Listed below are prominent people from the Eastern Caribbean, the Guianas. Because of the close proximity of these countries, some people are listed under more than one heading. The following are not included: Bahamians, Belizeans,
Cubans
Cubans ( es, Cubanos) are people born in Cuba and people with Cuban citizenship. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic, religious and national backgrounds.
Racial and ethnic groups
Census
The population of Cuba ...
Haitians
Haitians (French: , ht, Ayisyen) are the citizens of Haiti and the descendants in the diaspora through direct parentage. An ethnonational group, Haitians generally comprise the modern descendants of self-liberated Africans in the Caribbean terr ...
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans ( es, Puertorriqueños; or boricuas) are the people of Puerto Rico, the inhabitants, and citizens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and their descendants.
Overview
The culture held in common by most Puerto Ricans is referred t ...
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Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda (, ) is a sovereign country in the West Indies. It lies at the juncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles, at 17°N latitude. The country consists of two majo ...
Anna Maria Horsford
Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies.
Horsford is best known for her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom ''Amen'' (1986–91), and as Dee Baxter on the WB sitcom ''The Wayans Bros.'' (1 ...
Curtly Ambrose
Sir Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose KCN (born 21 September 1963) is an Antiguan former cricketer who played 98 Test matches for the West Indies. Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, he took 405 Test wickets ...
Carl Herrera
Carl Víctor Herrera Allen (born December 14, 1966) is a retired Trinidadian-born Venezuelan basketball player. A power forward, he was part of the Houston Rockets National Basketball Association championship teams of the mid-1990s. He was the f ...
- former NBA basketball player
* Emile Heskey - football player (of Antiguan descent)
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Maurice Hope
Maurice Hope (born 6 December 1951) is a British former boxer, who was world junior middleweight champion. Born in Antigua, he grew up in Hackney, London. He represented Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
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- boxer
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Colin Kazim-Richards
Colin Kazim-Richards (born 26 August 1986), also known as Colin Kâzım, Kâzım or Kâzım Kâzım, is a professional footballer as a forward for Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük S.K.
Born and raised in England, he qualified for Turkish ...
- football player (of Antiguan descent)
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Ledley King
Ledley Brenton King (born 12 October 1980) is a former player who was a one-club man, spending his entire career at Tottenham Hotspur and playing 323 competitive matches for the club from 1999 to 2012. He is currently a club ambassador for Tot ...
Richie Richardson
Sir Richard Benjamin Richardson, KCN (born 12 January 1962) is a former West Indies international cricketer and a former captain of the West Indian cricket team.
He was a flamboyant batsman and superb player of fast bowling. He was famous for ...
Che Adams
Che, Ché, Chè or CHE may refer to:
People
* Ché Ahn, (born 1956), American Christian pastor
* Che Guevara (1928–1967), Argentine Marxist revolutionary
* Che (surname) (车), Chinese surname
* Che Lovelace (born 1969), Trinidadian artist
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Isaiah Osbourne
Isaiah George Osbourne (born 5 November 1987) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nuneaton Borough. He is a former England under-16 international who started his career with Aston Villa. Osbourne had loan spells with Nott ...
Political leaders
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Lester Bird
Sir Lester Bryant Bird KNH (21 February 1938 – 9 August 2021) was an Antigua and Barbuda politician and athlete who served as the second prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 1994 to 2004. He was chairman of the Antigua Labour Party (AL ...
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Vere Cornwall Bird
Sir Vere Cornwall Bird, KNH (9 December 1910 – 28 June 1999) was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. His son, Lester Bryant Bird, succeeded him as Prime Minister. In 1994 he was declared a national hero.
He was an officer in ...
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James Carlisle
Sir James Beethoven Carlisle, GCMG (born August 5, 1937) is a dentist and the former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. Selected by Vere Cornwall Bird (the country's first prime minister), his term ended in June 2007, after 16 years in o ...
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Tim Hector
Leonard "Tim" Hector (24 November 1942 – 12 November 2002) was a leftist Antiguan political leader and cricket administrator known for his opposition to the rule of the Bird family.
Early life
Born in St John's, Antigua, and named Leonard C ...
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Wilfred Jacobs
Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs (19 October 1919 – 11 March 1995) was the first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. Biography
He was trained in the law in London and became an attorney. He was appointed Magistrate for Dominica in 1947 and f ...
Sydney Walling
Sir Sydney Walling (12 July 1907 – 8 October 2009) was an Antiguan cricketer who played for Antigua from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Despite being a successful batsman for his national team, he was never selected to play for the West Indies, perhaps ...
*Sir
George Walter
Sir George Herbert Walter, KNH (8 September 1928 – 4 March 2008) was an Antiguan politician of the Progressive Labour Movement and Premier of Antigua and Barbuda from 14 February 1971 to 1 February 1976.
Political career
Born 1928, Walter ...
