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词条 List of Kenyan European people
释义

  1. Academia, medicine and science

  2. Agriculture

  3. Business

  4. Conservation

  5. Law, government and politics

  6. Media, music and the arts

  7. Military

  8. Sport

  9. Other

  10. See also

  11. References

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

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[1]
  • Edgar Herrmann – rally driver[2]
  • Derek Pringle – cricketer[3]
  • 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)
  • Seren Waters, cricketer
  • Sir Frank O'Brien Wilson – cattle farmer and cricketer
  • Stephen Coppinger, squash player (emigrated to South Africa)

Other

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

See also

  • British diaspora
  • White people in Kenya

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2017/09/10/chris-froome-rode-kenya-could-aglobal-superstar-british-public|title=Chris Froome|website=The Telegraph}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile/38307-edgar-herrmann/|title=Edgar Herrmann|website=EWRC-Results.com}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/134811.html|title=A man called Mary, and Derek Pringle's Dad|website=ESPNCricinfo}}
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