Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail (also spelled Abdullahi Shaykh Isma'il) is the deputy prime minister and foreign minister in the transitional government of Somalia. He was appointed to that position on December 1 2004 as part of a partial government formed by Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Ghedi. Like many other members of that government, Ismail is a member of one of the factions which has fought for control of the country since the early 1990s. He was previously the foreign minister of Somalia during the mid 1990s.

Mr Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail was the ex-Somali Ambassodor to Russia under the Said Barre goverment. Mr. Ismail is from the powerful Dir clan, and from the Bimal of the Marka region. He lived in Addis Abbaba in the past ten years,and has close connections with the Ethiopians.