Writers and intellectuals
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Leonard Tim Hector
Leonard "Tim" Hector (24 November 1942 – 12 November 2002) was a leftist Antiguan political leader and cricket administrator known for his opposition to the rule of the Bird family.
Early life
Born in St John's, Antigua, and named Leonard C ...
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Joanne C. Hillhouse Joanne C. Hillhouse (born 1973) is a creative writer, journalist, producer and educator from Antigua and Barbuda.Marie-Elena John
Marie-Elena John is a Caribbean writer whose novel, '' Unburnable'', was published in 2006. She is an Africanist, development and women’s rights specialist, currently serving as the Senior Racial Justice Lead at UN Women.
Biography
John was bor ...
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estima ...
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (; née Pinkett; born September 18, 1971) is an American actress and talk show host. She is co-host of the Facebook Watch talk show '' Red Table Talk'', for which she has received a Daytime Emmy Award. ''Time'' name ...
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Meagan Good
Meagan Monique Good is an American actress. She first gained critical attention for her role in the film ''Eve's Bayou'' (1997), prior to landing the role of Nina in the Nickelodeon sitcom ''Cousin Skeeter'' (1998–2001). Good received further ...
LL Cool J
James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is one of the earliest rappers to achieve commercial success, along ...
(mother is a first-generation Bajan American)
* Mari Morrow
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Redd Pepper
Richardson Green (born 23 June 1961), known professionally as Redd Pepper, is a Barbadian-British voice actor. With his unusually deep voice and vocal style similar to that of Don LaFontaine, he is known for his work on movie trailers.
Early ...
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Robert Christopher Riley
Robert Christopher Riley (born October 11, 1980) is an American film, television, and stage actor of Trinidadian and Bajan descent. He is known for his role as Terrence Wall in the VH1 television drama series '' Hit The Floor'' from 2013 to 201 ...
(Trini mother, Bajan father)
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Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker (born October 6, 1971) is an American actor. Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas ''As the World Turns'' and ''All My Children'', before roles in ''The Temptations'', Tyler Perry's films '' Why Did I Get Married?'', ' ...
(mother is a first-generation Bajan American)
Artists
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Ras Akyem
Ras Akyem (sometimes called Ras Akyem Ramsey or Ras Akyem I Ramsey) is a Barbadian painter. A graduate of the Edna Manley School of Art in Jamaica, his work is heavily influenced by the Rastafari movement and bears resemblance to the paintings ...
Edward Rupert Burrowes
Edward Rupert Burrowes (15 September 1903 – 1966) was a Guyanese artist and art teacher who founded the Working People's Art Class (WPAC), the first established art institution in Guyana.
The E R Burrowes School of Art, an undergraduate i ...
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Alison Chapman-Andrews Alison Chapman-Andrews (born Alison Armstrong, 1942) is a Barbadian painter of English birth. She is one of two women with the same first name to be born the UK the other is Alison Hinds.
A native of Hertford, Chapman-Andrews studied from 1963 to 1 ...
Annalee Davis
Annalee Davis (born 1963) is a Visual arts, visual artist from Barbados whose occupation consists of drawing, painting, object making, Installation art, art installation and video production. She works a hybrid practice of jobs as a visual artist ...
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Stanley Greaves
Stanley Greaves (born 1934)Rupert Roopnarine"Master Maker: Stanley Greaves" ''Caribbean Beat'', Issue 72 (March/April 2005). is a Guyanese painter and writer who is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished artists. Writing in 1995 at the tim ...
Coral Bernadine Pollard
Coral Bernadine Pollard (born Roberts circa 1940) is a Barbadian artist. She is known for her paintings, murals and also for her work as an art tutor for Her Majesty's Prison Dodds, a prison in Barbados. Her studio is located in Saint James.
Li ...
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Sheena Rose
Sheena Rose (born 1985) is a contemporary Caribbean multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Barbados.
She is a Fulbright scholar and holds a BFA Honors degree from Barbados Community College, 2008, as well as an MFA from the University ...
Andrea Blackett
Andrea Melissa Blackett (born 24 January 1976, in London) is a Barbados, Barbadian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. She is also a women's track assistant coach at her alma mater, Rice University.
Her greatest achievement in at ...
* Emmerson Boyce - footballer who captained the 2013 FA Cup winning
Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic Football Club () is an English professional association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The team competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system.
Founded in 1932, ...
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Fred Brathwaite
Fredrick Brathwaite (born November 24, 1972) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former player.
Brathwaite played as a goaltender, and spent his career with the Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues and Columbus Blue Jackets in the NH ...
- NHL goalie (born in Canada; both parents are from Barbados)
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Pierre Browne
Pierre Browne (born January 14, 1980) is a Canadian sprinter of Barbadian descent. He represented Canada for the 100 and the 200 meters dash in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 2002 Commonwealth Games, and the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.Anson Carter - NHL player (born in Canada to parents from Barbados)
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Ashley Cole
Ashley Cole (born 20 December 1980) is an English football coach and former player who is currently a first-team coach at Premier League club Everton. As a player, he played as a left-back, most notably for Arsenal and Chelsea. Cole is cons ...
