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag(2013), Baazigar (1993) and Ra One (2011)
  2. Acted in more than 100 Bollywood films
  3. Dalip made a record win to Kendall Cup

All Aligarh Muslim University Notable Alumni and AMU Famous Personalities

10. Anubhav Sinha

  • Indian film director, producer, and write
  • Birthday – 22 June 1965
  • Place of Birth – Jamalpur, Bihar
  • Parents – Sushila Sinha and Prem Govind Sinha
  • Study in A.M.U. – M.Tech. (1988)
  • Achievements – Known for his work in Tum Bin (2001), Ra. One 2011, Mulk 2018, Article 15 2019, and Thappad 2020

11. Saadat Hassan Manto

  • Novelist, playwright, Essayist, Screenwriter, Short story writer
  • Birthday – 11 May 1912
  • Death – 18 January 1955
  • Birth Place – Paproudi, Samrala, Punjab, British India
  • Parents – Sardar Begum and Ghulam Hasan Manto
  • Study in A.M.U. – Graduation ( 1934)
  • Achievements/Notable Work –
  1. Known to write about hard truths of the society that no one dared talk about. 
  2. Work – Toba Tek Singh; Thanda Bu Khol Do Kaali Shalwar; Hattak
  3. Saadat Hasan Manto was posthumously awarded Nishan-e-Imtiazaward by Pakistan Government

12. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed

  • Indian Politician
  • Another Aligarh Muslim University Notable Alumni
  • Birthday – 12 January 1936
  • Death – 7 January 2016
  • Birth Place – Bijbehara town of Anantnag district, Kashmir
  • Study in A.M.U. – Law degree and Arabic graduate degree
  • Achievement –
  1. He served twice as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, from November 2002 to Nov 2005 and again from Mar 2015 to Jan 2016
  2. Minister of Tourism in Rajiv Gandhi Cabinet.

13. Majid Hussain

  • IndianGeographer,
  • Birthday – July 02, 1938
  • Death – 24 January 2019
  • Place of Birth – Banhera (Tanda), Haridwar district of Uttrakhand
  • Parents – Bashir Ahmad
  • Study in A.M.U. –
  1. M.A. (Geography) – Gold Medalist
  2. L.L.B.
  • Ph.D. (Geography) – 1963
  • Achievements –
  1. Taught at Pragati IAS, JMI, New Delhi, North East Hill University, Shillong, University of Kashmir, Srinagar.
  2. His textbooks are used at the University of Pennsylvania
  3. Ex-President Indian National Cartographic Associations
  4. Former Vice President of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (1984–1992) for two terms
  5. Delhi Government Award for 1997’s top geography instructor
  6. Bhugol Bhushan Awards, 2008 Deccan Geographical Society, India

14. Anwara Taimur (Aligarh Muslim University Notable Alumni)

  • Indian Politician
  • Birthday – 24 November 1936
  • Place of Birth – Assam, British India
  • Study in A.M.U. – Graduated with Economics Honors
  • Achievements –
  1. 8th Chef Minister of Assam(1980–81)
  2. Cabinet Minister – Public Works
  3. Cabinet Minister – Agriculture, Haj & Wakf Property
  4. Vice President – India-Bangladesh Parliamentary Friendship Group 2005–2010
  5. Chairperson – Committee on Paper Laid on the Table 2004–2010

15. Mohammad Azam Khan

  • Indian Politician
  • Another Amu Notable Alumni
  • Birthday – 14 August 1948
  • Birth Place – Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Parents – Mumtaz Khan
  • Study at AMU and earn a law degree (1974)
  • Achievements –
  1. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
  2. Minister in the government of Uttar Pradesh
  3. Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh

16. Frank Islam

  • IT Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist, and Writer
  • Birthday – 1953
  • Place of Birth – Azamgarh, India
  • Study in A.M.U. – M.Sc.

