Listed below are prominent people from the Eastern Caribbean, the Guianas, and the Bahamas. Because of the close proximity of these countries, some people are listed under more than one heading. The following are not included: Cubans, Dominicans (from the Dominican Republic), Haitians, Jamaicans, or Puerto Ricans.

Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...

• List of British people of Antigua and Barbuda descent

Political leaders

• Sir Vere Cornwall Bird
• Lester Bird
  Lester Bird
  Lester Bryant Bird was the second Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 1994 to 2004 and a well-known athlete. He was chairman of the Antigua Labour Party from 1971 to 1993, then became Prime Minister when his father, Vere Bird, the previous Prime Minister, resigned.Bird was born on February...
  
  
• Sir James Carlisle
  James Carlisle
  Sir James Beethoven Carlisle, GCMG is the former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. Selected by Prime Minister, Vere Cornwall Bird on June 10, 1993 and appointed by the Queen of Antigua his term was terminated on June 30, 2007 - a period of 14 years...
  
  
• Tim Hector
  Tim Hector
  Leonard Tim Hector was a leftist Antiguan political leader and cricket administrator known for his opposition to the rule of the Bird family....
  
  
• Sir Wilfred Jacobs
  Wilfred Jacobs
  Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs was the first Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. He held this position from 1 November 1981 to 10 June 1993. He was replaced by James Carlisle. He was also the governor of Antigua and Barbuda from 1967 until that country gained independence in 1981 and he became...
  
  
• Baldwin Spencer
  Baldwin Spencer
  Winston Baldwin Spencer is the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. He has been Prime Minister since March 24, 2004, when his party, the United Progressive Party , which he had led as the opposition party for several years, won a parliamentary election...
  
  
• Sydney Walling
  Sydney Walling
  Sir Sydney Walling was an Antiguan cricketer who played for Antigua and Barbuda during the 1930’s and 1940’s.Despite playing for his national team he failed to ever make it onto the West Indies team...
  
  
• Sir George Walter
  George Walter
  Sir George Herbert Walter KNH 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:...
  
  

Actors and Comedians

• Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
  
• Anna Maria Horsford
  Anna Maria Horsford
  Anna Maria Horsford is an American television and film actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Thelma Frye on the sitcom Amen, her role as Craig Jones' mother, Betty Jones, in the 1995 comedy, Friday and the 2002 comedy Friday After Next and as security guard Dee on The Wayans Bros.,...
  
   - Actress (of Antiguan descent)
• Stacey Dash
  Stacey Dash
  Stacey Lauretta Dash is an American film and television actress.-Career:She made her first TV appearance in Farrell for the People starring Valerie Harper and a virtually unknown Ed O'Neill in 1982, which did not make it past its pilot episode...
  
   - Actress (of Barbudan and Arawak Indian descent)

Athletes

• Sir Issac Vivian Richards - Cricketer
• Curtly Ambrose
  Curtly Ambrose
  Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose is a former West Indian cricketer. His skill was as a right-arm fast bowler, especially in partnership with Courtney Walsh...
  
   - Cricketer
• Richie Richardson
  Richie Richardson
  Richard Benjamin Richardson is a retired West Indies cricketer and a former captain of the West Indian cricket team.Richardson was born in Five Islands Village, Antigua. He began his career with the Leewards Islands in 1982 as an opener and after his second season he was called up by the West...
  
   - Cricketer
• Andy Roberts - Cricketer
• Ledley King
  Ledley King
  Ledley Brenton King is an English footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur. He is the longest serving player at the club and captained Spurs since 2005. He is currently contracted to Tottenham until 2012...
  
   - Footballer
• Craig Speedy Claxton
  Speedy Claxton
  Craig "Speedy" Claxton is an American former professional basketball player. He is now a college scout with the Golden State Warriors.-College:...
  
   - Basketball player (of Antiguan descent)
• Maurice Hope
  Maurice Hope
  Maurice Hope is a former boxer from England, who was world Jr. Middleweight champion. Hope lived in Hackney most of his life, but now lives in his place of birth, Antigua. He represented Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.- Biography :Maurice Hope moved at a very...
  
   - Boxer
• Emile Heskey
  Emile Heskey
  Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey is an English footballer who plays for Aston Villa as a striker.Born in Leicester, Heskey started his career with hometown club Leicester City after progressing through their youth system, making his first team debut in 1995...
  
   - Football player (of Antiguan descent)
• Colin Kazim-Richards
  Colin Kazim-Richards
  Colin Kazim-Richards , commonly known as Colin Kâzım, Kâzım or Kâzım Kâzım, is an English-born Turkish footballer who plays for Galatasaray, and internationally for Turkey having qualified for Turkish nationality through his mother's ethnicity...
  
   - Football Player (of Antiguan descent)
• Carl Herrera
  Carl Herrera
  Carl Víctor Herrera Alleyne is a retired Venezuelan basketball player. A power forward, he was part of the Houston Rockets National Basketball Association championship teams of the mid-1990s....
  
   - Former NBA Basketball player

Political leaders

• Sir Milo Butler
  Milo Butler
  Milo Butler, GCMG was a Bahamian administrator. He was appointed as the first Bahamian Governor-General on the recommendation of Lynden Pindling, prime minister of The Bahamas and leader of the Progressive Liberal Party , of which he was also a member...
  
  
• Perry Christie
  Perry Christie
  Perry Gladstone Christie is a Bahamian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 2002 to 2007...
  
  
• Dame Ivy Dumont
  Ivy Dumont
  Dame Ivy Leona Dumont, DCMG was the sixth Governor-General of the Bahamas. She was a Bahamian hero.She was the first woman in the Bahamas to hold this office, from January 1, 2002 until November 30, 2005. She previously served as Education Minister from 1995 to 2001.-External links:*...
  
  
• Hubert Ingraham
  Hubert Ingraham
  Hubert Alexander Ingraham is the Prime Minister of the Bahamas. He first served as Prime Minister from August 1992 until May 2002 and became Prime Minister again in 2007. He is a member of the Free National Movement Party . The Rt. Hon. Hubert A...
  
  
• Fred Mitchell
  Fred Mitchell (Bahamas)
  Frederick Audley Mitchell Jr., , was foreign minister for The Bahamas from 2002 to May 4, 2007.- Education and career :...
  
  
• Sir Lynden Pindling
  Lynden Pindling
  Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling KCMG, OM, JP , is generally regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and then to independence on 10 July 1973. He served as the first black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as...
  
  
• Cynthia Pratt
• Sir Stafford Sands
  Stafford Sands
  Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands was a former finance minister of the Bahamas. He helped create the Bahamas' tourism industry....
  
  
• Brent Symonette
  Brent Symonette
  Brent Symonette is a prominent Bahamian businessman, a Member of Parliament for the St. Annes constituency, and the current Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Bahamas. He is a member of the Free National Movement ....
  
  
• Sir Roland Symonette
• Sir Orville Turnquest
• Tommy Turnquest

Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

See also Barbadian people

Barbadian people

Barbadians are people originating on the Caribbean island of Barbados whether they live there or in the Barbadian diaspora.Rihanna is by far the most popular Barbadian on the planet.-Diaspora:...

, People of Barbadian descent, List of Barbadian Americans, List of Barbadian Britons

Actors

• Mari Morrow
  Mari Morrow
  Mari Morrow is an American film and television actress and real estate agent.-Life and career:Morrow grew up in Miami, Florida. She made her television debut appearance in 1992 as Wendy Mallow on the popular television program, Baywatch. From 1995 to 1996, she portrayed Rachel Gannon on the ABC...
  
  
• Meagan Good
  Meagan Good
  Meagan Monique Good is an American film and television actress and occasional film producer. Beginning her career at the age of four, Good has appeared in numerous commercials, television shows, feature films, and music videos....
  
  
• Stacey Dash
  Stacey Dash
  Stacey Lauretta Dash is an American film and television actress.-Career:She made her first TV appearance in Farrell for the People starring Valerie Harper and a virtually unknown Ed O'Neill in 1982, which did not make it past its pilot episode...
  
   Bajan descendant
• LL Cool J
  LL Cool J
  James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J , is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor...
  
   Barbadian descendant
• Blythe Danner
  Blythe Danner
  Blythe Katherine Danner is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.-Early life:...
  
  
• Gwenyth Paltrow
• Cuba Gooding Jr.

Athletes

• Nigel Benn
  Nigel Benn
  Nigel Benn , known as "The Dark Destroyer", is a British former boxer who held world titles in the middleweight and super middleweight divisions....
  
  
• Andrea Blackett
  Andrea Blackett
  Andrea Blackett is a Barbadian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. She is also an assistant women's track coach at her alma mater, Rice University.-Education:...
  
  
• Anson Carter
  Anson Carter
  Anson Carter is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger of Barbadian descent who last played for HC Lugano in the Swiss Nationalliga A. In the past, he has played for eight different National Hockey League teams, most notably with the Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver...
  
   - NHL Player Born in Canada, whose parents are both from Barbados
• Joel Garner
  Joel Garner
  Joel Garner , also known as "Big Joel" or "Big Bird", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early '80s West Indies cricket teams....
  
  
• Joshua Gibson
  Joshua Gibson (footballer)
  Joshua "Josh" Gibson is an Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.Gibson is known for his tough play as a back-pocket defender. He was instantly recognisable because of his afro hairstyle before he cut it. Josh has direct links to Barbados,...
  
   - Aussie Rules footballer whose parents are from Barbados
• Gordon Greenidge
  Gordon Greenidge
  Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge MBE is a former member of the West Indies cricket team.Greenidge was an opening batsman for the West Indies. He began his Test career against India at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore in 1974 and continued playing internationally until 1991. He was half of the West...
  
  
• Sir Conrad Hunte
  Conrad Hunte
  Sir Conrad Cleophas Hunte, KA was a Barbadian cricketer. Hunte played 44 Test matches as an opening batsman for the West Indies.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Malcolm Marshall
  Malcolm Marshall
  By 1984 Marshall was seen as one of the finest bowlers in the world, and he demoralised England that summer, especially at Headingley, where he ran through the order in the second innings to finish with 7-53, despite having broken his thumb whilst fielding in the first innings...
  
  
• Earl Maynard
  Earl Maynard
  Earl Maynard is a bodybuilder and professional wrestler as well as a film actor, producer and director from Barbados.-Bodybuilding:Maynard won the 1964 Universe - Pro - NABBA bodybuilding competition - part of the Universe Championships, the 1965 Universe - IFBB - now the World Amateur Bodybuilding...
  
  
• Sir Garfield Sobers
  Garfield Sobers
  Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers AO, OCC is a former cricketer who captained West Indies. His first name of Garfield is variously abbreviated as Gary or Garry. He is widely regarded as one of cricket's greatest ever all-rounders, having excelled at all the essential skills of batting, bowling and...
  
  
• Obadele Thompson
  Obadele Thompson
  Obadele Thompson is a sprint athlete from Barbados;. In 2000, he became the first Olympic medalist from Barbados with a bronze medal in the 100m race.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sir Clyde Walcott
  Clyde Walcott
  Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, GCM was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18...
  
  
• Sir Everton Weekes
  Everton Weekes
  Sir Everton DeCourcy Weekes, KCMG, GCM, OBE is a leading former West Indian cricketer. Along with Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott, he formed what was known as "The Three Ws" of West Indian cricket.-Youth and early career:...
  
  
• Kevin Weekes
  Kevin Weekes
  Kevin Weekes is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who most recently played for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League . He is now a color commentator on Hockey Night in Canada, and a studio analyst for NHL on the Fly.- Player :Weekes' career began with the Owen...
  
