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This is a list of notable people from
Mozambique
Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...
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Filmmakers
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Rogério Manjate
Rogério Manjate (born April 1972) is an actor, theater director and filmmaker from Mozambique, and an author of poetry and fiction.
Early career
Rogério Manjate was born in the Malanga neighborhood of Maputo in April 1972.
He grew up there and ...
oboist
An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette.
The following is a list of notable past and pres ...
and music teacher
Politicians
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Esperança Bias
Esperança Bias (born 1958) is a Mozambican politician. She is a gradulate of the Faculty of Economy at the Eduardo Mondlane University. From 1999 to 2005, she served as the Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources (beginning in 1999). From 2005 to ...
, former Minister of Mineral Resources
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Joaquim Chissano
Joaquim Alberto Chissano (born 22 October 1939) is a politician who served as the second President of Mozambique, from 1986 to 2005. He is credited with transforming the war-torn country of Mozambique into one of the most successful African demo ...
, first Prime Minister of Mozambique
* Josina Machel, political activist and first wife of Samora Machel
* Graca Machel, political activist and second wife of Samora Machel
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Samora Machel
Samora Moisés Machel (29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986) was a Mozambican military commander and political leader. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's ...
, first President of Mozambique
* Alberto Massavanhane, first Mayor of Maputo and Mozambican Diplomat
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Eduardo Mondlane
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (20 June 1920 – 3 February 1969) was the President of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) from 1962, the year that FRELIMO was founded in Tanzania, until his assassination in 1969. Born in Mozambique, h ...
, founder and first president of
FRELIMO
FRELIMO (; from the Portuguese , ) is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It is the dominant party in Mozambique and has won a majority of the seats in the Assembly of the Republic in every election since the country's firs ...
* Maria Mutola, world and Olympic track and field athlete winner
Writers
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Mia Couto
António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955), is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Liter ...