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Jamaican British British Jamaicans (or Jamaican British people) are British people who were born in Jamaica or who are of Jamaican descent. The community is well into its third generation and consists of around 300,000 individuals, the second-largest Jamaican ...
people.


Academia

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Kehinde Andrews Kehinde Nkosi Andrews (born January 1983) is a British academic and author specialising in Black Studies. Andrews is a Professor of Black Studies in the School of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University. He is the director of the Centre ...
(born 1983), Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University. He is the first black studies professor in the UK and led the establishment of the first black studies programme in Europe, at Birmingham City. Activist and author. Director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association *
Robert Beckford Robert Beckford (born 1965) is a British academic theologian and currently Professor of Black Theology at The Queen's Foundation, whose documentaries for both the BBC and Channel 4 have caused debate among the Christian and British religious co ...
(born 1965), Professor of
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at the Queen's Foundation, Birmingham * Aggrey Burke (born 1943), President of the Transcultural Psychiatry Society. Vice-chair and a trustee of the
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(NHS) *
Nira Chamberlain Nira Cyril Chamberlain (born 17 June 1969) is a British mathematician based in Birmingham, UK. He is a Principal Consultant at SNC-Lavalin. Early life and education Born in Birmingham, Chamberlain always enjoyed mathematics at school and, d ...
(born 1969), President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He is the first black mathematician to feature in the biographical reference book Who’s Who * Patricia Daley, Vice Principle of
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and Professor of Human Geography of Africa at the
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and a
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of
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* Len Garrison (died 2003), educationalist, historian and community activist. He set up ACER (Afro-Caribbean Education Resource) and co-founded the
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* Kei Miller (born 1978), Professor of Creative Writing at the
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. Poet, fiction writer, essayist and blogger * Donald Palmer (1962), Senior Lecturer in
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in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Department of the Royal Veterinary College, London * Geoff Palmer (born 1940), Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University. Palmer became Scotland's first black university professor in 1989 * Winsome Pinnock (born 1961), Visiting Lecturer at
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and Senior Visiting Fellow at the
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. Playwright *
Leone Ross Leone Ross (born 26 June 1969, Coventry, England) is a British novelist, short story writer, editor, journalist and academic, who is of Jamaican and Scottish ancestry. Biography Early years and education Leone Ross was born in Coventry, England, ...
(born 1969), Senior Lecturer in the Creative Writing department at Roehampton University. Senior Fellow of the UK
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. Novelist, short story writer, editor and journalist *
Tony Sewell Cleveland Anthony Sewell, Baron Sewell of Sanderstead, (born 1959) is a British educational consultant and founder and chair of the educational charity Generating Genius. In July 2020, Sewell was appointed chair of the Commission on Race and ...
(born 1959), Educational consultant and chair of the
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* Shirley Thompson, Professor of Music at the
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Activism and politics

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Diane Abbott Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. A member of the Labour Party, she served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Sh ...
(born 1953),
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MP since 1987. Abbott is Britain’s first black female
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, the first black female Shadow Home Secretary and the longest-serving black MP in the House of Commons * Shaun Bailey (born 1971), politician and former journalist * Frances Batty Shand (died 1885), early charitable activist * Dawn Butler (born 1963), Labour MP since 2015. Butler became the first black woman to speak from the despatch box in the House of Commons in December 2009 *
Betty Campbell Betty Campbell (6 November 1934 – 13 October 2017, born Rachel Elizabeth Johnson) was a Welsh community activist, who was Wales' first black head teacher. Born into a poor household in Butetown, she won a scholarship to the Lady Margaret Hi ...
(died 2017), Welsh community activist and
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' first black head teacher * Janet Daby (born 1970), politician * Barbara Follett (born 1942), politician *
Henry Gunter Henry Gunter (1920-2007) was a leading British communist and civil rights leader, most famous for his campaigns for racial equality in the English city of Birmingham. After joining the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), he authored a repo ...
(died 2007), civil rights campaigner, trade unionist and the first black delegate to be elected to the
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*
Roy Hackett Lurel Roy Hackett Member of the British Empire, MBE (19 September 1928 – 2 August 2022) was a Jamaican-born activist and long-time civil rights campaigner for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol, England. He was one of the primary ...
(died 2022), civil rights campaigner * Stuart Hall (died 2014), cultural theorist and political activist. Co-founder of '' New Left Review'' He was voted one of the 100 greatest black Britons *
Paulette Hamilton Paulette Adassa Hamilton (born ) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Erdington since 2022. She is the first black MP to represent a constituency in Birmingham. Hamilton was also a councillor ...
, a member of the Labour Party and
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's first black MP * Darren Henry (born 1968), politician *
Lee Jasper Lee Jasper (born 4 November 1958) is a British politician and activist. He served as Senior Policy Advisor on Equalities to the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone until he resigned on 4 March 2008. More recently, he stood as the Respect Party ...
(born 1958), politician and activist. He served as Senior Policy Advisor on Equalities to the Mayor of London *
Sam Beaver King Sam Beaver King MBE (20 February 1926 – 17 June 2016) was a Jamaican-British campaigner. He first came to England as an engineer in the RAF during the Second World War but returned to Jamaica in 1947. Failing to settle there, King took passag ...
(died 2016), campaigner and Southwark's first black Mayor * David Kurten, (born 1971), politician *
Baroness Lawrence Doreen Delceita Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE (''née'' Graham; born 1952) is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London ...
(born 1952), campaigner *
Harold Moody Harold Arundel MoodyDavid A. Vaughan London: Independent Press, 1950. (8 October 1882 – 24 April 1947) was a Jamaican-born physician who emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he campaigned against racial prejudice and established the League o ...
(died 1947), physician and campaigner who established the
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in 1931 *
Olive Morris Olive Elaine Morris (26 June 1952 – 12 July 1979) was a Jamaican-born British-based community leader and activist in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s. At the age of 17, she claimed she was assaul ...
(died 1979) community leader and activist in the
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, Black nationalist, and
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campaigns * Bill Norris (born 1938),
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of the
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from 1992 to 2003, the first black leader of a major British trade union He was voted one of the 100 greatest black Britons * Marvin Rees (born 1972), politician who has served as the Mayor of Bristol. He is the UK’s first directly elected black mayor *
Patrick Roach Patrick Roach (born March 4, 1969) is a Canadian actor and investor. He is best known for playing Randy (Trailer Park Boys), Randy on the television series ''Trailer Park Boys''. Early life Roach was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but grew up in ...
(born 1965), NASUWT General Secretary * Louis Stedman-Bryce (born 1974), property investor and former politician * Patrick Philip Vernon (born 1961), Labour councillor, chair of the Labour Party's Race Equality Advisory Group and political activist * James (Jim) Alexander Williams, first (''ceremonial'') black Lord Mayor of Bristol


