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This is a list of people from Sierra Leone who have articles on Wikipedia, or are unambiguously qualified for one.
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Okere Adams
Okere Adams was a Sierra Leonean politician. In 2002, Adams was appointed as the Minister of Marine Resources under Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. In September 2005, he switched portfolio's with Chernor Jalloh and became the Minister of Tourism and Culture ...
George Banda-Thomas
George Banda-Thomas is a Sierra Leonean politician.
He was appointed Minister of Trade and Industry under President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. Banda-Thomas supported presidential candidate Charles Margai
Charles Francis Kondo Margai (born 19 August ...
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Alimamy Pallo Bangura
Alimamy Pallo Bangura is a politician in Sierra Leone. Over the past 12 years, Bangura has played a major role in Sierra Leonean politics and was a member of the Revolutionary United Front Party, where he replaced rebel leader Foday Sankoh followi ...
Hawanatu Bangura
Hawanatu Bangura (born 2 January 1988) is a sprinter from Sierra Leone. She is listed at 4'8 tall and 115 lbs. Bangura represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 100m dash in Athens, Greece. In Athens she finished 7th in her indi ...
Eunice Barber
Eunice Barber (born November 17, 1974 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean Athletics (sport), athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump. Barber initially competed for Sierra Leone and then for France from 1999 onwards. ...
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Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah (born 23 November 1980)UNICEF''Youth leadership profiles'' unicef.org; retrieved 15 February 2007. is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, '' A Long Way Gone''. His novel ''Ra ...
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John Oponjo Benjamin
John Oponjo Benjamin (born 29 November 1952 in Segbwema, Kailahun District, British Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean economist and politician of Mende descent. He was the leader of the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) to 2013. ...
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Ernest Beoku-Betts
Sir Ernest Samuel Beoku-Betts MBE (March 15, 1895 – 1957) was a Sierra Leonean Sierra Leone Creole, Krio lawyer who was very active in civic matters. He served first as member of the Freetown City Council and subsequently as its mayor (1925 ...
Tamba Borbor-Sawyer
Tamba Borbor-Sawyer is a Sierra Leonean politician and a retired officer in the Sierra Leone Police. He was a member of the third parliament from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) representing Kailahun District, but was suspen ...
Abdulai Conteh
Abdulai Osman Conteh (born 5 August 1945) is a lawyer and politician from Sierra Leone. He is a former vice president of Sierra Leone, who served under President Joseph Saidu Momoh before he was ousted by the military junta in 1992. Conteh later ...
Mohamed B. Daramy
Alhaji Mohamed B. Daramy (born 1955 in Panguma, Lower Bambara Chiefdom, Kenema District, British Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean politician. Daramy has many years of experience in industry, the private sector and in government having served as ...
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J. B. Dauda
Joseph Bandabla Dauda (24 December 1942. – 1 June 2017) widely known as J. B. Dauda, was a Sierra Leonean politician. He was Vice-President of Sierra Leone, Second Vice-President of Sierra Leone, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice ...
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Albert Joe Demby
Albert Joe Demby (born 1934 in Gerihun, Bo District, British Sierra Leone; died 2021 in Freetown) was a Sierra Leonean politician and a member of the Sierra Leone People's Party. He served as the Vice President of Sierra Leone from 29 March 1996 ...
Horace Dove-Edwin
Francis Horace Tipes Dove-Edwin (born 10 February 1967, in Freetown) is a retired Sierra Leonean sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.
Participating in the 1988 Summer Olympics, he failed to make it through to the second round. In 1990 Do ...
Dala Modu Dumbuya
Dala may refer to:
Places
*Dala Airport, Dalarna province, Sweden
*Dala, Angola
*Dala, Bhutan
*Dala, Kano, Nigeria
**Dalla Hill, a hill in Kano, Nigeria
* Đala, Serbia
* Dalas, Khuzestan Province, Iran
*Dala Township, Yangon, Myanmar
People
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John Ezzidio
John Ezzidio (c. 1810 – October 1872) was a freed slave of Nupe provenance who became a successful businessman and politician in Sierra Leone. Rescued from a slave ship headed for Brazil, he was apprenticed to a French shopkeeper and taught hi ...
