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Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi is a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja' and one of the Four Grand Ayatollahs of Najaf, Iraq. He was born in Jalandhar, a city in then British India.

Adhemir de Barros, best known as Paraná, was an association footballer. He played at São Bento, São Paulo, Londrina, and Brazil national football team, which had participated at 1966 FIFA World Cup, playing one match.

Mohammad Yousef al-Malkawi, is a Jordanian general and politician. He was the former King's Chancellor. also, he held the post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian Armed Forces from 18 July 1999, to 5 March 2002. Currently, Malkawi is a member of the Jordanian Senate.

Tülay Tuğcu is a retired Turkish judge. She was the President of the Constitutional Court of Turkey, Chief Justice of Turkey. She retired on June 12, 2007.

Fan Chen-tsung is a Taiwanese politician.