The Ovambo people, also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo (Ndonga) or Ovawambo (Kwanyama), are a Southern African tribal ethnic group.

They are the largest ethnic group of Namibia, found in its northern regions and more often called Ovambo.

They are also found in southern Angolan province of Cunene where the name Ambo is more common.

The Ovambo consist of a number of kindred Bantu ethnic tribes who inhabit what is called Owamboland.

Accounting for about fifty percent of the Namibian population, the Ovamba are its largest ethnic group.

In Angola, they are a minority, accounting for about two percent of the total Angolan population.

The Ambo people migrate south from the upper regions of Zambezi in the period around the fourteenth century.

The contemporary total Ambo population is about 1.6 million, and they are predominantly Christians (97%).

The Ambo are a ethnolinguist group and speak Ovambo language, also called Oshiwambo, Ambo, Kwanyama, or Otjiwambo, a language that belongs to the southern branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages.