List of Famous people born in Harare, Zimbabwe
Bona Mugabe
Nyepudzayi Bona Mugabe is a Zimbabwean businesswoman. She is the only daughter of former and late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Grace Mugabe, who also have two sons. She shares a name with Robert Mugabe's mother.
Thom Evans
Thom Evans is a former Scottish international rugby union player and model. He last played on the wing for Glasgow Warriors in the Celtic League. Evans' rugby career ended aged 24 on his tenth appearance for Scotland when he suffered a serious neck injury.
Colleen Madamombe
Colleen Madamombe was a Zimbabwean sculptor working primarily in carving stone. Her work expresses themes of womanhood, motherhood, and tribal Matriarchy.
Oliver Mtukudzi
Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi was a Zimbabwean musician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Southern Africa Region. Tuku was considered to have been Zimbabwe's most renowned and internationally recognised cultural icon of all time.
Colin de Grandhomme
Colin de Grandhomme is a Zimbabwean-born-New Zealand cricketer, who plays in all formats of the game.
Tendai Mtawarira
Tendai Mtawarira is a Zimbabwean-born South African professional rugby union player who plays for Old Glory DC in Major League Rugby and previously for the South Africa national team and the Sharks in Super Rugby. He was born in Zimbabwe and qualified for South Africa on residency grounds, before later acquiring South African citizenship. Mtawarira, a prop, is known by the nickname The Beast.
Benjani Mwaruwari
Mpenjani ‘Mpe’ Mwaruwari, often known simply as Benjani, is a Zimbabwean retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
Hugh Beadle
Sir Thomas Hugh William Beadle was a Rhodesian lawyer, politician and judge who served as Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia from March 1961 to November 1965, and as Chief Justice of Rhodesia from November 1965 until April 1977. He came to international prominence against the backdrop of Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from Britain in November 1965, upon which he initially stood by the British Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs as an adviser; he then provoked acrimony in British government circles by declaring Ian Smith's post-UDI administration legal in 1968.
Zororo Makamba
Zororo Makamba was a Zimbabwean journalist and the son of Irene and James Makamba.
Alex Callinicos
Alexander Theodore Callinicos is a Zimbabwean-born British political theorist and activist. In an academic capacity, he serves as Professor of European Studies at King's College London. An adherent of Trotskyism, he is a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and serves as its International Secretary. He is also editor of International Socialism, the SWP's theoretical journal, and has published a number of books.