Business and law

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Jak Beula Jak Beula Dodd (born John Bubeula Dodd on 4 July 1963), commonly known as Jak Beula, is a British entrepreneur and cultural activist of Caribbean heritage, who is best known for inventing the board game Nubian Jak and designing the African and Ca ...
(born 1963), entrepreneur, cultural activist. The founder and chief executive of the
Nubian Jak Community Trust Nubian Jak Community Trust (NJCT) is a commemorative plaque and sculpture scheme founded by Jak Beula that highlights the historic contributions of Black and minority ethnic people in Britain. The first NJCT heritage plaque, honouring Bob Marley, ...
* Dyke, Dryden and Wade, Britain's first black multi-million-pound business enterprise *
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (born 7 November 1957) is a British businessman, farmer, and founder of "The Black Farmer" range of food products. He was an unsuccessful Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party candidate for the Chippenham (UK Parliam ...
(born 1957), businessman, farmer, and founder of "The Black Farmer" range of food products *
Michael Fuller Michael Fuller (born 1959), also known as Mike Fuller, is a former Chief Constable of Kent Police and Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was the first (and so far only) ethnic minority chief constable in the United Kingdom a ...
(born 1959), Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service and Britain's first black Police Chief Constable * Emma Grede (born 1982), co-founder and CEO of Good American, a founding partner of Skims, and co-founder of Safely *
Chris Hohn Sir Christopher Anthony Hohn KCMG (born October 1966) is a British billionaire hedge fund manager. In 2003, Hohn established The Children's Investment Fund Management (TCI), a prominent value-based hedge fund. Profits generated by the fund we ...
(born 1966), billionaire and hedge fund manager * Eric Irons (died 2007), Britain's first black
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*
Neil Kenlock Neil Emile Elias Kenlock (born 1950) is a Jamaican-born photographer and media professional who has lived in London since the 1960s. During the 1960s and 1970s, Kenlock was the official photographer of the British Black Panthers, and he has be ...
(born 1950), media professional. Co-founder of Choice FM, the UK’s first and only licensed, independent black music radio station. Co-founder of the first black British
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, ''Root'' *
Val McCalla Val Irvine McCalla (3 October 1943 – 22 August 2002) was a Jamaican accountant and media entrepreneur who settled in Britain in 1959. He is best known as the founder of ''The Voice'', a British weekly newspaper aimed at the Britain's black com ...
(died 2002), accountant and media entrepreneur. He was the founder of ''The Voice'', a British weekly newspaper aimed at the Britain's black community * Pat McGrath (born 1965), founder of Pat McGrath Labs which has an estimated value of $1 billion *
Jacqueline McKenzie Jacqueline Susan McKenzie (born 24 October 1967) is an Australian film and stage actress. Early life Born in Sydney, New South Wales, McKenzie attended Wenona School in North Sydney until 1983 then moved to Pymble Ladies' College, where she ...
, human rights lawyer * Alexander McLean (born 1985), lawyer and founder of Justice Defenders *
Heather Melville Heather Patricia Melville (born 1962) is a British banker, the Senior Managing Director of Teneo and Chancellor of the University of York, UK. Previously, she was director for strategic partnerships and head of business inclusion initiatives a ...
(born 1962), corporate and international banker * Caroline Newman (born 1963), first black solicitor to be elected to the Council of the Law Society of England and Wales. Also an author, entrepreneur and diversity advocate * Nathanial Peat, entrepreneur and international
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* Heather Rabbatts (1955), solicitor, businesswoman and broadcaster. She served as a
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director from 2011 to 2017 and was the first ethnic minority person to do so and the only woman on the board. Also appointed Chief executive of Merton before serving as Chief executive of the London Borough of Lambeth. She became the youngest council chief in the country. *
Levi Roots Keith Valentine Graham (born 24 June 1958), better known as Levi Roots, is a British-Jamaican reggae musician, television personality, celebrity chef, author and businessman currently residing in Brixton, in South London. According to the Sunda ...
(born 1958), businessman, TV personality and founder of "Reggae Reggae sauce" *
Shaun Wallace Shaun Anthony Linford Wallace (born 2 June 1960) is an English barrister, lecturer and television personality. He is one of the six "chasers" on the ITV quiz show '' The Chase''. Wallace is a part-time lecturer and visits schools, colleges and ...
(born 1960), barrister, lecturer, TV personality. He is one of the six "chasers" on the
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quiz show '' The Chase''. He won '' Mastermind in 2004'' * Dame Sharon White (born 1967), businesswoman and
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at
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from 2013 to 2015. She became the first black person, and the second woman, to become a Permanent Secretary at the HM Treasury *
Jacky Wright Jacky Wright is a British technology executive, chief digital officer and a corporate vice president at Microsoft US. Biography Jacky Wright was born in London to Jamaican parents and grew up there in Tottenham. Her family moved to the US when ...
, Chief digital officer and a corporate vice president at Microsoft US


