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List of Haitians

This is a list of Haitians, born in Haiti or possessing Haitian citizenship, notable in Haiti and abroad. Due to Haitian nationality laws, dual citizenship is now permitted by the Constitution of Haiti, therefore people of Haitian ancestry born outside of the country are not included in this list, unless they have renounced their foreign citizenship or have resided extensively in Haiti and made significant contributions to Haitian government or society. The list includes both native born and naturalized Haitians, as well as permanent foreign residents who have been recognized internationally for artistic, cultural, economic, historical, criminal, and political reasons, among others. If not indicated here, their birth in Haiti and notability are mentioned in their main article. This list does not include fictional characters or Haitian associations and organizations.

Contents

Anthropologists

  • Anténor Firmin – anthropologist and politician
  • Jean Price-Mars – anthropologist and writer
  • Leslie Desmangles – anthropologist, author, and U.S. college professor
  • Michel-Rolph Trouillot – anthropologist and academic

    • Artists

  • Abner Dubic – painter
  • Albert Mangonès – architect
  • André Juste – sculptor
  • André LeBlanc – renowned comic book artist
  • Arijac - painter
  • Alexandre Grégoire – painter
  • Antonio Joseph – painter, sculptor, and screen-printer
  • Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson – painter, sculptor, land art
  • Bourmond Byron – painter
  • Castera Bazile – painter
  • Charles Frédéric Chassériau – born in 1802 in Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue, (now Haiti) - Chief architect of Marseille and Algiers
  • Charles Obas – painter
  • Dieudonné Cédor - painter
  • Edith Hollant – photographer and painter
  • Edouard Duval-Carrié – painter and sculptor
  • Edouard Wah – was a renowned Haitian painter
  • Eric Jean-Louis – painter
  • Etienne Chavannes – painter
  • Eugène Jean – painter
  • Fabolon Blaise – painter
  • Francis Paraison - painter
  • Gabriel Alix - painter
  • Georges Auguste - painter
  • Georges Hector - painter
  • Gérald Bloncourt - painter and photographer
  • Gérard Fombrun - sculptor
  • Gervais Emmanuel Ducasse - painter
  • Gesner Abelard - painter and sculptor
  • Gesner Armand - painter
  • Gisou Lamothe - painter and sculptor
  • Guerdy J. Préval - painter and essayist
  • Gisou Lamothe - painter and sculptor
  • Guy Joachim - painter
  • Hector Hyppolite - painter
  • Henri Jean-Louis - painter
  • Henry-Robert Brésil - painter
  • Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue - one of Haiti's most renowned painters of the 20th century
  • Jacques Gabriel - painter
  • Jackson Ambroise - painter
  • Jackson Georges - painter
  • Jacqueline Nesti Joseph - painter
  • Jean-Baptiste Bottex - painter
  • Jean-Baptiste Jean - painter
  • Jean-Claude Castera - painter
  • Jean-Claude Garoute - painter and sculptor
  • Jean-Louis - painter
  • Jean-René Jérôme - painter, and considered one of Haiti's greatest artists
  • Laurent Casimir - artist
  • Leonel Jules - painter
  • Levoy Exil - is a master Haitian artist and painter; He is one of the main contributors to the Saint Soleil art movement
  • Louisiane Saint Fleurant - artist and painter
  • Luckner Lazard - painter and sculptor
  • Ludovic Booz - painter and sculptor
  • Lyonel Laurenceau - painter
  • Marie-José Nadal-Gardère - painter and sculptor
  • Maurice Borno - painter
  • Max Gerbier - painter
  • Montas Antoine - painter
  • Murat Brierre - one of Haiti's principal metal sculptors
  • Nehemy Jean - painter and graphic artist
  • Nicolas Dreux - painterE
  • Odile Latortue - painter
  • Peterson Laurent - painter
  • Petion Savain - prolific painter
  • Philippe Dodard - graphic artist and painter
  • Philomé Obin - painter
  • Préfète Duffaut - painter
  • Prosper Pierre-Louis - artist, painter; and one of the main contributors to the local school of the Saint Soleil art movement
  • Ralph Chapoteau - painter
  • Ralph Allen - painter
  • Rigaud Benoit - one of the three or four most highly prized Haitian artists
  • Roland Blain - painter
  • Roland Dorcely - painter
  • Rose-Marie Desruisseau - painter
  • Sacha Thébaud - aka "Tebó", artist, sculptor, architect, furniture designer and known for encaustics in international contemporary fine art; 1934-2004
  • Saint-Louis Blaise - painter
  • Samuel Roker - painter
  • Serge Moléon Blaise - painter
  • Seymour Etienne Bottex - painter
  • Stevenson Magloire - painter
  • Thony Belizaire - photographer and photojournalist
  • Villard Denis - painter
  • Wilson Bigaud - painter

