- Kamoya Kimeu was born in 1938 in Makueni County, British East Africa [now Kenya]. He was married to Mary Mbiki. He died on July 20, 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya.
- SpouseMary Mbiki(? - 2022) (his death, 5 children)
- He worked with the Leakey family of paleontologists, and was considered one of the world's most best fossil hunters. In 1984, he and his team uncovered fragments of a human skull, and eventually the nearly complete skeleton of a boy, believed to be age 12 or less, who died 1.6 million years ago in Kenya. The fossil became known as "Turkana Boy".
- He attended a Christian missionary school, where he learned English and Swahili. His first language was Kikamba.
- His father was a goatherd and railroad construction worker.
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