List of Zambians explained

This is a list of famous or notable Zambians, or people of Zambian descent, or people who have influenced Zambia listed in the following categories, and in no particular order:

Businesspeople

• Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba
• Saviour Chibiya
• Hakainde Hichilema
• Rajan Mahtani
• Sylvia Masebo
• Clever Mpoha
• Susan Mulikita

Politics

Politicians

Presidents

• Kenneth David Kaunda – President – 1964–1991
• Frederick Titus Jacob Chiluba – President – 1991–2001
• Levy Patrick Mwanawasa – President – 2001–2008
• Rupiah Bwezani Banda – President – 2008–2011
• Michael Chilufya Sata – President – 2011–2014
• Dr. Guy Scott – Acting President – October 2014–January 2015
• Edgar Lungu – President – 2015–2021
• Hakainde Hichilema – President – 2021–Current

Vice presidents

• Reuben Chitandika Kamanga – Vice President – 1964–1967
• Simon Kapwepwe – Vice President – 1967–1970
• Mainza Mathias Chona – Vice President – 1970–1973
  (post abolished thereafter and reintroduced in 1991)
• Levy Patrick Mwanawasa – Vice President – 1991–1994
• Godfrey Miyanda – Vice President – 1994–1997
• Christon Tembo – Vice President – 1997–2001
• Enoch P. Kavindele – Vice President – 2001–2003
• Nevers Mumba – Vice President – 2003–2004
• Lupando Katoloshi Mwape – Vice President – 2004–2006
• Rupiah Bwezani Banda – Vice President – 2006–2008
• George Kunda – Vice President – 2008–2011
• Dr. Guy Scott – Vice President – 2011–2014
• Inonge Wina – Vice President – 2015–2021
• Mutale Nalumango – Vice President – 2021–Current

Prime ministers

• Mainza Chona – Prime Minister, 1973–1975, 1977–1978
• Elijah Mudenda – Prime Minister, 1975–1977
• Daniel Lisulo – Prime Minister, 1978–1981
• Nalumino Mundia – Prime Minister, 1981–1985
• Kebby Musokotwane – Prime Minister, 1985–1989, Secretary-General, UNIP 1989–1991, Opposition President, 1992
• Malimba Masheke – Prime Minister, 1989–1991 (post abolished thereafter)

Others

• Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika – former minister/democratic campaigner
• Anderson Mazoka – former opposition leader (1998–2006)
• Austin Liato – former minister/labour leader, former Pan-African Parliament MP
• Besa Mumba – youngest female commercial pilot
• Besnat Jere – former Pan-African Parliament MP
• Chibesa Kankasa – Zambian freedom fighter and politician^[1]
• Crispin Shumina – former MP, former Pan-African Parliament MP
• Dickson Jere – former Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations, under Rupiah Banda
• Edward Makuka Nkoloso – former director of Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy
• Elias Chipimo Jnr – retired opposition leader
• Gladys Nyirongo – former Lands Minister
• Hakainde Hichilema – opposition leader (2006–2021 (Became president))
• Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika – diplomat, former UNICEF Regional Adviser for Africa, Presidential Candidate (2001)
• Kabinga Pande – former Foreign Affairs Minister
• Kalombo Mwansa – former Foreign Affairs Minister
• Luke Mwananshiku – former Finance Minister
• M. K. Mubanga – former Pan-African Parliament MP
• Mundia Sikatana – former Justice Minister
• Ompie Nkumbula-Lieventhal – former MP, former Pan-African Parliament MP
• Patrick Anthony Mwewa Chikusu – Deputy Minister of Health in the Republic of Zambia
• Peter Daka – Minister of science and technology, former Pan-African Parliament MP
• Ronnie Shikapwasha – former Information Minister
• Susan Nakazwe – former Mayor of Lusaka
• Thokozile Muwamba – first female fighter pilot

Traditional rulers

Chieftainships are listed here. These articles cover all holders of the traditional titles; prominent individual holders may also have their own articles, usually in People in the History of Zambia below.

