# 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.

## Arts and letters
### Literature and journalism

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

### Film and television

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

## 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 | |

## Humanities and Social Sciences

| Name | Class year | Degree | Notability |
| Abdul Haq | | | Urdu scholar and linguist |
| Abul Kalam Qasmi | 1973, 1975, 1980 | BA, MA, PHD | Urdu critic and former dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Aligarh Muslim University |
| Irfan Habib | | | historian |
| Ishwari Prasad | | | historian |
| 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 |
| Haroon Khan Sherwani | | | historian |
| Jalaluddin Umri | | | writer and religious scholar |
| Abul Lais Siddiqui | | | Pakistani author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics. |

## 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 | |
| Ashok Seth | 1978 | MBBS | cardiologist | |
| Divya Jain | | | software engineer | |
| Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie | 1954; 1956 | BSc; MSc | marine geologist, Padma Shri recipient and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |
| K. P. Mohanakumar | 1979 | MSc | chemical biologist, N-Bios laureate | |
| Kazi Mobin-Uddin | | | inventor of the inferior vena cava filter | |
| Mansur Hoda | | | scientist in the area of appropriate technology in India | |
| Qudsia Tahseen | 1984; 1987;1989 | MSc; MPhil; PhD | zoologist | |
| Shahid Jameel | 1977 | BSc | virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |
| Syed Ziaur Rahman | 1995; 2000; 2015 | MBBS, MD | pharmacologist | |
| Ishrat Hussain Usmani | | | Pakistani atomic physicist | $^{:57}$ |

## Politics and law
### Heads of state and government

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

### Chief ministers and governors

| Name | Class year | Degree | Notability |
| Abdul Ghafoor | | MA; LLB | former Chief Minister of Bihar |
| Arif Mohammad Khan | | | Governor of Kerala |
| Babu Parmanand | | LLB | former Governor of Haryana |
| Fida Mohammad Khan | 1945 | LLB | former Governor of North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan |
| Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq | | | former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir |
| Ghulam Mohammad Shah | | | former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir |
| Mohammed Usman Arif | | LLB | former Governor of Uttar Pradesh |
| Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg | | LLB | former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir |
| 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 |
| Sikandar Hayat Khan | | | former Governor of United Punjab and former President of BCCI |
| Syeda Anwara Taimur | | | former Chief Minister of Assam |
| Syed Mir Qasim | | | former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir |
| Abdul Qayyum Khan | | | former Chief Minister of North-West Frontier Province |

### Other politicians, civil servants, and diplomats

| Name | Class year | Degree | Notability |
| Abdul Ghani Lone | | | Kashmiri politician |
| Abdur Rab Nishtar | | LLB | Muslim League leader |
| Abdullah Rasheed | | BA. Econ | Regional Director, Asia-Pacific Region, World Organization of the Scout Movement |
| Ali Ahmed Fazeel | | | former Attorney General of Pakistan |
| 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 |
| Hamidullah Khan | | | the last ruling Nawab of Bhopal |
| Humayun Rashid Choudhury | 1947 | | former President of the United Nations General Assembly and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Roedad Khan | 1946 | MA in English history in | former Minister of Accountability of Pakistan |
| Shabnam Gani Lone | | | Kashmiri lawyer and politician |
| 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 |
| Yusuf Dadoo | | | South African leader and activist |
| Kasim Razvi | | LLB | Indian politician in the princely state of Hyderabad |
| Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi | | | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Manzoor Alam Quraishi | | | Indian Civil Service 1941 batch |

### Jurists

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

## Religion

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

## Academics

| Name | Class year | Degree | Notability |
| Moonis Raza | | | Vice Chancellor of Delhi University, Founder chairman and Rector of Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| Masud Choudhary | | | Founder- Vice Chancellor of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University |
| Mijanur Rahman | | | Vice Chancellor of Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Abdul Aleem | | | |
| Javed Musarrat | | | |
| Masud Husain Khan | | | 5th Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia; father of Urdu-linguistics |
| Faizan Mustafa | | | Vice Chancellor of Nalsar University of Law |
| Abdulaziz Sachedina | | | professor and Islamic scholar |
| Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi | | MA; MPhil; PhD | Former director of the Institute of Islamic Studies of Aligarh Muslim University |
| 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 |
| Akhtarul Wasey | | | academician and Padma Shri recipient |
| 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 |
| Shad Saleem Faruqi | | LLB; LLM | Professor of Law in the University of Malaya |
| Syed Anwarul Haq Haqqi | | MA; PhD | |
| Obaid Siddiqi | | MSc | |
| Ahmad Salahuddin | 1962 | PhD | Founder Director Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Institute AMU |
| Shamim Jairajpuri | | Ph.D | Former Vice Chancellor Maulana Azad National Urdu University |

## Sports

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