List of Sudanese people

This is a list of notable Sudanese people.

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Academics and science

• Muddathir Abdel-Rahim (born 1932), political scientist
• Ali M. El-Agraa (born 1941), economist
• Mohamed Osman Baloola (born 1981), biomedical engineer who works on diabetes monitoring
• Mamoun Beheiry (1925–2002), economist, president of the African Development Bank and twice finance minister
• Nashwa Eassa (born 1980), nano-particle physicist
• Ismail El Gizouli, acting president of the IPCC
• Mohamed H.A. Hassan (born 1947), mathematician and physicist
• Abdulaziz Abdul Ghani Ibrahim (1939–2022), researcher and historian
• Daoud Mustafa Khalid, neurologist
• Awn Alsharif Qasim, (1933–2006), writer, educator, encyclopedist
• Khalida Zahir (1927–2015), physician

Businesspeople

• Mo Ibrahim, businessman
• Osama Daoud, businessman

Entertainment

• Mohammed al Amin, musician
• Bangs, South Sudanese hip hop artist
• Bas, Sudanese-American rapper
• Ramey Dawoud, Sudanese-American Hip hop artist and actor
• Ajak Deng, model
• Ataui Deng, model
• Emmanuel Jal, South Sudanese musician
• Abdel Karim al Kabli, singer
• Abdel Aziz El Mubarak, singer
• Oddisee, rapper
• Natasja Saad, rapper
• Abdel Gadir Salim, singer
• Alexander Siddig, actor
• Mohammed Wardi, singer
• Alek Wek, model and designer

Historical figures

• Al Khalifa Abdullah, leader during Mahdia era
• Al-Mahdi, religious leader during Mahdia era

Literature

• Muddathir Abdel-Rahim, political scientist and scholar of Islam
• Abdalla Eltayeb, scholar of the Arabic language, wrote a detailed primer on approaching ancient and medieval Arabic poetry.
• Tayeb Salih, novelist and prolific writer (The Wedding of Zein, Season of Migration to the North)
• Ibrahim 'Ali Salman, famous poet from Dar al-Manasir

Media

• Zeinab Badawi, Sudanese-British television and radio reporter and news presenter at BBC News
• Nima Elbagir, award-winning senior international correspondent for CNN based in London
• Yousra Elbagir, Sudanese-British journalist, writing for CNN, BBC, Channel 4
• Nesrine Malik, opinion columnist at The Guardian
• Alfred Taban, journalist, founder of Khartoum Monitor newspaper

Politics and government

• Muddathir Abdel-Rahim, former ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. Delegate to the UN General Assembly.
• Lam Akol, foreign affairs minister and former lecturer at University of Khartoum
• Abdallah Muhammed at-Tom, elected to Sudan’s first House of Representatives
• Ismail al-Azhari, former Prime Minister and first Head of State of Sudan, oversaw the independence of Sudan in 1956
• Abdallah Bakr Mustafa, nazir of Gedaref and member of the Legislative Assembly between 1948 and 1953
• Rashid Bakr, former Prime Minister
• Omar al-Bashir, former President of Sudan
• Mandour Elmahdi, former Principal of the Institute of Education in Sudan
• Osman Eltayeb, Honorary Consul of Sudan in Nigeria and CPA participant
• John Garang, former Vice President and Sudan peace signer
• Abdul Kamara, United Nations Joint Special Representative
• Sayed Ahmad Keir, second Foreign Minister of Sudan, 1958–1964
• Yousif Kuwa (1945–2001) revolutionary, rebel commander and politician
• Mariam al-Mahdi, Foreign Minister of Sudan
• Sadiq al-Mahdi (1935–2020) former Prime Minister of Sudan
• Ammar Mohammed Mahmoud, diplomat
• Salva Kiir Mayardit, Vice President of Sudan
• Minni Minnawi, leader of largest faction of Sudan Liberation Army
• Ahmed al-Mirghani, former Head of State of Sudan
• Abd ul-Hamid Musa Madibbo, representative from Nyala Baggara East
• Abdul-Haleem Ismail Al-Mutaafi, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation
• Field Marshal Gaafar Nimeiry, fourth President of Sudan
• Hassan Al-Turabi, scholar and thinker who helped initiate and establish the Islamic movement in the Sudan.
• Abdalla Hamdok, current prime minister of Sudan.
• Ja'afar Abdul El Hakh, former governor of West Darfur

Humanitarians

• Emtithal Mahmoud, poet, activist
• Hajja Kashif Badri, women's right activist
• Nisreen Elsaim, youth climate activist
• Dalia Haj-Omar, human rights activist
• Hadeel Ibrahim, philanthropist
• Fatima Talib Ismaeil, women's right activist
• Nahid Toubia, physician and activist for gender equality
• Salva Dut, Founder and President of Water for South Sudan, Inc.
• Tysir Salih, activist, writer, and founder of The Red Ma’at Collective

Religious figures

• Al-Mahdi, religious leader

Sports

• Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr, athlete
• Yamilé Aldama, triple jumper
• Manute Bol, former NBA basketball player and activist
• Luol Deng, NBA basketball player
• Deng Gai, former NBA player
• Ismail Ahmed Ismail, athlete
• Hassan El Kashief, retired athlete
• Omer Khalifa, retired athlete who set a national record over 1500 metres in Grosseto in 1986
• John Mirona, Olympic boxer
• Todd Matthews-Jouda, athlete
• Haitham Mustafa, footballer

See also

• List of Sudanese writers
• List of African writers by country