# List of people from Freetown

Below is a list of notable people from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Please only include entries with a Wikipedia article.

## Academics and educators

* Edward Wilmot Blyden III, diplomat, political scientist and educator.
* Violet Showers Johnson, academic, author and historian.
* Aaron Belisarius Cosmo Sibthorpe, nineteenth century historian.
* Victor Okrafo-Smart, author and genealogical researcher.
* Noah Arthur William Cox-George, academic and economist.
* Bertha Conton, teacher, educator, and founder of Leone Preparatory School.
* Eustace Palmer, academic, author and public orator.
* Lemuel A. Johnson, academic, poet, and author.
* Lati Hyde-Forster, first Sierra Leonean woman to graduate from Fourah Bay College.
* William Farquhar Conton, educator, historian, and author.
* Hannah Benka-Coker (born Hannah Luke), educator and founder of Freetown Secondary School for Girls.
* Abiodun Williams, academic and former president of The Hague Institute for Global Justice.
* Akintola Josephus Gustavus Wyse, academic, author and historian.
* Arthur Thomas Daniel Porter III, academic, author and historian.
* Edna Elliott-Horton, first West African woman to complete a BA degree in the liberal arts.
* Edward Fasholé-Luke, academic and theologian.
* Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr, writer and Anglican theologian.
* Eldred Durosimi Jones, academic and literary critic.
* Enid Rosamund Ayodele Forde, academic, earth scientist, geographer and first Sierra Leonean woman to earn a PhD.
* Trudy Morgan, first African woman to be awarded a Fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers and twice president of Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers.
* Reginald Akindele Cline-Cole, academic, earth scientist and developmental geographer.
* Thomas Frederick Hope, first Engineer-in-Chief, Guma Valley Water Company and first chairman, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated.

## Activists/writers/artists

* Adelaide Casely-Hayford, was an advocate, nationalist, and educator.
* Patricia Piccinini, Australian artist.
* FannyAnn Eddy, gay rights activist.
* Farid Raymond-Anthony, Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet.
* Syl Cheney-Coker, poet, novelist, and journalist.
* Thomas Decker, writer, poet, journalist, and linguist.
* Eyamide Ella Lewis-Coker (Eyamide Ella Smith), writer and book author.
* Gaston Bart-Williams, journalist, novelist and film director.
* Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist and biographer.
* Raymond Caleb Ayodele Charley, playwright and writer.
* Yulisa Amadu Maddy (Pat Maddy), composer, journalist and writer.
* Clifford Nelson Fyle, composer of the Sierra Leone National Anthem.
* Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew, prominent photographer appointed for the visit of the Duke of Connaught.
* Raouf J Jacob, filmmaker

## Actors/actresses

* Jeillo Edwards
* Desmond Finney
* Adetokumboh McCormack

## Criminals

* Issa Hassan Sesay, convicted war criminal who served in the Sierra Leonean army and the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).
* Brima Bazzy Kamara, rebel leader and convicted war criminal.
* Santigie Borbor Kanu, rebel leader and convicted war criminal.
* Jamil Sahid Mohamed, former businessman, convicted for involvement in assassination plot.

## Health care and social justice

* Frederica Williams, President and chief executive officer of Whittier Street Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts since 2002.
* Sir Ernest Dunstan Morgan (1896–1979), pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist

## Military personnel

* Brigadier-General Arthur Nelson-Williams, 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
* Emmanuel Cole, soldier and hero of the "Gunners Revolt"
* John Henry Clavell Smythe, former Royal Air Force navigation officer, barrister and Attorney General of Sierra Leone

## Religious leaders

* George Gurney Mather Nicol, clergyman and first African graduate of Cambridge University.
* Daniel Coker, missionary and founder of the West African Methodist Church.
* Thomas Sylvester Johnson, educator and former bishop of Sierra Leone.
* Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Sierra Leonean-Nigerian clergyman and first Anglican Bishop of West Africa.
* Moses Nathanael Christopher Omobiala Scott, clergyman and Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone who later became Archbishop of the Province of West Africa.

