Zeddy Maruru[a] (3 February 1942 – 11 January 2014) was a Ugandan fighter pilot and military officer.

[1] Zeddy Maruru was born on 3 February 1942[4] in Rushenyi Village, in present-day Ntungamo District.

He returned to Uganda to help his father raise funds to educate his younger siblings.

[1] In 1973, at the rank of major, Maruru volunteered to accompany President Amin on a trip to Iraq.

Maruru joined the Save Uganda Movement (SUM) which intended to overthrow the Ugandan President through guerrilla attacks,[7] helping to set up the group's command center in Tanzania.

[2] When the Uganda–Tanzania War broke out in 1979, Maruru was one of the exiles who organised a pro-Tanzanian militia of Ugandan rebels.

After the fall of President Godfrey Binaisa in 1980, the UNLA appointed Maruru to the Military Commission to run the affairs of the country.

[6] When the National Resistance Army (NRA) rebels overran Kampala in January 1986, Maruru was among the high-ranking officers who surrendered there.

[3] He met NRA leader Yoweri Museveni at Kampala's Republic House, telling him that he was content to be treated as prisoner of war or be released.