List of people from Dominica
Appearance
This is a list of notable people from the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Politicians
- Sir Clarence Seignoret
- Sir Crispin Sorhaindo
- Vernon Shaw
- Nicholas Liverpool (current President)
- Dame Eugenia Charles (first woman Prime Minister of the Caribbean)
- Pierre Charles
- Rosie Douglas
- Edison James
- Patrick John
- Roosevelt Skerrit (incumbent)
Past figures
- C.E.O. Rawle (born in Trinidad)
Writers and historians
(with notable books listed)
- Phyllis Shand Allfrey([The Orchid House]])
- Alec Waugh (Island in the Sun)
- Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea)
- Lennox Honychurch (The Dominica Story)
- Irwin Andre (Distant Voices)
- Juliana T. Magloire (The Sea Hawk)
Musicians
- Scrunter and Hunter, two famous calypsonians of the 1990s
- Gregory Rabess
- Swinging Stars
- Music Lovers Band
- Michele Henderson
Television personalities
- Lennox Linton (host of What About...!)
- Nazarine Gordon (anchor of Marpin Evening News)
- Tim Durand (anchor of Marpin Evening News)
Religious personalities
- Brother Egbert Germain (former principal of Saint Mary's Academy)
- Gilbert Malzaire (current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church)
- Arnold Bogehart (Catholic Bishop from 1975 until 1993)
Other
- Fred White (whose amateur radio served as Dominica's only form of communication in the aftermath of 1979's Hurricane David)
- Phillip DeFreitas cricketer born in Dominica who subsequently played for the England cricket team.
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