Famous People with Name Zachariah

Zachariah Simukonda            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Zachariah Simukonda: a Zambian football striker who, as of 2007, was playing for Perlis FA.He was part of the Zambian African Nations Cup teams in 1996 and 2000.

Zachariah Chandler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Zachariah Chandler: was Mayor of Detroit (1851–52), a four-term U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan (1857–75, 1879), and Secretary of the Interior under U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant (1875–77).

Zachariah Keodirelang "ZK" Matthews            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Zachariah Keodirelang "ZK" Matthews: was a prominent black academic in South Africa, lecturing at Fort Hare University, where many future leaders of the African continent were among his students.Z.K. was born in Winter's Rush near Kimberley in 1901, the son of a Bamangwato mineworker. Z.K. grew up in urban Kimberley, but maintained close connections with his mother’s rural Barolong relatives. He went to high school in the eastern Cape where he attended Lovedale. After Lovedale he studied at Fort Hare University, and in 1923 he wrote the external examination of the University of South Africa.