   - NHL Goalie Born in Canada, whose parents are both from Barbados
• Sir Frank Worrell
  Frank Worrell
  Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell is sometimes referred to by his nickname of Tae and was a West Indies cricketer and Jamaican senator...
  
  
• Pierre Browne
  Pierre Browne
  Pierre Browne 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.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fred Brathwaite
  Fred Brathwaite
  Fredrick Brathwaite is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. He previously played in the National Hockey League for the Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Columbus Blue Jackets and Atlanta Thrashers...
  
   - NHL Goalie, born in Canada. His parents are both from Barbados.
• Ashley Cole
  Ashley Cole
  Ashley Cole is an Barbadian-English professional footballer who plays for Chelsea and the England national team. He plays as a left-back and has been named one of the best in the world....
  
   - English footballer whose parents are from Barbados.
• Paul Ince
  Paul Ince
  Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince is an English football manager and a former professional player. He has managed Blackburn Rovers, Milton Keynes Dons and Macclesfield Town...
  
   - English footballer and football Manager whose parents are from Christ Church Barbados.
• Walter Tull
  Walter Tull
  Walter Daniel John Tull was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town...
  
   - English footballer and later first British born black Army officer whose father was from Barbados.
• Theo Walcott
  Theo Walcott
  Theo James Walcott is an English footballer of Jamaican descent who plays for Arsenal and the England national team. Walcott is a product of the Southampton F.C. Academy. He is a striker who is usually deployed on the right wing as a wide forward to exploit his speed...
  
   - English footballer who plays for Arsenal and the England national team.
• George Headley
  George Headley
  George Alphonso Headley was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches, mostly before the Second World War. Considered one of the best batsmen to play for West Indies and one of the greatest cricketers of all time, Headley also represented Jamaica and played professional club cricket in...
  
  

Musicians

• Rihanna
  Rihanna
  Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...
  
   (Pop/R&B Singer)
• Carl Cox
  Carl Cox
  Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...
  
   (Producer, DJ)
• Grandmaster Flash
  Grandmaster Flash
  Joseph Saddler better known as King Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing....
  
  
• Arturo Tappin
  Arturo Tappin
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• Rupert Clarke
  Rupee (musician)
  Rupert Clarke , best known by his stage name Rupee, is a soca musician from Barbados. He was born in military barracks in Germany to a German mother and a Bajan father, who was serving in the British armed forces at the time. He later migrated to Barbados...
  
  
• Rayvon
  Rayvon
  Rayvon is a Barbadian reggae singer, known for his work with Shaggy.-Singles:*1992 "Big Up" *1994 "No Guns, No Murder" Hi.*1995 "In The Summertime" #5 UK...
  
  
• Mighty Gabby
  Mighty Gabby
  Anthony "Mighty Gabby" Carter is a legendary Barbadian calypsonian and a Cultural Ambassador for the island of Barbados. He is the youngest calypsonian to win the calypso crown in Barbados at age 19 in 1968 and went on to win the Calypso king title again in 1969, 1976, 1985, 1999, 2000 and again...
  
  
• Grynner
  Grynner
  Grynner is a popular calypsonian from Barbados. Like his compatriot Mighty Gabby, his songs often feature political and social commentary. He has been named the Barbados Crop Over Road March "Tune of the Crop" winner seven times .-External links:* ] site]* *...
  
  
• Alison Hinds
  Alison Hinds
  Alison Hinds is a Bajan female soca artist based in the Caribbean island of Barbados. She is one of the most popular soca singers in the world and has been given the nickname the "Queen of Soca".-Biography:...
  
  
• Jackie Opel
  Jackie Opel
  Born Dalton Sinclair Bishop in Bridgetown, Barbados, Jackie Opel possessed a rich, powerful voice with a high octave range. He was known as the "Jackie Wilson of Jamaica", and was a gifted dancer....
  
  
• Jaicko
  Jaicko
  Jaicko is a Bajan contemporary pop music singer/songwriter signed to Capitol Records. Born Jaicko Lawrence on August 6, 1991 in Christ Church, Barbados, Jaicko has been nominated for six Barbados Music Awards, including Best Pop Single, Pop/R&B Artist Of The Year, Songwriter Of The Year, and Album...
  
   (R&B)
• Red Plastic Bag
  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 nine times. Hailing from the eastern, rural Barbadian parish of Saint Philip, RPB became one of few performers from...
  
  
• Zeeteah Massiah
  Zeeteah Massiah
  Zeeteah Massiah is a singer who is known in the United States as the lead vocalist on the Arizona US No. 1 Billboard Dance Chart track "Slide On The Rhythm" from 1993. She has recorded several dance / house tracks throughout the years...
  
  
• Shontelle
  Shontelle
  Shontelle Layne , known professionally as Shontelle, is a Barbadian singer, and songwriter. She released her debut album Shontelligence in November 2008. Her sophomore album, No Gravity, was released in September 2010...
  
   - Pop/reggae/rnb/rock/alternative/dancehall/rap singer
• Hal Linton
  Hal Linton
  Hal Alexander Linton, 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 Universal Motown, following in the footsteps of other Barbadian international...
  
  
• Contone
  Contone
  Contone is a former municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.On 25 April 2010, the former municipalities of Caviano, Contone, Gerra Gambarogno, Indemini, Magadino, Piazzogna, San Nazzaro, Sant'Abbondio and Vira Gambarogno merged in the new municipality of...
  
  
• Rupee (musician)
  Rupee (musician)
  Rupert Clarke , best known by his stage name Rupee, is a soca musician from Barbados. He was born in military barracks in Germany to a German mother and a Bajan father, who was serving in the British armed forces at the time. He later migrated to Barbados...
  
  
• Doug E. Fresh
  Doug E. Fresh
  Douglas E. Davis , better known by the stage name Doug E. Fresh, is an American rapper, record producer, and beat boxer, also known as the Human Beat Box...
  
  
• Livvi Franc
  Livvi Franc
  Olivia Charlotte Waithe , better known by her stage name Livvi Franc, is an Barbadian British singer-songwriter.- Life and career :Franc was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England to an English mother and a Bajan father...
  
  
• Kelly Beckett
  Kelly Beckett
  Kelly Beckett is an English professional actress, musician, host, model, dancer and DJ. She is best known as a member of the musical group Paradiso Girls.-Early life:Beckett was born in Nottingham, England, of Barbadian heritage...
  
   From The Paradiso Girls
• Vita Chambers
  Vita Chambers
  Vita Chambers is a Canadian-Barbadian singer signed to SRP Records. She began her career by posting a video and four original songs on her MySpace page. Her music is inspired by the songs that her cousin sang to her as a child. Shortly after, she was signed to SRP/Universal Motown in June 2009...
  
  
• Cuba Gooding Sr.

Political leaders

• Sir Grantley Adams
• Sir Courtney Blackman
  Courtney Blackman
  Sir Courtney Blackman, KA is an economist, an international business consultant, and a diplomat from Barbados. In the past he served as a Governor to the Central Bank of Barbados, an Ambassador to the United Nations, an Ambassador to the United States, and a Permanent Representative for Barbados...
  
  
• J.M.G. Adams
• Owen Arthur
  Owen Arthur
  Owen Seymour Arthur, MP was the fifth Prime Minister of Barbados who was in office from 1994 to 2008 and is the current Leader of Opposition in Barbados. To date, he is the longest serving Barbadian Prime Minister....
  
  
• Errol Barrow
  Errol Barrow
  Errol Walton Barrow, PC, QC was a Caribbean statesman and the first Prime Minister of Barbados. Born into a family of political and civic activists in the parish of Saint Lucy and educated at Harrison College, his sister Dame Nita Barrow also became a social activist, humanitarian leader and later...
  
  
• Bussa
  Bussa
  Bussa was an African-born Barbadian slave who in 1816 led a slave uprising in Barbados popularly known as Bussa's Rebellion. Bussa was born a free man in Africa, possibly of Igbo origin, and was captured by African slave merchants, sold to the British, and brought to Barbados in the late 18th...
  
  
• Anne C. Cools
• Sir Clifford Husbands
  Clifford Husbands
  Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands, GCMG, KA, QC was the Governor-General of Barbados. He held this office from 1996, when he was appointed after the death of Dame Nita Barrow, until he retired on 31 October 2011.-External links:*...
  
  
• Clyde Mascoll
  Clyde Mascoll
  The Hon. Clyde Mascoll is a politician from Barbados. He is a former leader of the Democratic Labour Party . In 2003, Mascoll unsuccessfully led the party in an election against the ruling Barbados Labour Party...
  
  
• Dame Billie Miller
  Billie Miller
  Dame Billie Antoinette Miller, DA is a Barbadian politician.Miller is currently a member of the Barbados Labour Party...
  
  
• Richard B. Moore
  Richard B. Moore
  Richard Benjamin Moore was an African Caribbean civil rights activist and prominent communist.-Early years:RIchard Benjamin Moore was a Barbadian writer born on August 9, 1893 in Barbados, West Indies to Richard Henry Moore and Josephine Thorne Moore. In Barbados, the Richard Henry and Josephine...
  
  
• Charles O'Neale
• Clement Payne
  Clement Payne
  Clement Osbourne Payne was a Barbadian pioneer in the Caribbean trade union movement. By an act of Parliament in 1998, Payne was named as one of the ten National Heroes of Barbados....
  
  
• Erskine Sandiford
• David Thompson
  David Thompson (Barbadian politician)
  David John Howard Thompson, QC, MP was the sixth Prime Minister of Barbados from January 2008 until his death from pancreatic cancer on 23 October 2010....
  
  

Writers and intellectuals

• Edward Brathwaite
• Austin Clarke
  Austin Clarke
  Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St...
  
  
• Alan Emtage
  Alan Emtage
  Alan Emtage conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives....
  
  
• Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge
  Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge
  Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge was a writer on ancient history and law. He was the second son of the Rev Nathaniel Heath Greenidge, vicar of Boscobel Parish, St Peter and his wife Elizabeth Cragg Kellman, was born on the 22nd December 1865 at Belle Farm Estate, Barbados...
  
  
• Charles Wilton Wood Greenidge
  Charles Wilton Wood Greenidge
  Vice President Anti Slavery Society 1968 . Born on 10 January 1889, in the parish of St James, Barbados, youngest son of Charles Joseph Greenidge, member of the Colonial Parliament of Barbados, West Indies, by his second wife, Edith Marion Wood...
  
  
• George Lamming
  George Lamming
  George Lamming , is a novelist and poet. He was born in Barbados and teaches at Brown University.- Early life and education :George Lamming was born on June 8, 1927 in Carrington Village, Barbados, of mixed African and English parentage. After his mother married his stepfather, Lamming split his...
  
  
• Glenville Lovell
  Glenville Lovell
  Glenville Lovell is a writer, dancer, novelist and playwright.Lovell was born in a Chattel house in Parish Land, Christ Church, Barbados and grew up around rich storytelling among the sugar cane workers. His first novel, Fire in the Canes was published in 1995 and was met with critical acclaim...
  
  
• Ted Harris
  Ted Harris (pastor)
  Edward "Ted" Harris is a Swedish-Barbadian Doctor of Divinity, writer and pastor.Dr. Harris also leads workshops in existential questions, arranges retreats and pilgrimages...
  
   - a Sweden-based pastor, theologian and writer

Dominica

Dominica

Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...

• List of British people of Dominica descent

Political leaders

• Phyllis Shand Allfrey
  Phyllis Shand Allfrey
  Phyllis Byam Shand Allfrey was a West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean....
  
  
• Dame Eugenia Charles
  Eugenia Charles
  Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, DBE was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. She was Dominica's first, and to date only, female prime minister, as well as the nation's longest serving prime minister...
  
