Notable Persons
- Asli Hassan Abade, first Somali female pilot
- Farah Maalim, current Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya
- Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki, Islamist leader in Somalia and military leader in the Islamic Courts Union
- Mohamed Abdi Mohamed ("Gandhi"), Minister of Defense of Somalia; prominent anthropologist and activist
- Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the Sayyid; religious and nationalist leader of the Dervish State; called the Mad Mullah by the British
- Admiral Mohammed Omar Osman, ONLF chairman
- Mohamed Yusuf Haji, Minister of Defence and acting Minister of Internal Security and Provincial Affairs in Kenya
- Nuruddin Farah, renowned writer and winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- Ugaas Abdulrahman Muhumad Qani, former President of the Somali Region in Ethiopia
- Guled Casowe, former Information, Culture and Tourism Minister of Somali State in Ethiopia
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