- English footballer (parents are from Barbados)
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Jon Cornish
Jon Cornish (born November 5, 1984) is a former Canadian football running back who played nine seasons with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted 13th overall in the 2006 CFL Draft after playing college f ...
- CFL player (born in Canada to father from Barbados)
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Joel Garner
Joel Garner (born 16 December 1952) is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early 1980s West Indies cricket teams. Garner is the highest ranked One Day International bowler according to the ICC bes ...
* Joshua Gibson - Aussie rules footballer (parents are from Barbados)
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Gordon Greenidge
Sir Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge (born 1 May 1951) is a Barbadian, former first-class cricketer, who represented the West Indies in Test and One-day Cricket for 17 years. Greenidge is regarded worldwide as one of the greatest and most destructive ...
Paul Ince
Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (; born 21 October 1967) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of EFL Championship side Reading. A former midfielder, Ince played professionally from 1982 to 2007, sta ...
- English footballer and football manager (parents are from Christ Church, Barbados)
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Winston Justice
Winston Frederick Justice (born September 14, 1984) is a former American football offensive tackle. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round (39th overall pick) of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at USC.
Curr ...
- American football player (Denver Broncos)
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Darian King
Darian King (born 26 April 1992 in Bridgetown) is a Barbadian tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 106 achieved on 8 May 2017, and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. ...
Anton Norris
Erskine Anton Norris (born 7 January 1940) is a former Barbadian high jumper.
Athletic career
Norris was born in Kirtons, Saint Philip, and first represented Barbados at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games in Kingston, Jamaica wh ...
- high jumper
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Kemar Roach
Kemar Andre Jamal Roach (born 30 June 1988) is a Barbadian international cricketer who plays for the West Indies. He played in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka and has represented the West Indies in Test and One Day International cr ...
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Sam Seale
Samuel Ricardo Seale (born October 6, 1962) is a Barbadian-born former American football cornerback who played ten seasons in the National Football League, mainly for the Los Angeles Raiders. He is currently a scout for the Green Bay Packers
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- American football player
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Alana Shipp
Alana Shipp (born 1982) is a Barbadan professional female bodybuilder, based in Jerusalem.
Early life
Alana Shipp was born in 1982 in Bridgetown, Barbados to Guyanese parents. She spent her early childhood in Guyana prior to moving to Queens ...
- American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder
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Garfield Sobers
Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, (born 28 July 1936), also known as Sir Gary or Sir Garry Sobers, is a former cricketer who played for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974. A highly skilled bowler, an aggressive batsman and an excellent fielder, ...
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Obadele Thompson
Obadele "Oba" Thompson BSS (born 30 March 1976) is a Barbados-born former sprinter, lawyer, author, and speaker. He won Barbados's first and only Olympic medal as an independent country by placing third in the 100 metres at the 2000 Sydney Olymp ...
William Shorey
William T. Shorey (July 13, 1859 – April 15, 1919) was a late 19th-century American whaling ship captain known to his crew as the Black Ahab. He was born in Barbados July 13, 1859. He was of African descent through Barbados
Barbados is a ...
Vita Chambers
Vita Chambers (born June 10, 1993) is a Barbadian-Canadian singer and songwriter. She is best known for her hit single "Like Boom" in 2010.
Musical career and early life
Chambers was born in Vancouver, Canada. She then moved to Barbados, wh ...
Carl Cox
Carl Cox (born 29 July 1962) is a British house and techno club DJ, as well as radio DJ and record producer. He is based in Hove, Sussex, England.
Cox has won and been nominated for numerous awards. He has performed at numerous clubs and ...
Cover Drive
Cover Drive were a four-piece band from Barbados consisting of Amanda Reifer, T-Ray Armstrong, Barry "Bar-Man" Hill and Jamar Harding. They have gained commercial success in the United Kingdom. They are best known for their UK number one single ...
Killy (rapper)
Khalil Tatem (born August 19, 1997), better known by his stage name Killy (stylized as KILLY), is a Canadian rapper from Toronto. He is best known for his break-out single "Killamonjaro" which is certified Platinum by Music Canada, and his debut ...
Jaicko
Jaicko Lawrence is a Bajan contemporary pop music singer-songwriter signed to Capitol Records. Born Jaicko Lawrence on 6 August 1991 in Christ Church, Barbados, Jaicko has been nominated for six Barbados Music Awards, including Best Pop Single, ...
Hal Linton
Hal Alexander Linton, (born December 25, 1986) is a Barbadian born Soul/R&B singer, songwriter and producer. In October 2008 news broke in the small Caribbean island of Barbados that Hal Linton inked a million dollar deal with major record label ...
Mighty Gabby
Anthony Carter (born 30 March 1948), better known as Mighty Gabby or simply Gabby, is a Barbadian calypsonian and folk singer, and a Cultural Ambassador for the island of Barbados.
