Lawrence Chola Katilungu (February 1914 – 9 November 1961) was a Northern Rhodesian trade union leader.
He initially worked as a mission teacher, before becoming an underground worker at the Nkana mine in 1936, later promoted to recruiting clerk.
[2] In February 1948, he was elected President of the newly formed Nkana union.
[3] In 1952, he led a successful strike to gain a wage increase of a half-crown per day for African workers.
[4][5] Briefly a member of the Constitution Party, Katilungu was made part of the 20-member Monckton Commission, set up by the British government in 1959 to prepare the 1960 conference to review the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.