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The list of Sierra Leone Creole people is an incomplete list of notable individuals of
Creole
ethnicity and
ancestry . The
Sierra Leone Creole people , who are also referred to as (
Krio : Krio people ), are the
descendants of
African-Americans ,
Jamaican Maroons and
Liberated Africans who settled in
Freetown between 1787 and around 1885.
[1]
[2]
[3]
This list is ordered by category of human endeavour. Persons who have a Wikipedia article containing references showing that they are of Sierra Leone Creole descent, and have made significant contributions in two fields, are listed in both of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy look-up.
Educational administrators
Hannah Benka-Coker (née : Luke) (1903–1952), educator and founder of
Freetown Secondary School for Girls
[8]
Henry Rawlingson Carr (1863–1945), administrator and director of education
[9]
[10]
[11]
Bertha Conton (1923– 2022), educator, and founder of
Leone Preparatory School
[12]
William Farquhar Conton (1925–2003), historian, author and
chief education officer
[13]
Florence Agnes Dillsworth (1937–2000), former principal of
St. Joseph's Convent School and one-time mayor of Freetown
[14]
Cassandra Garber , former headmistress at
Freetown Secondary School for Girls and current president of the
Krio Descendants Union
[15]
Sam Franklyn Gibson (born 1951), educator and one-time mayor of Freetown
[16]
Lati Hyde-Forster (1911–2001), first African principal of
Annie Walsh Memorial School and first female graduate of
Fourah Bay College
[17]
[18]
Humanists and political theorists
Linguists and literary theorists
Dennis Bright , academic in
francophone studies and former director of the Franco-Sierra Leonean Pedagogical Centre
[36]
Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet, playwright and first author to write in the
Krio language
[37]
Thomas Decker (1916–1978),
linguist , poet, and Krio language
revisionist
[38]
Clifford Nelson Fyle (1933–2006), professor of english and co-author of the Krio-English Dictionary
[39]
Lemuel A. Johnson (1941–2002), poet,
literary critic and professor of english at the
University of Michigan
[40]
Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925–2020), linguist, literary critic, university professor and principal of Fourah Bay College
[41]
Eustace Palmer , literary critic,
public orator and professor of english at the
University of Texas
[42]
Charles Farrell Easmon (born 1946), professor and clinical director of
medical microbiology at
St Mary's Hospital Medical School
[43]
[44]
Enid Ayodele Forde (1932–2010),
geospatial analyst ,
chair of the
geography department at
Fourah Bay College and first Sierra Leonean woman to gain a PhD
[45]
Monty Patrick Jones (born 1961),
agronomist ,
research professor and former minister of agriculture, forestry and food security
[46]
Tanniemola Liverpool (born 1971), author and professor of
theoretical physics at
University of Bristol
[47]
Abioseh Davidson Nicol (1925–1994), physician,
biomedical researcher , professor and first Sierra Leonean
principal of
Fourah Bay College
[48]
[49]
Tom Carew ,
Major-General and former chief of defence staff
[62]
Emmanuel Cole (1907–1972), soldier and hero of the "Gunners Revolt"
[63]
James Pinson Davies (1828–1906), merchant, former
British naval officer and later
agronomist known as the pioneer of
cocoa farming in West Africa
[64]
Adesanya Kwamina Hyde (1915–1993), diplomat and former
aviator in the
Royal Air Force awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for acts of valour and courage
[65]
[66]
Andrew Juxon-Smith (1931–1996), former commander of the armed forces and
head of state of Sierra Leone
[67]
Arthur Nelson-Williams ,
Brigadier-General and former chief of defence staff
[68]
Richard Akinwande Savage (1903–1993), medical doctor and first West African to serve as a
British Army
officer
[69]
[70]
John Clavell Smythe (1915–1996), former
Royal Air Force
aviation officer, barrister and
attorney-general of Sierra Leone
[71]
Valentine Strasser (born 1967), former army officer and head of state of Sierra Leone
[72]
Emanuel Adeniyi Thomas (1914–1945), first
black African to qualify as a pilot and first West African commissioned to serve as a
Royal Air Force
officer
[73]
Beauty pageant winners and models
Creole-descended families
