List of people from Dominica
Commonwealth of Dominica
This is a list of notable people from the Commonwealth of Dominica. The list include also individuals with Dominican ancestry and citizenship.
Politics
Presidents
Prime Ministers
- Dame Eugenia Charles
- Pierre Charles
- Roosevelt Douglas
- Edison James
- Patrick John
- Oliver Seraphin
- Roosevelt Skerrit
Leader(s) of the Opposition
Political personalities
- Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, current Commonwealth of Nations Secretary General; former Attorney General for England and Wales
- Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1907–86), politician
- Ronald Green, politician
- Edward Oliver LeBlanc, government official
- Emmanuel Christopher Loblack (1898–1995), union leader and politician
- Cecil Rawle (1891–1938), attorney and politician
Spiritual personalities
- Ogyen Trinley Dorje, [1] (widely known as the 17th Karmapa) is head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Activists
- Kellyn George
- Asquith Xavier, Dominican-born Briton who fought a colour bar to become the first non-white train guard at Euston station in London in 1966.
Actors
- Danny John-Jules, of Red Dwarf and of Death in Paradise, filmed in Guadeloupe
Doctors
- Jasmine R. Marcelin, physician
Media
- Trisha Goddard, host of Trisha
- Moira Stuart, female newsreader on British television and radio, working for the BBC
- Urban Dangleben, proprietor of the first private radio station "Radio En Ba Mango" in the Commonwealth of Dominica..
Musicians
- Gabrielle
- Bashy
- Pearle Christian
- Nasio Fontaine
- Ophelia Marie
- Shakka
- Swinging Stars
- Windward Caribbean Kulture ("WCK")
Sports
- Frank Bruno, professional boxer
- Joe Cooke, footballer
- Phillip DeFreitas, cricketer
- Billy Doctrove, cricket umpire
- Luan Gabriel, sprinter
- Vince Hilaire, footballer
- Manjrekar James, footballer
- Garth Joseph, basketballer
- Karina LeBlanc, footballer
- Jerome Romain, athlete
- Adam Sanford, cricketer
- Grayson Shillingford, cricketer
- Shane Shillingford, cricketer
Visual artists
Writers
- Phyllis Shand Allfrey, novelist (The Orchid House)
- Lennox Honychurch, historian (The Dominica Story)
- Marie-Elena John, novelist (Unburnable)
- Elma Napier, novelist (Black and White Sands)
- Jean Rhys, novelist (Wide Sargasso Sea)
- Alec Waugh, novelist (Island in the Sun)
References
- ^ "Karmapa acquires Dominica passport". The Hindu. 2018-10-03.