- Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan is an Indian computer scientist, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002. The prize recognizes outstanding work in the mathematical aspects of computer science.
- Gabriel Sudan
Gabriel Sudan was a Romanian mathematician, known for the Sudan function (1927), an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function (1928). Gabriel Sudan received his Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 1925 for his thesis "Über die geordneten Mengen", supervised by David Hilbert. He taught at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest from 1941 until his retirement, in 1966.
- Sūdan
Sūdan (सूदन) was the main court poet of Maharaja Suraj Mal, the Bharatpur ruler in Rajasthan. He was Mathur by caste, resident of Mathura and the most favourite poet of the Bharatpur Maharaja. He had accompanied the Maharaja Suraj Mal during all important wars and has written historical account in the book named 'Sujān Charitra'.
- Omar Al-Bashir
Field Marshal Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir is a Sudanese military leader, and politician, chief of state (1989-1993) and President (1993-).
- John Garang
John Garang de Mabior was the vice president of Sudan and former leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army.
- Eric Reeves
Dr. Eric Reeves is professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past seven years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the United States and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan.
- Hassan Al-Turabi
Dr. Hassan 'Abd Allah al-Turabi, commonly called Hassan al-Turabi (sometimes transliterated Hassan al-Tourabi) (حسن الترابي), is a religious and political leader in Sudan, who may have been instrumental in institutionalizing sharia in the northern part of the country. He was influential as a government figure under several heads of state in the country, …
- John Prendergast
John Prendergast is an American human rights activist focused on bringing international attention to the genocide in Sudan and the atrocities of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda. An adviser to the White House and the State Department in the mid-1990s, he is currently a Senior Adviser at the International Crisis Group
- Andrew Natsios
Andrew S. Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead US government agency for international economic development and humanitarian assistance, from 2001 until 2006. During this period, Mr. Natsios managed the agency's reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan, which totaled more than $14 billion over four years.
- Samantha Power
Samantha Power 's 'A Problem from Hell' is a broad attempt to document the major acts of genocide/human rights violations of the 20th century paired with the international community's subsequent negligence in each case. She reports on the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and especially her major areas of research- Rwanda and Serbia.
- Alex de Waal
Alex de Waal is a British writer and researcher on African issues. He is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University, as well as program director at the Social Science Research Council in New York City. De Waal is also a co-director of Justice Africa, London. De Waal received a D.Phil. in social anthropology at the University of Oxford for his thesis on the 1984-5 Darfur famine in Sudan. The next year he joined the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, …
- Ahmed Haroun
Ahmed Mohammed Haroun, is former state Minister of Interior of Sudan. Haroun was in office during the peak of the Darfur conflict and was recently named by the International Criminal Court as one of the first Darfur war crimes suspects. Haroun is the current state humanitarian affairs minister which is a role that is a level below that of a minister. Ahmed Haroun was named by the ICC's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, …
- Mustafa Osman Ismail
Mustafa Osman Ismail (born 1955 in Dongola, Sudan) was the foreign minister of Sudan from 18 February 1998 to 18 September 2005. His main job as foreign minister was to be the government's main spokesman in diplomatic efforts to solve the Sudanese civil wars. He was the longest-serving foreign minister in Sudanese history. He was replaced by southerner Lam Akol when the national unity government took office.
- Lam Akol
Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin (born 1950) is a high-ranking official in the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He has served as foreign minister of Sudan since September 2005, when a national unity government took office in which the SPLM/A received the foreign affairs ministry and several other key ministries in the government. Formerly a chemical engineering lecturer at the University of Khartoum, with a Ph.D. from the University of London, Dr.
- Ali Osman Taha
Ali Osman Taha (also transliterated "Othman" or "Uthman") is the second Vice President of Sudan from August, 2005 to the present. He held the position of first First Vice President from 1998 to August 2005. He was the country's Foreign Minister for three years prior to becoming first Vice President and is a member of the National Congress Party (Sudan). Taha is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Khartoum and was known for his academic prowess.
- Emmanuel Jal
Emmanuel Jal. Emmanuel is a spokesman for the Make Poverty History campaign, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and the Control Arms campaign. Among other places he performed at the Live 8 Concert in Cornwall this summer. He was awarded a 2005 American Gospel Music Award for best international artist.
