What should one think of a university which has produced freedom fighters like Frontier Gandhi Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Maulana Mohammed Ali, Shoukat Ali, Hasrat Mohani, Raja Mahendra Pratap, Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, A.M Khwaja, Abdul Matin Chowdhari, K.D. Palival, K.M. Ashraf, Choudhary Khaliquzzaman, Saifuddin Kichloo, Shoeb Qureshi and claims to have had on its rolls Zakir Husain who rose to be President of India, Fazale Ilahi Choudhary and Mohammed Ayyub Khan who became Presidents of Pakistan, Liyaqat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Amin Halim Didi, President of Maldives, Khwaja Nazimuddin and Malik Ghulam Mohammad, Governor General of Pakistan, Mansoor Ali, Prime Minister of BanglaDesh, Nawab Ibne Saeed Khan of Chhatari, Prime Minister of Hyderabad and Nawab Hameedullah Khan, Ruler of Princely State of Bhopal. Shaikh Abdullah, G.M. Sadiq, G.M. Shah, Mir Qasim and Mufti Mohammad Saeed all chief Ministers of Jammu & Kashmir, Abdul Ghafoor, Chief Minister of Bihar, Anwara Taimur, Chief Minister of Assam and Saheb Singh Verma, Chief Minister of Delhi.
Aligarh men and women made the grade at the highest ranks of the national ladder e.g. Union Ministers, Governors, Diplomats, Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, Vice chancellors of More than 50 Universities, Administrators, Technocrats .Among these prominent were Humayun Rasheed Choudhary, Chairman, United Nations General Assembly, Hamid Ansari, Permanent Indian Representative to United Nations. Mir Akbar Ali Khan, Usman Arif, A.R. Kidwai, Babu Permanad, Shafi Qureshi, Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim, Syed Noorul Hasan (all Governors). Justice Baharul Islam, Justice Syed Murtaza Fazale Ali, Justice S. Sagheer Ahmad and Justice R.P. Sethi (All Judges of Supreme Court of India)
Aligarh has produced a large number of scientists of national and international repute. Fellows of the National Science Academy were Abrar Mustafa Khan (Plant Nematology) Andre Weil, Ashok Nath Mitra, Mohammad Ishaq, P. Venkateswarlu, P.S. Gill, Krishan Kant Asundi, Wali Mohammad (Physics), Ganesh Prashad, Raziuddin Siddiqui, Swaroop Chand Mohanlal Shah (Mathematics), Syed Zahoor Qasim, Satya Narain Singh, Mohammad Shareef, Mohammad Shamim Jairajpuri (Zoology), Fakhruddin Ahmad, Nasim Siddiqui, Prem Nath Ganju, Syed Mahmood Naqvi (Geology), R.D. Desai, Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (Chemistry), Syed Muzaffar Ali (Geography), D.D. Kosambi (Histrography), Mehdi Hasan (Medicine), Obaid Siddiqui (Molecular Biology), P.N. Saxena (Pharmacology).
Aligarh seems to have a perennial source of talent and can boast of having men of stature like Maulvi Abdul Haq (Baba-e-Urdu), Abdul Majid Dariyabadi, D.D. Kosambi, K.M. Panikar, Gainda Singh, Haroon Khan Shervani, K.G. Saiyadain, Dr. Zakir Husain among its scholars and Babar Mirza, Mohammad Habib, Hadi Hasan, Dr. Sir Ziauddin, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and Mumtaz Jahan Hyder among its educators.
Aligarh has produced Fani Badauni, Josh, Majaz, Jazbi and Ali Sardar Jafri among poets and Allama Shibli Naomani, Zafar Ali Khan, Khawaja Ghulam-us-Saqlain, Sajjad Hyder Yaldram, Saadat Hasan Minto, Ismat Chughtai, Qazi Abdul Sattar, Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui, Ale Ahmad Saroor, Nazeer Ahmad and Raja Rao among men of letters. A number of theatre and film personalities including Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Shahid Latif, Shakeel Badauni, Sahir Ludhianvi, Akhtarul Iman, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Begum Para, Neena, Renuka Devi, Talat Mahmood, Rahi Masoom Raza Muzaffar Ali, Nasiruddin Shah, Rehman, Dilip Tahil, Nigar Sultana, Javed Akhtar and Sharyar were also products of this University.