List of Rwandans
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Military
- Théoneste BagosoraThéoneste BagosoraColonel Théoneste Bagosora is a former Rwandan military officer. He is chiefly known for his key role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. And for that, he is sentenced to life imprisonment by the ICTR.-History and career:...
(b. 1941), military officer convicted in 2008 of genocide. - Bernard NtuyahagaBernard NtuyahagaMajor Bernard Ntuyahaga, Rwandan Armed Forces, was convicted by a Belgian court in the murders of ten United Nations peacekeepers at the start of the Rwandan Genocide.- Biography :...
Political figures
- Jean-Paul Akayesu (b. 1953), politician convicted in 1998 of genocide.
- Jean Bosco BarayagwizaJean Bosco BarayagwizaJean-Bosco Barayagwiza was a Rwandan diplomat and the chairman of the executive committee for the Rwandan radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines from 1993 and during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide....
- Christophe BazivamoChristophe BazivamoChristophe Bazivamo is presently the Minister of Lands, Environment , Forestry, Water, and Mines in Rwanda. In 2003 and 2004 he was the Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Social Affairs.In 2005 he was the Minister of Internal Security. In 2000, 2001 and 2002 he served as...
(minister of land and environment) - Augustin BizimanaAugustin BizimanaAugustin Bizimana is a Rwandan politician. He is chiefly known for his alleged role in the Rwandan Genocide.Born in Gituza commune, Byumba Province, Rwanda, of Hutu ethnicity, Bizimana held the position of Minister of Defence in the government of Juvénal Habyarimana formed on 18 July 1993.After...
(b. 1954), politician who is a fugitive of the International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaInternational Criminal Tribunal for RwandaThe International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan Genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan...
. - Augustin BizimunguAugustin BizimunguAugustin Bizimungu is a former general in the Rwandan Armed Forces . In 1994, he briefly served as chief of staff of the army...
(b. 1952), politician on trial for genocide. - Pasteur BizimunguPasteur BizimunguPasteur Bizimungu was the fifth President of Rwanda from 19 July 1994 until 23 March 2000. He is considered belonging to the Hutu caste/ethnic group and was born in the Gisenyi prefecture of Rwanda. Bizimungu worked within the Hutu MRND regime which ruled Rwanda , including as director general of...
(Former president of Rwanda) - Anastase GasanaAnastase GasanaDr. Anastase Gasana is a Rwandan political figure and diplomat.Gasana was a university professor before entering politics. Gasana was appointed as a Minister for Foreign Affairs]] of the Government of Rwanda for the first time in 1993 and signed Rwanda's accords with Tutsi rebels in Arusha, Tanzania...
(Diplomat) - Juvénal HabyarimanaJuvénal HabyarimanaJuvénal Habyarimana was the third President of the Republic of Rwanda, the post he held longer than any other president to date, from 1973 until 1994. During his 20-year rule he favored his own ethnic group, the Hutus, and supported the Hutu majority in neighboring Burundi against the Tutsi...
(Former president of Rwanda) - Paul KagamePaul KagamePaul Kagame is the sixth and current President of the Republic of Rwanda. He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front , whose victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide...
(President of Rwanda) - Jean KambandaJean KambandaJean Kambanda was the Prime Minister in the caretaker government of Rwanda from the start of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide...
(b. 1955), former Prime Minister, plead guilty in 1998 to genocide - Grégoire KayibandaGrégoire KayibandaGrégoire Kayibanda was the first elected and second President of the Republic of Rwanda. He led Rwanda's struggle for independence from Belgium, and replaced the Tutsi monarchy with a republican form of government. He asserted Hutu majority power.-Early life and education:Grégoire Kayibanda was...
(Former president of Rwanda) - Kigeri V of Rwanda (Former king)
- Bernard MakuzaBernard MakuzaBernard Makuza is a Rwandan politician who was Prime Minister of Rwanda from 8 March 2000 to 6 October 2011. An ethnic Hutu, Makuza was a member of the Democratic Republican Movement before allegations were made that the party promoted genocide...
(Prime minister of Rwanda) - Dominique MbonyumutwaDominique MbonyumutwaDominique Mbonyumutwa was a Rwandan politician who served as the first and President of Rwanda, from January 28 to October 26, 1961, immediately following the abolition of the Rwandan monarchy. He took over the country after King Kigeri V of Rwanda was overthrown following the 1961 referendum...
