List of Guyanese Britons

This is a list of notable Guyanese British people.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

• John Agard (born 1948), playwright, poet and children's writer ^[1]
• Kate Abdo (born 1981), sports broadcaster
• Arif Ali (born 1935), publisher
• Waheed Alli (born 1964) media entrepreneur and politician, Indo-Guyanese father from Guyana ^[2]
• Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos (born 1954, British Guiana), Director of SOAS, University of London, UN representative, and Labour Peer in the House of Lords
• Shaheera Asante (born 1979), broadcaster, environmental activist Cambridge, United Kingdom, Guyanese mother
• Thomas Baptiste (1929–2018), actor.
• Tina Barrett (born 1976), singer from S Club, Guyanese mother ^[3]
• Frank Bowling (born British Guiana, 1934), artist ^[4]
• Gabrielle Brooks (born 1990), actress
• Craig Charles (born 1964), actor, comedian and broadcaster, Guyanese father.
• Bob Collymore (1958–2019), Vodafone executive and second CEO of Safaricom
• Peter Davison (born 1951), actor known for All Creatures Great and Small and Doctor Who , Guyanese father ^[5]
• Nubya Garcia (born 1991), jazz musician, Guyanese mother
• Olivia Dean (born 1999), singer, Guyanese grandmother ^[6]
• 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 ^[7]
• Eddy Grant (born 1948), Guyanese-born singer and musician ^[8]
• Eric Huntley (1925–2026), activist, publisher and educator. Co-founder of Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications alongside his wife, Jessica Huntley
• Jessica Huntley (1927–2013), community rights activist, political reformer and publisher.
• Meiling Jin (born 1956), Guyanese-born writer ^[9]
• David Lammy (born 1972), Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham. Guyanese mother and father ^[10]
• Central Cee (born 1998), UK drill rapper born to Chinese Guyanese father
• Hew Locke (born 1959), contemporary sculptor, son of Guyanese sculptor Donald Locke ^[11]
• Phil Lynott, frontman of the rock band Thin Lizzy, with an Afro-Guyanese father ^[12]
• Gina Miller (born 1965), 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 ^{[13] [14]}
• 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 ^[15]
• Laurie Taitt (1934–2006), Olympic sprint hurdler ^[16]
• Aubrey Williams (1926–1990), artist. Born Georgetown, British Guiana ^[17]
• James Justin (born 1998), professional footballer

See also

• Guyanese people

References

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5. 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.
6. "BBC Sound Of 2024: How embracing chaos made Olivia Dean a breakout star". 2024-01-04. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
7. Phillips, Mike (2000-04-10). "Obituary: Bernie Grant". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
8. Harris, Adam (3 March 2013). "Eddy Grant – the Ringbang man and a national icon is a 'Special Person'". Kaieteur News. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
9. 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.
10. Kentish, Benjamin (2018-04-23). "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. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
11. "Hew Locke | Artist and Sculptor | Guyana UK". Itzcaribbean.com. 2012-08-12. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
12. "Thin Lizzy Frontman Phil Lynott Leaves the 'Whiskey in the Jar' Empty – Twisted Tales". Spinner.com. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
13. "Brexit court case: Who is Gina Miller?". BBC News. 3 November 2016.
14. Masters, James (4 November 2016). "Guyana-born Gina Miller: The woman behind the Brexit bombshell". CNN.
15. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, "Janice Lowe Shinebourne’s The Godmother and Other Stories (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2004)", Kaieteur News, 16 November 2008.
16. "Profile of Laurie Taitt". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
17. Walmsley, Anne (1990). Guyana dreaming : the art of Aubrey Williams. Sydney, N.S.W.: Dangaroo Press. ISBN   1-871049-07-5. OCLC   25422210.