Editing Kikuyu people (section)

===Activism, authorship, academics and science===
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* [[Wangari Maathai]], Nobel Laureate, first African woman and first environmentalist to receive the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-25 |title=Wangari Maathai {{!}} Biography, Nobel Peace Prize, Books, Green Belt Movement, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wangari-Maathai |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> First Kenyan woman to earn a Ph.D.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 2004 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2004/maathai/biographical/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Professor [[Stephen Kiama]] University of Nairobi Vice Chancellor 2020 - to date
* [[Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-01 |title=Ngugi wa Thiong’o {{!}} Biography, Books, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ngugi-wa-Thiongo |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> Gikuyu-language author, father of author and professor [[Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mukomawangugi.com/ |title=HOME |publisher=Mukoma Wa Ngugi |date=13 July 2013 |access-date=13 November 2015}}</ref>
* [[Wanjiku Kabira]], literature professor and gender rights activist
* [[Maina wa Kinyatti]], historian and one of the foremost researchers on the [[Mau Mau rebellion|Mau Mau]]
* [[Micere Githae Mugo]], author, activist, literary critic and professor of literature at [[Syracuse University]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Africa's literary giant Prof. Micere Githae Mugo dies at 81 |url=https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/07/01/africas-literary-giant-prof-micere-githae-mugo-dies-at-81/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Wanjiru Kihoro]], economist, feminist and political activist
* [[Njoki Wainaina]], founder and first executive director of the [[FEMNET|African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)]]
* [[Wangui wa Goro]], academic and social critic
* [[Joseph Maina Mungai]], pioneer medical researcher in East Africa
* [[Ng'endo Mwangi]], Kenya's first woman physician. The Mwangi Cultural Center at the [[Smith College]] in [[Massachusetts]] is named in her honor
* [[Carole Wainaina|Carole Wamuyu Wainaina]], [[Assistant Secretary-General]] for Human Resources Management at the [[United Nations]]
* [[Helen Gichohi]], ecologist and President of the [[African Wildlife Foundation]]
* [[Olive Mugenda]], first woman to head a public university in the [[African Great Lakes]] region
* [[Florence Wambugu]], plant pathologist and virologist
* [[Thumbi Ndung'u]], [[AIDS research|HIV/AIDS researcher]] and the first to clone [[Subtypes of HIV|HIV subtype C]]. Recipient of the [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]]'s International Early Career Scientist award 
* [[Dorothy Wanja Nyingi]], [[Ichthyology|ichthyologist]] and recipient of the [[Ordre des Palmes académiques]] (Order of Academic Palms)
* [[Kimani Maruge]], oldest person in the world to start primary school after enrolling in first grade aged 84
* [[David Muchoki Kanja]], the first Assistant Secretary-General for the Office of Internal Oversight Services at the United Nations
* [[Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki|Muthoni Wanyeki]], political scientist and human rights activist
* [[Simon Gikandi]], English professor at [[Princeton University]]
* [[Gibson Kamau Kuria]], lawyer and recipient of the [[Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award]]
* [[Paul Muite]], lawyer, politician, multiparty activist and former presidential candidate<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paul Muite Recognized at the HRD Awards 2023 – Lifetime Achievement Award « Defenders Coalition |url=https://defenderscoalition.org/paul-muite-recognized-at-the-hrd-awards-2023-lifetime-achievement-award/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Judy Thongori]], lawyer and women's rights activist
* [[Maina Kiai]], lawyer, human rights activist and United Nations [[Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association]]
* [[Michael Ndurumo]], deaf educator and the third deaf person from Africa to obtain a Ph.D.
* [[Ngugi wa Mirii]], playwright
* [[Koigi wa Wamwere]], author, politician and human rights activist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Koigi wa Wamwere |url=https://rfkhumanrights.org/person/koigi-wa-wamwere/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Meja Mwangi]], author
* [[Rebeka Njau]], author and playwright. Her one-act play ''The Scar'' (1965), which condemns female genital mutilation, is considered the first play written by a Kenyan woman. 
* [[Boniface Mwangi]], photojournalist and sociopolitical activist
* [[Ann Njogu]], human rights and constitutional reform activist
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* [[John Githongo]], anti-corruption activist
* [[Gitura Mwaura]], author, poet
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