List of Jamaicans

Artists and writers

• Opal Palmer Adisa, writer
• Louisa Wells Aikman, writer
• Esther Anderson, actress, photographer, filmmaker
• Gwyneth Barber Wood, poet
• Edward Baugh, poet
• Louise Bennett-Coverley, poet
• Carl Bradshaw, actor, producer
• Jean "Binta" Breeze, poet
• Yvonne Brewster, theatre director
• Erna Brodber, novelist
• Charles Hopel Brown, writer, author
• Lady Colin Campbell, writer, socialite
• Morris Cargill, journalist
• Margaret Cezair-Thompson, novelist
• Colin Channer, novelist, co-founder of Calabash
• Staceyann Chin, poet and writer
• Michelle Cliff, writer
• Aston Cooke, playwright, artistic director
• Carolyn Cooper, writer and cultural theorist
• Christine Craig, poet and short story writer
• Kwame Dawes, Ghana-born writer, co-founder of Calabash
• Jean D'Costa, professor, linguist, and children's novelist
• John Figueroa, poet
• Honor Ford-Smith, artist, writer, performer, educator
• Kirk Fraser, film director, film producer, screenwriter
• Ryan Fraser, writer
• Marcus Garvey, political activist
• Malcolm Gladwell, writer, journalist
• Thomas Glave, Bronx-born writer
• Lorna Goodison, writer
• Mona Hammond, actress
• Thomas Duffus Hardy, historian
• Hubert Henry Harrison, activist, philosopher
• John Hearne, novelist
• Perry Henzell, writer, director
• Stephen Hopkins, film director
• Marlon James, novelist
• Vere Johns, writer, broadcaster, actor
• Linton Kwesi Johnson, dub poet
• Grace Jones, model, actor, artist
• Roger Mais, novelist
• Edna Manley, sculptor
• Louis Marriott, playwright, actor, director, journalist
• Una Marson, writer, broadcaster
• Claude McKay, writer
• Alecia McKenzie, writer
• Anthony McNeill, poet
• Carmen McRae, vocalist
• Brian Meeks, novelist
• Kei Miller, writer
• Pamela Mordecai, poet
• Mervyn Morris, poet
• Mutabaruka, poet
• Oku Onuora, writer
• Geoffrey Philp, writer
• Patricia Powell, novelist
• Claudia Rankine, poet
• Barry Reckord, playwright
• Lloyd Reckord, actor, producer, director, playwright
• Victor Stafford Reid, writer
• Leone Ross, novelist, editor, short story writer, journalist, academic
• Andrew Salkey, writer
• Dennis Scott, poet and playwright
• Olive Senior, writer
• Madge Sinclair, actress
• Malachi Smith, poet
• Pamela Colman Smith, artist and writer
• Michael Thelwell, writer
• Vivian Virtue, poet
• Peter Williams, actor
• Sylvia Wynter, writer

  Beauty contest winners

• Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976
• Carole Joan Crawford, Miss World 1965
• Lisa Hanna, Miss World 1993, politician
• Toni-Ann Singh, Miss World 2019

  Business

• Alexander Aikman, printer, publisher, and landowner.
• Chris Blackwell, president and CEO of Island Records and Palm Pictures, NYC
• Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman/CEO of AIC Limited, Chairman of NCB Jamaica
• Levi Roots, Chairman of Reggae Reggae Sauce
• Adam Stewart
• Gordon "Butch" Stewart
• Gail Vaz-Oxlade, financial adviser, TV personality

  Groups

• Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
• Culture
• Inner Circle
• T.O.K., a crew of deejays
• Third World
• Toots and the Maytals

  Models

• Tyson Beckford, model
• Naomi Campbell, model
• Grace Jones, model, musician, actress
• Venice Kong, Playboy playmate
• Stacey McKenzie, supermodel, actress and model coach
• Rachel Stuart, model, television personality
• Karin Taylor, former Playboy model

