A. Nabeesa Ummal (30 June 1931 – 6 May 2023) was an Indian academic, orator, social worker, and Communist Party of India (Marxist) politician from Kerala.
Nabeesa Ummal was born on 30 June 1931, in Kallanvila, Attingal, in present-day Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala, as the youngest of five children of Asanummal, a native of Bhoothapandi, Tamil Nadu, and Khader Moideen, a police constable.
[1][4] Ummal married Hussain Kunju, a soldier from Nedumangad, while pursuing her pre-university studies at the Thiruvananthapuram Women's College.
E. M. S. Namboodiripad invited her to contest the Kerala Legislative Assembly after listening to her speeches during the Sharia controversy that time.
[6][7] But in the 1991 elections, she contested as Left Democratic Front candidate, and lost to M. V. Raghavan of the Communist Marxist Party.