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The Qabena people (alternate spellings Kebena, K'abeena or Qebena) are an ethnic group inhabiting the central Ethiopian highlands. Qabena are believed to be a subclan of the Hadiyya. The Kabena claim to originate from the Arab cleric, Abadir who settled in Harar. According to oral tradition, they, along with other related groups like the Alaba and Silte, made up the rulers and inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hadiyyah. A map of the region from 1628 shows a Kingdom of Alaba. They speak Alaba-Kʼabeena a member of the Highland East Cushitic language within the Afroasiatic family.

Language
As a people that descended from the ancient Harla people, the Qabena (alongside other Hadiyyah groups like the Alaba and Silt'e) spoke a Semitic language that descended from the Harla language and was similar to other languages that descended from this language like the Gurage East languages of Silt'e, Wolane and Zay, as well as the Harari language. However, in the 18th century, the combined groups of the Qabena and Alaba moved to the vicinity of the Kambaata and adopted their Cushitic language, which resulted in the formation of the Alaba-K'abeena language.

Notable Gurage

 * Imam Baqsa one of the many leaders of Gurage resistance movement that began in 1875 against King Menelik's campaigns to Reconquer Gurage to his Shewa kingdom in his effort to expand his Shewan realm and Ethiopian empire.  In 1878 or earlier, young Habte-Giorgis,  presumed to be one of the Gurage resistance fighters of Imam Baqsa was captured in a battle by Menelik's soldiers and paraded in Ankobere. He later successfully integrated himself into the enemy army and became one of its zealots. A firm believer in conquest, he grew to be a Minister of War and Fitawrari (literally, a battle front leader) in Menelik's expanding kingdom.
 * Abune Gebremenfes Kidus - a Saint. ¨Medere Kebed Monastery
 * Habte Giyorgis Dinagde (አባ መቻል & አባ መላ) Ethiopian Minister of War, during the reigns of Menelik II, Iyasu V, Zewditu and Haile Selassie.
 * Woizero Tenagnework Sahle Selassie Emperor Haile Selassie(Grand Mother)
 * Wolde Selassie Bereka Lt.General ( Army ) Chief of Staff of the Imperial Armed forces, Commander in Chief of Ground forces,
 * Deressie Dubale Lt.General ( Army ) Commander in Chief of Ground Forces Gurage & Amhara (Mixed).
 * Yilma Shibeshi Lt.General ( Police ) Commander of Imperial Police Forces.
 * Teshome Ergetu Lt.General ( Army ) Division Commander Gurage & Oromo (Mixed).
 * Wolde Tsadik Gebere Meskel Maj.General Deputy Commander Imperial Bodyguard.
 * Hailu Gebere Michael Maj.General ( Army, Holeta ) Commander of the Ground Forces Oromo & Gurage (mixed).
 * Abebe Wolde Mariam Maj.General ( Air Force ) Deputy Minister of Defense for logistics Gurage and Amhara from(Shewa)(mixed).
 * Kefelgen Yibza Maj.General ( Army, Holeta ) Commander of Central Command,Commander of ground forces.
 * Tilahun Argaw Maj.General ( Army, Holeta ) Core commander,Co mmander of Special Command, Assab Gurage & Amhara.
 * Kinfe Gebrel Dinku Maj.General ( Imp. Bodyguard, 3rd course ) Head of Mil.Operations Ministry of Defense.
 * Girma Neway Maj.General Commander of Ethiopian Police Forces after 1989 Aborted coup Amhara & Gurage (Mixed).
 * Assefa Hailemaraim Maj.General ( Army Police,Sendafa Commander ).
 * Tariku Ayne Brigadier General, the commander of Nadew command in northern Eritrea.
 * Tesfaye Habtemariam Brgadier General ( Air Born ) he was awarded the highest medal for heroism, Ye Hibretsebawit Ethiopia Woder Ye Lelew Jegna Medaliya.
 * Tadesse Gebrekidan Governor Of National Bank Of Ethiopia & Ministry Of Foreign Trade.
 * Yacob Hailemariam professor of business law at Norfolk State University; former Senior Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; and an elected member of the Ethiopian parliament who had been held as a "prisoner of conscience" in Ethiopia.
 * Berhanu Nega Professor He did his undergraduate degree in economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz[4] and got his PhD Having completed his PhD studies,During the 2005 Ethiopian elections, Berhanu debated Meles Zenawi.[6] Despite the post-election political impasse, CUD met on 20 August and elected Berhanu mayor of Addis Ababa, After he returned to U.S he joined the faculty of economics at Bucknell University, where he became a lecturer in economics for three years.
 * Dr Tadesse Biru Kersmo Lecturer Greenwich School of Management, Graduate School for Social Research.
 * Abba François Markos, Roman Catholic priest, social worker, and educator
 * Mahmoud Ahmed, singer
 * Teddy Afro, Ethiopian Musician of Sodo Gurage background.
 * Abenet Agonafer - Ethiopian Musician & he is also skilled in guitar.
 * Aster Aweke, Ethiopian musician of Gurage background
 * Emahoy tisge mariam Gebru musician of Gurage background.
 * Professor Bahru Zewde, Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University, Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and Vice President of the Association of African Historians.
 * Dejazmach Balcha Safo (አባ ነፍሶ) -    military commander and lord protector of the crown, who served in both the First and Second Italo-Ethiopian Wars.
 * Ras Desta Damtew (አባ ቀማው) - was an Ethiopian noble, an army commander, and a son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie I.
 * Fitawrari Damtew Ketena - foreign minister and army commander in Adwa, killed in Action.
 * Dejazmach Abebe Damtew - army commander in Adwa, killed in Action.
 * Woizero Ijigayehu Adeyamo - mother of Emperor Menelik ll.
 * Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam - an Ethiopian author.
 * Dejazmach Bekele Weya - patriots against the Italians during the occupation.