Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari (Hindi: मुख़्तार अहमद अंसारी, Urdu: مُختار احمد انصاری) was an Indian nationalist and political leader, and former president of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League during the Indian Independence Movement. One of the founders of the Jamia Millia Islamia University he remained its Chancellor 1928 to 1936.

Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was born on December 25, 1880 in Yusufpur-Mohammadabad town, Ghazipur district,(now part of Uttar Pradesh).

Educated at the Victoria School, Ansari and his family moved to Hyderabad. Ansari obtained a medical degree from the Madras Medical College and went to England on scholarship studies. He achieved the M.D.^{[citation needed]} and M.S.^{[citation needed]} degrees. He was a top-class student and worked at the London Lock Hospital and the Charing Cross Hospital in London. He was an Indian pioneer in surgery, and today there is an Ansari Ward in the Charing Cross Hospital in honour of his work.^{[citation needed]}

Dr. Ansari became involved in the Indian Independence Movement during his stay in England. He moved back to Delhi and joined both the Indian Congress and the Muslim League. He played an important role in the negotiation of the 1916 Lucknow Pact and served as the League's president in 1918 and 1920. He was an outspoken supporter of the Khilafat movement, and led the Indian medical mission to treat the wounded Turkish soldiers during the Balkan Wars. (Syed Tanvir Wasti, The Indian Red Crescent Mission to the Balkan Wars, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, 393–406, May 2009)

Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian politician from Maunath Bhanjan or Mau in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. he is an unbeaten king in purvanchal, Most recently he won the Mau seat in the Uttar Pradesh Elections, 2012 as a Quami Ekta Dal candidate for the record fourth time.He is one among many such criminal-politicians in Uttar Pradesh.

Mukhtar Ansari was perhaps the most celebrated (or infamous) of a group of “Robin Hood” bosses who gained prominence in the 1990s. He is a grandson of former Congress President Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, a leader of the Indian independence movement.

He was the man to see if you needed money for your daughter’s wedding (a crushing burden on poor families) or a government posting for your son. It’s said his influence kept the power flowing — and the electric looms running — in the textile-producing districts around Ghazipur & Mau when others endured extended blackouts. In the assembly, he and his opponents battled with rhetoric; on the street they fought with guns for control of lucrative government contracts.

Syed Ali Akbar (October 16, 1890 – April 1984, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India) was the son of Captain Syed Mohammed, commander of the Paigah army in Hyderabad State and brother of Olympic tennis player Syed Mohammed Hadi. He was born in Hyderabad on 16 October 1890 and got his primary & secondary education from Madrasa Aliya. After completing his matriculation he moved to Bombay and completed his intermediate from Wilson College. In 1912 when he was in the final year of his B.A., the Nizam's government approved his scholarship by the State government to study in England. From 1912 to 1916, he read history, political science and economics at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Immediately after completing his M.A Cantab (Tripos) in Economics, he returned to Hyderabad.

In 1916, he joined government service as Reader of history & economics at Nizam College. In 1917 he was offered a job in the Education Department of Hyderabad State as Divisional Inspector of School by the Director of Education Sir Ross Masood. He served in the Education Department between 1918 to 1947 as Divisional Inspector of Schools, Deputy Director Education, Principal Nizam College and as Director Education. During his tenure he also represented Hyderabad State in the Imperial Education Conference held London in 1927 and later visited Germany and published (1930s) the book The German School System. He retired as Director of Education in 1947.

Ali M. Ansari is currently the Professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at St. Andrews University in Scotland, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies. He obtained his BA and PhD from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

He is also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House and sits on the Governing Council of the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS). He is a regular speaker at conferences and events regarding Iran, including "Iran's New Parliament" at the New America Foundation. His work appears in The Guardian,The Independent, and the New Statesman, among other publications.