-Maryse Condé, Writer, Nobel Prize in Literature

Chief Fortune Charumbira, Co-Chair of the SOAD Royal Chamber, President of the Pan-African Parliament of the African Union 

-Cheick Modibo Diarra, Minister of Sciences and Industry of SOAD, former Prime Minister of Mali, former engeneer at the NASA and director of Microsoft Africa

-Euzhan Palcy, Film Maker, won many international awards, including the Unesco award