page_title: List of Jamaican Americans
section_title: Others
hierarchical_section_title: List of Jamaican Americans / List / Others
caption_attribution_description: English: Official portrait of Colin L. Powell as the Secretary of State of the United States of America. Taken in January 2001.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable Jamaican Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
context_section_description: Opal Palmer Adisa – writer, poet, performance artist
  Maurice Ashley – chess grandmaster
  Tyson Beckford
  Ronald Blackwood – Mayor of Mount Vernon, New York (1985–1996), first elected black mayor in New York state
  Yvette Clarke – Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  Ann-Marie Campbell – President, Southern Division, The Home Depot
  Desus – comedian
  Louis Farrakhan – leader of the Nation of Islam
  Colin Ferguson – mass murderer
  Yvette Francis-McBarnette – doctor who pioneered antibiotic treatment for pediatric sickle cell anemia
  Kamala Harris – U.S. Senator from California; 2020 Democratic vice presidential nominee
  Nadine Burke Harris – pediatrician, linked adverse childhood experiences and health
  Jason D. Hill – Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University
  Donna Hylton – author
  Claude McKay – writer and poet
  Wayne Messam – Mayor of Miramar, Florida
  Gil Noble – television reporter and interviewer
  David Paterson – Governor of New York
  C.J. Pearson – teen conservative contributor
  Colin Powell – 65th United States Secretary of State
  Angella Reid – White House Chief Usher
  Shawn Rhoden – professional bodybuilder
  Susan Rice  – United States National Security Advisor
  Alexis Skyy
  Marsha Thomason – British-born actress
  Orinthia Montague – fourth president of Tompkins Cortland Community College
caption: Colin Powell
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