# List of Barbadian Americans

This is a list of notable Barbadian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

## Actors

* Meagan Good - actress (paternal grandfather)
* Cuba Gooding, Jr. - actor (paternal grandfather was from Barbados)
* Omar Gooding - actor (same grandfather as Cuba Jr.)
* Adrian Holmes - Canadian actor (ancestry vague)
* Nia Long - actress (ancestry vague)
* Mari Morrow - actress (ancestry vague)
* Gwyneth Paltrow - (her great-grandmother was Barbadian)
* Redd Pepper - (born Richard Green in Barbados)
* Jada Pinkett Smith - actress (ancestry vague on mother's side)
* Robert Christopher Riley - actor (father from Barbados)
* Lamman Rucker - (ancestry vague)

## Entertainers

* Lene Hall - supermodel
* Norma Miller - dancer (both parents from Barbados)

## Musicians

* A$AP Rocky - real name Rakim Mayers, rapper
* KRS-One - real name Lawrence Parker, rapper
* Afrika Bambaataa - musician
* Damon Dash - co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records; Stacey Dash's cousin
* Grandmaster Flash - hip hop musician and DJ
* Dave East - rapper
* Faith Evans - singer and actress
* Doug E. Fresh - hip hop musician
* Desiigner - hip hop musician/rapper
* Cuba Gooding, Sr. - singer
* Ryan Leslie - musician, producer
* Mr. Lif - hip hop musician
* LL Cool J - musician
* Lord Burgess - songwriter
* Shontelle - musician
* Arturo Tappin - musician
* Tweet - real name Charlene Keys, singer
* Rayvon - real name Bruce Alexander Michael Brewster, Barbadian singer-songwriter
* Remy Ma - rapper
Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty - singer
* Rowdy Rebel - rapper
* Lil’ Kim - rapper

## Public service figures

* Shirley Chisholm - Congresswoman
* Adrian Fenty - former Mayor of Washington, District of Columbia
* Charles Gittens - first black United States Secret Service agent
* Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix - New York State Supreme Court Judge
* Eric Holder - former Attorney General of the United States
* Sherrilyn Ifill - lawyer and activist
* Thomas Jones - former Civil Court judge and civil rights activist in Brooklyn, New York
* Chirlane McCray - poet, public speech writer, married to New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio
* Bret Schundler - former Mayor of Jersey City, NJ
* Lloyd Sealy - first African American NYPD officer to command a police precinct and patrol borough
* Dennis M. Walcott - Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development in New York City, New York

## Religious figures

* Arnold Josiah Ford - rabbi

## Scientists

* Cardinal Warde - physicist, full professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

## Sports figures

* Robert Bailey - National Football League player
* Anson Carter - Canadian hockey player
* Rajah Caruth - American NASCAR driver
* Andre De Grasse - Canadian Sprinter
* Ramon Harewood - National Football League player
* Orlando Jordan - professional wrestler
* Winston Justice - National Football League player
* Sam Seale - National Football League player
* Alana Shipp - American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder
* Christian Taylor - track and field athlete
* Obadele Thompson - track and field athlete
* Kevin Weekes - Canadian hockey player
* Andrew Wiggins - Canadian basketball player
* Nick Wiggins - Canadian basketball player
* Zane Maloney - Formula 2 and Formula E driver

## Writers

* Gwen Ifill - American journalist and television newscaster
* Agymah Kamau - novelist
* Odimumba Kwamdela - poet and novelist
* Paule Marshall - novelist
* Susan L. Taylor - editor-in-chief of Essence magazine
* Neville Goddard - writer and mystic

## Others

* Frank L. White - chef, the original chef's face on Cream of Wheat box