(Former provisional president of Rwanda) - Ignace MurwanashyakaIgnace MurwanashyakaDr. Ignace Murwanashyaka is the current leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, a Rwandan Hutu rebel group operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
(b. 1963), leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of RwandaDemocratic Forces for the Liberation of RwandaThe Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda is the primary remnant Rwandan Hutu Power rebel group in the east of the of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is often referred to as simply the FDLR after its original French name: the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda... - Mutara II RwogeraMutara II RwogeraMutara II Rwogera was the King of Rwanda from 1830 to 1853.- External links :*...
(Former king) - Mutara III of RwandaMutara III of RwandaMutara III was the Mwami, or monarch of Rwanda between 1931 and 1959. As a member of the Tutsi people in Rwanda, stereotyped as tall, he stood a symbolic 6'8" tall...
(Former king) - Lando NdasingwaLando NdasingwaLandoald 'Lando' Ndasingwa was a Rwandan politician, leader of the moderate Parti libéral du Rwanda. He was killed in the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide.Ndasingwa was a former professor at the University of Rwanda and ethnic Tutsi...
(Former leader of Parti libéral du Rwanda) - André NtageruraAndré NtageruraAndré Ntagerura is a Rwandan politician. He is chiefly known for having been accused and acquitted of having a role in the Rwandan Genocide.Born in Rwanda of Hutu ethnicity, Ntagerura pursued formal education in Quebec, Canada....
- Jean de Dieu NtiruhungwaJean de Dieu NtiruhungwaJean de Dieu Ntiruhungwa is the former minister of the interior of Rwanda. He became minister of the interior in 2001. He has been replaced with Christophe Bazivamo in 2004. Ntiruhungwa had been minister before he received that office.-References:...
(Former minister of the Interior) - Théodore SindikubwaboThéodore SindikubwaboThéodore Sindikubwabo was the fourth and interim President of Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide, from April 9 to July 19, 1994...
(Former president of the national development council) - Faustin TwagiramunguFaustin TwagiramunguFaustin Twagiramungu is an ethnic Hutu politician in Rwanda. He was prime minister from 1994 until his resignation in 1995, the first head of government appointed after the Rwandese Patriotic Front captured Kigali...
(Former prime minister of Rwanda) - Agathe UwilingiyimanaAgathe UwilingiyimanaAgathe Uwilingiyimana was a Rwandan political figure. She served as Prime Minister of Rwanda from 18 July 1993 until her death on 7 April 1994. Her term was ended when she was assassinated during the opening stages of the Rwandan Genocide...
(Former prime minister of Rwanda) - Yuhi III of RwandaYuhi III of RwandaYuhi III Gahindiro was the king of Rwanda from approximately 1797 to 1830, according to Rwandan tradition. It is not certain whether Yuhi III Gahindiro was a real or mythological person.-External links:*...
(Former king of Rwanda) - Jean Marie HigiroJean Marie HigiroJean Marie Vianney Higiro, born c. 1945, was the Director of the Rwandan Information Office , a government corporation that run Radio Rwanda, Rwandan Television and state controlled media in the Republic of Rwanda.-Early life:...
(Former director of the Rwandan Information office) - Protais ZigiranyirazoProtais ZigiranyirazoProtais Zigiranyirazo commonly known as Monsieur Zed , is a Rwandan businessman and politician. He is the former governor of Ruhengeri prefecture in northwestern Rwanda. He has also been accused of collaborating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1985 murder of Dian Fossey.Between 1974 and...
Religious figures
- Elizaphan NtakirutimanaElizaphan NtakirutimanaElizaphan Ntakirutimana was a pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Rwanda and was the first clergyman to be convicted for a role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide....
(1924–2007), Seventh-day Adventist pastor - Athanase SerombaAthanase SerombaAthanase Seromba is a Rwandan priest who was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in the Rwandan genocide....
(b. 1963), priest
Sports people
- Dieudonné DisiDieudonné DisiDieudonné Disi is a Rwandan long-distance and cross country runner.In 2009 he competed in the marathon at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, but pulled out at the 28 km mark due to an injury...