- Sadiq Al-Mahdi
Sadiq al-Mahdi is a Sudanese political and religious figure. He is head of the National Umma Party and Imam of the Ansar, a sufi sect that pledges allegiance to Muhammad Ahmad who claimed to be Islam's messianic saviour, or the Mahdi. Sadiq al-Mahdi was Prime Minister of Sudan on two occasions: first briefly in 1966-67, and second starting in 1986, …
- Salva Kiir Mayardit
Salva Kiir Mayardit (born 1951) is the President of autonomous Government of Southern Sudan and the successor to the post of Vice President of Sudan, following the death of John Garang in a crash on 30 July 2005. A founding member of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), he was chosen by the SPLA leadership to continue the peace process that formally ended the Second Sudanese Civil War in January 2005. Like Garang, he is of the Dinka tribe, …
- Mo Ibrahim
Mo Ibrahim (1946 -) is a Sudanese-born British mobile communications entrepreneur and founder of Celtel. Mohamed Ibrahim undertook higher studies in Kenya, which brought him an engineering degree at the University of Nairobi. He then returned to his home country to work for the state operator, Sudan Telecom. At the age of 26, he moved to the South Africa to study for a masters degree at the University of Pretoria.
- Muhammad Ahmad
Muhammad Ahmad ibn as Sayyid Abd Allah (b. 12 August, 1845 - June 22, 1885) was a Muslim religious leader, in Sudan. Under his religious authority the divided clans of the Baggara and their subject Fur tribesmen were united into an aggressive alliance dedicated to establishing an Islamic Republic as the first step in the global Islamic state. Believing himself to be the long awaited Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmed Al Mahdi declared a jihad, raised an army, …
- Rose
Rose was a goat from the Hai Malakal suburb of Juba, the capital of the Sudanese region of South Sudan, who became an internet phenomenon when a local man was caught by the goat's owner having sex with the goat. The owner subdued the perpetrator and asked village elders to come over. One elder noted that he and the other elders found the perpetrator, tied up by the owner, at the door of the goat shed.
- Lydia Polgreen
Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist who has been the West Africa bureau chief of "The New York Times", based in Dakar, Senegal, since 2005. Polgreen graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2000. One of her professors there was Ari L. Goldman. In 2006, Polgreen was awarded a George Polk Award, awarded annual by Long Island University, in foreign reporting for her coverage of ethnic violence in Sudan's Darfur region.
- Hassan Al-Banna
Imam Hassan al Banna was an Egyptian social and political reformer best known as founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hassan al-Banna was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood or Society of the Muslim Brothers, the largest and most influential Sunni revivalist organization in the 20th century. Created in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood became the first mass-based, overtly political movement to oppose the ascendancy of secular and Western ideas in the Middle East.
- Luol Deng
Luol Deng (born April 16, 1985 in Wau, Sudan) is a British professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls, where he plays small forward.
- Paul Salopek
Paul Salopek is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer. Salopek was raised in central Mexico. He has reported for the "Chicago Tribune" since 1996, writing about Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He worked for "National Geographic" from 1992-1995, visiting Chad, Sudan, Senegal, Niger, Mali, and Nigeria. The October 1995 cover story for "National Geographic" was Salopek's piece on Africa's mountain gorillas.
- Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter (September 13,1960 - July 27,1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. Carter began his career as a weekend sports photographer in 1983 for Johannesburg's "Sunday Express". A year later he moved on to work for the Johannesburg "Star" bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid. That same year Carter's first "Time" cover appeared.
- Manute Bol
Manute Bol is a Sudanese-born basketball player and activist. Until the debut of Gheorghe Mureşan (who was supposedly a few millimeters taller), Bol was undisputedly the tallest player ever to appear in the National Basketball Association. Bol is believed to have been born on October 16, 1962 in either Turalie or Gogrial, Sudan. He is the son of a Dinka tribal chief, who gave him the name "Manute," which means "special blessing."
- Leo Africanus
Leo Africanus was the Christianised name of Hasan bin Muhammed al-Wazzan al-Fasi (Hasan, son of Muhammed, the Weigher from Fez) (Granada 1488? - 1554?). A former inhabitant of Granada, his family left the city sometime after the Christian conquest of the Muslim kingdom in 1492. The family settled in Fez, Morocco, where Leo studied at the University of Al Karaouine.
