List of Famous people born in Huambo Province, Angola
Filipe Duarte
Luís Filipe Duarte Ferreira da Silva, popularly known as Filipe Duarte, was an Angolan-born Portuguese actor and voice artist. He is best known for the roles in the films Variações: Guardian Angel, Cinzento e Negro and Noise.
Graça Freitas
Maria da Graça Gregório de Freitas is a Portuguese physician and public health specialist who is the current Director-General of Health and inherently the chief medical officer and leading spokesperson on matters of public health in Portugal, since 2018. She has work published in the fields of vaccination, prevention and control of communicable diseases, public health emergencies, and health communication.
Lúcio Lara
Lúcio Lara was an Angolan politician who served as General Secretary of the MPLA during the Angolan War of Independence and Angolan Civil War. Lara, a founding member of the MPLA, led the first MPLA members into Luanda on November 8, 1974. He swore in Agostinho Neto as the first president of the country.
Zacarias Kamwenho
Zacarias Kamwenho is an Angolan emeritus Archbishop and peace activist. He had an important role in the peace process that led to the end of the Angolan Civil War in 2002.
Abel Chivukuvuku
Abel Epalanga Chivukuvuku is an Angolan politician and leader of the Broad Convergence for the Salvation of Angola electoral alliance (CASA-CE). Previously, as a long-time member of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), he served as the Chief of UNITA's Parliament from October 1998 to September 2000.
Mantorras
Pedro Manuel Torres, known as Mantorras, is an Angolan retired footballer who played as a striker.