- Prince Seeiso Of Lesotho
Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso of Lesotho (born April 16, 1966) is the brother of Lesotho's Letsie III and younger son of the souhern African country's late King Moshoeshoe II(1938-1996) and the late Queen 'Mamohato Bereng Seeiso (1941-2003).
- 'Mamohato Of Lesotho
Queen 'Mamohato Bereng Seeiso (28 April 1941-6 September 2003) served as regent (head of state) of Lesotho on three occasions - from 5 June to 5 December 1970, 10 March to 12 November 1990, and 15 January to 7 February 1996. She was the wife of King Moshoshoe II and the mother of King Letsie III. Another of her sons, Prince Seeiso, has joined the UK's Prince Harry in founding a charity, Sentebale in memory of their mothers.
- Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho II of Lesotho
Moshoeshoe II (May 2, 1938 - January 15, 1996) was the paramount chief of Lesotho, succeeding paramount chief Seeiso from 1960 until it gained full independence from Britain in 1966. He was king of Lesotho from 1966 until his death in 1996. His political power was always limited, having his reign interrupted twice. Early in his reign, Leabua Jonathan became Prime Minister of Lesotho and gained control of the government.
- Pakalitha Mosisili
Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili (born March 14, 1945) is the Prime Minister of Lesotho, and has been since May 29, 1998. He led his party, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), to a near-total victory in the elections held that year. Mosisili also serves as Minister of Defense. In 1993, Mosisili was elected to parliament from the Qacha's Nek Constituency and became Minister of Education.
- Tony Yengeni
Tony Sithembiso Yengeni (11 October 1954) is a South African politician. He was an anti-Apartheid activist and joined the ANC in 1976 and later its armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe. He has served as member of the South African parliament for the ruling ANC (including as Chief Whip). In 2003, he was found guilty of fraud in a case linked the ongoing corruption investigation into the former South African vice-president, Jacob Zuma.
- Moshoeshoe I
Moshoeshoe (1786?-March 11 1870) was born at Menkhoaneng in the Northern part of present-day Lesotho. He was the first son of Mokhachane, a minor chief of the Bakoteli lineage- a branch of the Kuena (crocodile) clan. In his early childhood, he helped his father gain power over some other smaller clans. At the age of 34 Moshoeshoe formed his own clan and became a chief. He and his followers settled at the Butha-Buthe Mountain.
- Leabua Jonathan
Joseph Leabua Jonathan (b. 30 October 1914 - d. 5 April 1987) was the first Prime Minister of Lesotho. He held that post from 1965 to 1970, and then as unelected Tona Kholo (a Sesotho translation of prime minister) until 1986 when the military overthrew his government. Born in Leribe, Jonathan was a minor chief, …
- Monyane Moleleki
Monyane Moleleki (born 1951) is the Minister of Natural Resources of Lesotho. He has been a minister in the Lesotho government for a long time, and has also been Minister of Information and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Moleleki was Minister of National Resources in 1994, when he was briefly kidnapped along with three other ministers by soldiers on April 14; another minister, Deputy Prime Minister Selometsi Baholo, was killed in this incident.
- Ntsu Mokhehle
Ntsu Mokhehle (26 December 1918 - 6 January 1999) was a Lesotho politician. He served as Prime Minister of the country from 2 April 1993 to 17 August 1994 and from 14 September 1994 to 29 May 1998. Mokhehle was born in Teyateyaneng. He founded the Basutoland Congress Party (renamed Basotho Congress Party after independence in 1966) in 1952 and led the party until 1997 when he resigned and formed a new political party, Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD).
- Tom Thabane
Tom Motsoahae Thabane (born 1939) is a political figure in Lesotho. He became a leading member of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and was an important member of the government of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, but in 2006 he split from the LCD and formed an opposition party, the All Basotho Convention (ABC).
- Lucas Sithole
Lucas Sithole (1931-1994) was a South African sculptor best known for his work in mainly indigenous woods, as well as for his sculptures in bronze, stone and other media. He was born on 15 november 1931, in Springs, Transvaal, Republic of South Africa; he died on 8 May, 1994, in Pongola, Transvaal, Republic of South Africa. Born of a Zulu father and a Swazi mother; he was married, had 7 children. He lived in Kwa-Thema, Springs, Transvaal, until 1981, …
- Lehlohonolo Seema
Lehlohonolo Seema (born 9 June 1980) is a Lesotho football defender and midfielder. The star of the Lesotho national team, Seema was their only player who in 2003 played club football abroad. He joined South African team Bloemfontein Celtic in the 1998/99 season, and moved to Orlando Pirates in 2006. Having previously captained Bloemfontein Celtic, he now captains Orlando Pirates.