Entertainment

* Josie d'Arby (born 1972), actress, TV presenter and painter. In 1999, she became the youngest British woman to host her own chat show * Akala (born 1983), rapper * Aml Ameen (born 1985), actor * Samuel Anderson (born 1982), actor *
Ella Balinska Ella Balinska (born 4 October 1996) is an English actress. She is known for starring in the action-comedy film '' Charlie's Angels'' (2019) and the Netflix original series ''Resident Evil'' (2022). Early life and education Balinska was born on ...
(born 1996), actress (Jamaican mother, Polish father) * Les Ballets Nègres, Europe's first black dance company, founded in 1946 by Jamaican dancers Berto Pasuka and Ritchie Riley *
Sheyla Bonnick Sheyla Bonnick is a singer/songwriter, performer, co-producer, fashion designer, author, talent scout, reiki healer and games designer. Early life Bonnick was born in Jamaica in the 1950s. Her mother was a teacher and a seamstress and her ...
, singer-songwriter, performer, co-producer, fashion designer, author, inventor *
Gabrielle Brooks Gabrielle Brooks (born 28 January 1990) is an English actress. She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in '' Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical''. She began her career as a child actress in Andrew Lloyd Webber's ...
(born 1990), actress * Errol Brown (died 2015), singer-songwriter, best known as the
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of the soul and funk band Hot Chocolate *
Simona Brown Simona Brown (born 6 April 1994) is a British actress best known for her lead role in ''Behind Her Eyes (British TV series), Behind Her Eyes''. Personal life Simona Brown grew up in Peckham, London, and is of Jamaicans, Jamaican heritage. She st ...
(born 1994), actress * Keisha Buchanan (born 1984), Sugababes founding member, singer *
Alexandra Burke Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewen Burke (born 25 August 1988) is a British singer, songwriter and actress. She won the fifth series of the British television series ''The X Factor'' in 2008, and has been signed to Epic Records, RCA Records and Syc ...
(born 1988), singer-songwriter and actress *
Mahalia Burkmar Mahalia Burkmar (born 1 May 1998), known mononymously as Mahalia, is a British singer, songwriter and actress. Mahalia has released several EPs and two albums, ''Diary of Me'' (2016) and '' Love and Compromise'' (2019). She also acted in the fi ...
(born 1998), singer-songwriter *
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(born 1994), soul singer * Chip (born 1990), rapper *
Lloyd Coxsone Lloyd Coxsone (born Lloyd Blackford, c. 1945) is a Jamaican-born sound system operator and record producer, who has been resident in the United Kingdom since 1962. Biography Blackford was born in Morant Bay, Jamaica, c.1945, and moved to Wandswo ...
(born c. 1945), sound system operator and record producer *
Doña Croll Doña Croll (born 29 August 1953) is a Jamaican-born British actress. She is best known for her roles in British television soap opera playing Pearl McHugh in Channel 5's ''Family Affairs'', Vera Corrigan in the BBC Vera Corrigan ''Doctors'', a ...
, actress *
Olivia Dean Olivia Lauryn Dean (born 14 March 1999) is an English singer. She began her career working in collaboration with Rudimental. She was named Amazon Music's 2021 breakthrough artist of the year and recorded an exclusive version of Nat King Cole's "T ...
(born 1999), singer *
Michelle de Swarte Michelle de Swarte (born 1980) is an English actress, comedian, presenter, and former model. She starred in the Netflix series ''The Duchess (TV series), The Duchess''. Early life De Swarte was born in Lewisham, South London to a Jewish mother ...
, comedian, presenter, actress, former model *
Alesha Dixon Alesha Anjanette Dixon (born 7 October 1978) is an English singer, rapper, dancer, television personality, and author. She gained recognition in the early 2000s as a member of the R&B, garage and hip hop group Mis-Teeq. The group disbanded in ...
(born 1978), rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, TV personality, and author *
Stefflon Don Stephanie Victoria Allen (born 14 December 1991), better known by her stage name Stefflon Don, is a British rapper and singer. She rose to fame after her 2017 single " Hurtin' Me" featuring French Montana peaked at number 7 on UK Singles Chart ...
(born 1991), rapper, singer *
Omari Douglas Omari Shaquille Douglas (born 24 March 1994) is an English actor. He is known for his role as Roscoe Babatunde in the Channel 4 drama ''It's a Sin'' (2021). He has received nominations for a British Academy Television Award and a Laurence Olivi ...
(born 1994), actor * Sharon Duncan-Brewster, actress *
Leonie Elliott Leonie Samantha Elliott is an English actress, best known for her role as Lucille Anderson in the BBC series ''Call the Midwife''. She also starred as Cherry Patterson in the Lenny Henry comedy-drama '' Danny and the Human Zoo''. Early life Elli ...
(born 1988), actress * Jade Ewen (born 1988), singer, actress and former member of the girl group Sugababes * Rebecca Ferguson (born 1986), singer * Giggs (born 1983), Grime MC * Mo Gilligan (born 1988), comedian *
Andrew Gourlay Andrew Gourlay (born 1982) is a British conductor. Born in Jamaica, Gourlay was subsequently raised in the Bahamas, the Philippines, Japan and the United Kingdom. He is of Russian ancestry.''Andrew Gourlay'' in ''Scherzo'' no.348, February 201 ...
, conductor *
Stephen Graham Stephen Joseph Graham (born 3 August 1973) is a British actor. He is best known for playing Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film ''This Is England'' (2006) and its television sequels ''This Is England '86'' (2010), '' This Is England '88'' ( ...
(born 1973), actor * Jackie Guy, dancer, choreographer and teacher *
Alison Hammond Alison Hammond (born 5 February 1975) is an English television personality and actress. She competed in the third series of the reality show '' Big Brother'' in 2002, in which she was the second housemate to be evicted. She has since become a ...
(born1975), TV personality, actress * Mona Hammond (born 1931), actress * Ainsley Harriott (born 1957), chef and TV presenter * Naomie Harris (born 1976), actress * Lenny Henry, comedian *
Kirby Howell-Baptiste Kirby Howell-Baptiste (born 7 February 1987) is a British actress. She has appeared as a series regular on ''Downward Dog'' (2017), ''Killing Eve'' (2018), ''Why Women Kill'' (2019), and ''The Sandman'' (2022). Her television appearances also in ...
, actress * Marvin Humes (born 1985), singer, disc jockey, TV presenter and radio host * Rochelle Humes (born 1989), singer and presenter *
Jamelia ' Jamelia Niela Davis (born 11 January 1981) is an English singer, songwriter and television presenter. She has released three studio albums, each of which has reached the Top 40 in the UK, which collectively have spawned eight UK top-ten singl ...
(born 1981), singer-songwriter and TV presenter * Diane Louise Jordan (born 1960), actress, TV and radio presenter. She was the first black presenter of the children's television programme ''
Blue Peter ''Blue Peter'' is a British children's television entertainment programme created by John Hunter Blair. It is the longest-running children's TV show in the world, having been broadcast since October 1958. It was broadcast primarily from BBC Tel ...
'' * Janet Kay (born 1958), singer, songwriter and actress *
Erin Kellyman Erin Mae Kellyman (born 17 October 1998) is an English actress. On television, she gained prominence through the Channel 4 sitcom '' Raised by Wolves'' (2015–2016) and the BBC series ''Les Misérables'' (2018), '' Don't Forget the Driver'' (20 ...
(born 1998), actress * Malachi Kirby (born 1989), actor *
