List of Sudanese people

This is a list of notable Sudanese people.

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
 * 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