- Motsoko Pheko
Dr. Motsoko Pheko is a South African lawyer, author, historian, theologian ,academic, and politician He is perhaps most prominently known as a leading Pan-African thinker, on a par with Nkrumah, Nyerere, Cabral, [[W.E.B. Du Bois|Du Bois], [Marcus Garvey|Garvey]] and Sobukwe. His writings have advanced Pan Afrikanism and located it within today's complex African and global context.
- Lesao Lehohla
Archibald Lesao Lehohla (born July 28 1946) is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs and Public Safety of Lesotho. He was first elected to parliament from the Mafeteng Constituency in 1993 and became Minister of Home Affairs in the new Basutoland Congress Party government. Subsequently he became Minister of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications in 1995. In May 1996 he became Minister of Education.
- Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda is the pen name of Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, a South African novelist, poet and playwright. He was born in Herschel, South Africa in 1948, and after studying and working in South Africa, Lesotho and the United Kingdom, is now a professor in the English Department at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. His first novel, "Ways of Dying" takes place during the transitional years that marked South Africa's transformation into a democratic nation.
- Letsie III of Lesotho
Letsie III (original name David Mohato Bereng Seeiso) (born July 17, 1963) is the king of Lesotho. He succeeded his father, Moshoeshoe II, when the latter was forced into exile in 1990. His father was briefly restored in 1995 but soon died in a car crash in early 1996, and Letsie became king again. He was educated in the United Kingdom at Ampleforth College.
- Onyekachi Okonkwo
Onyekachi "Tico" Okonkwo (born 13 May 1982) is a Nigerian football (soccer) midfielder. Okonkwo was a member of Enyimba's winning side in the 2003 MTN CAF Champions League and 2004 MTN CAF Champions League finals. During his two-year stay in South Africa he was arguably one of the club's most influential players even scoring the decisive goal against his former club Enyimba to lead the Johannesbrg-based club to the 2006 MTN CAF Champions League semifinals.
- Thomas Mofolo
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (December 22, 1876- September 8, 1948) is considered to be the greatest Lesotho writer. He wrote mostly in the Sesotho language, but his most popular book, "Chaka", has been translated into English and other languages.
- Mohlabi Tsekoa
Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa (born 1945) is the foreign minister of Lesotho. He served in this position from June 2002 to November 2004, and again since March 2007. In 2001, Tsekoa, who had previously served as government secretary, was appointed to the Senate and sworn in on June 14. He was then named finance minister on July 5 2001 and sworn in on July 6. He remained in that position until his appointment as foreign minister in June 2002.
- Reinhard Bonnke
Reinhard Bonnke is a German charismatic Christian evangelist. He was reportedly born-again at the age of 9. He studied at The Bible College of Wales in Swansea and pastored in Germany for seven years. He began his ministry in Africa, with which he is principally identified, preaching in Lesotho in 1967. He has subsequently held large evangelical meetings across the continent.
- Kelebone Maope
Kelebone Albert Maope (born 1945) is a politician in Lesotho. He served in the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) and Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) governments during the 1990s before splitting from the LCD in 2001 to form his own party, the Lesotho People's Congress (LPC). As a member of the BCP, Maope served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice under the military regime that ruled Lesotho from 1986 to 1993.
- Justin Lekhanya
General Justin Metsing Lekhanya (born April 7 1938 in Thaba-Tseka, Lesotho) was the Prime Minister, defense minister and chairman of the military council of Lesotho from January 24 1986 until May 2 1991. Lekhanya was commander of the army when he overthrew Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan in a military coup. Lekhanya immediately sought to establish better relations with South Africa which were strained due to Jonathan's support of the African National Congress.
- Strive Masiyiwa
Strive Masiyiwa (aka "Bill Gates of Africa") is a Zimbabwean businessman and cellphone pioneer, founding Econet Wireless. Strive Masiyiwa was born in what was Southern Rhodesia in 1961. He went to High school in Scotland; he gained a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Cum Laude) at the University of Wales, returning to newly independent Zimbabwe in 1984, where he took a job with the state-owned telephone company.
- Ntlhoi Motsamai
Ntlhoi Motsamai (born 1963) is a politician in Lesotho, currently the speaker of the National Assembly of Lesotho. She is the youngest speaker in Africa, being elected to parliament in 1995 and selected to be speaker in 1999 and re-elected in 2002.
- Quett Masire
Sir Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, GCMG (born 23 July, 1925, Kanye, Botswana) was the second President of Botswana for the Botswana Democratic Party from 1980 to 1998. He stepped down and was replaced by the then Vice-President of Botswana, Festus Mogae, who became the third President of Botswana. Masire was born in Kanye. He worked as teacher and headmaster of the Seepapitso Secondary School from 1949 to 1955.
- Michael Lapsley
Father Michael Allan Lapsley SSM (born 2 June 1949) is an South African Anglican priest and social activist. He was born in New Zealand and in the early 1970s trained as an Anglican priest in Australia before coming to South Africa in 1973. Lapsley's visa was not renewed in 1976 due to his affiations with the banned African National Congress and arrived in Lesotho on the 30 September 1976. He later moved to Harare in Zimbabwe.
