This is a list of famous or notable Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

ns, or people of Zambian descent, or people who have had an impact on Zambia listed in the following categories, and in no particular order:

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 - 2011

Vice Presidents

• Reuben Chitandika Kamanga - Vice President - 1964–1967
• Simon Kapwepwe
  Simon Kapwepwe
  Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe was the first vice-president of Zambia from 1967 to 1970.- Early life :Simon Kapwepwe was born on 12 April 1922 in the Chinsali district of the Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia...
  
   - 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
  Godfrey Miyanda
  Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda is a Zambian politician and former military figure. In 1994 he became Vice President of Zambia under Frederick Chiluba's administration. Formerly a member of the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, Miyanda is the President of the Heritage Party.-References:...
  
   - Vice President - 1994–1997
• Christon Tembo
  Christon Tembo
  Lt. Gen. Christon Tembo was a vice-president and army commander in Zambia. He was foreign minister from 1995 to 1996 and then vice-president from 1997 to 2001...
  
   - Vice President - 1997–2001
• Enoch P. Kavindele - Vice President - 2001–2003
• Nevers Mumba
  Nevers Mumba
  Nevers Mumba is a Zambian politician and minister. He served as Vice-President of Zambia for a time under Levy Mwanawasa; he has also founded evangelistic campaigns and ministries and once served as pastor of the Victory Bible Church....
  
   - Vice President - 2003–2004
• Lupando Katoloshi Mwape - Vice President - 2004–2006
• Rupiah Bwezani Banda - Vice President - 2006–2008
• George Kunda
  George Kunda
  George Kunda is a Zambian lawyer and politician. He was the Vice-President of Zambia, in which capacity he served between 2008 and 2011. He served under President Rupiah Banda until their party's loss to Michael Sata's party.The son of a miner, Kunda worked as a lawyer before entering politics...
  
   - Vice President - 2008–2011
• Dr. Guy Scott
  Guy Scott
  Dr Guy Scott is a Zambian politician. He is currently the Vice President of Zambia.-Personal Details:Scott was born in 1944 in Livingstone. He completed his education in Southern Rhodesia and the United Kingdom at Cambridge University and the University of Sussex, where he obtained a degree in...
  
   - Vice President - 2011-

Prime ministers

• Mainza Chona
  Mainza Chona
  Mainza Mathias Chona served as Prime Minister of Zambia on two occasions: 25 August 1973 to 27 May 1975 and 20 July 1977 to 15 June 1978. He also held various government positions, including Justice Minister , Home Affairs Minister and Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney-General...
  
   - Prime Minister, 1973–1975, 1977–1978
• Elijah Mudenda
  Elijah Mudenda
  Elijah Mudenda was a Zambian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Zambia from 27 May 1975 to 20 July 1977....
  
   Prime Minister, 1975–1977
• Daniel Lisulo
  Daniel Lisulo
  Daniel Muchiwa Lisulo was the Prime Minister of Zambia from June 1978 until February 1981. Born in Mongu, Zambia, Lisulo married Mary Mambo in 1967; she died in 1976, leaving Lisulo with two daughters. Lisulo served as the director of the Bank of Zambia from 1964 to 1977 before becoming Prime...
  
   - Prime Minister, 1978–1981
• Nalumino Mundia
  Nalumino Mundia
  Nalumino Mundia was a Zambian politician. He served as Prime Minister of the country from 18 February 1981 to 24 April 1985. He went on to serve as Zambia's ambassador to the United States, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela...
  
   - Prime Minister, 1981-1985
• Kebby Musokotwane
  Kebby Musokotwane
  Kebby Musokotwane was a politician from Zambia. He was a member of the United National Independence Party and one of the closest allies of former President Kenneth Kaunda. Musokotwane served as Prime Minister of Zambia from 24 April 1985 until 15 March 1989. He then became secretary-general of the...
  
   - Prime Minister, 1985–1989, Secretary-General, UNIP 1989-1991, Opposition President, 1992
• Malimba Masheke
  Malimba Masheke
  Malimba Masheke is a Zambian politician. He served as the last Prime Minister of the country from 15 March 1989 to 31 August 1991. He had previously been Minister of Defence from 1985 to 1988 and Minister of Home Affairs from 1988 to 1989....
  
   Prime Minister, 1989–1991 (post abolished thereafter)

Others

• Elias Chipimo Jnr - Opposition Leader
• Peter Daka
  Peter Daka
  Peter M. Daka is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Zambia. During the Third Ordinary Session of The Pan-African Parliament, Hon. Daka proposed the creation of a Pan-African Parliament Trust Fund.-External links:*...
  
   - Minister of science and technology,Former Pan-African Parliament
  Pan-African Parliament
  The Pan-African Parliament , also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union and held its inaugural session in March 2004. The PAP exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, lasting for the first five years...
  
   MP
• Hakainde Hichilema
  Hakainde Hichilema
  Hakainde Hichilema is a Zambian politician and the President of the United Party for National Development . He replaced Anderson Mazoka after an interparty election, organized by functioning party president Sakwiba Sikota, which followed Mazoka's death in May 2006...
  
   - Opposition Leader, 2006-
• Besnat Jere
  Besnat Jere
  Besnat H. Jere is a member of the Pan-African Parliament representing Zambia.Jere also sits on the Committee on Privileges, Absences and Support Services, the Committee on Government Assurances and the Committee on Delegated Legislation, all committees of the National Assembly of Zambia.-External...
  
   - Former Pan-African Parliament
  Pan-African Parliament
  The Pan-African Parliament , also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union and held its inaugural session in March 2004. The PAP exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, lasting for the first five years...
  
   MP
• Austin Liato
  Austin Liato
  -External links:*...
  
   - Former Minister/Labour Leader,Former Pan-African Parliament
  Pan-African Parliament
  The Pan-African Parliament , also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union and held its inaugural session in March 2004. The PAP exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, lasting for the first five years...
  
