The Most Famous
MODELS from South Sudan
This page contains a list of the greatest South Sudanese Models. The pantheon dataset contains 249 Models, 1 of which were born in South Sudan. This makes South Sudan the birth place of the 39th most number of Models behind Paraguay and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Sudanese Models of all time. This list of famous South Sudanese Models is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Alek Wek (1977 - )
With an HPI of 37.48, Alek Wek is the most famous South Sudanese Model. Her biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Alek Wek (born 16 April 1977) is a South Sudanese-British model and designer who began her fashion career at the age of 18 in 1995. She has been hailed for her influence on the perception of beauty in the fashion industry. She is from the Dinka ethnic group in South Sudan, but fled to Britain in 1991 to escape the civil war in Sudan. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as models born between 1977 and 1977. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living models include Alek Wek.
