Ali Yavar Jung

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Ali Yawar Jung (February 1906 - December 1976) was an eminent administrator of India. He was governor of Maharashtra from 1971 to 1976. He studied at Queen's College, Oxford and thereafter at Paris in 1927.

He served as the Vice-chancellor of the Osmania University from 1945 to 1946 and again from 1948 to 1952. Thereafter he served as Indian ambassador to Argentina 1952-54, Egypt 1954-58, Yugoslavia 1958-61, France 1961-65 and the U.S.A. 1968-70.

He was appointed as Governor of Maharashtra state in 1971. He was born in Hyderabad and died serving as governor at Raj Bhavan Mumbai in December 1976.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1977. The national institute for the hearing handicap is named after him.^{[citation needed]}