Phil ya Nangoloh (born on 22 September 1954 in Ogongo in the Omusati region) is a Namibian human rights practitioner.
He heads the organisation Namrights, formerly Namibia's National Society for Human Rights (NSHR).
On his way into exile, he worked as a sheep and cattle herder in Angola and was later imprisoned in Zaire under the pretext of spying for Rhodesia.
He was released at the request of Hisham Omayad of the United Nations Council for Namibia and transferred to SWAPO in Lusaka.
[1] Later ya Nangoloh was sent to the Soviet Union where he received military training and completed a degree in radio engineering.