   MP
• Anderson Mazoka
  Anderson Mazoka
  Anderson K. Mazoka was a Zambian politician and President of the United Party for National Development , a leading opposition party....
  
   - Former opposition leader (1998-2006)
• Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika
  Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika
  Prince Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika is a Zambian politician and businessman with a princely title. He was a founding member of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy...
  
   - Former Minister/Democratic Campaigner
• Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika
  Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika
  Princess Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika is a Zambian politician currently serving as Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia to the United States of America. She presented her credentials to U.S. President George W. Bush on 26 February 2003.She is the daughter of King Lewanika II of Barotseland...
  
   - Diplomat, Former UNICEF Regional Adviser for Africa, Presidential Candidate (2001)
• M. K. Mubanga
  M. K. Mubanga
  -References:...
  
   - Former Pan-African Parliament
  Pan-African Parliament
  The Pan-African Parliament , also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union and held its inaugural session in March 2004. The PAP exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, lasting for the first five years...
  
   MP
• Luke Mwananshiku
  Luke Mwananshiku
  Luke Mwananshiku was a Zambian banker, businessman, politician and diplomat. He was a government minister under Zambia's first president, Kenneth Kaunda, serving as the governor of the Bank of Zambia from 1976 to 1981 and as foreign minister of Zambia from 1986 to 1990. Mwananshiku was also the...
  
   - Former Finance Minister
• Kalombo Mwansa
  Kalombo Mwansa
  Kalombo Mwansa is the Defense minister of Zambia.- Political career :Kalombo Mwansa became Zambia's Defense Minister on July 9, 2009...
  
   - Former Foreign Affairs Minister
• Susan Nakazwe
  Susan Nakazwe
  Susan Nakazwe is the former Mayor of Lusaka, Zambia. She is also a former member of the Patriotic Front party.In March 2007, she and city councillor Boniface Musondamwaume was suspended from the Patriotic Front after a visit was paid by the mayor to the state visit party for Chinese President Hu...
  
   - Former Mayor of Lusaka
• Ompie Nkumbula-Lieventhal
  Ompie Nkumbula-Lieventhal
  Ompie Nkumbula-Lieventhal is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Zambia. She sits on the Committee on Education, Science And Technology.-External links:*...
  
   - Former MP, Former Pan-African Parliament
  Pan-African Parliament
  The Pan-African Parliament , also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union and held its inaugural session in March 2004. The PAP exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, lasting for the first five years...
  
   MP
• Gladys Nyirongo
  Gladys Nyirongo
  Gladys Nyirongo is a Zambian politician. She is a former sports minister, and headed the Ministry of Lands until president Levy Mwanawasa sacked her under accusations that she handed out land plots to her family.-References:...
  
   - Former Lands Minister
• Kabinga Pande
  Kabinga Pande
  Kabinga Jacus Pande is a Zambian politician. Pande was appointed to the position of foreign minister in August 2007, replacing Mundia Sikatana. Pande had previously been the tourism minister.-External links:...
  
   - Former Foreign Affairs Minister
• Ronnie Shikapwasha
  Ronnie Shikapwasha
  Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha is the Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services of Zambia. He has held that post since 2008...
  
   - Former Information Minister
• Crispin Shumina
  Crispin Shumina
  -External links:*...
  
   - Former MP, Former Pan-African Parliament
  Pan-African Parliament
  The Pan-African Parliament , also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union and held its inaugural session in March 2004. The PAP exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, lasting for the first five years...
  
   MP
• Mundia Sikatana
  Mundia Sikatana
  -Career:In 2002, Siktana was appointed as the agriculture minister. He and his government faced widescale media condemnation for banning genetically modified maize donations during a widescale famine in 2002. Upon the re-election of President Levy Mwanawasa in 2006, Sikatana was appointed foreign...
  
   - Former Justice Minister
• Gray Zulu
  Gray Zulu
  Alexander Grey Zulu is a retired Zambian politician.Zulu was born in Chipata. He was subsequently educated at Munali Secondary School in Lusaka....
  
   - Independence-era politician, 2nd in Command to President Kenneth Kaunda
  Kenneth Kaunda
  Kenneth David Kaunda, known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991.-Early life:Kaunda was the youngest of eight children. He was born at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali, Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia...
  
  

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.

• Chitimukulu
  Chitimukulu
  The Chitimukulu is the Paramount Chieftainship of the Bemba, the largest ethnic group in Zambia. The chieftainship is named after Chiti Mukulu , who in the 18th Century led the Bemba out from their original lands in the Lunda Empire of Mwata Yamvo in DR Congo to eventually settle the country...
  
  
• Mwata Kazembe
• Chief Kanongesha
  Chief Kanongesha
  Chief Kanongesha is a Senior Chieftainship of the Kanongesha-Lunda people in the North-Western Province of Zambia, based about west of the district headquarters, Mwinilunga....
  
  
• Chief Monze
  Chief Monze
  Chief Monze is the spiritual leader of the Tonga people of southern Zambia. The chief's palace is south of the town of Monze named after him, near a place called Gonde, where a ceremony called Lwiindi takes place. This annual festival is a thanksgiving ceremony which attracts a lot of people from...
  
  
• Litunga
  Litunga
  The Litunga of Barotseland is the king or paramount chief of the Lozi people. The Litunga resides near the Zambezi River and the town of Mongu, at Lealui on the floodplain in the dry season, and on higher ground at Limulunga on the edge of the floodplain in the wet season...
  
  
• Paramount Chief Mpezeni
  Paramount Chief Mpezeni
  Paramount Chief Mpezeni is a chieftainship of the Ngoni people of Zambia's Eastern Province and Malawi's Mchinji district.The chieftainship was founded by Zwangendaba, a former general of King Shaka of the Zulu, who fled the mfecane...
  
  
• Chief Mporokoso
  Chief Mporokoso
  Chief Mporokoso is a senior chieftainship of the Bemba people of Zambia, and a subordinate chief of Paramount Chief Chitimukulu. The chief's palace is located in the Northern Province town of Mporokoso named after the chieftainship.-Notes:...
  
