Famous People Born in Africa - Statistics

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Description	Born in	Lifespan	Person	% Correct
activist, first president of South Africa, NPP 1993	South Africa	1918 – 2013	Nelson Mandela	100%
British lead singer of Queen	Tanzania	1946 – 1991	Freddie Mercury	94%
last Queen of Hellenistic Egypt 51–30 BCE	Egypt	-69 – -30	Cleopatra	88%
British writer of The Lord of the Rings	South Africa	1892 – 1973	J. R. R. Tolkien	86%
Pharaoh known for his intact tomb	Egypt	-1341 – -1323	Tutankhamun	86%
businessman and richest person in the world	South Africa	1971 –	Elon Musk	80%
dictator of Libya 1969–2011	Libya	1942 – 2011	Muammar al-Gaddafi	80%
dictator of Zimbabwe 1980–2017	Zimbabwe	1924 – 2019	Robert Mugabe	78%
bishop & human rights activist, NPP 1984	South Africa	1931 – 2022	Desmond Tutu	63%
brutal dictator of Uganda 1971–1979	Uganda	1923 – 2003	Idi Amin	63%
UN Secretary-General 1997–2006, NPP 2001	Ghana	1938 – 2018	Kofi Annan	63%
Emperor of Ethiopia, prophet to Rastafaris	Ethiopia	1892 – 1975	Haile Selassie	61%
president of Egypt 1981–2011	Egypt	1928 – 2020	Hosni Mubarak	61%
leader of Palestine 1969–2004, NPP 1994	Egypt	1929 – 2004	Yasser Arafat	61%
actress (Monster, The Devil's Advocate, Hancock)	South Africa	1975 –	Charlize Theron	59%
president of Egypt 1970–1981, NPP 1978	Egypt	1918 – 1981	Anwar Sadat	57%
ancient Greek "father of geometry"	Egypt	-330 – -270	Euclid	57%
general of Carthage in the 2nd Punic War	Tunisia	-247 – -183	Hannibal	57%
footballer (forward) playing for Liverpool since 2017	Egypt	1992 –	Mohamed Salah	51%
French philosopher/writer (The Stranger), NPL 1957	Algeria	1913 – 1960	Albert Camus	49%
footballer playing 9 years as striker for Chelsea	Ivory Coast	1978 –	Didier Drogba	49%
president of Egypt 1954–1970	Egypt	1918 – 1970	Gamal Abdel Nasser	49%
leader of South Africa, ended apartheid, NPP 1993	South Africa	1936 – 2022	Frederik Willem de Klerk	47%
footballer (PotY 1995), current president of Liberia	Liberia	1966 –	George Weah	45%
co-ruling queen and possibly Pharaoh	Egypt	-1400 – -1330	Nefertiti	45%
UN Secretary-General 1992–1996	Egypt	1922 – 2016	Boutros Boutros-Ghali	41%
Portuguese footballer playing for Benfica	Mozambique	1942 – 2014	Eusébio	37%
King of Morocco since 1999	Morocco	1963 –	Mohammed VI	37%
actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia)	Egypt	1932 – 2015	Omar Sharif	37%
military-loving king of the Zulu	South Africa	1787 – 1828	Shaka	37%
Berber theologian and Catholic saint	Algeria	354 – 430	Augustine of Hippo	35%
French actor (Léon, The Da Vinci Code, Godzilla)	Morocco	1948 –	Jean Reno	35%
wrote the oldest Gospel	Libya	10 – 68	Mark the Evangelist	35%
footballer (striker), African Cup leading scorer	Cameroon	1981 –	Samuel Eto'o	35%
dictator of Zaire (DR Congo) 1965–1997	DR Congo	1930 – 1997	Mobutu Sese Seko	33%
Berber scholar & well-travelled explorer	Morocco	1304 – 1368	Ibn Battuta	29%
president of South Africa 2009–2018	South Africa	1942 –	Jacob Zuma	27%
mathematician, astronomer, geographer (Almagest)	Egypt	100 – 170	Claudius Ptolemy	24%
first female president in Africa (Liberia), NPP 2011	Liberia	1938 –	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	24%
British evolutionary biologist and atheist	Kenya	1941 –	Richard Dawkins	24%
first leader of independent Ghana 1952–1966	Ghana	1909 – 1972	Kwame Nkrumah	18%
Things Fall Apart writer, "father of African literature"	Nigeria	1930 – 2013	Chinua Achebe	16%
female anti-apartheid world music singer	South Africa	1932 – 2008	Miriam Makeba	16%
second president of South Africa 1999–2008	South Africa	1942 –	Thabo Mbeki	16%
president of Egypt since 2014	Egypt	1954 –	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	14%
second confirmed female pharaoh, ruled 20 years	Egypt	-1507 – -1458	Hatshepsut	14%
leader of Sudan 1989–2011 and war criminal	Sudan	1944 –	Omar al-Bashir	14%
president of Algeria 1999–2019	Morocco	1937 – 2021	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	12%
French postmodern philosopher, deconstructivist	Algeria	1930 – 2004	Jacques Derrida	12%
Islamist president of Egypt 2012–2013	Egypt	1951 – 2019	Mohamed Morsi	12%
leader of Congolese independence, first PM of DRC	DR Congo	1925 – 1961	Patrice Lumumba	12%
president of Tunisia 1987–2011	Tunisia	1936 – 2019	Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	12%
prime minister of Ethiopia since 2018, NPP 2019	Ethiopia	1976 –	Abiy Ahmed	10%
pharaoh who abandoned polytheism	Egypt	-1400 – -1336	Akhenaten	10%
female anti-apartheid writer, NPL 1991	South Africa	1923 – 2014	Nadine Gordimer	10%
ancient Greek polymath, "founder of geography"	Libya	-276 – -194	Eratosthenes	8%
English-language writer, NPL 2003	South Africa	1940 –	J. M. Coetzee	8%
realist Arabic writer, 1998 NP in Literature	Egypt	1911 – 2006	Naguib Mahfouz	8%
Roman emperor 193–211	Libya	145 – 211	Septimius Severus	8%
classical singer & actress, "The Voice of Egypt"	Egypt	1898 – 1975	Umm Kulthum	6%
environmental & women's activist, NPP 2004	Kenya	1940 – 2011	Wangari Maathai	6%
playwright & writer, first African NPL 1986	Nigeria	1934 –	Wole Soyinka	6%
female Byzantine philosopher & mathematician	Egypt	350 – 415	Hypatia	4%
first president of Senegal 1960–1980, poet	Senegal	1906 – 2001	Léopold Sédar Senghor	4%
Roman Hellenistic philosopher, first neoplatonist	Egypt	203 – 270	Plotinus	4%
French novelist, NPL 1985	Madagascar	1913 – 2005	Claude Simon	2%
female British chemist, NP in Chemistry 1964	Egypt	1910 – 1994	Dorothy Hodgkin	2%
Arab sociologist, philosopher, & historian	Tunisia	1332 – 1406	Ibn Khaldun	2%
women's and peace activist, NPP 2011	Liberia	1972 –	Leymah Gbowee	2%
Pope (189–199) from Roman Africa	Libya	120 – 199	Victor I	2%

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