  
• Pierre Charles
  Pierre Charles
  Pierre Charles was Prime Minister of Dominica from 2000 to 2004 as well as Member of Parliament for Grand Bay, Dominica from 1985 until his death. He was born in Grand Bay in Saint Patrick parish. He began his high school education at the Dominica Grammar School and completed it at the St...
  
  
• Rosie Douglas
  Rosie Douglas
  Roosevelt Bernard Douglas was a Dominican politician. In 2000 he was prime minister of the Caribbean island for eight months, from 3 February 2000 until his death later that year....
  
  
• Edison James
  Edison James
  Edison Chenfil James was the prime minister of Dominica from June 14, 1995 to February 3, 2000 as well as the Member of Parliament for the Marigot constituency from 1990. He graduated from the Dominica Grammar School...
  
  
• Patrick R. John
• Edward Oliver LeBlanc
  Edward Oliver LeBlanc
  Edward Oliver Le Blanc was a Dominican politician.Le Blanc was born in Vieille Case. He joined the Dominica Labour Party in 1957. He joined the government of the Federation of the West Indies in Trinidad in 1960, but returned to Dominica later that year to become the leader of his party...
  
  
• Nicholas Liverpool
  Nicholas Liverpool
  Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool is a Dominican politician and jurist who has served as the sixth President of Dominica since October 2, 2003....
  
  
• Sir Clarence Seignoret
  Clarence Seignoret
  Sir Clarence Henry Augustus Seignoret, GCB, COL, KtM, OSJ, OBE was the third President of Dominica....
  
  
• Oliver Seraphin
• Vernon Shaw
  Vernon Shaw
  Vernon Lorden Shaw was the fifth President of Dominica. He is an alumnus of the Dominica Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford. He was a career civil servant, rising to the post of Cabinet Secretary in 1977, and retiring in 1990. He was elected to a five-year term by the House of Assembly on...
  
  
• Roosevelt Skerrit
  Roosevelt Skerrit
  Roosevelt Skerrit is a Dominican politician who has been Prime Minister of Dominica since 2004; he has also been the Member of Parliament for the Vieille Case constituency since 2000...
  
  
• Crispin Sorhaindo
  Crispin Sorhaindo
  Crispin Anselm Sorhaindo OBE was the fourth President of Dominica. He served from October 25, 1993 until October 5, 1998....
  
  

Political leaders

• Justin Catayée
  Justin Catayée
  Justin Catayée was a French politician who served in the French National Assembly from 1958–1962 and was the founder of the Guianese Socialist Party and hero of World War II.-References:*...
  
  
• Félix Éboué
  Félix Éboué
  Félix Adolphe Éboué was a Black French colonial administrator and Free French leader. He was the first black French man appointed to high post in the French colonies, when appointed as Governor of Guadeloupe in 1936...
  
  
• Gaston Monnerville
  Gaston Monnerville
  Gaston Monnerville was a French politician and lawyer.The grandson of a slave, he grew up in French Guiana and went to Toulouse to complete his studies. A brilliant student, he became a lawyer in 1918 and worked with César Campinchi, a lawyer who later became an influential politician...
  
  
• Victor Schoelcher
  Victor Schoelcher
  Victor Schoelcher was a French abolitionist writer in the 19th century and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery, and formed an abolition society in 1834...
  
  
• Léon Bertrand
  Léon Bertrand
  Léon Bertrand is a French politician. Previously a professor of physics and biology, he is Mayor of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni since 1983...
  
  
• Christiane Taubira
  Christiane Taubira
  Christiane Taubira or Christiane Taubira-Delannon is a French politician. President of her party Walwari, she has served as a deputy at the French National Assembly since 1993, and was re-elected in 1997. Non-affiliated in 1993, she then voted for the investiture of the conservative Edouard...
  
  

Grenada

Grenada

Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...

• List of British people of Grenadian descent

Political leaders

• Jean Augustine
  Jean Augustine
  Jean Augustine, PC, CM is a former Canadian politician.From 1993 to 2005, Augustine was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Etobicoke—Lakeshore. She is a former member of Cabinet, and a former school principal...
  
  
• Maurice Bishop
  Maurice Bishop
  Maurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary who seized power in a coup in 1979 from Eric Gairy and served as Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown in another coup by Bernard Coard, a member of his own...
  
  
• Herbert A. Blaize
• Nicholas Brathwaite
  Nicholas Brathwaite
  Sir Nicholas Alexander Brathwaite was the prime minister of Grenada from 1983 to 1984 and from 1990 to 1995.Brathwaite was born in Carriacou, Grenada. Following the 1983 invasion of Grenada, Brathwaite, a member of the National Democratic Congress, was appointed by Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon...
  
  
• Tubal Uriah Butler
  Tubal Uriah Butler
  Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler , was a Grenadian-born Spiritual Baptist preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago...
  
  
• Bernard Coard
  Bernard Coard
  Winston Bernard Coard was Grenadian Deputy Prime Minister in the People's Revolutionary Government of the New Jewel Movement, who placed Maurice Bishop under house arrest and took control of the government on 14 October 1983....
  
  
• Henri Christophe
  Henri Christophe
  Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution, winning independence from France in 1804. On 17 February 1807, after the creation of a separate nation in the north, Christophe was elected President of the State of Haiti...
  
  
• Eric Gairy
  Eric Gairy
  Sir Eric Matthew Gairy was the first Prime Minister of Grenada, serving from Grenada`s independence in 1974 until his overthrow in a coup by Maurice Bishop in 1979...
  
  
• Keith Mitchell
  Keith Mitchell
  Keith Claudius Mitchell is a Grenadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Grenada from 1995 to 2008. He was the longest serving Prime Minister Grenada has ever had, serving just over 13 years as Prime Minister...
  
  
• David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead
  David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead
  David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead was a civil rights campaigner and was one of the first persons of African descent to sit in the British House of Lords.-Early life:...
  
  
• Malcolm X
  Malcolm X
  Malcolm X , born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its...
  
  
• David Paterson
  David Paterson
  David Alexander Paterson is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of New York, from 2008 to 2010. During his tenure he was the first governor of New York of African American heritage and also the second legally blind governor of any U.S. state after Bob C. Riley, who was Acting...
  
  (Grenadian grandfather)

Athletes

• Lewis Hamilton
  Lewis Hamilton
  Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the McLaren team. He was the Formula One World Champion.Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire...
  
   - F1 driver and World Champion 2007/2008 season
• Jason Roberts
  Jason Roberts (footballer)
  Jason Andre Davis Roberts MBE is an English-born Grenadian footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Blackburn Rovers. Born in Park Royal, London, Roberts began playing football from an early age, and spent time in the youth academies at several professional clubs, but was not...
  
   - footballer currently playing for Blackburn Rovers
• Bradley Wright-Phillips
  Bradley Wright-Phillips
  Bradley Edward Wright-Phillips is an English footballer who plays for Charlton Athletic as a striker.He is the son of former Arsenal and England player Ian Wright, and younger half-brother to Queens Park Rangers and England international Shaun Wright-Phillips; Ian's adopted son, with whom he used...
  
   - footballer currently playing for Charlton Athletic
  Charlton Athletic F.C.
  Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...
  
   and half brother of Shaun Wright-Phillips
  Shaun Wright-Phillips
  Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips is an English footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers and the England national team. He is the adopted son of former England international, Ian Wright and the half-brother of fellow professional football player Bradley Wright-Phillips...
  
  
• Shaun Wright-Phillips
  Shaun Wright-Phillips
  Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips is an English footballer who plays for Queens Park Rangers and the England national team. He is the adopted son of former England international, Ian Wright and the half-brother of fellow professional football player Bradley Wright-Phillips...
  
   - footballer currently playing for Manchester City and half brother of Bradley Wright-Phillips
  Bradley Wright-Phillips
  Bradley Edward Wright-Phillips is an English footballer who plays for Charlton Athletic as a striker.He is the son of former Arsenal and England player Ian Wright, and younger half-brother to Queens Park Rangers and England international Shaun Wright-Phillips; Ian's adopted son, with whom he used...
  
  

Athletes

• Lilian Thuram
  Lilian Thuram
  Lilian Thuram is a retired professional football defender and is the most capped player in the history of the France national team, and one of the twenty most capped players of all time.He played at the top flight in France, Italy and Spain for over 15 seasons, including ten in the Serie A with both...
  
  
• Christine Arron
• Marie-José Pérec
  Marie-José Pérec
  Marie-José Pérec is a French athlete, specialised in the 200 and 400 m, and a triple Olympic champion....
  
  
• Louis Saha
  Louis Saha
  Louis Laurent Saha is a French footballer of Guadelupian origin who currently plays as a forward for Everton FC in the Premier League and the France national team. A former scholar at the Clairefontaine football academy, he started his career at Metz before playing on loan at Newcastle United...
  
  
• William Gallas
  William Gallas
  William Eric Gallas is a French footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur.Gallas began his career in France, before being signed by English club Chelsea in 2001. He transferred to rivals Arsenal as part of an exchange deal in 2006...
  
  
• Éric Abidal
  Éric Abidal
  Éric Sylvain Abidal is a French footballer who plays as a left or central defender for FC Barcelona and the France national team.-Club career:...
  
  
• Teddy Riner
  Teddy Riner
  Teddy Riner is a French judoka. He's and and has been given the nickames Teddy Bear and Teddy Winner. At 18 years and 5 months Teddy Riner became the youngest world champion of the history of his sport. To date, he holds an unmatched record of six world titles obtained in the +100kg, Men's Team...
  
  
• Laura Flessel-Colovic
  Laura Flessel-Colovic
  Laura Flessel-Colovic is a French épée fencer. She is currently number one on the all-time list of French female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners with five medals, two more than...
  
  
• Marius Trésor
  Marius Trésor
  Marius Trésor is a retired football defender from France, who was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers....
  
  
• Jocelyn Angloma
  Jocelyn Angloma
  Jocelyn Angloma is a French-Guadeloupean football defender currently playing for a Guadeloupean club, L'Etoile de Morne-à-l'Eau.He is fluent in French, Creole patois, English, Italian and Spanish.- Career :...
  
  
• Mickaël Piétrus
  Mickaël Piétrus
  Mickaël Piétrus is a Caribbean-French professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the NBA. He is listed at 6'6", 215 pounds and plays both the small forward and shooting guard positions...
  
  
• Jim Bilba
  Jim Bilba
  Jim Bilba is a basketball player from France. He won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with the Men's National Team.Currently, Bilba is the assistant coach for the French basketball team, Cholet Basket....
  
  
• Pascal Chimbonda
  Pascal Chimbonda
  Pascal Chimbonda is a French footballer who currently plays for Doncaster Rovers, having been released early from a short term deal by Queens Park Rangers...
  
  
• Jérôme Moïso
  Jérome Moïso
  Jérôme Moïso is a French professional basketball player.-College career:He played college basketball at UCLA with the UCLA Bruins.-Pro career:...
  
  
• Thierry Henry
  Thierry Henry
  Thierry Daniel Henry is a French professional footballer who plays for the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.Henry was born in Les Ulis, Essonne where he played for an array of local sides as a youngster and showed great promise as a goal-scorer. He was spotted by AS Monaco in 1990 and...
  
  
• Therry Racon
  Therry Racon
  Therry Norbert Racon is a French footballer. He plays as a midfielder for Millwall.-Career:Born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Val-de-Marne, Racon joined Charlton Athletic in August 2007, before making his debut for the club later in month against Stockport County.On 20 March 2008, it was revealed...
  
  

Political leaders

• Louis Delgrès
  Louis Delgrès
  Louis Delgrès was a mulatto leader of the movement in Guadeloupe resisting reoccupation by Napoleonic France in 1802...
  