  
• Kalonga Gawa Undi

Religious Figures

• Emmanuel Milingo
  Emmanuel Milingo
  Emmanuel Milingo is a former Roman Catholic archbishop from Zambia. In 1969, aged 39, Milingo was consecrated by Pope Paul VI as Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka....
  
   - Christian leader, has established the 'Married Priests Now' organisation in the USA
• Adrian Mung'andu
  Adrian Mung'andu
  Adrian Mung'andu was the Catholic archbishop of Lusaka between 1984 and 1996. Mung'andu was born in Kasisi around 1923 and went to primary school there. He went to secondary school in Chikuni where he also studied to be a teacher...
  
   - Catholic archbishop of Lusaka

Footballers

• Godfrey 'Ucar' Chitalu
  Godfrey Chitalu
  Godfrey Chitalu was a Zambian footballer who is regarded as the greatest Zambian player ever and is also believed to hold the national team goal-scoring record...
  
   - footballer and coach
• Wisdom Mumba Chansa
  Wisdom Mumba Chansa
  Wisdom Mumba Chansa was a football player who began his career in the youth team at Zambian club side Rokana United before moving to their city rivals Power Dynamos FC. He soon established himself in the Power Dynamos side. He first played as an out-and-out striker before he adapted himself to a...
  
   - footballer
• Ian Bakala
  Ian Bakala
  Ian Bakala is a Zambian footballer, who currently plays for Kabuscorp Sport Clube do Palanca.-International career:The midfielder was part of the Zambian 2006 African Nations Cup team, who finished third in group C in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the...
  
  
• Kalusha Bwalya
  Kalusha Bwalya
  Kalusha Bwalya , known as simply Kalusha, is a Zambian footballer and coach. He is Zambia's most capped player, all-time top goalscorer, and is regarded as the greatest Zambian player to play the game...
  
  
• Johnson Bwalya
  Johnson Bwalya
  Johnson Bwalya is a Zambian former footballer. He played for the Zambian national team and represented the country at the Olympics.-Domestic career:...
  
  
• David Chabala
  David Chabala
  David Efford Chabala , popularly known as Efford Chabala was Zambia's first choice goalkeeper from 1983 until his death in a plane crash off the Gabonese coast in 1993 and is probably Zambia’s most capped player, an achievement which has often been attributed to Kalusha Bwalya, his former team...
  
  
• Linos Chalwe
  Linos Chalwe
  Linos Chalwe is a Zambian football striker.He was part of the Zambian 2006 African Nations Cup team, who finished third in group C in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.-Clubs:*2002–2004: Green Buffaloes*2004–2005: Manning...
  
  
• James Chamanga
  James Chamanga
  James Chamanga is a Zambian football striker who plays for Dalian Shide and Zambia.Chamanga made his international debut on 26 February, 2005 against Botswana and five months later he scored his first international goal in the COSAFA Cup semifinal against South Africa...
  
  
• Isaac Chansa
  Isaac Chansa
  Isaac Chansa is a Zambian footballer, who currently plays for Orlando Pirates in South Africa's Premier Soccer League.-Career:...
  
  
• Phillimon Chepita
  Phillimon Chepita
  Philimon Chipeta is a Zambian football striker who, as of 2010, is playing for Al-Jaish Damascus.He was part of the Zambian African Nations Cup teams in 2002.He is known for his ability to score using his head. This was shown when he become the top scorer in 2003 and scores mostly with...
  
  
• Laughter Chilembe
  Laughter Chilembe
  Laughter Chilembe is a Zambian footballer, who currently plays for Power Dynamos F.C..-Career:He joined the team in 2005 from Nchanga Rangers and played for CAPS United FC in Zimbabwe.-Clubs:*2000–2004: Nchanga Rangers FC...
  
  
• Noah Chivuta
  Noah Chivuta
  Noah Sikombe Chivuta is a Zambian footballer for South African Premier Soccer League club Free State Stars.-Career:Left-footed Chivuta has spent most of his playing career in South Africa.*Year joined Stars: 2010...
  
  
• Clive Hachilensa
  Clive Hachilensa
  Clive Hachilensa is a Zambian football defender.He comes from the southern part of Zambia and has a sister and two other brothers....
  
  
• Hijani Himoonde
  Hijani Himoonde
  Hijani Himoonde is a Zambian football defender.He plays for Lusaka Dynamos in Lusaka, Zambia. He is a member of the Zambia Under 23 and 20 national team's and has 7 senior caps for the Zambian national team...
  
  
• Kalililo Kakonje
  Kalililo Kakonje
  Kalililo Kakonje is a Zambian footballer, who currently plays for Mining Rangers.-Clubs:*2003-2004 : Lusaka Dynamos FC*2004-2005 : Power Dynamos FC*2005-2007 : Golden Arrows*2007 : Nathi Lions*2007-2009 : AmaZulu...
  
  
• Kennedy Kalale
  Kennedy Kalale
  Kennedy Kalale is a Zambian football goalkeeper. He plays for Power Dynamos FC in Kitwe, Zambia. In 2004 he played for the Zambian national team.-Clubs:*2001-2004: Nkana FC*2005–present: Power Dynamos FC-References:*...
  
  
• Francis Kasonde
  Francis Kasonde
  Francis Kasonde , is a Zambian football defender. He is currently contracted with Power Dynamos F.C..-Career:Kasonde has played for Power Dynamos FC in Kitwe, Zambia and Omani side Al-Suwaiq...
  
  
• Chris Katongo
• Felix Katongo
  Felix Katongo
  Felix Katongo is a Zambian international footballer who plays professionally as a midfielder for Libyan team Al-Ittihad.-Club career:...
  
  
• Rotson Kilambe
  Rotson Kilambe
  Rotson Kilambe is a Zambian footballer. He previously played for the Kaizer Chiefs in South Africa.-Career:A striker, Kilambe was signed from South African side Bloemfontein Celtic...
  
