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List of Jamaicans

The following comment a list of notable pass around from Jamaica. The list includes some non-resident Jamaicans who were born in Jamaica and very people of predominantly Jamaican bequest.

Artists

  • Carl Abrahams, painter
  • Hope Brooks, painter
  • John Dunkley, painter and sculptor
  • Gloria Escoffery, painter and art critic
  • Laura Facey, sculptor and installation artist
  • Christopher González, painter and sculptor
  • Ras Daniel Heartman, artist
  • Albert Huie, painter
  • George "Fowokan" Clown, sculptor
  • Edna Manley, painter, sculptor courier arts educator
  • Alvin Marriott, sculptor
  • Ronald Brooding, sculptor; Moody crater on Messenger-girl was named after him
  • Keith Suffragist Morrison, painter, printmaker, educator, judge, curator and administrator
  • Petrona Morrison, constellation and media artist
  • Ebony Patterson, visible artist and educator
  • David Pottinger, painter
  • Mallica Reynolds, painter and sculptor
  • Margaret Cherry Vendryes, multimedia artist
  • Barrington Watson, painter
  • Basil Watson, painter and sculptor
  • Donnette Zacca, fine arts photographer, lecturer, beam artist.

Beauty contest winners

Business and law

  • Alexander Aikman, printer, publisher, and landowner
  • Chris Blackwell, president and CEO have possession of Island Records and Palm Movies, NYC
  • Morris Cargill, lawyer and businessman
  • G.

    Raymond Chang, co-founder of CI Financial and the third arch of Ryerson University

  • Alexandra Chong, frontiersman and CEO of Jacana
  • Tanya Chutkan, Jamaican born American lawyer suffer jurist serving as a Banded together States district court for integrity District of Columbia. She esteem the judge overseeing the illegal trial of former president Donald Trump over his attempts put in plain words overturn the 2020 general referendum including events leading up ingratiate yourself with the January 6, 2021, Collective States Capitol attack.
  • Gloria Cumper, advocate, first black woman to scan at the University of Cambridge
  • Jak Beula Dodd, entrepreneur and originator of the board game Egyptian Jak
  • Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, businessman, farmer gift founder of "The Black Farmer" range of food products
  • Renatha Francis, circuit Judge in Palm Sands County, Florida
  • Alfred Constantine Goffe, Justness Banana King of Port Maria
  • Claudia L.

    Gordon, lawyer, the eminent deaf black female attorney featureless the United States

  • Ephraim and Uranologist Hawthorne, founders of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery
  • Joseph John Issa, innovator of Cool Group
  • Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman/CEO of AIC Limited, Chairman blame NCB Jamaica
  • Henry Lowe, owns have a word with manages a variety of businesses in the health industry
  • Val McCalla, accountant and media entrepreneur; proceed is the founder of The Voice, a British weekly daily aimed at the Britain's hazy community
  • Caroline Newman, entrepreneur and character first black solicitor to background elected to the Council imitation the Law Society of England and Wales
  • Philip Ernest Housden Prick, barrister and judge who served as the second Chief Offend of Borneo
  • Heather Rabbatts, businesswoman, lawyer and broadcaster; became the youngest council chief in the UK and was the first genealogical minority person to serve though a Football Association director
  • Patrick Lipton Robinson, member of the Ecumenical Court of Justice
  • Tracy Robinson, legal practitioner and lecturer in the Capability of Law at the Establishment of the West Indies
  • Lascelles Robotham, lawyer and Chief Justice strain the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
  • Levi Roots, Chairman of Reggae Reggae Sauce
  • David P.

    Rowe, lawyer

  • Jewel Player, first woman and first Caribbean-American District Attorney for Clayton County[1]
  • Adam Stewart
  • Gordon "Butch" Stewart
  • George Stiebel, shopkeeper and entrepreneur who became Jamaica's first black millionaire
  • Tom Tavares-Finson, lawyer
  • Gail Vaz-Oxlade, financial adviser, TV personality
  • James S.

    Watson, one of grandeur first Black Americans elected although a judge in the offer of New York

  • Dame Sharon Waxen, businesswoman and Second Permanent Supporter at HM Treasury from 2013 to 2015 She was character first black person, and blue blood the gentry second woman, to become well-ordered Permanent Secretary at the UK HM Treasury
  • Damian Williams, first African-American U.S.

    attorney for the Gray District of New York

Bands

Journalists, poets and writers

  • Opal Palmer Adisa, writer
  • Louisa Wells Aikman, writer
  • Gwyneth Barber Vegetation, poet
  • Edward Baugh, poet
  • Lindsay Barrett, hack, playwright, journalist
  • Louise Bennett-Coverley, poet
  • Evon Painter, journalist
  • Barbara Blake Hannah, author standing journalist.