  Musicians

• Aidonia, dancehall, rap deejay
• Alaine, singer
• Monty Alexander, jazz pianist and composer
• Cherine Anderson, singer, actress, director
• Buju Banton, reggae singer
• Beenie Man, deejay; Grammy winner
• Benji Webbe, Skindred frontman
• Thom Bell, musician, singer/songwriter, arranger and producer
• Biggie Smalls, rapper
• Bounty Killer, reggae musician
• Brigadier Jerry, reggae musician, dancehall deejay
• Dennis Brown, reggae singer
• Burning Spear, real name Winston Rodney, reggae musician
• Busta Rhymes, rapper
• Busy Signal, dancehall and reggae musician deejay
• Canibus, rapper
• Charlie Chaplin, reggae singer
• Clive Chin, record producer
• Tessanne Chin, singer/songwriter, winner of NBC's The Voice Season 5 in 2013
• Vincent "Randy" Chin, record producer, co-founder of VP Records
• Chipmunk, rapper, songwriter
• Chubb Rock, rapper, radio personality
• Tami Chynn, singer/songwriter
• Jimmy Cliff, singer, reggae musician
• Desmond Dekker, ska and reggae singer
• Demarco, reggae and dancehall musician
• Coxsone Dodd, record producer
• Huey Dunbar, Spanish-language singer with group DLG
• Clancy Eccles, ska and reggae singer, record producer
• Eek-a-Mouse, reggae singer
• Elephant Man, reggae singer
• Horace Faith, reggae singer
• Chuck Fenda, singer
• Dean Fraser, reggae musician
• Ghetts, grime MC
• Joe Gibbs, record producer
• Andrew Gourlay, conductor
• Heavy D, rapper
• Sean Paul Henriques, dancehall musician
• Toots Hibbert, reggae musician
• Joseph Hill, reggae musician and band leader, Culture
• Deni Hines, singer
• Marcia Hines, singer
• Giggs, rapper
• Grace Jones, singer, supermodel
• Ini Kamoze, reggae musician
• Kano, rapper, actor
• Koffee, reggae musician
• Vybz Kartel, dancehall musician, rapper, deejay
• Wynton Kelly, jazz pianist
• Joseph Hoo Kim, record producer
• Diana King, reggae musician
• King Tubby, dub musician
• Sean Kingston, singer
• Kiprich, deejay
• DJ Kool Herc, DJ
• Byron Lee, ska and soca musician
• Barrington Levy, reggae singer
• Mad Cobra, dancehall deejay
• Bei Maejor, record producer, hip-hop/R&B singer
• Bob Marley, reggae singer
• Damian Marley, reggae musician
• Ky-Mani Marley, reggae musician
• Rita Marley, reggae singer; wife of Bob Marley
• Stephen Marley, singer
• Ziggy Marley, reggae musician; son of Bob Marley
• Mavado, dancehall and reggae musician
• Chrisette Michelle, singer
• Mr. Vegas, deejay
• Augustus Pablo, reggae singer
• Patra, dancehall musician
• Dawn Penn, reggae singer
• Lee "Scratch" Perry, reggae musician
• Leigh-Anne Pinnock, member of girl group Little Mix
• Prince Buster, ska singer and producer
• Ernest Ranglin, jazz, ska, rocksteady and reggae guitarist
• Ras Droppa, reggae artist
• Duke Reid, record producer
• Wayne Rhoden, singer/songwriter
• Tarrus Riley, singer
• Sasha, deejay
• Lady Saw, reggae musician
• Serani, reggae singer
• Shabba Ranks, reggae musician
• Shaggy, singer/songwriter
• Sister Nancy, dancehall deejay
• Sizzla, reggae and dancehall deejay
• Slick Rick, rapper
• Mikey Smith, dub poet
• Spice, dancehall musician
• Spot
• Spragga Benz, reggae and dancehall deejay
• Peter Tosh, reggae musician
• Bunny Wailer, reggae singer
• Willard White, operatic bass-baritone
• Wretch 32, rapper
• XXXTENTACION, rapper
• Ski Mask the Slump God, rapper

