- Michael Sata
Michael Chilufya Sata (born 1937 in Mpika, Zambia) is a Zambian politician, the former chief executive of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) and a close partner of former president Frederick Chiluba. As leader of the opposition Patriotic Front (PF), Sata, popularly known as "King Cobra", emerged as the leading opposition presidential contender and rival to incumbent President Levy Mwanawasa in the 2006 presidential elections, …
- Cecil Rhodes
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.
- Jonas Savimbi
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi was a rebel leader in Angola who founded the UNITA movement in 1966, and ultimately proved a central figure in 20th century Cold War politics. With support from the governments of the United States, China, South Africa, Israel, several African leaders (Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d'Ivoire, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, King Hassan II of Morocco and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia), and foreign mercenaries from Portugal, Israel, South Africa, …
- Bingu Wa Mutharika
Bingu wa Mutharika (born February 24, 1934) is a Malawi economist, politician, and the current President of Malawi. He took office on May 24, 2004, after winning a disputed presidential election. Born Brightson Webster Ryson Thom in Thyolo, about 30km from Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, he reverted to the family name of Mutharika and adopted the first name of Bingu during the 1960s when pan-Africanism was sweeping across the continent.
- Rupiah Banda
Rupiah Banda (born 1937) is a Zambian political figure. He was foreign minister from 1975 to 1976 and was named as vice-president by Levy Mwanawasa in October 2006, following the latter's re-election.
- Kalusha Bwalya
Kalusha Bwalya (born August 16, 1963 in Mufulira), popularly known simply as 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 beautiful game. He was named African Footballer of the Year in 1988 by the magazine "France Football", …
- Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Nathaniel Moyo (born 12 January 1957) is a political figure in Zimbabwe. His father was an active ZAPU cadre and a community leader. Jonathan was raised by his mother, who was separated from his father early on. His mother was very close in the early sixties and mid-seventies to the family of the late Ndabaningi Sithole who was at the time the President of ZANU.
- Collins Mbesuma
Collins Mbesuma (born February 3, 1984 in Luanshya) is a Zambian footballer, currently playing for Barclays Premiership club Portsmouth. He was named the South African footballer of the year in 2005 after scoring a sensational 35 goals in one season with Kaizer Chiefs. After such an achievement a move to a more prestigious league looked assured, and indeed it was enough to catch the eye of Sam Allardyce, manager of Bolton Wanderers.
- Emmanuel Milingo
Emmanuel Milingo (born June 13, 1930) was a Zambian Roman Catholic archbishop. In 1969, when Milingo was only 39, Pope Paul VI consecrated him as the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lusaka. In 1983 he was asked to step down from his position as Archbishop of Lusaka for his performance of exorcisms and faith healing practices unapproved by Church authorities. In 2001, when Milingo was 71, he received a marriage blessing from Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, …
- Felix Mutati
Felix Mutati is the Minister for Energy and Water Development of Zambia.
- Chris Katongo
Christopher Katongo is a Zambian football (soccer) player, who plays as a striker for Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga. He has played 22 matches for the Zambian national team. His younger brother is Felix Katongo. He started his career playing for a pair of Zambian clubs, before moving to South African team Jomo Cosmos in 2004. Playing in just 15 games of the 2006-07 Premier Soccer League season, his 15 goals were enough to make him the league's leading goal scorer.
- Jacob Mulenga
Jacob Mulenga is a Zambia footballer striker. He currently plays for LB Châteauroux.
- Felix Katongo
Felix Katongo (b. 18th April 1984, Mufulira, Zambia) is a Zambian soccer player currently playing as a midfielder for Jomo Cosmos. His brother is Chris Katongo who plays for Brondby IF.
- James Chamanga
James Chamanga (born 2 February 1980) is a Zambian football player. 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.
- Hakainde Hichilema
Hakainde Hichilema (born June 4, 1962) is the President of Zambia's United Party for National Development (UPND). He replaced Anderson Mazoka after an interparty election, organized by functioning party president Sakwiba Sikota, which followed Mazoka's death in May 2006. He is also President of the opposition alliance United Democratic Party (UDA). He was born in Hachipona village, Monze West, in Chief Hamusonde's area.
- Haroon Rashid Aswat
Haroon Rashid Aswat (born ca. 1979 in Britain) is a British citizen of Indian origin. He was reportedly an MI6 informant and he is the alleged Al Qaeda organizer responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Police sources have told newspapers that Aswat made some 20 mobile phone calls to two of the suspected bombers, Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, one just hours before the blasts.
- Kennedy Mweene
Kennedy Mweene (born 11 December 1984) is a Zambian football goalkeeper. 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.
- Isaac Chansa
Isaac Chansa (born 23 March 1984 in Kitwe) is a Zambian football (soccer) midfielder for Allsvenskan side Helsingborgs IF and Zambia. 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. From 2004 to 2007, "Zife" played for South African giants Orlando Pirates.
- Norman Carr
Norman Joseph Carr, MBE (July 19, 1912 - April 1, 1997) was a United Kingdom British conservationist working in Central and Southern Africa. He was influential in setting up National Parks in Malawi (Nyasaland), Zambia and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) in the 1950s and 1960s. He also helped establish the Rhino Trust in the 1970s (now under the WWF), helped return two loin cubs (Big Boy & Little Boy) to the wild, …
- Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller (born 1969) is an African author. "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" is her debut book, a memoir of when she lived with her family on a farm in Rhodesia, later called Zimbabwe. After the Rhodesian Bush War, or Second Chimurenga, in 1981, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 2002, …
- Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika
Princess Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika (born 10 July 1943, Senanga) is a senior 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. Her brother, Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika, is also a politician.