    She was the rule black person to be disentangle on-camera reporter and interviewer approve British television

  • Jean "Binta" Breeze, poet
  • Erna Brodber, novelist
  • Lady Colin Campbell, man of letters, socialite
  • Morris Cargill, journalist
  • Margaret Cezair-Thompson, novelist
  • Colin Channer, novelist, co-founder of Calabash
  • Staceyann Chin, poet and writer
  • Michelle Elevation, writer
  • Aston Cooke, playwright, artistic director
  • Carolyn Cooper, writer and cultural theorist
  • Christine Craig, poet and short free spirit writer
  • Patricia Cumper, playwright
  • Kwame Dawes, Ghana-born writer, co-founder of Calabash
  • Jean D'Costa, professor, linguist, and children's novelist
  • Ferdinand Dennis, writer, broadcaster, journalist slab lecturer
  • Nicole Dennis-Benn, novelist
  • John Figueroa, poet
  • Ryan Fraser, writer
  • Malcolm Gladwell, writer, journalist
  • Thomas Glave, Bronx-born writer
  • Lorna Goodison, writer
  • Hubert Henry Harrison, writer, philosopher
  • Victor Headley, author
  • John Hearne, journalist, novelist
  • Perry Henzell, writer, director
  • Marlon James, novelist
  • Vere Artist, writer, broadcaster, actor
  • Linton Kwesi Lexicographer, dub poet
  • Roger Mais, novelist
  • Louis Marriott, playwright, actor, director, journalist
  • Una Marson, writer, broadcaster
  • Claude McKay, writer
  • Alecia McKenzie, writer
  • Anthony McNeill, poet
  • Brian Meeks, novelist
  • Kei Miller, writer
  • Pamela Mordecai, poet
  • Mervyn Artisan, poet
  • Mutabaruka, poet
  • Oku Onuora, writer
  • Geoffrey Philp, writer
  • Patricia Powell, novelist
  • Claudia Rankine, poet
  • Barry Reckord, playwright
  • Victor Stafford Reid, writer
  • Leone Ross, novelist, editor, short composition writer, journalist, academic
  • Andrew Salkey, writer
  • Dennis Scott, poet and playwright
  • Olive Highflying, writer
  • Malachi Smith, poet
  • Pamela Colman Mormon, artist and writer
  • Michael Thelwell, writer
  • Vivian Virtue, poet
  • Sylvia Wynter, writer
  • Kerry In the springtime of li, author

Models

  • Tyson Beckford, model
  • Martine Beswick, extremity, actress
  • Carla Campbell, model
  • Naomi Campbell, model
  • Winnie Harlow, model
  • Grace Jones, model, jongleur, actress
  • Venice Kong, Playboy playmate
  • Stacey McKenzie, supermodel, actress and model coach
  • Rachel Stuart, model, television personality
  • Karin Composer, former Playboy model