  Politicians

• Alexander Bustamante, trade unionist
• Bruce Golding, Prime Minister
• Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth & Culture, former Miss World
• Andrew Holness, Prime Minister
• Hyman Isaac Long, Deputy Inspector General of the Grand Consistory of the twenty-five degree "Rite of the Royal Secret"
• Michael Manley, Prime Minister
• Norman Manley, Jamaican national hero
• Earle Maynier, first Jamaican High Commissioner to Canada
• Henry Moore, colonial governor
• Trevor Munroe, trade unionist and politician
• P. J. Patterson, Prime Minister
• Edward Seaga, Prime Minister
• Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister

  Religious leaders

• S. U. Hastings, first Jamaican bishop of the Moravian Church
• Neville Neil, bishop of the Moravian Church in Jamaica

  Science and medicine

• Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War
• Cicely Williams, identified the protein deficiency disease kwashiorkor

  Sports

• Donovan Bailey, Jamaican-born Canadian, world champion sprinter
• Leon Bailey, Jamaican footballer playing for Bayer 04 Leverkusen
• John Barnes, Jamaican-born English football player; played for the England national football team and Liverpool F.C.
• Atari Bigby, former football player
• Yohan Blake, sprinter
• Usain Bolt, world and Olympic record holder, 100m and 200m
• Steve Bucknor, international cricket umpire
• Veronica Campbell-Brown, sprinter
• Omar Cummings, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for the Houston Dynamo
• Chili Davis, Jamaican-born American, former star Major League Baseball player
• Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-born American, former NBA star
• Heather Foster, Jamaican-born American professional bodybuilder
• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, sprinter, 100m and 200m World and Olympic record holder, fondly known as "The Pocket Rocket"
• Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican-born Premier League and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for Stoke City
• Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican-born Premier League and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for Bolton Wanderers
• Chris Gayle, Captain of West Indian International Cricket Team
• George Headley, cricketer
• Wavell Hinds, cricketer
• Michael Holding, cricketer
• Kamara James, Jamaican-born American, Olympic fencer
• Ben Johnson, Jamaican-born Canadian, disgraced champion sprinter
• Jerome Jordan, NBA player, New York Knicks center #44
• Rajiv Maragh, jockey
• Tyrone Marshall, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for Toronto F.C.
• Darren Mattocks, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for D.C. United
• Mike McCallum, champion boxer
• Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-born Slovenian sprinter, the world's most winning female athlete
• Asafa Powell, sprinter, former 100m world record holder
• Donald Quarrie, sprinter
• Shawn Rhoden, bodybuilder
• Sanya Richards-Ross, Jamaican-born American sprinter, 400m
• Donovan Ricketts, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for the Portland Timbers
• Tessa Sanderson, Jamaican-born former British Javelin gold medalist and Heptathlon
• Trecia-Kaye Smith, former Triple Jump World Champion
• Raheem Sterling, Jamaican-born English football player; currently plays for Manchester City
• Shavar Thomas, Jamaican-born MLS and Jamaica national football team football player; currently plays for Chivas USA
• Stephen Tulloch, National Football League middle linebacker for Detroit Lions and N.C. State Wolfpac; born in Miami of Jamaican heritage
• Melaine Walker, sprinter, 400m Olympic record holder
• Courtney Walsh, cricketer
• Nicholas Walters, professional boxer, former WBA World Featherweight Champion
• Devon White, baseball player
• Arthur Wint, OD MBE, Olympic former 400m gold medalist

  Others

• Hope Arthurine Anderson, national chess champion and Olympian
• Clancy Eccles, social activist and reggae musician
• Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
• St. William Grant, trade unionist and activist
• Dhalia Harris, actress, and television personality
• Lenford "Steve" Harvey, AIDS activist
• Ian McKnight, founder of Jamaica AIDS Support for LIFE
• Roxroy Salmon, Jamaican-American immigration activist