Freedom Heroes

• Me Katilili Wa Menza, Mother of colonial resistance
• Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi
  Dedan Kimathi
  Dedan Kimathi Waciuri , was a Kenyan rebel leader who fought against the British colonial government in Kenya in the 1950s. He was convicted and executed in 1957 for murder and terrorism....
  
  
• Field Marshal Musa Mwariama
  Musa Mwariama
  Field Marshal Musa Mwariama is a former leader of the Mau Mau in Meru and the highest ranking Mau Mau who survived the war in the forests and jungles of Central Kenya from its inception to independence without being killed or captured...
  
  
• General Waruhiu Itote
  Waruhiu Itote
  Waruhiu Itote was one of the key leaders of the Mau Mau rebellion alongside Dedan Kimathi and General Stanley Mathenge and Musa Mwariama....
  
   (General China)
• Jomo Kenyatta
  Jomo Kenyatta
  Jomo Kenyattapron.] served as the first Prime Minister and President of Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation....
  
  
• J.M. Kariuki
  Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
  Josiah Mwangi Kariuki was a Kenyan socialist politician during the administration of the Jomo Kenyatta government. He held different government positions from 1963, when Kenya became an independent country, to 1975, when he was assassinated. He left behind three wives and many children.-Early...
  
  
• Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
  Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
  Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga was a Luo Chief, who became a prominent figure in Kenya's struggle for independence. He later served as Kenya's first Vice-President, and thereafter as opposition leader...
  
  
• Ramogi Achieng Oneko
• Paul Ngei
  Paul Ngei
  The Honourable Paul Joseph Ngei was a Kenyan politician who was imprisoned for his role in the anti-colonial movement, but who went on to hold several government ministerial positions after Kenya became independent....
  
  
• Tom Mboya
  Tom Mboya
  Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a prominent Kenyan politician during Jomo Kenyatta's government. He was founder of the Nairobi People's Congress Party, a key figure in the formation of the Kenya African National Union , and the Minister of Economic Planning and Development at the time of his death...
  
  
• Masinde Muliro
  Masinde Muliro
  Masinde Muliro was a Kenyan politician, one of the central figures in the shaping of the political landscape in Kenya. A renowned freedom fighter, he campaigned for the restoration of multi-party democracy in Kenya in his later years....
  
  
• Daniel arap Moi
  Daniel arap Moi
  Daniel Toroitich arap Moi was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002.Daniel arap Moi is popularly known to Kenyans as 'Nyayo', a Swahili word for 'footsteps'...
  
  

Politicians

• Moody Awori
  Moody Awori
  Arthur Moody Awori , known as "Uncle Moody", was the 9th Vice President of Kenya from 25 September 2003 to 9 January 2008.-Politics:Awori was born in Butere. He went to Mangu High School in 1935, and later Kakamega High School...
  
  , Vice President, August,2003 – December 2007
• Nicholas Biwott
  Nicholas Biwott
  Kipyator Nicholas Kiprono arap Biwott is a Kenyan businessman, politician and philanthropist. Biwott has served as a civil servant, Member of Parliament and government minister, during which time he has held eight senior ministerial positions, worked alongside Kenya’s first three presidents – Jomo...
  
  , Member of Parliament, Cabinet Minister
• Cyrus Jirongo
  Cyrus Jirongo
  Shakhalaga Khwa Jirongo, popularly Cyrus Jirongo, is a politician and is a current Member of Parliament in Kenya.Between 1978 and 1981 he went to Mang'u High School. He became the chairman of AFC Leopards football club in 1991...
  
  
• Josephat Karanja
  Josephat Karanja
  Dr. Josephat Njuguna Karanja was a Vice-President of the Republic of Kenya between 1988-1989. He resigned to avoid an ongoing vote-of-no-confidence in the Kenyan Parliament...
  
   Vice president 1988–1989
• J. M. Kariuki, assassinated 1975
• Uhuru Kenyatta
  Uhuru Kenyatta
  Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance and MP for Gatundu South Constituency. He is the Chairman of Kenya African National Union , the former ruling party, which is currently part of the Party of National Unity...
  
