Most Famous People from Somalia
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All 152,953
Somalia 68
By the numbers
68 notable people in this slice of the dataset.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Somalia during each.
Notable births in Somalia peaked in the 1940s with 14 people.
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Politics & Law is Somalia's biggest group — 62% of all notables (42).
Somalia over-indexes on politics & law — 3.0× the global rate.
Each band shows a profession family's share of Somalia's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.