  
• George Kolala
  George Kolala
  George Kolala , is a Zambian football goalkeeper. He plays for Zanaco FC in Lusaka, Zambia and has played for the Zambian national team.-References:*...
  
  
• Stophira Sunzu
  Stophira Sunzu
  Stophira Sunzu is a Zambian footballer who currently plays for Zanaco FC.-Career:Sunzu began his career with his brother Felix Sunzu at Afrisport FC and joined 1995 with him to the ex club of his father Konkola Blades...
  
  
• Rodgers Kola
  Rodgers Kola
  Rodgers Kola is a Zambian footballer who plays for Ashdod FC and the Zambian national team. He is a versatile forward who is usually deployed on the wing.-Career:...
  
  
• Dennis Lota
  Dennis Lota
  Dennis Lota was a Zambian football striker who.He started his professional career with Zanaco FC of Zambia in 1989 before leaving for Nchanga Rangers at the beginning of the 1991 season. At Nchanga Rangers he established a midfield partnership with Abeauty Kunda. He later left Nchanga to join...
  
  
• Misheck Lungu
  Misheck Lungu
  -Clubs:*1995--1998: Lusaka City Council*1999--2001: Nchanga Rangers*2002--2004: Green Buffaloes*2004--2005: Primeiro de Agosto*2005--2007: Lombard-Pápa TFC*2007–2008: Kecskeméti TE*2008--2009: Budapest Honvéd FC*2010: Green Buffaloes Fc...
  
  
• Hillary Makasa
  Hillary Makasa
  Hillary Makasa is a Zambian footballer. He currently plays for Nchanga Rangers.-International career:Makasa was part of the Zambian African Nations Cup squads in 1996 and 2000.-Clubs:*1996–1999 : Roan United...
  
  
• Collins Mbesuma
  Collins Mbesuma
  Collins Mbesuma is a Zambian footballer. He is nicknamed The Hurricane or Ntofontofo.-Career:Mbesuma was born in Luanshya...
  
  
• Harry Milanzi
  Harry Milanzi
  Harry Milanzi is a Zambian football striker.He was part of the Zambian 2006 African Nations Cup team, who finished third in group C in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.-Clubs:...
  
  
• Mwape Miti
  Mwape Miti
  Mwape Miti is a former Zambian football striker.He has played 246 matches and scored 109 goals for his team Odense BK, having joined them in the summer of 1997 from Power Dynamos. Prior to that he played for Mulungushi Chiefs. In the 2003-04 season he became joint top league goalscorer with 19...
  
  
• Perry Mubanga
  Perry Mubanga
  Perry Mubanga is a Zambian football defender.He plays for Power Dynamos FC in Kitwe, Zambia and is currently included in the Zambian national team. He has also played for Kitwe United.-References:*...
  
  
• Dominic Yobe
  Dominic Yobe
  Dominic Yobe is a Zambian footballer. His elder brother Donewell is also a professional footballer.Yobe represented Swedish Örgryte between 2004-2007 before signing with AC Oulu. He helped the team to win promotion to Veikkausliiga. On his first Veikkausliiga season in 2010, Dominic was named team...
  
  
• Rabson Mucheleng'anga
  Rabson Mucheleng'anga
  Rabson Mucheleng'anga is a Zambian football goalkeeper and plays for Power Dynamos FC in the Zambian Premier League.-International career:...
  
  
• Clifford Mulenga
  Clifford Mulenga
  Clifford Mulenga is a Zambian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bloemfontein Celtic F.C. in the South African Premier Soccer League.-Career:...
  
  
• Jacob Mulenga
  Jacob Mulenga
  Jacob Mulenga is a Zambian football striker. He currently plays for FC Utrecht.- External links:**...
  
  
• Henry Nyambe Mulenga
  Nyambe Mulenga
  Henry Nyambe Mulenga is a Zambian footballer who currently plays in defence for ZESCO United F.C. in the Zambian Premier League....
  
  
• Charly Musonda
  Charly Musonda
  Charles Musonda , also known as Charly Musonda is a former Zambian professional football player. At his peak, he played as a midfielder for Belgian Champions Anderlecht.-Career:...
  
  
• Joseph Musonda
  Joseph Musonda
  Joseph Musonda is a Zambian football defender.He was part of the Zambian 2006 African Nations Cup team, which finished third in group C in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.-Clubs:...
  
  
• Perry Mutapa
  Perry Mutapa
  Perry Mutapa is a Zambian football midfielder.He was part of the Zambian 2000 African Nations Cup team, who finished third in group C in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals...
  
  
• Billy Mwanza
  Billy Mwanza
  Billy Mwanza is a Zambian footballer. He currently plays as a defender.-Career:Mwanza was part of the Zambian 2006 African Nations Cup team, which finished third in group C in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.He has been instrumental in...
  
  
• Kennedy Mweene
  Kennedy Mweene
  Kennedy Mweene is a Zambian football goalkeeper who plays for South African Premier Soccer League club Free State Stars. He is the current Captain of his club and has been on many occasions a Captain of his country. The player is arguably one of the best goalkeepers on the African continent...
  
  
• Chaswe Nsofwa
  Chaswe Nsofwa
  Chaswe Nsofwa was a Zambian international football striker. He died during a training match in Beersheba, Israel.-Arrival in Israel:...
  
  
• Mumamba Numba
  Mumamba Numba
  Mumamba Numba is a Zambian football midfielder who plays for Zanaco FC. He joined the team in 2001 from Konkola Blades.He represented the Zambian national team at the African Cup of Nations in 2000 and 2006.-External links:*...
  
  
• Davies Phiri
  Davies Phiri
  Davies Phiri is a Zambian football goalkeeper who currently plays for no club in South Africa. He previously played for Durban Stars, Golden Arrows and Kabwe Warriors....
  
  
• Lawrence Phiri
  Lawrence Phiri
  Lawrence Phiri is a Zambian football player, who plays as a midfielder for Green Buffaloes FC. He has played for the Zambian national team.-External links:*...
  