  
• Victor Hugues
  Victor Hugues
  Victor Hugues was a French politician and colonial administrator during the French Revolution, who governed Guadeloupe from 1794 to 1798, emancipating the island's slaves under orders from the National Convention.-Early life and appointment:Hugues was born in Marseille's salesmen family and was a...
  
  
• Patrick Reason
• Victorin Lurel
  Victorin Lurel
  Victorin Lurel is a politician from Guadeloupe who was elected to the French National Assembly in 2002 and is also the current head of the Regional council of the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. His term began on 22 April 2004 and got renewed on 14 March 2010.-External links:...
  
  
• Stéphane Pocrain
  Stéphane Pocrain
  Stéphane Pocrain is French politician and TV journalist.He was born in Paris, on November 27, 1972. His parents came from Guadeloupe.He was candidate for an ecologist movement for in 2002's elections in Orsay....
  
  

Writers and intellectuals

• Jan Carew
  Jan Carew
  Jan Rynveld Carew is a novelist, playwright, poet and educator. His works, diverse in their forms and multifaceted, makes of Jan Carew an important intellectual of the Caribbean world...
  
  
• Martin Carter
  Martin Carter
  Martin Wylde Carter was a Guyanese poet, who has been compared in stature to W. B. Yeats and Pablo Neruda, as well as being called "the most Caribbean of Caribbean poets". Of mixed European, East Indian, and African descent, he began publishing in 1950 in Thunder Martin Wylde Carter (June 7,...
  
  
• Wilson Harris
  Wilson Harris
  Sir Theodore Wilson Harris is a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but has since become a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging.Wilson Harris was born in New Amsterdam in what was then...
  
  
• Edgar Mittelholzer
  Edgar Mittelholzer
  Edgar Mittelholzer was a Guyanese novelist. Born in New Amsterdam, the country's second largest town, he was the son of William Austin Mittelholzer and his wife Rosamond Mabel, née Leblanc...
  
  
• Walter Rodney
  Walter Rodney
  Walter Rodney was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.-Career:...
  
  
• A.J. Seymour
• Clive Thomas
  Clive Thomas
  Clive Thomas is a Welsh former football referee, who operated in the English Football League and for FIFA during his career. He came from Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley.-Career:...
  
  
• Eric Walrond
  Eric D. Walrond
  Eric Derwent Walrond was an African-American Harlem Renaissance writer, who made a lasting contribution to literature; his work still being in print today as a classic of its era...
  
  

Political leaders

• Brindley Benn
  Brindley Benn
  Brindley Horatio Benn, CCH was a teacher, choirmaster, politician, and one of the key leaders of the Guyanese independence movement. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of the first elected government of Guyana....
  
  
• Forbes Burnham
  Forbes Burnham
  Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham was the leader of Guyana from 1964 until his death, first as Premier from 1964 to 1966, then as the Prime Minister from 1966 to 1980 and finally as President from 1980 to 1985....
  
  
• Arthur Chung
  Arthur Chung
  Arthur Chung was a President of Guyana from 1970 to 1980. He was the first ethnic Chinese head of state in a non-Asian country...
  
  
• Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow
  Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow
  Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow was born in Georgetown, Guyana in 1884. Little is known of his early childhood but in his late teens, after leaving school, he was a dock worker. At the age of 20 he began his struggle for the interest of waterfront workers' wage negotiations and rights. His struggle...
  
  
• Cuffy
  Cuffy (person)
  Cuffy, or Kofi , was an Akan person who was captured in his native West Africa and sold into slavery to work in the plantations of the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana. He became famous because in 1763 he led a revolt of more than 2,500 slaves against the colony regime...
  
  
• Jack Gladstone
  Jack Gladstone
  Jack Gladstone was a Guyanese slave who led the Demerara Slave rebellion of 1823, one of the biggest slave revolts in the British Colonies.He was tried after the rebellion, and was deported.- Biography :...
  
  
• Quamina Gladstone
• Bernie Grant
  Bernie Grant
  Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant , known simply as Bernie Grant, was a politician in the United Kingdom, and was Labour member of Parliament for Tottenham at the time of his death....
  
  
• Sam Hinds
  Sam Hinds
  Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds is a Guyanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Guyana almost continuously since 1992...
  
  
• Desmond Hoyte
  Desmond Hoyte
  Hugh Desmond Hoyte was a Guyanese politician. He served as Prime Minister of Guyana from 1984 to 1985 and President of Guyana from 1985 until 1992.He was born in Guyana's capital, Georgetown...
  
  
• Cheddi Jagan
  Cheddi Jagan
  Cheddi Berret Jagan was a Guyanese politician who was first elected Chief Minister in 1953 and later Premier of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964, prior to independence. He later served as President of Guyana from 1992 to 1997.- Biography :The son of ethnic Indian sugar plantation workers, Jagan...
  
  
• Janet Jagan
  Janet Jagan
  Janet Jagan was an American-born socialist politician who was President of Guyana from December 19, 1997, to August 11, 1999. She previously served as Prime Minister of Guyana from March 17, 1997, to December 19, 1997....
  
  
• Bharrat Jagdeo
  Bharrat Jagdeo
  Bharrat Jagdeo is a Guyanese politician who has been President of Guyana since 11 August 1999. Prior to his presidency he was Minister of Finance and became President after Janet Jagan resigned for health reasons; subsequently he won two elections, in 2001 and 2006.Jagdeo was born in Unity Village...
  
  
• Eusi Kwayana
  Eusi Kwayana
  Eusi Kwayana, born Sydney King, is a Guyanese politician. A cabinet minister in the People's Progressive Party government of 1953, the British Army detained him in 1954...
  
  
• Sir Shridath Ramphal
  Shridath Ramphal
  Sir Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal, GCMG, AC, ONZ, OE, OM, QC, FRSA served as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975-1990. Ramphal previously served as the Foreign Minister of Guyana from 1972-1975...
  
  
• Clement Rohee
  Clement Rohee
  Clement James Rohee is a Guyanese politician. He has been a high-ranking government minister since the People's Progressive Party gained power in 1992....
  
  
• Rupert Roopnaraine
  Rupert Roopnaraine
  Rupert Roopnaraine was born on 31 January 1943 in Kitty, Georgetown, Guyana. He won a scholarship to Queen's College in 1954 where he excelled in cricket, where he captained the team and represented Demerara in the Inter-county Cricket Finals. In 1962 he was awarded a Guyana scholarship to attend...
  
  
• Moses Nagamootoo
  Moses Nagamootoo
  Moses Nagamootoo ? is a writer and politician from Guyana. He was born in the village of Whim. He has served in the Parliament of Guyana, and was Minister of Information....
  
  
• Reepu Daman Persaud
  Reepu Daman Persaud
  Reepu Daman Persaud is the former Agricultural minister of Guyana.-External links:* Hinduism Today - January 2000...
  
  

Musicians

• Eddy Grant
  Eddy Grant
  Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.- Life and career :When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to London, UK, where he settled. He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park...
  
  
• Red Cafe
  Red Cafe
  Jermaine Denny , better known as his stage name Red Café, is an American rapper. He was born to Afro-Guyanese parents and is signed to Akon's Konvict Muzik, Diddy's Bad Boy Records and DJ Clue's Desert Storm label.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rihanna Fenty, (Guyanese mother)
• Melanie Fiona
  Melanie Fiona
  Melanie Fiona Hallim is a Canadian R&B and Grammy-nominated recording artist from Toronto, Ontario. She was born to Guyanese immigrant parents of African, Indian, and Portuguese descent and grew up in the inner city of Toronto. Living in a music filled household, Fiona says she always knew music...
  
  

Athletes

• Clive Lloyd
  Clive Lloyd
  Clive Hubert Lloyd CBE AO is a former West Indies cricketer. He captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s...
  
  
• Lance Gibbs
  Lance Gibbs
  Lancelot Richard Gibbs is a former West Indies cricketer, one of the most successful spin bowlers in Test cricket history. He took 309 Test wickets, only the second player to pass 300, the first spinner to pass that milestone, and had an exceptional economy rate of under two runs per over...
  
  
• Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan
• Shivnarine Chanderpaul
  Shivnarine Chanderpaul
  Shivnarine "Shiv" Chanderpaul is a cricketer, and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He is the first Indo-Caribbean in the West Indies team to play 100 Tests for the West Indies and has captained them in 14 Tests and 16 One Day Internationals...
  
  
• Rohan Bholalall Kanhai
• Carl Hooper
  Carl Hooper
  Carl Llewellyn Hooper is a former West Indian cricket player and captain.-Career:He was a right-handed batsman and off-spin bowler, who came to prominence in the late 1980s in a side that included such players as Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Malcolm Marshall and Courtney Walsh and represented...
  
  

Writers and intellectuals

• Aimé Césaire
  Aimé Césaire
  Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".-Student, educator, and poet:...
  
  
• Patrick Chamoiseau
  Patrick Chamoiseau
  Patrick Chamoiseau is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité movement.-Biography:Chamoiseau was born on December 3, 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where he currently resides. After he studied law in Paris he returned to Martinique inspired by Édouard Glissant to...
  
  
• Raphaël Confiant
  Raphaël Confiant
  Raphaël Confiant is a Martinican writer known for his literary commitment towards Creole literature.-Biography:Raphaël Confiant was born in 1951 in Le Lorrain, Martinique. He studied English and Political Science at the University of Aix-Marseille...
  
  
• Frantz Fanon
  Frantz Fanon
  Frantz Fanon was a Martiniquo-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism...
  
  
• Édouard Glissant
  Édouard Glissant
  Édouard Glissant was a Martinican writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary.-Life:...
  
  
• René Maran
  René Maran
  René Maran was a French Guyanese poet and novelist, and the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt .-Biography:...
  
  
• Joseph Zobel
  Joseph Zobel
  Joseph Zobel is the author of several novels and short-stories in which social issues are at the forefront...
  
  

Political leaders

• Betico Croes
  Betico Croes
  Gilberto François "Betico" Croes was an Aruban political activist who was a proponent of Aruba's separation from the rest of the Netherlands Antilles. This eventually occurred, but Croes lapsed into a coma after an accident on 31 December 1985 and was never conscious to see his accomplishment...
  
  
• Daniel De Leon
  Daniel De Leon
  Daniel DeLeon was an American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. He is regarded as the forefather of the idea of revolutionary industrial unionism and was the leading figure in the Socialist Labor Party of America from 1890 until the time of...
  
  
• Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez
  Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez
  Dr. Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez was the first Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles. Da Costa Gomez, a lawyer by training, was a member of the Roman Catholic Party before founding the National People's Party in the 1940s. Da Costa Gomez was Prime Minister at the head of a coalition...
  
  
• Ben Komproe
  Ben Komproe
  Benard Komproe was Minister of Justice for the Netherlands Antilles. He also served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles for a few months in 2003....
  
  
• Maria Liberia-Peters
• Claude Wathey
  Claude Wathey
  Claude Wathey , was a prominent politician of the Democratic Party from the island of Sint Maarten. He was knighted by the Dutch Crown for his political longevity...
  
  

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis

The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis , located in the Leeward Islands, is a federal two-island nation in the West Indies. It is the smallest sovereign state in the Americas, in both area and population....

• List of British people of Saint Kitts and Nevis descent

Writers / Intellectuals / Filmmakers / Artists

• Christene Browne
  Christene Browne
  Christene Browne is the first black woman to write, produce and direct a feature film in Canada.Born in St. Kitts, Browne moved with her family to Canada in 1970. She spent her formative years in Regent Park, Canada’s oldest and largest low income community. It was in this Toronto community...
  
