The Most Famous
MILITARY PERSONNELS from Rwanda
This page contains a list of the greatest Rwandan Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 2,058 Military Personnels, 1 of which were born in Rwanda. This makes Rwanda the birth place of the 103rd most number of Military Personnels behind Chad, and Guinea.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Rwandan Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Rwandan Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Augustin Bizimungu (b. 1952)
With an HPI of 45.44, Augustin Bizimungu is the most famous Rwandan Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Augustin Bizimungu (born 28 August 1952) is a Rwandan convicted war criminal and former general of the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR). On 16 April 1994, at the start of the genocide against the Tutsi, he was appointed chief of staff of the army and promoted to the rank of major general. In 2011, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the Rwandan genocide.
2. Bosco Ntaganda (b. 1973)
With an HPI of 34.05, Bosco Ntaganda is the 2nd most famous Rwandan Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Bosco Ntaganda (born 5 November 1973) is a convicted war criminal and the former military chief of staff of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), an armed militia group operating in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He is a former member of the Rwandan Patriotic Army and allegedly a former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (FPLC), the military wing of the Union of Congolese Patriots. Until March 2013, he was wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the war crimes of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of fifteen and using them to participate actively in hostilities. Prior to his surrender, Ntaganda had been allegedly involved in the rebel group March 23 Movement, a military group based in eastern areas of the DRC. On 18 March 2013, Ntaganda voluntarily handed himself in to the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda, asking to be transferred to the ICC. On 22 March, he was taken into custody by the ICC. On 8 July 2019, the ICC convicted him of war crimes. He was subsequently sentenced to 30 years for crimes against humanity.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Rwandan military personnels born between 1952 and 1973. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Rwandan military personnels include Augustin Bizimungu, and Bosco Ntaganda. As of April 2024, 1 new Rwandan military personnels have been added to Pantheon including Bosco Ntaganda.
