List of Famous people born in Khartoum, Sudan

Bol Manute Bol is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. A son of basketball player Manute Bol, Bol was born in Khartoum, Sudan, but began living in Kansas from a young age. In high school, Bol was considered one of the best players in the class of 2018, having been rated a consensus five-star recruit and earning McDonald's All-American honors. A center listed at 7 feet 2 inches (2.18 m), he is one of the tallest players in the NBA.

Almoez Ali Zainalabiddin Abdullah is a Sudanese-born naturalised Qatari professional footballer who plays for and captains the Qatar Stars League side Al-Duhail and Qatar as a forward. He is a member of the Qatar national team which helped the team to win the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. He holds the record of most goals scored in an Asian Cup, scoring nine in the 2019 edition.

Wenyen Gabriel is a South Sudanese-American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. Gabriel was a 5-star prospect who in 2016 was ranked number 14 on ESPN's Top 100.

Anusha Dandekar is an Indian-Australian MTV VJ, actress and singer, who is best known as a VJ and a host who has hosted several shows.

Majak Daw is an Australian rules footballer who last played for the North Melbourne Kangaroos in the Australian Football League (AFL). Daw and his family in Australia are refugees from the civil wars in Sudan. Daw became the first Sudanese Australian to be drafted to an AFL club when he was contracted to North Melbourne in the 2009 AFL Draft. Daw's drafting gained international attention; it was reported by the BBC and the Voice of America. He made his first appearance for North Melbourne in a NAB Cup match on 20 February 2011.

Major General Mohamed Bey Naguib Youssef Qutb El-Qashlan was an Egyptian politician and military figure who briefly served as the first President and Prime Minister of Egypt following the establishment of the Arab Republic of Egypt on 18 June 1953. He had served as personal guard to King Farouk I of Egypt and was a distinguished veteran of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. After the war he became involved in the Free Officers Movement and, along with future president Gamal Abdel Nasser, lead the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 that deposed Farouk and ended the rule of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in Egypt and Sudan.

Andreas Voutsinas was a Greek actor and theater director. In the English-speaking world, he was best known for his roles in three Mel Brooks films, The Producers (1968), The Twelve Chairs (1970) and History of the World, Part I (1981).

Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub was both Foreign Minister and then the 6th Prime Minister of Sudan. He was also an important Sudanese literary writer, who published several volumes of poetry and literary criticism in Arabic.

Kacoul Dut "Peter" Jok is a Sudanese basketball player for UCAM Murcia of the Spanish Liga ACB. He played college basketball for the University of Iowa of the Big Ten Conference. A 6 ft 6 in shooting guard, Jok is from Khartoum.