Entrepreneurs and businesspersons
Richard Beale Blaize (1845–1904), Sierra Leonean-Nigerian businessman, newspaper publisher, financier, and
black nationalist
[82]
[83]
James Pinson Davies (1828–1906), merchant, former
British Naval officer and later
agronomist known as the pioneer of
cocoa farming in West Africa
[64]
John Ezzidio (1810–1872), businessman, politician and pre-municipality era mayor of Freetown
[84]
[85]
Thomas Frederick Hope (1919–1996), first
engineer-in-chief ,
Guma Valley Water Company and first chairman,
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated
[20]
[21]
Maximiliano Jones (1871–1944), farmer and millionaire
[86]
Henry Olufemi Macauley (born 1962), businessman with expertise in the
oil industries and former Minister of Energy
Sir Ernest Dunstan Morgan (1896–1979), pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist
Samuel Herbert Pearse , wealthy Nigerian businessman and legislator of
Sierra Leone Creole decent
[87]
John 'Johnny' Taylor (died 1898), Sierra Leone Creole merchant during
1898 Hut Tax War
John Malamah Thomas (1844–1922), entrepreneur and mayor of Freetown from 1904 to 1912
[88]
Samuel Benjamin Thomas (1833–1901), philanthropist, entrepreneur and one of the richest men in 19th-century Africa
[89]
William Vivour (1830–1890), single most successful 19th-century planter in Africa
[90]
[91]
Frederica Williams (born 1958), president and chief executive officer at
Whittier Street Health Center
[92]
Herbert Christian Bankole-Bright (1883–1958), political activist, medical doctor and founder of the
National Council of Sierra Leone
[93]
James Desmond Buckle (1910–1964), trade unionist and political activist
[94]
[95]
Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), activist of cultural
nationalism , writer,
feminist and pioneer of women's education in Sierra Leone
[96]
FannyAnn Eddy (1974–2004), activist for
LGBT rights
Edna Elliott-Horton (1904–1994), political activist and first West African woman to complete a
BA degree in the
liberal arts
[97]
Herbert Olayinka Macauley (1864–1946), political activist and founder of
Nigerian nationalism
[98]
Lamina Sankoh (born : Etheldred Jones) (1884–1964), political activist, educator, banker and
cleric who founded the "
Peoples Party " which eventually became the
Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)
[51]
[52]
Nancy Victoria Steele (1923–2001),
labour activist , founder and leader of the
National Congress of Sierra Leone Women
[99]
Isaac Wallace-Johnson (1894–1965), political activist and trade unionist during the
colonial era
[100]
Sir Samuel Bankole-Jones (1911- 1981), former Chief Justice and first Sierra Leonean president of the Court of Appeal
[101]
Sir Salako Benka-Coker (1900–1965), first Sierra Leonean
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
[102]
Nicholas Colin Browne-Marke (born 1957), judge in the
Supreme Court of Sierra Leone and
The Gambia
[103]
Christian Frederick Cole (1852–1885), first black
graduate of
Oxford and first African
barrister to practice in the
English courts
[104]
[105]
Gershon Beresford Collier (1927–1994), former
Chief Justice of Sierra Leone , educator and diplomat
[106]
Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs (born 1951), first
non-white person to be appointed to the senior
judiciary of England and Wales
[107]
[108]
Patrick Omolade Hamilton , Supreme Court judge of Sierra Leone
[109]
James Ayodele Jenkins-Johnston (1946–2017), barrister and human rights defender
[34]
George Gelaga King (1932–2016), judge presiding at the
Special Court for Sierra Leone
Jamesina Leonora King ,
jurist and first Sierra Leonean Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
[110]
Augustus Merriman-Labor (1877–1919), barrister, writer and
munitions worker
[111]
John Clavell Smythe (1915–1996), former
Royal Air Force
navigation officer, barrister and
attorney-general of Sierra Leone
[71]
Ade Renner Thomas (born 1945),
barrister and one-time
Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
[112]
Stella Thomas (1906–1974),
Nigerian of Sierra Leone Creole descent who was the first
West African female to qualify as a lawyer
[113]
John Bankole Thompson (1936–2021), jurist, judge and academic
[114]
Frances Claudia Wright (1919–2010), first Sierra Leonean woman to be called to the Bar in Great Britain and to practice law in Sierra Leone