  , son of the first President, Jomo Kenyatta
• Mwai Kibaki
  Mwai Kibaki
  Mwai Kibaki is the current and third President of the republic of Kenya.Kibaki was previously Vice President of Kenya for ten years from 1978–1988 and also held cabinet ministerial positions, including a widely acclaimed stint as Minister for Finance , Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for...
  
  , 3rd President of Kenya Dec 2002 – to date (2009)
• Michael Wamalwa Kijana
  Michael Wamalwa Kijana
  Michael Wamalwa Kijana was a Kenyan politician and, at the time of his death, Kenya's Vice-President.-Early life:...
  
  , Vice President 3 January 2003 – Aug 2003
• Kenneth Matiba
  Kenneth Matiba
  Kenneth Matiba is a Kenyan politician. He was the second-place candidate in the 1992 presidential election.Matiba became a senior civil servant at a young age of 31...
  
  
• Tom Mboya
  Tom Mboya
  Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a prominent Kenyan politician during Jomo Kenyatta's government. He was founder of the Nairobi People's Congress Party, a key figure in the formation of the Kenya African National Union , and the Minister of Economic Planning and Development at the time of his death...
  
  , Cabinet Minister, assassinated 1969
• Musalia Mudavadi
  Musalia Mudavadi
  Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government.Mudavadi was born in Sabatia, Vihiga District...
  
  , Vice President 4 November 2002 – 30 December 2002
• Joseph Murumbi
  Joseph Murumbi
  Joseph Zuzarte Murumbi was Kenya's second Vice-President from May 1966 until December 1966. He was a child of a Goan trader and a Maasai woman, and he spent the first 16 years of his life in India...
  
  , Vice President 1965–1967
• Simeon Nyachae
  Simeon Nyachae
  Simeon Nyachae is a Kenyan politician and ex-minister from Kisii District of Nyanza Province.-Biography:...
  
  
• Charity Ngilu
  Charity Ngilu
  Charity Kaluki Ngilu is a Kenyan politician. She was Minister of Health from 2003 until 2007 and was appointed as Minister of Water and Irrigation in April 2008....
  
  , first female to run for presidency
• Raila Odinga
  Raila Odinga
  Raila Amollo Odinga , also popularly known to Kenyans as Agwambo, is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as the Prime Minister of Kenya in a coalition government. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Langata since 1992, was Minister of Energy from 2001 to 2002, and was Minister of Roads,...
  
  , former Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament. Son of Oginga Odinga and current Prime Minister.
• Appolo Ohanga
  Appolo Ohanga
  Appolo Ohanga was the first black Kenyan cabinet minister in the Colonial Period.Born in 1913 at Got Regea in Siaya, Nyanza Province, the late Benaiah Appolo Ohanga was the son of the late Ongewe Okeloand Alicia Obura.-Education:...
  
  
• James Orengo
  James Orengo
  James Orengo, is a lawyer and former presidential candidate in Kenya. He comes from Ugenya Constituency of Siaya District; he was educated at Ambira Primary School and the Alliance High School. He is law graduate of the University of Nairobi where he was the student body president in his final year...
  
  
• Robert Ouko, Cabinet Minister, assassinated 1990
• Pio Gama Pinto
  Pio Gama Pinto
  Pio Gama Pinto was a Kenyan journalist and politician.-Early years:At age eight, he was sent to India for his education and spent the next nine years there. He studied the arts for two years before joining the Indian Air Force in 1944 for a short time...
  
  , assassinated 1965
• Charles Rubia
  Charles Rubia
  Charles Wanyoike Rubia was the first African mayor of Nairobi. He later joined Parliament where he rose to the cabinet. In 1990, together with Hon. Kenneth Matiba, Rubia led the calls for multi-party democracy and was subsequently detained by President Daniel arap Moi...
  
  
• George Saitoti
  George Saitoti
  Prof. George Kinuthia Saitoti is a Kenyan politician and mathematician who was Vice President of Kenya from 1989 to 1997 and again from 1999 to 2002. He has been Minister for Internal Security since 2008 and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010.-Biography and education:George Saitoti is...
  
