This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Internationally notable Luo people[edit] Barack Obama, President of the United States, of partial Luo descent through his father, Barack Obama, Sr. Barack Obama, Sr., Economist, Harvard University Graduate, father of current U.S. President Barack Obama (Kenyan) Raila Amolo Odinga - Former Prime Minister of Kenya (Feb. 2008- Apr. 2013), Leader of the Orange Democratic Movement Party (Kenyan) Quincy Timberlake, Political activist, former presidential candidate and leader of the Platinum Centraliser and Unionist Party of Kenya (Kenyan) Tito Okello, Former President of Uganda and Army Commander – Deceased (Ugandan) Bazilio Olara-Okello, Former president of Uganda – Deceased (Ugandan) Joseph Ukello Abang, Current Minister of Education (South Sudan) Janani Luwum, Former Archbishop of the Church of Uganda (Ugandan) Tom Mboya, politician, Pan-Africanist, assassinated in 1969 (Kenyan) George Ramogi, musician (Kenyan) Joseph Kony, Leader of the Lords Resistance Army, notorious rebel group in Uganda (Ugandan) Jaramogi Oginga Odinga - Independence Fighter, First Vice President of Independent Kenya (Kenyan) Ramogi Achieng Oneko, Freedom fighter Veteran (Kenyan) Olara Otunnu, Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict (Ugandan) Robert Ouko, Kenyan Foreign Minister, murdered in 1990 (Kenyan) Okot pBitek, poet and author of the Song of Lawino (Ugandan) Ayub Ogada, singer, composer and performer on the nyatiti, the Nilotic lyre of Kenya (Kenyan) Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of the church of Uganda (Uganda) Johnny Oduya, a defenseman for the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL Thomas Risley Odhiambo, entomologist and environmental activist (Kenya) Ramogi Achieng Oneko, Independence Freedom Fighter and Politician (Kenya) Betty Bigombe, Former Ugandan Politician, a senior fellow at the U.S Institute of Peace (Uganda) Matthew Lukwiya, Epidiomologist, Died while fighting to eradicate the ebola pandemic in northern Uganda (Uganda) Adongo Agada Cham, 23rd King of the Anuak Nyiudola Royal Dynasty of Sudan & Ethiopia (Sudan/Ethiopia) Amos Otieno Odenyo, Chairman of Social Sciences, York College (City University of New York), World Education - Board of Trustees (Boston), and co-author of Staring at the Nyanza Sun: A Kenyan-American Memoir Lupita Nyongo (Kenya), Actress and Filmmaker (Yale School of Drama)[5] Francis Amos Raballa Oke Kagwa nyakwar Ogalo - Civil Engineering Expert - Development Bank of Southern Africa Major General (retired) Pasteur Omudho Awitta - Commander, Kenya Navy General Daniel Opande (retired), Kenya Army and Head of UN Peace Keeping Forces in Liberia John Okello (Uganda/Kenya), started the Zanzibar revolution that ended Arab rule on the Zanzibari Islands Millie Odhiambo (Kenya), human rights activist Grace Ogot (Kenyan), writer and former Member of Parliament Bethwell Ogot (Kenya), African and Luo historian N.I Owino-Were (Kenya), Academician and geography author Joseph Oundo, public health, laboratory systems, and clinical microbiology expert Alex Oloya Lurum(Acholi from Patitko,Uganda)Computer information forensic Expert Professor Alexander Odonga (patiko, Ugnada) The first Acholi Doctor from Oxford University.one of the first in East Central Africa to qualify as a Specialist Surgeon, Professor of Surgery, Dean Makerere Medical School, Dean School of Dentistry, University of
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:03:56 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015