Lam Akol, foreign affairs minister and former lecturer at University of Khartoum Ismail al-Azhari, former Prime Minister and first Head of State of Sudan, oversaw the independence of Sudan in 1956 Rashid Bakr, former Prime Minister Omar al-Bashir, former President of Sudan Mandour Elmahdi, former Principal of the Institute of Education in Sudan Osman Eltayeb, Honorary Consul of Sudan in Nigeria and CPA participant John Garang, former Vice President and Sudan peace signer Sayed Ahmad Keir, second Foreign Minister of Sudan, 1958–1964 Yousif Kuwa (1945–2001) revolutionary, rebel commander and politician Sadiq al-Mahdi, former Prime minister of Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit, Vice President of Sudan Minni Minnawi, leader of largest faction of Sudan Liberation Army Ahmed al-Mirghani, former Head of State of Sudan Field Marshal Gaafar Nimeiry, fourth President of Sudan Hassan Al-Turabi, scholar and thinker who helped initiate and establish the Islamic movement in the Sudan. Abdalla Hamdok, current prime minister of Sudan.