List of Sudanese
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This is a list of famous Sudanese people.
Academics
- Awn Alsharif Qasim, (1933–2006), writer, educator, encyclopedist
- Mo Ibrahim, businessman
- Babikir Badri, pioneer in women's education
Entertainment
- Abdel Aziz El Mubarak singer
- AbdelKarim AlKabli, singer
- Alexander Siddig, actor
- Alek Wek, supermodel
- Mohammed Wardi, singer
- Samy Deluxe, Sudanese-German hiphop artist and producer
- Emmanuel Jal, Sudanese-Kenya hiphop
Historian figures
- AlKhalifa Abdullah, leader during Mahdia era
- Al-Mahdi, religious leader during Mahdia era
Literature
- Ibrahim 'Ali Salman, famous poet from Dar al-Manasir
- Tayeb Salih, novelist and prolific writer (The Wedding of Zein, Season of Migration to the North)
Media
- Alfred Taban, journalist, founder of Khartoum Monitor newspaper
- Zeinab Badawi, television and radio reporter and news presenter at BBC News
Politics and Government
- Mo Mohamed Salih, first politician of Sudanese origin elected outside of Sudan
- Field Marshal Gaafar Nimeiry, fourth President of Sudan
- Ismail al-Azhari, former Prime Minister and first Head of State of Sudan, oversaw the independence of Sudan in 1956
- Ahmed al-Mirghani, former head of State of Sudan
- Sadiq al-Mahdi, former Prime minister of Sudan
- Lam Akol, foreign affairs minister and former lecturer at University of Khartoum
- Minni Minnawi, leader of largest faction of Sudan Liberation Army
- Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan
- Rashid Bakr, former prime minister
- John Garang, former Vice President and Sudan peace signer
- Salva Kiir Mayardit, Vice President of Sudan
- Sayed Ahmad Keir, second foreign minister of Sudan, 1958–1964
- Mandour Elmahdi former Principal of the Institute of Education in Sudan
- Osman Eltayeb Honorary Consul of Sudan in Nigeria and CPA participant
Religious/Philosophy
- Al-Mahdi, religious leader
Sports
- Deng Gai, former NBA player
- Haitham Mustafa, footballer(soccer)
- Hassan El Kashief, retired athlete
- Ismail Ahmed Ismail, athlete
- Luol Deng, NBA basketball player
- Manute Bol, former NBA basketball player and activist
- Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr, athlete
- Omer Khalifa, retired athlete who set a national record over 1500 metres in Grosseto in 1986
- Todd Matthews-Jouda, athlete
- Yamilé Aldama, triple jumper
See also
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