Badruddin Faiz Tyabji (1907–1995) was a senior Indian Civil Service officer, who served as Vice-Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University, from 1962 to 1965. While serving as a diplomat in 1948, he had undertaken the task of starting the Embassy of India, Brussels. He also served as Indian ambassador in Jakarta, Tehran, Bonn and Tokyo.
Historian Trevor Royle wrote in his book The Last Days of the Raj.
By one of those contradictions which run through India’s history, the national flag was designed by Badr-ud-Din Tyabji’s Family. Originally the tricolour was to have contained the spinning-wheel symbol (charkha) used by Gandhi but this was a party symbol, which Tyabji thought might strike the wrong note. After much persuasion Gandhi agreed to the wheel because the Emperor Ashoka was venerated by Hindu and Muslim alike. The flag which flew on Nehru’s car that night had been specially made by Tyabji’s wife Surayya Tyabji.

• His son Hindal Haidar Tyabji, IAS, Jammu and Kashmir’s former Chief Secretary.
• His father was Faiz Tyabji, a judge of Bombay High Court.
• His grand-father was the Indian National Congress leader, Badruddin Tyabji.

Badruddin Tyabji (10 October 1844 – 19 August 1906) was an Indian lawyer, activist, and politician during the British Raj.

• Tyabji was the first Indian to practice as a barrister of the High Court of Bombay.
• Served as the third President of the Indian National Congress.
• He founded the Anjuman-i-Islam College in Bombay in 1874.

Anjuman-i-Islam started with one school and today it has more than eighty institutions from pre-primary schools to graduate and postgraduate level including, College of Engineering, Polytechnics, Unani Medical College, College of Education, College of Commerce & Economics, Law College, Institute of Management Studies, College of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, College of Home Science, School of Pharmacy and School of Architect. It has a high reputation of being a Muslim minority organization catering to the needs of more than 1.10 lacs students from various communities under its umbrella.