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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]
• Central Cee, (born 1998) UK drill rapper born to Chinese Guyanese father
• 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
• Meridian Dan (born 1985), Tottenham-born UK Grime rapper
• 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[edit]

• Guyanese people

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