  , Vice President May 1989 – Dec 1997, Apr 1999 – 30 August 2002
• Makhan Singh, freedom fighter
• Fitz R S de Souza Member of Parliament and Deputy Speaker 1963 – 1970
• Kalonzo Musyoka
  Kalonzo Musyoka
  Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka is a Kenyan politician, currently serving as Vice President of Kenya. Musyoka served in the government under President Daniel arap Moi and was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1993 until 1998; subsequently, under President Mwai Kibaki, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs...
  
  ,Vice President Jan 2008 – to date
• Jeremiah Nyagah
  Jeremiah Nyagah
  The most Honorable Doctor Jeremiah J.M. Nyagah E.G.H. was elected a member of the pre-independence Legislative Council to represent the present-day Embu, Mbeere, Kirinyaga and Nyeri districts in 1958...
  
  , long-serving cabinet minister and member of Parliament

Businessmen

• Edward H Ntalami
  Edward H Ntalami
  Edward Haggai Ntalami is a leading business executive and the former CEO of the Capital Markets Authority , which is an an equivalent of the Securities Exchange Commission in the U.S. or the Financial Services Authority in the UK...
  
  
• Kamlesh Manusuklal Damji Pattni
  Kamlesh Manusuklal Damji Pattni
  Kamlesh Mansukhlal Damji Pattni is a Kenyan businessman implicated in the Goldenberg scandal. Since 1990 he was the chairman of Goldenberg International Ltd,Kamlesh Pattni was born in Mombasa, Kenya...
  
  
• Nicholas Mwaura Kamau
• Chris Kirubi

Academics

• Dr. Geoffrey William Griffin
  Geoffrey William Griffin
  Dr. Geoffrey William Griffin was the founding director of Starehe Boys' Centre and School. He founded the school in November, 1959 with the help of the late Geoffrey Geturo and Joseph Gikubu, the current senior deputy director of the school; he directed the school from its founding to the end of...
  
   (born 15 June 1933 died 28 June 2005)
• Louis Leakey
  Louis Leakey
  Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there...
  
  , paleontologist
• Dr. Meave G Leakey, paleontologist
• Mary Douglas Leakey, paleontologist
• Dr. Richard Leakey
  Richard Leakey
  Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey...
  
  , paleontologist, environmentalist, politician and former Director of Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS)
• Wangari Maathai
  Wangari Maathai
  Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya...
  
  , (born 1940), environmentalist, women rights activist, politician and Nobel Prize winner 2004
• Prof. Ali Mazrui
  Ali Mazrui
  Ali Al'amin Mazrui is an academic and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He is an Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.-Education:Mazrui...
  
  
• Ratemo Michieka
  Ratemo Michieka
  Ratemo Michieka is a former director-general of the National Environmental Management Authority in Kenya, and founding Vice-Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology....
  
  
• Prof. Peter Amollo Odhiambo
  Peter Amollo Odhiambo
  Professor Peter Amollo Odhiambo, MBBS, MMed , FRCS , FCS , FACC, is a Kenyan consultant thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon. He is a professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at the University of Nairobi. He is a founder and former chairman of the Kenya Cardiac Society, and a former...
  
  , thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon
• Prof. Thomas R. Odhiambo
  Thomas R. Odhiambo
  Professor Thomas Risley Odhiambo was a Kenyan entomologist and environmental activist who directed research and scientific development in Africa.-Life and education:...
  
  , entomologist and environmental scientist
• Florence Wambugu
  Florence Wambugu
  Florence Muringi Wambugu is a plant pathologist and virologist. She is known for her advocacy of using biotechnology to increase food production in Africa.-Education:...
  
   (born 1953), plant pathologist and virologist
• Prof. Mike Boit
  Mike Boit
  Mike Boit Mike Boit Mike Boit (Michael Kipsubut Boit; (born 1 June 1949) is a Kenyan former middle distance athlete whose career spanned fifteen years. He is presently a professor at Kenyatta University in the Department of Exercise and Sports Science....
  
  , Department of Sports Science, Kenyatta University
• Prof. Bethwell Allan Ogot
  Bethwell Allan Ogot
  Dr Bethwell Allan Ogot — known as B.A. Ogot — is a noted Kenyan and Luo historian. He is currently the Chancellor of Moi University...
  