Career
Born in Emmerton, Carter was given the nickname "Gabby" ...
Red Plastic Bag
Stedson Wiltshire, better known by the sobriquet of Red Plastic Bag, RPB, or merely Bag, is a calypsonian from Barbados. He has won the Barbadian calypso monarch competition a record ten times. Hailing from the eastern, rural Barbadian parish of ...
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Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty ( ; born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, Rihanna auditioned for American record producer Evan Rogers who invited her to th ...
Rupee
Rupee is the common name for the currencies of
India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, ...
- musician, born Rupert Clarke
* Shontelle - pop, reggae, and R&B singer
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Arturo Tappin
Arturo Tappin is a jazz/ reggae saxophonist from Barbados. He performs predominantly the genre of smooth jazz, and has performed alongside personalities such as Roberta Flack, Monty Alexander, and on an album by Luther Vandross.
He is based in ...
Joseph L. Walcott Joseph L. Walcott was the first African American to own a nightclub in New England.
Early life
A Barbadian who immigrated to America in 1910, he joined his brother in Boston. "Wally" worked at many jobs including running a taxi service where one o ...
- founded the first black-owned nightclub in New England, featuring many jazz greats
* Dave East - rapper
Political leaders
*Sir
Grantley Adams
Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, CMG, QC (28 April 1898 – 28 November 1971) was a Barbadian politician. He served as the inaugural premier of Barbados from 1953 to 1958 and then became the first and only prime minister of the West Indies Feder ...
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J. M. G. Adams
Jon Michael Geoffrey Manningham Adams (September 24, 1931 – March 11, 1985), known as Tom Adams, was a Barbadian politician who served as the second prime minister of Barbados from 1976 until 1985.
Biography
Personal life
The only son of ...
Courtney Blackman
Sir Courtney Newlands McLaurin Blackman, KA (6 March 1933 – 16 March 2021) was a Barbadian economist, international business consultant, and diplomat. He served as the first Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados from 1972 to 1987. At the ...
* London Bourne - former Barbadian slave who became a merchant and abolitionist.
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Bussa
Bussa's rebellion (14–16 April 1816) was the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history. The rebellion takes its name from the African-born slave, Bussa, who led the rebellion. The rebellion, which was eventually defeated by the colonial mil ...
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Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita Chisholm ( ; ; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional distr ...
- Congresswoman
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Anne C. Cools
Anne Clare Cools (born August 12, 1943) is a Canadian retired senator and the longest serving member of the Senate of Canada. As a social worker, Cools was a pioneer in the protection of women from domestic violence, running one of the first dome ...
Gwen Ifill
Gwendolyn L. Ifill ( ; September 29, 1955 – November 14, 2016) was an American journalist, television newscaster, and author. In 1999, she became the first African-American woman to host a nationally televised U.S. public affairs program ...
- American political journalist; television newscaster
* Thomas R. Jones - former Civil Court judge and Civil Rights activist in Brooklyn, New York
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Clyde Mascoll
David John Howard
The Hon. Clyde Mascoll (born 15 December 1959) is a politician from Barbados. He is a former leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP). In 2003, Mascoll unsuccessfully led the party in an election against the ruling Barbados ...
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Chirlane McCray
Chirlane Irene McCray (born November 29, 1954) is an American writer, editor, and activist. She is married to former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and had been described as de Blasio's "closest advisor." She chaired the Mayor's Fund to Adva ...
- poet, public speech writer; married to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
*Dame Billie Miller
* Richard B. Moore
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Mia Mottley
Mia Amor Mottley, (born 1 October 1965) is a Barbadian politician and attorney who has served as the eighth prime minister of Barbados since 2018 and as Leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) since 2008. Mottley is the first woman to hold ...
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Charles O'Neale
Charles Duncan O'Neal (30 November 1879 – November 1936)Sean Creighton and Peter Freshwater"Charles Duncan O'Neal", ''North East Slavery & Abolition Group ENewsletter'', No. 8, April 2010, p. 15. was a Barbados physician, political figure a ...
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Clement Payne Clement Osbourne Payne (1904 – 7 April 1941)"Payne, Clement", in Keith A. P. Sandiford, ''A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora'', Hansib Publications, 2008, p. 363.Erskine Sandiford
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Bret Schundler
Bret D. Schundler (born January 14, 1959) is an American Republican politician from New Jersey. Schundler was the mayor of Jersey City from 1992 until 2001. Schundler was the city's first Republican mayor since 1917. He ran for Governor of New ...
- former Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
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Lloyd Sealy Lloyd George Sealy (January 4, 1917 – January 4, 1985) was the NYPD's first African-American officer to graduate from the FBI National Academy and the first African-American officer in the NYPD to make rank as the commander of a police station ...
- first African American NYPD officer to command a police precinct and patrol borough
* David Thompson
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Elizabeth Thompson
Elizabeth Southerden Thompson (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933), later known as Lady Butler, was a British painter who specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Napoleonic ...
