Nubians
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The term Nubian describes an ethnic group that originated in modern-day Sudan and Egypt. Today, people of Nubian descent primarily live in Sudan, and inhabit the region between Wadi Halfa in the north and Al Dabbah in the south. The main Nubian groups from north to south are the Halfaweyen, Sikut, Mahas, and Dongola. They speak a variety of Nilo-Saharan languages in the Nubian language family. Nubian people have a long history dating back to dynastic Egypt, and Nubians even founded a dynasty that ruled upper and lower Egypt during the 8th century BCE.
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Prominent Nubians
- Alara of Nubia, founder of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
- Taharqa, Pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth dynasty
- Gaafar Nimeiry, Former Sudanese president
- Anwar Sadat, The third President of Egypt, first Muslim Nobel prize laureate
- Mohammed Wardi, Sudanese Nubian singer, considered as the greatest Sudanese artist to have ever lived.
- Mohamed Mounir, Singer, the Prince
- Mo Ibrahim, Sudanese-British mobile communications entrepreneur and billionaire
- 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 statesman
- Muhammad Ahmad, 19th 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 Birgade
- 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, prominent Sudanese political figure and millionare
- Osama Abdul Latif, a Sudanese businessman, chairman of DAL Group
- Mohammed Tawfeg, ex-Minister of Exterior, ex-Minister of the Media
- Idris Ali, Egyptian novelist and short story writer
- Ibrahim Awad, Late Sudanese Musician
- Shikabala, Mahmoud Abdel Razek Fadlallah, Egyptian footballer who currently plays for Portuguese club Sporting Clube de Portugal,
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See also
- Barabra is an old ethnographical term for the Nubian peoples of Sudan and southern Egypt.
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