Famous Residents
- Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara), lead vocalist of British band Queen, was born in Stone Town.
- Ali Muhsin al-Barwani, first foreign minister of independent Zanzibar
- David Livingstone, explorer, missionary and colonialist.
- Tippu Tip, slave trader
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“The essence of the physicality of the most famous blonde in the world is a wholesome eroticism blurred a little round the edges by the fact she is not quite sure what eroticism is. This gives her her tentative luminosity and what makes her, somehow, always more like her own image in the mirror than she is like herself.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)