Leadership

• Salim Ahmed Salim (born 1942)

  Zanzibari diplomat.

  • Former prime minister of Tanzania (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)
  • Secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)

Science and Philosophy

• Ahmed H. Zewail (born 1946)

  Egyptian chemist

  • The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner for ''''his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond'''' (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)

The Literary World

• Ahmed Nedim (born 1681, died 1730)

  Ottoman Turkish poet known for his songs and lyric odes.

  • He really did die for his art, killed by rioters protesting the frivolousness of court life (see list of Writers of the Restoration and 18th Century)