See main article: List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia.

Other notable traditional leaders include:

• Chitimukulu
• Mwata Kazembe
• Chief Kanongesha
• Chief Monze
• Litunga
• Paramount Chief Mpezeni
• Chief Mporokoso
• Chief Mukuni

Religious figures

• Emmanuel Milingo – Christian leader, has established the 'Married Priests Now' organisation in the USA
• Adrian Mung'andu – Catholic archbishop of Lusaka

Sports

Other sports

• Corné Krige captain of South African rugby Springbok world cup
• Ellis Chibuye
• Felix Bwalya
• George Gregan captain of Australian rugby team
• Madalitso Muthiya
• Obed Mutanya
• PG Nana
• Samuel Matete world champion 400m hurdles
• Yunus Badat
• Amon Simutowe
• Bob Hesford England rugby
• Daffyd James Wales rugby
• Phil Edmonds England cricket
• Neal Radford England cricket
• Jeff Whitley Northern Ireland football
• Robert Earnshaw Wales football
• Ian McCallum South Africa rugby Springbok
• Roy McCallum South Africa rugby Springbok
• Satwant Singh International rally driver
• Steve Arneil youngest ever international rugby player aged 16 and karate expert

Artists

See also: List of Zambian artists.

Musicians

• Backxwash, Zambian-Canadian rapper
• Denise Chaila, Irish and Zambian rapper, singer, poet, grime, and hip hop artist
• Matthew Ngosa
• Paul Ngozi, musician, band leader of the Ngozi Family rock band
• Sampa The Great, singer, rapper, songwriter
• Yo Maps

Authors

• Dambisa Moyo
• Field Ruwe
• Binwell Sinyangwe
• Wilbur Smith
• Ellen Banda-Aaku
• Namwali Serpell
• Fwanyanga Mulikita
• Kenneth Kaunda
• Andrew Kaumba

Chess players

• Amon Simutowe

Zambian lawyers

• Likando Kalaluka - Attorney General of the republic of Zambia from 2015 to 2021
• Chipokota Mwanawasa - Special Assistant to the Zambian President for Public Policy from 2021 to date.
• Nelly Mutti
• Bokani Soko - Prominent business and lawyer

Media and TV

• Jonah Buyoya - Zambian journalist
• Mary Mbewe - Zambian journalist, and executive editor^[2]
• Smokey Haangala - Zambian journalist, poet, writer, composer, musician^[3]

Evans Sinjela JournalistDerrick Sinjela Photo-Journalist Rainbow Newspaper Zambia Limited (RNZL), Kwilanzi Newspaper (KNZ), Zambian Developmental Media Alliance (ZADEMA), Zambian Children Young People and Women in Development (ZCYPWD), Journalists Against Piracy In Zambia (JAPIZ)Simon Banda Kwacha Magazine Zambia (KMZ).Henry Chunza Times of Zambia (ToZ) Chief Photo-Journalist

Physicians

• Aaron Mujajati
• Natasha Salifyanji Kaoma, medical doctor, and organization founder^[4]

