Famous People with Name Sufi

Sufi Abu Taleb            Origin/Culture/Country: Egyptian

Sufi Abu Taleb: served as Acting President of Egypt for eight days from 6 October 1981 to 14 October 1981, following the assassination of Egypt's third president Anwar Sadat.[1] Upon Sadat's assassination, Sufi Abu Taleb was serving as Speaker of the People's Assembly fr

Sufia Kamal            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Sufia Kamal: was a poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist from Bangladesh. She was born to a Muslim family in Barisal, Bangladesh. She is one of the most widely recognized cultural personalities in Bangladesh. When she died in 1999, she was buried with full state honors, the first woman in Bangladesh to receive this honor.Sufia Kamal was born in Shaestabad, daughter of a distinguished zamindar family, in Barisal. During her childhood, women's education was prohibited and she could not afford to get academic education. But she learnt Bangla, Hindi, English, Urdu, Arabic, Kurdish and Persian language from her house tutors. In 1918

Alisha Sufit            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Alisha Sufit: best known as the singer-songwriter with the 1970s band Magic Carpet. She is also a visual artist and poet.She was a pupil at the Arts Educational School in London, where she studied dance and drama. Later she attended Chelsea College of Art, London, and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. On leaving art school she began playing guitar and writing her own songs, performing in clubs and colleges around the UK. Her repertoire consisted of her own compositions plus traditional and contemporary folk songs, self-accompanied on acoustic guitar and Appalachian dulcimer.