The Most Famous

SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Kenya

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This page contains a list of the greatest Kenyan Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 840 Social Activists, NaN of which were born in Kenya. This makes Kenya the birth place of the 0th most number of Social Activists.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kenyan Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Kenyan Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Elizabeth Wathuti (b. 1995)

With an HPI of 30.18, Elizabeth Wathuti is the most famous Kenyan Social Activist.  Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.

Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti (born August 1, 1995) is a Kenyan environment and climate activist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative, which nurtures young people to love nature and be environmentally conscious at a young age and has now planted 30,000 tree seedlings in Kenya. In 2019, she was awarded the Africa Green Person of the Year Award by the Eleven Eleven Twelve Foundation and named as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans by the Africa Youth Awards.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kenyan social activists born between 1995 and 1995. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kenyan social activists include Elizabeth Wathuti. As of April 2024, 1 new Kenyan social activists have been added to Pantheon including Elizabeth Wathuti.

Living Kenyan Social Activists

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Newly Added Kenyan Social Activists (2025)

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