The Most Famous
LAWYERS from Tanzania
This page contains a list of the greatest Tanzanian Lawyers. The pantheon dataset contains 136 Lawyers, 1 of which were born in Tanzania. This makes Tanzania the birth place of the 42nd most number of Lawyers behind Azerbaijan, and Sweden.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tanzanian Lawyers of all time. This list of famous Tanzanian Lawyers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Elizabeth Mrema (b. 1957)
With an HPI of 38.39, Elizabeth Mrema is the most famous Tanzanian Lawyer. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema is a Tanzanian biodiversity leader and lawyer, living in Montreal, Canada, who has been serving as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 2023, under the leadership of Executive Director Inger Andersen. From 2020 to 2022, Mrema was executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); she was the first African woman to hold this role. She previously held numerous leadership positions within UNEP.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Tanzanian lawyers born between 1957 and 1957. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Tanzanian lawyers include Elizabeth Mrema. As of April 2024, 1 new Tanzanian lawyers have been added to Pantheon including Elizabeth Mrema.