(born 1961) - politician, Permanent Representative to the UN
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Dennis M. Walcott
Dennis M. Walcott (born September 7, 1951) is the former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education. He succeeded Cathie Black, who resigned in April 2011 after only three months on the job. He was succeeded as chancellor by Carmen Fa ...
- Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development in New York City
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Frank L. White
Frank L. White ( – February 15, 1938) was an American chef whose likeness, known as "Rastus," is purported to have been featured on the packaging and advertising for Cream of Wheat breakfast cereal from the early 1900s until 2020.
Biograp ...
Tony Cozier
Winston Anthony Lloyd Cozier (10 July 1940 – 11 May 2016) was a Barbadian cricket journalist, writer, and radio commentator on West Indian cricket for over fifty years. Scyld Berry wrote that he was both the voice and the conscience of West ...
- cricket writer and broadcaster
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Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage (born November 27, 1964) is a Bajan- Canadian computer scientist who conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre- Web Internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. It is widely considered the ...
Molecular biologist
Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physic ...
Odimumba Kwamdela
Odimumba Kwamdela, born J. Ashton Brathwaite (11 September 1942 – 16 January 2019), was a Barbadian-born writer who published 14 books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and three musically dubbed spoken word albums.
Background
In 1960, wh ...
Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall (April 9, 1929 – August 12, 2019) was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel '' Brown Girl, Brownstones''. In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship grant.
Life and career
Marshall w ...
Sheena Rose
Sheena Rose (born 1985) is a contemporary Caribbean multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Barbados.
She is a Fulbright scholar and holds a BFA Honors degree from Barbados Community College, 2008, as well as an MFA from the University ...
- artist (born in USA)
* Susan L. Taylor - former editor-in-chief of ''Essence'’ magazine (born in USA)
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coa ...
Leroy Fer
Leroy Johan Fer (born 5 January 1990) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Turkish Süper Lig club Alanyaspor. He also represented the Netherlands, making 11 appearances between 2010 and 2014.
Fer has various ...
(parents both Curaçaoan descent)
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Andruw Jones
Andruw Rudolf Jones (; born April 23, 1977) is a Curaçaoan former baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Atlanta Braves. Jones also played for the Los Angeles Dodg ...
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Armando Obispo
Armando Obispo (born 5 March 1999) is a Dutch professional Association football, footballer who plays as a centre back for PSV Eindhoven. He has represented the Netherlands internationally at various youth levels.
Career
Obispo made his professi ...
Javier Martina
Javier Sylvester Martina (born 1 February 1987) is a Curaçaoan-Dutch footballer who plays as a winger for A.V.V. Zeeburgia in the Dutch Hoofdklasse, and for the Curaçao national team.
Club career
Netherlands
Born in Willemstad, Netherla ...
Leandro Bacuna
Leandro Jones Johan Bacuna (born 21 August 1991) is a professional Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder or Defender (association football)#Full back, right-back for Watford F.C., Watford. Bacuna was capped 20 times at youth l ...
Tahith Chong
Tahith Jose Girigorio Djorkaef Chong (born 4 December 1999) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Birmingham City.
Chong joined the Manchester United Academy aged 16, after progressing through the Feyenoord youth ...
Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez
Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez (27 October 1907 – 22 November 1966) was the president of the first Governing Council of the Netherlands Antilles and the first Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles.Ben Komproe
* Maria Liberia-Peters
Dominica
Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographical ...
Maurice DuBois
Maurice DuBois (born August 20, 1965) is an American television anchorman for WCBS-TV in New York City and the CBS network.
Early life and education
DuBois was born on Long Island, New York, the son of immigrants to the U.S. from Dominica, an is ...
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Edward Scobie
Edward Vivian Scobie (23 May 1918 – 14 November 1996) was a Dominican-born journalist, magazine publisher and historian. He is best known for his research into the history of black people in Western Europe and his 1972 seminal book ''Black B ...
Ophelia Marie
Ophelia Marie, also known as Ophelia Olivaccé-Marie (born 28 March 1951), is a popular singer of cadence-lypso from Dominica in the 1980s. She is sometimes referred to as "Dominica's Lady of Song", the "First Lady of Creole", and "la grande dam ...
Political leaders
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Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Phyllis Byam Shand Allfrey (24 October 1908 – 4 February 1986) was a West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. She is best known for her first novel, '' The Orchid House ...
*Dame
Eugenia Charles
Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. The first female lawyer in Dominica, she was Dominica's first, and to date only, f ...
Rosie Douglas
Roosevelt Bernard "Rosie" Douglas (15 October 1941 – 1 October 2000) was a politician and human rights activist from Dominica. He served as Prime Minister of Dominica from February 2000 until his death in office eight months later.
Early life ...
Patrick R. John
Patrick Roland John (7 January 1938 – 6 July 2021) was the first Prime Minister of Dominica as well as its last Premier. He led Dominica to independence from the United Kingdom. He was leader of the Waterfront and Allied Workers' Union and ...
