Ungku Abdul Aziz bin Ungku Abdul Hamid (born January 28, 1922, London

London

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

) was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya

University of Malaya

The University of Malaya is located on a campus near the centre of Kuala Lumpur, and is the oldest university in Malaysia. It was founded in 1905 as a public-funded tertiary institution...

 from 1968 to 1988. He was awarded the title of Professor Diraja (Royal Professor) in 1978. He graduated with a PhD from Waseda University

Waseda University

, abbreviated as , is one of the most prestigious private universities in Japan and Asia. Its main campuses are located in the northern part of Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as Tokyo Senmon Gakko, the institution was renamed "Waseda University" in 1902. It is known for its liberal climate...

 in Tokyo.

Family

Abdul Aziz is a cousin of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

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...

 and Syed Hussein Alatas

Syed Hussein Alatas

Syed Hussein Alatas was a Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organizations, and former politician. He was once Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s, and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia...

 as well as Sultan Ibrahim of Johor on his father's side. His father was of Malay and Turkish (Circassian) descent, while his mother was English.

Honors

• Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
  Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
  The is an award established by Fukuoka City and the Yokatopia Foundation to honor the outstanding work of individuals or organizations in preserving or creating Asian culture...
  
   (Melayu: Hadiah Budaya Asia Fukuoka), 1993, Fukuoka
  Fukuoka, Fukuoka
  is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture and is situated on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu in Japan.Voted number 14 in a 2010 poll of the World's Most Livable Cities, Fukuoka is praised for its green spaces in a metropolitan setting. It is the most populous city in Kyushu, followed by...
  
  , Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  
• Japan Foundation
  Japan Foundation
  The was established in 1972 by an Act of the Japanese Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an independent administrative institution under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Ministry of Japan on 1 October 2003 under the "Independent...
  
  : Japan Foundation Award, 1981.
• International Co-operative Alliance
  International Co-operative Alliance
  The International Co-operative Alliance is a non-governmental co-operative federation or, more precisely, a co-operative union representing co-operatives and the co-operative movement worldwide. It was founded in 1895. The ICA maintains the internationally recognised definition of a co-operative...
  
   : Rochdale Pioneers Award, 2007.

External links

• List of former Vice Chancellors of University of Malaya

• More details at Malay Wikipedia