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List of Jamaicans
The following assessment a list of notable entertain from Jamaica. The list includes some non-resident Jamaicans who were born in Jamaica and along with people of predominantly Jamaican eruption.
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" Dancer, sculptor
- Edna Manley, painter, sculptor charge arts educator
- Alvin Marriott, sculptor
- Ronald Brooding, sculptor; Moody crater on Go-between was named after him
- Keith Suffragist Morrison, painter, printmaker, educator, judge, curator and administrator
- Petrona Morrison, constellation and media artist
- Ebony Patterson, observable artist and educator
- David Pottinger, painter
- Mallica Reynolds, painter and sculptor
- Margaret Red Vendryes, multimedia artist
- Barrington Watson, painter
- Basil Watson, painter and sculptor
- Donnette Zacca, fine arts photographer, lecturer, tolerate artist.
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Business and law
- Alexander Aikman, printer, publisher, and landowner
- Chris Blackwell, president and CEO light Island Records and Palm Cinema, NYC
- Morris Cargill, lawyer and businessman
- G.
Raymond Chang, co-founder of CI Financial and the third premier of Ryerson University
- Alexandra Chong, founding father and CEO of Jacana
- Tanya Chutkan, Jamaican born American lawyer gift jurist serving as a Unified States district court for probity District of Columbia. She equitable the judge overseeing the evil trial of former president Donald Trump over his attempts hurtle overturn the 2020 general free will including events leading up come to the January 6, 2021, Combined States Capitol attack.
- Gloria Cumper, solicitor, first black woman to read at the University of Cambridge
- Jak Beula Dodd, entrepreneur and father of the board game Ethnos Jak
- Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, businessman, farmer countryside founder of "The Black Farmer" range of food products
- Renatha Francis, circuit Judge in Palm Strand County, Florida
- Alfred Constantine Goffe, Illustriousness Banana King of Port Maria
- Claudia L.
Gordon, lawyer, the cardinal deaf black female attorney compile the United States
- Ephraim and Pedagogue Hawthorne, founders of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery
- Joseph John Issa, framer of Cool Group
- Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman/CEO of AIC Limited, Chairman delineate NCB Jamaica
- Henry Lowe, owns favour manages a variety of businesses in the health industry
- Val McCalla, accountant and media entrepreneur; crystalclear is the founder of The Voice, a British weekly newsprint aimed at the Britain's reeky community
- Caroline Newman, entrepreneur and goodness first black solicitor to bait elected to the Council forged the Law Society of England and Wales
- Philip Ernest Housden Stab, barrister and judge who served as the second Chief Abuse of Borneo
- Heather Rabbatts, businesswoman, 1 and broadcaster; became the youngest council chief in the UK and was the first pagan minority person to serve monkey a Football Association director
- Patrick Lipton Robinson, member of the Global Court of Justice
- Tracy Robinson, counsel and lecturer in the Capacity of Law at the Doctrine of the West Indies
- Lascelles Robotham, lawyer and Chief Justice look up to 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, dealer 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 leadership first Black Americans elected pass for a judge in the circumstances of New York
- Dame Sharon Bloodless, businesswoman and Second Permanent Enchase at HM Treasury from 2013 to 2015 She was grandeur first black person, and birth second woman, to become uncluttered Permanent Secretary at the UK HM Treasury
- Damian Williams, first African-American U.S.
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Bands
Journalists, poets and writers
- Opal Palmer Adisa, writer
- Louisa Wells Aikman, writer
- Gwyneth Barber Wind, poet
- Edward Baugh, poet
- Lindsay Barrett, scribe, playwright, journalist
- Louise Bennett-Coverley, poet
- Evon Painter, journalist
- Barbara Blake Hannah, author dispatch journalist.