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Edward Oliver LeBlanc
Edward Oliver Le Blanc (October 3, 1923 – October 29, 2004) was a Dominican politician. He served as the chief minister of Dominica from January 1961 to March 1, 1967 and as the first premier of Dominica.
Life and career
Le Blanc was born in ...
Doreen Paul
Doreen Paul (born 1962) was a Dominican banker who served in politics from 1990 to 2000. She was particularly involved, as the Minister of Health and Social Security, in the development of infrastructure improvement projects including health cen ...
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Clarence Seignoret
Sir Clarence Henry Augustus Seignoret (25 February 1919 – 5 May 2002) was the third President of Dominica.
Biography
Born in Roseau, Seignoret was educated at the Dominica Grammar School and at college in Saint Lucia before he started wor ...
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Oliver Seraphin
Oliver James "O. J." Seraphin (or Seraphine; born August 2, 1943) is a former Dominican politician. He served as the Minister of communication and works and housing for the Labour Party government from 1975–1979 and acting Prime Minister of Dom ...
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Vernon Shaw
Vernon Lorden Shaw (13 May 1930 – 2 December 2013) was the fifth President of Dominica, in office from 1998 to 2003.
Shaw was an alumnus of the Dominica Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford. He was a career civil servant, rising to the ...
Crispin Sorhaindo
Crispin Anselm Sorhaindo OBE (23 May 1931 – 10 January 2010) was the fourth President of Dominica. He served from 25 October 1993 until 5 October 1998.
Early life
Sorhaindo was born in 1931 in the village of Vieille Case. He attended the Vieill ...
Liam Sebastien
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He was born ...
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Shane Shillingford
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Lennox Honychurch
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French Guiana
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Political leaders
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Léon Bertrand
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Félix Éboué
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Gaston Monnerville
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Christiane Taubira
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Writers and intellectuals
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Léon Damas
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Biography
Léon Damas was born in Cay ...
Jaïr Karam
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Marc-Antoine Fortuné
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Fortuné started his professional career at Angoulême in 1998, switching to Lille in 2002. He spent the 200 ...
Ludovic Proto
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Marc-Antoine Fortuné
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Fortuné started his professional career at Angoulême in 1998, switching to Lille in 2002. He spent the 200 ...
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Mike Maignan
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Maignan came through the youth teams at Paris Saint-Germain, he was an unused substitute sev ...
Simon Falette
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Club career
Falette started playing football at Tours bef ...
Grenada
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Ajamu
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Casey Benjamin
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Dollarman
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Career
In the early 1990s, he recorded his first two tra ...
Sir Galba
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He was born George Brindsley McSween in the village of Birchgrove, St. ...
Jemeni
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Ms. Dynamite
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Early years
She was born Niomi Arleen Mc ...
Henri Christophe
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Christophe was of Bambara ethnicity in West Africa, and perhaps of Igbo descent. Beginning wit ...
Dickon Mitchell
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David Paterson
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(Grenadian grandfather)
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David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead
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Franklyn Harvey
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Jacob Ross
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Life and career
Jacob Ross was born in Hope Vale on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where he attended the Gr ...
Guadeloupe
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Artists
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Jacques Schwarz-Bart
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Biography
His mother is the Guadeloupean novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart, author of ''The Bridge of Beyond''. His father was French-Jewish author André Schw ...
Jocelyn Angloma
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Jim Bilba
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Professional career
Bilba won the EuroLeague championship with Limoges CSP in 1993.
National team career
Bilba ...
Layvin Kurzawa
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Kurzawa began his career at Monaco in 2010, and played 96 o ...
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Pascal Chimbonda
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Chimbonda began his professional career in 1998 with Le Havre, where he featured over 100 times combined for the club's first team an ...
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Laura Flessel-Colovic
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Jérôme Moïso
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College career
He played college basketball at UCLA with the UCLA Bruins.
Professional career
A forward-center who has played in the NBA, Moïso was selected ...
Marie-José Pérec
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Athletics career
Pérec won the 1991 World Championships 400 metres title ...
Therry Racon
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Club career Early career
Born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Val-de-Marne, Racon made his professional debut with Olympique de Marseille, on 1 May 2004, a ...
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Teddy Riner
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Lilian Thuram
Ruddy Lilian Thuram-Ulien (; born 1 January 1972) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.
He began playing football professionally in his homeland with Monaco and played in the top flight in France, Italy and Spai ...
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Marius Trésor
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Ronald Zubar
Ronald Raymond Zubar (born 20 September 1985) is a Guadeloupean former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Zubar's efforts at French club Stade Malherbe Caen earned him a move to Olympique de Marseille in 2006. His time at Marseil ...
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Thomas Lemar
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Wylan Cyprien
Wylan Jean-Claude Cyprien (born 28 January 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Parma.
Early life
Born in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe on 28 January 1995, Cyprien moved to metropolitan France at a young age.
Club ca ...
