Ali Yavar Jung

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Nawab Ali Yavar Jung (February 1906 - 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, 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, where he distinguished himself as an educator and a man of humanity and principle. As India's ambassador to Argentina (1952-54), Egypt (1954-58), Yugoslavia (1958-61), France (1961-65), and the United States (1968-70), he was involved in some of the momentous events of the era. 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.^{[citation needed]}

He was appointed as governor of Maharashtra in 1971, and died during his term as governor at Mumbai's Raj Bhavan in December 1976.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan, India's highest civilian honors, in 1956 in 1977, respectively. A prominent road in Mumbai and The National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped are named after him.^{[citation needed]}