    • Business

  • Antoine Izméry - businessman
  • Charles Henri Baker - industrialist and 2006 and 2010 Presidential Candidate
  • Daniel Rouzier - tycoon; appointed as Honorary Consul to Jamaica in 2010
  • Dumarsais Simeus - business executive
  • Elisabeth Delatour Préval - businesswoman, presidential economic advisor and economist. She was the First Lady of Haiti when she married President René Préval
  • Gilbert Bigio - billionaire and retired businessman. He is the wealthiest person in Haiti
  • Jean-Claude Brizard, former CEO of Chicago Public Schools
  • Jerry Tardieu, Founder & CEO of Royal Oasis
  • Julio Larosiliere - businessman
  • Mathias Pierre - entrepreneur
  • Mona Scott - CEO of Monami Entertainment in the United States
  • Reginald Boulos - entrepreneur
  • Viter Juste - businessman, community leader and activist who coined the name, "Little Haiti," for the neighborhood in Miami, Florida in the United States

    • Crime

  • Abner Louima – crime victim
  • Amiot Métayer – gang leader Ti-Cubain, once worked for President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to put pressure on the opposing political parties
  • Buteur Métayer – gang leader in Haïti during the 2004 Haïti rebellion
  • Emmanuel Constant – founder of FRAPH, a Haitian death squad that terrorised supporters of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide

    • Economists/Finance

  • Daniel Rouzier - economist
  • Ericq Pierre - economist
  • Fritz Jean - served as governor of the Banque de la République d'Haïti from 1998 until 2001. Since 2012, he is the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Professions of the Nord-Est Department.
  • Jocelerme Privert - President of the Senate Committee on Economy and Finance
  • Leslie Delatour - economist
  • Louis Eugène Roy - banker

    • Entertainment

  • Annette Auguste - folk singer
  • Arnold Antonin - film director
  • Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine - professional ballroom dancer
  • Fabienne Colas - actress, director and producer and head of the Fabienne Colas Foundation
  • Garcelle Beauvais - television actress (NYPD Blue, The Jamie Foxx Show)
  • Jean-Claude La Marre - writer, director, and film and television actor
  • Jean-Léon Destiné - dancer and choreographer
  • Jeanguy Saintus - choreographer, dancer and dancing educator
  • Jeanne Duval - muse, actress and dancer
  • Jeanne-Marie Marsan - French dramatic actress and an opera singer who moved to Saint-Domingue
  • Jimmy Jean-Louis - model and actor (film Phat Girlz; television series Heroes)
  • Johny Joseph - news anchor
  • Lenelle Moïse - actress, playwright and poet
  • Luck Mervil – Canadian actor and singer-songwriter
  • Michèle Stephenson - filmmaker
  • Minette et Lise - most popular duet actresses of Saint-Domingue
  • Panou - Canadian actor
  • Perri Pierre - award-winning filmmaker and actor
  • Pierre-Louis Dieufaite - actor
  • Raoul Peck - film director
  • Sony Esteus - radio journalist
  • Stanley Barbot - Haitian-American radio personality
  • TiCorn - folk singer
  • Val Jeanty - electronic music artist
  • Vladimir Thelisma - actor, director, screenwriter, and sociologist

    • Fashion designers

  • Berny Martin - founder of Catou
  • Fabrice Simon - award-winning artist and fashion designer, best known for his handmade beaded dresses

