Tippu Tip or Tib (1837 – June 14, 1905), real name Hamad bin Muḥammad bin Jumah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Sa‘īd al-Murghabī, is a Swahili-Zanzibari trader.

He is famously known by the natives of East Africa as Tippu Tib after the sounds that his many guns made.

A notorious slave trader, plantation owner and governor, who worksfor a succession of sultans of Zanzibar, he leads many trading expeditions into Central Africa, involving the slave trade and ivory trade.

He constructs profitable trading posts that reach deep into Central Africa.