– current Vice President of Somaliland Mohamed Aden Sheikh (c. 1925–2010) – intellectual, former head of Somali Technological Development, former Minister of Education, and former Minister of Health Dr. Saad Ali Shire – current Finance Minister of Somaliland Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji (1985-2017) Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction Faysal Ali Warabe – engineer and politician; founder and Chairman of (UCID political party Abdi Warsame – Somali American member-elect of the Minneapolis City Council Saado Ali Warsame – singer-songwriter and politician; former MP in the Federal Parliament of Somalia Adan Keynan Wehliye – Kenyan politician and a long time member of parliament from Wajir Ahmed Yusuf Yasin (b. 1957) – former Vice President of Somaliland Mohamed Bihi Yonis (b. 1947) – Deputy Joint United Nations African Union Special Representative for Darfur and former Foreign Minister of Somaliland Maryan Abdullahi Yusuf – banker; Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Somalia Ahmed Abdallah Wayel – former Minister of Education (2012) Aden Ibrahim Aw Hirsi (b. 1968) – Somali politician, Sufi, author, educator and poet; the governor of Gedo region, 2006–2009 Scientists Osman Aden Abdulle – geneticist; has studied the Somali blood type and its ethnogenesis; in 1987 he jointly discovered with his colleagues a new Rh gene complex producing the rare Cx (Rh9) antigen in the Somali population Abdusalam Abubakar (b. 1989/90) – one of the youngest winners of the BT Young Scientist of the Year Award; later went on to win the European Union Contest for Young Scientists for his project, An Extension of Wiener's Attack on RSA Hassan al-Jabarti (d. 1774) – mathematician, theologian, astronomer and philosopher, considered one of the great scholars of the 18th century Amina Said Ali – author, poet, and medical scientist based in Stockholm, Sweden Ali Said Faqi – scientist and the leading researcher on the design and interpretation of toxicology studies at the MPI research center in Mattawan, Michigan Jama Musse Jama (b. 1967) – ethnomathematician and author; known for his research on traditional Somali board games such as Shax and the history of mathematics in the Horn of Africa and the founder of Hargeisa Cultural Center Ahmed Mumin Warfa – scientist, specialised in botany and jointly discovered the Cyclamen somalense, the first genus from tropical Africa with his colleague Mats Thulin; the "world's pre-eminent authority on frankincense"; professor at Salt Lake Community College Muslim Theologians Ishaaq bin Ahmed – 12th century cleric