title: Shire (name)
text: # Shire (name)
  
  Shire (Somali: Shire) is a traditional Somali name.
  
  ## Given name
  
  * Shire Haji Farah, the current Minister of Finance of the Puntland region of Somalia.
  * Shire Jama Ahmed, was a Somali linguist who is credited with having devised a unique Latin script for transcribing the Somali language.
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Abdisamad Ali Shire, former Vice-President of the Puntland region of Somalia.
  * Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale, former Minister of Defense of Somalia.
  * Hussein Shire, a Somali entrepreneur.
  * Mohamoud Ali Shire, the 26th Sultan of the Warsangali Sultanate, reigning from 1897 to 1960.
  * Said Hassan Shire, current Speaker of the Puntland regional parliament.
  * Warsan Shire, British-Somali poet.
  * Abdi Shire Warsame, former Somali ambassador to Iran and Kenya.
  * Ali Shire Warsame, former Somali politician and businessmen.
  * Warsame Shire Awale, a prominent Somali poet, playwright and songwriter.
  