Notable Gurage
- Imam Baqsa and Imam Hassen Injamo, from Cheha and Kebena, respectively, were two leaders of Gurage resistance movement that began in 1875 against Menelik's campaigns to annex Gurage to his shewa kingdom. In 1878 or earlier, young Habte-Giorgis, presumed to be one of the Gurage resistance fighters of Imam Bqsa and Hassen Injamo, was captured in a battle by Menelik's neftenyas, the armed foot soldiers and paraded in Ankobere. He later successfully integrated himself into the enemy army and became one of its zealots. A firm believer in conquest and plunder, he grew to be a Minister of War and Fitawrari (literally, a battle front leader) in Menelik's expanding feudal kingdom.
- Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis(Aba Mela), Ethiopian Minister of War, during the reigns of Menelik II, Iyasu V, Zauditu and Haile Selassie.
- Abba (Father) François Markos, Catholic priest, social worker, and educator
- Mahmoud Ahmed, singer
- Berhanu Nega, elected as mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Co-founder and chair of Ginbot 7, an opposition party, professor at Bucknell University.
- Dr.Yacob Haile-Mariam, a retired professor of business law at Norfolk State University; former Senior Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; and an elected member of the Ethiopian parliament who had been held as a "prisoner of conscience" in Ethiopia.
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