Eminent Recipients of AMU Honorary Doctorate

Foreign Nationals

Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler
26 January 1926

D. Lit.

Sir Frank Noyce
14 November 1933

LLD,
Member Viceroy’s Executive Council

Lord Willingdon
26 March 1936

LLD,
Viceroy of India

Arthur H Compton
27 February 1950

D.Sc. Chancellor,
Washington University

Mrs. Eleanor D. Roosevelt
14 March 1952

D.Lit.
Wife of US President

Saud Bin Abdul Aziz
3 December 1955

LLD,
King of Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Reza Shah
25 February 1956

LLD,
Shahansha of Iran

Zahir Shah
17 February 1958

LLD,
King of Afghanistan

Jamal Abdul Nasser
1 April 1960

D. Lit.
President, United Arab Republic

Alexander R Todd
21 November 1960

D.Sc.,
Nobel Laureate

Tunku Abdul Rahman
29 October 1962

LLD,
Prime Minister of Malaysia

Sir Ahmadu Bello
9 December 1963

LLD,
Prime Minister of Northern Nigeria

Ismail al-Azhari
30 April 1967

LLD,
President of Sudan

Professor Abdus Salam
24 January 1981

D.Sc.,
Nobel Laureate

Maumoon Abdul Ghayyum
8 September 1983

D.Lit.,
President, Republic of Maldives

Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam
17 October 1998

D.Lit.,
Prime Minister, Mauritius

Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
2 March 2005

D.Lit.,
Speaker, Islamic Consultative Assembly (Parliament), Iran

H.E. Dr. Abdul Aziz Othman Altwaijiri
16 October 2014

D.Lit.,
Director General, ISESCO, Kingdom of Morocco

Mr. Frank F Islam
27 February 2016

D.Sc.,
Chairman and CEO of FI Investment Group, USA

Prof. Takaaki Kajita
1 November 2016

D.Sc.,
Nobel Laureate

Indian Nationals

Sir Mohd Shafi
28 December 1922

D.Lit.
Education Member, Central Legislative Council

Syed Amir Ali
26 January 1925

D.Lit.

C.V. Raman
20 September 1931

D.Sc.,
Note Scientist

Dr. Sir Mohammad Iqbal
22 December 1934

D.Lit.

Sarojini Naidu
12 November 1947

D. Lit.
Governor of UP

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
24 January 1948

LLD,
Prime Minister of India

C. Rajagopalachari
15 November 1948

LLD,
Governor of General of India

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
20 February 1949

D.Th,
Education Minister, Govt. of India

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
27 February 1950

LLD

Govind Ballabh Pant
27 February 1950

LLD,
Chief Minister, U.P.

Dr Rajendra Prasad
8 December 1951

LLD,
President of India

Shri Sampurnanand
13 December 1955

LLD
Chief Minister, UP

Sardar K.M. Panikar
13 December 1955

LLD,
Noted Historian

Dr. Zakir Husain
27 February 1957

D.Lit.

Professor Humayun Kabir
30 December 1957

D.Lit.
Minister of Cultural and Scientific Research Govt. of India

Dr. Salim Ali
30 December 1958

D.Sc.
Indian Ornithologist

Lal Bahadur Shastri
19 December 1964

LLD,
Prime Minister of India

Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha
19 December 1964

D.Sc.,
Father of Atomic Energy

Dr. S. Radha Krishanan
27 February 1966

D.Lit.
President of India

Dr. Tarachand
29 March 1967

D.Lit.
Noted Historian

Dr. Homi Nusserwanji Sethna
13 March 1976

D.Sc.
Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission

Mr. Yusuf Khan Dilip Kumar
26 February 2002

D.Lit.
Film Star

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
18 June 2008

D.Sc.
Former President of India

Azim Hashim Premji
18 June 2008

D.Sc.
Wipro

AR Rahman
7 June 2009

D.Lit.,
Music Composer and Singer

Mr. Zafar Iqbal
16 February 2013

D.Lit.,
Indian Hockey Player

Mr Yusuf Ali MA
29 March 2014

D.Lit.,
Chairman & Managing Director, Lulu Groups International, UAE

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
1 November 201

D.Sc.
Former President of India

Azim Hashim Premji
18 June 2008

D.Sc.
Wipro

AR Rahman
7 June 2009

D.Lit.,
Music Composer and Singer

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