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 adding missing items with reliable sources.

• 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
• Craig Charles (born 1964), actor, comedian and broadcaster, Guyanese father.
• 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]
• Eric Huntley (born 1925), 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 ^[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

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