Editing Gaborone (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Gaborone}}
* [[Letsile Tebogo]] (b. 2003) Motswana Athlete, Sprinter, won He won the silver medal at the 2023 World Championships in the 100 m 

* [[Kgosi Gaborone]] ({{circa}} 1825–1931), Motswana [[kgosi|chief]], after whom the city is named
* [[Alec Campbell (archaeologist)|Alec Campbell]] (1932–2012), archaeologist and museum curator
* [[Thamsanga Mnyele]] (1948–1985), member of the [[African National Congress]] and artist
* [[Vernon Nkadimeng]] (1958–1985), member of the [[African National Congress]], killed in Gaborone by the [[South African Police|apartheid police]]
* [[Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi]] (b. 1927), Roman Catholic bishop of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaborone|Diocese of Gaborone]], Botswana from 1981 to 2009
* [[Wally Serote]] (b. 1944), poet and anti-apartheid activist
* [[Dipsy Selolwane]] (b. 1978), football player
* [[Mpule Kwelagobe]] (b. 1979), Miss World Botswana 1997, [[Miss Universe Botswana]] 1999 and [[Miss Universe 1999]]
* [[Alister Walker]] (b. 1982), [[Squash (sport)|squash player]]
* [[Abednico Powell]] (b. 1983), football player
* [[Joel Mogorosi]] (b. 1984), football player
* [[Dirang Moloi]] (b. 1985), member of the [[Botswana national football team]]
* [[Donald Molosi]] (b. 1985), actor, writer and playwright attended [[Maru a Pula School]] in his teens,<ref>[http://www.mmegi.bw/2004/June/Thursday24/2835465531965.html A piecing together of fragments] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916054103/http://www.mmegi.bw/2004/June/Thursday24/2835465531965.html |date=16 September 2017 }} ''Mmegi Online''. Retrieved September 15, 2017.</ref> and the [[National Arts Festival]] in South Africa<ref name="auto3">{{cite news |last=Setlalekgosi |first=Onneile |title=The immortal story teller |publisher=[[The Voice (Botswana)|The Voice]] |location=Botswana |date=2016-07-15 |url=https://thevoicebw.com/immortal-story-teller/ |access-date=2018-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916053332/https://thevoicebw.com/immortal-story-teller/ |archive-date=16 September 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Sumaiyah Marope]] ({{circa}} 1987), Miss Botswana 2009
* [[Emma Wareus]] (b. 1990), Miss World Botswana 2010, first runner-up to [[Miss World 2010]]
* [[Matsieng]], a [[Tswana language|Setswana]] traditional music group, formed in Gaborone in 2005