Gely Abdel Rahman (1931 – 24 August 1990) Arabic: جيلي عبد الرحمن was one of the leading Sudanese poets of the second half of the 20th century.
Ethnically from Mahas Skoot, his father migrated to Egypt in the 1920s, where he worked in Royal Palaces as Guard or (Boaab) in Ansh'as Elramel (Elsharqeia Province).
After finishing his secondary education, Gely while studying in Dar El Uloum worked as editor in one of the Egyptian newspapers.
Gely joined The Democracy Movement For National Liberation in Egypt in 1951 and continued his activities also with the Sudanese Communist Party from that time until he died in 1990.
He had been married to a Soviet woman named Malakhat Salmanova (Milla) who recently died in Switzerland, and had two daughters, Rena and Reem.