27 Notable alumni of University of Zambia

Mulenga Mpundu Kapwepwe is a Zambian author, social activist and co-founder of the Zambian Women's History Museum.

Patrick Matibini is a Zambian politician, lawyer and former judge. He was Speaker of the National Assembly from 6 October 2011 until 3 September 2021.

Brenda Muntemba was a Zambian diplomat who was serving as the Zambian high commissioner to Kenya at the time of her death. She had also served as the commissioner of police for Southern Province and UNESCO's chief program officer in Zambia. She was a school teacher between 1993 and 1995 at Leopards Hill High School and was also a part-time...

Monica Katebe Musonda is a Zambian businesswoman, lawyer and entrepreneur, who resigned a well-paying job as a corporate attorney to start and then lead a Zambian-based food-processing company, Java Foods Limited, where she is the chief executive officer.

Kevin Shillington is a teacher and a freelance historian based in Dorset, England, United Kingdom.

Dickson Jere is a Zambian lawyer, journalist, author and political analyst specialising on African affairs. He previously served as senior advisor and spokesman of Zambia's Fourth President Rupiah Bwezani Banda. He has also sat on a number of government committees dealing with the economic sector of the country. He sits on the boards of various companies.

Ng'andu Peter Magande, was a Zambian politician and economist. He served as the Minister of Finance and National Planning of the Republic of Zambia from 2003 to 2008. He also served as a Member of Parliament for Chilanga Constituency from 2006 until 2010 and the Chairman of the MMD Party Committee on Economy and Finance.

Kenneth Mubu was a South African politician and a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, and the Shadow Minister of Public Works.

Margaret Sekaggya is a Ugandan lawyer and human rights activist. From 2008 to 2014, Sekaggya was the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights defenders.

Chibamba Favour Kanyama is a Zambian media executive, economist and diplomat. Since March 2023, he has served as the Ambassador of Zambia to the United States of America he is also accredited on a non-residential basis to ten other countries. Prior to his appointment, Chibamba served as the founding CEO at Bridges Limited, a Zambian consultancy firm, since 2016. He...

Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is a Zimbabwean politician who has served as the president of Zimbabwe since 2017. A member of ZANU–PF and a longtime ally of former president Robert Mugabe, he held a series of cabinet portfolios and he was Mugabe's first-vice president from 2014 until 2017, when he was dismissed before coming to power in a coup d'état. He...

Edgar Chagwa Lungu was a Zambian politician who served as the sixth president of Zambia from 26 January 2015 to 24 August 2021.

Hakainde Hichilema, often known by his initials HH and the nickname "Bally," is a Zambian businessman, farmer, and politician who is the seventh and current president of Zambia since 24 August 2021. After having contested five previous elections in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016, he won the 2021 presidential election with 59.02% of the vote. He has led the...

Levy Patrick Mwanawasa was a Zambian politician who served as the third president of Zambia. He served as president from January 2002 until his death in August 2008. Mwanawasa is credited with having initiated a campaign to rid the corruption situation in Zambia during his term. Prior to Mwanawasa's election, he served as the fourth vice-president of Zambia from November...

Michael Burawoy was a British sociologist who worked within Marxist social theory, best known as the leading proponent of public sociology and the author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism—a study on the sociology of industry that has been translated into a number of languages.

Racheal Kundananji is a Zambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for National Women's Soccer League club Bay FC and the Zambia national team.

Inonge Mutukwa Wina is a Zambian politician who served as the 13th Vice President from 2015 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold the position, which made her the highest ranking woman in the history of the Zambian government.

Sir Alimuddin Zumla is a British-Zambian professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London Medical School, and a Consultant Infectious Diseases physician at UCLHospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. He specialises in infectious and tropical diseases, clinical immunology, and internal medicine, with a special interest in HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections (including COVID-19 and Tuberculosis), pathogens with epidemic potential...

Nahas Gideon Angula is a Namibian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 4 December 2012. He was succeeded by Hage Geingob in a cabinet reshuffle after the 2012 SWAPO Party congress. He subsequently served as Minister of Defence from 2012 to 2015.

George Tapatula Chaponda is a Malawian diplomat and politician who served as a minister in the Cabinet of Malawi between 2004 and 2017, and who has served as Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Malawi since 2024. He is a founding member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and is a DPP Member of Parliament from Mulanje...

Margaret Mhango Mwanakatwe is a Zambian politician who was the Minister of Finance from 14 February 2018 to 14 July 2019. She worked previously as a businesswoman, accountant, and bank executive. She was the director for business development in Anglophone Africa at the United Bank for Africa at the bank's headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. In this role, she supervised business...

Irene Chirwa Mambilima was the Chief Justice of Zambia from 2015 until her death in 2021. She also served as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Zambia and presided over the 2006 and 2011 general elections and the January 2015 presidential by-election. She was part of several election observer missions including in Liberia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Seychelles. Her other international...

George Kunda was a Zambian lawyer and politician who was the 11th vice-president of Zambia from 2008 to 2011. He served as the vice-president under President Rupiah Banda until the 2011 election.

Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla is a South African politician, lawyer and former anti-apartheid activist who served in the cabinet of South Africa from 2003 to 2009, including as the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development from 2004 to 2008. She became the South African Ambassador to Sweden in January 2020. A veteran of the African National Congress (ANC), she was an...

Ruhakana Rugunda is a Ugandan physician and politician who was Prime Minister of Uganda from 2014 to 2021. He held a long series of cabinet posts under President Yoweri Museveni beginning in 1986. He served as Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1996, and Minister of Internal Affairs from 2003 to 2009. Subsequently, he was Permanent Representative to...

Frank Mkalawile Chipasula is a Malawian writer, editor and university professor, "easily one of the best of the known writers in the discourse of Malawian letters".