Christophe Gbenye (c.1927 – 3 February 2015) was a Congolese rebel who along with Pierre Mulele and Gaston Soumialot were the leaders of Simba Rebellion, an insurrection against the Government of the African state known at the time as the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1964.Gbenye was born in the Eastern Region of what was then the Belgian Congo.