Famous People with Name Jara

Jarallah Omar Al-Kuhali            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Jarallah Omar Al-Kuhali: was a Yemeni politician, intellectual, and guerrilla fighter. He was trained in Islamic law, but in the 1960s he turned towards Marxism. He was a political prisoner from 1968 to 1971 and participated in the civil war between North Yemen and South Yemen as a leader of the National Liberation Front, a politico-military coalition affiliated to the socialist government of the South. He escaped to the South after his forces were defeated by then-North Yemeni President and current unified Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Jarallah became a member of the Politburo of the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), the ruling party in the South, and was named minister of culture in the government of a newly unified Yemen in the early 1990s

Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga            Origin/Culture/Country: Kenyan

Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga: was a Luo Chief, who became a prominent figure in Kenya's struggle for independence. He later served as Kenya's first Vice-President, and thereafter as opposition leader. Odinga's son Raila Odinga is the current Prime Minister, and another son, Oburu Odin