  
• Caryl Phillips
  Caryl Phillips
  Caryl Phillips is a British writer with a Caribbean background, best known as a novelist. He is now professor at Yale University and a visiting professor at Barnard College of Columbia University.-Life:...
  
  
• Pogus Caesar
  Pogus Caesar
  Pogus Caesar is a British artist, television producer and director. He was born in St Kitts, West Indies, and grew up in Birmingham, England.-History:...
  
  
• Cicely Tyson
  Cicely Tyson
  Cicely Tyson is an American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for her Oscar-nominated role in the film Sounder and the television movies The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots....
  
  
• Joan Armatrading
  Joan Armatrading
  Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE is a British singer, songwriter and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee and has been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist...
  
  

Political leaders

• Sir Clement Arrindell
  Clement Arrindell
  Sir Clement Athelston Arrindell GCMG GCVO QC was Governor of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 1981-83 and Governor-General upon the island's independence in 1983...
  
  
• Robert Bradshaw
• Denzil Douglas
  Denzil Douglas
  Denzil Llewellyn Douglas has been Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis since July 1995. He leads the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party. He is the longest serving Prime Minister Saint Kitts and Nevis has ever had....
  
  
• Alexander Hamilton
  Alexander Hamilton
  Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury...
  
  
• Rawlins Lowndes
  Rawlins Lowndes
  Rawlins Lowndes was an American lawyer and politician from South Carolina. His sons, Thomas and William Lowndes, both served in the U.S. Congress....
  
  
• Sir Lee Moore
• Sir Cuthbert Sebastian
  Cuthbert Sebastian
  Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian, GCMG, OBE , is the Governor-General of St. Kitts and Nevis. He was appointed Governor-General in 1995 and was sworn in on 1 January 1996....
  
  
• Sir Kennedy Simmonds
  Kennedy Simmonds
  Dr. the Right Honourable Sir Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds was a founding member of the People's Action Movement party. He was Premier of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 21 February 1980, until the twin-island state gained independence from the United Kingdom on 19 September 1983. Upon Independence, he...
  
  
• Paul Southwell
  Paul Southwell
  Caleb Azariah Paul Southwell was the second Premier and first Chief Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean. He also worked as a teacher, police officer, and trade unionist.- Early life and career :...
  
  

Athletes

• Kim Collins
  Kim Collins
  Kim Collins is a track and field sprinter from the Caribbean nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. In 2003, he became the World Champion in the 100 m. He represented his country at the Summer Olympics on four occasions, from 1996 to 2008, and was the country's first athlete to ever reach an event...
  
  
• Keith Arthurton
  Keith Arthurton
  Keith Lloyd Thomas Arthurton is a former West Indian cricketer. Having become only the third player to hail from Nevis, the left-arm unorthodox bowler played in 33 Tests between July 1988 and August 1995 and continued playing in one day matches until May 1999. However, he never recovered from the...
  
  
• Stuart Williams
• Derick Parry
  Derick Parry
  Derick Recaldo Parry played 12 Tests and six One Day Internationals for the West Indies....
  
  

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...

• List of British people of Saint Lucian descent

Political leaders

• Kenny Anthony
  Kenny Anthony
  Kenny Davis Anthony is a Saint Lucian politician who was the fifth Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 1997 to 2006. As leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party, he was Leader of the Opposition from 2006 to 2011 and returned to office as Prime Minister on 30 November 2011 following the 2011...
  
  
• Winston Cenac
  Winston Cenac
  Winston Francis Cenac, Q.C. was a civil servant and politician from Saint Lucia. He was the third elected Prime Minister of independent Saint Lucia....
  
  
• George Charles
  George Charles
  Sir George Frederick Lawrence Charles is a former trade unionist, politician, founder of the Saint Lucia Labour Party and Chief Minister of Saint Lucia . He is a recipient of Saint Lucia's second-highest honour, the St. Lucia Cross , and was knighted in 1988 by Queen Elizabeth II. George F. L...
  
  
• Sir John Compton
  John Compton
  Sir John George Melvin Compton, KBE, PC was the first, fifth and eighth Prime Minister of Saint Lucia in 1979, from 1982 to 1996, and from 2006 until his death. Compton, who previously led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, was the country's first leader when it became independent...
  
  
• Julian Hunte
  Julian Hunte
  Dr. Julian Robert Hunte, OBE was the foreign minister of Saint Lucia from April 2001 to 26 October 2004, when he was succeeded by Petrus Compton...
  
  
• Sir Allen Lewis
• Vaughan Lewis
  Vaughan Lewis
  Vaughan Lewis is a Saint Lucian politician and a former member of the ruling United Workers' Party . He served for a brief period as the fourth Prime Ministers of Saint Lucia following the resignation of John Compton. Lewis, a former director of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States,...
  
  
• Sir Allan Louisy
  Allan Louisy
  Sir Allan Fitzgerald Laurent Louisy, KCMG, PC was the second prime minister of independent St Lucia, following Sir John Compton in office...
  
  
• Dame Pearlette Louisy
  Pearlette Louisy
  Dame Pearlette Louisy, GCMG is the Governor-General of Saint Lucia. She is the first woman to hold this office, which she was sworn into on 19 September 1997....
  
  
• George Odlum
  George Odlum
  George William Odlum was a Saint Lucian left-wing politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Born in Castries, Odlum studied at Bristol University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom before returning to Saint Lucia as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Trade...
  
  

Political leaders

• Sir Charles Antrobus
  Charles Antrobus
  Sir Charles James Antrobus, GCMG, OBE was the Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines from June 1, 1996, until his death. He died in Toronto and was temporarily replaced by Monica Dacon....
  
  
• Sir Frederick Ballantyne
  Frederick Ballantyne
  Sir Frederick Nathaniel Ballantyne, GCMG is the Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He has been in this office since 2 September 2002, and was knighted in November. He replaced Monica Dacon who had been interim Governor General after the death of Charles Antrobus.-External links:*...
  
  
• Milton Cato
  Milton Cato
  Robert Milton Cato was the first Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and also held the offices Premier of Saint Vincent and Chief Minister of Saint Vincent before independence...
  
  
• Joseph Chatoyer
  Joseph Chatoyer
  Joseph Chatoyer was a Garifuna chief who led a revolt against the British colonial government of Saint Vincent in 1795. He is now considered a national hero of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines also Belize and other Carib countries he fought for during the war...
  
  
• Arnhim Eustace
  Arnhim Eustace
  Arnhim Ulric Eustace is a Vincentian politician and economist, who was the third Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and is the current leader of the New Democratic Party ....
  
  
• Ralph Gonsalves
  Ralph Gonsalves
  Ralph Everard Gonsalves , also known as "Comrade Ralph", is the fourth and current Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and leader of the Unity Labour Party . Gonsalves became Prime Minister after his party won a majority government in the 2001 general election...
  
  
• Sir David Jack
  David Jack
  David Bone Nightingale Jack was an English footballer, the first player ever to score at Wembley, and the first footballer in the world to be transferred for more than £10,000...
  
  
• Ebenezer Joshua
  Ebenezer Joshua
  Ebenezer Theodore Joshua was a Vincentian politician and the first chief minister of Saint Vincent from 1956 to 1967.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Sir James F. Mitchell
• Sir Louis Straker
  Louis Straker
  Sir Louis Hilton Straker, KCMG is the deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. He has been deputy prime minister since 2001. He was the minister of foreign affairs, commerce and trade from 2001 to May 17, 2005 when he was transferred to the ministry of...
  
  

Athletes

• Adonal Foyle
  Adonal Foyle
  Adonal David Foyle is a retired Vincentian-American former professional basketball center. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors with the eighth overall selection of the 1997 NBA Draft. He played ten seasons with the team until the team bought out his contract on August 13, 2007. At the...
  
  
• Sancho Lyttle
  Sancho Lyttle
  Sancho Lyttle is a professional basketball player born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, with Spanish citizenship. She is currently a power forward in the WNBA for the Atlanta Dream. Through her career, she has scored 1,505 points, collected 1,041 rebounds, and has 200 assists, 242 steals, and...
  
  
• Sophia Young
  Sophia Young
  Sophia Yvonne Ashley Young is a Vincentian professional women's basketball player with the San Antonio Silver Stars in the WNBA...
  
  
• John Gardiner
  John Gardiner
  John Gardiner may refer to:* John Gardiner * John Sylvester John Gardiner * John Gardiner , banker and grazier* John Gardiner , Scottish footballer...
  
  

Athletes

• Patrick Kluivert
  Patrick Kluivert
  Patrick Stephan Kluivert is a former Dutch footballer, currently head coach of the youth side of FC Twente. He played as a striker for AFC Ajax, A.C. Milan, FC Barcelona, Newcastle United, Valencia CF, PSV Eindhoven, and Lille OSC. Kluivert played for the Dutch national team from 1994 to 2004. He...
  
  
• Clarence Seedorf
  Clarence Seedorf
  Clarence Clyde Seedorf OON is a Dutch footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Milan. Seedorf is the first player to have won the Champions League with three different clubs - Ajax in 1995, Real Madrid in 1998 and Milan in 2003 and 2007...
  
  
• Edgar Davids
  Edgar Davids
  Edgar Steven Davids is a retired Dutch footballer and current member of the supervisory board of Ajax. After beginning his career with the Amsterdam club, he subsequently played in Italy for Milan and Juventus before a loan spell with Barcelona. He went on to play for Internazionale and Tottenham...
  
  
• Ruud Gullit
  Ruud Gullit
  OON is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup. He was named the European Footballer of the...
  
  
• Aron Winter
  Aron Winter
  Aron Mohamed Winter [VIN-ter] is a retired Dutch football midfielder and current head coach of Toronto FC...
  
  
• Ryan Babel
  Ryan Babel
  Ryan Guno Babel is a Dutch football player who currently plays for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. He can play as a left winger and as a striker. Babel began his career at AFC Ajax in 1998, working his way up through the youth team and into the senior squad...
  
  
• Eljero Elia
  Eljero Elia
  Eljero George Rinaldo Elia is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Italian Serie A club Juventus and the Dutch national team. He scored on his debut for the Dutch national team in September 2009 and participated at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.-ADO Den Haag:Before excelling in the...
  
  
• Frank Rijkaard
  Frank Rijkaard
  Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard is a Dutch football manager of Dutch and Surinamese descent and former player. Rijkaard has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. In his coaching career, he has been at the helm of the Dutch national side,...
  
  
• Anthony Nesty
  Anthony Nesty
  Anthony Conrad Nesty is a former Surinamese international swimmer who was an Olympic gold medalist in the 100-metre butterfly event in 1988.- Early years :...
  
  
• Letitia Vriesde
  Letitia Vriesde
  Letitia Alma Vriesde is a track and field athlete from Suriname. Her main event is the 800 m. She is the first sportsperson from Surinam to compete at five Olympic Games....
  
  
• Tommy Asinga
  Tommy Asinga
  Tommy Asinga is a track star from Moengo, Suriname.Asinga trained in the United States, attending Eastern Michigan University from 1991–1994, where he won All-American honors five times....
  
  
• Ernesto Hoost
  Ernesto Hoost
  Ernesto Fritz "Mr. Perfect" Hoost is a Dutch former kickboxer and four-time K-1 World Champion. He made his debut in 1993 at the K-1 World Grand Prix 1993, where he came just one win short of the world title...
  
  
• Remy Bonjasky
  Remy Bonjasky
  Remy "The Flying Gentleman" Bonjasky is a Dutch super heavyweight kickboxer of Surinamese descent. He is a three-time K-1 World Grand Prix champion, who has won the title in 2003, 2004, and 2008...
  
