From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of notable
Guyanese British people.
John Agard , playwright, poet and children's writer
[1]
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
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]
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]
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
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
References
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"John Agard – was born on 21 June 1949 in British Guiana (now Guyana)" . Contemporarywriters.com. Archived from
the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 2012-09-15 .
^ Edgecliffe-Johnson, Andrew (7 October 2011).
"Lunch with the FT: Waheed Alli" . Financial Times . Retrieved 2021-09-16 .
^
"S Club 7's Tina Barrett Talks To Holy Moly about her return to pop | Music Interviews" . Holy Moly!. Archived from
the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-09-15 .
^
"British Library" . www.bl.uk . Retrieved 2021-09-16 .
^ 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 .
^
"Obituary: Bernie Grant" . the Guardian . 2000-04-10. Retrieved 2021-09-16 .
^
"Eddy Grant – the Ringbang man and a national icon is a 'Special Person' " . Kaietneur News. 3 March 2013. Retrieved 2018-09-18 .
^ 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.
^
"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 .
^
"Hew Locke | Artist and Sculptor | Guyana UK" . Itzcaribbean.com. 2012-08-12. Archived from
the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2012-09-15 .
^
"Thin Lizzy Frontman Phil Lynott Leaves the 'Whiskey in the Jar' Empty – Twisted Tales" . Spinner.com. Retrieved 2012-09-15 .
^
"Brexit court case: Who is Gina Miller?" . BBC News. 3 November 2016.
^ Masters, James (4 November 2016).
"Guyana-born Gina Miller: The woman behind the Brexit bombshell" . CNN.
^ Anne-Marie Lee-Loy,
"Janice Lowe Shinebourne’s The Godmother and Other Stories (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2004)" , Kaieteur News , 16 November 2008.
^
"Profile of Laurie Taitt" .
Sports Reference . Archived from
the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2014 .
^ Walmsley, Anne (1990). Guyana dreaming : the art of Aubrey Williams . Sydney, N.S.W.: Dangaroo Press.
ISBN
1-871049-07-5 .
OCLC
25422210 .