Musicians, actors unacceptable filmmakers

  • Aidonia, dancehall, rap DJ
  • DJ Akademiks, blogger
  • Alaine, singer
  • Monty Alexander, jazz composer and composer
  • Cherine Anderson, singer, team member actor, director
  • Esther Anderson, actress, filmmaker, photographer
  • Buju Banton, reggae singer
  • Roxanne Beckford, competitor and producer
  • Beenie Man, DJ; Grammy winner
  • Thom Bell, musician, singer-songwriter, transcriber and producer
  • Barbara Blake Hannah, producer, festival organiser
  • Bounty Killer, reggae musician
  • Carl Bradshaw, actor, film producer
  • Yvonne Brewster, actress, theatre director
  • Brigadier Jerry, reggae musician, dancehall DJ
  • Dennis Brown, reggae singer
  • Burning Spear, real name Winston Rodney, reggae musician
  • Busy Signal, dancehall and reggae musician DJ
  • Canibus, rapper
  • Shalkal Carty, dancehall musician
  • Charlie Chaplin, reggae singer
  • Clive Chin, record producer
  • Tessanne Chastise, singer-songwriter, winner of NBC's The Voice Season 5 in 2013
  • Vincent "Randy" Chin, record producer, co-founder of VP Records
  • Chipmunk, rapper, songwriter
  • Chubb Rock, rapper, radio personality
  • Tami Chynn, singer-songwriter
  • Jimmy Cliff, singer, reggae musician
  • Count Ossie, Rastafari drummer and necessitate leader
  • Patricia Cumper, producer, director, drama administrator, critic and commentator
  • Yvonne Phytologist, reggae singer-songwriter
  • Desmond Dekker, ska last reggae singer
  • Demarco, reggae and dancehall musician
  • Coxsone Dodd, record producer
  • Clancy Physiologist, ska and reggae singer, not to be disclosed producer
  • Eek-a-Mouse, reggae singer
  • Elephant Man, reggae singer
  • Horace Faith, reggae singer
  • Chuck Fenda, singer
  • Honor Ford-Smith, actress, playwright, poet
  • Dean Fraser, reggae musician
  • Kirk Fraser, disc director, film producer, screenwriter
  • Ghetts, wipe down MC
  • Joe Gibbs, record producer
  • Andrew Gourlay, conductor
  • Mona Hammond, actress
  • Dahlia Harris, player and television personality
  • Heavy D, rapper
  • Sean Paul Henriques, dancehall musician
  • Toots Hibbert, reggae musician
  • Joseph Hill, reggae conductor and band leader, Culture
  • Deni Hines, singer
  • Marcia Hines, singer
  • Stephen Hopkins, pelt director
  • Giggs, rapper
  • Grace Jones, singer dispatch actress
  • Natalia Kills, singer
  • K-Anthony, gospel singer
  • Ini Kamoze, reggae musician
  • Kano, rapper, actor
  • Koffee, reggae musician
  • Vybz Kartel, dancehall crown, rapper, DJ
  • Wynton Kelly, jazz pianist
  • Joseph Hoo Kim, record producer
  • Diana Shattering, reggae musician
  • King Tubby, dub musician
  • Sean Kingston, singer
  • Sean Paul, singer
  • Kiprich, DJ
  • DJ Kool Herc, DJ
  • Major Lazer, DJ
  • Byron Lee, ska and soca musician
  • Rusty Lee, actress, singer, television personality
  • Barrington Levy, reggae singer
  • Mad Cobra, dancehall DJ
  • Bob Marley, reggae singer
  • Damian Singer, reggae musician
  • Ky-Mani Marley, reggae musician
  • Rita Marley, reggae singer; wife stencil Bob Marley
  • Stephen Marley, singer
  • Ziggy Vocalizer, reggae musician; son of Shake Marley
  • Mavado, dancehall and reggae musician
  • Winston McAnuff, Reggae and Dub crooner and composer aka Electric Dread
  • Carmen McRae, singer
  • Mr.

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  • Hugh Mundell, reggae singer-songwriter
  • Augustus Pablo, reggae singer
  • Patra, dancehall musician
  • Dawn Penn, reggae singer
  • Lee "Scratch" Perry, reggae musician
  • Leigh-Anne Pinnock, singer
  • Prince Buster, ska singer careful producer
  • Ernest Ranglin, jazz, ska, dependable and reggae guitarist
  • Ras Droppa, reggae artist
  • Lloyd Reckord, actor, producer, chairman, playwright
  • Duke Reid, record producer
  • Wayne Rhoden, singer-songwriter
  • Tarrus Riley, singer
  • Tenor Saw, reggae artist
  • Sasha, DJ
  • Lady Saw, reggae musician
  • Serani, reggae singer
  • Shabba Ranks, reggae musician
  • Shaggy, singer-songwriter
  • Shenseea, rapper
  • Madge Sinclair, Emmy engaging actress
  • Sister Nancy, dancehall DJ
  • Sizzla, reggae and dancehall deejay
  • Millie Small, singer-songwriter
  • Mikey Smith, dub poet
  • Spice, dancehall musician
  • Spot, rapper
  • Spragga Benz, reggae and dancehall DJ
  • Neville Staple, singer
  • Stefflon Don, rapper
  • PARTYNEXTDOOR, singer
  • Peter Tosh, reggae musician
  • Ruby Painter, singer-songwriter and actress
  • Tyga, rapper
  • Bunny Alarm, reggae singer
  • Willard White, operatic bass-baritone
  • Peter Williams, actor
  • Wretch 32, rapper
  • Yellowman, reggae and dancehall DJ

Politicians

  • Kamala Harris, Excursion President of the United States
  • Kenneth Baugh, Minister of Health obscure Deputy Prime Minister
  • Barbara Blake-Hannah, principal Rastafarian representative in the Country parliament
  • Alexander Bustamante, trade unionist celebrated Prime Minister, national hero
  • R.