Cyril Foray
Professor Cyril Patrick Foray (16 March 1934 – 31 July 2003) was a Sierra Leonean educator, politician, diplomat and historian.
Early life
Foray was a graduate of St. Edward's Secondary School. He continued his education at Fourah Bay Colle ...
Herbert George-Williams
Herbert George-Williams is a Sierra Leonean politician and the former mayor of Freetown. He is from the All People's Congress (APC) political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular ...
Abubakarr Jalloh (politician) Alhaji Abubakarr Jalloh is a Sierra Leonean politician. Since the election of Ernest Bai Koroma as President of Sierra Leone in September 2007, Jalloh has served as Minister of Mineral Resources. In 2002 Presidential election, Jalloh was the runni ...
Winstanley Bankole Johnson Winstanley Bankole Johnson is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as mayor of Freetown from July 2004 until he was ousted by the Freetown City Council on January 17, 2008 after several highly publicised controversies with the previous SLPP regi ...
Haja Afsatu Kabba
Haja Afsatu Olayinka Ebishola Savage Kabba is a Sierra Leonean Oku people (Sierra Leone), Oku politician and former Sierra Leone minister of Energy and Power. She served as a member of Parliament of Sierra Leone from the Western Area Urban Distr ...
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Karamoh Kabba Karamoh Kabba (born 1965 in Koidu Town, Kono District, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean author, writer, novelist and journalist. He has written several accounts about the Sierra Leone civil war, such as ''A Mother’s Saga: An Account of the Rebel ...
Tamba Kaingbanja
Tamba E. Kaingbanja is a Sierra Leonean politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). He is a member of the parliament of Sierra Leone, representing the Kono District. Kaingbaja is from the Kono ethnic group.
External li ...
Morris Kallon
The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was a rebel group that fought a failed eleven-year war in Sierra Leone, beginning in 1991 and ending in 2002. It later transformed into a political party, which still exists today. The three most senior surv ...
Santigie Borbor Kanu
Santigie Borbor Kanu (also known as Five-Five) (born March 1965) was a Sierra Leonean military commander in the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). He was one of a group of seventeen soldiers in the military of Sierra Leone who successful ...
Kadijatu Kebbay
Kadijatu Kebbay (born 1986, in Freetown) is a Sierra Leonean Model (person), model and beauty queen who won Miss University Sierra Leone 2006 beauty contest which took place on 29 July 2006. She won a Mazda saloon car and represented Sierra Leon ...
Sorie Ibrahim Koroma
Sorie Ibrahim Koroma (April 14, 1927 – April 30, 1994) commonly known as S.I. Koroma was a Sierra Leonean politician, labor activist, and one of the founding members of the All People's Congress political party. He served as first Vice Preside ...
John Leigh (ambassador) John Ernst Leigh was an ambassador for Sierra Leone to the United States who served during the Sierra Leone Civil War. Leigh was also a presidential candidate for the Sierra Leone People's Party during the 2007 presidential elections in Sierra Le ...
Andrew Lungay
Andrew Victor Lungay (born May 16, 1942) is a Sierra Leonean politician from the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). He is a member of parliament of Sierra Leone from Kenema District since 2002.
Lungay ran in the 1996 presidential election as a ...
Charles Margai
Charles Francis Kondo Margai (born 19 August 1945) is a Sierra Leonean politician and lawyer, constitutional lawyer who served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Sierra Leone in 2018.
Margai is a former candidate for the office of Pr ...
