Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney (14 August 1924 – 7 February 2014)[1] was a civil servant, governor of the states of Tripura, Nagaland, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and a chairman of the National Minorities Commission.
[2] He was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service of the Orissa cadre where he went on to become the chief secretary of the state.
[3] He served as Home Secretary to the Government of India from February 1980 to August 1981.
[4][5] He was also a member and later chairman of the Fourth and Fifth Minority Commissions from 1988 to 1992[6] and was the chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi from 1990 to 1995.
[7] Burney authored the work Iqbal: Poet – Patriot of India.