Beverley Knight Beverley Knight (born Beverley Anne Smith, 22 March 1973) is an English recording artist and musical theatre actress. She released her first album, ''The B-Funk'', in 1995. Heavily influenced by American soul music icons such as Sam Cooke and ...
(born 1973), recording artist and musical theatre actress *
Lianne La Havas Lianne Charlotte Barnes (born 23 August 1989), known professionally as Lianne La Havas ( ), is a British singer-songwriter and record producer. Her career began after being introduced to various musicians, including singer Paloma Faith, for who ...
(born 1989), singer-songwriter and record producer *
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winner and voted one of the 100 greatest black Britons * Tamara Lawrance, actress * Rustie Lee (born 1949), TV personality, TV chef, actress, singer and former politician * Adrian Lester (born 1968), actor *
Don Letts Donovan "Don" Letts (born 10 January 1956) is a British film director, disc jockey (DJ) and musician. Letts first came to prominence as the videographer for the Clash, directing several of their music videos. In 1984, Letts co-founded the band B ...
(born 1956), film director, DJ and musician * Shaznay Lewis (born 1975), singer-songwriter and actress *
Delroy Lindo Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is an English-American actor. He is the recipient of such accolades as a NAACP Image Award, a Satellite Award, and nominations for a Drama Desk Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Tony Award, two Critics' Cho ...
(born 1952), actor *
Judi Love Judy Veronica Thomas (born 4 June 1980), known professionally as Judi Love, is an English stand-up comedian and presenter. She began her stand-up career in 2011 but came to prominence as a panellist on the ITV talk show ''Loose Women''. As well a ...
(born 1980), comedian *
Lashana Lynch Lashana Lynch (born 27 November 1987) is a British actress. She is best known for playing the role of Rosaline Capulet in the ABC period drama series '' Still Star-Crossed'' (2017), Maria Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films '' C ...
(born 1987), actress *
M1llionz Miguel Rahiece Cunningham (born 6 February 1997), known professionally as M1llionz, is a British rapper from Birmingham, West Midlands. Career Born in Handsworth, West Midlands, Handsworth, M1llionz spent some of his childhood in Birmingham but ...
, rapper *
Mad Lion Oswald Priest, better known as Mad Lion, is a dancehall, ragga musician and rapper.Larkin, Colin (1998) "Mad Lion", in ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae'', Virgin Books, , p. 178 He frequently collaborates with fellow hip hop artist KRS-On ...
, British rapper/Reggae performer singer *
Madeleine Mantock Madeleine Mantock (born 26 May 1990) is a British actress. She is known for her main role television work on the series '' Into the Badlands'' and a remake of the series ''The Tomorrow People''. She played in a main role as Macy Vaughn from the ...
, actress *
Ella Mai Ella Mai Howell (born 3 November 1994) is an English singer-songwriter. Her musical career began at London's British and Irish Modern Music Institute in 2014, during which time she auditioned as part of a trio on the 11th season of ''The X Fa ...
, singer-songwriter. Grammy winner *
Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981; baptised in 1980 as Berhane Selassie) was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements o ...
, influential singer-songwriter * Jo Martin, actress *
Dominique Moore Dominique Moore (born 12 January 1986) is a British actress and writer best known for her roles in '' BAFTA'' Winning ''Horrible Histories'', ''Hotel Trubble'' and '' Paddington Green''. She starred in '' Horrible Histories: The Movie'' and voic ...
(born 1986), performer *
Ms. Dynamite Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley (born 26 April 1981), better known as Ms. Dynamite, is a British singer and rapper. She is the recipient of the Mercury Music Prize, two Brit Awards and three MOBO Awards. Early years She was born Niomi Arleen Mc ...
(born 1981), singer-songwriter and record producer * Nao (born 1987), singer-songwriter and record producer *
Aaron Pierre Aaron Jordan Pierre (born 17 February 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre back for League Two club Sutton United and the Grenada national team. He began his career in the academy at Premier League club Fulham, before join ...
(born 1994), actor * Courtney Pine (born 1964), jazz musician, voted one of the 100 greatest black Britons * Leigh-Anne Pinnock (born 1991), singer * Jessica Plummer (born 1992), actress * Maxi Priest (born1961), singer-songwriter *
Paulette Randall Paulette Randall, MBE (born 1961) is a British theatre director of Jamaican descent.
(born 1961), theatre director * Slick Rick, British rapper, producer * Colin Salmon (born 1961), actor, director and executive producer * Jorja Smith (born 1997), singer *
Karla-Simone Spence Karla-Simone Spence (born 19 July 1996) is a British actress. She is best known for her roles in the film ''Blue Story'' (2019) and the ITVX period drama ''The Confessions of Frannie Langton (TV series), The Confessions of Frannie Langton'' (202 ...
, actress * Neville Staple (born 1955), singer * Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn (born 1994), actress * Steel Pulse, reggae band. Grammy Award winners *
Antonia Thomas Antonia Laura Thomas (born 3 November 1986) is a British actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Alisha Daniels in the E4 comedy-drama series ''Misfits'', Evie in the Channel 4/Netflix comedy series '' Lovesick'' and Dr. Claire ...
(born 1986), actress * Marsha Thomason (born 1976), actress * Carroll Thompson, singer, best known as the “Queen of
Lovers Rock Lovers' rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content. While love songs had been an important part of reggae since the late 1960s, the style was given a greater focus and a name in London in the mid-1970s.Larkin, Col ...
” * Ruby Turner (born 1958), singer-songwriter, and actress *
FKA Twigs Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 17 January 1988), known professionally as FKA Twigs (stylized as FKA twigs), is an English singer, songwriter, and dancer. Born and raised in Cheltenham, she became a backup dancer for numerous famous musicians aft ...
(born 1988), singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer * Micheal Ward (born 1997), actor *
Jamael Westman Jamael Anwar Hermitt-Westman (born December 1991) is a British actor. He is best known for starring as the titular role in the West End production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical ''Hamilton (musical), Hamilton'', which earned him a Laurence Oli ...
(born 1991), actor *
Caron Wheeler Caron Melina Wheeler (born 19 January 1963) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. Born and raised in London, she performed in various singing competitions as a teenager and began her recording career as one of the found ...
(born 1963), singer-songwriter. Grammy Award winner * Willard White (1946), operatic
bass baritone A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing thr ...
*
Ricky Whittle Richard George Whittle (born 31 December 1979) is a British actor. Whittle first came to prominence as a model for Reebok in the early 2000s. He is known in the United Kingdom for his role as Calvin Valentine in the soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. I ...
(born 1981), actor * Kedar Williams-Stirling (born 1994), actor *
Layton Williams Layton Williams (born 13 September 1994) is an English actor, singer, and dancer, best known for playing the role of Stephen Carmichael in the television series '' Bad Education''. His first job was at the age of twelve playing the title role i ...
(born 1994), actor and singer * Luke Youngblood (born 1986), actor