[115]
Knights and Dames Commander
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr , (born 1969), finance professional and current mayor of Freetown
[4]
Samuel Sigismund Barlatt, prominent lawyer and one-time
mayor of Freetown
[123]
Sir Ernest Beoku-Betts (1895–1957),
jurist and one-time mayor of Freetown
[119]
William John Campbell, former mayor of Freetown
Emmanuel Cummings , former mayor of Freetown
[124]
Eustace Taylor Cummings (1890–1967), medical doctor and mayor of Freetown from 1948 to 1954
[125]
Constance Cummings-John (1918–2000), educator, politician and first female mayor of Freetown
[126]
Florence Agnes Dillsworth (1937–2000), one-time mayor of Freetown and former principal of
St. Joseph's Convent School
John Ezzidio (1810–1872), businessman, politician and pre-municipality era mayor of Freetown
[85]
Sam Franklyn Gibson (born 1951), teacher and one-time mayor of Freetown
[16]
Herbert George-Williams , former mayor of Freetown
June Holst-Roness (1929–2008), medical doctor and former mayor of Freetown
Winstanley Bankole Johnson , one-time mayor of Freetown
Sir Samuel Lewis (1843–1903), first mayor of Freetown and first West African to receive a
knighthood
[121]
John Malamah Thomas (1844–1922), entrepreneur and mayor of Freetown from 1904 to 1912
[88]
Thomas Josiah Thompson (1867–1941), lawyer, one-time mayor of Freetown and founder of the Sierra Leone Daily Mail
[127]
Patrice Bart-Williams (born 1979), singer-songwriter, music producer and film-maker
Ebenezer Calendar (1912–1985), musician who created and popularized
Creole gumbe music and
maringa music
[128]
Asadata Dafora (1890–1965), multidisciplinary musician
[129]
Evelyn Mary Dove (1902–1987), singer and actress
[130]
Devonté Hynes (born 1985), singer, songwriter and record producer
[131]
Bunny Mack (1945–2015), singer, songwriter and performer
[132]
N'fa (born 1979),
hip hop recording artist
[133]
[134]
Dr. Oloh (1944–2007),
afropop and
jazz musician
[135]
[136]
Daddy Saj (born 1978),
rapper who blends
hip hop and traditional
Creole gumbe music
[137]
John Augustus Abayomi-Cole (1848–1943), medical doctor and
herbalist
[138]
Crispin Adeniyi-Jones (1876–1957),
psychiatrist and first director of the Yaba Asylum in Nigeria
[139]
Herbert Christian Bankole-Bright (1883–1958), political activist, medical doctor and founder of the
National Council of Sierra Leone party
[93]
Edward Mayfield Boyle (1874–1936), medical practitioner and one of the first
West Africans to attend
Howard University College of Medicine
[140]
Robert Wellesley Cole (1907–1995), general surgeon and first
West African to become a
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
[141]
William Broughton Davies (1831–1906), first West African to qualify as a
medical doctor
[142]
Charles Odamtten Easmon (1913–1994), performed the first successful
Open-Heart Surgery in West Africa
[143]
John Farrell Easmon (1856–1900), medical doctor who coined the term
Blackwater fever and wrote the first
clinical diagnosis of the disease linking it to
malaria
[144]
Macormack Farrell Easmon (1890–1972), medical doctor and founder of the
Sierra Leone National Museum
[145]
George Bernard Frazer (1933–2018), medical practitioner and
gynaecologist
George Adeniji Garrick (1917–1988), medical doctor and
high jump record holder
[146]
June Holst-Roness (1929–2008), medical doctor and former mayor of Freetown
James Africanus Horton (1835–1883), surgeon, scientist and political thinker who worked towards African independence a century before it occurred
[147]
Irene Ighodaro (née : Wellesley-Cole) (1916–1995), first Sierra Leonean woman to qualify as a medical doctor
[148]
Ulric Emmanuel Jones (1940–2020), first Sierra Leonean
neurosurgeon
[149]
Nathaniel Thomas King (1847–1884), one of the earliest western-trained
West African doctors to practise medicine in
Nigeria
[150]
[151]
Olayinka Koso-Thomas (born 1937), medical doctor known internationally for her efforts to abolish
female genital mutilation
[152]
Abioseh Davidson Nicol (1925–1994), physician and
biomedical researcher who discovered the breakdown of
insulin in the human body, a breakthrough for the treatment of
diabetes
[153]
[48]
[49]
Lenrie Wilfred Peters (1932–2009), surgeon, poet and educator
[154]
Arthur Thomas Porter IV (1956–2015), physician and hospital administrator.
