List of Guyanese Britons explained

This is a list of notable Guyanese British people.

• John Agard, playwright, poet and children's writer^[1]
• Kate Abdo, sports broadcaster
• 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

• Guyanese people

Notes and References

1. Web site: John Agard – was born on 21 June 1949 in British Guiana (now Guyana) . Contemporarywriters.com . 2012-09-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606092728/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth162 . 6 June 2011 .
2. News: Edgecliffe-Johnson . Andrew . 7 October 2011 . Lunch with the FT: Waheed Alli . Financial Times . subscription . 2021-09-16.
3. Web site: S Club 7's Tina Barrett Talks To Holy Moly about her return to pop | Music Interviews . Holy Moly! . 2012-09-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120324151338/http://www.holymoly.com/music/interviews/s-club-7s-tina-barrett-talks-holy-moly-about-her-return-pop58604 . 2012-03-24 .
4. Web site: British Library. 2021-09-16. www.bl.uk.
5. Web site: Peter Davison: 'Britain wasn't as welcoming as it should have been for my father' . Palmer . Camilla . 11 August 2017 . theguardian.com. 11 August 2017.
6. Web site: 2000-04-10. Obituary: Bernie Grant. 2021-09-16. the Guardian. en.
7. Web site: Eddy Grant – the Ringbang man and a national icon is a 'Special Person'. 3 March 2013. Kaietneur News. 2018-09-18.
8. Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. "Meiling Jin." Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Web.
9. Web site: 2018-04-23. David Lammy MP reveals racist letter after speaking out on Windrush scandal: 'Be grateful we have taken you in as a black man'. 2021-09-16. The Independent. en.
10. Web site: Hew Locke | Artist and Sculptor | Guyana UK . Itzcaribbean.com . 2012-08-12 . 2012-09-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120923233419/http://www.itzcaribbean.com/arts_hew_locke.php . 2012-09-23 .
11. Web site: Thin Lizzy Frontman Phil Lynott Leaves the 'Whiskey in the Jar' Empty – Twisted Tales. Spinner.com. 2012-09-15.
12. News: Brexit court case: Who is Gina Miller?. BBC News. 3 November 2016.
13. News: James . Masters . Guyana-born Gina Miller: The woman behind the Brexit bombshell . CNN . 4 November 2016.
14. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, "Janice Lowe Shinebourne’s The Godmother and Other Stories (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2004)", Kaieteur News, 16 November 2008.
15. Web site: Profile of Laurie Taitt. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035931/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/laurie-taitt-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. Sports Reference. 8 July 2014.
16. Book: Walmsley . Anne . Guyana dreaming : the art of Aubrey Williams . Dangaroo Press . Sydney, N.S.W. . 1990 . 1-871049-07-5 . 25422210.