Prominent Nubians
- Alara of Nubia, founder of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
- Taharqa, Pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth dynasty
- Anwar Sadat, Late third President of Egypt ( Egyptian Nubian father, Sudanese Nubian mother)
- Gaafar Nimeiry, Former Sudanese president
- Isa McDermott, Founder of Usercart.com (English Mother, Egyptian Coptic Nubian Father), Software Developer
- Mohammed Wardi, Singer
- Mohamed Mounir, Singer
- Ali Hassan Kuban, Singer and musician
- Hamza El Din, Singer and musicologist
- Khalil Kalfat, Literary critic, political and economic thinker and writer
- Abdallah Khalil, Ex-Sudanese Prime Minister, co-founder of the White Flag League, co-Founder and ex-general secretary of the Umma Party
- Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Soliman, Egyptian Field Marshal and statesman, commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, de facto head of state of Egypt
- Jamal Muhammad Ahmed, Sudanese diplomat, statesmen, author, poet
- Ibrahim Ahmad, Prominent Sudanese politician, first Sudanese head of the University of Khartoum, first Secretary of Treasury, the first chairman of the Bank of Sudan, co-founder of Umma party, Author and negotiator of the Sudanese Declaration of Independence
- Abdul-Rahman al Mahdi, Grandson of the Mahdi, Prominent Sudanese Satesman
- Muhammad Ahmad, 19 century sufi sheikh and self-proclaimed Mahdi
- Jamal Abu Seif, Founder of Itihad, the first politically-active group in the Sudan and predecessor of the famous White Flag League
- Sheikh Khalil Ateeg, Founder of the Day'fiya Ismailiya Sufi tariqa in the Sudan
- Abdu Dahab Hassanein, Founder of the Sudanese Communist Party
- Dawwod Abdul-Latif, First mayor of Khartoum
- Mohammed Tawfeg, ex-Minister of Exterior, ex-Minister of the Media
- Mo Ibrahim, Sudanese-born British mobile communications entrepreneur, one of the richest men in the United Kingdom
- Idris Ali, Egyptian novelist and short story writer
- Ibrahim Awad, Late Sudanese Musician .
- Osama Abdul Latif, Sudanese businessman, Chairman of DAL group
- Shikabala, Mahmoud Abdel Razek Fadlallah, Egyptian footballer who currently plays for Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek SC,
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