List of Guyanese Britons
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This is a list of notable Guyanese British people.
- John Agard, playwright, poet and children's writer[1]
- Kate Abdo, sports broadcaster
- Arif Ali, publisher
- Waheed Alli (born 1964) media entrepreneur and politician, Indo-Guyanese father from Guyana[2]
- Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, Director of SOAS, University of London, UN representative, and Labour Peer in the House of Lords. Born British Guiana, 1954.
- Shaheera Asante, broadcaster, environmental activist Cambridge, United Kingdom, Guyanese mother
- Thomas Baptiste, actor.*
- Tina Barrett, singer from S Club, Guyanese mother[3]
- Frank Bowling artist. Born British Guiana, 1934.[4]
- Gabrielle Brooks (born 1990), actress
- Bob Collymore (1958–2019), Vodafone executive and second CEO of Safaricom
- Peter Davison, actor known for All Creatures Great and Small and Doctor Who, Guyanese father[5]
- Nubya Garcia (born 1991) jazz musician, Guyanese mother
- Bernie Grant (1944–2000) British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, London, from 1987 to his death in 2000. Born Georgetown, British Guiana[6]
- Eddy Grant (born 1948), Guyanese-born singer and musician[7]
- Meiling Jin (born 1956), Guyanese-born writer[8]
- David Lammy (born 1972) Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham. Guyanese mother and father[9]
- Central Cee, (born 1998) UK drill rapper born to Chinese Guyanese father
- Hew Locke, contemporary sculptor, son of Guyanese sculptor Donald Locke[10]
- Phil Lynott, frontman of the rock band Thin Lizzy, with an Afro-Guyanese father[11]
- Gina Miller, Guyanese-born business owner known for initiating the 2016 R (Miller and Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union court case against the British government over its authority to implement Brexit without approval from Parliament[12][13]
- Grace Nichols (born 1950), poet
- Trevor Phillips (born 1953), former UK government equality advisor and broadcaster
- Meridian Dan (born 1985), Tottenham-born UK Grime rapper
- Jan Lowe Shinebourne (born 1947), Guyanese-born novelist[14]
- Laurie Taitt (1934–2006), Olympic sprint hurdler[15]
- Aubrey Williams (1926–1990) artist. Born Georgetown, British Guiana[16]
- James Justin
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "John Agard – was born on 21 June 1949 in British Guiana (now Guyana)". Contemporarywriters.com. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
- ^ Edgecliffe-Johnson, Andrew (7 October 2011). "Lunch with the FT: Waheed Alli". Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ "S Club 7's Tina Barrett Talks To Holy Moly about her return to pop | Music Interviews". Holy Moly!. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
- ^ "British Library". www.bl.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ Palmer, Camilla (11 August 2017). "Peter Davison: 'Britain wasn't as welcoming as it should have been for my father'". theguardian.com. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ "Obituary: Bernie Grant". the Guardian. 2000-04-10. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ "Eddy Grant – the Ringbang man and a national icon is a 'Special Person'". Kaietneur News. 3 March 2013. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
- ^ Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. "Meiling Jin." Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Web.
- ^ "David Lammy MP reveals racist letter after speaking out on Windrush scandal: 'Be grateful we have taken you in as a black man'". The Independent. 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ^ "Hew Locke | Artist and Sculptor | Guyana UK". Itzcaribbean.com. 2012-08-12. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
- ^ "Thin Lizzy Frontman Phil Lynott Leaves the 'Whiskey in the Jar' Empty – Twisted Tales". Spinner.com. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
- ^ "Brexit court case: Who is Gina Miller?". BBC News. 3 November 2016.
- ^ Masters, James (4 November 2016). "Guyana-born Gina Miller: The woman behind the Brexit bombshell". CNN.
- ^ Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, "Janice Lowe Shinebourne’s The Godmother and Other Stories (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2004)", Kaieteur News, 16 November 2008.
- ^ "Profile of Laurie Taitt". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
- ^ Walmsley, Anne (1990). Guyana dreaming : the art of Aubrey Williams. Sydney, N.S.W.: Dangaroo Press. ISBN 1-871049-07-5. OCLC 25422210.