List of Eastern Caribbean people


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

[Antigua and Barbuda]

Actors

  • Nicole Byer
  • Alfred Enoch
  • Melyssa Ford - model
  • Doug E. Fresh
  • Meagan Good
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Omar Gooding
  • David Harewood
  • LL Cool J
  • Mari Morrow
  • Redd Pepper
  • Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Robert Christopher Riley
  • Lamman Rucker
  • Ayo Edebiri
  • Tamara Taylor

    Artists

  • Ras Akyem
  • Karl Broodhagen
  • Edward Rupert Burrowes
  • Alison Chapman-Andrews
  • Jeena Chatrani
  • Paul Dash
  • Annalee Davis
  • Stanley Greaves
  • Gwendolyn Knight
  • Coral Bernadine Pollard
  • Sheena Rose

    Athletes

  • Robert Bailey - American football player
  • Nigel Benn - British boxer
  • Andrea Blackett - hurdler
  • Emmerson Boyce - footballer who captained the 2013 FA Cup winning Wigan Athletic side
  • Fred Brathwaite - NHL goalie
  • Pierre Browne - sprinter
  • Anson Carter - NHL player
  • Ashley Cole - English footballer
  • Jon Cornish - CFL player
  • Joel Garner - cricketer
  • Kieran Gibbs - footballer
  • Joshua Gibson - Aussie rules footballer
  • Gordon Greenidge - cricketer
  • Marlon Harewood - footballer
  • Ramon Harewood - American football player
  • Desmond Haynes - cricketer
  • Hadan Holligan - footballer
  • Sir Conrad Hunte - cricketer
  • Paul Ince - English footballer and football manager
  • Winston Justice - American football player
  • Darian King - professional tennis player
  • Zane Maloney - racing driver
  • Malcolm Marshall - cricketer
  • Fran Matthews - Negro league baseball player
  • Earl Maynard - bodybuilder, wrestler, etc.
  • Anton Norris - high jumper
  • Kemar Roach - cricketer
  • Sam Seale - American football player
  • Alana Shipp - American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder
  • Sir Garfield Sobers - cricketer
  • Obadele Thompson - sprinter, etc.
  • Walter Tull - English footballer; first British-born black Army officer; father was from Barbados
  • Sir Clyde Walcott - cricketer
  • Joel Ward - ice hockey player
  • Sir Everton Weekes - cricketer
  • Kevin Weekes - NHL goalie
  • Andrew Wiggins - NBA basketball player
  • Sir Frank Worrell - cricketer
  • Rhian Brewster

    Mariners

  • Stede Bonnet
  • William Shorey

    Musicians

  • Afrika Bambaataa - rapper from the 1980s
  • Kelly Beckett - member of the Paradiso Girls
  • Vita Chambers - Canadian songstress
  • CJ Fly - rapper
  • Carl Cox - producer, DJ
  • Cover Drive - reggae group consisting of Amanda Reifer, T-Ray Armstrong, Barry "Bar-Man" Hill and Jamar Harding
  • Damon Dash
  • Dave East - rapper
  • Faith Evans
  • Doug E. Fresh
  • Cuba Gooding, Sr.
  • Grandmaster Flash
  • Grynner
  • Alison Hinds
  • Jackie Opel
  • Jaicko - R&B/pop singer-songwriter
  • Killy
  • Ryan Leslie
  • Charles D. Lewis - artist, bassist, producer
  • Hal Linton
  • Livvi Franc
  • Magnet Man
  • Zeeteah Massiah
  • Rakim Mayers - artist
  • Mighty Gabby
  • Mark Morrison
  • Leigh-Anne Pinnock - member of Little Mix
  • Rayvon
  • Red Plastic Bag
  • Rihanna - singer
  • RoRo - singer-songwriter
  • Rupee - musician, born Rupert Clarke
  • Shontelle - pop, reggae, and R&B singer
  • Slowthai - British rapper, a teenage mother who is half Bajan
  • Arturo Tappin
  • Tory Lanez
  • Tweet - singer, born Charlene Keys
  • Joseph L. Walcott - founded the first black-owned nightclub in New England, featuring many jazz greats