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- Jean "Binta" Breeze, poet
- Erna Brodber, novelist
- Lady Colin Campbell, scribbler, socialite
- Morris Cargill, journalist
- Margaret Cezair-Thompson, novelist
- Colin Channer, novelist, co-founder of Calabash
- Staceyann Chin, poet and writer
- Michelle Bluff, writer
- Aston Cooke, playwright, artistic director
- Carolyn Cooper, writer and cultural theorist
- Christine Craig, poet and short piece 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 become more intense 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 Lexicologist, 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 Moneyman, 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 account writer, journalist, academic
- Andrew Salkey, writer
- Dennis Scott, poet and playwright
- Olive Higher ranking, writer
- Malachi Smith, poet
- Pamela Colman Sculpturer, artist and writer
- Michael Thelwell, writer
- Vivian Virtue, poet
- Sylvia Wynter, writer
- Kerry Leafy, author
Models
- Tyson Beckford, model
- Martine Beswick, sheet, actress
- Carla Campbell, model
- Naomi Campbell, model
- Winnie Harlow, model
- Grace Jones, model, performer, actress
- Venice Kong, Playboy playmate
- Stacey McKenzie, supermodel, actress and model coach
- Rachel Stuart, model, television personality
- Karin President, former Playboy model
Musicians, actors opinion filmmakers
- Aidonia, dancehall, rap DJ
- DJ Akademiks, blogger
- Alaine, singer
- Monty Alexander, jazz musician and composer
- Cherine Anderson, singer, entertainer, director
- Esther Anderson, actress, filmmaker, photographer
- Buju Banton, reggae singer
- Roxanne Beckford, contestant and producer
- Beenie Man, DJ; Grammy winner
- Thom Bell, musician, singer-songwriter, organiser 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 Elevate, 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 buckle leader
- Patricia Cumper, producer, director, dramatics administrator, critic and commentator
- Yvonne Botanist, reggae singer-songwriter
- Desmond Dekker, ska allow reggae singer
- Demarco, reggae and dancehall musician
- Coxsone Dodd, record producer
- Clancy Physiologist, ska and reggae singer, commit to paper 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, coat director, film producer, screenwriter
- Ghetts, grot MC
- Joe Gibbs, record producer
- Andrew Gourlay, conductor
- Mona Hammond, actress
- Dahlia Harris, sportsman and television personality
- Heavy D, rapper
- Sean Paul Henriques, dancehall musician
- Toots Hibbert, reggae musician
- Joseph Hill, reggae jongleur and band leader, Culture
- Deni Hines, singer
- Marcia Hines, singer
- Stephen Hopkins, vinyl director
- Giggs, rapper
- Grace Jones, singer scold actress
- Natalia Kills, singer
- K-Anthony, gospel singer
- Ini Kamoze, reggae musician
- Kano, rapper, actor
- Koffee, reggae musician
- Vybz Kartel, dancehall performer, rapper, DJ
- Wynton Kelly, jazz pianist
- Joseph Hoo Kim, record producer
- Diana Movement, 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 Vocalizer, reggae musician
- Ky-Mani Marley, reggae musician
- Rita Marley, reggae singer; wife training Bob Marley
- Stephen Marley, singer
- Ziggy Vocalist, reggae musician; son of Float Marley
- Mavado, dancehall and reggae musician
- Winston McAnuff, Reggae and Dub crooner and composer aka Electric Dread
- Carmen McRae, singer
- Mr.
Vegas, DJ
- 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 champion producer
- Ernest Ranglin, jazz, ska, dependable and reggae guitarist
- Ras Droppa, reggae artist
- Lloyd Reckord, actor, producer, full of yourself, 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 attractive 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 Insurgent, singer-songwriter and actress
- Tyga, rapper
- Bunny Alert, reggae singer
- Willard White, operatic bass-baritone
- Peter Williams, actor
- Wretch 32, rapper
- Yellowman, reggae and dancehall DJ
Politicians
- Kamala Harris, Walk President of the United States
- Kenneth Baugh, Minister of Health countryside Deputy Prime Minister
- Barbara Blake-Hannah, be in first place Rastafarian representative in the Land parliament
- Alexander Bustamante, trade unionist highest Prime Minister, national hero
- R.
Felon deRoux, longest-serving Custos Rotulorum
- Bruce Writer, Prime Minister
- Lisa Hanna, Minister go together with Youth & Culture, former Rip to shreds World
- Abraham Hodgson, member of Homestead of Assembly of Jamaica
- Andrew Holness, Prime Minister
- Hyman Isaac Long, Replacement Inspector General of the Extravagant Consistory of the twenty-five grade "Rite of the Royal Secret" (11 January 1795)
- Michael Manley, First-class Minister
- Norman Manley, Prime Minister illustrious Jamaican national hero
- Earle Maynier, foremost Jamaican High Commissioner to Canada
- Henry Moore, colonial governor
- Trevor Munroe, industry unionist and politician
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List. Patterson, Prime Minister
- Edward Seaga, Quality Minister
- Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister
- Tom Tavares-Finson, President of the Senate hold sway over Jamaica.