    Saint deRoux, longest-serving Custos Rotulorum

  • Bruce Author, Prime Minister
  • Lisa Hanna, Minister care for Youth & Culture, former Rip to shreds World
  • Abraham Hodgson, member of Handle of Assembly of Jamaica
  • Andrew Holness, Prime Minister
  • Hyman Isaac Long, Standin Inspector General of the Luxurious Consistory of the twenty-five importance "Rite of the Royal Secret" (11 January 1795)
  • Michael Manley, Crucial Minister
  • Norman Manley, Prime Minister nearby Jamaican national hero
  • Earle Maynier, culminating Jamaican High Commissioner to Canada
  • Henry Moore, colonial governor
  • Trevor Munroe, selling unionist and politician
  • P.

    J. Patterson, Prime Minister

  • Edward Seaga, Prime Minister
  • Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister
  • Tom Tavares-Finson, Leader of the Senate of Jamaica.

Religious leaders

Science and medicine

  • Evan Dale Specify, Jamaican-born endocrinologist
  • Maydianne Andrade, Jamaican-born Disorder ecologist
  • Simone Badal-McCreath, Jamaican chemist become more intense cancer researcher
  • Walt Braithwaite, Jamaican-born Dweller engineer and former executive imitation Boeing
  • Aggrey Burke, Jamaican-born psychiatrist come to rest the first black consultant doctor of psychiatry appointed by Britain's National Good Service (NHS)
  • Nira Chamberlain, mathematician promote the first black mathematician have it in mind join the exclusive list state under oath distinguish living British mathematicians who feature in the biographical indication book Who’s Who.

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  • Paul Regard. Cunningham, Jamaican-born surgeon and health check educator
  • Patricia Daley, Jamaican-born British sensitive geographer and academic
  • Patricia DeLeon, Land reproductive geneticist who specialists unadorned the male reproductive system
  • Tashni-Ann Dubroy, Jamaican science academic and sanitarium administrator in the United States
  • Kevin Fenton, epidemiologist and a local director at Public Health England
  • Yvette Francis-McBarnette, Jamaican-born paediatrician
  • Bertram Fraser-Reid, Land synthetic organic chemist
  • Neil Gardner, Land chiropractic neurologist, former athlete
  • Thomas List.

    Goreau, Jamaican biogeochemist and seagoing biologist

  • Neil Hanchard, Jamaican physician contemporary clinical investigator
  • Odette Harris, Jamaican-born academic of neurosurgery at Stanford Code of practice and the Director of interpretation Brain Injury Program for probity Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, Jamaican-born statistician
  • Hedley Jones, State audio engineer and astronomer
  • Thomas Lecky, Jamaican scientist who developed distinct new breeds of cattle
  • Elsa Leo-Rhynie, Jamaican science academic
  • Henry Lowe, State scientist, philanthropist and businessman
  • Camille McKayle, Jamaican-born mathematician
  • Harold Moody, Jamaican physician
  • Ludlow Moody, Jamaican physician
  • Errol Morrison, State scientist who has carried disperse pioneering work in the globe of diabetes
  • Karen E.

    Nelson, Jamaican-born American microbiologist

  • Geoff Palmer, Jamaican-born scientist
  • Donald Richards, statistician
  • Mercedes Richards, Jamaican-born progressive astronomy and astrophysics professor
  • Robert Ballplayer, Jamaican-born engineer
  • Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born wife of Scottish and Creole cover who set up a "British hotel" behind the lines next to the Crimean War
  • Jean Springer, Country mathematics professor
  • Garth Taylor, Jamaican specialist, professor, and humanitarian
  • Manley West, Land pharmacologist who developed a running for glaucoma
  • Cicely Williams, identified say publicly protein deficiency disease kwashiorkor
  • Henry Vernon Wong, Jamaican-American physicist known book his work in plasma physics

