Fame travels faster than the owner. _-Kenya

This is a partial list of celebrities with one or more African names.

• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
• Amiri Baraka
• Barack Obama
• Buchi Emecheta
• Chinua Achebe
• Desmond Mpilo Tutu
• Djimon Hounsou
• Erykah Badu
• Haki Madhubuti
• HughRamopolo Masekela
• Idris Alba
• Iman
• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
• Jomo Kenyatta
• Kanye West
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Kofi Annon
• Kwame Nkrumah
• Kwame Toure
• Kwesi Mfume
• Laila Ali
• Malcolm Jamal Warner
• Malik Yoba
• Mekhi Phifer
• MiriamZenzi Makeba
• Muhammad Ali
• NelsonRolihlahlaMandela
• Omar Epps
• Queen Latifah
• Sade
• Sanaa Lathan
• Shani Davis
• Tatyana Ali
• Tupac Shakur
• Winnie Madikezela Mandela
• Yaphet Kotto

If you’re feeling adventurous, try our Random African Name Generator, or try The African Book of Names.