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.

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