Filmmakers
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Sarah Maldoror
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Early life and education
Born Sarah Ducados i ...
Victorin Lurel
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President of the Regional Co ...
Patrick Reason
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Maryse Condé
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Simone Schwarz-Bart
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Life
Simone Brumant was born in 1938 at Saintes in the Charente-Maritime depa ...
Guyana
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List of Guyanese British people
This is a list of notable Guyanese British people.
*John Agard, playwright, poet and children's writer
*Waheed Alli (born 1964) media entrepreneur and politician, Indo-Guyanese father from Guyana
* Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, Director of SOAS, U ...
Artists
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Stanley Greaves
Stanley Greaves (born 1934)Rupert Roopnarine"Master Maker: Stanley Greaves" ''Caribbean Beat'', Issue 72 (March/April 2005). is a Guyanese painter and writer who is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished artists. Writing in 1995 at the tim ...
Aubrey Williams
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Shivnarine Chanderpaul
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Carl Hooper
Carl Llewelyn Hooper (born 15 December 1966) is a former Guyanese cricketer who captained the West Indies in Tests and ODIs. An all-rounder, he was a right-handed batsman and off-spin bowler, who came to prominence in the late 1980s in a sid ...
Clive Lloyd
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Nicolette Fernandes
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Rihanna
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Saint Jhn
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He is best known for the 2019 remix to ...
Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow
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Background
Critchlow was born in Georgetown, Guyana. Little is known of his early childhood but in his l ...
Quamina Gladstone
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Eusi Kwayana
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Shridath Ramphal
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Clement Rohee
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Matthew James Higgins
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Edgar Mittelholzer
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A. J. Seymour
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Biography
Born in Georgetown, British Guiana, to James Tudor Se ...
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Eric Walrond
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Martinique
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Athletes
* Claude Anelka
* Garry Bocaly
* Johnny Marajo
* Manuel Cabit
*Nicolas Anelka
*Peter Luccin
*Ronny Turiaf
* Steve Marlet
* Joan Hartock
* Mikaël Cantave
* Steeven Langil
*Sir Clement Arrindell
*Robert Bradshaw (politician), Robert Bradshaw
*Denzil Douglas
*Alexander Hamilton
*Timothy Harris
*Rawlins Lowndes
*Sir Lee Moore (politician), Lee Moore
*Sir Cuthbert Sebastian
*Sir Kennedy Simmonds
*Paul Southwell
Writers, intellectuals, filmmakers, and artists
*Joan Armatrading
*Imruh Bakari
*Christene Browne
*Burt Caesar
*Pogus Caesar
*Caryl Phillips
*Cicely Tyson
Saint Lucia
* See also List of Saint Lucians
*:English people of Saint Lucian descent, List of British people of Saint Lucian descent
Actors
* Marianne Jean-Baptiste
* Joseph Marcell
Artists
*Winston Branch
*Dunstan St. Omer
*Llewellyn Xavier
Athletes
* Jermain Defoe (St Lucian mother)
* Anton Ferdinand (St Lucian father)
* Les Ferdinand
* Rio Ferdinand (St Lucian father)
* Dominic Johnson (pole vaulter), Dominic Johnson
* Cyrille Regis
* Dave Regis
* John Regis (athlete), John Regis
* Darren Sammy
* Ken Charlery (St Lucian Parents)
Economists
* Sir Arthur Lewis (economist), Arthur Lewis
Musicians
* Shola Ama
* Nicole David
* Ronald "Boo" Hinkson
* Trevor Nelson
* Joey Badass
Political leaders
*Kenny Anthony
*Winston Cenac
*George Charles
*Sir John Compton
*Julian Hunte
*Sir Allen Montgomery Lewis, Allen Lewis
*Vaughan Lewis
*Sir Allan Louisy
*Dame Pearlette Louisy
*George Odlum
*Philip J. Pierre
Writers and intellectuals
*Derek Walcott
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Athletes
