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. The British diaspora consists of people of British ancestry (and their descendants) who emigrated from the United Kingdom. For the purposes of this article, the people of British Overseas Territories are not included as British people though the territories are parts of the sovereign territory of the British state, unless they were born in that part of the British Isles that is currently within the British Realm, and only those who self-reported British ancestry are included in the figures for the British diaspora, which in colonies such as Bermuda – where very few of the Bermudians amongst the 63,779 inhabitants lack ancestry from the British Isles – likely results in substantial inaccuracies. This is a subject complicated by the recent history of the treatment of the people of colour, especially, of the British Overseas Territories by the British Government. The largest proportional concentrations of people of self-identified British descent in the world outside of the United Kingdom and its Overseas Territories occur in New Zealand (59%), Australia (45%), Canada (30.6%), the United States (11%), South Africa (2.6%) and parts of the Caribbean. Those who do claim British ancestry form a sub-set of those who could claim British ancestry; the British diaspora includes about 200 million people worldwide.

Additionally, countries with over 100,000 British expatriates include the Republic of Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates

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