  
• Prof. Calestous Juma
  Calestous Juma
  Calestous Juma is an internationally recognized authority in the application of science and technology to sustainable development worldwide. He is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School...
  
  , Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, Globalization, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
  Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
  The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is a permanent research center located within the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The center's current director is political scientist Graham T. Allison....
  
  , Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  

Writers

• Ngugi wa Thiongo
• Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
  Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
  Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye is an English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet.-Biography:Macgoye was born in 1928 in Southampton, England. She moved to Kenya in 1954 and married a Kenyan man in 1960. In 1971 an anthology entitled Poems from East Africa which included the acclaimed poem "A Freedom Song"...
  
  
• Meja Mwangi
  Meja Mwangi
  Meja Mwangi is one of Kenya's leading novelists. Mwangi has worked in the film industry, including screenwriting, assistant directing, casting and location management....
  
  
• Gitura Mwaura
  Gitura Mwaura
  Gitura Mwaura is a Nairobi-based writer currently working as a media consultant with various organisations. He is a published author and development journalist previously involved in the areas of gender and HIV/Aids as a researcher and human rights activist working with various local and...
  
  : Development writer and journalist
• M.G. Vassanji
• Grace Ogot
  Grace Ogot
  Grace Ogot is a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat.Ogot was born Grace Emily Akinyi in Asembo, in the district of Nyanza. She trained as a nurse in Uganda and in England. She has worked as a midwife, a tutor, as journalist, as a BBC Overseas Service broadcaster, and in a...
  
  
• Alexander Nderitu
  Alexander Nderitu
  Alexander Nderitu is a Kenyan e-novelist, scriptwriter and Internet Technologist. He has also expressed interest in fashion design, music production and filmed entertainment. He is a signatory to the PEN Charter....
  
  : Novelist, scriptwriter and Kenyan e-book
  E-book
  An electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital...
  
   and Print on Demand
  Print on demand
  Print on demand , sometimes called, in error, publish on demand, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book are not printed until an order has been received...
  
   pioneer
• Binyavanga Wainaina
  Binyavanga Wainaina
  Binyavanga Wainaina is a Kenyan author, journalist and winner of the Caine Prize.-Early life and education:Binyavanga Wainaina was born in Nakuru in Rift Valley province. He attended Moi Primary School in Nakuru, Mangu High School in Thika, and Lenana School in Nairobi...
  
   founder and editor of Kwani?
  Kwani?
  Kwani? is a Kenyan literary journal. The magazine grew out of a series of conversations that took place among a group of Nairobi-based writers in the early 2000s. Its founding editor, Binyavanga Wainaina, spearheaded the project shortly after winning the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing...
  
  winner of Caine Prize
  Caine Prize
  The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language. The £10,000 prize was founded in the United Kingdom in 2000, and was named in memory of the late Sir Michael...
  
   2002
• Margaret Ogola
  Margaret Ogola
  Margaret Atieno Ogola was the celebrated Kenyan author of the novel The River and the Source, and its sequel, I Swear by Apollo. The River and the Source follows four generations of Kenyan women in a rapidly changing country and society...
  
  

Religious leaders

• Cardinal John Njue
  John Njue
  John Njue is a Kenyan Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fourth and current Archbishop of Nairobi, having previously served as Coadjutor Archbishop of Nyeri and Bishop of Embu . He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2007.-Biography:Njue was born in Embu, Kenya, to Joseph Nyanga...
  
  
• Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga
  Maurice Michael Otunga
  Maurice Michael Otunga , Cardinal and Archbishop emeritus of Nairobi and Military Ordinary emeritus for Kenya, was born in Chebukwa, diocese of Kakamega, Kenya.-Early life and ordination:...
  
  
• Archbishop John Njenga
  John Njenga
  Archbishop John Njenga was Roman Catholic archbishop of Mombasa from 1990 to 2005.Njenga was born to Peter Kimani and Maria Wanjir in Tigoni, Kiambu, and attended Mang’u High School. He was ordained priest at Kibosho Major Seminary in Tanzania in 1957, and was posted to the Nairobi Diocese...
  
