Apollo Kironde (1915[citation needed] – 21 April 2007) was a Ugandan lawyer and diplomat who served as his country's first ambassador to the United Nations.
His grandfather, Apollo Kaggwa, was a minister in the kingdom of Buganda when the British arrived, and served as a regent to the young Bugandan king Daudi Chwa until 1914, after which he remained Buganda's katikiro (prime minister) until 1926.
At an early age young Apollo showed a lot of promise and was sent abroad to school.
He studied to be a teacher and after many years of teaching went to England and read law at Middle Temple.
When the King of Buganda Mutesa II was exiled to the United Kingdom after a dispute with the colonial government, it was Apollo Kironde who went to England to win his freedom.