Other people born in/related to Zambia

• Steve Arneil – Karate Kyokushin practitioner born in South Africa, but lived in Zambia
• Joseph and Luka Banda – Conjoined twins
  • Lukwesa Burak – Sky News anchor based in London
• Alina Mshanga
• Norman Carr – British wildlife conservationist who set up national parks in Zambia
• John Edmond – Zambian-born Rhodesian singer
• Phil Edmonds – English cricketer born in Lusaka
• Robert Earnshaw – Zambian-born Welsh international football player
• Stanley Fischer – Zambian-born Deputy Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and Governor of the Bank of Israel
• Tawny Gray – sculptor
• George Gregan – Zambian-born captain of the Australian Wallabies Rugby Union team
• Amy Holmes – Zambian-born (Zambian father, American mother), The Blaze news anchor and CNN political contributor
• Daffyd James – Zambian-born Welsh international rugby player
• V. M. Jones – Author
• Corné Krige – Zambian-born South African Springboks Rugby Union team captain
• Robert Lange – Zambian-born record producer and songwriter
• Chilu Lemba – Radio and TV presenter
• Rozalla Miller – British/Zimbabwean singer born to a Zambian mother
• Dambisa Moyo – International economist and best-selling author, born and raised in Lusaka
• Martin Mubanga – Zambian extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
• Monica Musonda – Lawyer turned entrepreneur
• Rungano Nyoni – Zambian-born Welsh director
• Nsofwa Petronella Sampa – Psychological counselor and HIV activist
• Emeli Sandé – British singer, Zambian father
• Denise Scott Brown – Zambian-born American architect
• David Shepherd – British conservationist who has painted Zambian wildlife
• Kapelwa Sikota (1928–2006) – First Zambian registered nurse
• Hammerskjoeld Simwinga – Conservationist/environmentalist
• Peter Amos Siwo – Pioneering graduate and civil servant
• Wilbur Smith – Zambian-born (Ndola) British/South African author
• Jeff Whitley – Zambian-born played for Northern Ireland

Other prominent figures in the history of Zambia

This is a list of deceased historical figures (or sub-lists of them) in Zambia and its antecedent territories, and combines Zambians, Africans and non-Zambians including British people and Northern Rhodesians.

• Robert Edward Codrington – colonial administrator of the two territories ruled by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) which later became Zambia
• Father Jean-Jacques Corbeil – Canadian missionary and ethnographer of Bemba culture
• Dan Crawford – missionary pioneer
• Bishop Joseph Dupont – missionary pioneer
• Sir Stewart Gore-Browne – called Chipembele by Africans, soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia
• List of governors of Northern Rhodesia
• List of governors-general of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
• Evelyn Dennison Hone – last governor of Northern Rhodesia
• Alice Lenshina – leader of the Lumpa religious sect
• General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck – leader of German East Africa forces of World War I
• Lewanika – Litunga of the Lozi
• David Livingstone – British Scottish missionary-explorer
• Michael Mataka – first native Zambian to become police commissioner
• Mwata Kazembe – Chief of the Kazembe-Lunda
• Mpezeni – warrior-king of one of the largest Ngoni groups of central Africa
• Nalumino Mundia – Prime Minister, 1981–1985
• Alick Nkhata – popular Zambian musician and broadcaster in the 1950s through to the mid-1970s
• Baldwin Nkumbula
• Harry Nkumbula – Nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia from British colonialism
• Mwene Chitengi Chiyengele – Mbunda chief who led his tribesmen from north-eastern Angola to Bulozi, western Zambia around 1795.
• Cecil Rhodes – English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa and an ardent believer in colonialism and imperialism, founder of the state of Rhodesia
• Sebetwane – Basotho chief who fled from Shaka Zulu, eventually conquering and settling in Western Province
• Mamochisane – daughter of Sebetwane, succeeded him as Makololo queen
• Sekeletu – Makololo King of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863
• Alfred Sharpe – British administrator and agent for Cecil Rhodes
• Lawrence Aubrey Wallace
• Roy Welensky – leader of white trade union and settler politician
• Rohan Oza creator of Vitamin Water in the US, sold to Coke a cola

See also

• History of Zambia
• List of Zambia-related topics
• List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia

Notes and References

1. News: Freedom Fighter and Politician Mama Chibesa Kankasa has died. Lusaka Times. 29 October 2018.
2. News: Caroline Wafula . Zambian Editor Mary Mbewe Wins Media Leadership Award . Daily Nation . 8 September 2020 . 6 March 2021 .
3. Web site: Chanda. Davies M.M. 2014-08-15. Smokey Haangala remembered. Times of Zambia.
4. Web site: Skoll Faith Kaoma. skoll.org. 2018-10-05.