Lamin Massaquoi
Lamins, also known as nuclear lamins are fibrous proteins in type V intermediate filaments, providing structural function and transcriptional regulation in the cell nucleus. Nuclear lamins interact with inner nuclear membrane proteins to form t ...
Francis Minah
Francis Misheck Minah (19 August 1929 – 1989) was a Sierra Leonean statesman, lawyer and politician who served as First Vice President of Sierra Leone from 1985 to 1987 under President Siaka Stevens. An ethnic Mende from the Pujehun Dist ...
Namina Forna
Namina Forna (born 9 January 1987) is a Sierra Leonean American author of young adult fiction and a screenwriter. Her debut novel ''The Gilded Ones'' was published in February 2021 and quickly entered the ''New York Times'' and Indie Bestselle ...
Farid Raymond-Anthony
Farid Raymond Anthony (born 1933 in Freetown, died 2015 in Gillingham) is a Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet. He was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone to parents of Lebanese descent. Farid Anthony has written several books, including ''St ...
Lamina Sankoh
Lamina Sankoh (28 June 1884 – 1964), born Etheldred Nathaniel Jones, was a Sierra Leone Creole pre-independence politician, educator, banker and cleric. Sankoh is known most prominently for helping to found the Peoples Party in 1948, one of the ...
Tinga Seisay
Samuel Tinga Khendekha Seisay (22 August 1928 – 4 February 2015) was a Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy activist.
Early life
Born to a prominent political family, Seisay was educated at St. Edward's Secondary School. After gradua ...
Issa Sesay
Issa Hassan Sesay (born June 27, 1970) served as senior military officer and commander in the Revolutionary United Front and AFRC/ RUF forces in their insurrection against the government of Sierra Leone. He was said to be subordinate only to Sam ...
Muwahid Sesay
Muwahid Sesay (born 15 June 1984 in Freetown) is a Sierra Leonean international footballer who plays as a striker for Ports Authority F.C. in the Sierra Leone National Premier League.
Career
Sesay started his professional footballing career w ...
Jeneba Tarmoh
Jeneba Sylvia Tarmoh (born September 27, 1989) is an American Athletics (sport), track and field sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is of Sierra Leonean descent.
Prep
Tarmoh lives in San Jose, California, where she at ...
Banja Tejan-Sie
Sir Banja Tejan-Sie (1917-2000) was the Governor General of Sierra Leone and one of the "founding fathers" of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, with the most distinguished Order - The Grand Cross of ...
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John Henry Malamah Thomas
John Henry Malamah Thomas (1844–1922) was a Sierra Leone Creole entrepreneur and a long serving mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Life
John Henry Thomas was born in Hastings, a suburb of Freetown of Recaptive parents, and his father died when ...
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Bankole Timothy
Emmanuel Bankole Timothy (3 July 1923 – 20 June 1994) was a Sierra Leonean journalist. He was also an author and wrote biographies of Albert Margai, prime minister of Sierra Leone (1964–67), and Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana (1960&n ...
Hindolo Trye Hindolo Sumanguru Trye (died 26 July 2012) was a Sierra Leonean politician with the All People's Congress (APC). Prior to his death, he was Sierra Leone's Minister of Tourism The Minister of Tourism is the head of the governmental department that ...
Andrew Turay Andrew Turay is a Sierra Leonean politician. He competed in the 1996 presidential election as part of the National People's Party (NPP). He received 0.5% of the vote (3,925 total votes).
Turay was the candidate for the Convention People's Party i ...
Peter Vandy
Peter Vandy is a politician in Sierra Leone. He is a member of the Revolutionary United Front and ran alongside Pallo Bangura in the 2002 Presidential election. He is a former government Minister of Lands and Environment and was detained along ...
Amadu Wurie
Amadu Wurie (August 27 1898 – 13 June 1977) was an early Sierra Leonean educationist and politician.
Biography
Wurie was born in Gbinti, Port Loko District, in the Northern Province of British Sierra Leone, the son of a Fula paramount ch ...