    • Historical personalities

  • Adélina Lévêque - Empress Consort of Haiti from 1849 until 1859, as wife of Faustin I of Haiti
  • Alice Garoute - Haitian suffragist and women's rights advocates among the founders of Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale (Feminine League for Social Action)
  • Alix Pasquet - World War II fighter pilot, one of only five Haitian members of the Tuskegee Airmen
  • Anacaona - Taíno cacica (chief) at the time of arrival of Christopher Columbus
  • Catherine Flon - sewed the first Haitian flag
  • Charles Terres Weymann - racing pilot and businessman
  • Cécile Fatiman - Vodou priestess and a figure of the Haitian Revolution
  • Charlemagne Péralte - nationalist leader who opposed the U.S. Invasion
  • Clairvius Narcisse - man said to have been turned into a living zombie by a combination of drugs
  • Dominique You - privateer, soldier, and politician
  • Dutty Boukman - slave who was one of the most visible early leaders of the Haitian Revolution
  • Emmanuel Wilmer - martyr who was killed in an armed assault on Cité Soleil carried out by MINUSTAH forces
  • François Mackandal - houngan (Vodou priest) and rebel slave leader
  • Georges Biassou - rebel slave
  • Gérard Pierre-Charles - politician and former leader of the Unified Party of Haitian Communists
  • Guy François - colonel of the armed forces of Haiti. François was accused twice of conspiring to overthrow the government of Haiti, in 1989 and in 2001
  • Henri Caesar - allegedly a 19th-century Haitian revolutionary and pirate nicknamed the black Caesar
  • Jacquotte Delahaye - one of the few known female pirates (or buccaneers)
  • Jean Lafitte - pirate (born in France or Saint-Domingue, the modern-day Haiti)
  • Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - founder of Chicago born in Saint-Domingue, the modern-day Haiti
  • Jean-Baptiste Chavannes - Haitian soldier and abolitionist
  • Jean François - rebel slave
  • Jeannot - rebel slave
  • Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, engineer and passenger on the ill-fated RMS Titanic
  • Luckner Cambronne - head of the Tonton Macoutes; known as the "Vampire of the Caribbean" for his profiting from the sale of Haitian blood and cadavers to the West for medical uses
  • Macaya, a traitor
  • Madame Max Adolphe - right hand woman of François Duvalier during his presidency in Haiti
  • Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau - sociologist and educator. She was one of the principal founders of the Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale (Women's Social Action League), the first feminist organization in Haiti
  • Magloire Ambroise - hero of the Haitian Independence
  • Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité - Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse of Jean-Jacques Dessalines
  • Marie-Madeleine Lachenais - first First Lady of Haiti to Alexandre Pétion
  • Marie St. Fleur - first Haitian U.S. Massachusetts State Representative
  • Michel François - colonel in the Haitian army, who plotted a coup d'etat
  • Pierre Lafitte, pirate (born in France or Saint-Domingue, the modern-day Haiti)
  • Sanité Bélair - freedom fighter and revolutionary; sergeant in the army of Toussaint Louverture
  • Tony Bloncourt - communist who joined the French Resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II
  • Victoire Jean-Baptiste - Haitian politician de facto, mistress to President Florvil Hyppolite

    • Lawyers

  • Alexandre Paul
  • Alix Mathon
  • Georges Sylvain
  • Jacques Nicolas Léger
  • Justin Lhérisson
  • Léon Thébaud
  • Mario Joseph
  • Max Hudicourt
  • Sarodj Bertin

