Since the independence of Sudan, highly qualified Sudanese were appointed to the position of University of Khartoum vice chancellor. The first one was Dr. Nasr El Hag Ali, the tenth was Professor Muddathir Tingari, and the most notable one is Prof. Elnazeer Dafalla. Notable alumni University of Khartoum plays a great role in building and qualifying most of the Sudanese leaders. Politics Abdalla Hamdok is a public administrator who became the 15th Prime Minister of Sudan Hassan al-Turabi: Leader of the National Islamic Front and former dean of the Faculty of Law Ali Osman Taha: Former vice president of Sudan John Garang: Former leader of Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement Francis Deng: Former United Nations' Under-Secretary General Ibrahim Abood Ahmed: Former commander in chief of Sudanese military forces and president of Sudan Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa: Former prime minister and minister of education of Sudan Mohamed Ahmed Mahjoob: Former prime minister and foreign minister of Sudan Babiker Awadalla: Former prime minister and foreign minister of Sudan Rashid Bakr: Former vice president and prime minister of Sudan Al-Jazuli Daf'allah: Former prime minister and head of the Sudanese Medical Association of Sudan Abdelmahmood Abdelhaleem, Former Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations Usamah Mohamad, Citizen journalist and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience Nureldin Satti, Sudanese ambassador. Nasreldin Abdelbari: Justice Minister of Sudan. Science, technology and medicine Elfatih A.B. Eltahir: Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at MIT. Daoud Mustafa Khalid: Professor of Neurology. Nimir Osamn Elbashir: Professor, Director of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Gas and Fuels Research Center Mansour Ali Haseeb: First Sudanese Professor and first Dean of Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum. Sulafa Khalid Mohamed Ali: a pioneer in paediatric cardiology in Sudan. Abbashar Hussein: Professor of Neurology. Ammar Eltahir: Former Dean of Faculty of Medicine (2009-2018). Mohamed Ahmed Abdullah: Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology. Ibrahim G. D. Ibrahim: Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Mustafa Abdalla Mohamed Salih: Professor of Pediatric Neurology. Art and education Abdalla Eltayeb: Scholar in the Arabic language Tayeb Salih: Novelist Leila Aboulela: Writer and playwright Meena Alexander: Poet and Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center Mandour Elmahdi: Author, former Principal of the Institute of Education (Sudan) and Director of Education (Saudi Arabia) Awn Alsharif Qasim: Writer, encyclopedist and scholar of Islamic history and of Sudanese dialects Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im: Islamic scholar and Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law References External