Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs, GCVO, KCMG (22 November 1902 - 1990) was the penultimate Governor of the colony of Southern Rhodesia (1959-1970) who served through, and opposed, the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965.

Reverend Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd (July 13, 1908 - October 13, 2002) was a reformist Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1953 to 1958 and later became an opponent of white minority rule in Rhodesia.

Pieter Kenyon Fleming-Voltelyn van der Byl (11 November 1923 - 15 November 1999) served as the Foreign Minister of Rhodesia from 1974 to 1979 as a member of the Rhodesian Front. He was a close associate of Prime Minister Ian Smith. Throughout most of his time in government he opposed attempts to compromise with the British authorities and domestic opposition on the issue of majority rule.

Hilary Gwyn Squires is a retired South African judge and barrister, who was brought in to preside over the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial in Durban, South Africa, so as not to tie up legal proceedings elsewhere while the trial proceeded. Squires was born in South Africa in 1933 and was educated at Rhodes Preparatory School and the University of Cape Town. He left South Africa in 1956 for Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. He first practiced in Bulawayo and then in Salisbury.

Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL, (July 5 1853 - March 26 1902) was a British-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today controls 60% of the world's diamonds and at one time controlled 90% of the world's diamonds. He was an ardent believer in colonialism and was the coloniser of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him.

Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead, OBE, (February 8, 1905-September 23, 1971) was a Rhodesian politician. He was a longstanding member of the Southern Rhodesia Legislative Assembly, although his career was interrupted by other posts and by illness; as an ally of Sir Roy Welensky, he was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1958 to 1962. His government was defeated in the 1962 general election by the Rhodesian Front.

John James Wrathall (August 28, 1913 - August 31, 1978) was a Rhodesian politician. He formerly worked as an accountant.

Henry Breedon Everard DSO (February 21, 1897 - August 7, 1980) was a railway engineer and executive who became for a brief time the Acting President of Rhodesia during the U.D.I. period. Everard was born in Barnet and educated at Marlborough College and Cambridge University. During the First World War he served in France, and was wounded in combat. He worked as a railway engineer from 1922, …

Clifford Walter Dupont (December 6, 1905 - June 28, 1978) served as President of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979. Dupont, a close ally of Prime Minister Ian Smith, previously served as his Foreign Minister. His status as President was not accepted internationally.

Sir John Robert Chancellor, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO (b. 1870- d. 1952) was a British soldier and colonial official. After a career in the British Army he became a colonial administrator serving as governor of Mauritius (1911-1916), Trinidad and Tobago (1916-1921) and Southern Rhodesia (1923-1928). He was knighted in 1913. In 1928, he became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine where he was perceived as being cool to Zionism.

John Ralph Beaumont DL, JP (22 April 1927 - November 1992) was a Rhodesian politician. The son of Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont and Helena Mary Christine Wray, and grandson of the 1st Viscount Allendale, he was educated in Eton College, Berkshire and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1952. Beaumont was Member of Parliament (MP) for Mrewa in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1962 and 1963.

J.H. "Jack" Howman served as a Rhodesian Front MP in Salisbury and the Minister of Tourism and Information in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ian Smith. He was one of the signatories to the declaration of independence on November 11, 1965. Howman was one of Smith's closest confidants and friends in his cabinet and accompanied him to the Gibraltar Conferences in 1966 and 1968.

Dr. Ahrn Palley (February 13, 1914 - May 6, 1993) was an independent politician in Rhodesia who criticized the Smith administration and the Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Smith described him as "one of the most able politicians this country has produced, and although our political philosophies did not coincide, we always respected one another and maintained friendly relations."

Andrew Skeen was the last High Commissioner from Rhodesia to the United Kingdom, succeeding Evan Campbell. A brigadier in the Rhodesian Army, he served as the High Commissioner for Rhodesia in London from July to November 1965. His total tenure lasted 115 days. On November 11, 1965, when Rhodesia announced its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Rhodesia), Skeen was declared "Persona Non Grata" by the British government and was expelled from London, …

Henry Hamilton Beamish (June 2, 1873 - March 27, 1948) was a leading British antisemite and the founder of The Britons. The son of an admiral who had served as an A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, Beamish served in the Second Boer War and settled in South Africa afterwards. It was here, he claimed in a 1919 interview with "The Times", that he became convinced of antisemitism as he felt that all of the country's industries were Jewish-owned.