    • Literature

  • Ady Jean-Gardy - journalist and activist; founder of the Haitian Press Federation
  • Alain Turnier - historian
  • Alibée Féry - playwright, poet, and storyteller
  • Anténor Firmin - anthropologist, journalist, and politician
  • Antoine Dupré - poet and playwright
  • Aubelin Jolicoeur - columnist
  • Bayyinah Bello - historian
  • Beaubrun Ardouin - historian and politician
  • Boisrond-Tonnerre - the author of the Independence Act of Haiti
  • Carl Brouard - poet
  • Céligny Ardouin - historian and politician
  • Charles Moravia - poet, dramatist, teacher, and diplomat
  • Choiseul Henriquez - journalist
  • Christophe Charles - poet
  • Coriolan Ardouin - romantic poet
  • Dantès Bellegarde - historian and diplomat
  • Dany Laferrière - Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist, member of the Académie française
  • Demesvar Delorme - theoretician, writer, and politician
  • Dimitry Elias Léger - novelist
  • Edmond Laforest - poet
  • Edner Brutus - historian, diplomat and politician
  • Edris Saint-Amand - novelist
  • Edwidge Danticat - American author
  • Elsie Augustave, author
  • Elsie Suréna, poet, photographer
  • Emeric Bergeaud - novelist
  • Émile Nau - historian and politician
  • Émile Roumer - poet
  • Emmelie Prophète - writer and diplomat
  • Évelyne Trouillot - author
  • Etzer Vilaire - poet
  • Félix Morisseau-Leroy - Haitian-American author, writer, educator, activist, poet, and playwright
  • Fernand Hibbert - novelist and is one of the most widely read Haitian authors
  • Frantz Duval - editor-in-chief of Le Nouvelliste newspaper
  • François-Romain Lhérisson - poet and educator
  • Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne) - author, poet, playwright, musician and painter. Candidate for Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009
  • Gary Victor - award-winning writer and playwright
  • Guy Joseph Bonnet - historian and a Major General of the Army of the Republic of Haiti. He was one of the signers of the Haitian Act of Independence
  • Jacqueline Beaugé-Rosier - poet, novelist, educator
  • Jacques Roumain - poet, novelist, editor
  • Jean-Fernand Brierre - poet
  • Jean-Jacob Jeudy - journalist, activist, politician
  • Jessica Fièvre - novelist, editor
  • Joel Dreyfuss - Haitian-American journalist, editor, and writer now based in Paris, France
  • Johny Joseph - journalist and academic
  • Josaphat-Robert Large - poet, novelist and art critic; won the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes (Caribbean literary Prize) in 2003 and was nominated for the Haitian grand Literary Prize of 2004
  • Lilas Desquiron - novelist, ethnologist, cabinet minister
  • Louis-Philippe Dalembert - novelist, poet and essayist. Winner of the Prestigious Cuban Literary Prize Casa de las Américas in 2008
  • Maggy de Coster - journalist and poet.
  • Marilene Phipps - Haitian-American poet, painter, and short story writer
  • Marlène Rigaud Apollon Haitian-American poet, youth non-fiction writer
  • Michel DeGraff - is a Creolist who has served on the board of the Journal of Haitian Studies
  • Michèle Bennett - former First Lady of Haiti and the ex-wife of former President for Life of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, whom were both exiled from Haiti
  • Michèle Montas - journalist
  • Mimi Barthélémy - writer and storyteller
  • Mona Guérin - educator and writer
  • Nathalie Handal - award-winning poet, writer, and playwright
  • Oswald Durand - was a Haitian poet and politician, said to be "to Haiti what Shakespeare is to England and Dante to Italy."
  • Paulette Poujol-Oriol - educator, writer and feminist
  • Pradel Pompilus - writer; is considered one of the most respected Haitian scholars. He is best known for his three-volume study of Haitian literature.
  • Prince Saunders - author; emigrated to Haiti from the United States
  • Raymond Chassagne - poet and essayist
  • Raymond Joseph - journalist, diplomat, political activist
  • Roger Dorsinville, poet, dramatist, historian, and diplomat
  • Rodney Saint-Éloi - poet
  • Thomas Madiou - his work Histoire d'Haïti (English: History of Haiti) is considered one of the most valuable documents of Haitian literature
  • Timoléon C. Brutus - historian and politician

    • Medicine

  • Bendson Louima - a physician and founder of Médecins Sans Frontières Suisse Cap-Haitïen (i.e. Doctors Without Borders Switzerland Cap-Haïtien), an entity for the treatment of cholera in Haiti.
  • François Fournier de Pescay - the first person of color to have practiced medicine and surgery in Europe.
  • Henri Ford - Haitian-American pediatric surgeon
  • Loune Viaud - a health care worker who won the 2002 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her work within Zanmi Lasante, providing health care in Haiti; in 2003 was named one of Ms. magazine's "Women of the Year".
  • Yvonne Sylvain - was the first female doctor in Haiti.

