List of Kenyan European people explained

The following is a list of notable Kenyan Europeans, either persons born in or resident in Kenya with ancestry in Europe.

Academia, medicine and science

• Richard Dawkins – ethologist, evolutionary biologist, writer (emigrated to UK)
• Sir Geoffrey William Griffin – educator
• Colin Leakey – botanist (emigrated to UK)
• Louis Leakey – archaeologist and naturalist
• Louise Leakey – artist, writer and archaeologist
• Mary Leakey – archaeologist
• Meave Leakey – palaeontologist
• Richard Leakey – palaeontologist, archaeologist and conservationist
• Prince Emmanuel de Mérode (Belgian; emigrated to DR Congo) – anthropologist, conservationist, pilot
• Joyce Poole (elephant researcher) emigrated as a child with her parents

Agriculture

• Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, landowner
• Galbraith Lowry Egerton Cole, landowner
• Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton, soldier, landowner

Business

• Geoffrey Kent - businessman
• Catherine Livingstone, businesswomen (emigrated to Australia)
• Eric Sherbrooke Walker, hotelier
• Michael Joseph, Founding CEO of Safaricom

Conservation

• George Adamson – conservationist
• Joy Adamson – conservationist
• Donald Ker, safari guide
• Esmond Bradley Martin – conservationist
• Saba Douglas-Hamilton – conservationist
• Philip Percival, safari guide
• Alan Root – conservationist, ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker
• Joan Root – conservationist, ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker
• Dame Daphne Sheldrick – conservationist

Law, government and politics

• Neil Aggett – anti-apartheid activist (emigrated to South Africa)
• Sir Michael Bear – Lord Mayor of the City of London (emigrated to UK)
• Sir Michael Blundell, politician
• Ewart Grogan – politician
• Elizabeth Furse – US Congresswoman (emigrated to the United States)
• Peter Hain – politician (emigrated to UK)
• Sir Wilfrid Havelock, politician
• Philip Leakey – politician
• Sir William Lindsay, lawyer
• Bruce McKenzie, politician
• Sir Humphrey Slade, politician

Media, music and the arts

• Michael Asher – author and explorer
• Nicholas Best – author of Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya
• Arap Bethke – actor (emigrated to Mexico)
• Mary Anne Fitzgerald - journalist, author
• Kuki Gallman – author
• Damian Grammaticas – Journalist (emigrated to UK)
• Tania Harcourt-Cooze– model (emigrated to UK)
• Aidan Hartley – news correspondent
• Elspeth Huxley – polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor (emigrated to UK)
• Sam Kiley – Journalist (emigrated to UAE)
• Beryl Markham – author, pilot, horse trainer and adventurer
• Edmund Morris – writer (emigrated to the United States)
• Jonathan Scott – conservationist, wildlife photographer, author, TV presenter
• Jules Sylvester – animal wrangler, TV presenter (emigrated to the United States)
• Roger Whittaker – folk musician (emigrated to UK)
• Adrian Zagoritis – musician (emigrated to UK)

Military

• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British army officer and founder of the scouting movement
• Catherine Caughey, Bletchley Park codebreaker
• Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener, British army officer
• Oscar Ferris Watkins, British army officer

Sport

• Alastair Cavenagh – rally driver
• Roger Chapman – golfer (emigrated to UK)
• Stephen Coppinger, squash player (emigrated to South Africa)
• Crista Cullen – field hockey player
• Jamie Dalrymple – cricket player (emigrated to UK)
• Elspeth Denning – field hockey player (emigrated to Australia)
• Ian Duncan – rally driver
• David Dunford – swimmer
• Jason Dunford – swimmer
• Chris Froome – bicycle racer^[1]
• Edgar Herrmann – rally driver^[2]
• Derek Pringle – cricketer^[3]
• Don Pringle – cricketer
• Jake Robertson, distance runner
• Zane Robertson, distance runner
• Simon Shaw – rugby union player (emigrated to UK)
• Paul Sherwen – cyclist and cycling commentator (Emigrated to Uganda)
• Carl Tundo - rally driver
• Seren Waters - cricketer
• Sir Frank O'Brien Wilson – cattle farmer and cricketer

Other

• Denys Finch Hatton, big-game hunter
• Peter Poole – executed for murder
• Thomas Cholmondeley – landowner, convicted of manslaughter

See also

• British diaspora
• White people in Kenya

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chris Froome. The Telegraph.
2. Web site: Edgar Herrmann. EWRC-Results.com.
3. Web site: A man called Mary, and Derek Pringle's Dad. ESPNCricinfo.