  
• Tyrone Spong
  Tyrone Spong
  Tyrone "King of The Ring" Spong is a Dutch-Surinamese kickboxer. He is the reigning WFCA Cruiserweight Muay Thai and the former It's Showtime 95MAX World champion, fighting out of Fighting Factory Carbin in Amsterdam, Netherlands....
  
  
• Ilonka Elmont
  Ilonka Elmont
  Ilonka "Killer Queen" Elmont is a Dutch-Surinamese former professional Muay Thai kickboxer and seven-time World Champion in the Fly-Weight division ....
  
  
• Patrick Kluivert
  Patrick Kluivert
  Patrick Stephan Kluivert is a former Dutch footballer, currently head coach of the youth side of FC Twente. He played as a striker for AFC Ajax, A.C. Milan, FC Barcelona, Newcastle United, Valencia CF, PSV Eindhoven, and Lille OSC. Kluivert played for the Dutch national team from 1994 to 2004. He...
  
  

Political leaders

• Jules Ajodhia
  Jules Ajodhia
  Jules Rattankoemar Ajodhia is a Surinamese politician.From 1988 to 1990, he was Justice Minister. He was also twice vice president of Suriname.The first term was from 16 September 1991 to 15 September 1996...
  
  
• Henck Arron
  Henck Arron
  Henck Alphonsus Eugène Arron was the Prime Minister of Suriname from 24 December 1973 to 25 February 1980, when he was overthrown in a military coup d'état by Dési Bouterse...
  
  
• Bram Behr
  Bram Behr
  Abraham Maurits "Bram" Behr was a Surinamese communist. He was best known as a propagandist and journalist. He published the pamphlet De Rode Surinamer and edited the weekly newspaper Mokro...
  
  
• Dési Bouterse
  Dési Bouterse
  Desiré Delano "Dési" Bouterse is the 9th and current President of Suriname.As an army officer, he was the de facto leader of Suriname through most of the 1980s, serving as Chairman of the National Military Council...
  
  
• Ronnie Brunswijk
  Ronnie Brunswijk
  Ronnie Brunswijk is a Surinamese rebel leader, politician, business man, and convict. After having been the personal body guard of Desi Bouterse in the early 1980s, he turned against his former boss by forming the Jungle Commando which fought the Bouterse regime "on behalf of the Maroon...
  
  
• Johan Ferrier
  Johan Ferrier
  Johan Henri Eliza Ferrier was a Surinamese politician who served as the 1st President of Suriname from November 25, 1975, until August 13, 1980. He was that country's last governor before independence, from 1968 to 1975, and first president after it gained independence from the Netherlands...
  
  
• Otto Huiswoud
  Otto Huiswoud
  Otto Eduard Geradus Majelia Huiswoud was a Suriname-born political activist who was a charter member of the Communist Party of America. Huiswoud is regarded as the first black member of the American communist movement...
  
  
• Harry Kisoensingh
  Harry Kisoensingh
  Harry Kisoensingh , was chairman of the Union of Progressive Surinamese and was a Surinamese educator.He was vice chairman of the DNA from 1996 to 2000, while being in the opposition....
  
  
• Jagernath Lachmon
  Jagernath Lachmon
  Jagernath Lachmon, also Jaggernath Lachmon, was a Surinamese politician of Indian descent. He was one of the founders of the Progressive Reform Party, a Hindustani party founded in 1947 of which he served a long period as President.-Biography:Lachmon was born in Corantijnpolder in the district of...
  
  
• Pretaapnarian Radhakishun
• Ram Sardjoe
  Ram Sardjoe
  Ramdien Sardjoe is a Surinamese politician and served as Vice President of Suriname from 2005 to 2010. He is a member of the Progressive Reform Party .-References:...
  
  
• Ronald Venetiaan
  Ronald Venetiaan
  Ronald Runaldo Venetiaan served as the 6th and 8th President of Suriname. His first term as president ran from 1991 to 1996 after which he lost in the elections to Jules Wijdenbosch...
  
  
• Jules Wijdenbosch
  Jules Wijdenbosch
  Jules Albert Wijdenbosch is a politician in Suriname. He was a member of the National Democratic Party, which held absolute power in Suriname during the 1980s. He was Prime Minister from April 1987 until January 1988, Vice President from January 1991 until September 1991, and President from...
  
  

Writers and intellectuals

• Lloyd Best
  Lloyd Best
  The Honorable Lloyd Algernon Best, OCC was a Trinidadian intellectual, columnist, professor, and economist....
  
  
• Ralph de Boissière
  Ralph de Boissière
  Ralph Anthony Charles de Boissière was an Trinidad-born Australian social realist novelist.Ralph de Boissière was born in Port of Spain, the son of Armand de Boissière, a solicitor, and Maude Harper, an English woman who died three weeks later...
  
  
• Dionne Brand
  Dionne Brand
  Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rosa Guy
  Rosa Guy
  Rosa Cuthbert Guy is an American writer.-Biography:Rosa Guy was raised in Harlem from the age of seven and now lives in New York. She immigrated to Harlem, New York in 1932. Soon after her parents, Henry and Audrey Cuthbert, died, she and her sister went to many foster homes...
  
  
• Merle Hodge
  Merle Hodge
  BiographyMerle Hodge was born in 1944, in Curepe, Trinidad, the daughter of an immigration officer. She received both her elementary and high school education in Trinidad, and as a student of Bishop Anstey's High School, she won the Trinidad and Tobago Girls Island Scholarship in 1962. The...
  
  
• C. L. R. James
  C. L. R. James
  Cyril Lionel Robert James , who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J.R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts...
  
  
• Earl Lovelace
  Earl Lovelace
  For the peerage, see Earl of Lovelace.Earl Lovelace is a Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer....
  
  
• Mustapha Matura
  Mustapha Matura
  Mustapha Matura is a Trinidadian playwright living in London.In 1971 his play As Time Goes By was first performed at the Traverse Theatre Club in Edinburgh and the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, with a cast of noted Caribbean actors including Stefan Kalipha, Alfred Fagon, Mona...
  
  
• Shiva Naipaul
  Shiva Naipaul
  Shiva Naipaul , born Shivadhar Srivinasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was a Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist.Shiva Naipaul was the younger brother of novelist V. S. Naipaul...
  
  
• V.S. Naipaul
• Kenneth Ramchand
  Kenneth Ramchand
  Kenneth Ramchand, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of English at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies, former associate provost at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, and an Independent Senator in the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago. Ramchand is a well known and widely...
  
  
• Lall Sawh
  Lall Sawh
  Lall Ramnath Sawh CM, FRCS is a Trinidadian urologist in the Caribbean and Latin America. Based in Trinidad and Tobago, Sawh pionerred kidney transplantation in the Caribbean in 1988 and has continued to be a leader in the field of urology...
  
  
• Samuel Selvon
  Samuel Selvon
  Samuel Selvon was a Trinidad-born writer. Selvon was educated at Naparima College, San Fernando before moving to London, England in the 1950s, and later to Alberta, Canada. He is known for novels such as The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending...
  
  
• Eric Williams
  Eric Williams
  Eric Eustace Williams served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian, and is widely regarded as "The Father of The Nation."...
  
  
• Stokely Carmichael
  Stokely Carmichael
  Kwame Ture , also known as Stokely Carmichael, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party...
  
  

Athletes

• Inshan Ali
  Inshan Ali
  Inshan Ali was a West Indian cricketer who played in 12 Tests from 1971 to 1977.Born in Preysal, Trinidad and Tobago, of Indian descent, Ali was a left-arm unorthodox spin bowler who made his first-class cricket debut for South Trinidad against North Trinidad on 15 April 1966, aged just 16 years...
  
  
• Stephen Ames
  Stephen Ames
  Stephen Michael Ames is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada....
  
  
• Marvin Andrews
  Marvin Andrews
  Marvin Andrews is a Trinidadian football defender. He currently plays for Scottish Junior Club side Kirkintilloch Rob Roy....
  
  
• Ian Bishop
• Marlon Black
  Marlon Black
  Marlon Ian Black is a former West Indian cricketer who played in six Tests and five ODIs, debuting in the year 2000....
  
  
• Ato Boldon
  Ato Boldon
  Ato Jabari Boldon is a former athlete from Trinidad and Tobago and four-time Olympic medal winner. Only 2 other men in history, Frankie Fredericks and Carl Lewis, have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. He is the current national record holder in the 50, 60 and 200 metres events...
  
  
• Dwayne Bravo
  Dwayne Bravo
  Dwayne James John Bravo is a West Indian cricketer. A right-handed pace bowler, Bravo is expected to play a significant role in attempts by the West Indies to return to international prominence in the sport....
  
  
• Darrel Brown
  Darrel Brown
  Darrel Brown is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 metres.In the beginning of his career he performed well in World Youth and Junior Championships. At the 2000 World Junior Championships he finished fourth in both 100 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay...
  
  
• George Bovell III
  George Bovell
  George Bovell III is a three-time Olympic swimmer from Trinidad and Tobago. He represented the country at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. At the 2004 Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200 IM:the 9th medalist in the country's history and 12th medal overall...
  
  
• Marc Burns
  Marc Burns
  Marc Burns is an athlete from Trinidad and Tobago specializing in the 100 metres and the 4x100 metres.Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he was disqualified from his 100 metres heat, thus failing to make it through to the second round.Marc Burns placed second in the men's 100 metres dash...
  
  
• Learie Constantine
  Learie Constantine
  Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine MBE was a West Indian cricketer who played 18 Test matches before the Second World War. He took West Indies' first wicket in Test cricket and was the team's leading all-rounder and opening bowler for the entirety of his career...
  
  
• Hasely Crawford
  Hasely Crawford
  Hasely Joachim Crawford is a former athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. In 1976, he became the first Olympic champion of his country. A stadium was renamed in his honour in 2001.-Early Years:...
  
  
• Rajindra Dhanraj
  Rajindra Dhanraj
  Rajindra Dhanraj was a cricket player for the West Indies for a short while. He played only four Tests and six One Day Internationals. Later, he was more successful playing for the Trinidad & Tobago team....
  
  
• Mervyn Dillon
  Mervyn Dillon
  Mervyn Dillon in Mission Village, Toco, Trinidad and Tobago, is a West Indian cricketer. He has played 38 in Tests and taken 131 wickets. He has also played 108 One Day Internationals from 1997-2004. At one stage, after the bowling greats Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose retired from...
  
  
• Kenwyne Jones
  Kenwyne Jones
  Kenwyne Joel Jones is a Trinidadian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Stoke City and the Trinidad and Tobago national team. He previously played for Sunderland, Southampton, Stoke City, Sheffield Wednesday, W Connection and Joe Public.He began his football...
  
  
• Ansil Elcock
  Ansil Elcock
  Ansil Elcock is a footballer from Trinidad and Tobago. He notably played for MLS team Columbus Crew between 1997 and 2001 , and currently plays as a defender for Tobago United...
  
  
• Daren Ganga
  Daren Ganga
  Daren Ganga is a West Indian cricketer of East Indian descent. He is a right-handed top order batsman and part-time right-arm offbreak bowler. After debuting as a 19 year old he has found himself in and out of the West Indies team, playing regularly for and at times captaining the West Indies A...
  
  
• Roger Gibbon
  Roger Gibbon
  Roger Gibbon is a retired track cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1964. He was very successful in the 1960s at the Pan American Games, collecting a total number of four individual medals .-References:...
  
  
• Hilary Angelo "Larry" Gomes
  Larry Gomes
  Hilary Angelo Gomes is a former West Indian cricketer.He toured England with the West Indian Schoolboys team in 1967 and he made his first-class debut as a left-handed batsman for Trinidad and Tobogo versus the New Zealanders in 1971/72. He joined Middlesex in 1972 and played between 1973 and 1976...
  
