Famous People with Name Syed

Syed Adney Syed Hussein            Origin/Culture/Country: Malaysian

Syed Adney Syed Hussein: is an English-born Malaysian footballer who is a goalkeeper for UPB-MyTeam FC. He is a member of the Malaysian national team and also has played for the Malaysian Pre-Olympic squad.

Syed Hussein Alatas            Origin/Culture/Country: Malaysian

Syed Hussein Alatas: was a Malaysian academician and former politician. He was once Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s, and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.

Syed Hamid Bin Syed Jaafar Albar            Origin/Culture/Country: Malaysian

Syed Hamid Bin Syed Jaafar Albar: is a Malaysian politician and the former Malaysian Home Affairs Minister. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), part of the ruling Barisan Nasional. He recently lost his bid for a Vice-President's post in UMNO and was dropped as a minister in Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's cabinet.

Syed Muhammad Al Naquib Bin Ali Al-Attas            Origin/Culture/Country: Malaysian

Syed Muhammad Al Naquib Bin Ali Al-Attas: is a prominent contemporary Muslim philosopher and thinker from Malaysia. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences and who is equally competent in theology, philosophy, metaphysics, history, and literature. He is considered to be the pioneer in proposing the idea of Islamization of knowledge.

Syed Mujtaba Ali            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Syed Mujtaba Ali: was a renowned Bengali author, academician, scholar and linguist. He was born in Sunamganj, Sylhet in Bangladesh.In 1919, Syed Mujtaba Ali was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore and started writing to the poet. In 1921, Mujtaba joined the Indian freedom struggle and left his school in Sylhet. He went to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and graduated in 1926.He was the first graduate of the university. Later, he went to Kabul and worked in the education department (1927-1929). From 1929 to 1932 he studied at the universities in Berlin, London, Paris and Bonn, earning a PhD in comparative religious studies from the latter with a dissertation on the Khojas.

Abdul Mannan Syed            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Abdul Mannan Syed: a renowned Bangladeshi author and researcher.Abdul Mannan Syed is best known for his research on Bengali poet Jibanananda Das. Although he is most renowned for literary criticism, he is a versatile writer and poet. He taught as a faculty in the department of Bengali in the Jagannath College, Dhaka. Later he served as Director General of the Nazrul Institute. For a long time he was associated with the Shilpataru, a monthly literary magazine published from Dhaka by poet Abid Azad.