    • Music

  • Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu – French opera soprano (born in Cap-Français, Saint-Domingue; the modern-day Cap-Haïtien, Haiti)
  • André Toussaint - singer and guitarist
  • Andrée Lescot - folk singer; daughter of former President Élie Lescot.
  • Beethova Obas - guitarist
  • BélO - interpreter, composer and guitarist.
  • Bigga Haitian - first Haitian singer to break into the Jamaican reggae scene
  • Coupé Cloué - singer and bandleader
  • Eddy François (singer) - founding member of Boukman Eksperyans; left the band in 1990, to become the front-man of a new band called, Boukan Ginen
  • Édouard Woolley - tenor, actor, composer, and music educator
  • Emeline Michel - singer
  • Emerante Morse - singer
  • Fabrice Rouzier - pianist, producer, and entrepreneur
  • Frantz Casseus, guitarist and composer
  • Gardy Girault, electronic musician, DJ, record producer
  • Frisner Augustin, major performer and composer of Haitian Vodou drumming
  • Imposs, Canadian rapper
  • J. Perry, singer and songwriter; song Dekole inspired the theme of the 2012 Carnival and was awarded a Gold Disk Plaque
  • Jason Derulo, singer, songwriter, and dancer of Haitian descent
  • Jazz Guignard - distinguished by his completion of one of the first noncommercial recordings of Haitian music
  • Jerry Duplessis, Grammy Award winning musical composer and record producer
  • Jimmy O, rapper
  • John Steve Brunache, musician
  • Justin Elie, composer and pianist. He is one of the best-known composers outside of Haiti.
  • Kangol Kid – American rapper
  • Lee Holdridge - multi-award winning Haitian-born composer
  • Luck Mervil - songwriter-singer
  • Ludovic Lamothe - composer and virtuoso pianist
  • Manno Charlemagne - political folk singer, songwriter and acoustic guitarist, lifelong political activist and former politician
  • Master Dji - rapper
  • MC Tee, rapper
  • Michael Brun - DJ, record producer
  • Michel Mauléart Monton - composer; notable for composing the classic song choucoune (known as yellow bird in the English version)
  • Misty Jean - singer
  • Nemours Jean-Baptiste, composer and band leader; credited with being the inventor of compas direct
  • Nicolas Geffrard – musician; composed Haitian national anthem
  • Othello Bayard - musician, violinist, poet, and composer; notable for composing the music of the patriotic song "Haïti Chérie."
  • Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade (1840-1908), Haitian classical pianist and music educator
  • Qwote - singer
  • Richard Auguste Morse - is the founder of a mizik rasin band, RAM, named after his initials, and famous in Haiti for their political songs
  • Sha Money XL, rapper
  • Shama Joseph - record producer
  • Sweet Micky - singer, politician
  • Ti Manno - singer, guitar player, keyboard player, and percussionist
  • Ti Ro Ro - drummer; known as King of the drum in Haiti and has done solo recordings and works for orchestras like Issa El Saieh Orquestra and singer Guy Durosier
  • Toto Bissainthe, folk music artist
  • Val Jeanty, vodou electronica turntablist, percussionist and artist
  • Webert Sicot, sax player, composer and band leader and one of the creators of compas direct. He renamed the music cadence rampa after he left Nemours' band to differentiate himself in 1962 in the spirit of competition.
  • Werner Jaegerhuber, known for composing "Messe sur les Airs Vodoussques."
  • Won-G Bruny, rapper and entrepreneur
  • Wyclef Jean - Grammy Award winning singer and former member of The Fugees, hip hop recording artist, musician, actor, and politician
  • Yanick Etienne - singer

    • Naturalists and Agronomists

  • Jean-Baptiste Chavannes - agronomist, who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005
  • John James Audubon - French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (born in Saint-Domingue, the modern-day Haiti)
  • Jean Wiener - is a marine biologist, who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015

    • Philanthropists

  • Daniel Rouzier

    • Political figures

  • Alexandre Pétion – nationalist, revolutionary and first President of Haiti
  • Alice Téligny Mathon - feminine activist
  • André Apaid – politician and activist' leader of Group 184 that helped oust former President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • André Rigaud - leading military leader during the Haitian Revolution. His protégés were Alexandre Pétion and Jean-Pierre Boyer, both presidents of Haiti
  • Bonivert Claude - former governor of the Banque de la République d'Haïti
  • Charlemagne Péralte – nationalist leader and revolutionary
  • Claudette Werleigh - first Haitian woman to become Prime Minister
  • Emmanuel Dubourg - Canadian politician
  • Ertha Pascal-Trouillot - was the provisional President of Haiti for 11 months in 1990 and 1991. She was the first woman in history to hold that office
  • Faustin Soulouque - Emperor of Haiti (Faustin I)
  • François Capois - Independence war hero
  • François Duvalier - former President for Life
  • Gérard Latortue - Prime Minister and official in the United Nations
  • Henri Christophe - King of Haiti (King Henri I)
  • Jacques Nicolas Léger - politician, diplomat
  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide - President of Haiti
  • Jean-Claude Bajeux - political activist and professor of Caribbean literature
  • Jean-Claude Duvalier – President of Haiti
  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Founding Father and Emperor of Haiti (Jacques I)
  • Jean-Pierre Boyer – soldier and President of Haiti
  • Jean Rénald Clérismé - politician, diplomat, and ambassador of Haiti for the World Trade Organization, the International Trade Center, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the International Telecommunication Union
  • Jonathas Granville - soldier, experienced diplomat, and civil servant as well as a musician, poet, and skilled swordsman. He worked in the United States, promoting the emigration of free Blacks to Haiti.
  • José Francisco Peña Gómez - Dominican politician and activist
  • Joseph Balthazar Inginac - General of the Pétion-Boyer administration.
  • Julien Raimond – agriculturalist/planter and revolutionary
  • Mathieu Eugene - U.S. New York City councilman
  • Marc Bazin – United Nations diplomat and World Bank official
  • Marie-Louise Coidavid - the Queen of the Kingdom of Haiti 1811-20 as the spouse of Henri I of Haiti
  • Michaëlle Jean - former Governor General of Canada
  • Michel Martelly - musician (Sweet Micky) and President of Haiti
  • Michèle Pierre-Louis - was Prime Minister of Haiti from September 2008 to November 2009. She was Haiti's second female ever to hold this position.
  • Philippe Derose - first Haitian elected to public office in the U.S.
  • Prosper Avril - President of Haiti from 1988 to 1990
  • Raymond Joseph - diplomat, political activist and journalist. He was the Haitian ambassador to the United States from 2005 to 2010.
  • René Préval - President (2006-2011)
  • Simone Duvalier – former First Lady of Haiti of the Baby Doc regime
  • Solange Pierre - was a human rights advocate in the Dominican Republic who worked to end antihaitianismo
  • Sténio Vincent - President of Haiti from November 18, 1930 to May 15, 1941
  • Thomas-Alexandre Dumas - was a general in Revolutionary France and was the highest-ranking person of color of all time in a continental European army
  • Toussaint Louverture – military general and leader of the slave rebellion in the Haitian Revolution. He declared himself Governor for Life of Haiti.
  • Ulises Heureaux - President of the Dominican Republic (Haitian father)
  • Ulrick Chérubin - Canadian politician
  • Vincent Ogé – revolutionary

