List of Angolans
Notable people from Angola include:
Athletes
- Akwá, footballer, Parliament member
- Flávio Amado, footballer
- Didi, footballer
- Ze Kalanga, footballer
- Mantorras, footballer
- Rui Marques, footballer
- Nando Rafael, footballer
- Manuel Sala, footballer
- Simão (Angolan footballer)
Clergy
- Oscar Lino Lopes Fernandes Braga, Roman Catholic bishop of Benguela since 1975 until 2008
- Manuel Franklin da Costa, Roman Catholic Archbishop
- Damião António Franklin, Roman Catholic Archbishop
- Alexandre do Nascimento, Roman Catholic Archbishop from 1977 to 2001
Military
- João de Matos, military general
- Nzingha, 17th-century queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in southwestern Africa – also known as Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande
Musicians
- Aline Frazão, singer/songwriter
- Anselmo Ralph, singer/songwriter
- Ben Cristovao
- Bonga, singer/songwriter of Angolan folk music including Semba
- Mylson
- Paulo Flores, Semba musician
- Titica, an Angolan singer/dancer
Photographers
- Chilala Moco, photographer
- Depara, photographer who worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Politicians
- Helena Bonguela Abel, member of the National Assembly of Angola as a member of UNITA and president of the Angolan Women's League
- Nito Alves, member of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
- Mário Pinto de Andrade, founding member and former president of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
- Mawete João Baptista, ambassador
- Américo Boavida, physician and member of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
- Maria Mambo Café, politician
- Boaventura Cardoso, former Minister of Culture
- Abel Apalanga Chivukuvuku, politician, member of UNITA, and member of the Pan-African Parliament
- Carlos Contreiras, President of the Republican Party
- Viriato da Cruz, secretary of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
- Alfredo Junqueira Dala, National Assembly member
- António Dembo, politician, rebel and vice-president of UNITA from 1992 to 2002
- Jose Antonio Dias, minister for geology and mines, 1994
- José Eduardo dos Santos, President of Angola 1979–2017
- Efigênia dos Santos Lima Clemente, member of the Pan-African Parliament
- Aguinaldo Jaime, current Deputy Prime Minister of Angola
- Almerindo Jaka Jamba, politician, former leader of UNITA
- Maria Monteiro Jardin, Angolan minister for fisheries, 1994
- Antónino Filipe Tchiyulo Jeremias, politician for the UNITA
- Lúcio Lara, founding member of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
- João Lourenço, politician, third president of Angola
- Maria Haller, ambassador and writer
- Ana Dias Lourenço, Minister of Planning from 1999
- Abel Xavier Nzuzi Lubota, Angolan politician, National Assembly member
- Paulo Lukamba Gato, politician, rebel and leader of UNITA from 2002 to 2003
- Idalino Manuel Mendes, Angolan minister for industry
- Marcolino José Carlos Moco, Prime Minister of Angola from 1992 to 1996
- José Pedro de Morais, Minister of Finance since 2002
- Venâncio da Silva Moura, Minister of External Relations from 1992 to 1999
- Lopo do Nascimento, first Prime Minister of Angola serving from 1975 to 1978
- António Agostinho Neto, first President of Angola serving from 1975 to 1979
- Pitra Neto, Minister of Public Administration, Employment and Social Security from 1992
- Domingos Manuel Njinga, member of the Pan-African Parliament
- José Patrício, ambassador to the UN
- Alberto Paulino, politician, and National Assembly of Angola member
- Anália de Victória Pereira, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party
- Guilhermina Prata, Angolan lawyer, politician and diplomat
- Holden Roberto, politician, Founding member of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola
- Isaías Samakuva, politician, and current leader of UNITA
- Jonas Savimbi, politician and leader of UNITA
- Anastácio Artur Ruben Sicato, politician for the UNITA
- Maria Elizabeth Simbrão de Carvalho, ambassador
- Paulo Teixeira Jorge, Minister of External Relations from 1976 to 1984
- Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem, Prime Minister of Angola from 1991 to 1992 and from 1996 to 1999
- Jerónimo Elavoko Wanga, member of the Pan-African Parliament
Writers
See: List of Angolan writers- Henrique Abranches, poet
- Antero Abreu, poet
- José Eduardo Agualusa, Angola born Portuguese journalist and fiction writer
- Mário Pinto de Andrade, poet and politician
- Arlindo Barbeitos, poet
- Dulce Braga
- Lisa Castel, writer and journalist
- Alberto Graves Chakussanga, murdered Angolan radio journalist
- Tomaz Vieira da Cruz, poet
- Viriato da Cruz, poet
- Lopito Feijóo, poet
- Isabel Ferreira
- Ernesto Lara Filho, poet
- António Jacinto, poet and political activist
- Sousa Jamba, Anglophone journalist and novelist
- Alda Lara, poet
- Amélia da Lomba, writer and journalist
- Rafael Marques, journalist
- Manuel Rui Monteiro, poet
- Agostinho Neto, poet
- Ondjaki, poet, novelist and dramatist
- Pepetela, pen-name of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, writer of fiction
- José de Fontes Pereira, early Angolan journalist
- Wanda Ramos
- Oscar Ribas, novelist
- Alcides Sakala Simões
- Ana de Santana
- Arnaldo Santos, poet
- Paula Tavares, poet
- José Luandino Vieira, short-story writer and novelist
- Uanhenga Xitu, writer and nationalist
Other
- Leila Lopes, Miss Universe 2011
- Ana Clara Guerra Marques, dancer
- Adjany Costa, conservationist and ichthyologist
- Carlos Fernandes, LGBTQ rights activist
- Reytory Angola,, woman brought to New Amsterdam as a slave, later became a free landowner