Fashion designers and models

*
Leomie Anderson Leomie Jasmin Francis Anderson (born 14 February 1993) is a British fashion model, television presenter, and activist. She has walked in four consecutive Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows from 2015 to 2018, and became a Victoria's Secret Angel in ...
(born 1993), model and fashion designer. The first black British
Victoria's Secret Angel Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer known for high visibility marketing and branding, starting with a popular catalog and followed by an annual fashion show with supermodels dubbed Angels. As the largest ret ...
*
Munroe Bergdorf Munroe Bergdorf ( Beaumont; born 11 September 1987) is an English model and activist. She has walked several catwalks for brands including Gypsy Sport at both London and NYC Fashion Weeks. Bergdorf was the first transgender model in the UK for L ...
(born 1987), model and activist. The first
transgender A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through tr ...
model in the UK for
L'Oréal L'Oréal S.A. () is a French personal care company headquartered in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine with a registered office in Paris. It is the world's largest cosmetics company and has developed activities in the field concentrating on hair color, sk ...
* Naomi Campbell (born 1970), supermodel and actress. The first black model to appear on the front cover of ''
Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
'', ''French'' ''Vogue'', ''Russian Vogue'' and the September issue of ''American'' ''Vogue'' * Nicholas Daley, fashion designer *
Jourdan Dunn Jourdan Sherise Dunn (born 3 August 1990) is a British model. She was discovered in Hammersmith Primark in 2006 and signed to The Squad Management in London. She began appearing on international runways in early 2007. In February 2008, she was t ...
(born 1990), supermodel and actress. The first black British model to enter the '' Forbes model rich list'' * Bruce Oldfield (born 1950), fashion designer * Tessa Prendergast (died 2001), fashion designer, actress and socialite. Designer of the taboo-breaking white bikini worn by
Ursula Andress Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss-German actress, former model and sex symbol who has appeared in American, British and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, '' Dr. No'' (1962 ...
in the 1962 film '' Dr. No'' *
Martine Rose Martine Rose (born November 24, 1980) is a British-Jamaican menswear designer and founder of the Martine Rose label. Her designs draw inspiration from her experiences and interest in rave, hip-hop and punk subcultures. Early life and educati ...
(born 1980), menswear designer * Bianca Saunders, fashion designer. Winner of the
ANDAM ANDAM is a French fashion award established in 1989 by Nathalie Dufour as a joint venture between the French Ministry of Culture and the Defi Mode fashion organisation. It has been recognised as a benchmark for designers, fashion professionals, and ...
Fashion Award for young talent *
Grace Wales Bonner Grace Wales Bonner (born 1990) is an English fashion designer, whose work "proposes a distinct notion of cultural luxury that infuses European heritage with an Afro Atlantic spirit".
(born 1992), fashion designer


Inventors

*
Jak Beula Jak Beula Dodd (born John Bubeula Dodd on 4 July 1963), commonly known as Jak Beula, is a British entrepreneur and cultural activist of Caribbean heritage, who is best known for inventing the board game Nubian Jak and designing the African and Ca ...
(born 1963), inventor of the multi-award-winning
board game Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a comp ...
, ''
Nubian Jak Nubian Jak is a multi-award-winning board game, introduced in 1994,"Jak Dodd"
'' *
Nira Chamberlain Nira Cyril Chamberlain (born 17 June 1969) is a British mathematician based in Birmingham, UK. He is a Principal Consultant at SNC-Lavalin. Early life and education Born in Birmingham, Chamberlain always enjoyed mathematics at school and, d ...
(born 1969), creator of a mathematical cost capability trade-off model for ''
HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' could refer to one of three ships named in honour of Elizabeth I of England: * was the lead ship of the s, launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1948 * HMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' was to have been the first of the 1960s planned CV ...
a''nd the inventor of a long multiplication method used in some UK schools * Geoff Palmer (born 1940), inventor of the barley abrasion process, a patented technique that speeds up the production of malt from grain and which is used by the British brewing industry


