This is a list of famous or notable Zambians, or people of Zambian descent, or people who have influenced Zambia listed in the following categories, and in no particular order:
Presidents of Zambia
Kenneth David Kaunda - President - 1964-1991
Frederick Titus Jacob Chiluba - President - 1991-2001
Levy Patrick Mwanawasa - President - 2001-2008
Rupiah Bwezani Banda - President - 2008-2011
Michael Chilufya Sata - President - 2011-2014
Edgar Lungu - President - 2015–Present
Reuben Chitandika Kamanga - Vice President - 1964–1967
Simon Kapwepwe - Vice President -1967–1970
Mainza Mathias Chona - Vice President - 1970–1973
(post abolished thereafter and reintroduced in 1991)
Levy Patrick Mwanawasa - Vice President - 1991–1994
Godfrey Miyanda - Vice President - 1994–1997
Christon Tembo - Vice President - 1997–2001
Enoch P. Kavindele - Vice President - 2001–2003
Nevers Mumba - Vice President - 2003–2004
Lupando Katoloshi Mwape - Vice President - 2004–2006
Rupiah Bwezani Banda - Vice President - 2006–2008
George Kunda - Vice President - 2008–2011
Dr. Guy Scott - Vice President - 2011-2014
Inonge Wina Vice President - 2015-
Mainza Chona - Prime Minister, 1973–1975, 1977–1978
Elijah Mudenda Prime Minister, 1975–1977
Daniel Lisulo - Prime Minister, 1978–1981
Nalumino Mundia - Prime Minister, 1981-1985
Kebby Musokotwane - Prime Minister, 1985–1989, Secretary-General, UNIP 1989-1991, Opposition President, 1992
Malimba Masheke Prime Minister, 1989–1991 (post abolished thereafter)
Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika - former minister/democratic campaigner
Anderson Mazoka - former opposition leader (1998-2006)
Austin Liato - former minister/labour leader, former Pan-African Parliament MP
Besnat Jere - former Pan-African Parliament MP
Crispin Shumina - former MP, former Pan-African Parliament MP
Dickson Jere - former Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations, under Rupiah Banda
Edward Makuka Nkoloso - former director of Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy
Elias Chipimo Jnr - opposition leader
Gladys Nyirongo - former Lands Minister
Hakainde Hichilema - opposition leader, 2006-
Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika - diplomat, former UNICEF Regional Adviser for Africa, Presidential Candidate (2001)
Kabinga Pande - former Foreign Affairs Minister
Kalombo Mwansa - former Foreign Affairs Minister
Luke Mwananshiku - former Finance Minister
M. K. Mubanga - former Pan-African Parliament MP
Mundia Sikatana - former Justice Minister
Ompie Nkumbula-Lieventhal - former MP, former Pan-African Parliament MP
Peter Daka - Minister of science and technology, former Pan-African Parliament MP
Ronnie Shikapwasha - former Information Minister
Susan Nakazwe - former Mayor of Lusaka
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
Mwata Kazembe
Chief Kanongesha
Chief Monze
Litunga
Paramount Chief Mpezeni
Chief Mporokoso
Chief Nawaitwika
Chief Chikwanda of Kataba village
Emmanuel Milingo - Christian leader, has established the 'Married Priests Now' organisation in the USA
Adrian Mung'andu - Catholic archbishop of Lusaka
Corné Krige
Ellis Chibuye
Felix Bwalya
George Gregan
Madalitso Muthiya
Obed Mutanya
PG Nana
Samuel Matete
Yunus Badat
Henry Tayali
David Fairbairn (artist)
Dambisa Moyo
Field Ruwe
Binwell Sinyangwe
Wilbur Smith
Amon Simutowe
See: List of Zambian musicians
Joseph and Luka Banda - conjoined twins
Lukwesa Burak - Sky News anchor based in London
Chilu Lemba - radio and TV presenter
Martin Mubanga - Zambian extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
Kapelwa Sikota (1928-2006) - first Zambian registered nurse
Hammerskjoeld Simwinga — conservationist/environmentalist
Peter Amos Siwo – pioneering graduate and civil servant
Amy Holmes- Zambian-born (Zambian father, American mother), The Blaze news anchor and CNN political contributor
Corné Krige - Zambian-born South African Springboks Rugby Union team player
Daffyd James - Zambian-born Welsh international rugby player
Dambisa Moyo - international economist and best-selling author, born and raised in Lusaka
David Shepherd - British artist and conservationist who has painted Zambian wildlife and locomotives
Denise Scott Brown - Zambian-born U.S. architect
George Gregan - Zambian-born captain of the Australian Wallabies Rugby Union team
Jeff Whitley - Zambian-born footballer
John Edmond- Zambian-born Rhodesian singer
Julia Rose - Zambian-born U.S. actress
Norman Carr - British wildlife conservationist who set up national parks in Zambia
Phil Edmonds - English cricketer born in Lusaka
Robert Earnshaw - Zambian-born Welsh international football player
Robert Lange - Zambian-born record producer and songwriter
Rozalla - British/Zimbabwean singer born to a Zambian mother
Stanley Fischer - Zambian-born Governor of the Bank of Israel
Steve Arneil - famous karate Kyokushin practitioner born in South Africa, but lived in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) until he was 25
Tawny Gray - sculptor
V. M. Jones - author
Wilbur Smith - Zambian-born British/South African author
Emile Sandé - British singer, Zambian father
Ngoma jabulani-zambian-born
This is a list of deceased historical figures (or sub-lists of them) in Zambia and its antecedent territories, and combines Zambians, Africans and non-Zambians including British people and Northern Rhodesians.
Robert Edward Codrington - colonial administrator of the two territories ruled by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) which later became Zambia
Father Jean-Jacques Corbeil - Canadian missionary and ethnographer of Bemba culture
Dan Crawford - missionary pioneer
Bishop Joseph Dupont - missionary pioneer
Sir Stewart Gore-Browne - called Chipembele by Africans, soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia
List of Governors of Northern Rhodesia
List of Governors-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Evelyn Dennison Hone - last governor of Northern Rhodesia
Alice Lenshina - leader of the Lumpa religious sect
General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck - leader of German East Africa forces of World War I
Lewanika - Litunga of the Lozi
David Livingstone - British Scottish missionary-explorer
Michael Mataka - first native Zambian to become police commissioner
Mwata Kazembe - Chief of the Kazembe-Lunda
Mpezeni - warrior-king of one of the largest Ngoni groups of central Africa
Nalumino Mundia - Prime Minister, 1981–1985
Alick Nkhata - popular Zambian musician and broadcaster in the 1950s through to the mid-1970s
Baldwin Nkumbula
Harry Nkumbula - Nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia from British colonialism
Mwene Chitengi Chiyengele - Mbunda chief who led his tribesmen from north-eastern Angola to Bulozi, western Zambia around 1795.
Cecil Rhodes - English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa and an ardent believer in colonialism and imperialism, founder of the state of Rhodesia
Sebetwane - Basotho chief who fled from Shaka Zulu, eventually conquering and settling in Western Province
Mamochisane - daughter of Sebetwane, succeeded him as Makololo queen
Sekeletu - Makololo King of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863
Alfred Sharpe - British administrator and agent for Cecil Rhodes
Lawrence Aubrey Wallace
Roy Welensky - leader of white trade union and settler politician
