The Most Famous
MILITARY PERSONNELS from Sudan
This page contains a list of the greatest Sudanese Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 2,058 Military Personnels, 1 of which were born in Sudan. This makes Sudan the birth place of the 108th most number of Military Personnels behind Gabon, and Guinea-Bissau.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Sudanese Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Sudanese Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Hemedti (b. 1975)
With an HPI of 52.01, Hemedti is the most famous Sudanese Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Arabic: محمد حمدان دقلو, romanized: Muḥammad Ḥamdān Daqlū, born 1974 or 1975), generally referred to mononymously as Hemedti (Arabic: حميدتي, romanized: Ḥamīdtī; also spelled Hemetti or Hemeti; meaning "little Mohamed"), is a Sudanese military officer and the current head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). A Janjaweed leader from the Rizeigat tribe in Darfur, he was the Deputy head of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) following the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état. Since 2013, Hemetti has commanded the RSF. He was considered by The Economist to be the most powerful person in Sudan as of early July 2019. On 21 August 2019, the TMC transferred power to the civilian–military Transitional Sovereignty Council, of which Hemetti is a member. Under Article 19 of the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration, Hemetti and the other Sovereignty Council members were to be ineligible to run in the 2022 Sudanese general election. As of 2019, Hemeti was considered one of the richest people in Sudan via his company, al-Junaid, which had a wide array of business interests including investment, mining, transport, car rental, iron and steel. On behalf of the Transitional Military Council, Hemetti signed a Political Agreement on 17 July 2019 and a Draft Constitutional Declaration on 4 August 2019, together with Ahmed Rabee on behalf of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), as major steps in the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy. In September 2019, Hemetti helped negotiate a peace deal between groups in armed conflict in Port Sudan. Hemetti took part in the 2021 Sudan coup d'état, but has since distanced himself from it; in February 2023 he called it a "mistake". The comments were part of a growing rift between him and army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. In April 2023, Dagalo mobilized the RSF against al-Burhan's government, claiming to capture key government sites, though al-Burhan has disputed this. According to Human Rights Watch and professor Eric Reeves, the RSF was responsible for crimes against humanity, including systematic killings of civilians and rapes, in Darfur in 2014 and 2015. Hemetti was also involved in the 23 November 2004 attack on the village of Adwa which resulted in a massacre and rape, and said that the attacks had been planned for months. According to Al Jazeera and The Daily Beast, the Sudanese Transitional Military Council, headed by the RSF, holds major responsibility for the 3 June 2019 Khartoum massacre.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Sudanese military personnels born between 1975 and 1975. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Sudanese military personnels include Hemedti. As of April 2024, 1 new Sudanese military personnels have been added to Pantheon including Hemedti.