Haji Farah Ali Omar

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Haji Farah Ali Omar (Xaaji Faarax Cali Cumar) was a Somali politician born in 1907 in Jamaame, Somalia. He came from the Habargidir clan (sacad, indhoyar subclan). After primary school, he studied in Egypt and earned a scholarship to Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where he studied politics and diplomacy. He married Aisha Samatar and had three daughters: Halima Farah, Fatima Farah, and Dahabo Farah; he did not have any sons.

In the 1950s, Omar served as a Party Representative in the Territorial Council (1952–1956). He then became Minister for Economic Affairs in the Trust Territory of Somalia in 1956 and later served in Somalia's post-independence government under President Aden Abdullah Osman Daar. He participated in missions to the United States and the United Nations. He is credited with creating Somalia's first shilling and establishing the printing offices to mint and produce coins in Mogadishu. After leaving politics, he focused on farming near Qoryooley in southern Somalia. He died in Mogadishu in the mid-1980s.