[155]
William Robert Priddy (1926–2003), medical practitioner and
Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
[156]
[157]
William Renner (1846–1917),
oncologist and Assistant
Surgeon-General during the colonial era
[158]
Agnes Yewande Savage (1906–1964),
Nigerian of Sierra Leone Creole descent who was the first West African woman to qualify as a medical doctor
[159]
Richard Akinwande Savage (1903–1993), medical doctor and first West African to serve as a
British Army
officer
[69]
[70]
Arthur Farquhar Stuart (1927–2002), consultant physician at
Connaught Hospital
[160]
Daniel Coker (1780–1847), emigrated from
Baltimore , Maryland and was
missionary and founder of the West African Methodist Church
[161]
David George (c. 1742–1810), emigrated from
Nova Scotia and was preacher of the first recorded
Baptist service in Africa held under the
Cotton Tree before the land was baptized and christened "Free Town"
[162]
William Gwinn (born 1755), one of the first black Americans to participate in the
antebellum American
Back-to-Africa movement to Sierra Leone
[163]
Abraham Hazeley (1784–1847), Nova Scotian settler and founder of what was to become one of the most prominent
Creole families in Freetown.
[1] : 309
Montague James (died 1812), leader of
Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town)
maroons who settled in Freetown where he helped put down the
Black Nova Scotian revolt
[164]
[165]
Major Jarrett (died 1839), leader of the
Jamaican Maroons who helped put down the
Black Nova Scotian revolt
[164]
[165]
Boston King (c. 1760–1802), soldier and
Black Loyalist who helped found
Freetown and became the first
Methodist missionary to African indigenous people
[166]
Cato Perkins (died 1805), former African American
slave , later missionary, who migrated to Freetown, where he led a strike of carpenters against the
Sierra Leone Company
[167]
Mary Perth (1740–1813), prominent African American colonist and businesswoman in Freetown
[168]
Thomas Peters (1738–1793), soldier with the
auxiliary troops of the British
Black Company of Pioneers and the revolutionary founding father of Freetown
[169]
Elizabeth Renner (died 1826), emigrated from
Nova Scotia and became the first female teacher and principal of a girls' school in the missionary in Africa
[170]
Charles Samuels (died early 1800s),
maroon officer from
Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) , who was assistant to Colonel Montague James
[171]
Harry Washington (c. 1740–1800), soldier and
Black Loyalist in the
American Revolutionary War who was among several hundred settlers who rose up in a brief rebellion against British rule in Freetown
[172]
Moses 'Daddy' Wilkinson (born 1746), was a
Wesleyan
Methodist preacher who migrated to
Sierra Leone in 1791 where he established the first Methodist church in
Settler Town and survived the rebellion in 1800.
[173]
Politicians and civil administrators
Arnold Bishop-Gooding (born 1950), lawyer and former
Attorney-General of Sierra Leone
[174]
Chidi Blyden , American foreign policy advisor who serves as
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs in the
Biden administration .
[175]
Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (born 1971), journalist, political commentator,
newspaper editor and one-time cabinet minister
[176]
Sir Henry Lightfoot Boston (1898–1969),
Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962 to 1967
[120]
Dennis Bright ,
university instructor and former Minister of Sports
[36]
David Omashola Carew , economist and former Minister of Finance
[5]
Christopher Okoro Cole (1921–1990), one-time Governor-General and
Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
[177]
Femi Claudius Cole (born 1962), politician of the
Unity Party and first Sierra Leonean woman to form a political party
[178]
Edmund Cowan (born 1937), former
Speaker of Parliament and
Ombudsman
[179]
Ivor Gustavus Cummings (1913–1992), first black official in the British
Colonial Office
[180] : 235–6
Stanley David Garrick (1888–1958), senior administrator and
courtier
Prince Alex Harding , former Minister of Transportation and Communication
Victor Chukuma Johnson (1944–2012), former chairman and deputy leader of the
All People's Congress
[181]
Andrew Juxon-Smith (1931–1996), former commander of the Armed Forces and
Head of State of Sierra Leone
[67]
Charles Burgess King (1875–1961), former
President of Liberia and of Sierra Leone Creole heritage
[182]
Desmond Fashole Luke (1935–2021), diplomat, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and one-time Minister of Health
[81]
George William Nicol (1810–1884), first African
Colonial Secretary of
Sierra Leone
[183]
Sir
Emile Fashole Luke (1895–1980), former Chief Justice and Speaker of Parliament
[122]
