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Uganda (uga)

Uganda

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Uganda ranks 1,970th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dreux, Camarillo, California, and Le Puy-en-Velay. Memorable people born in Uganda include Emmanuel Wamala, Scott Hicks, and Bazilio Olara-Okello. Uganda has been the birth place of many social activists, and film directors. Uganda is located in Uganda.

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied equatorial climate. As of 2024 it had a population of 49.3 million, of whom 8.5 million lived in the capital and largest city, Kampala. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 2004, Uganda was the birth place of 12 globally memorable people, including Emmanuel Wamala, Scott Hicks, and Bazilio Olara-Okello.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Uganda were social activists (4), film directors (2), athletes (2), religious figures (1), and military personnels (1),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, social activists have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Uganda, including Pepe Julian Onziema, Kasha Nabagesera, and Leah Namugerwa. Whereas, throughout history, social activists have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Uganda, including Sylvia Tamale, Pepe Julian Onziema, and Kasha Nabagesera.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 2 globally memorable people born in Uganda since 1700.