Religion

* Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin (born 1961),
Bishop of Dover The Bishop of Dover is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of Dover in Kent. The Bishop of Dover holds the additional title of "Bishop in ...
and the first black female to become a
Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...
bishop. She was also the first woman and the first black person to serve as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. She also held the role of Queen's Chaplain. *
Oliver Lyseight Oliver may refer to: Arts, entertainment and literature Books * ''Oliver the Western Engine'', List of books in The Railway Series#Oliver the Western Engine, volume 24 in ''The Railway Series'' by Rev. W. Awdry * ''Oliver Twist'', a nove ...
, the founder of one of Britain's largest black majority churches, and spiritual leader to the Windrush generation


Sports

* Viv Anderson (born 1956), retired footballer and coach. One of the first black football players to represent England in a ''full'' international match *
Michail Antonio Michail Gregory Antonio (born 28 March 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for club West Ham United. Born in England, he represents the Jamaica national team. Antonio began his career at non-League club Tooting & Mitch ...
(born 1990), footballer * John Barnes (born 1963), retired footballer *
Daniel Bell-Drummond Daniel James Bell-Drummond (born 4 August 1993) is an English professional cricketer, who plays for Kent County Cricket Club primarily as a batsman. He has represented England at youth level and has played for the England Lions cricket team a ...
(born 1993), cricketer *
Darren Bent Darren Ashley Bent (born 6 February 1984) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played in the Premier League and Championship for nine clubs, and at senior international level for the England national team. ...
(born 1984), retired footballer *
Luther Blissett Luther Loide Blissett (born 1 February 1958) is a former professional footballer and manager who played for the England national team during the 1980s. Born in Jamaica, Blissett played as a striker, and is best known for his time at Watford, ...
(born 1958), retired footballer * Frank Bruno (born 1961), retired professional boxer * Frazier Campbell (born 1987) footballer *
Sol Campbell Sulzeer Jeremiah Campbell (born 18 September 1974) is an English professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of club Southend United. He previously managed Macclesfield Town from November 2018 to August 20 ...
(born 1974), retired footballer and manager *
Mark Chamberlain Mark Valentine Chamberlain (born 19 November 1961) is an English former international footballer. He is the younger brother of Neville Chamberlain, and the father of Liverpool and England international player Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Alde ...
(born 1961), retired footballer *
Neville Chamberlain Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasemen ...
(born 1960), retired footballer *
Linford Christie Linford Cicero Christie (born 2 April 1960) is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World ...
(born 1960), retired sprinter *
Andy Cole Andrew Alexander Cole (born 15 October 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. His professional career lasted from 1988 to 2008, and is mostly remembered for his time with Manchester United, who paid a Briti ...
(born 1971), retired footballer * Garth Crooks (born 1958), retired footballer and pundit. Elected as the first black chairman of the Professional Footballers’ Association *
Laurie Cunningham Laurence Paul Cunningham (8 March 1956 – 15 July 1989) was an English professional footballer. A left winger, he notably played in England, France and Spain, where he became the first ever British player to sign for Real Madrid. Cunningham ...
(died 1989), the first ever British player to sign for
Real Madrid Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid. Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
*
Tasha Danvers Tasha De'Anka Danvers (born 19 September 1977) is a British Olympic bronze medallist, who finished in third place in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She was born in London to two athletes, Dorrett McKoy and Donald Danvers, ...
(born 1977), athlete *
Bobby Decordova-Reid Bobby Armani Decordova-Reid (né Reid; born 2 February 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Fulham. Born in England, he represents the Jamaica national team. Early and personal life Decordova-Reid was born in Br ...
(born 1993), footballer * Lloyd "Lindy" Delapenha (died 2017), the first black footballer to win a championship medal *
Clayton Donaldson Clayton Andrew Donaldson (born 7 February 1984) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Gainsborough Trinity. He has played in the English Football League and Scottish Premier League for Hull City, Hibernian, Crewe Alexa ...
(born 1984), footballer *
Desmond Douglas Desmond Douglas MBE (born 20 July 1955 in Jamaica) is a British table tennis player. He lived and was brought up in the area of Handsworth, Birmingham, West Midlands. He was an attacking, left-handed, player, notable for his scissor jump smash ...
(born 1955),
table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player *
Leon Edwards Leon Aaron Edwards (born 25 August 1991) is an English professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current UFC Welterweight Champion. A profe ...
(born 1991), professional mixed martial artist *Dame
Jessica Ennis-Hill Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill (born 28 January 1986) is a British retired track and field athlete from England, specialising in multi-eventing disciplines and 100 metres hurdles. As a competitor in heptathlon, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, ...
(born 1986), retired track and field athlete *
Chris Eubank Christopher Livingstone Eubank (born 8 August 1966) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the WBO middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, and is ranked by BoxRec as the thir ...
(born 1966), retired professional boxer *
Demarai Gray Demarai Remelle Gray (born 28 June 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Everton. Gray came through the youth system of Birmingham City, for whom he made his Football League debut as a 17-year-old in Oct ...
, footballer *
Mason Greenwood Mason Will John Greenwood (born 1 October 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Manchester United. A graduate of United's youth system, Greenwood scored in a UEFA Europa League match against Astana in S ...
, footballer * Jeremy Guscott (born 1965), retired rugby union player * Ellery Hanley (born 1961), retired rugby league player and coach *
Audley Harrison Audley Hugh Harrison, (born 26 October 1971) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2013. As an amateur he represented Great Britain at the 2000 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division and be ...
(born 1971), retired professional boxer * David Haye (born 1980), boxer * Michael Hector (born 1992), footballer * Mason Holgate, footballer * Dame
