List of Belizean people

This is a list of notable and well-known Belizean people, ordered alphabetically.

* Michael Anthony Ashcroft, international businessman, philanthropist and politician
* Moses Michael Levi Barrow (born Jamal Michael Barrow; 1978), better known by his stage name Shyne, rapper and politician
* Simone Biles, American gymnast and Olympian
* Pi'erre Bourne, rapper and record producer
* Barry Bowen, bottling magnate, politician and entrepreneur
* Lova Boy, recording artist and entrepreneur
* Sharon Carr, murderer who killed a woman in United Kingdom, Britain aged only 12
* Nadia Cattouse, actress, singer-songwriter
* Pen Cayetano, artist and musician
* Sue Courtenay, architect
* Ivan Duran, musician, and the founder and director of Stonetree Records
* Zee Edgell, novelist and educator, considered Belize's principal contemporary writer
* Maxime Faget, designer of the Project Mercury, Mercury space capsule, capsule, and contributed
* Antonio Soberanis Gómez, activist in the Belizean labour movement, he founded the Labourers and Unemployed Association in 1934 to demand poverty relief work and a minimum wage. He was jailed for sedition in 1935
* Samuel Alfred Haynes, soldier, activist and poet
* Houston (singer), Houston (of Belizean descent), Contemporary R&B, R&B singer, best known for the hit single "I Like That (Houston song), I Like That"
* Marion Jones (holds dual-citizenship), former world champion Track and field, track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA
* Emory King, historian, author, journalist and National Film Commissioner
* Chito Martínez, first Belizean player in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB)
* John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and founder of McAfee, McAfee, Inc.
* Deon McCaulay, international association football, footballer who last played for R.G. City Boys United in the Premier League of Belize
* Monrad Metzgen, national hero of Belize
* Andy Palacio, punta musician and government official. He was also a leading activist for the Garínagu and their culture
* Milton Palacio (holds dual-citizenship), Belizean American professional basketball player, currently with the Lithuanian team BC Lietuvos rytas, Lietuvos rytas
* Elijio Panti, traditional medicine, traditional healer who used Maya peoples, Mayan herbal medical techniques
* Wilfred Peters, accordionist and band leader, known as the "King of Brukdown"
* Arlie Petters, mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor and Professor of Mathematics, Physics, and Business Administration at Duke University
* George Cadle Price, the first prime minister of Belize, considered to have been one of the principal architects of the country's independence
*Francis Reneau, pianist and composer. In 1994 he was commissioned by the government to produce a representative compilation of Belizean music
* Gerald Rhaburn, calypso music, calypso, soca, reggae and brukdown musician
* Marie Sharp, entrepreneur
* Shyne, rapper and Conversion to Judaism, convert to Judaism
* Lisa Tucker (singer), Lisa Tucker (of Belizean descent), singer, musical theater and television actress
* Deborah L. Turbiville, Houston madam
* Ann-Marie Williams, public policy advisor
* Selwyn Walford Young, musician and composer

References

See also

*List of people by nationality

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