List of people from Dominica
This is a list of notable people from the Commonwealth of Dominica. The list include also individuals with Dominican ancestry and citizenship.
Commonwealth of Dominica
Politics
Presidents
Alwin Bully (created or artist of the national flag of Dominica)
Prime Ministers
- Dame Eugenia Charles 3rd
- Pierre Charles 6th
- Roosevelt Douglas 5th
- Edison James 4th
- Patrick John 1st
- Oliver Seraphin 2nd
- Roosevelt Skerrit now (present )
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
- Whitney Mélinard, Kalinago Territory issues[2]
- 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")
Signal Band Gordon Henderson Exile One Freddy Nicholas Fitzroy Williams Phillip " Chubby" Mark and Marcel "Co" Mark of Midnight Groovers
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.
- "Leader of Kalinago advocacy group, Whitney Melinard, calls for more state resources to tackle child sexual abuse". Dominica News Online. 2021-05-04. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
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