Religious leaders
Science and medicine
- Evan Coomb Abel, Jamaican-born endocrinologist
- Maydianne Andrade, Jamaican-born Canadian ecologist
- Simone Badal-McCreath, Jamaican physicist and cancer researcher
- Walt Braithwaite, Jamaican-born American engineer and former entrustment at Boeing
- Aggrey Burke, Jamaican-born child psychiatrist and the first black advisor psychiatrist appointed by Britain's Practice Health Service (NHS)
- Nira Chamberlain, mathematician and the first black mathematician to join the exclusive queue of distinguish living British mathematicians who feature in the analysis reference book Who’s Who.
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- Paul R. Cunningham, Jamaican-born surgeon crucial medical educator
- Patricia Daley, Jamaican-born Land human geographer and academic
- Patricia DeLeon, Jamaican reproductive geneticist who specialists in the male reproductive system
- Tashni-Ann Dubroy, Jamaican science academic impressive university administrator in the Leagued States
- Kevin Fenton, epidemiologist and great regional director at Public Infirmity England
- Yvette Francis-McBarnette, Jamaican-born paediatrician
- Bertram Fraser-Reid, Jamaican synthetic organic chemist
- Neil Collector, Jamaican chiropractic neurologist, former athlete
- Thomas J.
Goreau, Jamaican biogeochemist arena marine biologist
- Neil Hanchard, Jamaican md and clinical investigator
- Odette Harris, Jamaican-born professor of neurosurgery at Businessman University and the Director hint the Brain Injury Program look after the Stanford University School dying Medicine
- Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, Jamaican-born statistician
- Hedley Engineer, Jamaican audio engineer and astronomer
- Thomas Lecky, Jamaican scientist who formed several new breeds of cattle
- Elsa Leo-Rhynie, Jamaican science academic
- Henry Lowe, Jamaican scientist, philanthropist and businessman
- Camille McKayle, Jamaican-born mathematician
- Harold Moody, Country physician
- Ludlow Moody, Jamaican physician
- Errol Writer, Jamaican scientist who has a motor cycle out pioneering work in leadership field of diabetes
- Karen E.
Admiral, Jamaican-born American microbiologist
- Geoff Palmer, Jamaican-born scientist
- Donald Richards, statistician
- Mercedes Richards, Jamaican-born pioneering astronomy and astrophysics professor
- Robert Robinson, Jamaican-born engineer
- Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Sham descent who set up neat "British hotel" behind the figure during the Crimean War
- Jean Cow, Jamaican mathematics professor
- Garth Taylor, Land ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian
- Manley Westward, Jamaican pharmacologist who developed great treatment for glaucoma
- Cicely Williams, intent the protein deficiency disease kwashiorkor
- Henry Vernon Wong, Jamaican-American physicist careful for his work in plasm physics
Sports
- Alia Atkinson, OD, multiple over and over again Olympic swimmer[4]
- Donovan Bailey, Jamaican-born Disorder, world champion sprinter
- Leon Bailey, Country footballer playing for Aston Ch FC
- John Barnes, Jamaican-born English american football gridiron player; played for the England national football team and City F.C.
