Celebrities from Kenya
Kenya: 21 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, were laid to rest here, or came from Kenya
Memorial
Raila Odinga
01/07/1945 – 10/15/2025
80 years
Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013
Memorial
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
01/05/1938 – 05/28/2025
87 years
Kenyan writer
Memorial
Rebecca Cheptegei
02/22/1991 – 09/05/2024
33 years
Ugandan athlete
Memorial
Kelvin Kiptum
12/02/1999 – 02/11/2024
24 years
Kenyan long-distance runner
Memorial
Roger Whittaker
03/22/1936 – 09/12/2023
87 years
British singer-songwriter and musician
Memorial
Mwai Kibaki
11/15/1931 – 04/21/2022
90 years
3rd President of Kenya
Memorial
Richard Leakey
12/19/1944 – 01/02/2022
77 years
kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician
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Agnes Jebet Tirop
10/23/1995 – 10/13/2021
25 years
Κenyan Olympic long-distance runner
Memorial
Daniel arap Moi
09/02/1924 – 02/04/2020
95 years
Kenyan President (2nd)
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Binyavanga Wainaina
01/18/1971 – 05/21/2019
48 years
Kenyan writer
Memorial
Naftali Bon
10/09/1945 – 11/02/2018
73 years
Kenyan sprinter
Memorial
Nicholas Bett
01/27/1990 – 08/07/2018
28 years
Kenyan athlete
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Grace Ogot
née Grace Emily Akiny
05/15/1930 – 03/18/2015
84 years
Kenyan politician and writer
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Kofi Awoonor
03/13/1935 – 09/21/2013
78 years
Ghanaian poet and author
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Wangari Maathai
née Wangarĩ Muta
04/01/1940 – 09/25/2011
71 years
Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
Memorial
Samuel Kamau Wanjiru
11/10/1986 – 05/15/2011
24 years
Kenyan athlete
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Zena Marshall
01/01/1926 – 07/10/2009
83 years
British actress
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Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
12/09/1908 – 06/08/2007
98 years
Somali politician
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Julius Sang
06/30/1946 – 04/09/2004
57 years
Kenyan athlete
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Naftali Temu
04/20/1945 – 03/10/2003
57 years
Kenyan long-distance runner
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Richard Chelimo
04/21/1972 – 08/15/2001
29 years
Olympic long-distance runner