Complex sentence: He had a large circle of distinguished personalities as his friends-like Khwaja Nazimuddin Shahid Saharwardi, Syed Mohammed Azam, Saeed Jung, Sir Prakash were his colleagues & friends in Cambridge.
Split into simpler sentences: He had a large circle of distinguished personalities as his friends. Distinguished personalities like Khwaja Nazimuddin Shahid Saharwardi, Syed Mohammed Azam, Saeed Jung, Sir Prakash were his colleagues & friends in Cambridge.