  

Sportspersons

• Matthew Birir
  Matthew Birir
  Matthew Kiprotich Birir is a former athlete from Kenya, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Eldama Ravine, Matthew Birir started running, when he attended at the famous St. Patrick's High School in Iten, where many great Kenyan runners are rosen.At the Barcelona...
  
  
• Amos Biwott
  Amos Biwott
  Amos Biwott is a former Kenyan athlete, winner of the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Born in Nandi, Kenya, Amos Biwott was the first of long line of Kenyan runners who had starred the 3000 m steeplechase ever since Biwott's surprising win at the Mexico City Olympics and pioneered...
  
  
• Mike Boit
  Mike Boit
  Mike Boit Mike Boit Mike Boit (Michael Kipsubut Boit; (born 1 June 1949) is a Kenyan former middle distance athlete whose career spanned fifteen years. He is presently a professor at Kenyatta University in the Department of Exercise and Sports Science....
  
  
• Richard Chelimo
  Richard Chelimo
  Richard Chelimo was a Kenyan athlete, and a former world and world junior record holder over 10,000 m...
  
  
• Joyce Chepchumba
  Joyce Chepchumba
  Joyce Chepchumba is a long distance athlete from Kenya.- Achievements :*1995**Tilburg Ten Miles winner**Parelloop 10Kwinner *1997**London Marathon winner*1998**Chicago Marathon winner*1999...
  
  
• Jason Dunford
  Jason Dunford
  Jason Edward Dunford is a swimmer from Kenya. He is predominantly a butterfly and freestyle sprinter. He has won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, Universiade, All-Africa Games and African Championships, and reached finals at Olympics, World Championships and Short Course World Championships....
  
  
• Paul Ereng
  Paul Ereng
  Paul Ereng is a former Kenyan athlete, and the surprise winner of the 800 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Born in Kitale, Trans-Nzoia, Kenya, Paul Ereng attended Starehe Boys Centre and School in Nairobi, Kenya. He was a promising 400 m runner until the end of 1987...
  
  
• Julius Kariuki
  Julius Kariuki
  Julius Kariuki was the winner of the 3,000 m steeplechase at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Born in Nyahururu, Kenya, Kariuki's athletic career started slowly...
  
  
• Kipchoge Keino
  Kipchoge Keino
  Kipchoge Keino , chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee , is a retired Kenyan track and field athlete and two-time Olympic gold medalist...
  
  
• Ezekiel Kemboi
  Ezekiel Kemboi
  Ezekiel Kemboi Cheboi is a Kenyan athlete, winner of the 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2009 World Championships and the 2011 World Championships. He became African Junior Champion in 2001 and came to prominence with a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games...
  
  
• Joseph Keter
  Joseph Keter
  Joseph Keter is a former Kenyan athlete, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 1996 Summer Olympics.Born in Lessos, Nandi District, Joseph Keter, an officer of Kenyan Army, had only one good season throughout his athletics career, which culminated with an Olympic gold medal.In Atlanta, the hot...
  
  
• Wilson Kipketer
  Wilson Kipketer
  Wilson Kosgei Kipketer is a Kenyan born Danish former middle distance runner. He holds the current indoor world records at the 1000 and 800 metres distance. While dominating the 800 m distance for a decade, remaining undefeated for a three-year period and running 8 of the 17 currently all-time...
  
  , born and raised in Kenya, now a citizen of Denmark
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
  
  
• Wilson Boit Kipketer
  Wilson Boit Kipketer
  Wilson Boit Kipketer is a middle and long distance athlete most widely known for running the 3000 m steeplechase. On August 13, 1997, at the Weltklasse Zürich, he set the world record in the steeplechase at 7:59.08, the third of three world records set in a 70 minute period of time...
  
  
• Moses Kiptanui
  Moses Kiptanui
  Moses Kiptanui is a middle and long distance athlete mostly famous for 3,000 m steeplechase in which he was the number one ranked athlete from 1991 to 1995 and three time IAAF World Champion...
  
  
• Sally Kipyego
  Sally Kipyego
  Sally Kipyego is a runner who competed as part of the Texas Tech Red Raiders cross country and track and field teams...
  
  , All American
  All-America
  An All-America team is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players—those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply...
  
   runner for Texas Tech University
  Texas Tech University
  Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the...
  
