List of Zulu kings

For Zulu King of Mardi Gras, New Orleans, USA, see New Orleans Mardi Gras .

This List of Zulu kings gives a list of Zulu chieftains and kings from their earliest known history up to the current monarch:

Ntu
Mnguni
Luzumana
Malandela
Phunga, son of Malandela
Mageba, son of Malandela.
Zulu , son of Mageba, founder and chief of the Zulu clan from ca. 1709.
Nkosinkulu, son of Zulu, chief of the Zulu clan.
Ndaba_kaMageba son of Nkosinkulu
Jama kaNdaba (ca. 1757-1781), son of Ndaba, chief of the Zulu clan from 1763 to 1781.
Mkabayi kaJama, daughter of Jama
Senzangakhona kaJama (ca. 1757-1816), son of Jama, chief of the Zulu clan from 1781 to 1816.
Shaka kaSenzangakhona (ca. 1787-1828), son of Senzangakona, king from 1816 to 1828.
Dingane kaSenzangakhona (ca. 1795-1840), son of Senzangakhona and half-brother of Shaka, king from 1828 to 1840.
Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798-1872), son of Senzangakhona and half-brother of Shaka and Dingane, king from 1840 to 1872.
Cetshwayo kaMpande (1836 - February 1884), son of Mpande, king from 1872 to 1884.
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868-1913), son of Cetshwayo kaMpande, king from 1884 to 1913.
Solomon kaDinuzulu (1890-1933), son of Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, king from 1913 to 1933.
Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon (4 August 1924-17 September 1968), son of Solomon kaDinuzulu, king from 1948 to 1968.
Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu (b. 14 July 1948), son of Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon, king since 1971.