 

  • Achievements/Notable Work –
  1. Founder and CEO of the QSS Group
  2. Head of the FI Investment Group
  3. honoree of the Inter-Faith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (2016)
  4. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award in (2015)
  5. The Indus Entrepreneurs Legends Award (2014).
  6. US President Barack Obama appointed him to be General Trust of the Board of Trustees of the John F. The Kenedy Center for the Arts (2013)
  7. Small Business Person of the Year of Washington DC Metropolitan Area (2001)
  8. Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (1999)

17. Liaqat Ali Khan (Amu Famous Personality)

  • Pakistani Politician
  • Amu Notable Alumni
  • Birthday – 1 October 1895
  • Death – 16 October 1951
  • Place of Birth – Karnal in Punjab Province of British India
  • Parents – Nawab Ahmad Ali Khan
  • Study in A.M.U. – LLB and B.Sc. Political Science
  • Achievements/Notable Work –
  1. Known as Shaheed-e-Millat and Quaid-e-Millat Leader of the Nation (Martyr of the Nation)
  2. 15 August 1947–16 October 1951: First Prime Minister of Pakistan
  3. President of Pakistan Muslim League

18. Khan Abdul Gaffar

  • PashtunIndependence Activist, Political & Spiritual Leader
  • Birthday – 6 February 1890
  • Death – 20 January 1988
  • Birth Place – Utmanzai, Hashtnagar, Punjab Province, British India
  • Parents – Bahram Khan
  • Achievements –
  1. Awarded Bharat Ratna
  2. Khan strongly opposed the Partition of India
  3. Nicknamed Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan, Bacha Khan
  4. Initiated in, the Khudai Khidmatgar Servants of God movement (1929)

20. Ashok Seth

  • Indian Interventional Cardiologist
  • On more Aligarh Muslim University Notable Alumni
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  • Study in A.M.U. – MBBS from the J.N. Medical College, AMU in (1978)
  • Achievements –
  1. Delhi Ratna Award
  2. Padma Shri, in 2003
  3. Padma Bhushan, in 2015
  4. DMA Medical Teachers’ Award
  5. New Delhi’s Fortis Escorts Heart Institute’s director
  6. Head of the Cardiology Council for the Fortis Group of Hospitals.
  7. performed 20,000 angioplasties and more than 50,000 angiograms.
  8. Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Medicine in Ireland, London, and Edinburgh
  9. a member of the Catholic Order of Isabella

Literature and journalism AMU Notable Alumni list

  • Syed Mujtaba Ali
  • Ahmed Ali
  • Akshay Kumar Jain
  • Arfa Khanum Sherwani
  • Asghar Wajahat
  • Asrar ul Haq Majaz
  • Azarmi Dukht Safavi
  • Bashir Badr
  • Basharat Peer
  • Deeba Salim Irfan
  • Fani Badayuni
  • Hakim Syed Zillur
  • Rahman
  • Hayatullah Ansari
  • Ismat Chughtai
  • Kabir Ahmad Jaisi
  • Punathil Kunjabdulla
  • Qazi Abdul Sattar
  • Rahi Masoom Raza
  • Raja Rao
  • Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Sajida Zaidi
  • Salma Siddiqui
  • Salman Al-Azami
  • Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
  • Zafar Ali Khan
  • Zahida Zaidi
  • Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi
  • Munier Choudhury
  • Muzammil H. Siddiqi
  • Nabakanta Barua
  • Khaleel-Ur-Rehman Azmi

AMU Famous Film and television Star and Best Actor list Another Amu Notable Alumni

  • Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
  • Muzaffar Ali
  • Naseeruddin Shah
  • Saeed Jaffrey
  • Shaheed Latif
  • Surekha Sikri
  • Javed Akhtar
  • Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
  • Akhtar ul Iman
  • Ali Sardar Jafri
  • Anubhav Sinha
  • Dalip Tahil
  • Habib Tanveer
  • Jan Nisar Akhtar

AMU Famous Politicians and Law list Another Amu Notable Alumni

  • Zakir Husain
  • Muhammad Mansur Ali
  • Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  • Mohamed Amin Didi
  • Malik Ghulam Muhammad
  • Liaquat Ali Khan
  • Khawaja Nazimuddin
  • Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
  • Ayub Khan

AMU Famous Humanities and Social Sciences list

  • K. K. Muhammed
  • Ishwari Prasad
  • Irfan Habib
  • Abul Kalam Qasmi
  • Abdul Haq
  • Abul Lais Siddiqui
  • Jalaluddin Umri
  • Haroon Khan Sherwani
  • Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakib
  • Obaidur Rahman Siddiqui

AMU Science and Technology list

  • Ishrat Hussain Usmani
  • Syed Ziaur Rahman
  • Shahid Jameel
  • Qudsia Tahseen
  • Mansur Hoda
  • Kazi Mobin-Uddin
  • K. P. Mohanakumar
  • Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie
  • Divya Jain
  • Ashok Seth
  • Asad Ullah Khan
  • Pucadyil Ittoop John

This list is Including only 20 Names but there are more than 1000 famous AMU Notable Alumni who are spreading Aligarh Muslim University Names all over the World.

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