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List of people from Freetown

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Below is a list of notable people from Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Contents

Football (soccer)

  • Sheriff Suma
  • Roda Antar
  • Sarway Dollar
  • Samuel Barlay
  • Sidney Kargbo
  • Obi Metzger
  • Mustapha Sama
  • Michael Tommy
  • Lamine Conteh
  • Muwahid Sesay
  • Kewullay Conteh
  • Ibrahim Kargbo
  • Albert Cole
  • Alimamy Sesay
  • Christian Caulker
  • Albert Jarrett
  • Kabba Samura
  • Abdul Thompson Conteh
  • Henry Lewis
  • George Davies
  • Mahmadu Alphajor Bah
  • Michael Lahoud

    • Other Sports

  • B. J. Tucker, American football player of the San Francisco 49ers (NFL)
  • Madieu Williams, American football player of the Cincinnati Bengals
  • Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean track and field athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump
  • Hawanatu Bangura, Sierra Leonean sprinter
  • Horace Dove-Edwin, a retired Sierra Leonean sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres

    • Activist/writer/artist/trade

  • Adelaide Casely-Hayford, was a strong advocate, nationalism, and educationist
  • Jamil Sahid Mohamed, was a powerful businessman from Sierra Leone who made millions of dollars in diamond trade
  • Patricia Piccinini, Australian artist
  • Farid Raymond-Anthony, Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet

    • Musicians

  • Emmerson
  • Reuben Koroma

    • Politicians

  • Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992-1996
  • Herbert George-Williams, former mayor of Freetown
  • Winstanley Bankole Johnson, former mayor of Freetown
  • Andrew Juxon-Smith, former Head of State of Sierra Leone
  • John 'Johnny' Taylor, Krio trader during colonial era
  • Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings, mayor of Freetown from 1948-1954
  • Ade Renner Thomas, current Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
  • Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962-1967
  • Isaac Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean journalist and a politician
  • Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor
  • Siaka Probyn Stevens, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 21 April 1971 – 28 November 1985
  • Jongopie Stevens, Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the people republic of Germany October 2007 – present
  • Bockarie Kortu Stevens,Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the United States October 2007 – present
  • Ernest Bai Koroma Is the current Head of State of Sierra Leone and the fourth since 2007
  • Joseph Saidu Momoh, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1985 - 1992.
  • Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah,the third Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007.
  • Major Johnny Paul Koroma Was the Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1997 to 1998.

    • Military Personnel

  • Issa Hassan Sesay, served as senior officer in the Sierra Leonean army and commander of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC)
  • Brigadier-General Arthur Nelson-Williams, the The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces spokesman
  • Brigadier-General Tom Carew was in the Sierra Leonean army and Chief of Defence Staff of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces from April 2000 to November 2003

    • Actor/actress

  • Jeillo Edwards, Sierra Leonean actress

    • Actor/actress

  • Desmond Finney, Sierra Leonean actor

    • References

    List of people from Freetown Wikipedia
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