Murietta Olu-Williams (born 1923), first woman in Africa to achieve the rank of
Permanent Secretary in the civil service
[184]
James Ernest Parkes (1861–1899), first Secretary for Native Affairs during the colonial era in Sierra Leone
[185]
Solomon James Pratt (1921–2017), former
Attorney General and Minister of Justice
[186]
George Theophilus Robinson (1922–2006),
civil administrator and founder of the
Krio Descendants Union
Valentine Strasser (born 1967), former army officer and Head of State of Sierra Leone
[72]
Abel Bankole Stronge , lawyer and one-time Speaker of the
Parliament of Sierra Leone
Nanette Beatrice Thomas (born 1956), former Minister of Political and Public Affairs
Christiana Thorpe (born 1949), former two-term Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission
[187]
Samuel Barlay (born 1986), midfielder with
IFK Mora who has made numerous appearances for Sierra Leone's national football team –
Leone Stars
Moses Barnett (born 1990),
defender in the
English Football League and
England under 17s
Chris Bart-Williams (born 1974),
midfielder in the
Premier League and
England under 21s
Albert Cole (born 1981), midfielder for
Mighty Blackpool FC and
Leone Stars
Carlton Cole (born 1983),
striker in the Premier League with several appearances for
England
Curtis Eugene Davies (born 1985), defender in the English Football League Championship and England under 21s
Albert Jarrett (born 1984),
winger in the
English Football League Championship with several appearances for
Leone Stars
Obi Metzger (born 1987),
attacking midfielder for
Finnish second division side
FC Haka who has made several appearances for Leone Stars
Nigel Reo-Coker (born 1984), midfielder in the Premier League and England under 21s
Leroy Rosenior (born 1964),
striker for England under 21s and Leone Stars
Liam Rosenior (born 1984),
full back and winger in the English Football League Championship and England under 21s
Rodney Strasser (born 1990), defensive midfielder with
Turun Palloseura FC based in
Turku , Finland
William Sorba Thomas (born 1999),
winger for
Huddersfield Town FC and the
Wales national team
[192]
Augustine Williams (born 1997), striker who plays in the
USL Championship and has made a few appearances for Leone Stars
Kevin Adrian Wright (born 1995). defender who plays for
IK Sirius in
Allsvenskan with a few appearances for Leone Stars
[193]
William Akabi-Davis (born 1962), sprinter at the
1980 Summer Olympics
Julia Helene Armstrong (born 1959),
marathon runner
Eunice Barber (born 1974), former athlete competing in
heptathlon and
long jump
Horace Dove-Edwin (born 1967), retired sprinter who specialized in the
100-metre dash
Walter During (born 1960), sprinter at the 1980 Summer Olympics
George Adeniji Garrick (1917–1988), medical doctor and
high jump record holder
[146]
Rudolph George (born 1957), sprinter at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Denton Guy-Williams (born 1972), sprinter at the
1992 Summer Olympics
Modupe Jonah (born 1966),
middle-distance runner at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Pierre Lisk (born 1971), sprinter at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Eugenia Osho-Williams (born 1964), former
sprinter and first woman to represent Sierra Leone at the
Olympics
David Sawyerr (born 1961), sprinter at the
1984 Summer Olympics
Josephus Thomas (born 1971), sprinter at the
1996 Summer Olympics
Rachel Thompson (born 1964), middle-distance runner at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Bankole Awoonor-Renner (1898–1970), first Black African to study in the
Soviet Union , and first African to be accredited to the
Institute of Journalists in London.
[196]
Gaston Bart-Williams (1938–1990), journalist, novelist and film director
Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), first author to write in the
Krio language
[37]
Raymond Ayodele Charley (1948–1993), playwright and writer
[197]
Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945), poet, novelist, and journalist
[198]
James Vivian Clinton (1902–1973),
expatriate and journalist
[104]
[199]
[200]
[201]
Thomas Decker (1916–1978), writer, poet, journalist, and
linguist
[38]
Clifford Nelson Fyle (1933–2006), scholar and author known for writing the
lyrics to the
Sierra Leone National Anthem
[39]
Delia Jarrett-Macauley (born 1958), writer, academic and broadcaster
[32]
[31]
Eyamide Ella Lewis-Coker (née : Smith), writer and book author
[202]
Valerie Mason-John (born 1962), author and public speaker
[203]
Augustus Merriman-Labor (1877–1919), writer best known for his 1909 book Britons Through Negro Spectacles
[204]
[111]
Nii Ayikwei Parkes (born 1974), poet, writer and
sociocultural commentator
[205]
[206]
Emmanuel Bankole Timothy (1923–1994), journalist and biographer
[207]
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