List of Famous people born in Yemen

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Mukesh Ambani

First Name Mukesh
Last Name Ambani
Born on April 19, 1957 (age 65)
Net Worth $84.5B

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's most valuable company by market value. He is the second richest person in Asia with a net worth of US$74 billion in January 2021, and as of 28 December 2020, the 14th richest in the world.

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Keith Vaz

Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz
First Name Keith
Last Name Vaz
Born on November 26, 1956 (age 66)

Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East from 1987 to 2019. He was the British Parliament's longest-served British Asian MP.

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Habib Omar bin Hafiz

First Name Habib
Last Name Hafiz
Born on May 27, 1963 (age 59)

Habib Omar bin Hafiz is a Yemeni Sunni Islamic scholar, teacher, founder and the dean of Dar al-Mustafa Islamic seminary. He also a member of the Supreme Advisory Council for the Tabah Foundation in Abu Dhabi.

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Christopher Steele

First Name Christopher
Last Name Steele
Born on June 24, 1964 (age 58)

Christopher David Steele is a British former intelligence officer with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1987 until his retirement in 2009. He ran the Russia desk at MI6 headquarters in London between 2006 and 2009. In 2009, he co-founded Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-based private intelligence firm.

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Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi

First Name Abdrabbuh
Born on September 1, 1945 (age 77)
Born in Yemen

Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces serving as the president of Yemen since 2012. He was the vice president to Ali Abdullah Saleh from 1994 to 2012. Although Hadi enjoys international recognition, following the 22 January 2015 armed takeover by Houthis, his position as president of Yemen has been rejected by Houthis. Because of ongoing military operations inside Yemen, Hadi currently spends much of his time in exile in Saudi Arabia.

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Nada al-Ahdal

First Name Nada
Last Name Al-Ahdal
Born on March 3, 2003 (age 20)

Nada Al-Ahdal is a human rights activist and resident of Yemen known for escaping two different child marriage pacts her parents had made for her. In 2013, al-Ahdal posted a YouTube video decrying child marriage and her being forced into marriage contracts, which quickly went viral and prompted coverage of Yemen's continued practice of child marriage.

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Tawakkol Karman

Born on February 7, 1979 (age 44)

Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman is a Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She leads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains," which she co-founded in 2005. She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is part of the Arab Spring uprisings. In 2011, she was reportedly called the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution" by some Yemenis. She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize.

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Ahmed Saleh

First Name Ahmed
Last Name Saleh
Born on June 20, 1973 (age 49)
Born in Yemen

Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar is the eldest son of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and was a commander of approx. 80,000 troops of the Republican Guard unit of the Yemen Army. On April 14, 2015, the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added Saleh to the list of Specially Designated Nationals, barring US citizens and businesses from interacting with Saleh or his assets.

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Mohammed bin Ismail Al Amrani

First Name Mohammed
Last Name Amrani
Born on December 22, 1920
Died on July 12, 2021 (aged 100)
Born in Yemen

Mohammed bin Ismail Al Amrani is a judge and senior Yemen contemporary scholar. He is known by the name Judge Al Almrani; his family originate from the city of Amran in Yemen. His grandfather, a judge in Amran city, moved and settled in Sana’a 1117, the twelfth century of Mohammed's migration — he was the first from his family to be properly educated. Consequently, his descendants maintained the title Amrani since then, but never lived in Amran city.

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Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar

First Name Ali
Last Name Al-Ahmar
Born on June 20, 1945 (age 77)

Ali Mohsen Saleh al-Ahmar, sometimes spelled "Muhsin", is the Vice President of Yemen. He is a general in the Yemeni Army and was the commander of the northwestern military district and the 1st Armoured Division. He played a leading role in the creation of the General People's Congress.

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Aidarus al-Zoubaidi

First Name Aidarus
Born on November 30, 1966 (age 56)
Born in Yemen

Major General Aidarus Qassem Abdulaziz al-Zoubaidi is the current president and commander of the Southern Transitional Council and the de facto leader of the Southern Movement in Yemen. He previously served as the governor of Aden Governorate from December 2015 to April 2017.

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Abdul Majeed al-Zindani

First Name Abdul
Last Name Al-Zindani
Born on January 1, 1942 (age 81)

Abdul Majeed al-Zindani is a leading Islamist, founder and head of the Iman University in Yemen, head of the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood political movement and founder of the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah, based in Saudi Arabia. He has been described by Daniel Golden of the Wall Street Journal as "a charismatic Yemeni academic and politician." and by CNN as "a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard".

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Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher

First Name Ahmed
Last Name Dagher
Born on December 2, 1952 (age 70)

Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher is a Yemeni politician and former Prime Minister of Yemen from 4 April 2016 to 15 October 2018 as part of the internationally recognized Aden. On 22 September 2016, Dagher returned to Yemen by flying from Riyadh along with seven ministers to Aden.

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Jalal Al-Ruwishan

First Name Jalal
Last Name Al-Ruwishan
Born on February 25, 1963 (age 60)
Born in Yemen

Jalal Ali bin al-Rowaishan was the former Interior Minister of the internationally recognised Yemeni government from 9 November 2014 to 2015. In October 2016, he was said to be killed by an airstrike by Saudi warplanes but the Houthis did not say whether Rowaishan was in the building at the time of the attack.

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Khaled Bahah

First Name Khaled
Last Name Bahah
Born on January 1, 1965 (age 58)
Born in Yemen

Khaled Mahfoudh Bahah is a Yemeni politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Yemen between 2014 and 2016, as well as Vice President of Yemen from 2015 until he was sacked on April 3, 2016 by President of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.

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Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed

First Name Maeen
Born on November 30, 1976 (age 46)

Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed is a Yemeni politician who has been the Prime Minister of Yemen since 18 October 2018. He previously served as the minister of public works in Bin Dagher's cabinet.

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Aden Gillett

First Name Aden
Last Name Gillett
Born on November 8, 1958 (age 64)

John Aden Gillett is a British actor best known for playing the role of Jack Maddox on the BBC series The House of Eliott.

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Ali Saleh Al-Ahmar

First Name Ali
Last Name Al-Ahmar
Born on November 30, 1999 (age 23)
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Yahya Mohamed Abdullah Saleh

First Name Yahya
Last Name Saleh
Born on December 17, 1965 (age 57)
Born in Yemen

Yahya Mohamed Abdullah Saleh is the nephew of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and was a commander of the approx. 50,000 strong Central Security Organization from 2001 to 21 May 2012. His father is Major General Mohammed Abdullah Saleh. Saleh was replaced with Major General Fadhel Bin Yahiya al-Qusi.

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Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas

First Name Haidar
Last Name Al-Attas
Born on April 5, 1939 (age 83)
Born in Yemen

Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to form present-day Yemen. Al-Attas served until 1994. He is a member of the Yemeni Socialist Party.

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