List of Zambians

• Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba
• Saviour Chibiya
• Hakainde Hichilema
• Rajan Mahtani
• Sylvia Masebo
• Clever Mpoha
• Susan Mulikita

• Emmanuel Milingo – Christian leader, has established the 'Married Priests Now' organisation in the USA
• Adrian Mung'andu – Catholic archbishop of Lusaka

• Backxwash, Zambian-Canadian rapper
• Denise Chaila, Irish and Zambian rapper, singer, poet, grime, and hip hop artist
• Paul Ngozi, musician, band leader of the Ngozi Family rock band
• Sampa The Great, singer, rapper, songwriter
• Yo Maps , Zambia's international artist and currently most popular musician
• Chile one Mr Zambia, Zambia's newest and most loved musician

• Dambisa Moyo
• Field Ruwe
• Binwell Sinyangwe
• Wilbur Smith
• Ellen Banda-Aaku
• Namwali Serpell
• Fwanyanga Mulikita
• Kenneth Kaunda
• Andrew Kaumba

• Amon Simutowe

• Likando Kalaluka - Attorney General of the republic of Zambia from 2015 to 2021
• Chipokota Mwanawasa - Special Assistant to the Zambian President for Public Policy from 2021 to date.
• Nelly Mutti
• Bokani Soko - Prominent business and lawyer

• Jonah Buyoya - Zambian journalist
• Mary Mbewe - Zambian journalist, and executive editor[2]
• Smokey Haangala - Zambian journalist, poet, writer, composer, musician[3]

Evans Sinjela Journalist Derrick Sinjela Photo-Journalist Rainbow Newspaper Zambia Limited (RNZL), Kwilanzi Newspaper (KNZ), Zambian Developmental Media Alliance (ZADEMA), Zambian Children Young People and Women in Development (ZCYPWD), Journalists Against Piracy In Zambia (JAPIZ) Simon Banda Kwacha Magazine Zambia (KMZ). Henry Chunza Times of Zambia (ToZ) Chief Photo-Journalist

• Aaron Mujajati
• Natasha Salifyanji Kaoma, medical doctor, and organization founder[4]

• Steve Arneil – Karate Kyokushin practitioner born in South Africa, but lived in Zambia
• Joseph and Luka Banda – Conjoined twins
• Lukwesa Burak – Sky News anchor based in London
• Alina Mshanga
• Norman Carr – British wildlife conservationist who set up national parks in Zambia
• John Edmond – Zambian-born Rhodesian singer
• Phil Edmonds – English cricketer born in Lusaka
• Robert Earnshaw – Zambian-born Welsh international football player
• Stanley Fischer – Zambian-born Deputy Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and Governor of the Bank of Israel
• Tawny Gray – sculptor
• George Gregan – Zambian-born captain of the Australian Wallabies Rugby Union team
• Amy Holmes – Zambian-born (Zambian father, American mother), The Blaze news anchor and CNN political contributor
• Daffyd James – Zambian-born Welsh international rugby player
• V. M. Jones – Author
• Corné Krige – Zambian-born South African Springboks Rugby Union team captain
• Robert Lange – Zambian-born record producer and songwriter
• Chilu Lemba – Radio and TV presenter
• Rozalla Miller – British/Zimbabwean singer born to a Zambian mother
• Dambisa Moyo – International economist and best-selling author, born and raised in Lusaka
• Martin Mubanga – Zambian extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
• Monica Musonda – Lawyer turned entrepreneur
• Rungano Nyoni – Zambian-born Welsh director
• Nsofwa Petronella Sampa – Psychological counselor and HIV activist
• Emeli Sandé – British singer, Zambian father
• Denise Scott Brown – Zambian-born American architect
• David Shepherd – British conservationist who has painted Zambian wildlife
• Kapelwa Sikota (1928–2006) – First Zambian registered nurse
• Hammerskjoeld Simwinga – Conservationist/environmentalist
• Peter Amos Siwo – Pioneering graduate and civil servant
• Wilbur Smith – Zambian-born (Ndola) British/South African author
• Jeff Whitley – Zambian-born played for Northern Ireland

This is a list of deceased historical figures (or sub-lists of them) in Zambia and its antecedent territories, and combines Zambians, Africans and non-Zambians including British people and Northern Rhodesians.

• Robert Edward Codrington – colonial administrator of the two territories ruled by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) which later became Zambia
• Father Jean-Jacques Corbeil – Canadian missionary and ethnographer of Bemba culture
• Dan Crawford – missionary pioneer
• Bishop Joseph Dupont – missionary pioneer
• Sir Stewart Gore-Browne – called Chipembele by Africans, soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia
• List of governors of Northern Rhodesia
• List of governors-general of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
• Evelyn Dennison Hone – last governor of Northern Rhodesia
• Alice Lenshina – leader of the Lumpa religious sect
• General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck – leader of German East Africa forces of World War I
• Lewanika – Litunga of the Lozi
• David Livingstone – British Scottish missionary-explorer
• Michael Mataka – first native Zambian to become police commissioner
• Mwata Kazembe – Chief of the Kazembe-Lunda
• Mpezeni – warrior-king of one of the largest Ngoni groups of central Africa
• Nalumino Mundia – Prime Minister, 1981–1985
• Alick Nkhata – popular Zambian musician and broadcaster in the 1950s through to the mid-1970s
• Baldwin Nkumbula
• Harry Nkumbula – Nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia from British colonialism
• Mwene Chitengi Chiyengele – Mbunda chief who led his tribesmen from north-eastern Angola to Bulozi, western Zambia around 1795.
• Cecil Rhodes – English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa and an ardent believer in colonialism and imperialism, founder of the state of Rhodesia
• Sebetwane – Basotho chief who fled from Shaka Zulu, eventually conquering and settling in Western Province
• Mamochisane – daughter of Sebetwane, succeeded him as Makololo queen
• Sekeletu – Makololo King of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863
• Alfred Sharpe – British administrator and agent for Cecil Rhodes
• Lawrence Aubrey Wallace
• Roy Welensky – leader of white trade union and settler politician
• Rohan Oza creator of Vitamin Water in the US, sold to Coke a cola

• History of Zambia
• List of Zambia-related topics
• List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia