List of Jamaican Maroons
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This is a list of notable individuals of Jamaican Maroon ancestry.
A
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, current mayor of Freetown
C
- Adelaide Casely-Hayford, activist, nationalist and fiction writer
- Gladys Casely-Hayford, first author to write in the Krio language
D
- Doris Darlington, one of Jamaica's first sound system operators, and a force in the development of ska, rocksteady and reggae music
E
- Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon, medical doctor
H
- Thomas Frederick Hope, engineer and entrepreneur
J
- Colin Jackson, former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles
- Albert Jarrett, footballer who last played for Dulwich Hamlet and has represented the Sierra Leone national football team
- Constance Agatha Cummings-John, first woman to serve as mayor of Freetown
- Eldred Durosimi Jones, academic and literary critic
M
- Timothy E. McPherson Jr., Jamaican economist
P
- Suzanne Packer, actress known for playing the role of Tess Bateman in the BBC medical drama Casualty
- Arthur Thomas Porter, academic and historian
R
- Namba Roy, artist, from Accompong[1]
- Jesse Royal, musician, singer and songwriter
S
- Daddy Saj, afropop musician
- Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango, artist and missionary
- Robert Smith, assistant colonial surgeon
- Francis Smith, puisne judge
References
- ^ Beshoff, Patricia (1983). "Namba Roy: Maroon Artist and Writer". Jamaica Journal. 16 (34–38). Archived from the original on 15 April 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2021.