  
• Gerald "Gerry" Gomez
  Gerry Gomez
  Gerry Ethridge Gomez was a West Indian cricketer who played 29 Tests for the West Indies between 1939 and 1954, scoring 1,243 runs and taking 58 wickets. He captained in one match for the West Indies when England toured in 1947/8.Gomez was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad...
  
  
• Anthony Gray
• Shaka Hislop
  Shaka Hislop
  Neil Shaka Hislop, CM is a former professional football goalkeeper. The majority of his career was spent in the top division in England where he was a part of the Newcastle United team which finished second in the Premier League for two successive seasons under Kevin Keegan's first tenure...
  
  
• Clayton Ince
  Clayton Ince
  Clayton Ince is a Trinidadian football goalkeeper who had lengthy spells in the English Football League at Crewe Alexandra and Walsall...
  
  
• Stern John
  Stern John
  Stern John is a Trinidadian football player currently playing for North East Stars in Trinidad. He played for a number of high profile English football clubs that included Nottingham Forest, Birmingham City and Coventry City.-Early Career in US:John moved to the United States to attend Mercer...
  
  
• Brian Lara
  Brian Lara
  Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...
  
  
• Russell Latapy
  Russell Latapy
  Russell Nigel Latapy is a Trinidad and Tobago footballer who plays for Edinburgh City as an attacking midfielder.In a senior career which spanned more than 20 years at both club and international level, he played in Portugal and Scotland .Latapy...
  
  
• Leonson Lewis
  Leonson Lewis
  Leonson Lewis is a football coach and former player from Trinidad and Tobago. The striker got 30 caps and scored 21 goals for the national team between 1988 and 1996 .He currently coaches W Connection....
  
  
• Augustine "Gus" Logie
  Gus Logie
  Augustine Lawrence Logie is a former West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago cricketer and is currently an international cricket coach....
  
  
• Clint Marcelle
  Clint Marcelle
  Clint Sherwin Marcelle is a former professional footballer who played between 1995 and 2006 in his native Trinidad as well as Portugal and England...
  
  
• Wendell Mottley
  Wendell Mottley
  Wendell Adrian Mottley educated at Queen's Royal College is a Trinidad and Tobago economist, politician and athlete...
  
  
• Deryck Murray
  Deryck Murray
  Deryck Lance Murray is a former West Indies cricketer. A wicketkeeper and right-handed batsman, Murray kept wicket to the potent West Indian fast bowling attacks of the 1970s ; his efficient glovework effected 189 Test dismissals and greatly enhanced the potency of the bowling attack.Murray...
  
  
• Jerren Nixon
  Jerren Nixon
  Jerren Kendall Nixon is a Trinidad and Tobago football player, who currently plays as a forward for North East Stars in his country's Professional League.- Life and career :...
  
  
• Sonny Ramadhin
  Sonny Ramadhin
  Sonny Ramadhin was a West Indian cricketer, and a dominant bowler of the 1950s. He was the first West Indian cricketers of Indian origin, and was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1951.- Biography and career :...
  
  
• Manny Ramjohn
  Manny Ramjohn
  Manny Ramjohn was an athlete from Trinidad and Tobago, born in San Fernando, and educated at Naparima College in San Fernando....
  
  
• Dinanath Ramnarine
  Dinanath Ramnarine
  Dinanath Ramnarine is a Trinidadian cricketer who retired in 2002.He was a leg-spin bowler who, though a competent batsman, appeared to have one too many confrontations which eventually forced him to retire at 28. Especially significant was a disagreement with Carl Hooper...
  
  
• Anthony Rougier
• Phil Simmons
  Phil Simmons
  Philip Veraint Simmons is a former skilled all-round cricketer who played as an opening batsman a useful bowler and a talented slip fielder.-Career:...
  
  
• Jeffrey Stollmeyer
• Victor Stollmeyer
• Richard Thompson
  Richard Thompson (athlete)
  Richard "Torpedo" Thompson is a sprinter from Cascade, Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 metres. He was the silver medalist in the event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, running a personal best of 9.89 seconds....
  
  
• Evans Wise
  Evans Wise
  Evans Wise is a former Trinidadian football player who played for the Tampa Bay Mutiny in MLS and German football club SV Waldhof Mannheim....
  
  
• Dwight Yorke
  Dwight Yorke
  Dwight Eversley Yorke is a Trinidad and Tobago former football player. He played for Aston Villa for most of his career, followed by stints with Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Sydney FC and Sunderland...
  
  

Political leaders

• Yasin Abu Bakr
  Yasin Abu Bakr
  Yasin Abu Bakr, born Lennox Philip is the leader of the Jamaat al Muslimeen a Muslim group in Trinidad and Tobago. The group has long-standing links with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Under the leadership of Abu Bakr and Bilaal Abdullah, the group staged an attempted coup d’état in 1990.Abu...
  
  
• Tubal Uriah Butler
  Tubal Uriah Butler
  Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler , was a Grenadian-born Spiritual Baptist preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago...
  
  
• Rudranath Capildeo
  Rudranath Capildeo
  Dr. Rudranath Capildeo was a Trinidad and Tobago politician and mathematician. He was the Leader of the Democratic Labour Party from 1960–1969 and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament from 1961–1963, succeeding Ashford Sinanan. He was also a faculty member at the University of London, eventually...
  
  
• Simbhoonath Capildeo
  Simbhoonath Capildeo
  Simbhoonath Capildeo was a Trinidad and Tobago prominent Hindu politician and lawyer, born in Chaguanas. He was the elder brother of Rudranath Capildeo and uncle of Sir Vidia Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul...
  
  
• Stokely Carmichael
  Stokely Carmichael
  Kwame Ture , also known as Stokely Carmichael, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party...
  
   a.k.a. Kwame Ture
• George Chambers
  George Chambers
  George Michael Chambers was the second Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Born in Port of Spain, Chambers joined the People's National Movement in 1956, and was elected to Parliament representing the St. Anns East seat...
  
  
• Carson Charles
  Carson Charles
  Carson Charles is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and former Minister of Works and Transportation. He is the political leader of the National Alliance for Reconstruction ....
  
  
• Arthur Andrew Cipriani
  Arthur Andrew Cipriani
  Captain Arthur Andrew Cipriani was a [Trinidad and Tobago] labour leader and politician. He served as mayor of Port of Spain, elected member of the Legislative Council, leader of the Trinidad Workingmen's Association and founder of the Trinidad Labour Party.Cipriani served with the West Indies...
  
   (A.A. Cipriani)
• Ellis Clarke
  Ellis Clarke
  Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke, TC, GCMG was the second and last Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago and the first President of Trinidad and Tobago. Clarke was one of the main architects of Trinidad and Tobago's 1962 Independence constitution.Clarke attended Saint Mary's College, winning...
  
  
• Winston Dookeran
  Winston Dookeran
  Winston Dookeran is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist. He currently serves as Political Leader of the Congress of the People. His term ends on July 3, 2011 when internal elections will be held to select a political leader. At a press conference on May 28, 2011, Mr. Dookeran...
  
  
• Knowlson Gift
  Knowlson Gift
  Knowlson Gift is a politician in Trinidad and Tobago. He is a member of the People's National Movement. Gift served as foreign minister between May 7 and May 17, 1995, but resigned in the face of allegations of financial improprieties at the end of his stint as High Commissioner to Jamaica, where...
  
  
• Albert Gomes
  Albert Gomes
  Albert Maria Gomes , a Trinidad and Tobago unionist, politician, and writer of Portuguese descent, was the first Chief Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He was the founder of the Political Progress Groups and later led the Party of Political Progress Groups...
  
  
• Geddes Granger
  Geddes Granger
  His Excellency Makandal Daaga, born Geddes Granger, is a Trinidad and Tobago political activist and former revolutionary. He is also a son of Gaskynd Granger, and cousin of David A. Granger. He was the leader of the 1970 Black Power Revolution. During the unrest he was arrested and charged. The...
  
   (Makandal Daaga)
• Noor Hassanali
  Noor Hassanali
  Noor Mohamed Hassanali,TC was the second President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago . A retired High Court judge, President Hassanali was the first Indo-Trinidadian to hold the office of President and was the first Muslim head of state in the Americas...
  
  
• Karl Hudson-Phillips
  Karl Hudson-Phillips
  Karl Terrence Hudson-Phillips, ORTT, QC is a former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and a former judge of the International Criminal Court...
  
  
• A.P.T. James
• Roy Joseph
  Roy Joseph
  Roy Adolphus Joseph was a Trinidad and Tobago politician. He served as Mayor of San Fernando, Member of the Legislative Council, Minister of Education and Social Services, and Member of the Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation....
  
  
• Franklin Khan
  Franklin Khan
  Franklin Khan is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and former Member of Parliament for Ortoire-Mayaro and Chairman of the ruling People's National Movement....
  
  
• Fuad Khan
  Fuad Khan
  Dr. Fuad Khan is a Trinidad and Tobago politician. Since 1995 he has served as the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of San Juan/Barataria in the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago. Elected on a United National Congress ticket he is currently an "Independent UNC...
  
  
• Gillian Lucky
  Gillian Lucky
  Gillian Lucky is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer. Since 2001 she has been United National Congress Member of Parliament for the Pointe-à-Pierre constituency...
  
  
• Ramesh Maharaj
  Ramesh Maharaj
  -Early life:Mr. Maharaj had over 30 years experience in the legal profession having been admitted to practice at the English Bar in 1967. He had been in private practice as Senior Partner in the chambers of Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj and Company. He had also been admitted to practice as an attorney...
  
  
• Patrick Manning
  Patrick Manning
  Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning was the fourth and sixth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the former Political Leader of the People's National Movement . He served as Prime Minister from 17 December 1991 to 9 November 1995 and held that office again from 24 December 2001 until 26...
  
  
• Bhadase Sagan Maraj
  Bhadase Maraj
  Bhadase Sagan Maraj was a Trinidad and Tobago politician, religious leader and businessman. He founded the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha in 1952, which grew into the major Hindu organisation in Trinidad and Tobago.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ralph Maraj
  Ralph Maraj
  Ralph Maraj is a Trinidad and Tobago politician, playwright and teacher. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under a People's National Movement administration, Minister of Communication and Information Technology under a United National Congress administration, and was a founding member of...
  
  
• Wendell Mottley
  Wendell Mottley
  Wendell Adrian Mottley educated at Queen's Royal College is a Trinidad and Tobago economist, politician and athlete...
  
  
• George Padmore
  George Padmore
  George Padmore , born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a Trinidadian communist who became a leading Pan-Africanist in his later years.-Early years:...
  
  
• Basdeo Panday
  Basdeo Panday
  Basdeo Panday was the 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001 and has served as Leader of the Opposition from 1976–1977, 1978–1986, 1989–1995 and 2001–2010. He was first elected to Parliament in 1976 as the Member for Couva North. He is the former...
  
  
• Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  Kamla Persad-Bissessar is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the seventh person to hold this position...
  
  
• David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead
  David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead
  David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead was a civil rights campaigner and was one of the first persons of African descent to sit in the British House of Lords.-Early life:...
  
  
• George Maxwell Richards
  George Maxwell Richards
  George Maxwell Richards, TC, CM is the fourth President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. A chemical engineer by training, Richards was Principal of the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad in 1996. He previously worked for Shell Trinidad Ltd. before...
  
  
• A.N.R. Robinson
  A. N. R. Robinson
  Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson, OCC, TC was the third President of Trinidad and Tobago, serving from 19 March 1997 to 17 March 2003. He was also Trinidad and Tobago's third Prime Minister, serving in that capacity from 18 December 1986 to 17 December 1991...
  
