List of people from Freetown
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Below is a list of notable people from Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Football (soccer) [edit]
- Sheriff Suma
- Roda Antar
- Sarway Dollar
- Samuel Barlay
- Sidney Kargbo
- Obi Metzger
- Alhassan Bangura
- Mustapha Sama
- Michael Tommy
- Lamine Conteh
- Muwahid Sesay
- Kewullay Conteh
- Ibrahim Kargbo
- Albert Cole
- Alimamy Sesay
- Christian Caulker
- Albert Jarrett
- Kabba Samura
Other Sports [edit]
- B. J. Tucker, American football player of the San Francisco 49ers (NFL)
- Madieu Williams, American football player of the Cincinnati Begals
- Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean track and field athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump
- Hawanatu Bangura, Sierra Leonean sprinter
- Horace Dove-Edwin, a retired Sierra Leonean sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres
Activist/writer/artist/trade [edit]
- Adelaide Casely-Hayford, was a strong advocate, nationalism, and educationist
- Jamil Sahid Mohamed, was a powerful businessman from Sierra Leone who made millions of dollars in diamond trade
- Patricia Piccinini, Australian artist
- Farid Raymond-Anthony, Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet
Musicians [edit]
Politicians [edit]
- Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992-1996
- Herbert George-Williams, current mayor of Freetown
- Winstanley Bankole Johnson, former mayor of Freetown
- Andrew Juxon-Smith, former Head of State of Sierra Leone
- John 'Johnny' Taylor, Krio trader during colonial era
- Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings, mayor of Freetown from 1948-1954
- Ade Renner Thomas, current Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
- Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962-1967
- Isaac Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean journalist and a politician
- Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor
military personnel [edit]
- Issa Hassan Sesay, served as senior officer in the Sierra Leonean army and commander of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC)
- Brigadier-General Arthur Nelson-Williams, the The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces spokesman
- Brigadier-General Tom Carew was in the Sierra Leonean army and Chief of Defence Staff of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces from April 2000 to November 2003
Actor/actress [edit]
- Jeillo Edwards, Sierra Leonean actress