  
• Ismael Kirui
  Ismael Kirui
  Ismael Kirui is a former Kenyan long distance runner who won gold medals over 5000 metres at the 1993 and 1995 World Championships in Athletics....
  
  
• Samson Kitur
  Samson Kitur
  Samson Kitur was a Kenyan athlete, and an Olympic medalist in 1992.Unlike most of his compatriots, who run in distances 800 metres and up, Kitur specialised in the 400 metres. He won the continental championship in 1991, and the next year he took the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics,...
  
  
• Daniel Komen
  Daniel Komen
  Daniel Kipngetich Komen is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. Remembered for his rivalry with Haile Gebrselassie, Komen's most notable achievements came in a two-year period between 1996 and 1998, during which he broke a string of world records...
  
  
• Julius Korir
  Julius Korir
  Julius Korir is a former Kenyan athlete, who won the 3.000 m steeplechase at the 1984 Summer Olympics.Born in Nandi, Kenya, Julius Korir rose into the international athletics scene in 1982, when he surprisingly won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.Korir improved his times during the 1983...
  
  
• Paul Korir
  Paul Korir
  Paul Kipketer Korir is a middle distance athlete from Kenya.-Biography:...
  
  
• Reuben Kosgei
  Reuben Kosgei
  Reuben Seroney Kosgei , is a middle and long distance athlete mostly famous for 3000 m steeplechase in which he became the youngest ever winner of an Olympic gold medal in the event when at the age of 21 he ran to victory in Sydney 2000 with a winning time of 8 minutes 21.43 seconds.At the...
  
  
• Bernard Lagat
  Bernard Lagat
  Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat is an American middle and long distance champion athlete.Lagat was born in Kapsabet, Kenya...
  
  
• Tegla Loroupe
  Tegla Loroupe
  Tegla Chepkite Loroupe is a long-distance track and road runner, and a global spokeswoman for peace, women's rights, and education....
  
  
• Edith Masai
  Edith Masai
  Edith Chewangel Masai is a Kenyan former long-distance runner who specialised in cross country and track races, then road races in her late career. She represented Kenya at the 2004 Summer Olympics.. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2011-11-07...
  
  
• Shekhar Mehta
  Shekhar Mehta
  Chandrashekhar "Shekhar" Mehta was a Ugandan-born Kenyan rally driver. He won the Safari Rally a record five times , including four consecutively, and in 1981 finished fifth in the World Rally Championship...
  
  
• Catherine Ndereba
  Catherine Ndereba
  Wincatherine Nyambura Ndereba is a Kenyan marathon runner. She has twice won the marathon at the World Championships in Athletics and won silver medals in the Olympics in 2004 and 2008. She is also a four-time winner of the Boston Marathon...
  
  
• Noah Ngeny
  Noah Ngeny
  Noah Kiprono Ngeny is a former Kenyan athlete, Olympic gold medalist at 1500 m at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and world record holder in the 1000 m.-Before Sydney:...
  
  
• John Ngugi
  John Ngugi
  John Ngugi Kamau , is a former Kenyan athlete, often called one of the greatest cross country runners of all time and winner of the 5000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-Career:...
  
  
• Margaret Okayo
  Margaret Okayo
  Margaret Okayo is a professional marathon runner from Kenya. She has won a number of major marathons, including the New York City Marathon , the Boston Marathon, and the London Marathon. She has also won the San Diego Marathon on two occasions.Okayo started running while at primary school...
  
  
• Dennis Oliech
  Dennis Oliech
  Dennis Oliech is a Kenyan professional football forward currently playing for Auxerre.- Club career :Dennis Oliech started playing football for Dagoretti Santos in his earlier years, then Mathare United....
  
  , soccer player now based in France.
• Yobes Ondieki
  Yobes Ondieki
  Yobes Ondieki is a former Kenyan 5000 m runner, who won the World Championships' gold medal in Tokyo 1991. In the same year he set a temporary Kenyan 5000 m record of 13:01.82 in Zurich...
  
  
• Henry Rono
  Henry Rono
  Henry Rono is a Kenyan former athlete.-Biography:Rono was born in Nandi Hills, Kenya, into the Nandi tribe. He started running while at primary school. Starting in 1976 he attended the Washington State University, along with his compatriot Samson Kimobwa, who broke the 10,000 meter world record in...
  
