• Source: List of Jamaicans

The following is a list of notable people from Jamaica. The list includes some non-resident Jamaicans who were born in Jamaica and also people of predominantly Jamaican heritage.




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" Kelly, sculptor
Edna Manley, painter, sculptor and arts educator
Alvin Marriott, sculptor
Ronald Moody, sculptor; Moody crater on Mercury was named after him
Keith Anthony Morrison, painter, printmaker, educator, critic, curator and administrator
Petrona Morrison, sculptor and media artist
Ebony Patterson, visual artist and educator
David Pottinger, painter
Mallica Reynolds, painter and sculptor
Margaret Rose Vendryes, multimedia artist
Barrington Watson, painter
Basil Watson, painter and sculptor
Donnette Zacca, fine arts photographer, lecturer, and artist.




Beauty contest winners


Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976
Carole Joan Crawford, Miss World 1965
Lisa Hanna, Miss World 1993, politician
Toni-Ann Singh, Miss World 2019




Business and law


Alexander Aikman, printer, publisher, and landowner
Chris Blackwell, president and CEO of Island Records and Palm Pictures, NYC
Morris Cargill, lawyer and businessman
G. Raymond Chang, co-founder of CI Financial and the third chancellor of Ryerson University
Alexandra Chong, founder and CEO of Jacana
Tanya Chutkan, Jamaican born American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district court for the District of Columbia. She is the judge overseeing the criminal trial of former president Donald Trump over his attempts to overturn the 2020 general election including events leading up to the January 6, 2021, United States Capitol attack.
Gloria Cumper, barrister, first black woman to study at the University of Cambridge
Jak Beula Dodd, entrepreneur and inventor of the board game Nubian Jak
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, businessman, farmer and founder of "The Black Farmer" range of food products
Renatha Francis, circuit Judge in Palm Beach County, Florida
Alfred Constantine Goffe, The Banana King of Port Maria
Claudia L. Gordon, lawyer, the first deaf black female attorney in the United States
Ephraim and Lowell Hawthorne, founders of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery
Joseph John Issa, founder of Cool Group
Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman/CEO of AIC Limited, Chairman of NCB Jamaica
Henry Lowe, owns and manages a variety of businesses in the health industry
Val McCalla, accountant and media entrepreneur; he is the founder of The Voice, a British weekly newspaper aimed at the Britain's black community
Caroline Newman, entrepreneur and the first black solicitor to be elected to the Council of the Law Society of England and Wales
Philip Ernest Housden Pike, barrister and judge who served as the second Chief Justice of Borneo
Heather Rabbatts, businesswoman, solicitor and broadcaster; became the youngest council chief in the UK and was the first ethnic minority person to serve as a Football Association director
Patrick Lipton Robinson, member of the International Court of Justice
Tracy Robinson, lawyer and lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies
Lascelles Robotham, lawyer and Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
Levi Roots, Chairman of Reggae Reggae Sauce
David P. Rowe, lawyer
Jewel Scott, first woman and first Caribbean-American District Attorney for Clayton County
Adam Stewart
Gordon "Butch" Stewart
George Stiebel, trader 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 the first Black Americans elected as a judge in the state of New York
Dame Sharon White, businesswoman and Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury from 2013 to 2015 She was the first black person, and the second woman, to become a Permanent Secretary at the UK HM Treasury
Damian Williams, first African-American U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York




Bands


Black Uhuru, Grammy Award winners
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Burning Spear
Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
Culture
Inner Circle
Morgan Heritage, Grammy Award winners
The Pioneers
Skatalites, ska band
Sly and Robbie
Third World
T.O.K., a crew of deejays
Toots and the Maytals, double Grammy Award Winners




Journalists, poets and writers






Models


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




Musicians, actors and filmmakers






Politicians


Kenneth Baugh, Minister of Health and Deputy Prime Minister
Barbara Blake-Hannah, first Rastafarian representative in the Jamaican parliament
Alexander Bustamante, trade unionist and Prime Minister, national hero
R. James deRoux, longest-serving Custos Rotulorum
Bruce Golding, Prime Minister
Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth & Culture, former Miss World
Abraham Hodgson, member of House of Assembly of Jamaica
Andrew Holness, Prime Minister
Hyman Isaac Long, Deputy Inspector General of the Grand Consistory of the twenty-five degree "Rite of the Royal Secret" (11 January 1795)
Michael Manley, Prime Minister
Norman Manley, Prime Minister and Jamaican national hero
Earle Maynier, first Jamaican High Commissioner to Canada
Henry Moore, colonial governor
Trevor Munroe, trade unionist and politician
P. J. Patterson, Prime Minister
Edward Seaga, Prime Minister
Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister
Tom Tavares-Finson, President of the Senate of Jamaica.




