Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Woqooyi Galbeed

Nadifa Mohamed is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine's list "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. Her 2021 novel, The Fortune Men, was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, making her the first British Somali novelist to get this honour. She has also written short stories, essays, memoirs and articles in outlets including The Guardian, and contributed poetry to the anthology New Daughters of Africa. She was also a lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London until 2021. She will be Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University in Spring 2022.

Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi, conocido como Xudeydi, fue un músico somalí pionero en la creación de la música somalí.

Mohamed Hashi Dhamac conocido como Gaarriye, fue un poeta y activista político somalí. Perteneció a la Sa'ad Musa subdivisión del clan Habr Awal.

Muse Bihi Abdi es un político y ex militar somalí, que se desempeña como presidente de Somalilandia desde 2017.