  
• Moses Sichone
  Moses Sichone
  -Career:Sichone joined the squad of Kickers Offenbach in June 2007. After ten years in Germany he left the country on 20 July 2009 and signed for AEP Paphos FC. On 12 July 2010, Sichone signed a one-year contract in the 3rd Liga for FC Carl Zeiss Jena...
  
  
• Zacharia Simukonda
• Andrew Sinkala
  Andrew Sinkala
  Andrew Mutambo Sinkala is a Zambian football midfielder.His late father, Moffat Mutambo, also played for Nchanga Rangers and national soccer team as a defender....
  
  
• Mark Sinyangwe
  Mark Sinyangwe
  -Career:Sinyangwe started his soccer career at Chiwempala Leopards in Chingola before moving to Nkana F.C. After featuring for Nkana, Sinyangwe moved on to play for Nchanga Rangers, Green Buffaloes and Power Dynamos before retiring at Kitwe United....
  
  
• Elijah Tana
  Elijah Tana
  Elijah Tana is a former Zambian footballer.-International career:The defender represented the Zambian national team at the African Cup of Nations in 2000 and 2006...
  
  
• Andrew Tembo
  Andrew Tembo
  Andrew Tembo is a Zambian football midfielder with Ølstykke in Denmark.Tembo previously played 284 matches and scored 15 goals for Odense BK, having joined them in the summer of 1997 from Olympique Marseille, where he had a short spell. Prior to that he played for Zamsure FC.Tembo has 35 caps for...
  
  
• Kapambwe Mulenga
  Kapambwe Mulenga
  Kapambwe Mulenga was a Zambian footballer.He played for Zambia's most successful football team and defunct Nkana Red Devils FC and its successor Nkana FC as well as the national football team with whom he participated in the 1986, 1990 and 1994 African Cup of Nations.He was always a crowd...
  
  
• Emmanuel Zulu
  Emmanuel Zulu
  -International competition:Zulu represented Zambia at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship as well as in 2002 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers against Togo and Botswana.-Professional competition:...
  
  

Boxers

• Hastings Bwalya
  Hastings Bwalya
  Hastings Bwalya is a Zambian boxer who won the 2007 All-Africa Games at junior welter, and then competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Career:...
  
  
• Felix Bwalya
  Felix Bwalya
  Felix Bwalya was a boxer from Zambia, who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was stopped in the first round of the lightweight division by Tanzania's Rashid Matumla.-External links:* * from New York Times...
  
  
• Cassius Chiyanika
  Cassius Chiyanika
  Cassius Chiyanika is a Zambian amateur boxer who competed at the 2008 Olympics at flyweight.He competed in the Commonwealth 2006 Games at junior fly but lost his first bout....
  
  
• Kennedy Kanyanta
  Kennedy Kanyanta
  Kennedy Kenyanta is a Zambian boxer who won the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the men's flyweight division and bronze at the 2007 AllAfrica Games as an amateur.-Amateur:...
  
  
• Keith Mwila
  Keith Mwila
  Keith Mwila is a retired Zambian boxer, who won the bronze medal in the men's Light flyweight category at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States...
  
  
• Lottie Mwale
  Lottie Mwale
  Lottie Mwale was a Zambian male Light Heavyweight-class boxer born in Wusakile, Zambia. He started his career at Rhokana Amateur Boxing Club in Kitwe in the early 1960s later becoming the first Zambian sportsman to win a Commonwealth gold medal, achieving the feat at the 1974 Commonwealth Games...
  
  
• Precious Makina
  Precious Makina
  Precious Makina is a Zambian boxer who competed at the 2008 Olympics but lost to Hanati Silamu.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kennedy Kanyanta
  Kennedy Kanyanta
  Kennedy Kenyanta is a Zambian boxer who won the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the men's flyweight division and bronze at the 2007 AllAfrica Games as an amateur.-Amateur:...
  
  
• Davis Mwale
  Davis Mwale
  Davis Mwale is a boxer from Zambia.He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native African country. There he was stopped in the second round of the Light welterweight division by Cuba's eventual runner-up Yudel Johnson Cedeno.Mwale won the bronze medal in the same division one year...
  
  
• Lucky Mutale
  Lucky Mutale
  Lucky Mutale is a retired Zambian boxer. The 5'3.5" 106 lbs Mutale competed in the Men's Bantamweight category for Zambia at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal at the All-Africa Games in 1978 in the Men's Flyweight division.-References:*...
  
  

Other sports

• Yunus Badat
  Yunus Badat
  Yunus Badat was an East African cricketer. He played two One day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup....
  
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• Felix Bwalya
  Felix Bwalya
  Felix Bwalya was a boxer from Zambia, who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was stopped in the first round of the lightweight division by Tanzania's Rashid Matumla.-External links:* * from New York Times...
  
   -
• Ellis Chibuye
  Ellis Chibuye
  Ellis Chibuye is a boxer from Zambia.He was born in Ndola. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native African country...
  
   -
• George Gregan
  George Gregan
  George Musarurwa Gregan AM is an Australian rugby union halfback who has made more appearances for his national team than any other player in the sport's history....
  
   - Rugby union. Born in Lusaka, but raised in Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
  . Former captain of the Wallabies
  Australia national rugby union team
  The Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the Tri-Nations Series, in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the...
  
   (Australia national team), and the most-capped player in the sport's history.
• Corné Krige
  Corné Krige
  Cornelius Petrus Johannes "Corné" Krige was a South African rugby union footballer, now retired, who played flanker for Western Province in the Currie Cup, the Stormers in Super Rugby and captained the South African national side, the Springboks.-Career:Corne Krige was Zambian-born and his parents...
  
   - Rugby union. Born in Lusaka to expatriate South Africa
  South Africa
  The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
  
  ns who still live in Zambia. Former captain of the Springboks
  South Africa national rugby union team
  The South African national rugby union team are 2009 British and Irish Lions Series winners. They are currently ranked as the fourth best team in the IRB World Rankings and were named 2008 World Team of the Year at the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.Although South Africa was instrumental...
  
