CARIBBEAN LUMINARIES
Name Specialty Origin
Nobel Laureates - Caribbean Basin
Sir Arthur Lewis
Economics ( ) St Lucia
Dereck Walcott
Literature ( ) St Lucia
Vidia Naipaul
Literature ( ) T & T
Saint John Perce
Literature ( ) Guadeloupe
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Literature ( ) Colombia
Miguel Angel Asturias
Literature ( ) Guatemala
Rigubertu Menchu
Peace ( ) Guatemala
Octavio Paz
Literature ( ) Mexico
National Heroes/Heroines:
Cuba
Jose Marti
Antonio Maceo
Maximo Gomez
Calixto Garcia
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Fidel Castro
Dominican Republic
Hatuey
Felipillo
Juan Pablo Duarte
Puerto Rico
Dr Ramon Emeterio Betances
Segundo Ruiz Belvis
Francisco Ramirez
Manuel Rojas
Dr Pedro Albizu Campos
Luis Munoz Marin
Haiti
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Jean Jacques Dessalines
Alexandre Petion
Jamaica
Marcus Moziah Garvey
Paul Bogle
George William Gordon
Sam Sharpe
Nanny
Norman Washington Manley
Alexander Bustamante
Robert Nestor Marley
Antigua
King Court
Vere C. Bird
Dame Georgiana “Nellie” Robinson
St Kitt/Nevis
Robert Bradshaw
Montserrat
Robert W Griffith
William H Bramble
Barbados
Sir Grantley Adams
Errol Barrow
Garfield Sobers
Guyana
Cuffie
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Joseph Chatoye
National Laureates:
Nicolas Guillen Cuba
Fernando Ortiz Cuba
Nancy Morejon Cuba
Don Pedro Mir Rep.Dom.
Pedro Henriquez Urena Rep.Dom.
Jean Price Mars Haiti
Aime Cesaire Martinique
Franz Fanon Martinique
Maryse Conde Martinique
Edouard Glissant Martinique
Rene Marquez Puerto Rico
Frank Collymore Barbados
E Kamau Brathwaite Barbados
Claude McKay Jamaica
A.J. Seymour Guyana
Martin Carter Guyana
C L R James T &T
Pearl Entou Springer T&T
Maya Angelou T&T
Caryl Phillips St Kitts
E. Archie Markham Montserrat
UWI Chancellors & Vice Chancellors
Sir Shridath Ramphal Guyana
Sir George Alleyne Barbados
Sir Arthur Lewis St Lucia
Sir Roy Marshall Barbados
Sir Phillip Sherlock Jamaica
Aston Preston Jamaica
Sir Alister McIntyre Grenada
Prof Hon Rex Nettleford Jamaica
Prof E. Nigel Harris Guyana
University of Guyana
Sir Denis Irvine Barbdos
Dr Joycelyn Loncke Guyana
Dr Lawrence Carrington T&T
University of Virgin Islands
Dr Orville Keane USVI
Dr Laverne Ragster USVI
General Colin Powell Jamaica
Head, Joint Chiefs of Staff
US Secretary of State
Dame Nita Barrow Barbados
President, World Council of Churches
Rev Dr ... Ottey Dominica
President, World Council of Churches
The Arts
Sir Sydney Poitier
Actor Bahamas
Harry Belafonte
Singer / Actor Jamaica
Geoffrey Holder
Dancer T&T
Cicely Tyson
Actress St Kitts
Susan Taylor
Publisher St Kitts
Glegg Watson
Corporate Executive Jamaica
Franklin Thomas
Corporate Executive T&T
John La Rose
Artist and Publisher Guyana
Andy Palacio
Singer Belize
UNESCO Ambassador for Peace
Maya Angelou
Poet T&T
SCIENTISTS:
Frank L. Douglas, MD, PhD Guyana
Executive Director, MIT
Center of Biomedical Innovation.
Cato Laurencin, MD, PhD., St Lucia
Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Connecticut; Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; and International Fellow in Biomaterials Science and Engineering,
OTHERS:
Dr Jonathan David Farley Guyana/J’ca
Harvard, MIT, Vanderbilt
Oxford (1991-95)
Dr Hugo M Morales
CUNY Trustee and Founder,
Bronx Mental Health Center Dom. Rep.
Dr Eduardo Marti Cuba
President, Queensboro
Commnity College. CUNY,
Dr Marcia Keizs Jamaica
President, York College, CUNY Dr Walter Rodney
Scholar/Political Leader GuyanaDr Edwin Carrington
Secretary General, CARICOM Grenada
Dr Byron Blake J’ca
Ambassador/President of G-77
Melvin Edwards St Kitts
President, World Council Credit Unions
Sir Dwight Venner St Lucia
Governor, ECCB
General Vicente Guerrero Mexico
First Black/Indigenous President
(2nd elected President -1829)
Rt Hon Baroness Patricia Scotland
of Ashtal, QC D'ca/M'rat
Attorney General of England
Dudley Thompson, OJ QC
Royal Air Force Distinction, WW II
Twistleton Bertrand
British Army Distinction, WWII
Wendell M. Christian, LSM
British Army Distinction, WW II
Posted February, 2010
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