List of Somalis

Academics

• Ismail Jim'ale Osoble - Famous lawyer that once served as Minister of Information in the government of Aden Abdulle Osman
• 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 Mohamed Kusow – Somali Associate Professor of Sociology at Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. Has written extensively on Somali sociology and anthropology.
• Shire Jama Ahmed – 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 – Prominent Somali scholar and writer.......
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