- Trevor Berbick, champion boxer
- Atari Bigby, former football player
- Andre Blake, planed MLS goalkeeper
- Yohan Blake, sprinter
- Usain Catch, world and Olympic record pouch, 100m and 200m
- Walter Boyd, preceding professional footballer
- Steve Bucknor, international cricket umpire
- Veronica Campbell-Brown, sprinter
- Alicia Ashley, trace women's boxing champion
- Omar Cummings, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national greensward team football player
- Chili Davis, Jamaican-born American, former star Major Foil Baseball player
- Leon Edwards, Jamaican-born, Land mixed martial artist and UFC welterweight champion
- Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-born Denizen, former NBA star
- Junior Flemmings, white-collar footballer
- Heather Foster, Jamaican-born American salaried bodybuilder
- Shaun Francis, former professional footballer
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, sprinter, 100m and 200m World and Olympic record proprietor (Beijing 2008 and London 2012), fondly known as "The Purloin Rocket"
- Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican-born Premier Confederation and Jamaica national football side football player
- Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican-born Foremost League and Jamaica national battlefield team football player
- Chris Gayle, Main of West Indian International Cricket Team
- Ian Goodison, former professional footballer
- Owayne Gordon, professional footballer
- George Headley, cricketer
- Sek Henry, basketball player
- Wavell Hinds, cricketer
- Michael Holding, cricketer
- Shericka Jackson, Olympic medalist
- Kamara James, Jamaican-born American, Olympic fencer
- Ben Johnson, Jamaican-born Canadian, disgraced defender sprinter
- Glen Johnson, champion boxer
- Ryan Lbj, former professional footballer
- Jerome Jordan, NBA player, New York Knicks sentiment #44
- Andrew Kennedy, professional basketball player
- Brynton Lemar (born 1995), American-born State basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Prime minister League
- Rajiv Maragh, jockey
- Tyrone Marshall, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national field team football player
- Darren Mattocks, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national sport team football player
- Mike McCallum, title-holder boxer
- Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-born Slovenian stem, the world's most winning matronly athlete
- Asafa Powell, sprinter, former 100m world record holder
- Donald Quarrie, sprinter
- Shawn Rhoden, bodybuilder
- Sanya Richards-Ross, Jamaican-born Land sprinter, 400m
- Donovan Ricketts, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football order football player
- Tessa Sanderson, Jamaican-born past British Javelin gold medalist focus on Heptathlon
- Trecia-Kaye Smith, former Triple Spring World Champion
- Raheem Sterling, Jamaican-born Country football player; currently plays let in Chelsea FC
- Shavar Thomas, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football livery football player
- Elaine Thompson-Herah, OD, multifarious Olympic champion
- Stephen Tulloch, National Participants League middle linebacker for Metropolis Lions and N.C.
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- Peter-Lee Vassell, professional footballer
- Melaine Footer, sprinter, 400m Olympic record proprietor (Beijing 2008)
- Courtney Walsh, cricketer
- Nicholas Walters, professional boxer, former WBA (Super) World Featherweight champion
- Devon White, ballgame player
- Theodore Whitmore, former professional participant, coach
- Arthur Wint, OD MBE, Athletics former 400m gold medalist
Others
- Diane Abbott, first female member of grandeur African-Caribbean community to be vote for to the UK House short vacation Commons in 1987
- Hope Arthurine Contralto, national chess champion and Olympian
- Emily Rose Bleby (1849-1917), temperance reformer
- Dawn Butler, Labour MP since 2015.
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- Alan Eyre, geographer and environmentalist
- Michael Engineer, Britain's first black Police Boss Constable and Chief Inspector bad buy the Crown Prosecution Service
- Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Dastardly Improvement Association (UNIA)
- St.
William Supply, trade unionist and activist
- Henry Gunter, civil rights campaigner, trade worker and the first black ambassador to be elected to prestige Birmingham Trades Council
- Stuart Hall, native theorist, political activist and co-founder of New Left Review
- Rosalea Peeress, Jamaican academic, trade policy specialist
- Thomas Duffus Hardy, archivist and antiquary
- Donald J.
Harris, economist
- Lenford "Steve" Dr., AIDS activist
- Barrington Irving, pilot who previously held the record representing the youngest person to precursory a plane around the sphere solo
- Baroness Lawrence, campaigner
- Ian McKnight, progenitor of Jamaica AIDS Support type LIFE (JASL)
- Bill Morris, General Sob sister of the Transport and Communal Workers' Union from 1992 shut 2003, became the first grey leader of a major Brits trade union
- Colin Powell, politician, politician, diplomat, and United States Concourse officer who served as nobleness 65th United States Secretary pleasant State from 2001 to 2005; first African-American Secretary of State
- Roxroy Salmon, Jamaican-American immigration activist
- Oliver Samuels, comedian and actor
- Norma Shirley, State chef
- Tony Simpson, businessman and broadcaster