  
• Peter Rono
  Peter Rono
  Peter Kipchumba Rono is a former Kenyan athlete, who won the 1,500 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics....
  
  
• Moses Tanui
  Moses Tanui
  Moses Tanui is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who won the gold medal over 10000 m at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo....
  
  
• William Tanui
  William Tanui
  William Kiptarus Tanui is a Kenyan former athlete, winner of 800 m at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Terik Location of South Nandi District, William Tanui first came to notice relatively late in life, when he won the 1500 m at the Kenyan Commonwealth Games trials in 1989, but ran only sixth at...
  
  
• Naftali Temu
  Naftali Temu
  Naftali Temu was a Kenyan athlete, who won the 10.000 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.-Early career:Born in Nyamira District, Naftali Temu started running at the age of 14...
  
  
• Paul Tergat
  Paul Tergat
  Paul Kibii Tergat is a Kenyan professional long distance runner. He held the world record in the marathon from 2003 to 2007, with a time of 2:04:55, and is regarded as one of the most accomplished long-distance runners of all time.Now concentrating exclusively on the marathon, Tergat won many...
  
  
• Steve Tikolo
  Steve Tikolo
  - Career :He is a right-handed middle order batsman and part time right-arm medium pace bowler. He bowls quite effective offspin in the shorter form of the game. Tikolo has previously represented Border in South African domestic cricket and has also spent time playing in England and Bangladesh...
  
  , widely regarded in cricket as the best batsman outside of the test playing nations.
• Erick Wainaina
• Robert Wangila
  Robert Wangila
  Robert Napunyi Wangila was a Kenyan boxer who won a welterweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games...
  
  
• McDonald Mariga
  McDonald Mariga
  McDonald Mariga Wanyama is a Kenyan footballer player who plays for Real Sociedad on loan from Inter Milan. Mariga made history as the first Kenyan footballer to play in the UEFA Champions League on 16 March 2010.-Early career:...
  
  ,Soccer Player now based in Italy plays for Serie A club Internazionale.

Musicians

• Fundi Konde
  Fundi Konde
  Fundi Konde was a Kenyan musician. He was one of the first popular performers from that country, and was said to be the first electric guitarist from East Africa. His music utilized Swahili lyrics accompanied by a mixture of regional rhythms and imported rumba...
  
  
• David Kabaka
• Eric Wainaina
  Eric Wainaina (musician)
  Eric Wainaina is a Kenyan singer-songwriter. His career was launched with his debut album, Sawa Sawa, in 2001. Wainaina's music is a blend of Kenyan Benga rhythm and East African guitars, with some modern harmony.- Childhood :...
  
  , musician
• Daniel Owino Misiani
  Daniel Owino Misiani
  Daniel Owino Misiani was a musician from Kenya. He was known as the "King of History" in Kenya; overseas, he was known as "the grandfather of benga", of which he was a pioneer....
  
  
• Suzzana Owiyo
  Suzzana Owíyo
  Suzanna Owiyo is a Kenyan musician. A singer-songwriter, Owiyo has been called "the Tracy Chapman of Africa".Owiyo was born in Kasaye village, Nyakach, near the lakeside city of Kisumu, Suzanna Owiyo was introduced to music at a young age by her grandfather who was a prolific Nyatiti player.In high...
  
  
• Tony Nyadundo
  Tony Nyadundo
  Tony Nyadundo is a musician from Kenya. He performs the Ohangla a traditional style of music by the luo community. He is backed by the Ohangla Boys band. He is now branded the "King of Ohangla"....
  
  
• David Mathenge
  David Mathenge
  David Mathenge , better known by his stage name Nameless, is a Kenyan pop artist.- Biography :Mathenge was educated at Strathmore School, He rose to fame in 1999 through a star-search contest on Kenya's urban music station 98.4 Capital FM, which he won with his original song "Megarider." The song...
  
   a.k.a Nameless
• Ken Ring
  Ken (artist)
  -Career:Ken Kiprono Ring is a Swedish rap artist of Kenyan descent. He was born in Hässelby, a suburb west of Stockholm, Sweden. He got his breakthrough with the song "Mamma", which is about how his mother got sick and died of cancer when he was 13. He released his first studio album "Vägen...
  
