List of Angolans

Athletes

• Akwá, footballer, Parliament member
• Flávio Amado, footballer
• Ze Kalanga, footballer
• Mantorras, footballer
• Rui Marques, footballer
• Nando Rafael, footballer
• Manel "Prodígio" Kape, mixed martial artist

  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
• Anna Joyce, singer/songwriter
• Artur Nunes singer/songwriter of Angolan soul music during the Angolan Civil War
• Bonga, singer/songwriter of Angolan folk music including Semba
• Paulo Flores, Semba musician
• Toty Sa'Med, singer/songwriter

  Photographers

• Chilala Moco, photographer
• Depara, photographer who worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  Politicians

• 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
• António Dembo, politician, rebel and vice-president of UNITA from 1992 to 2002
• 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
• Lúcio Lara, founding member of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
• João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, politician, third president of Angola
• Ana Dias Lourenço, Minister of Planning from 1999
• Paulo Lukamba, politician, rebel and leader of UNITA from 2002 to 2003
• 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
• Anália de Victória Pereira, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party
• 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
• 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

• Henrique Abranches, poet
• Antero Abreu, poet
• José Eduardo Agualusa, Portuguese-Angolan journalist and fiction writer
• Fernando Costa Andrade, poet
• Mário Pinto de Andrade, poet and politician
• Mario António, poet
• Arlindo Barbeitos, poet
• Geraldo Bessa Victor, poet
• Dulce Braga
• António Cardoso, short story writer
• Mendes de Carvalho, writing as Uanhenga Xitu, politician and Africanist writer in Portuguese and Kimbundu
• Lisa Castel, writer and journalist
• Alberto Graves Chakussanga, murdered Angolan radio journalist
• Maria João Chipalavela
• Tomaz Vieira da Cruz, poet
• Viriato da Cruz, poet
• Alexandre Dáskalos, poet
• Maria Alexandre Dáskalos
• Raul David
• Lopito Feijóo, poet
• Isabel Ferreira
• Ernesto Lara Filho, poet
• Domingos Florentino
• Henrique Guerra, short story writer
• Duque Kate Hama
• António Jacinto, poet and political activist
• Sousa Jamba, Anglophone journalist and novelist
• Kandjila
• Luis Kandjimbo, essayist and critic
• Dia Kassembe, Francophone writer and novelist
• Alda Lara, poet
• Manuel de Santos Lima
• Amélia da Lomba, writer and journalist
• Reis Luís, or "Mbwanga", Portuguese-language novelist
• João Maimona, poet and essayist
• Rafael Marques, journalist
• André Massaki, politician and writer
• Joaqim Dias Cordeiro da Matta, folklorist
• Cikakata Mbalundu
• Manuel Rui Monteiro, poet
• Agostinho Neto, poet
• Frederico Ningi, poet, journalist
• Ondjaki, poet, novelist and dramatist
• Ernesto Cochat Osório, doctor and poet
• Pepetela, pen-name of Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, writer of fiction
• José de Fontes Pereira, early Angolan journalist
• Wanda Ramos
• Inácio Rebelo de Andrade
• Oscar Ribas, novelist
• Alcides Sakala Simões
• Ana de Santana
• Aires de Almeida Santos
• Arnaldo Santos, poet
• Maria Perpétua Candeias da Silva, teacher and short story writer
• Rosa Soares novelist
• Paula Tavares, poet
• Timóteo Ulika
• José Luandino Vieira, short-story writer and novelist
• Uanhenga Xitu, writer and nationalist
• Mota Yekenha

  Other

• Leila Lopes, Miss Universe 2011
• Ana Clara Guerra Marques, dancer
• Adjany Costa, conservationist and ichthyologist