Religious leaders


S. U. Hastings, first Jamaican bishop of the Moravian Church
Rev Rose Josephine Hudson-Wilkin, Bishop of Dover and first black woman to become a Church of England bishop. She was the first black female to hold the role of Queen's Chaplain. She also served as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2019
Oliver Lyseight, founder of one of Britain's largest black majority churches, and spiritual leader to the "Windrush generation"
Neville Neil, bishop of the Moravian Church in Jamaica




Science and medicine


Evan Dale Abel, Jamaican-born endocrinologist
Maydianne Andrade, Jamaican-born Canadian ecologist
Simone Badal-McCreath, Jamaican chemist and cancer researcher
Walt Braithwaite, Jamaican-born American engineer and former executive at Boeing
Aggrey Burke, Jamaican-born psychiatrist and the first black consultant psychiatrist appointed by Britain's National Health Service (NHS)
Nira Chamberlain, mathematician and the first black mathematician to join the exclusive list of distinguish living British mathematicians who feature in the biographical reference book Who’s Who. He is also the creator of a mathematical cost capability trade-off model for HMS Queen Elizabeth
Paul R. Cunningham, Jamaican-born surgeon and medical educator
Patricia Daley, Jamaican-born British human geographer and academic
Patricia DeLeon, Jamaican reproductive geneticist who specialists in the male reproductive system
Tashni-Ann Dubroy, Jamaican science academic and university administrator in the United States
Kevin Fenton, epidemiologist and a regional director at Public Health England
Yvette Francis-McBarnette, Jamaican-born paediatrician
Bertram Fraser-Reid, Jamaican synthetic organic chemist
Neil Gardner, Jamaican chiropractic neurologist, former athlete
Thomas J. Goreau, Jamaican biogeochemist and marine biologist
Neil Hanchard, Jamaican physician and clinical investigator
Odette Harris, Jamaican-born professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and the Director of the Brain Injury Program for the Stanford University School of Medicine
Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, Jamaican-born statistician
Hedley Jones, Jamaican audio engineer and astronomer
Thomas Lecky, Jamaican scientist who developed 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, Jamaican physician
Ludlow Moody, Jamaican physician
Errol Morrison, Jamaican scientist who has carried out pioneering work in the field of diabetes
Karen E. Nelson, 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 Creole descent who set up a "British hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War
Jean Springer, Jamaican mathematics professor
Garth Taylor, Jamaican ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian
Manley West, Jamaican pharmacologist who developed a treatment for glaucoma
Cicely Williams, identified the protein deficiency disease kwashiorkor
Henry Vernon Wong, Jamaican-American physicist known for his work in plasma physics




Sports






Others


Diane Abbott, first female member of the African-Caribbean community to be elected to the UK House of Commons in 1987
Hope Arthurine Anderson, national chess champion and Olympian
Emily Rose Bleby (1849-1917), temperance reformer
Dawn Butler, Labour MP since 2015. Butler became the first black woman to speak from the despatch box in the House of Commons in December 2009
Alan Eyre, geographer and environmentalist
Michael Fuller, Britain's first black Police Chief Constable and Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service
Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
St. William Grant, trade unionist and activist
Henry Gunter, civil rights campaigner, trade unionist and the first black delegate to be elected to the Birmingham Trades Council
Stuart Hall, cultural theorist, political activist and co-founder of New Left Review
Rosalea Hamilton, Jamaican academic, trade policy specialist
Thomas Duffus Hardy, archivist and antiquary
Donald J. Harris, economist
Lenford "Steve" Harvey, AIDS activist
Barrington Irving, pilot who previously held the record for the youngest person to pilot a plane around the world solo
Baroness Lawrence, campaigner
Ian McKnight, founder of Jamaica AIDS Support for LIFE (JASL)
Bill Morris, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003, became the first black leader of a major British trade union
Colin Powell, politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005; first African-American Secretary of State
Roxroy Salmon, Jamaican-American immigration activist
Oliver Samuels, comedian and actor
Norma Shirley, Jamaican chef
Tony Simpson, businessman and broadcaster




See also



List of Jamaican British people
List of Jamaican Americans
List of Jamaican Jews




References

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