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.

Contents

• Artists
• Beauty contest winners
• Business and law
• Bands
• Journalists, poets and writers
• Models
• Musicians, actors and filmmakers
• Politicians
• Religious leaders
• Science and medicine
• Sports
• Others
• See also
• References

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 judge for the District of Columbia; 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 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, first deaf black female attorney in the United States
• Marshall Hall, economist, businessman and banker
• 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, owner of a variety of businesses in the health industry
• Val McCalla, accountant and media entrepreneur; 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; 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
• 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 2013–2015; 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
• Kamala Harris, vice president of the United States ^{[ citation needed ]}
• 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
• Noah Nickolas Perry, American politician and diplomat who had served as the United States ambassador to Jamaica
• 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; first black woman to hold the role of Queen's Chaplain; served as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons 2010–2019
• Oliver Lyseight, founder of one of Britain's largest black majority churches, and spiritual leader to the "Windrush generation" ^{[1] [2]}
• 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, first black mathematician to join the exclusive list of distinguish living British mathematicians who feature in the biographical reference book Who's Who ; 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
• Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist in Jamaica
• 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
• Richard Hill, lawyer, naturalist
• 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
• Violet Brown, oldest Jamaican in history
• Dawn Butler, Labour MP since 2015; became 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
• Bill Morris, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union 1992–2003, 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 2001–2005; 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