  
• Keith Rowley
  Keith Rowley
  Dr. Keith Christopher Rowley is the Member of the House of Representatives for Diego Martin West in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. A geologist by training, Dr. Rowley has been the representative for Diego Martin West since 1991....
  
  
• Adrian Cola Rienzi
  Adrian Cola Rienzi
  Adrian Cola Rienzi was a Trinidad and Tobago trade unionist, politician and lawyer. He founded both the Oilfields Workers Trade Union and the All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union, and was involved in the establishment of three other trade unions...
  
   (born Krishna Deonarine)
• Austin "Jack" Warner
• Eric Williams
  Eric Williams
  Eric Eustace Williams served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian, and is widely regarded as "The Father of The Nation."...
  
  
• Eric A. Williams
  Eric A. Williams
  Eric A. Williams was until November, 2007 a Trinidad and Tobago politician and was Member of Parliament for Port of Spain South. Until his resignation from the Cabinet in January 2006, he served as the Minister of Energy and Energy Industries in the then People's National Movement government a...
  
  
• Gerald Yetming
  Gerald Yetming
  Gerald Yetming is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and businessman. Since 2002 he has served as the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of St. Joseph in the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago for the Opposition United National Congress...
  
  

Musicians

• Nicki Minaj
  Nicki Minaj
  Onika Tanya Maraj , better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj; ), is a Trinidadian-born American recording artist...
  
   (Onika Tanya Maraj) (rapper)
• Fay Ann Lyons-Alvarez
• André Tanker
  André Tanker
  André Michael Tanker was a Trinidad and Tobago musician and composer.-Person:...
  
  
• Atilla the Hun
  Attila the Hun (calypsonian)
  Attila the Hun , was a calypsonian from Trinidad.-Person:Atilla the Hun began singing in 1911 and was at his most prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of the pioneers in spreading awareness of calypso beyond its birthplace in Trinidad and Tobago...
  
   (Raymond Quevado)
• Winifred Atwell
  Winifred Atwell
  Una Winifred Atwell Una Winifred Atwell Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or April 1910 or 1914There is some uncertainty over her date and year of birth. Many sources suggest 27 February 1914, but there is a strong suggestion that her birthday was 27 April. Most sources give her year of birth as...
  
  
• Inga "Foxy Brown (rapper)" Marchand
• Chalkdust
  Chalkdust
  Hollis Urban Lester Liverpool, better known as Chalkdust is a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago. He has been singing calypso since 1967 and has recorded over 300 calypsos....
  
   (Hollis Liverpool)
• Haddaway
  Haddaway
  Nestor Alexander Haddaway , better known by his stage name Haddaway, is a Trinidadian-German singer. He is most famous for his worldwide 1993 hit, "What Is Love".- Early life :...
  
  
• Raymond Holman
  Ray Holman
  Raymond Anthony Holman is an acclaimed musician, composer, pannist and performer from Trinidad.-Person:In 1957, Ray Holman began playing steelpan at the age of thirteen with the Invaders Steel Orchestra, led by Ellie Mannette for whom he composed his first pan piece - "Ray's Saga" recorded by...
  
  
• Lord Invader
  Lord Invader
  Lord Invader was a prominent calypsonian with a very distinctive, gravelly voice....
  
  
• Lord Kitchener
  Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)
  Aldwyn Roberts , better known by the stage name Lord Kitchener , was one of the most internationally famous calypsonians. He was the son of a blacksmith, Stephen, and homemaker, Albertha.-Life:...
  
   (Alwyn Roberts)
• Lord Melody
  Lord Melody
  Lord Melody was a popular calypsonian, best known for singles such as the self-deprecating "Boo Boo Man", "Shame & Scandal", "Jonah and the Bake", "Juanita" and "Rastaman Be Careful"...
  
  
• Lennox "Bobby" Mohammed
  Lennox Mohammed
  Lennox "Bobby" Mohammed is a musician and pannist from Trinidad.-Person:Lennox Mohammed grew up in San Fernando and visited the Presentation College. He was a founding member of the Gondoliers Steelband...
  
  
• Machel Montano
  Machel Montano
  Machel Montano is a soca singer, record producer and songwriter based in the Trinidad and Tobago....
  
  
• Billy Ocean
  Billy Ocean
  Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...
  
  
• Sundar Popo
  Sundar Popo
  Sundar Popo was a Chutney musician from Trinidad and Tobago. He popularised Chutney music, beginning with his 1970 hit Nana and Nani.-Biography:...
  
  
• David Rudder
  David Rudder
  David Michael Rudder is a calypsonian from Trinidad.-Career:David Rudder is one of the top calypsonians of all time. In 1977, he joined Charlie's Roots, one of the top bands in Trinidad and Tobago. He spent many years as one of the vocalists with the band...
  
  
• Adesh Samaroo
  Adesh Samaroo
  Adesh Samaroo is a Trinidadian chutney soca singer born in Tacarigua in central Trinidad. He gained notice on the local scene in late 2002 with his song "Rum Till I Die" from the album of the same name....
  
  
• Jit Samaroo
  Jit Samaroo
  -Life and Merits:Jit Samaroo was born in Surrey, Trinidad, the seventh of 13 children in a family of east Indian origin.At age 10, he joined the short-lived Village Boys pan round the neck side...
  
  
• Hazel Scott
  Hazel Scott
  Hazel Dorothy Scott was an internationally known, American jazz and classical pianist and singer.-Early years and education:...
  
  
• Len "Boogsie" Sharpe
  Lennox Sharpe
  Lennox "Boogsie" Sharpe is a successful and popular composer and arranger of Steelpan music.-Person:Sharpe began his career with Starlift where he worked as a co-arranger with Ray Holman...
  
  
• Lord Shorty/Ras Shorty I
  Ras Shorty I
  Ras Shorty I was a soca musician, known as the Father of Soca and The Love Man.He was born Garfield Blackman in Barrackpore, Trinidad and Tobago, and rose to fame as Lord Shorty with his 1963 hit "Clock and Dagger" and took on the name Ras Shorty .He started out writing songs and performing in the...
  
   (Garfield Blackman)
• Mighty Sparrow
  Mighty Sparrow
  Mighty Sparrow or Birdie is a calypso singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Known as the "Calypso King of the World," he is one of the most well-known and successful calypsonians...
  
   (Slinger Francisco)
• Mighty Spoiler
  Mighty Spoiler
  Mighty Spoiler, born Theophilus Philip , was a Trinidadian calypsonian.Spoiler's career began in 1946 at the House of Lords Tent, and he soon became one of the most popular calypso singers, known for hits like "Bedbug", "Magistrate Try Himself", "Picking Sense out of Nonsense", "Royal Wedding" and...
  
  
• Black Stalin
  Black Stalin
  Black Stalin is a leading calypsonian.Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, to George and Elcina Calliste ,He is one of four children. Stalin began singing calypso in 1959, but did not join a calypso tent until 1962 when he joined the Southern Brigade...
  
   (Leroy Calliste)
• Rakesh Yankaran
  Rakesh Yankaran
  Rakesh Yankaran, nicknamed "The Raja" is an award-winning chutney musician from Trinidad and Tobago. He is the son of classical Indian musician Isaac Yankaran and brother of chutney musician Anand Yankaran....
  
  
• Destra Garcia
  Destra Garcia
  Destra Garcia is a Soca singer and songwriter based in Trinidad and Tobago. Destra is noted for her high energy performances, harmonious vocal skill and eccentric fashion style...
  
  
• Heather Headley
  Heather Headley
  Heather Headley is a Trinidadian-American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and one Grammy Award.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Denise Plummer
• Denise "Saucy Wow" Belfon
• Maximus Dan
  Maximus Dan
  Maximus Dan is a soca / dancehall musician. He is also known by his former stage name Maga Dan....
  
  
• KMC
  Ken Marlon Charles (KMC)
  Ken Marlon Charles a.k.a KMC is a soca artist from Trinidad. Famous for hits like "Soul on Fire", "Soca Bashment" and "Bashment to Carnival" KMC is signed to the US-based record label Sequence Records. Considered to be one of Trinidad's top soca artists, KMC has over sixteen years experience in...
  
  
• Bunji Garlin
  Bunji Garlin
  Bunji Garlin July 14, 1978 is a Reggae Soca artist from Trinidad and Tobago. His real name is Ian Alvarez. He is of saint Lucian and Venezuelan descent. He married fellow Soca artist Fay-Ann Lyons on December 23, 2006, daughter of legendary Soca singer Superblue...
  
  
• Patrice Roberts
  Patrice Roberts
  Patrice Roberts is a soca artist from Trinidad and Tobago. She currently performs alongside popular fellow Soca artist Machel Montano in his band, Machel Montano HD...
  
  

Political leaders

• Judah Philip Benjamin
• Edward Blyden
• Frank Rudolph Crosswaith
  Frank Rudolph Crosswaith
  Frank Rudolph Crosswaith was a longtime socialist politician and activist and trade union organizer in New York City. Crosswaith is best remembered as the founder and chairman of the Negro Labor Committee, which was established on July 20, 1935 by the Negro Labor Conference.-Early years:Frank R....
  
  
• Hubert Henry Harrison
• Casper Holstein
  Casper Holstein
  Casper Holstein was a prominent New York mobster involved in the Harlem "numbers rackets" during the Harlem Renaissance. He, along with his occasional rival Stephanie St. Clair, was responsible for bringing back illegal gambling to the neighborhood after an eight-year absence following the...
  
  
• Roy Innis
  Roy Innis
  Roy Emile Alfredo Innis is an African American civil rights activist. He has been National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality since his election to the position in 1968....
  
  
• D. Hamilton Jackson
  D. Hamilton Jackson
  David Hamilton Jackson was a resident of the United States Virgin Islands. At the time of his birth, the Territory was under the rule of Danish West Indies. Jackson was an important figure in the struggle for increased civil liberties and workers' rights on the islands...
  
  
• J. Raymond Jones
  J. Raymond Jones
  J. "The Fox" Raymond Jones, African American New York politician. He moved to New York City in 1918. He challenged Tammany Hall leader Carmine DeSapio twice. After a failed campaign seeking support to his candidature in 1958, Jones succeeded in becoming the first black leader of Tammany in 1964...
  
  
• William Alexander Leidesdorff
• T. McCants Stewart
• Terence Todman
  Terence Todman
  Terrance Alphonso Todman , is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark and Argentina. In 1990, he was awarded the rank of Career Ambassador....
  
  
• Denmark Vesey
  Denmark Vesey
  Denmark Vesey originally Telemaque, was an African American slave brought to the United States from the Caribbean of Coromantee background. After purchasing his freedom, he planned what would have been one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States...
  
  

Athletes

• Raja Bell
  Raja Bell
  Raja Bell is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Utah Jazz of the NBA. Bell is known for his three-point shooting and intense defense.- Biography :Bell was born in Saint Croix, in the U.S...
  
  
• Tim Duncan
  Tim Duncan
  Timothy Theodore "Tim" Duncan is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association . The 6-foot 11-inch , 255-pound power forward/center is a four-time NBA champion, two-time NBA MVP, three-time NBA Finals MVP, and NBA Rookie of the Year...
  
  
• Julian Jackson
  Julian Jackson
  Julian Jackson is a retired professional boxer and former three-time world champion in the light middleweight and middleweight divisions...
  
  
• Calvin Pickering
  Calvin Pickering
  Calvin Elroy Pickering is a former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball between 1998 and 2005 for the Baltimore Orioles , Cincinnati Reds , Boston Red Sox , and Kansas City Royals...