## Musicians

* Ebenezer Calendar, musician who created and popularized Creole gumbe music and maringa music.
* Oloh Israel Olufemi Cole (Dr. Oloh), musician.
* Daddy Saj (Joseph Gerald Adolphus Cole), rapper.
* Bunny Mack (Cecil Bunting MacCormack), singer.
* Emmerson
* Reuben Koroma

## Judges and lawyers

* Sir Samuel Bankole-Jones (1911–1981), former Chief Justice and first Sierra Leonean president of the Court of Appeal
* Sir Salako Benka-Coker (1900–1965), first Sierra Leonean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
* Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs, first non-white person appointed to the senior judiciary of England and Wales
* Nicholas Colin Browne-Marke, judge in the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone and The Gambia.
* George Gelaga King, judge presiding at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
* Patrick Omolade Hamilton, Supreme Court judge of Sierra Leone.
* Frances Claudia Wright, first Sierra Leonean woman to be called to the Bar in Great Britain and to practice law in Sierra Leone.
* Jamesina Essie Leonora King, jurist and first Sierra Leonean sworn in as Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.
* Ade Renner Thomas, barrister and one-time Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.
* James Blyden Jenkins-Johnston, barrister and human rights defender.
* John Rosolu Bankole Thompson, jurist, judge and academic.
* Stella Thomas, Nigerian of Sierra Leonean descent who was the first West African to qualify as a lawyer.
* Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier, former Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, educator and diplomat.
* Christian Frederick Cole, first African barrister to practice in the English courts.
* Augustus Boyle Chamberlayne Merriman‐Labor, barrister, writer and munitions worker.

## Politicians

* Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor of Freetown and first West African to receive a knighthood.
* Sir Emile Fashole Luke, former Chief Justice and Speaker of Parliament.
* Sir Ernest Beoku-Betts, jurist and one-time mayor of Freetown.
* Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962 to 1967
* Christopher Elnathan Okoro Cole, one-time Governor-General and Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
* Andrew Juxon-Smith, former commander of the Armed Forces and Head of State of Sierra Leone.
* Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1996
* Herbert George-Williams, former mayor of Freetown
* Winstanley Bankole Johnson, former mayor of Freetown
* John Henry Malamah Thomas, mayor of Freetown from 1904 to 1912
* Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings, mayor of Freetown from 1948 to 1954
* Ade Renner Thomas, current Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
* Isaac Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean journalist and a politician
* Siaka Probyn Stevens, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 21 April 1971 – 28 November 1985
* 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 to 1992.
* Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, third Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007.
* Johnny Paul Koroma former Head of State of Sierra Leone and indicted war criminal.

## Physicians and surgeons

* Abioseh Davidson Nicol, academic, medical doctor and discoverer of the breakdown of insulin in the human body, a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes.
* William Broughton Davies, first West African to qualify as a medical doctor.
* Irene Ighodaro (Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Wellesley-Cole), first Sierra Leonean woman to qualify as a medical doctor.
* Edward Mayfield Boyle, medical practitioner and one of the first West Africans to attend Howard University College of Medicine.
* William Robert Gorham Ebun Priddy, medical practitioner and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
* James Africanus Beale Horton, surgeon, scientist and political thinker who worked towards African independence a century before it occurred.
* Ulric Oduma Emmanuel Jones, first Sierra Leonean neurosurgeon.
* Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole, medical practitioner and first West African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
* Olayinka Koso-Thomas, medical doctor known internationally for her efforts to abolish female genital mutilation.
* John Augustus Abayomi-Cole, medical doctor and herbalist.
* George Bernard Frazer, medical practitioner and gynaecologist.

## Sports figures
### 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
* George Davies
* Mahmadu Alphajor Bah
* Michael Lahoud
* Mehdi Khalil
* Trevoh Chalobah
* Walid Shour

### Other sports

* Eugenia Osho-Williams, former sprinter and first woman to represent Sierra Leone at the Olympics.
* Eunice Barber, former athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump.
* Horace Dove-Edwin, retired sprinter who specialized in the 100-metre dash.
* Denton Guy-Williams, sprinter at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
* Josephus Thomas, sprinter at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
* William Akabi-Davis, sprinter at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
* Modupe Jonah, middle-distance runner at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
* Rudolph George, sprinter at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
* Pierre Lisk, sprinter at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
* David Sawyerr, sprinter at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
* Rachel Thompson, middle-distance runner at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
* B. J. Tucker, American football player of the San Francisco 49ers (NFL)
* Madieu Williams, American football player of the Cincinnati Bengals
* Hawanatu Bangura, Sierra Leonean sprinter
* Israel Cole, boxer at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
* Joshua Wyse, swimmer at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
* Frank Williams, cyclist at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
* Egerton Forster, boxer at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
* Michael 'Joko' Collier, swimmer at the 1996 Summer Olympics.