{UAH} (Allan Barigye) A few of internationally reknown Luos

Allan,

Thanks for the list and there are many more. But Lt. Gen. Daniel Opande is not Luo. He is Luhya...or are some Luhyas also Luos?

Billie

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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:19:48 -0800
Subject: {UAH} A few of internationally reknown Luos
From: barigye.rugos@gmail.com
To: Ugandans-at-Heart@googlegroups.com

Barack Obama, Sr., Economist, Harvard University Graduate, father of current U.S. President Barack Obama (Kenyan)

Raila Amolo Odinga - Prime Minister of Kenya, Leader of the Orange Democratic Movement Party (Kenyan).

Milton Obote, Former Ugandan Prime Minister and President of Uganda (Ugandan)

Tito Okello, Former President of Uganda and Army Commander-Deceased (Ugandan)

Bazilio Olara-Okello, Former president of Uganda-Deceased (Ugandan)

Joseph Ukello Abang, Current Minister of Education (South Sudan)

Janani Luwum, Former Archbishop of the Church of Uganda (Ugandan)

Tom Mboya - Politician, Pan-Africanist, assassinated in 1969 (Kenyan)

George Ramogi - Musician (Kenyan)

Joseph Kony, Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. Notorious rebel group in Uganda(Ugandan)  

Field Marshal John Okello Zanzibar putsch leader

Okello Oculi, Novelist, Poet, and Chronicler (Ugandan)

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga - Independence Fighter, First Vice President of Independent Kenya (Kenyan)

Ramogi Achieng' Oneko, Freedom fighter Veteran (Kenyan)

Olara Otunnu, Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict (Ugandan)

Robert Ouko - Kenyan Foreign Minister, murdered in 1990 (Kenyan)

Okot p'Bitek, poet and author of the Song of Lawino (Ugandan)

Ayub Ogada, Singer, Composer and Performer on the nyatiti, the Nilotic lyre of Kenya (Kenyan)

Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of the church of Uganda (Uganda)

Johnny Oduya, a defenseman for the Atlanta Thrashers of the NHL

Thomas Risley Odhiambo, entomologist and environmental activist (Kenya)

Ramogi Achieng Oneko, Independence Freedom Fighter and Politician (Kenya)

Betty Bigombe, Former Ugandan Politician, a senior fellow at the U.S Institute of Peace (Uganda)

Matthew Lukwiya, Epidiomologist, Died while fighting to eradicate the ebola pandemic in northern Uganda (Uganda)

Adongo Agada Cham, He is the 23rd King of the Anuak Nyiudola Royal Dynasty of Sudan & Ethiopia (Sudan/Ethiopia)

Amos Otieno Odenyo – Chairman of Social Sciences, York College (City University of New York), World Education - Board of Trustees (Boston), and co-author of "Staring at the Nyanza Sun: A Kenyan-American Memoir."

William Ouko, Kenyan High Court Judge. Swore in President Mwai Kibaki in 2003. (Kenya)

Francis Amos Raballa Oke Kagwa nyakwar Ogalo - Civil Engineering Expert - Development Bank of Southern Africa

Donald Owino Mwanga,German Engineer,Entrepreneur and Youth Leader

Major General (retired) Pasteur Omudho Awitta - Commander, Kenya Navy

General Daniel Opande (retired), Kenya Army and Head of UN Peace Keeping Forces in Liberia

Lupita Nyong'o grammy winning actress

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