Jamia Millia Islamia

Hakim Ajmal Khan (1863–1927) was an Indian physician, nationalist leader, and institution-builder who founded the Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College in Delhi, served as the first Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia (1920–1927), and presided over the Indian National Congress at its Ahmedabad session in 1921. A practitioner of Unani medicine from a distinguished family of Mughal-era court physicians, he became one of the principal figures of the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation movements and devoted his career to both the revival of indigenous Indian medicine and Hindu-Muslim unity in the nationalist cause.

Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari (1880–1936) was an Indian physician and nationalist leader who served as president of both the All India Muslim League (1918, 1920) and the Indian National Congress (Madras, 1927). A surgeon trained in Edinburgh and London, he led the Indian Medical Mission to Turkey during the Balkan Wars of 1912–13, was a founder and later Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, and spent his career arguing for Hindu-Muslim unity within a single Indian nationalism.

Syed Mahmud (1889–1971) was an Indian politician, barrister, and senior Congress leader from Bihar who served as a member of the Foundation Committee of Jamia Millia Islamia (1920), General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee (1929–1936), Education Minister of Bihar (1937–1939), and Union Minister of State for External Affairs (1954–1957). A close associate of Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi, he participated in the Khilafat, Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience, and Quit India movements, and represented India at the Bandung Conference in 1955.

Dr. Zakir Husain Khan (1897–1969) was an educationist, philosopher, and statesman of independent India. A founder and Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, and the third President of India, he united Islamic humanism with modern democracy.