   (South Africa national team)
• Samuel Matete
  Samuel Matete
  Samuel Matete is a retired male track and field athlete from Zambia, who competed mainly in 400 meter hurdles. Noted for his exceptionally fast finish, he was one of the world's leading hurdlers in the early 1990s, and became the first Zambian track and field world champion in 1991...
  
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• Obed Mutanya
  Obed Mutanya
  Obed Mutanya is a Zambian long-distance and cross country runner.As a junior he competed internationally in the 5000 metres, finishing thirteenth at the 1998 World Junior Championships and fourth at the 2000 World Junior Championships.He competed in the long race at the World Cross Country...
  
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• Madalitso Muthiya
  Madalitso Muthiya
  Madalitso Muthiya is a Zambian golfer. He took up golf at the age of six and at fifteen he caught the attention of Zambian president Frederick Chiluba, who helped to arrange for him to play a junior tournament in the United States, the 1999 Nolan Henke/Patty Berg Junior Masters in Fort Myers,...
  
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• PG Nana
  PG Nana
  Parbhu Govan Nana is a former East African cricketer. He is a Zambian of Indian origin. He played three One day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup.-References:...
  
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• Lindsay Cummings - Zambia National Golf Team and South Africa Springbok Golfer. Zambia Sportswomen of the Year 1989

Artists

• Henry Tayali
  Henry Tayali
  Henry Nkole Tayali was a multi-lingual Zambian fine artist, sculptor, printmaker, raconteur and lecturer. He has been described as Zambia's most famous painter, and most revered and pre-eminent artist.-Early life:...
  
   - Internationally renowned artist, sculptor, printmaker, lecturer and photographer (1943–1987)

Living

• Maiko Zulu
  Maiko Zulu
  Maiko Zulu is a Zambian musician, human rights activist and a recognized International labour organisation child ambassador to Zambia. His work both in the music industry and human rights arena is well known both locally and internationally.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ballad Zulu
  Ballad Zulu
  Andrew Ballad Mutale Zulu is a Zambian singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and economist. His music career is punctuated by long periods of silence. He has also developed a reputation of being a reclusive artiste, rarely giving interviews and rarely performing live...
  
  
• Victor Kachaka
  Victor Kachaka
  Victor Kachaka is a folk musician, guitarist and lawyer from Lusaka, Zambia. Kachaka became known after recording "It is True", a popular novelty tune during the early 1990s. His followup was yet another novelty song entitled "Beer Man"....
  
  
• Chilu Lemba
  Chilu Lemba
  Chilu Lemba is a radio and television presenter, voice over artist and musician. Lemba shot to fame in his home country in 1996 as a radio presenter on the country's first privately owned radio station, Radio Phoenix...
  
  
• Mwesa Isaiah Mapoma
  Mwesa Isaiah Mapoma
  Mwesa Isaiah Mapoma is one of Zambia's best-known living ethnomusicologists. He received his ethnomusicological training from University of California, Los Angeles . His dissertation research focused on the royal musicians of the Bemba people in Zambia's Luapula province...
  
   - musicologist
• Tasila Mwale
  Tasila Mwale
  Tasila Mwale is a Zambian singer/songwriter.According to Mwale's own account she got her start as a singer at an early age. She was an active member of the Scripture Union singing group at her school....
  
  
• Leo "K'millian" Moyo

Other Categories (Unclassified)

• Joseph and Luka Banda
  Joseph and Luka Banda
  Joseph Banda and Luka Banda are formerly conjoined twins. They were born joined at the back of the skull. In 1997 Dr. Ben Carson led a team of 50 Zambian and South African specialists to separate the 11-month old twins....
  
   - Conjoined twins
• Lukwesa Burak
  Lukwesa Burak
  Lukwesa Burak is a news anchor who presents Sky News and Sky World News from 0000 to 0600 on weekday mornings.-Biography:Burak was born in Zambia in 1974, and named after her royal tribal family...
  
   - Sky News anchor based in London
• Chilu Lemba
  Chilu Lemba
  Chilu Lemba is a radio and television presenter, voice over artist and musician. Lemba shot to fame in his home country in 1996 as a radio presenter on the country's first privately owned radio station, Radio Phoenix...
  
   - Radio and TV presenter
• Martin Mubanga
  Martin Mubanga
  Martin Mubanga is a joint citizen of both the United Kingdom and Zambia. He was held, without charge, and interrogated at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay for 33 months....
  
   - Zambian extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
• Hammerskjoeld Simwinga
  Hammerskjoeld Simwinga
  Hammerskjoeld Simwinga is a Zambian environmentalist. He received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2007 for his efforts to stop elephant poaching through community economic initiatives...
  
   — Conservationist/environmentalist
• Peter Amos Siwo
  Peter Amos Siwo
  Peter Amos Mbiko Siwo was one of the first black graduates in Northern Rhodesia, and a pioneering civil servant after the country achieved independence as Zambia....
  
   – Pioneering graduate and civil servant
• Muloongo Muchelemba - Rhodes scholar, Political strategist

Other People born in/related to Zambia

• Norman Carr
  Norman Carr
  Norman Joseph Carr, MBE was a United Kingdom British conservationist working in Central and Southern Africa. He was influential in setting up National Parks in Malawi , Zambia and Zimbabwe in the 1950s and 1960s...
  
   - British wildlife conservationist who set up national parks in Zambia
• Robert Earnshaw
  Robert Earnshaw
  Robert Earnshaw is a Welsh footballer who plays for Cardiff City and Wales. He is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the English Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two , the League Cup, the FA Cup and for his country at International level.Earnshaw was born in Mufulira,...
  
   - Zambian-born Welsh international football player
• Phil Edmonds
  Phil Edmonds
  Phil Edmonds is a former English cricketer and a successful, albeit controversial, corporate executive....
  