Kelly Holmes Dame Kelly Holmes (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete. Holmes specialised in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres events and won gold medals for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set Briti ...
(born 1970), middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medallist * Colin Jackson (born 1967), retired hurdler *
David James Dewi, Dai, Dafydd or David James may refer to: Performers *David James (actor, born 1839) (1839–1893), English stage comic and a founder of London's Vaudeville Theatre *David James (actor, born 1967) (born 1967), Australian presenter of ABC's ''P ...
(born 1970), retired professional footballer and goalkeeper * Aaron Lennon (born 1987), footballer * Jack Leslie (died 1988), footballer *
Denise Lewis Denise Lewis (born 27 August 1972) is a British sports presenter and former track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, was twice Commonwealth Games champion, ...
(born 1972), retired track and field athlete, sports presenter *
Lennox Lewis Lennox Claudius Lewis (born 2 September 1965) is a former professional boxer and boxing commentator who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and the last heavyweight to hold ...
(born 1965) retired professional boxer *
Devon Malcolm Devon Eugene Malcolm (born 22 February 1963) is a former English cricketer. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Malcolm played in 40 Test matches and 30 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team. At his best, he was the unquestionably the fast ...
(born 1963), retired cricketer * Adrian Mariappa (born 1986), footballer *
Ovill McKenzie Ovill McKenzie (born 26 November 1979) is a Jamaican-born British former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2015. He challenged once for the IBF cruiserweight title in 2015. At regional level, he held the Commonwealth light heavyweig ...
(born 1979), retired professional boxer *
Ishmael Miller Ishmael Anthony Miller (born 5 March 1987) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. Beginning his career in the Premier League with Manchester City, he later played in the top flight for West Bromwich Albion where h ...
, footballer * Wes Morgan (born 1984), footballer *
Ravel Morrison Ravel Ryan Morrison (born 2 February 1993) is a professional association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. Born in England, he represents the Jamaica national football team, Jamaica national ...
(born 1993), footballer *
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Alexander Mark David Oxlade-Chamberlain (born 15 August 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Liverpool. After rising to prominence with Southampton during the 2010–11 season aged 17, Oxlade-Chambe ...
(born 1993), footballer *
Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain Christian Benjamin Oxlade-Chamberlain (born 24 June 1998) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Kidderminster Harriers. Club career Portsmouth Born in Portsmouth, Oxlade-Chamberlain progressed through Portsmouth' ...
(born 1998), footballer *
Michael Page Michael Jerome Reece-Pagewkaassociation.com, Retrieved 28 August 2017. (born 7 April 1987) is a British Kickboxing, kickboxer, Boxing, boxer, and Mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist. He is recognised in the MMA community for his unortho ...
(born 1987), professional boxer and mixed martial artist; mother was from Jamaica * Jimmy Peters (born 1879), the first black man to play rugby union for
England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
* Nathan Redmond, footballer * Jason Robinson (born 1974), rugby international, the first black captain of the
England national rugby union team The England national rugby union team represents England in men's international rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. England have won the championship on 29 occasion ...
. Also the first former professional
rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
player to captain the England rugby union team * Danny Rose (born 1990), footballer * Ralph Rowe, (died 2013), Britain's first black Paralympian * Tessa Sanderson (born 1956), athlete, the first and only British woman to win gold at an
Olympic Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ...
throwing event, and the first black British woman ever to win Olympic gold * Alex Scott (born 1984), sports presenter, pundit and footballer. The first female football pundit at a World Cup for the
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, the first female pundit on
Sky Sports Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It ...
''Super Sunday'', and the first female to be a permanent presenter of '' Football Focus'' * Chris Smalling (born 1989), footballer *
Dina Asher Smith Geraldina "Dina" Rachel Asher-Smith, (; born 4 December 1995) is a British sprinter. She is the fastest British woman on record. She won a gold medal in the 200 metres, silver in the 100 metres and another silver in the 4×100 m relay a ...
, sprinter * Louis Smith (born 1989), retired gymnast *
Djed Spence Diop Tehuti Djed-Hotep Spence (born 9 August 2000) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Ligue 1 club Rennes, on loan from Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. Early life Spence is the younger brother of actress ...
(born 2000), footballer *
Dujon Sterling Dujon Henriques Sterling (born 24 October 1999) is an English footballer who plays as a right-back for Scottish Premiership side Rangers. He started his career at Chelsea and had loans spells with Coventry City, Wigan Athletic, Blackpool and ...
, footballer * Raheem Sterling, footballer *
Worrell Sterling Worrell Ricardo Sterling (born 8 June 1965) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. Sterling began his career as a trainee with Watford, before signing as a professional with them in 1983. He went on to play for Pe ...
, retired football player * Daniel Sturridge (born 1989), footballer *
Andros Townsend Andros Darryl Townsend (born 16 July 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Everton. A graduate of the Tottenham Hotspur academy, Townsend was initially loaned out to several League One and then Champions ...
(born 1991), footballer * Theo Walcott (born 1989), footballer for
Everton FC Everton Football Club () is an English professional association football club based in Liverpool that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club was a founder member of the Football League in 1888 and has compe ...
*
Kyle Walker Kyle Andrew Walker (born 28 May 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for club Manchester City and the England national team. Walker started his career at his boyhood club Sheffield United which he had joined ...
, footballer * Dillian Whyte (born 1988), boxer * Ian Wright (born 1963), retired footballer * Ashley Young (born 1985), footballer *
Reece James Reece James may refer to: * Reece James (footballer, born 1993), English footballer born in Bacup, Lancashire * Reece James (footballer, born 1999), English footballer born in Redbridge, London See also * James Reece (disambiguation) * Rhys James ...


