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]
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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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 Syed Zillur Rahman | 1955 | BUMS | author and writer | |
Hayatullah Ansari | author, journalist and politician | [13] | ||
Ismat Chughtai | BEd | Urdu novelist | [14][15] | |
Kabir Ahmad Jaisi | 1963; 1965; 1973 | BA; MA in Persian; PhD | writer | |
Punathil Kunjabdulla | 1970 | MBBS | writer | [16] |
Qazi Abdul Sattar | PhD | author | [17] | |
Rahi Masoom Raza | author and poet | [18] | ||
Raja Rao | author, professor, and Padma Bhushan recipient | [19] | ||
Saadat Hasan Manto | Writer, playwright and author born in British India. | [20] | ||
Sajida Zaidi | educationist and Urdu writer | [21] | ||
Salma Siddiqui | Urdu novelist | [22] | ||
Salman Al-Azami | senior lecturer in English language at Liverpool Hope University | [23] | ||
Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee | Urdu poet | [24] | ||
Zafar Ali Khan | founder of Zamindar. | [25][26] | ||
Zahida Zaidi | scholar, poet, playwright, and literary critic | [27] | ||
Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi | LLB | Pakistani writer and satirist | [28] | |
Munier Choudhury | Bangladeshi educationist, playwright and literary critic | [29] | ||
Muzammil H. Siddiqi | Indian-American writer | [30] | ||
Nabakanta Barua | Assamese novelist and poet | [31] | ||
Khaleel-Ur-Rehman Azmi | Urdu poet | [32] |
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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Akhlaq Mohammed Khan | urdu poet and lyricist (better known as Shahryar) | [33] | ||
Akhtar ul Iman | MA in Urdu | urdu poet and screenwriter in Hindi cinema | [34] | |
Ali Sardar Jafri | urdu poet, critic, Hindi/Urdu film lyricist | [35] | ||
Anubhav Sinha | 1998 | film director | [36] | |
Dalip Tahil | film actor | |||
Habib Tanveer | Hindi/urdu film actor and theater director | [35] | ||
Jan Nisar Akhtar | MA | urdu poet, Hindu/Urdu film lyricist | [37] | |
Javed Akhtar | urdu poet, Hindu/Urdu film lyricist | |||
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas | Hindi/Urdu film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist | [35] | ||
Muzaffar Ali | 1966 | BSc | film director | [38] |
Naseeruddin Shah | 1971 | BA | Bollywood actor | [39] |
Saeed Jaffrey | British-Indian actor | [40] | ||
Shaheed Latif | writer and director | [41] | ||
Surekha Sikri | film actress | [42] |
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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Frank F Islam | MSc | entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist; head of the FI Investment Group; founder and CEO of the QSS Group | [43] | |
Iqbal Khan | founding board member and CEO of Fajr Capital | [44] |
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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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] |
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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Pucadyil Ittoop John | 1972 | PhD | Plasma physicist, Padma Shri recipient | |
Mohammad Sami | BSc | Cosmologist, Physicist | ||
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] |
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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Ayub Khan | did not graduate | 2nd President of Pakistan | [35][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 | [35][66] | |
Liaquat Ali Khan | 1918 | BSc in Political Science; LLB | first Prime Minister of Pakistan | [35][67] |
Malik Ghulam Muhammad | BA in accountancy | 3rd Governor General of Pakistan | ||
Mohamed Amin Didi | first President of the Maldives | [35] | ||
Mohammad Hamid Ansari | 12th Vice President of India | [35][68] | ||
Muhammad Mansur Ali | MA | 3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh | [35] | |
Zakir Husain | 3rd President of India | [69] |
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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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 |
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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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] |
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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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 | Professor and Dean at IIM Kashipur and fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study | |
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] |
Name | Class year | Degree | Notability | Ref. |
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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] |