   - English cricketer born in Lusaka
• Stanley Fischer
  Stanley Fischer
  Stanley "Stan" Fischer is an American-Israeli economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Israel. He previously served as Chief Economist at the World Bank.-Biography:...
  
   - Zambian-born Governor of the Bank of Israel
• George Gregan
  George Gregan
  George Musarurwa Gregan AM is an Australian rugby union halfback who has made more appearances for his national team than any other player in the sport's history....
  
   - Zambian-born captain of the Australian Wallabies Rugby Union team
• Tawny Gray
  Tawny Gray
  Tawny Gray, born Toin Adams in 1965 in Kitwe, Zambia, is a sculptor working in steel, acrylic, fibreglass and other media. She spent her early childhood in eastern Rhodesia , and late teen years, from 1980, in South Africa, where she attended an experimental school devoted to the visual and...
  
   - Sculptor
• Daffyd James - Zambian-born Welsh international rugby player
• V. M. Jones
  V. M. Jones
  Victoria Mary Jones is a children's author. She was born in Zambia and educated in Zimbabwe. She completed a BA in English, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town...
  
   - Author
• Corné Krige
  Corné Krige
  Cornelius Petrus Johannes "Corné" Krige was a South African rugby union footballer, now retired, who played flanker for Western Province in the Currie Cup, the Stormers in Super Rugby and captained the South African national side, the Springboks.-Career:Corne Krige was Zambian-born and his parents...
  
   - Zambian-born South African Springboks Rugby Union team player
• Robert Lange
  Robert Lange
  Robert John "Mutt" Lange is a Zambian-born British record producer and songwriter, usually known by his nickname "Mutt". Lange is one of the most successful producers in rock history. He has produced albums for artists such as AC/DC, Nickelback, Def Leppard, Outlaws, Foreigner, The Cars, Bryan...
  
   - Zambian-born record producer and songwriter
• Samantha Mumba
  Samantha Mumba
  Samantha Tamania Anne Cecilia Mumba is an Irish singer and actress.Her first album was released in 2000. Her most notable role was Mara in the 2002 film The Time Machine. She has also appeared in a number of Irish independent films.-Early life, education and early career:Mumba was born in Dublin,...
  
   - Singer/actor born in Ireland with a Zambian father
• Thandie Newton
  Thandie Newton
  Thandiwe Nashita "Thandie" Newton is a British actress. She has appeared in a number of British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness, Mission: Impossible II, Crash, Run, Fatboy, Run and W....
  
   - British actress brought up in Zambia
• Julia Rose
  Julia Rose
  Julia Rose is an actress. She has guest starred in many American television shows such as Star Trek: Enterprise, Code Monkeys, and CSI: NY. She studied Diplomatic History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her father is a Norwegian United Nations diplomat, while her mother is an Armenian actress...
  
   - Zambian-born US actress
• Rozalla
  Rozalla
  Rozalla is a dance music performer, born to a Zambian mother and a Zimbabwean father...
  
   - British/Zimbabwean singer born to a Zambian mother
• Denise Scott Brown
  Denise Scott Brown
  Denise Scott Brown, is an architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia...
  
   - Zambian-born US architect
• David Shepherd
  David Shepherd (artist)
  Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA is a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. He is most famous for his paintings of wildlife, although he also often paints steam railways, aircraft and landscapes...
  
   - British artist and conservationist who has painted Zambian wildlife and locomotives
• Wilbur Smith
  Wilbur Smith
  Wilbur Addison Smith is a best-selling novelist. His writings include 16th and 17th century tales about the founding of the southern territories of Africa and the subsequent adventures and international intrigues relevant to these settlements. His books often fall into one of three series...
  
   - Zambian-born British/South African author
• Ahmad Thomson
  Ahmad Thomson
  Ahmad Thomson is a British barrister and writer and a member of the Murabitun movement.-Career:He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1979. He was a co-founder of the Association of Muslim Lawyers in 1993. He has been the head of Wynne Chambers since 1994...
  
   - Zambian-born British Muslim author
• Jeff Whitley
  Jeff Whitley
  Jeffrey "Jeff" Whitley is a Zambian-born Northern Irish former professional football. He twice won promotion to the Premiership with Manchester City in 2000 and Sunderland in 2005 and was an Northern Ireland international...
  
   - Zambian-born footballer
• Steve Arneil
  Steve Arneil
  Steve Arneil is a prominent South African-British master of Kyokushin karate. He learned directly from Masutatsu Oyama and was a senior instructor in Oyama's International Karate Organization until 1991, when he resigned from the IKO...
  
   - Famous Karate Kyokushin
  Kyokushin
  is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Korean-Japanese karate master, who was born under the name Choi Young-Eui . Kyokushinkai is Japanese for "the society of the ultimate truth". Kyokushin is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline and hard training...
  
   practitioner born in South Africa, but lived in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) until he was 25
• John Edmond
  John Edmond
  John Edmond is a Rhodesian folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War. He was sometimes called the "Bush Cat". During his childhood, he and his parents moved between Scotland and Central Africa...
  
  - Zambian-born Rhodesian singer

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
  Robert Edward Codrington
  Robert Edward Codrington was the colonial Administrator of the two territories ruled by the British South Africa Company which became present-day Zambia...
  
   - 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
  Dan Crawford (missionary)
  Dan Crawford , also known as 'Konga Vantu', was a Scottish missionary of the Plymouth Brethren in central-southern Africa. He was born in Greenock, son of a Clyde boat captain...
  
   - Missionary pioneer
• Bishop Joseph Dupont - Missionary pioneer
• Sir Stewart Gore-Browne
  Stewart Gore-Browne
  Lieutenant Colonel Sir Stewart Gore-Browne, DSO, , called Chipembele by Africans, was a soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia .- Early life :...
  
   - Called Chipembele by Africans, was a soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia
• List of Governors of Northern Rhodesia
  Governor of Northern Rhodesia
  This page contains a list of Governors of Northern Rhodesia from 1924 to 1964. See also the List of Presidents of Zambia.-List of Governors:...
  
