List of Guyanese: Difference between revisions

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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

See also: List of Guyanese 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

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

See also: Category:Guyanese musicians

• Aubrey Cummings (1947–2010), Guyana-born Barbadian musician
• Lynette Dolphin (1916–2000), musician, educator, chair of the Guyana Department of Culture
• Rudolph Dunbar (1907–1988), conductor, composer, musician
• Keko (Guyanese rapper) (born 1974), rapper, radio personality
• Sol Raye (1936–2006), cabaret musician

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
• Edwina Melville (1926–1993), writer, teacher, politician, and advocate of the Wapishana peoples

Writers

See also: List of Guyanese 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
• Shana Yardan (1943–1989), poet and broadcaster