    Political leaders

  • Sir Grantley Adams
  • J. M. G. Adams
  • Owen Arthur
  • Errol Barrow
  • Sir Courtney Blackman
  • Edna Ermyntrude Bourne - the first woman to be elected to the House of Assembly of Barbados
  • London Bourne - former Barbadian slave who became a merchant and abolitionist
  • Bussa
  • Shirley Chisholm - Congresswoman
  • Anne C. Cools - Canadian senator
  • Gertrude Eastmond - the second woman to be elected to the House of Assembly of Barbados
  • Adrian Fenty - former Mayor of Washington, D.C.
  • Charles Gittens - first black United States Secret Service agent
  • Eric Holder - Attorney General of the United States
  • Sir Clifford Husbands
  • Gwen Ifill - American political journalist; television newscaster
  • Thomas R. Jones - former civil court judge and civil rights activist in Brooklyn, New York
  • Clyde Mascoll - Barbadian government official
  • Chirlane McCray - poet, public speech writer; married to a New York mayor Bill de Blasio
  • Dame Billie Miller
  • Richard B. Moore
  • Mia Mottley - Barbadian prime minister
  • Charles O'Neale
  • Clement Payne
  • Erskine Sandiford - former Barbadian prime minister
  • Bret Schundler - former Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Lloyd Sealy - first African-American NYPD officer to command a police precinct and patrol borough
  • David Thompson - former Barbadian prime minister
  • Elizabeth Thompson - politician, Permanent Representative to the UN
  • Dennis M. Walcott - Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development in New York City
  • Dame Maizie Barker-Welch - Barbados politician and women's rights activist
  • Alphea Wiggins
  • Frank L. White - original chef face on Cream Of Wheat box

    Writers and intellectuals

  • Adisa Andwele - rhythm poet
  • Hilary Beckles - historian
  • Edward Brathwaite - poet and academic
  • Austin Clarke - author and poet
  • Tony Cozier - cricket writer and broadcaster
  • Alan Emtage - Internet pioneer
  • Neville Goddard - mystic and author
  • Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge - writer on history and law
  • Charles Wilton Wood Greenidge - organizational head
  • Ken R. Harewood - molecular biologist
  • Ted Harris - Sweden-based pastor, theologian and writer
  • Agymah Kamau - novelist
  • Odimumba Kwamdela - poet and novelist
  • George Lamming - author and poet
  • Karen Lord - writer of speculative fiction
  • Glenville Lovell - author, playwright, dancer
  • Paule Marshall - novelist
  • Avinash Persaud - businessman
  • Sheena Rose - artist
  • Susan L. Taylor - former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine

    Others

  • Frederick Atkins - convicted murderer

    [Curaçao]

Singers

Political leaders

  • Léon Bertrand
  • Justin Catayée
  • Félix Éboué
  • Gaston Monnerville
  • Victor Schœlcher
  • Christiane Taubira

    Writers and intellectuals

  • Léon Damas

    Athletes

  • Ludovic Baal
  • Alexis Claude-Maurice
  • Roy Contout
  • Simon Falette
  • Marc-Antoine Fortuné
  • Jaïr Karam
  • Mike Maignan
  • Florent Malouda
  • Ludovic Proto
  • Jean-Clair Todibo

    [Grenada]

  • List of British people of Grenadian descent

    Artists

  • Canute Caliste

    Athletes

  • Lewis Hamilton - F1 driver and 7-time World Champion 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, & 2020 seasons
  • Kirani James - Grenadian sprinter who specialises in 200 and 400 meters
  • Yazmeen Jamieson
  • Cameron Jerome
  • Jason Roberts - footballer currently playing for Blackburn Rovers

    Business people and agriculturalists

  • James Baillie

    Musicians

  • Ajamu
  • Casey Benjamin - member of the Robert Glasper Project
  • Craig David
  • Dollarman
  • David Emmanuel
  • Leslie Hutchinson
  • Jemeni
  • Row Lewis
  • Mighty Sparrow
  • Ms. Dynamite
  • Sir Galba
  • Sonika

    Political leaders

  • Jean Augustine
  • Maurice Bishop
  • Herbert A. Blaize
  • Nicholas Brathwaite
  • Tubal Uriah Butler
  • Henri Christophe
  • Bernard Coard
  • Eric Gairy
  • Malcolm X
  • Dickon Mitchell
  • Keith Mitchell
  • David Paterson
  • David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead
  • Tillman Thomas