Internationally Notable Luo People
- Barack Obama, Sr., Economist, Harvard University Graduate, father of current U.S. President Barack Obama (Kenyan)
- Raila Amolo Odinga - Prime Minister of Kenya, Leader of the Orange Democratic Movement Party (Kenyan).
- Odhiambo M'cAbwao a.k.a Agwatta: A Swahili Radio Presenter and a Radio Creative Executive,has worked with the State broadcaster in Kenya, The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Taifa. He is also a renowned Musician of the Mokeira Hit song fame( a Kisii language remix to the song Ashawo by Mr Flavor). In music he is popularly referred to as Agwatta( The Remix King). Currently he is a Radio Creative Executive with the Royal Media services in Kenya.
- Milton Obote, Former Ugandan Prime Minister and President of Uganda (Ugandan)
- Tito Okello, Former President of Uganda and Army Commander-Deceased (Ugandan)
- Bazilio Olara-Okello, Former president of Uganda-Deceased (Ugandan)
- Joseph Ukello Abang, Current Minister of Education (South Sudan)
- Janani Luwum, Former Archbishop of the Church of Uganda (Ugandan)
- Tom Mboya - Politician, Pan-Africanist, assassinated in 1969 (Kenyan)
- George Ramogi - Musician (Kenyan)
- Joseph Kony, Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. Notorious rebel group in Uganda(Ugandan)
- Okello Oculi, Novelist, Poet, and Chronicler (Ugandan)
- Jaramogi Oginga Odinga - Independence Fighter, First Vice President of Independent Kenya (Kenyan)
- Ramogi Achieng' Oneko, Freedom fighter Veteran (Kenyan)
- Olara Otunnu, Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict (Ugandan)
- Robert Ouko - Kenyan Foreign Minister, murdered in 1990 (Kenyan)
- Okot p'Bitek, poet and author of the Song of Lawino (Ugandan)
- Ayub Ogada, Singer, Composer and Performer on the nyatiti, the Nilotic lyre of Kenya (Kenyan)
- Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of the church of Uganda (Uganda)
- Johnny Oduya, a defenseman for the Atlanta Thrashers of the NHL
- Thomas Risley Odhiambo, entomologist and environmental activist (Kenya)
- Ramogi Achieng Oneko, Independence Freedom Fighter and Politician (Kenya)
- Betty Bigombe, Former Ugandan Politician, a senior fellow at the U.S Institute of Peace (Uganda)
- Matthew Lukwiya, Epidiomologist, Died while fighting to eradicate the ebola pandemic in northern Uganda (Uganda)
- Adongo Agada Cham, He is the 23rd King of the Anuak Nyiudola Royal Dynasty of Sudan & Ethiopia (Sudan/Ethiopia)
- Amos Otieno Odenyo – Chairman of Social Sciences, York College (City University of New York), World Education - Board of Trustees (Boston), and co-author of “Staring at the Nyanza Sun: A Kenyan-American Memoir.”
- William Ouko, Kenyan High Court Judge. Swore in President Mwai Kibaki in 2003. (Kenya)
- Francis Amos Raballa Oke Kagwa nyakwar Ogalo - Civil Engineering Expert - Development Bank of Southern Africa
- Donald Owino Mwanga,German Engineer,Entrepreneur and Youth Leader
- Major General (retired) Pasteur Omudho Awitta - Commander, Kenya Navy
- General Daniel Opande (retired), Kenya Army and Head of UN Peace Keeping Forces in Liberia
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