    • Religion

  • Antoine Adrien - was a Roman Catholic Priest and liberation theology advocate
  • Chibly Langlois – Haiti’s first Roman Catholic Cardinal
  • Eliezer Cadet - Vodou priest involved in the UNIA in the U.S.
  • Emmanuel Constant - a Roman Catholic Bishop
  • François Gayot - Roman Catholic Archbishop
  • Gérard Jean-Juste - Roman Catholic Priest and rector of Saint Claire's church for the poor in Port-au-Prince
  • Guy Sansaricq – first Haitian-born Roman Catholic Bishop in the United States
  • Joseph Serge Miot - Roman Catholic Archbishop
  • Mama Lola, Vodou priestess
  • Mary Elizabeth Lange – founder of a Roman Catholic religious community for women
  • Pierre-Antoine Paulo - Roman Catholic bishop.
  • Pierre Toussaint – philanthropist and candidate for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church

    • Scientists

  • Max Beauvoir - chemist

    • American football players

  • Dadi Nicolas - outside linebacker
  • Farell Duclair – fullback in the Canadian Football League
  • Gilles Colon – wide receiver
  • Gosder Cherilus – offensive tackle
  • Jean Fanor – safety
  • Jonal Saint-Dic – defensive end
  • Jocelyn Borgella – former defensive back
  • Junior Galette – linebacker
  • Kevin Pamphile – left tackle
  • Max Jean-Gilles – guard
  • Paul Raymond – wide receiver
  • Pierre Desir – cornerback
  • Ricot Joseph – safety
  • Vladimir Ducasse – offensive lineman

    • Basketball

  • Antoine Joseph – a professional basketball player in the American Basketball League
  • Cady Lalanne – a professional basketball player
  • Djery Baptiste – college basketball player
  • Gino Lanisse – Haitian-Swiss professional basketball player, who played in the Swiss pro league
  • Kervin Bristol – professional basketball player currently playing for the KK Włocławek of the Polish Basketball League.
  • Marc-Eddy Norelia - college basketball player
  • Olden Polynice – professional basketball player
  • Osvaldo Jeanty – professional basketball player
  • Pierre Valmera – a retired professional basketball player, who played in the Swiss pro league
  • Robert Joseph – a former professional basketball player who played in the Liga ACB in Spain for twelve seasons.
  • Samuel Dalembert – former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association
  • Schnider Hérard - college basketball player
  • Skal Labissière – professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings in the National Basketball Association
  • Yohanny Dalembert - college basketball player
  • Yvon Joseph – professional basketball player and was the first native Haitian to play NCAA college basketball in the United States

    • Boxing

  • Adonis Stevenson - professional boxer. Current WBC light heavyweight champion
  • Andre Berto - professional boxer
  • Azea Augustama - professional boxer; who qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games at light-heavy through a bronze medal finish at the second Americas qualifier; he also won the Golden Gloves in 2008
  • Bermane Stiverne - professional boxer; Current WBC heavyweight champion, also the first boxer of Haitian descent to win a heavyweight title
  • Dierry Jean - professional boxer
  • Edner Cherry - Haitian-Bahamian professional boxer
  • Jean Pascal - professional boxer
  • Joachim Alcine - professional boxer
  • Melissa St. Vil - women's lightweight American boxer
  • Richardson Hitchins - Olympic boxer
  • Schiller Hyppolite - professional boxer