  
• Fadhili William
  Fadhili William
  Fadhili William Mdawida , was a Kenyan musician/composer who is most famous for his song "Malaika" which he recorded with his band 'The Jambo Boys' around 1963 ....
  
   -of Malaika
  Malaika
  Malaika, which means "angel" in Swahili , is the most famous love song in Kenyan pop music, as well as one of the most widely known Swahili songs...
  
   fame
• Jua Cali
  Jua Cali
  Paul Julius Nunda, better known by his stage name Jua Cali , is a Kenyan hip hop rapper. In 2000 together with producer Clemo they founded Calif Records where Jua Cali has stayed since. Jua Cali performs in Kiswahili and Sheng in a popular Kenyan style of rapping called genge.-Early life :Jua Cali...
  
  
• Nonini
  Nonini
  Nonini , whose real name is Hubert Nakitare, is a Kenyan hip hop artist.- Biography :Nonini originally signed to Calif Records, but later joined Homeboyz Productions...
  
  
• Roger Whittaker
  Roger Whittaker
  Roger Whittaker is an Anglo-Kenyan singer-songwriter and musician with worldwide record sales of over 55 million. His music can be described as easy listening. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability...
  
  
• abbass

Others

• Mohamed Amin
  Mohamed Amin
  Mohamed "Mo" Amin was a Kenyan photojournalist noted for his pictures and videotapes of the Ethiopian famine....
  
  , a Photojournalist, who pictured Ethiopian famine in 1984
• Kimani Maruge
  Kimani Maruge
  Kimani Ng'ang'a Maruge holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to start primary school—he enrolled in the first grade on January 12th 2004, aged 84...
  
  , world oldest person to start primary school
• Prof. Yash Pal Ghai, Lawyer (helped draft the proposed Constitution)
• Jeff Koinange
  Jeff Koinange
  Jeff Koinange is a Kenyan journalist and chief reporter at TV station K24. He previously served as the Africa correspondent for CNN and CNN International from 2001 to 2007.-Background:...
  
  , former CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
   TV Africa bureau chief. Currently working for Kenya's new station, K24.
• Zain Verjee
  Zain Verjee
  Zain Verjee is a Canadian journalist, who was born and raised in Kenya prior to immigrating to Canada. Verjee is co-anchor of CNN International's European daytime program World One. She also serves as the international correspondent for American Morning, the daily morning news program on CNN US...
  
  , CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
   TV Anchor
• Fumo Madi ibn Abi Bakr
  Fumo Madi ibn Abi Bakr
  Fumo Madi ibn Abi Bakr was Sultan of Pate, Kenya .Around 1800 the Pate Sultan took over Lamu, however, they were deeply resented by the people of Lamu. Fumomadi was persuaded to build a fort on the seafront in Lamu Town, to protect members of his government. He died before the first storey of...
  
  , Sultan of Pate, 1779 to 1809.
• Michael Werikhe
  Michael Werikhe
  Michael Werikhe , also known as “the Rhino Man” was a Kenyan conservationist. He became famous through his long fundraising walks in East Africa and overseas. He started his campaign after learning how drastically Black Rhinos had decreased in Africa. Wherever he walked, his arrival was greeted...
  
  , Conservationist
• Winfred Omwakwe, Miss Earth 2002
  Miss Earth 2002
  Miss Earth 2002, the second edition of Miss Earth beauty pageant, was held in Quezon City, Philippines on October 29, 2002. In its second year, 53 delegates participated, exceeding the number of contestants in Miss International 2002, thereby becoming the world's third biggest international pageant...
  
   (first African to hold the title)
• Hezekiah Ochuka
  Hezekiah Ochuka
  Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka, was Senior Private in the Kenya Air Force, who ruled Kenya for about six hours after planning and executing a coup against president Daniel arap Moi on August 1, 1982....
  
  , aborted 1982 military coup leader
• Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., Economist and father of the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
  
  

See also

• List of Kenyan artists
• List of writers from Kenya