Ali Yavar Jung

Nawab Ali Yavar Jung (February 1906 - 11 December 1976) was an eminent Indian diplomat. He was governor of the Indian state of Maharashtra from 1971 to 1976.

He was born in Hyderabad to a distinguished Hyderabadi family of scholars, administrators and educators, and studied at Queen's College, Oxford,cite speech | title = Obituary References | author = Shri W.A. Sangma | date =1976-12-14 | location = Meghalaya Legislative Assembly | url = http://megassembly.gov.in/proceedings/1976/14-12-1976.htm | accessdate =2008-07-17 ] earning a degree in History.

Nawab Ali Yavar Jung served as the Vice-chancellor of Osmania University from 1945 to 1946 and from 1948 to 1952. He was India's ambassador to Argentina (1952-54), Egypt (1954-58), Yugoslavia and Greece (1958-61), France (1961-65), and the United States (1968-70). His personal rapport with Peron, Nasser, Tito, De Gaulle, and Lyndon B. Johnson substantially contributed to their understanding and appreciation of India's independent foreign policy.Fact|date=March 2008

He was appointed as governor of Maharashtra in 1971, and died during his term as governor at Mumbai's Raj Bhavan in December 1976. [cite web |url=http://rajbhavan.maharashtra.gov.in/previous/default.htm |title=Previous Governors List |accessdate=2008-07-17 |publisher=Raj Bhavan, Maharashtra State ]

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan, India's highest civilian honors, in 1959 and 1977, respectively. [cite web |url=http://www.india.gov.in/myindia/images/pv_awards.pdf |title=List of Padma Vibhushan Awardees |accessdate=2008-07-17 |format=PDF] A prominent road in MumbaiFact|date=February 2007 and The National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped [cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Social Problems and Social Welfare |last=Qureshi |first=M. U. |year=2006 |publisher=Anmol Publications PVT. LTD. |isbn=8126125845 |pages=p.203 ] are named after him.

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