List of Kenyan European people
# List of Kenyan European people

The following is a list of notable Kenyan Europeans, either persons born in or resident in Kenya with ancestry in Europe.

## Academia, medicine and science

* Richard Dawkins – ethologist, evolutionary biologist, writer (emigrated to UK)
* Sir Geoffrey William Griffin – educator
* Colin Leakey – botanist (emigrated to UK)
* Louis Leakey – archaeologist and naturalist
* Louise Leakey – artist, writer and archaeologist
* Mary Leakey – archaeologist
* Meave Leakey – palaeontologist
* Richard Leakey – palaeontologist, archaeologist and conservationist
* Prince Emmanuel de Mérode (Belgian; emigrated to DR Congo) – anthropologist, conservationist, pilot
* Joyce Poole (elephant researcher) emigrated as a child with her parents

## Agriculture

* Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, landowner
* Galbraith Lowry Egerton Cole, landowner
* Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton, soldier, landowner

## Business

* Geoffrey Kent - businessman
* Catherine Livingstone, businesswomen (emigrated to Australia)
* Eric Sherbrooke Walker, hotelier
* Michael Joseph, Founding CEO of Safaricom

## Conservation

* George Adamson – conservationist
* Joy Adamson – conservationist
* Donald Ker, safari guide
* Esmond Bradley Martin – conservationist
* Saba Douglas-Hamilton – conservationist
* Philip Percival, safari guide
* Alan Root – conservationist, ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker
* Joan Root – conservationist, ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker
* Dame Daphne Sheldrick – conservationist

## Law, government and politics

* Neil Aggett – anti-apartheid activist (emigrated to South Africa)
* Sir Michael Bear – Lord Mayor of the City of London (emigrated to UK)
* Sir Michael Blundell, politician
* Ewart Grogan – politician
* Elizabeth Furse – US Congresswoman (emigrated to the United States)
* Peter Hain – politician (emigrated to UK)
* Sir Wilfrid Havelock, politician
* Philip Leakey – politician
* Sir William Lindsay, lawyer
* Bruce McKenzie, politician
* Sir Humphrey Slade, politician

## Media, music and the arts

* Michael Asher – author and explorer
* Nicholas Best – author of Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya
* Arap Bethke – actor (emigrated to Mexico)
* Mary Anne Fitzgerald - journalist, author
* Kuki Gallman – author
* Damian Grammaticas – Journalist (emigrated to UK)
* Tania Harcourt-Cooze– model (emigrated to UK)
* Aidan Hartley – news correspondent
* Elspeth Huxley – polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor (emigrated to UK)
* Sam Kiley – Journalist (emigrated to UAE)
* Beryl Markham – author, pilot, horse trainer and adventurer
* Edmund Morris – writer (emigrated to the United States)
* Jonathan Scott – conservationist, wildlife photographer, author, TV presenter
* Jules Sylvester – animal wrangler, TV presenter (emigrated to the United States)
* Roger Whittaker – folk musician (emigrated to UK)
* Adrian Zagoritis – musician (emigrated to UK)

## Military

* Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British army officer and founder of the scouting movement
* Catherine Caughey, Bletchley Park codebreaker
* Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener, British army officer
* Oscar Ferris Watkins, British army officer

## Sport

* Alastair Cavenagh – rally driver
* Roger Chapman – golfer (emigrated to UK)
* Stephen Coppinger, squash player (emigrated to South Africa)
* Crista Cullen – field hockey player
* Jamie Dalrymple – cricket player (emigrated to UK)
* Elspeth Denning – field hockey player (emigrated to Australia)
* Ian Duncan – rally driver
* David Dunford – swimmer
* Jason Dunford – swimmer
* Chris Froome – bicycle racer
* Edgar Herrmann – rally driver
* Derek Pringle – cricketer
* Don Pringle – cricketer
* Jake Robertson, distance runner
* Zane Robertson, distance runner
* Simon Shaw – rugby union player (emigrated to UK)
* Paul Sherwen – cyclist and cycling commentator (Emigrated to Uganda)
* Carl Tundo - rally driver
* Seren Waters - cricketer
* Sir Frank O'Brien Wilson – cattle farmer and cricketer

## Other

* Denys Finch Hatton, big-game hunter
* Peter Poole – executed for murder
* Thomas Cholmondeley – landowner, convicted of manslaughter