- Gino Strada
Gino Strada (b. "Luigi Strada" April 21, 1948 in Sesto San Giovanni-Milan, Italy) is a war surgeon and founder of the UN-recognized Italian NGO Emergency. Emergency operates in thirteen war-torn countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Rwanda.
- Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah (born November 21, 1940), is a Mauritanian diplomat and United Nations official. Ould-Abdallah graduated from scondary school in Dakar, Senegal. He studied economics at the University of Grenoble and the University of Paris and political science at the Sorbonne and has held several cabinet-level posts in the Mauritanian government, including that of Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He has also been Mauritania's ambassador to Belgium, …
- Richard Miniter
Richard Miniter (born 1967) is the author of two New York Times best selling books, "Losing bin Laden" and "Shadow War" and is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism. He is also a fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington Editor of PajamasMedia.com and a former editorial page writer for "The Wall Street Journal Europe". He has been published in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", …
- Nic Robertson
Nic Robertson (born Dominic Robertson on 8 June 1962) is a Senior International Correspondent at CNN. He began his career at the network in 1989, starting as a satellite engineer. He first came to public attention when he stayed in Baghdad with Peter Arnett at the start of the Allied invasion of Iraq in 1991. Later that year, he was moved to Chicago, where he became a producer in CNN's Chicago Bureau.
- Francis Deng
Dr Francis Mading Deng is Research Professor of International Politics, Law and Society at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he is also the Director of a newly established Center for Displacement Studies. He has served as Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Secretariat, as Ambassador of Sudan to Canada, the Scandinavian countries and the United States of America, and as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
- Antonio Cassese
Antonio Cassese was the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), serving in this capacity from 1993 to 1997. In October of 2004, Cassese was appointed by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to be the Chairperson for the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur. This Commission was to investigate potential international and human rights violations taking place in Darfur, …
- Mahmoud Mohamed Taha
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha (1909 - January 18 1985) was a Sudanese political figure and theologian. Taha played a prominent role in Sudan's struggle for independence, and was a cofounder of the Sudanese Republican Party. He was notable for his advocacy of liberal reform within Sudanese society and within Islam itself. The regime of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry executed Taha for his views.
- Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah, the story of a nomad girl who flees from an arranged marriage to a much older man. The novel garnered Farah mild but international acclaim. On a tour of Europe following the publication of "A Naked Needle", Farah was warned that the Somali government planned to arrest him for its contents. Rather than return and face imprisonment, Farah began a self-imposed exile that would last for twenty-two years, teaching in the United States, Germany, Italy, …
- Alek Wek
Alek Wek (born April 16 1977) is a Sudanese supermodel who appeared on the catwalks at the age of 18 in 1995. She is from the Dinka ethnic group in the Sudan, but her family fled to Britain to escape the civil war between the Muslim North and the Christian South of the Sudan. She also designs a range of designer handbags called "Wek 1933", which are available throughout selected Selfridges department stores. The year refers to the year her father was born.
- Andrew Mwenda
Andrew Mwenda is a Ugandan journalist. He attended Busoga College, Mwiri in eastern Uganda before attending Makerere University. He earned a master's degree in the UK. "The Monitor Newspaper (Uganda)" and a former presenter of "Andrew Mwenda Live" on the KFM radio station. In 2005, he was among sixteen senior journalists invited by the British government to meet prime minister Tony Blair to discuss the forthcoming report of the Commission for Africa.
- Francis Bok
Francis Piol Bol Bok (born February 1979) is a Dinka tribesman, former Sudanese, alleged slave turned abolitionist. He was captured and enslaved during an Arab militia raid on the village of Nymlal in Southern Sudan on May 15, 1986 and enslaved at age seven. Bok lived in bondage for 10 years before his escape and journey to America. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and currently works for the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG).
- Jason Lewis
Jason Lewis, born 1967 in Catterick UK, is a self-powered circumnavigator. He set off from Greenwich, London in July, 1994 to travel round the globe (Expedition 360), and had travelled over 64,374 km (40,000 miles) by October 2006. *Lewis crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a wooden pedal boat. *He roller bladed across North America. Struck by a driver in Pueblo, Colorado, he spent nine months recovering from two broken legs, returning to the trek in May, 1996.