- Mongane Wally Serote
Mongane Wally Serote (1944-) is a South African poet and writer. He was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg and went to school in Alexandra, Lesotho and Soweto. He first became involved in Black Consciousness when he was finishing high school in Soweto. His presence in that town linked him to a group known as the "township" or "Soweto" poets, and his poems often expressed themes of political activism, the development of black identity, …
- Elias Phisoana Ramaema
Elias Phisoana Ramaema (born 1933) was Chairman of the Military Council of Lesotho (Head of government) from 2 May 1991 to 2 April 1993.
- François Coillard
François Coillard (born 17 July 1834 in Asnières-les-Bourges, Cher, France; died 27 May 1904 in Lealui, Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia) was a missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa. Coillard was the youngest of the seven children of François Coillard and his wife Madeleine. Both parents were of Huguenot descent. In 1836, Coillard’s father died, leaving behind a nearly destitute widow.
- Kirsti Lintonen
Kirsti Lintonen, born in Tampere on May 23, 1945, is the Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations. She presented her credentials to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on February 15, 2005. From 2000 until her appointment, she had been Finland's ambassador to South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Mauritius, Namibia, and Swaziland. She was accredited to the Southern African Development Community.
- Bismarck Myrick
Bismarck Myrick is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia (1999-2002) and Lesotho (1995-1998). He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and a decorated Vietnam War hero. The government of Lesotho awarded him the Most Meritorious Order of Mohlomi, its highest honor to a non-citizen, for his work in promoting democracy. He also served as Principal Officer in Cape Town, South Africa from 1993 to 1995, and as Principal Officer in Durban, …
- Potlako Leballo
Potlkako Leballo (1915 - 1986) was an Africanist who led the Pan Africanist Congress until 1979. Leballo was co-founder of the Basutoland African Congress in 1952 and a World War II veteran and primary school headmaster. Leballo was born in Lifelakoaneng, Mafeteng, Basutoland in 1915, but claimed he had been born in 1925. He ranked a chief but never claimed his rights.
- Solly Shoke
Lieutenant-General Solly Shoke MMS (born 1956) is a South African military commander. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress, in the 1970s, and served as a field commander during the liberation struggle against the South African government in the 1980s. He transferred to the South African National Defence Force when MK was incorporated into it in 1994.
- Pontso S.M. Sekatle
Pontso S. M. Sekatle (born 26 May 1957) is a politician and academic in Lesotho. Sekatle lectured at the National University of Lesotho from 1984 to 2001. In June 2001, she was appointed to the Senate of Lesotho, and on July 6 2001 she became Minister of Health and Social Welfare. In the May 2002 parliamentary election, which was her first election, she stood as the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) candidate in the Qacha's Nek constituency, …
- Thabiso Moqhali
Thabiso Paul Moqhali (born 7 December 1967) is a marathon runner from Lesotho. He won the gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur in a time of 2:19:15 hours, the slowest winning time since 1966. In addition he finished 16th at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
- Kim Hunt
Kim Hunt was the fifth million dollar winner on the American version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". Hunt was a male high school math teacher from Tennessee. He is currently writing a memoir based on his experiences resulting from winning on the show. He was asked the following question for the million-dollar prize-- "Which of these landlocked countries is entirely contained within another country?" The choices were Lesotho, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, …
- Prince Lerotholi Seeiso
Prince Lerotholi David Mohato Bereng Seeiso (born April 18, 2007) is the third child but first son of King Letsie III of Lesotho and Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso. Prince Lerotholi was baptised with the name David at the Roman Catholic St. Luis Church at Matsieng on June 2, 2007 by Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi head of the Roman Catholic Church in Lesotho. The Principal Chief of Likhoele, Lerotholi Seeiso is a godfather.
- Mots'Eoa Senyane
Mots'eoa Senyane is the Lesotho High Commissioner to Canada. Born in Maseru, Lesotho. Motseoa has been a major contributor to the NGO field in Lesotho. For the longest time, she was the director of the Transformation Resource Centre (TRC) in Lesotho. She also was the founder of the Blue Cross Regional Resource Centre in Lesotho. On June 7, 2006, Motseoa Senyane was appointed High Commissioner to Canada by King Letsie III
- Thabang Nyeoe
Thabang Nyeoe is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Lesotho.
- Thozamile Botha
Thozamile Botha (b.16 June 1948) is a South African politician. He started his political career as a trade unionist and was an executive member of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Due to the apartheid government he went into exile in 1980 to Lesotho where he worked with Chris Hani. He later moved to Lusaka, Zambia before completing a Master's degree in political science and public administration at the University of Essex.