Academics
- Ismail Jim'ale Osoble – lawyer that once served as Minister of Information in the government of Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
- Ali A. Abdi – Somali anthropologist and professor of education and international development at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada and is president of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada. He is also the founding editor of the peer reviewed online publication Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education
- Abdi Kusow – Somali associate professor of sociology at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Has written extensively on Somali sociology and anthropology.
- Shire Jama Ahmed (c. 1935–?) – linguist who devised a unique Latin script for the Somali language
- Ahmed Ismail Samatar – prominent Somali professor and dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College. He is the editor of Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies.
- Abdi Ismail Samatar – prominent Somali scholar and professor at the University of Minnesota
- Said Sheikh Samatar (b. 1943) – prominent Somali scholar and writer. Main areas of interest are linguistics and sociology.
- Mohamed Haji Mukhtar – Somali professor of African and Middle Eastern History at Savannah State University. Has written extensively on the history of Somalia and the Somali language.
- Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi – Somali scholar, linguist and writer. Published on Somali culture, history, language and ethnogenesis.
- Ali Jimale Ahmed – Somali poet, essayist, scholar, and short story writer. Published on Somali history and linguistics
- Abdisalam Issa-Salwe – scholar, writer; currently an associate professor in Information Systems in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Taibah University in Medina, Saudi Arabia
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