    • Football

  • Abel Thermeus - professional football player
  • Alain Gustave - professional football player
  • Alex Junior Christian - professional football player
  • Alexandre Boucicaut - professional football player
  • Antoine Craan - professional football player
  • Antoine Tassy - former professional football player and manager of the Haitian national football team in the 1974 FIFA World Cup
  • Arsène Auguste - former professional football player
  • Bidrece Azor - professional football player
  • Bitielo Jean Jacques - professional football player
  • Bony Pierre - professional football player
  • Brunel Fucien - professional football player
  • Carlens Arcus - professional football player
  • Charles Hérold Jr. - professional football player
  • Claude Barthélemy - professional football player
  • Coupé Cloué - professional football player
  • Christiano François - professional football player
  • Darline Radamaker - professional women's football player
  • Davidson Charles - professional football player
  • Duckens Nazon - professional football player
  • Eddy Antoine - professional football player who participated for Haiti at the 1974 FIFA World Cup
  • Edens Chery - professional football player
  • Emmanuel Sanon - professional football player
  • Emmanuel Sarki - professional football player
  • Ernst Atis-Clotaire, former profrssional football player; spent most of his career for AS Monaco FC
  • Ernst Jean-Joseph - professional football player
  • Fabien Vorbe - professional football player
  • Fabrice Noël - professional football player
  • Frandy Montrévil - professional football player
  • Frantz Gilles - professional football player
  • Frantz Jean-Charles - professional football player
  • Frantz Mathieu - professional football player
  • Frantz St. Lot - professional football player
  • Fritz André - professional football player
  • Fritz Leandré - professional football player
  • Gabard Fénélon - professional football player
  • Gabriel Flambert - professional football player
  • Gérard Joseph - professional football player
  • Golman Pierre - former professional football player
  • Guy François - professional football player
  • Guy Saint-Vil - professional football player
  • Henri Françillon - professional football player
  • Herby Fortunat - professional football player
  • Herve Guilliod - professional football player
  • Jacques LaDouceur - professional football player
  • James Marcelin - professional football player
  • Jamil Jean-Jacques - professional football player
  • Jean Alexandre - professional football player
  • Jean-Baptiste Fritzson - professional football player
  • Jean-Claude Désir - professional football player
  • Jean-Dimmy Jéoboam - professional football player
  • Jean-François James - professional football player
  • Jean-Herbert Austin - professional football player
  • Jean-Jacques Pierre - professional football player who currently plays for the French club SM Caen
  • Jeff Louis - professional football player
  • Jean-Robens Jerome - professional football player
  • Jean-Robert Menelas - professional football player
  • Jean Sony Alcénat - professional football player
  • Joe Gaetjens - professional football player
  • Jonel Désiré - professional football player
  • John Boulos - professional football player
  • Johnny Descolines - professional football player
  • Judelin Aveska - professional football player
  • Kencia Marseille - professional women's football player
  • Kénold Versailles - professional football player
  • Kensie Bobo - women's professional football player
  • Kervens Belfort - professional football player
  • Kimberly Boulos - professional women's football player
  • Leonel Saint-Preux - professional football player
  • Lesly Fellinga - professional football player
  • Lindsay Zullo - professional women's football player
  • Manoucheka Pierre Louis - professional women's football player
  • Marc Hérold Gracien - professional football player
  • Marie Yves Dina Jean Pierre - professional women's football player
  • Mechack Jérôme - professional football player
  • Monès Chéry - professional football player
  • Monuma Constant Jr. - professional football player
  • Pascal Millien - professional football player, currently playing for Sheikh Russel KC in the Bangladesh Premier League
  • Pat Fidelia - professional football player
  • Patrick Janvier - professional football player
  • Peguero Jean Philippe - professional football player
  • Peter Germain - professional football player
  • Peterson Joseph - professional football player
  • Philippe Vorbe - professional football player
  • Pierre Bayonne - professional football player
  • Pierre Mercier - professional football player
  • Pierre Richard Bruny - professional football player
  • Regillio Nooitmeer - Dutch professional football player
  • Réginal Goreux - Belgian professional football player
  • Rénald Metelus - professional football player
  • Ricardo Charles - professional football player
  • Ricardo Pierre-Louis - professional football player
  • Roger Saint-Vil - professional football player
  • Romain Genevois - professional football player
  • Ronald Elusma - professional football player
  • Ronil Dufrene - American professional football player
  • Roody Lormera - professional football player
  • Rosario Lauture - professional football player
  • Rudy Doliscat - Canadian professional football player
  • Samantha Brand - professional women's football player
  • Sébastien Vorbe - professional football player
  • Serge Racine - professional football player
  • Sony Norde - professional football player
  • Stéphane Guillaume - professional football player
  • Vaniel Sirin - professional football player
  • Vladimir Pascal - professional football player
  • Wagneau Eloi - professional football player
  • Walson Augustin - professional football player
  • Wedson Anselme - professional football player
  • Widner Saint-Cyr - professional football player
  • Wilberne Augusmat - professional football player
  • Wilde-Donald Guerrier - professional football player
  • Wilfried Louis - professional football player
  • Wilner Nazaire - professional football player who participated for Haiti at the 1974 FIFA World Cup
  • Wilner Piquant - professional football player
  • Windsor Noncent - professional football player
  • Wisline Dolce - professional women's football player
  • Yvrase Gervil - professional women's football player
  • Serge Ducoste - professional football player