  
• List of Governors-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  This is a list of the men who served as Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland . The Federation was formed on 1 August 1953 from the former colonies of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and was formally dissolved on 31 December 1963.-List of Governors-General...
  
  
• Evelyn Dennison Hone
  Evelyn Dennison Hone
  Sir Evelyn Dennison Hone, KCMG was the last Governor of Northern Rhodesia, from 1959 until Zambia's independence in 1964.-Life:Hone was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 13 December 1911. After studying at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Hone entered the Colonial Service and served...
  
   Last governor of Northern Rhodesia
• Alice Lenshina
  Alice Lenshina
  Alice Lenshina was a Christian religious leader who founded the Lumpa Church. She was born Alice Mulenga Lubusha in the Chinsali district of the northern province of Northern Rhodesia. Alice was the name she was given at baptism, while Mulenga was her traditional African name...
  
   - Leader of the Lumpa religious sect
• General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
  Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
  Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of the German East Africa campaign. For four years, with a force that never exceeded about 14,000 , he held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Belgian, and Portuguese troops...
  
   - Leader of German East Africa forces of World War I
• Lewanika
  Lewanika
  Lewanika was the Lozi Litunga of Barotseland from 1878 to 1916...
  
   - Litunga of the Lozi
• David Livingstone
  David Livingstone
  David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr...
  
   - British Scottish missionary-explorer
• Mwata Kazembe - Chiefs of the Kazembe-Lunda
• Mpezeni
  Mpezeni
  Mpezeni was warrior-king of one of the largest Ngoni groups of central Africa, based in what is now the Chipata District of Zambia, at a time when the British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes was trying to take possession of the territory for the British Empire...
  
   - Warrior-king of one of the largest Ngoni groups of central Africa
• Nalumino Mundia
  Nalumino Mundia
  Nalumino Mundia was a Zambian politician. He served as Prime Minister of the country from 18 February 1981 to 24 April 1985. He went on to serve as Zambia's ambassador to the United States, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela...
  
   - Prime Minister, 1981–1985.
• Alick Nkhata
  Alick Nkhata
  Alick Nkhata was a popular Zambian musician and broadcaster in the 1950s through to the mid-1970s. Nkhata, Zambian Broadcasting Service’s director, formed the Lusaka Radio Band, which was later called the Big Gold Six Band. The band promoted Zambian music, translating original rural recordings...
  
   - popular Zambian musician and broadcaster in the 1950s through to the mid-1970s
• Baldwin Nkumbula
  Baldwin Nkumbula
  Baldwin Nkumbula was a Zambian politician and a son of veteran politician Harry Nkumbula. He served in Frederick Chiluba's cabinet as Minister of Sports from 1991 until August 1992 when he resigned, sighting rampant corruption. He was a co-founder of the National Party and became its president...
  
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• Harry Nkumbula
  Harry Nkumbula
  Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula was a Northern Rhodesian/Zambian nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia from British colonialism. He was born in the village of Maala in the Namwala district of Zambia's southern province...
  
   - Nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia from British colonialism
• Nyumbu
  Nyumbu
  Nyumbu was a famous Mbunda chief who led his tribesmen from northeastern Angola to western Zambia in and around the 1850s. The tribesmen were skilled game hunters and fighters using bow and arrow. They were welcomed by King Lewanika of the Lozi people of Western Zambia....
  
   - Famous Mbunda chief who led his tribesmen from northeastern Angola to western Zambia in and around the 1850s.
• Cecil Rhodes - English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa and an ardent believer in colonialism and imperialism, and was the founder of the state of Rhodesia.
• Sebetwane
  Sebetwane
  Sebetwane was a Southern African king, Basotho chief. He established the large and powerful Makololo nation in what is now southwestern Zambia after an arduous migration from his original home - Free State Province....
  
   - Basotho chief who fled from Shaka Zulu, eventually conquering and settling in Western Province
• Mamochisane
  Mamochisane
  Mamochisane was a Makololo Queen who ruled over many people, but especially the Lozi in Barotseland, today's Western Zambia, and was a wife of King Sipopa Lutangu.Her uncle was the king Mbololo.- Biography :...
  
   - Daughter of Sebetwane and succeeded him as Makololo queen
• Sekeletu
  Sekeletu
  Sekeletu was the Makololo King of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863.- Biography :Sekeletu was a son of the King Sebetwane and Queen Setlutlu. He succeeded his half-sister Mamochisane, who had decided to step down from the throne...
  
   - Makololo king of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863
• Alfred Sharpe
  Alfred Sharpe
  Sir Alfred Sharpe was a professional hunter who became a British colonial administrator and Commissioner of the British Central Africa Protectorate from 1896 until 1910...
  
   - British Administrator and agent for Cecil Rhodes
• Lawrence Aubrey Wallace
  Lawrence Aubrey Wallace
  Sir Lawrence Aubrey Wallace was a British colonial administrator. He was the administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia from April 1907 to January 1909, administrator of North-Western Rhodesia from January 1909 to August 1911, and administrator of Northern Rhodesia from August 1911 until March...
  
  
• Roy Welensky
  Roy Welensky
  Sir Raphael "Roy" Welensky, KCMG was a Northern Rhodesian politician and the second and last prime minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland...
  
   - Leader of white Trades Union and settler politician

See also

• Zambia
  Zambia
  Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
  
  
• Hammerskjoeld Simwinga
  Hammerskjoeld Simwinga
  Hammerskjoeld Simwinga is a Zambian environmentalist. He received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2007 for his efforts to stop elephant poaching through community economic initiatives...
  
   -- environmentalist
• History of Zambia
  History of Zambia
  This article deals with the history of the country now called Zambia from prehistoric times to the present.- Early history :The original inhabitants of modern day Zambia, were called San), who were hunters and gatherers who lived a nomadic life, with stone age technology...
  
  
• List of Zambia-related topics