List of Famous people born in Zimbabwe
Kevin Curran
Kevin Malcolm Curran was a Zimbabwean international cricketer.
Sébastien Demorand
Sébastien Demorand was a French journalist and food critic.
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.
Morgan Tsvangirai
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He was President of the Movement for Democratic Change, and later the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T), and a key figure in the opposition to former President Robert Mugabe.
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.
Colleen Madamombe
Colleen Madamombe was a Zimbabwean sculptor working primarily in carving stone. Her work expresses themes of womanhood, motherhood, and tribal Matriarchy.
Colin de Grandhomme
Colin de Grandhomme is a Zimbabwean-born-New Zealand cricketer, who plays in all formats of the game.
David Pocock
David Pocock is a retired Australian rugby union player. He is an openside flanker, and vice captain of the Brumbies in Super Rugby. Born in Zimbabwe, Pocock moved to Australia as a teenager and played for the Australia national rugby team.
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.
Joshua Nkomo
Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and Georgist politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 1990 until his death in 1999. He founded and led the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) from 1961 until it merged in 1987 with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) to form ZANU–PF.