Prominent Figures
- Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, President of Transitional National Government of Somalia, 2000–2004
- Aden Hashi Farah "Eyrow", former leader of al-Shabaab, the youth movement of the Islamic Courts Union
- Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, head of the 90-member shura council of the Islamic Courts Union, Leader Hizbul Islam
- Magool (Halima Khaliif Omar), Somali singer and musician
- Yusuf Mohammed Siad Inda'ade, head of security affairs for the Islamic Courts Union, Somalian defence minister (TFG)
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