The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Sudan
This page contains a list of the greatest Sudanese Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 847 Businesspeople, 2 of which were born in Sudan. This makes Sudan the birth place of the 47th most number of Businesspeople behind Romania, and Argentina.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Sudanese Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Sudanese Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Mo Ibrahim (b. 1946)
With an HPI of 51.75, Mo Ibrahim is the most famous Sudanese Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Sir Mohammed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim (Arabic: محمد إبراهيم; born 3 May 1946) is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several telecommunications companies, before founding Celtel, which, when sold, had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries. After selling Celtel in 2005 for $3.4 billion, he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well as creating the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, to evaluate nations' performance. He is also a member of the Africa regional advisory board of London Business School. In 2007 he initiated the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, which awards $5 million to African heads of state who deliver security, health, education and economic development to their constituents and democratically transfer power to their successors. Ibrahim has pledged to give at least half of his wealth to charity by joining The Giving Pledge. According to the Forbes 2011 Billionaire List, Mo Ibrahim is worth $1.8 billion, making him the 692nd richest person in the world. He was also selected for the TIME magazine's "Top 100" list in 2008 and was ranked first in the annual Powerlist of influential Black Britons.
2. Awadeya Mahmoud (b. 1963)
With an HPI of 43.91, Awadeya Mahmoud is the 2nd most famous Sudanese Businessperson. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Awadeya Mahmoud (Arabic: عوضية محمود) a Sudanese and the founder and chairwoman of the Women's Food and Tea Sellers' Cooperative and the Women's Multi-Purpose Cooperative for Khartoum state, Sudan. On 28 March 2016, the United States Department of State announced her as one of the recipients of the International Women of Courage Award for that year.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Sudanese businesspeople born between 1946 and 1963. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Sudanese businesspeople include Mo Ibrahim, and Awadeya Mahmoud. As of April 2024, 2 new Sudanese businesspeople have been added to Pantheon including Mo Ibrahim, and Awadeya Mahmoud.