- Anderson Mazoka
Anderson Mazoka (22 March 1943, Monze - 24 May 2006, Johannesburg) was a Zambian politician and president of the United Party for National Development (UPND), the country's main opposition party. He was married to Christine Mutinta and had three children, Mutinta, Pasina and Anderson Jr. He had one child, Macenje, from his first marriage to an American woman. Mazoka attended Union College, where he graduated in 1969 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
- David Shepherd
David Shepherd OBE and FRSA (born 25 April 1931) is a British artist and conservationist. His paintings often deal with the subjects of wildlife, railways and aircraft. He traveled to Kenya with the hope of becoming a game warden, but was rejected. He returned to the UK but was rejected by the Slade School of Fine Art in London. However, he was taught by the artist Robin Goodwin. Shepherd owns a number of steam locomotives.
- Clive Hachilensa
Clive Hachilensa (born 17 September 1979) is a Zambian football defender. 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.
- Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Addison Smith (born January 9, 1933 in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)) is a best-selling novelist. As a baby, he became sick with cerebral malaria for ten days. Doctors had presumed he might have brain damage if he survived at all, but he survived the malaria and grew up normally. He grew up with a mother whose interests included novels of escapade and excitement, which piqued his interest; his father dissuaded him from pursuing writing, …
- Billy Mwanza
Billy Mwanza (born 1 January 1983) is a Zambian football defender. 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.
- John Williamson
Dr. John Thornburn Williamson (1907-1958) was a Canadian geologist famous for establishing the Williamson diamond mine in present-day Tanzania. Williamson was born in 1907 in Montfort, Quebec. He attended McGill University, where he initially intended to study law, but became interested in geology after accompanying a friend on a field expedition. He subsequently earned bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees in geology, completing his studies in 1933.
- Elijah Tana
Elijah Tana (born 28 February 1975) is a Zambian football defender. He represented the Zambian national team at the African Cup of Nations in 2000 and 2006.
- Kalombo Mwansa
Kalombo Mwansa (born 1955) is the mines and development minister of Zambia. He has held that post since August 5 2005. He was previously the foreign minister of Zambia from July 19 2002 until January 2005, when he switched positions with Ronnie Shikapwasha in a cabinet reshuffle and became home affairs minister until August 2005, when he became mines minister in another cabinet reshuffle.
- Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer has been Governor of the Bank of Israel since May 2005. Prior to joining the Bank of Israel, Prof. Fischer was Vice Chairman of Citigroup from February 2002 through April 2005, where he was also Head of the Public Sector Group from February 2004 to April 2005, Chairman of the Country Risk Committee, and President of Citigroup International.
- Ronnie Shikapwasha
Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha is the home affairs minister of Zambia. He has held that post since October 6 2006. A retired LT General of the Zambia Airforce, he was previously the home affairs minister of Zambia, from February 9 2003 until January 2005, when he switched positions with Kalombo Mwansa in a cabinet reshuffle and became foreign minister. He served as foreign minister for nearly two years, …
- Christon Tembo
Lt. Gen. Christon Tembo (born 1944) is a former vice-president and army commander in Zambia. He was foreign minister from 1995 to 1996 and then vice-president from 1997 to 2001. He ran for president in the December 2001 election and took third place, with about 13% of the vote.
- Robert Williams
Sir Robert Williams was a Scottish mining engineer, pioneering explorer of Africa, entrepreneur, and railroad developer who was chiefly responsible for the discovery of the vast copper deposits in Katanga Province (now incorporated in the Democratic Republic of Congo) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Williams was closely associated, variously as an employee of, advisor to, …
- Chaswe Nsofwa
Chaswe Nsofwa (born 22 October 1980) is a Zambian footballer. Chaswe Nsofwa currently a member of Zambian national team and he also represented Zambia at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship. Currently Chaswe Nsofwa played with Melaka TMFC of the Malaysian Super League from 2005 until now.
- Ian Bakala
Ian Bakala (born 1 November 1980) is a Zambian football midfielder. 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. He also took part at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.
- Joseph Musonda
Joseph Musonda (born 30 May 1977) is a Zambian football defender. 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.
- Henry Olonga
Henry Khaaba Olonga (born 3 July, 1976 in Lusaka, Zambia) was a cricket player for Zimbabwe. He made his international debut in a Test match against Pakistan at Harare in 1995, at age 18 years, 212 days, becoming the youngest player to represent Zimbabwe. He helped Zimbabwe to its first ever Test victory in that game. That year, he was no-balled for throwing in a Test match, and rebuilt his action before returning to cricket.
- Peter Takirambudde
Peter Takirambudde is the Ugandan born Executive Director of Human Rights Watch for Sub-Saharan Africa. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1995, he was a professor at the University of Botswana. He is a lawyer by training, and a graduate of Makerere University in Uganda. Takirambudde earned a degree in international business from Yale University, and has reported on human rights abuses in places such as Liberia and Cabinda On the subject of the Darfur conflict, …
- 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. In January 2005, when American authorities transferred him to UK custody, after a brief interrogation British officials determined there were no grounds to charge Mubanga with any crimes, and he was released. Mubanga's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 10007.
- Elizabeth Mataka
Elizabeth Mataka is the United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, as appointed on May 21, 2007 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, replacing Stephen Lewis. Mataka is a national of Botswana and a resident of Zambia.