* Adonal Foyle
* Dan Gadzuric
* Sancho Lyttle
* Sophia Young
* Jesse Lingard
Musicians
* Kevin Lyttle
* Mattafix
Political leaders
*Sir Charles Antrobus
*Sir Frederick Ballantyne
*Milton Cato
*Joseph Chatoyer
*Arnhim Eustace
*Ralph Gonsalves
*Sir David Emmanuel Jack, David Jack
*Ebenezer Joshua
*Sir James F. Mitchell
*Sir Louis Straker
* Carlos Edwards
*Inshan Ali
*Stephen Ames
*Marvin Andrews
*Ian Bishop (cricketer, born 1967), Ian Bishop
*Marlon Black
*Ato Boldon
*George Bovell, George Bovell III
*Dwayne Bravo
*Darrel Brown
*Marc Burns
*Learie Constantine
*Hasely Crawford
*Rajindra Dhanraj
*Mervyn Dillon
*Ansil Elcock
*Daren Ganga
*Roger Gibbon
*Larry Gomes, Hilary Angelo "Larry" Gomes
*Gerry Gomez, Gerald "Gerry" Gomez
*Tony Gray (cricketer), Anthony Gray
*Shaka Hislop
*Clayton Ince
*Stern John
*Kenwyne Jones
*Brian Lara
*Russell Latapy
*Leonson Lewis
*Gus Logie, Augustine "Gus" Logie
*Clint Marcelle
*Wendell Mottley
*Deryck Murray
*Jerren Nixon
*Sonny Ramadhin
*Manny Ramjohn
*Dinanath Ramnarine
*Anthony Rougier
*Phil Simmons
*Jeffrey Stollmeyer
*Victor Stollmeyer
*Richard Thompson (athlete), Richard Thompson
*Evans Wise
*Dwight Yorke
* Levi García
Dancers
*Pearl Primus
Filmmakers
*Horace Ové
*Frances-Anne Solomon
Musicians
*Attila the Hun (calypsonian), Attila the Hun (Raymond Quevado) - calypsonian
*Winifred Atwell
*Denise "Saucy Wow" Belfon
*Inga "Foxy Brown (rapper), Foxy Brown" Marchand
*Chalkdust (Hollis Liverpool)
*Ken Marlon Charles (KMC)
*Maximus Dan
*Destra Garcia
*Bunji Garlin
*Haddaway
*Heather Headley
*Ray Holman, Raymond Holman
*Lord Invader
*Lord Kitchener (calypsonian), Lord Kitchener (Alwyn Roberts)
*Lord Melody
*Fay Ann Lyons-Alvarez
* Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco)
*Mighty Spoiler
*Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty) - rapper
*PartyNextDoor (Trinidadian father)
*Cardi B (Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar) (Trinidadian mother)
*Lennox Mohammed, Lennox "Bobby" Mohammed
*Machel Montano
*Billy Ocean
*Denise Plummer
*Sundar Popo
*Patrice Roberts
*David Rudder
*Adesh Samaroo
*Jit Samaroo
*Hazel Scott
*Lennox Sharpe, Len "Boogsie" Sharpe
*Lord Shorty/Ras Shorty I (Garfield Blackman)
*Black Stalin (Leroy Calliste)
*André Tanker
*Rakesh Yankaran
Political leaders
* Tubal Uriah Butler
*Rudranath Capildeo
*Simbhoonath Capildeo
*Stokely Carmichael (a.k.a. Kwame Ture)
*George Chambers
*Carson Charles
*Arthur Andrew Cipriani (A. A. Cipriani)
*Ellis Clarke, Sir Ellis Clarke
*Tracy Davidson-Celestine
*Winston Dookeran
*Knowlson Gift
*Albert Gomes
*Geddes Granger (Makandal Daaga)
*Gary Griffith
*Noor Hassanali
*Karl Hudson-Phillips
*A. P. T. James
*Roy Joseph
*Franklin Khan
*Fuad Khan
*Gillian Lucky
*Ramesh Maharaj
*Patrick Manning
*Bhadase Maraj, Bhadase Sagan Maraj
*Ralph Maraj
*Wendell Mottley
*George Padmore
*Basdeo Panday
*Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead
David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead (3 October 1913 – 18 December 1994) was a British Labour Party politician, general practitioner and political activist. Born in Grenada, in the Caribbean, he was the second peer of African descent t ...
*George Maxwell Richards
*Adrian Cola Rienzi (born Krishna Deonarine)
*A. N. R. Robinson
*Keith Rowley
*Austin "Jack" Warner
*Dr. Eric Williams
*Eric A. Williams
*Gerald Yetming
Writers and intellectuals
*Lloyd Best
*Neil Bissoondath
*Ralph de Boissière
*Dionne Brand
*Vahni Capildeo
*Stokely Carmichael
*Rosa Guy
*Merle Hodge
*C. L. R. James
*Earl Lovelace
*Mustapha Matura
*Shiva Naipaul
*V. S. Naipaul
*Lakshmi Persaud
*Kenneth Ramchand
*Arnold Rampersad
*Lall Sawh
*Samuel Selvon
*Eric Williams
United States Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands
Actors
*Kelsey Grammer
*Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Artists and architects
*Camille Pissarro
*Dr. William Thornton
Athletes
*Raja Bell
*Horace Clarke
*Midre Cummings
*Tim Duncan
*Julian Jackson (boxer), Julian Jackson
*Calvin Pickering
*Elmo Plaskett
* Trent Alexander-Arnold
* Tyler Adams
Doctors and scientists
*John Lettsom, Dr John C. Lettsom
*Morris Simmonds
Political leaders
*Edward Blyden
*Frank Rudolph Crosswaith
*Hubert Henry Harrison
*Casper Holstein
*Roy Innis
*D. Hamilton Jackson
*J. Raymond Jones
*William Alexander Leidesdorff
*T. McCants Stewart
*Terence Todman
*Denmark Vesey
Writers and intellectuals
*Barbara Christian
*Arthur Schomburg
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