    • Other sports

  • Alain Sergile - swimmer who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • André Corvington - Olympic fencer; competed in the individual foil event at the 1900 Summer Olympics
  • André Théard - Olympic sprinter
  • Ange Jean Baptiste - judoka who has participated internationally. She won the silver medal at the Judo competitions of the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games.
  • Aniya Louissaint - Olympic Taekwondo athlete.
  • Asnage Castelly, Olympic wrestler; founder of the Haitian Wrestling Federation
  • Astrel Rolland - Olympic sport shooter
  • Barbara Pierre - track and field sprint athlete in the Pan American Games
  • Bertrand Madsen - former professional tennis player
  • Bruny Surin - 1996 Canadian Olympian gold medal winning sprinter
  • C. Dupre - Olympic sport shooter
  • Charles Olemus - Olympic track and field athlete
  • Claude Roumain - Olympic sprinter
  • Claude Vilgrain - Canadian professional hockey player
  • Dadi Denis - Olympic sprinter
  • Constantin Henriquez - Olympic Rugby player and footballer; co-founder of Haitian football
  • Dayana Cadeau - Haitian-born Canadian American professional bodybuilder
  • Destin Destine - Olympic sport shooter; part of the team that won the first Olympic medal for Haiti
  • Dieudonné LaMothe - long-distance runner, the first sportsperson from Haiti to take part in four Olympic Games
  • Edrick Floréal - Olympic long and triple jumper who competed for Canada
  • Eloi Metullus - Olympic sport shooter; part of the team that won the first Olympic medal for Haiti
  • Ernst Laraque - judoka from Haiti, who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division (– 73 kg) at the 2003 Pan American Games
  • Félix Pie - professional baseball player (Haitian father)
  • Gerald Clervil - Olympic track and field athlete
  • Gina Faustin - Olympic fencer; competed in the individual foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  • Ginou Etienne - Olympic track and field athlete
  • Jean-Louis Michel - a fencing master (born in Saint-Domingue)
  • Jeffrey Julmis - Olympic sprinter
  • Joel Brutus - judoka, who won the silver medal in the men's heavyweight division (+ 100 kg) at the 2003 Pan American Games
  • Josué Cajuste - Paralympic athlete
  • Léon Thiércelin - Olympic fencer; competed in the individual foil event at the 1900 Summer Olympics
  • L. H. Clermont - Olympic sport shooter who was part of the team that won Haiti's first ever Olympic medal, a bronze in team free rifle at the 1924 Summer Olympics
  • Linouse Desravine - judoka
  • Ludovic Augustin - Olympic sport shooter who was part of the team that won Haiti's first ever Olympic medal, a bronze in team free rifle at the 1924 Summer Olympics
  • Ludovic Valborge - Olympic sport shooter who was part of the team that won Haiti's first ever Olympic medal, a bronze in team free rifle at the 1924 Summer Olympics
  • Maxime Boisclair - professional Canadian hockey player
  • Miguel Jean Sanó - professional baseball player (Haitian father)
  • Nadine Faustin-Parker - Olympic hurdler and medal winner at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games
  • Naomy Grand'Pierre, Olympic swimmer
  • Parnel Legros - former Olympic judoka
  • Ronald Agénor - professional tennis player
  • Sheila Viard - Olympic fencer; competed in the individual foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  • Silvio Cator - Former world record holder in long jump and Olympian silver medal winner at 1928 Summer Olympics
  • Steven Lorrius - sprinter in the Central America and Caribbean Championship
  • Tudor Sanon - Taekwondo athlete
  • Valéry Théard - Olympic sprinter; competed for Haiti at the 1924, 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics
  • Victoria Duval - professional tennis player
  • Yves Jabouin - mixed martial arts fighter

    • References

    List of Haitians Wikipedia
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