List of Guyanese
Appearance
This is a list of notable Guyanese. This list includes people born in Guyana, notably of Guyanese descent, or otherwise strongly associated to Guyana.
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
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 proprieter