Writing and journalism

*
Trish Adudu Patricia "Trish" Adudu is a British freelance journalist and television presenter. Career In the 1990s Adudu was a regular contributor, reporter and presenter for BBC GLR 94.9fm. When the Talk Radio UK launched in 1995, she appeared on a numbe ...
(born 1969), journalist, newsreader and TV presenter * Akala (born 1983), journalist, author, activist and poet * Raymond Antrobus (born 1986), poet, educator and writer. The first poet to win the Rathbones Folio Prize for his collection ''The Perseverance'' * Barbara Blake-Hannah (born 1941), author and Journalist. British television's first black on-camera reporter and interviewer *
Valerie Bloom Valerie Bloom MBE (born 1956)Jeffrey Wainwright''Poetry: The Basics''(2004), 2nd edition, Routledge, 2011, p. 21. is a Jamaican-born poet and a novelist based in the UK.Syd Burke Syd Burke (1938 – 30 July 2010), was a broadcaster, photographer and journalist, who moved to the UK from Jamaica to study photography in 1960, after having studied engineering, and later hosted London Broadcasting Corporation's (LBC) ''Rice ...
(died 2010), broadcaster, journalist and photographer *
Candice Carty-Williams Candice Carty-Williams (born 21 July 1989) is a British writer, best known for her 2019 debut novel, ''Queenie (novel), Queenie''. She has written for publications including ''The Guardian'', ''i-D'', ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', ''The Sunday Ti ...
(born 1989), writer and author. She was the first black woman to win the British Book Awards "Book of the Year" accolade for her novel ''
Queenie Queenie may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Queenie'' (film), a 1921 American silent drama film *Queenie (Melbourne elephant), an elephant at Melbourne Zoo *Queenie (waterskiing elephant) *''Queenie'', a 1985 novel by Michael Korda ** ''Queeni ...
'' * Lady Colin Campbell (born 1949), author and socialite *
Patricia Cumper Patricia Cumper, MBE, FRSA (born 1954), also known as Pat Cumper, is a British playwright, producer, director, theatre administrator, critic and commentator. She was the artistic director and CEO of Talawa Theatre Company from 2006 to 2012, and ...
(born 1954), playwright, producer, director, theatre administrator, critic and commentator. *
Ferdinand Dennis Ferdinand Dennis (born 18 March 1956)"Ferdinand Dennis"
,
...
(born 1956), writer, broadcaster, journalist and lecturer *
Salena Godden Salena Godden is an English poet, author, activist, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist. Born in the UK, Salena Godden is of Jamaican-Irish heritage and based in London. Widely anthologised, she has published several books. She has also writt ...
, broadcaster, author, activist, memoirist and essayist. * Colin Grant (born 1961), author *
Victor Headley Victor Headley (born 1959) is a Jamaican-born British author. He is the author of the bestselling novel ''Yardie'' (1992), which gained cult status upon publication and "heralded a new wave of black British pulp fiction". Other books by Headley in ...
(born 1959), author and producer *
Ben Hunte Ben Hunte (born 18 October 1992) is a British investigative journalist, presenter and senior reporter at Vice News. He previously worked for the BBC and was the broadcaster's first LGBT correspondent. He went on to be the BBC's West Africa corre ...
, journalist and reporter * Linton Kwesi Johnson (born 1952), poet and activist *
Darren Jordon Darren Jordon (born 23 November 1960 in London, England) is a British journalist working for the Al-Jazeera 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, Al Jazeera English. He is also a former officer of the Jamaica Defence Forc ...
, journalist * Andrea Levy (died 2019), author, the first writer of colour whose pen would join the
Royal Society of Literature The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, th ...
's historic collection *
Una Marson Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes. She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC d ...
(died 1965), writer, producer of plays and radio programmes. She was the first black female radio producer at the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ...
* Clive Myrie (born 1964), journalist, newsreader and TV presenter *
Zadie Smith Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor ...
(born 1975), author * Vivian Virtue (died 1998), translator and broadcaster *
Charlene White Charlene Denise White (born 22 June 1980) is a British television broadcaster, journalist and presenter, best known for presenting ''ITV News'' programmes. She has been an anchor on ''Loose Women'' since 2021Kerry Young (born 1955), author * Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), author and dub poet


Others

* Fay Allen (died 2021), first black woman police constable in the United Kingdom *
Vanley Burke Vanley Burke (born 1951) is a British Jamaican photographer and artist. His photographs capture experiences of his community's arrival in Britain, the different landscapes and cultures he encountered, the different ways of survival and experien ...
(born 1951), photographer and artist * Sergeant William Robinson Clarke (died1981),
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
airman who was the first black pilot to fly for Britain * Joe Clough (died 1976), first Black bus driver in London * Yvonne Conolly (died 2021), Britain's first female black headteacher *
Kevin Fenton Professor Kevin Andrew Fenton, (born 19 December 1966"Kevin Fenton." ''Contemporary Black Biography''. Vol. 87. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Gale ''Biography In Context''. Web. 28 Jan. 2013.) is a Public Health Physician and Infectious Disease Epidemi ...
(born 1966), epidemiologist and a regional director at
Public Health England Public Health England (PHE) was an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in England which began operating on 1 April 2013 to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. Its formation came as a ...
. *
Wilston Samuel Jackson Wilston Samuel Jackson (17 May 1927–15 September 2018) was Britain's first black train driver. Known as 'Bill', he was born in Jamaica in 1927 and moved to the UK as part of the Windrush generation. After working as a fireman A firefi ...
, fireman and Britain's first black train driver * George "Fowokan" Kelly (born 1943), sculptor *
Errol Lloyd Errol Lloyd (born 1943)"Errol Lloyd. Born 1943 in Jamaica"
(born 1943), artist, writer, art critic, editor and arts administrator * Ludlow Moody (died 1981), doctor *
Ronald Moody Ronald Moody (12 August 1900 – 6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings. His work features in collections including the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain in London, as well as the National Gallery ...
(died 1984), sculptor. Moody crater on
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Mary Seacole Mary Jane Seacole (;Anionwu E.N. (2012) Mary Seacole: nursing care in many lands. ''British Journal of Healthcare Assistants'' 6(5), 244–248. 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who set up t ...
(died 1881), nurse and businesswoman. Voted the greatest black Briton


Fictional characters

* Lee Jordan, fictional character


See also

* List of Jamaicans *
List of Jamaican Americans This is a list of notable Jamaican Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. List Academics * Opal Palmer Adisa – Professor Emeritus at California College of the Arts ...


References

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