| Mohamed Aden Sheikh محمد آدم الشيخ | |
| Birth Date: | 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Kismayo, Somalia |
| Writer Politician scholer Doctor | |
| Office: | Minister of Education Somalia |
| Term Start: | 4 Novenbar 1988 |
| Term End: | 17 January 1990 |
| Primeminister: | Abdirahman Jama Bare |
| Office2: | Minister of Health of Somalia |
| Term Start2: | 4 November 1987 |
| Term End2: | 17 January 1979 |
| Office3: | Minister of Information of Somalia |
| Party: | SYL |
Mohamed Aden Sheikh (c. 1936 – 30 September 2010) was a Somali medical doctor and politician who held posts as Minister of Health, Minister of Education, and Minister of Information.[1]
Aden was the first Somali surgeon who received his medical training at the University of Rome and practiced at Mogadishu General Hospital.[1] He enter politics in the 1970s and held various cabinet positions.[1] Aden was also a central committee member of the only political party allowed in Somalia, the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party.[1] On 9 June 1982, he was one of seven parliamentarians arrested and accused of treason for having criticized the government of President Siad Barre.[1] Aden was the president of the Somali National Academy of Sciences and Arts at the time of his arrest.[1]
He was also the former Head of the Ideology Bureau SRRC and Somali Technological Development.