Ali A. Abdi – sociologist and educationist, and professor of education and international development at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; former President of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC); founding/co-founding editor of the peer reviewed online publications, Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education and Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry
Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi – scholar, linguist and writer; published on Somali culture, history, language and ethnogenesis
Ali Jimale Ahmed – poet, essayist, scholar, and short story writer; published on Somali history and linguistics
Shire Jama Ahmed (c. 1935–1989) – linguist who devised a unique Latin script for the Somali language
Suleiman Ahmed Gulaid – prominent professor and the president of Amoud University
Abdirahman Hussein – scholar and teacher at University of Tennessee
Abdi Kusow – professor of sociology at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa; has written extensively on Somali sociology and anthropology
Mohamed Haji Mukhtar – professor of African and Middle Eastern History at Savannah State University; has written extensively on the history of Somalia and the Somali language
Ismail Jim’ale Osoble – lawyer, once served as Minister of Information in the government of Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
Abdi Ismail Samatar – prominent scholar and professor at the University of Minnesota
Ahmed Ismail Samatar – prominent professor and Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College; editor of Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies
Said Sheikh Samatar (1943–2015) – prominent scholar and writer and former professor of history at Rutgers University; main areas of interest are history and linguistics
