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List of Jamaicans

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The following is a list of notable people from Jamaica. The list includes some non-resident Jamaicans; see also List of Jamaican British people and List of Jamaican Americans.

Contents

Beauty contest winners

  • Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976
  • Carole Joan Crawford, Miss World 1965
  • Lisa Hanna, Miss World 1993
  • Caren Le Berre, Miss Jamaica UK 1993

    • Business

  • Chris Blackwell, president and CEO of Island Records and Palm Pictures, NYC
  • Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman/CEO of AIC Limited, Chairman of NCB Jamaica
  • Levi Roots, Chairman of Reggae Reggae Sauce
  • Adam Stewart
  • Gordon "Butch" Stewart
  • Gail Vaz-Oxlade, financial adviser, TV personality

    • Groups

  • Bob Marley and the Wailers
  • Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
  • Culture
  • Inner Circle
  • T.O.K., a crew of deejays
  • Third World
  • Toots and the Maytals

    • Models

  • Tyson Beckford, model
  • Naomi Campbell, 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
  • Nadine Willis, Gucci

    • Politicians

  • Alexander Bustamante, trade unionist
  • Bruce Golding, Prime Minister
  • Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth & Culture, former Miss World
  • 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, Jamaican national hero
  • Henry Moore, colonial governor
  • Trevor Munroe, trade unionist and politician
  • P. J. Patterson, Prime Minister
  • Colin Luther Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (parents are Jamaican)
  • Edward Seaga, Prime Minister
  • Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister

    • Religious leaders

  • S. U. Hastings, first Jamaican bishop of the Moravian Church
  • Neville Neil, bishop of the Moravian Church in Jamaica

    • Science and medicine

  • Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War
  • Cicely Williams, identified the protein deficiency disease kwashiorkor

    • Others

  • Clancy Eccles, social activist and reggae musician
  • Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
  • St. William Grant, trade unionist and activist
  • Lenford "Steve" Harvey, AIDS activist
  • Ian McKnight, founder of Jamaica AIDS Support for LIFE (JASL)
  • Roxroy Salmon, Jamaican-American immigration activist

    • References

    List of Jamaicans Wikipedia
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