List of Famous people born in Nairobi County, Kenya

Kiran Shah is a Kenyan-Indian actor and a stunt double.

Victor Mugubi Wanyama is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Major League Soccer club CF Montréal and captains the Kenyan national team.

Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State for Wales from 2002 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath between 1991 and 2015.

General Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter, is a Kenyan-born senior British Army officer. He served as commanding officer of 2nd Battalion, Royal Green Jackets in which role he was deployed to Bosnia in 1998 and Kosovo in 1999. After service in Afghanistan, he took command of 20th Armoured Brigade in 2004 and commanded British forces in Basra. He was subsequently appointed General Officer Commanding 6th Division, which was deployed to Afghanistan with Carter as Commander ISAF Regional Command South, before he became Director-General Land Warfare. After that he became Deputy Commander Land Forces in which role he was the main architect of the Army 2020 concept. Following a tour as Deputy Commander, International Security Assistance Force, he assumed the position of Commander Land Forces in November 2013. In September 2014, he became head of the British Army as Chief of the General Staff succeeding General Sir Peter Wall. In June 2018 he succeeded Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach as Chief of the Defence Staff.

Gurdeep Roy, known professionally as Deep Roy, is a British-Kenyan actor, puppeteer and stuntman. At 132 centimetres tall, he has often been cast as diminutive characters, such as Teeny Weeny in The NeverEnding Story and the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keenser in Star Trek and subsequent films, and in television series such as The X-Files, Doctor Who and Eastbound & Down.

Michael Olunga Ogada is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Qatari club Al-Duhail and the Kenya national team.

Marjorie Shiona Wallace CBE, FRCPsych is a British writer, broadcaster, investigative journalist, and chief executive of SANE, a mental health charity that she founded in the UK in 1986.

Thomas Deng is a Kenyan-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Urawa Red Diamonds in the J1 League.

McDonald Mariga Wanyama is a retired Kenyan footballer who played as a defensive midfielder for the Kenya national team.

Princess Louise de Merode is a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist. She conducts research and field work on human fossils in Eastern Africa.