Policitians

• Orlando Smith
  Orlando Smith
  D. Orlando Smith, OBE is the current Premier of the British Virgin Islands. He also formerly served as Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands from 2003 to 2007...
  
  
• H. Lavity Stoutt
  Lavity Stoutt
  Hamilton Lavity Stoutt was the first and longest serving Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands, winning four general elections and serving three non-consecutive terms of office from 1967 to 1971, again from 1981 to 1983 and again from 1986 until his death in 1995.Since Stoutt's death in...
  
  
• Cyril Romney
  Cyril Romney
  Cyril Brandtford Romney served as Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands from 1983 to 1986. He also served as a member of the Legislative Council of the British Virgin Islands from 1979 to 1995...
  
  
• Ralph T. O'Neal
  Ralph T. O'Neal
  Ralph Telford O'Neal, OBE is the former Premier of the British Virgin Islands, and is expected to be appointed as the leader of the opposition...
  
  
• Willard Wheatley
  Willard Wheatley
  Willard Wheatley served two consecutive terms as the Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands from 1971 to 1979. He was the leader of the United Party.-References:*...
  
  
• Terrance B. Lettsome
  Terrance B. Lettsome
  Terrance B. Lettsome was a politician for whom the main airport in the British Virgin Islands is named. Born Terrance Buckley Lettsome in Long Look to Francis Henry and Frances Lettsome, he was one of the Territory's longest-serving legislators and the ninth of 11 children.He married the former...
  
  

Historical figures

• Joost van Dyk
  Joost van Dyk
  Joost van Dyk was a Dutch privateer who was one of the earliest European settlers in the British Virgin Islands in the seventeenth century, and established the first permanent settlements within the Territory...
  
  
• Arthur William Hodge
  Arthur William Hodge
  Arthur William Hodge was a plantation farmer, member of the Council and Legislative Assembly, and slave owner in the British Virgin Islands, who was hanged on 8 May 1811, for the murder of one of his slaves...
  
  
• John C. Lettsome
  John C. Lettsome
  Dr. John Coakley Lettsome was an English physician and philanthropist born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands. He was born into one of the early Quaker settlements in the territory, and grew up to be an abolitionist...
  
  
• Samuel Nottingham
• William Thornton
  William Thornton
  Dr. William Thornton was a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol, an authentic polymath...