List of Guyanese
The Guyanese people are people of the South American nation of Guyana. Guyanese people come from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, including indigenous, African, Indian, Chinese, and European ethnic groups. Although citizens make up the majority of Guyanese, there is a substantial number of Guyanese expatriates, dual citizens and descendants living worldwide, chiefly elsewhere in the Anglosphere.
Actors and entertainers
- Robert Adams, British Guyanese actor, of stage and screen
- Harry Baird, Guyanese-born British actor
- Marc Matthews, actor, broadcaster, writer, and producer
- CCH Pounder, Guyanese–American actress
- Tony Tornado, Brazilian actor of Guyanese origin
- Ian Valz, actor, playwright and filmmaker
- Ashley Walters, British actor, rapper of Guyanese and Jamaican origin
- T-Bone Wilson, Guyanese-born British actor, dramatist, and poet
Artists
- Kwesi Abbensetts, Guyanese-born American photographer
- Rihanna, Barbadian singer of Guyanese descent
- Central Cee, British Rapper of Guyanese descent
- Damali Abrams, American-born video artist and performance artist, of Guyanese descent
- George Barber, British Guyanese video artist
- Frank Bowling, British Guyanese painter, based in the United Kingdom
- Theresa Chromati American-born painter, of Guyanese descent
- Victor Davson, Guyanese-born American collagist, curator, and gallerist
- Ann Gollifer British Guyanese painter, printmaker, writer and photographer, based in Gaborone, Botswana
- Maggie Harris, poet, writer, and visual artist, based in the United Kingdom
- Oswald Hussein, Guyanese sculptor of wood, of Lokono descent
- Donald Locke, drafter, painter, sculptor
- Hew Locke, Scottish-born sculptor, raised in Guyana and based in London
- Leila Locke, English-born Guyanese painter
- Suchitra Mattai, Guyanese-born American multidisciplinary contemporary artist
- Philip Moore, sculptor and painter
- Bernadette Persaud, painter
- Ingrid Pollard British Guyanese photographer
- Lenny Prince, Guyanese-born American sculptor and large scale installation artist
- Doris Rogers, Guyanese academic who specialized in fine arts
Athletes
- Martin Braithwaite, Danish professional footballer, of Guyanese descent
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul, cricket coach and former captain of the West Indies cricket team
- Nicolette Fernandes, British squash player, representing Guyana
- Lance Gibbs, cricketer
- Carl Hooper, cricketer
- Rohan Kanhai, cricketer
- Clive Lloyd, British Guyanese cricketer
- Ramnaresh Sarwan, cricketer
- Kwesi Sinclair, Guyanese-born cricketer who represented British Virgin Islands
Businesspeople
- Arif Ali, Guyana-born British publisher, and newspaper proprietor
- Elizabeth Swain Bannister, Barbadian-born businessperson and freewoman, who lived in Berbice, a Dutch Colony
- John Meredith Ford, businessman and politician
Musicians
- Anjulie, Canadian singer of Indo-Guyanese descent
- Aubrey Cummings, Guyana-born Barbadian musician
- Central Cee, English rapper of Guyanese and Chinese ancestry
- Olivia Dean, English singer of Guyanese descent
- Leona Lewis, English singer of Guyanese descent
- Lynette Dolphin, musician, educator, chair of the Guyana Department of Culture
- Rudolph Dunbar, conductor, composer, musician
- Melanie Fiona, Canadian singer and songwriter, of Guyanese descent
- Eddy Grant, British Guyanese singer, songwriter
- Keko (Guyanese rapper), rapper, radio personality
- Phil Lynott, Irish musician of Guyanese descent, lead vocalist, bassist, and songwriter for Thin Lizzy
- Preme, Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer, of Guyanese descent
- Red Café, Guyanese-born American rapper
- Rihanna, Barbadian singer, of Afro-Guyanese descent on her maternal side
- Saint Jhn, American rapper, raised in Guyana
- Sandhja, Finnish singer, of Indo-Guyanese and Finnish descent
- Sol Raye, cabaret musician
Politicians and activists
- Margaret Ackman, politician and a founding member of the People’s National Congress Reform
- Andaiye, social, political, and gender rights activist
- Antony Beaujon, civil servant and politician
- Juan Edghill, pastor and politician; founder and bishop of Zadok Ministers Fellowship
- John Meredith Ford, businessman and politician
- Valerie Hart, indigenous political leader from the Wapishana ethnic group and a member of Guyana's Amerindian Party
- Jim Jones, American cult leader, expatriate in Guyana, and founder of Jonestown
- Abdul Kadir, politician, convicted terrorist
- Edwina Melville, writer, teacher, politician, and advocate of the Wapishana peoples
Writers
- Michael Abbensetts, Guyana-born British playwright and screenwriter
- John Agard, Guyana-born British playwright, poet and children's writer
- Arif Ali, Guyana-born British publisher, and newspaper proprietor
- E. R. Braithwaite, writer
- Jan Carew, Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator
- Martin Carter, poet and political activist
- David Dabydeen, Guyanese-born broadcaster, writer and academic
- Wilson Harris poet, novelist
- Roy Heath Guyanese-born writer, based in the UK
- Matthew James Higgins, British writer, he lived part time in British Guiana
- Edgar Mittelholzer, novelist
- Walter Rodney, politician, activist and historian
- Ivan Van Sertima Guyanese-born British Africanist and academic
- A. J. Seymour, writer, editor, and publisher
- Eric Walrond, British Guyanese-born American writer and journalist, associated with the Harlem Renaissance
- Shana Yardan, poet and broadcaster