List of Zambians - Other Prominent Figures in The History of Zambia

Other Prominent Figures in The History of Zambia

This is a list of deceased historical figures (or sub-lists of them) in Zambia and its antecedent territories, and combines Zambians, Africans and non-Zambians including British people and Northern Rhodesians.

  • Robert Edward Codrington - Colonial Administrator of the two territories ruled by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) which later became Zambia
  • Father Jean-Jacques Corbeil - Canadian missionary and ethnographer of Bemba culture
  • Dan Crawford - Missionary pioneer
  • Bishop Joseph Dupont - Missionary pioneer
  • Sir Stewart Gore-Browne - Called Chipembele by Africans, was a soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia
  • List of Governors of Northern Rhodesia
  • List of Governors-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  • Evelyn Dennison Hone Last governor of Northern Rhodesia
  • Alice Lenshina - Leader of the Lumpa religious sect
  • General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck - Leader of German East Africa forces of World War I
  • Lewanika - Litunga of the Lozi
  • David Livingstone - British Scottish missionary-explorer
  • Mwata Kazembe - Chiefs of the Kazembe-Lunda
  • Mpezeni - Warrior-king of one of the largest Ngoni groups of central Africa
  • Nalumino Mundia - Prime Minister, 1981–1985.
  • Alick Nkhata - popular Zambian musician and broadcaster in the 1950s through to the mid-1970s
  • Baldwin Nkumbula -
  • Harry Nkumbula - Nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia from British colonialism
  • Nyumbu - Famous Mbunda chief who led his tribesmen from northeastern Angola to western Zambia in and around the 1850s.
  • Cecil Rhodes - English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa and an ardent believer in colonialism and imperialism, and was the founder of the state of Rhodesia.
  • Sebetwane - Basotho chief who fled from Shaka Zulu, eventually conquering and settling in Western Province
  • Mamochisane - Daughter of Sebetwane and succeeded him as Makololo queen
  • Sekeletu - Makololo king of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863
  • Alfred Sharpe - British Administrator and agent for Cecil Rhodes
  • Lawrence Aubrey Wallace
  • Roy Welensky - Leader of white Trades Union and settler politician

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