Sir ???Sayyid Fazl Ali??, also known as Fazal Ali (September 191886August 221959) was governor of Assam and Orissa and a judge . He was knighted by the British government in 1941. He headed the Fazal Ali Commission that made recommendations about the reorganization of India's states . He was governor of orissa from 1952 to 1956 and of Assam from 1956 to 1959. He died while serving as governor of Assam.