Notable Personalities
Among the more notable Bukusu personalities past and present:
- Elijah Masinde, Omubichachi, resistance and religious leader
- Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Omuengele, former vice president of Kenya
- Masinde Muliro, Omukokho, former minister and opposition leader
- Musikari Kombo, Omulunda, Former Chairman of Ford Kenya,
- Wafula Wabuge, a first and only President of Western Kenya during the Majimbo system and a former Ambassador to the USA.
- Sudi Namachanja, Omukhone, a bukusu king, who later became the father of the first African Cardinal Maurice Otunga
- Maurice Michael Otunga, Omukhone, Cardinal, Former head of the Catholic Church in Kenya
- Eusebius Juma Mukhwana, Omusakali, founder of the SACRED Training Institute
- Nancy Barasa, Omutasama, the first Deputy Chief justice of Kenya
- Pascal Nabwana, Omuyemba, Post colonial chief
- Jonathan Barasa, Omukiyiabi, Colonial chief from Sirisia
- Eugene Wamalwa, Omuengele, MP Saboti Constituency and presidential aspirant, Kenya 2013.
- Sudi Namachanja, Former colonial chief from Tulumba
- Pascal Nabwana, Omuyemba, Community Leader from Kimilili
- Wanyonyi Manguliech, Community seer, from Kimilili
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