# List of Guyanese

"Notable" added as a qualifier IOT exclude names lacking a WP article This is a list of notable Guyanese. This list includes people born in Guyana, notably of Guyanese descent, or otherwise strongly associated to Guyana.

## Actors and entertainers

* Robert Adams (1902–1965), British Guyanese actor, of stage and screen
* Harry Baird (1931–2005), Guyanese-born British actor
* Marc Matthews (born c. 1940), actor, broadcaster, writer, and producer
* T-Bone Wilson, Guyanese-born British actor, dramatist, and poet
* Ian Valz (1957–2010), actor, playwright, and filmmaker

## Artists

* Kwesi Abbensetts, Guyanese-born American photographer
* Damali Abrams, American-born video artist and performance artist, of Guyanese descent
* George Barber (born 1958), British Guyanese video artist
* Frank Bowling (born 1939), British Guyanese painter, based in the United Kingdom
* Theresa Chromati (born 1992) American-born painter, of Guyanese descent
* Victor Davson (born 1948), Guyanese-born American collagist, curator, and gallerist
* Ann Gollifer (born 1960) British Guyanese painter, printmaker, writer and photographer, based in Gaborone, Botswana
* Maggie Harris, poet, writer, and visual artist, based in the United Kingdom
* Oswald Hussein (born 1946), Guyanese sculptor of wood, of Lokono descent
* Donald Locke (1930–2010), drafter, painter, sculptor
* Hew Locke (born 1959), Scottish-born sculptor, raised in Guyana and based in London
* Leila Locke (1936–1992), English-born Guyanese painter
* Suchitra Mattai (born 1973), Guyanese-born American multidisciplinary contemporary artist
* Philip Moore (1921–2012), sculptor and painter
* Bernadette Persaud (born 1946), painter
* Ingrid Pollard (born 1953) British Guyanese photographer
* Lenny Prince (born 1965), Guyanese-born American sculptor and large scale installation artist
* Doris Rogers (1929–2016), Guyanese academic who specialized in fine arts

## Athletes

* Martin Braithwaite (born 1991), Danish professional footballer, of Guyanese descent
* Shivnarine Chanderpaul (born 1974), cricket coach and former captain of the West Indies cricket team
* Nicolette Fernandes (born 1983), British squash player, representing Guyana
* Lance Gibbs (born 1934), cricketer
* Carl Hooper (born 1966), cricketer
* Rohan Kanhai (born 1935), cricketer
* Clive Lloyd (born 1944), British Guyanese cricketer
* Ramnaresh Sarwan (born 1980), cricketer
* Kwesi Sinclair (born 1978), Guyanese-born cricketer who represented British Virgin Islands

## Businesspeople

* Arif Ali (born 1935), Guyana-born British publisher, and newspaper proprietor
* Elizabeth Swain Bannister (1785–1828), Barbadian-born businessperson and freewoman, who lived in Berbice, a Dutch Colony (what is now Guyana)
* John Meredith Ford (1923–1995), businessman and politician

## Musicians

* Anjulie (born 1983), Canadian singer of Indo-Guyanese descent
* Aubrey Cummings (1947-2010), Guyana-born Barbadian musician
* Central Cee (born 1998), English rapper of Guyanese and Chinese ancestry
* Leona Lewis (born 1985), English singer of Guyanese descent
* Lynette Dolphin (1916–2000), musician, educator, chair of the Guyana Department of Culture
* Rudolph Dunbar (1907–1988), conductor, composer, musician
* Melanie Fiona (born 1983), Canadian singer and songwriter, of Guyanese descent
* Eddy Grant (born 1948), British Guyanese singer, songwriter
* Keko (Guyanese rapper) (born 1974), rapper, radio personality
* Preme (born 1986; also known as P. Reign), Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer, of Guyanese descent
* Sol Raye (1936–2006), cabaret musician
* Red Café (born 1976; born as Jermaine Alfred Denny), Guyanese-born American rapper
* Rihanna (born 1988), Barbadian singer, of Afro-Guyanese descent on her maternal side
* Saint Jhn (born 1986; born as Carlos St. John Phillips), American rapper, raised in Guyana

## Politicians and activists

* Margaret Ackman (?–2013), politician and a founding member of the People’s National Congress Reform
* Andaiye (1942–2019), social, political, and gender rights activist
* Antony Beaujon (c. 1763–1805), civil servant and politician
* Juan Edghill (born 1964), pastor and politician; founder and bishop of Zadok Ministers Fellowship
* John Meredith Ford (1923–1995), businessman and politician
* Valerie Hart (1933–2021), indigenous political leader from the Wapishana ethnic group and a member of Guyana's Amerindian Party
* Abdul Kadir (1952-2018), politician, convicted terrorist.
* Edwina Melville (1926–1993), writer, teacher, politician, and advocate of the Wapishana peoples

## Writers

* Michael Abbensetts (1938–2016), Guyana-born British playwright and screenwriter
* John Agard (born 1949), Guyana-born British playwright, poet and children's writer
* Arif Ali (born 1935), Guyana-born British publisher, and newspaper proprietor
* E. R. Braithwaite (1912–2016), writer
* Jan Carew (1920–2012), Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator
* Martin Carter (1927–1997), poet and political activist
* David Dabydeen (born 1955), Guyanese-born broadcaster, writer and academic
* Wilson Harris (1921–2018) poet, novelist
* Roy Heath (1926–2008) Guyanese-born writer, based in the UK
* Matthew James Higgins (1810–1868), British writer, he lived part time in British Guiana
* Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965), novelist
* Walter Rodney (1942–1980), politician, activist and historian
* Ivan Van Sertima (1935–2009) Guyanese-born British Africanist and academic
* A. J. Seymour (1914–1989), writer, editor, and publisher
* Eric Walrond (1898–1966), British Guyanese-born American writer and journalist, associated with the Harlem Renaissance
* Shana Yardan (1943–1989), poet and broadcaster