Sir Charles Patrick John Coghlan (24 June 1863 - 28 August 1927) was the first Premier of Southern Rhodesia and held office from October 1,1923 until his death on August 28, 1927. Sir Charles was born in King William's Town in South Africa and came to Rhodesia in 1900 to practice in Bulawayo as a lawyer. He was elected to the Legislative Council in the 1908 election first for the Western Electoral District and sat as Member for Bulawayo for 19 years.

The Honourable Wilfrid Denis Walker is a former Rhodesian politician resident in the United Kingdom. He is known for his monarchist activities and anti-communism and is also the Company Secretary, Director and Treasurer of the International Monarchist League and its UK subsidiary, the Constitutional Monarchy Association. Earlier in his life he was a missionary in southern Africa, …

John Arnold Bredenkamp (born August 11, 1940) is a Zimbabwean businessman. He is the founder of the Casalee Group.

Nathan Shamuyarira was a Zimbabwean nationalist who at different times fought on behalf of and helped lead FROLIZI, ZANU, and ZAPU. He later served as the Information Minister of Zimbabwe and as the Information Secretary of ZANU PF. He is writing President Robert Mugabe's biography. On October 19, 1980 he reimplemented the screening of foreign journalists. Journalists had to have a work permit approved monthly by the government.

Hugh Marshall Hole, (1865 - 1941). Rhodesian pioneer, administrator and author. Born in Tiverton in Devon in the United Kingdom, Marshall Hole came to South Africa in 1889 and met the mine magnate and politician Cecil Rhodes in Kimberley. Rhodes offered him a job, and in 1891 Marshall Hole took up the position of private secretary to Dr Leander Starr Jameson in Mashonaland, later becoming Administrator of North West Rhodesia.

Byron R. Hove (born in 1940) served as Justice Minister in Zimbabwe Rhodesia with Hilary Squires as co-minister. He supported and participated in Prime Minister Ian Smith's Internal Settlement. He later served as MP for Gokwe until April 1986 when he lost his position for misdemeanors. On April 18, 1978, he was unexpectedly fired after he criticized the government for excluding blacks from high-level jobs.

Washington Malianga (born in 1926) is one of several leaders of the Zimbabwe African People's Union who left ZAPU in 1963 and founded the Zimbabwe African National Union. ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo suspended their membership due to their opposition to his continued leadership. The other leaders were Ndabaningi Sithole, Robert Mugabe, and Leopold Takawira. He served as Party Secretary. Malianga was born at the Old Umtali Mission in 1926.

Gerald B. Clarke was the principal secretary to the Rhodesian Cabinet (under Prime Minister Ian Smith) throughout the existence of the Rhodesian Front Government (1964-1979). A close confidant of Prime Minister Smith, Clarke attended virtually every conference and Heads-of-Governments meetings that Smith attended throughout his tenure. Clarke organized and ran the sub-committee that drew up the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, …

Desmond "Des" Lardner-Burke served as a government minister in the Rhodesian Front government of Ian Smith. Lardner-Burke was one of the signatories to the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, signed in Salisbury on November 11, 1965.

Ken Flower served as the head of Rhodesia's and later Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation. He has been tied to the creation of RENAMO, a militant anti-Communist organization in Mozambique. When Robert Mugabe became the first Prime Minister of the state of Zimbabwe he kept Flower and Ken Norman, ex-President of the Commercial Farmers Union, in his predominantly black, first administration. He wrote "Serving Secretly: An Intelligence Chief on Record, …

Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold (2 June, 1899 - 8 April, 1977) was a barrister and judge who held a number of political posts in Rhodesia. He was born in Bulawayo the son of Clarkson Henry Tredgold, the Attorney-General of Rhodesia, and Emily Ruth Moffat, and grandson of the missionary John Moffat. He attended Rondebosch Boys' School in Cape Town, South Africa. He held the posts of Minister of Defence in Rhodesia during World War II, Federal Chief Justice, …

Sir Raleigh Grey KBE CMG CVO (March 24, 1860 - January 10, 1936) was a pioneer British coloniser of Southern Rhodesia who played an important part in the early government of the colony.

Timothy Stamps was born in Wales on 15 October 1936. After qualifying as a doctor in the UK he went out to colonial Rhodesia in 1962 to join its Public Health Service. He has spent the rest of his life in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. He is best known for having served as Zimbabwe's Minister of Health from 1986 to 2002. During his early years as a Minister he promoted the development of community healthcare using the slogan "Health for All by the Year 2000".