The Archives houses private papers, photographs, awards, mementos and personal collections of eminent personalities like:

• Maulana Shaukat Ali (1873 - 1936)
• Maulana Mohamed Ali Jauhar ( 1878 - 1931)
• Dr. M.A. Ansari (1880 - 1936)
• Munshi Premchand (1880 - 1936)
• Dr. Zakir Husain (1897 - 1969)
• Dr. Hamid Hasan Qadri ( 1887 - 1964 )
• Asaf Ali (1888 - 1953)
• Pandit Banarsidas Chaturvedi ( 1892 -1985 )
• Qurratulain Hyder (1926 - 2007)
• Prof. Qamar Rais (1932 - 2009)
• Acharya Nishant Ketu (1939 -    )
• Prof. Sunita Jain (1941 -     )
• Hamid Ali Khan (    - 1963)
• Khwaja Ahmad Farooqi (1917 - 1995)
• Ralph Russell (1918 - 2008)
• Begum Anis Kidwai (1906 - 1982)
• Abdul Majeed Khwaja (1885 -1962)
• Shafiqur Rahman Kidwai (1901 -1953)
• Noor Jahan Sarwat (1950 - 2010)
• Prof. Saros Cowasjee (1931)
• Devender Satyarthi (1908-2003)
• Manjul Bhagat (1936-2009) in pipeline
• Dr. A.M. Zutshi 'Gulzar Dehalvi' (1925) in pipeline.
• Prof. Sughra Mehdi (1927-2014)
• BegumSalihaAbidHusain (1913-1988)
• Hamid Ali Khan (1905-1963)
• Prof. Asghar Wajahat (1946- - )
• Smt. Manjul Bhagat (1936-1998)
• Prof. Gopi Chand Narang (1931--)
• Prof. Saros Cowasjee (1931--)
• Dr. Kartar Singh Duggal (1917-2012)
• Shri Devender Satyarthi (1908-1963)
• Prof. A. M. Shaharyar (1936-2012)