List of Famous people born in Bulawayo Province, Zimbabwe
Charlene, Princess of Monaco
Charlene is the Princess of Monaco and a former Olympic swimmer. Her husband, Albert II, is the reigning Prince of Monaco and head of the Princely House of Grimaldi.
Chelsy Davy
Chelsy Yvonne Davy is a Zimbabwean businesswoman who is the owner and founder of AYA and Aya Africa Travel.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Precious Lunga
Precious Lunga is a Zimbabwean epidemiologist, entrepreneur, and CEO/co-Founder of Baobab Circle. Between 2017 and 2018, she created Afya Pap, a mobile app offering personalized health education and coaching on chronic diseases. The app is used across seven countries in Africa, including Kenya and Uganda. As Head of Health at Econet Wireless in 2015, Lunga launched a 24/7 dial-a-doctor service in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Zimbabwe to reach over 750,000 paying patients within a year of launch. Lunga is a Yale World Fellow and was featured as a speaker at the Southbank Centre's Women of the World Festival in London.
Paul Le Roux
Paul Calder Le Roux is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, is a British-Zimbabwean writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues.
Pat Walkden
Patricia Molly "Pat" Walkden-Pretorius is a former female tennis player from Rhodesia and South Africa.
Chris Ellison
Christopher Martin Ellison is an Australian lawyer and former politician. He served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1993 to 2009, representing the Liberal Party. He held ministerial office in the Howard Government as Minister for Customs and Consumer Affairs (1997), Schools, Vocational Education and Training (1997–1998), Special Minister of State (1998–2001), Justice and Customs (2001–2007), and Human Services (2007).
David Lowe
David Lowe is a retired butterfly and freestyle swimmer.