14 Notable alumni of Kenyatta University

Peter Kagwanja is a Kenyan intellectual, adviser, reform strategist and policy thinker on governance, security and African affairs. From the early 1990s, Kagwanja was associated with Kenya's pro-democracy movement through his research and writings in the media, and was one of the founders of the University Academic Staff Union (UASU). As an emigre in South Africa (2003-2008), he was in...

Simon Gìcharū is an educationalist and founder of Mount Kenya University, which is East and Central Africa’s largest private university. He is also the founder of Mount Kigali University in Rwanda. He was born in 1964 in Gathirūini village, Kiambu County, Kenya. He is the first in a family of seven. Gìcharū is also the Chairman of the Water Services...

Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti is a Kenyan environment and climate activist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative, which nurtures young people to love nature and be environmentally conscious at a young age and has now planted 30,000 tree seedlings in Kenya.

Isaac Maigua Mwaūra is the current Government Spokesman of Kenya, a former Senator as well as a former Cabinet Administrative Secretary (CAS) - Deputy Minister in the Office of Prime Cabinet Secretary. Mwaūra served as a Senator in Kenya's Senate under the Jubilee Party between 2017 and 2022 where he was nominated to represent Persons with Disabilities between 2017 and...

Christopher Situma Khaemba is a Kenyan educator, and the former dean of the African Leadership Academy in South Africa. Khaemba became the first dean of the ALA in September 2008, moving from his role as principal of Alliance High School in Kenya to take up the position. Before that he had served as principal of Friends School Kamusinga for three...

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi is a Kenyan-American entomologist and academic who is currently an Assistant Professor of Entomology and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She was awarded the 2018 Society for Experimental Biology Presidential Award.

Dr. Kimani Njogu is a Kenyan linguist known for his study of and advocacy for the Kiswahili language.

Njué Kevin is a Kenyan film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing the film 18 Hours which won the Best Overall Movie in Africa, AMVCA 2018. This category had never seen a Kenyan film be nominated, and so marked history as the first Kenyan film to be nominated and win in the history of...

Margaret Gathoni Karembu is a Kenyan science educator and science management specialist in the fields of technology transfer and the applications of biotechnology in Africa. She is the Director of the AfriCenter division of the ISAAA, a non-profit international organization that shares agricultural biotechnology, focusing on genetic engineering. She is the chair of the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology Programming...

Fred Okengo Matiang'i is a Kenyan academic and former Cabinet Secretary who served in various high-profile dockets under the administration of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Most notably, he served as the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government from 2017 to 2022, a tenure characterized by a "super-minister" status following a 2019 executive order that granted...

Charles Cheruiyot Keter is a Kenyan politician. He has belonged to the United Democratic Alliance Party of Kenya (UDA) since 2022.

Rachel Chebet Ruto is a Kenyan educator currently serving as the First Lady of Kenya. She is the wife of William Ruto, the fifth and current President of Kenya.

Dr. Anne G. Mungai was a Kenyan film director. She is best known for her feature length film, Saikati (1992). She is known for exploring the stories of young African women and the challenges they face while navigating post-colonial Africa.