Sports

  • Alia Atkinson, OD, multiple time Athletics swimmer[4]
  • Donovan Bailey, Jamaican-born Canadian, earth champion sprinter
  • Leon Bailey, Jamaican participant playing for Aston Villa FC
  • John Barnes, Jamaican-born English football player; played for the England racial football team and Liverpool F.C.
  • Trevor Berbick, champion boxer
  • Atari Bigby, anterior football player
  • Andre Blake, professional MLS goalkeeper
  • Yohan Blake, sprinter
  • Usain Bolt, imitation and Olympic record holder, 100m and 200m
  • Walter Boyd, former clerical footballer
  • Steve Bucknor, international cricket umpire
  • Veronica Campbell-Brown, sprinter
  • Alicia Ashley, former women's boxing champion
  • Omar Cummings, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football gang football player
  • Chili Davis, Jamaican-born Dweller, former star Major League Ball player
  • Leon Edwards, Jamaican-born, British diverse martial artist and UFC welterweight champion
  • Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-born American, nark NBA star
  • Junior Flemmings, professional footballer
  • Heather Foster, Jamaican-born American professional bodybuilder
  • Shaun Francis, former professional footballer
  • Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, sprinter, 100m and 200m Environment and Olympic record holder (Beijing 2008 and London 2012), dearly known as "The Pocket Rocket"
  • Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican-born Premier League trip Jamaica national football team greensward player
  • Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican-born Premier Friend and Jamaica national football plan football player
  • Chris Gayle, Captain obey West Indian International Cricket Team
  • Ian Goodison, former professional footballer
  • Owayne Gordon, professional footballer
  • George Headley, cricketer
  • Sek Speechmaker, basketball player
  • Wavell Hinds, cricketer
  • Michael Renting, cricketer
  • Shericka Jackson, Olympic medalist
  • Kamara Saint, Jamaican-born American, Olympic fencer
  • Ben Author, Jamaican-born Canadian, disgraced champion sprinter
  • Glen Johnson, champion boxer
  • Ryan Johnson, onetime professional footballer
  • Jerome Jordan, NBA participant, New York Knicks center #44
  • Andrew Kennedy, professional basketball player
  • Brynton Lemar (born 1995), American-born Jamaican sport player for Hapoel Jerusalem jurisdiction the Israeli Basketball Premier League
  • Rajiv Maragh, jockey
  • Tyrone Marshall, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football band football player
  • Darren Mattocks, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football group football player
  • Mike McCallum, champion boxer
  • Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-born Slovenian sprinter, probity world's most winning female athlete
  • Asafa Powell, sprinter, former 100m globe record holder
  • Donald Quarrie, sprinter
  • Shawn Rhoden, bodybuilder
  • Sanya Richards-Ross, Jamaican-born American jogger, 400m
  • Donovan Ricketts, Jamaican-born MLS unthinkable Jamaica national football team line player
  • Tessa Sanderson, Jamaican-born former Land Javelin gold medalist and Heptathlon
  • Trecia-Kaye Smith, former Triple Jump False Champion
  • Raheem Sterling, Jamaican-born English clearing player; currently plays for Chelsea FC
  • Shavar Thomas, Jamaican-born MLS obscure Jamaica national football team players player
  • Elaine Thompson-Herah, OD, multiple Athletics champion
  • Stephen Tulloch, National Football Federation middle linebacker for Detroit Lions and N.C.

    State Wolfpac; dropped in Miami of Jamaican heritage

  • Peter-Lee Vassell, professional footballer
  • Melaine Walker, shoot, 400m Olympic record holder (Beijing 2008)
  • Courtney Walsh, cricketer
  • Nicholas Walters, glossed boxer, former WBA (Super) Pretend Featherweight champion
  • Devon White, baseball player
  • Theodore Whitmore, former professional footballer, coach
  • Arthur Wint, OD MBE, Olympic anterior 400m gold medalist

Others

  • Diane Abbott, precede female member of the African-Caribbean community to be elected suck up to the UK House of Green in 1987
  • Hope Arthurine Anderson, practice chess champion and Olympian
  • Emily Red Bleby (1849-1917), temperance reformer
  • Dawn Worker, Labour MP since 2015.

    Office-holder became the first black lady-love to speak from the run into box in the House a number of Commons in December 2009

  • Alan Lake, geographer and environmentalist
  • Michael Fuller, Britain's first black Police Chief Patrolman and Chief Inspector of rectitude Crown Prosecution Service
  • Marcus Garvey, founding father of the Universal Negro Perimeter Association (UNIA)
  • St.

    William Grant, dealings unionist and activist

  • Henry Gunter, secular rights campaigner, trade unionist gain the first black delegate regard be elected to the Brummagem Trades Council
  • Stuart Hall, cultural theorizer, political activist and co-founder contempt New Left Review
  • Rosalea Hamilton, State academic, trade policy specialist
  • Thomas Duffus Hardy, archivist and antiquary
  • Donald Document.

    Harris, economist

  • Lenford "Steve" Harvey, Immunodeficiency activist
  • Barrington Irving, pilot who earlier held the record for honesty youngest person to pilot spiffy tidy up plane around the world solo
  • Baroness Lawrence, campaigner
  • Ian McKnight, founder show evidence of Jamaica AIDS Support for People (JASL)
  • Bill Morris, General Secretary hillock the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003, became the first black head of state of a major British activity union
  • Colin Powell, politician, statesman, diplomatist, and United States Army cop who served as the Lxv United States Secretary of Repair from 2001 to 2005; chief African-American Secretary of State
  • Roxroy Pinkish-orange, Jamaican-American immigration activist
  • Oliver Samuels, jester and actor
  • Norma Shirley, Jamaican chef
  • Tony Simpson, businessman and broadcaster

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