(b. 1980), long-distance and cross-country runner - Adrien NiyonshutiAdrien NiyonshutiAdrien Niyonshuti, born in Eastern Province, Rwanda on January 2, 1987, is a professional bicycle racer for South African UCI Continental team MTN Energade. Although he survived, six of Niyonshuti's brothers were killed in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994...
(b. 1987), cyclist - Mathias NtawulikuraMathias NtawulikuraMathias Ntawulikura is a retired Rwandan long-distance runner. He reached the World Athletics Championships final and participated in the Olympic Games in the 5000 and 10000 metres and Marathon...
(b. 1964), long-distance runner
Miscellaneous
- Simon BikindiSimon BikindiSimon Bikindi is a Rwandan singer-songwriter who was formerly very popular in Rwanda. His patriotic songs were playlist staples on the national radio station Radio Rwanda during the war from October 1990 to July 1994 before the Rwandan Patriotic Front took power...
(b. 1954), singer-songwriter convicted in 2008 of inciting violence during the 1994 genocide. - Agathe HabyarimanaAgathe HabyarimanaAgathe Habyarimana is the widow of former President of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana. Kanziga is part of a Hutu lineage that long ruled an independent principality until the late nineteenth century...
(widow of former President Juvénal Habyarimana) - Félicien KabugaFélicien KabugaFélicien Kabuga is a Rwandan businessman, accused of bankrolling and participating in the Rwandan Genocide. He has always claimed he is innocent.-Early life:...
(b. 1935), businessman - Joseph KavarugandaJoseph KavarugandaJoseph Kavaruganda was a Rwandan judge, and president of Rwanda's Constitutional Court. He was killed at the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide....
(former president of Rwanda's Constitutional Court) - Léon MugeseraLéon MugeseraLéon Mugesera is a Rwandan man, resident in Quebec, Canada since 1992. He is currently facing deportation from Canada for an inflammatory anti-Tutsi speech which his critics allege was a precursor to the 1994 Rwandan genocide....
, university lecturer accused of inciting genocide. - Ferdinand NahimanaFerdinand NahimanaFerdinand Nahimana is a Rwandan historian who was convicted of participating in the Rwandan Genocide.Nahimana was co-founder of the radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines but not the director, which during the genocide broadcast information and propaganda that helped coordinate...
, historian - Samuel NdashyikirwaSamuel NdashyikirwaSamuel Ndashyikirwa, formerly a small businessman in Kirwa, Rwanda, was convicted in Belgium on June 29, 2005 for his role in the Rwandan genocide of 1994...
, businessman - Hassan NgezeHassan NgezeHassan Ngeze is a Rwandan journalist, best known for publishing the "Hutu Ten Commandments", which fomented anti-Tutsi feeling among Rwandan Hutus prior to the Rwandan Genocide....
(b. 1962), journalist - Étienne NzabonimanaÉtienne NzabonimanaÉtienne Nzabonimana , formerly a small businessman in Kirwa, Rwanda, was convicted in Belgium on June 29, 2005 for his role in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Specifically, eyewitnesses argued that he was a leader of the Kibungo Club, which was allegedly planning the genocide in advance, and that he...
(b. 1950), businessman - Sonia RollandSonia RollandSonia Rolland is a French actress and former Miss France she has also competed at Miss Universe. She is the first African-born Miss France pagant winner....
(former Miss France) - Queen Rosalie Gicanda (wife of King Mutara III of Rwanda)
- Georges RuggiuGeorges RuggiuGeorges Henri Yvon Joseph Ruggiu was a presenter on the Rwandan radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, which played a significant role in promoting the Rwandan Genocide. Like the station's other broadcasters, Ruggiu incited violence against Tutsis over the air...
(b. 1957), radio presenter - Paul RusesabaginaPaul RusesabaginaPaul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan humanitarian who has been internationally honored for saving 1,268 refugees during the Rwandan Genocide. He was the assistant manager of the Sabena Hôtel des Mille Collines before he became the manager of the Hôtel des Diplomates, both in Kigali, Rwanda...
(b. 1954), hotel manager known for saving refugees in the 1994 genocide - Benjamin SeheneBenjamin SeheneBenjamin Sehene is a Rwandan author whose work primarily focuses on questions of identity and the events surrounding the Rwandan genocide. He has spent much of life in Canada and France....
(b. 1959), author