Founder of Lucknow University

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University Of Lucknow or Lucknow University is a government owned Indian research university based in Lucknow.

LU's old campus is located at Badshah Bagh, University Road area of the city with a new campus at Jankipuram

Raja Sir Mohammad Ali Mohammad Khan, Khan Bahadur, K.C.I.E. of Mahmudabad was founder of this University

Notable Alumni
Politics
-Shankar Dayal Sharma former President of India
-Surjit Singh Barnala, Governor of Tamil Nadu
-Syed Sibtey Razi, Governor of Jharkhand
-Harish Rawat, Member of Parliament and Minister of State for Labour, Government of India
-Zafar Ali Naqvi, politician, Member of Parliament - India Govt.
-Syed Sajjad Zaheer, politician, poet, writer
-K.C. Pant, former Union Minister and Dy Chairman Planning Commission
-Vijayaraje Scindia, late Rajmata of Gwalior
-Arif Mohammad Khan, politician, columnist, former Union Minister
-Prof. Ghafoor Ahmed, Pakistani politician, author, former Federal Minister for Industries and Production

Education and science
-Inder Verma, educationist, Known for Cancer, Gene Therapy, NF-κB, Editor-In-Chief of PNAS from 2011–present.
-Ahmed Ali (Professor), English novelist, Urdu short story writer,
-C.M. Naim, writer and academic

Government
-Brajendranath De, esq., ICS Magistrate and Collector of Hooghly (1905–10); also Commissioner (Offg.), Burdwan (1905)
-Isha Basant Joshi, India's first female IAS officer

Literature
-Ahmed Ali, stood first class and First in the order of merit in both B.A.(Hons), 1930 and M.A. English Literature, 1931 and received the White Memorial Gold Medal & scholarship and the Jhallawar Gold Medal; author of Twilight in Delhi, Ocean of Night, Of Rats & Diplomats, The Golden Tradition, Angare, Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation; see education and science above.
-Ali Jawad Zaidi, noted poet, critic, writer, freedom fighter and Padmashri awardee.
-Iftikhar Arif, Urdu poet, scholar and littérateur.
-Kavi Pradeep, noted poet and lyricist.
-Qurratulain Hyder, acclaimed Urdu writer and novelist.
-Nitya Prakash, author and novelist.
-Attia Hosain, author, journalist, first lady graduate from Taluqdar families

Others
-Justice DK Upadhyaya, Allahabad High court, Lucknow bench
-Atul Singh, Indian editor-in-chief of Fair Observer and political commentator
-Swami Chinmayananda, founder of Chinmaya Mission
-Vinod Mehta, journalist
-V. Mohini Giri (b. 1938), social activist, Padma Bhushan
-Pandit Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi, lawyer and politician
-Ahmed Wasi, broadcaster and lyricist
-Seema Mustafa, journalist
-Manoj Joshi, journalist
-Rajendra Tiwari, Senior Journalist, a pass out (MSc) from Dept of Stats.
-Sushma Verma, the Youngest Matriculate and Youngest Science Graduate of India.
-Anupam Jalote, Entrepreneur, a pass out from MBA program LUMBA
-Vartika Singh - Model, Femina Miss India Grand International 2015 and Miss Grand International2015–2nd Runner Up.
-Pramod Kumar Singh aka Pramod Singh Baghel - Student of Department of Public Administration and History, Currently living in Bangalore, working As Auditor in C&AG.
-Dhirendra Kumar aka Dhiru- Student of Department of Public Administration and Modern History, Worked in Food Corporation of India(Nov 2012 to February 2014) Presently working in Income Tax Department.
-Sumit Viren - Regional Head HR, working in leading Construction Company.

Contact Details:
University of Lucknow  
University Road, Hasanganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226007

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