List_of_Guyanese_Britons
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