List of people from Freetown

• Edward Wilmot Blyden III, diplomat, political scientist and educator. • Violet Showers Johnson, academic, author and historian. • Aaron Belisarius Cosmo Sibthorpe, nineteenth century historian. • Victor Okrafo-Smart, author and genealogical researcher. • Noah Arthur William Cox-George, academic and economist. • Bertha Conton, teacher, educator, and founder of Leone Preparatory School. • Eustace Palmer, academic, author and public orator. • Lemuel A. Johnson, academic, poet, and author. • Lati Hyde-Forster, first Sierra Leonean woman to graduate from Fourah Bay College. • William Farquhar Conton, educator, historian, and author. • Hannah Benka-Coker (born Hannah Luke), educator and founder of Freetown Secondary School for Girls. • Abiodun Williams, academic and former president of The Hague Institute for Global Justice. • Akintola Josephus Gustavus Wyse, academic, author and historian. • Arthur Thomas Daniel Porter III, academic, author and historian. • Edna Elliott-Horton, first West African woman to complete a BA degree in the liberal arts. • Edward Fasholé-Luke, academic and theologian. • Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr, writer and Anglican theologian. • Eldred Durosimi Jones, academic and literary critic. • Enid Rosamund Ayodele Forde, academic, earth scientist, geographer and first Sierra Leonean woman to earn a PhD. • Trudy Morgan, first African woman to be awarded a Fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers and twice president of Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers. • Reginald Akindele Cline-Cole, academic, earth scientist and developmental geographer. • Thomas Frederick Hope, first Engineer-in-Chief, Guma Valley Water Company and first chairman, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated. ==Activists/writers/artists ==

• Adelaide Casely-Hayford, advocate, nationalist, and educator. • Patricia Piccinini, Australian artist. • FannyAnn Eddy, gay rights activist. • Farid Raymond-Anthony, Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet. • Syl Cheney-Coker, poet, novelist, and journalist. • Thomas Decker, writer, poet, journalist, and linguist. • Eyamide Ella Lewis-Coker (Eyamide Ella Smith), writer and book author. • Gaston Bart-Williams, journalist, novelist and film director. • Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist and biographer. • Raymond Caleb Ayodele Charley, playwright and writer. • Yulisa Amadu Maddy (Pat Maddy), composer, journalist and writer. • Clifford Nelson Fyle, composer of the Sierra Leone National Anthem. • Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew, prominent photographer appointed for the visit of the Duke of Connaught. • Raouf J Jacob, filmmaker == Actors/actresses ==

• Jeillo Edwards • Desmond Finney • Adetokumboh McCormack ==Criminals==

• Issa Hassan Sesay, convicted war criminal who served in the Sierra Leonean army and the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). • Brima Bazzy Kamara, rebel leader and convicted war criminal. • Santigie Borbor Kanu, rebel leader and convicted war criminal. • Jamil Sahid Mohamed, former businessman, convicted for involvement in assassination plot. ==Health care and social justice==

• Frederica Williams, President and chief executive officer of Whittier Street Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts since 2002. • Sir Ernest Dunstan Morgan (1896–1979), pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist == Military personnel ==

• Brigadier-General Arthur Nelson-Williams, The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces spokesman • Brigadier-General Tom Carew was in the Sierra Leonean army and Chief of Defence Staff of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces from April 2000 to November 2003 • Emmanuel Cole, soldier and hero of the "Gunners Revolt" • John Henry Clavell Smythe, former Royal Air Force navigation officer, barrister and Attorney General of Sierra Leone ==Religious leaders==

• George Gurney Mather Nicol, clergyman and first African graduate of Cambridge University. • Daniel Coker, missionary and founder of the West African Methodist Church. • Thomas Sylvester Johnson, educator and former bishop of Sierra Leone. • Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Sierra Leonean-Nigerian clergyman and first Anglican Bishop of West Africa. • Moses Nathanael Christopher Omobiala Scott, clergyman and Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone who later became Archbishop of the Province of West Africa. ==Musicians ==

• Ebenezer Calendar, musician who created and popularized Creole gumbe music and maringa music. • Oloh Israel Olufemi Cole (Dr. Oloh), musician. • Daddy Saj (Joseph Gerald Adolphus Cole), rapper. • Bunny Mack (Cecil Bunting MacCormack), singer. • Emmerson • Reuben Koroma ==Judges and lawyers==

• Sir Samuel Bankole-Jones (1911–1981), former Chief Justice and first Sierra Leonean president of the Court of Appeal • Sir Salako Benka-Coker (1900–1965), first Sierra Leonean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court • Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs, first non-white person appointed to the senior judiciary of England and Wales • Nicholas Colin Browne-Marke, judge in the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone and The Gambia. • George Gelaga King, judge presiding at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. • Patrick Omolade Hamilton, Supreme Court judge of Sierra Leone. • Frances Claudia Wright, first Sierra Leonean woman to be called to the Bar in Great Britain and to practice law in Sierra Leone. • Jamesina Essie Leonora King, jurist and first Sierra Leonean sworn in as Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. • Ade Renner Thomas, barrister and one-time Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. • James Blyden Jenkins-Johnston, barrister and human rights defender. • John Rosolu Bankole Thompson, jurist, judge and academic. • Stella Thomas, Nigerian of Sierra Leonean descent who was the first West African to qualify as a lawyer. • Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier, former Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, educator and diplomat. • Christian Frederick Cole, first African barrister to practice in the English courts. • Augustus Boyle Chamberlayne Merriman‐Labor, barrister, writer and munitions worker. ==Politicians==

• Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor of Freetown and first West African to receive a knighthood • Sir Emile Fashole Luke, former Chief Justice and Speaker of Parliament • Sir Ernest Beoku-Betts, jurist and one-time mayor of Freetown • Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962 to 1967 • Christopher Elnathan Okoro Cole, one-time Governor-General and Chief Justice of Sierra Leone • Andrew Juxon-Smith, former commander of the Armed Forces and Head of State of Sierra Leone • Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1996 • Herbert George-Williams, former mayor of Freetown • Winstanley Bankole Johnson, former mayor of Freetown • John Henry Malamah Thomas, mayor of Freetown from 1904 to 1912 • Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings, mayor of Freetown from 1948 to 1954 • Ade Renner Thomas, current Chief Justice of Sierra Leone • Isaac Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean journalist and a politician • Siaka Probyn Stevens, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 21 April 1971 – 28 November 1985 • Ernest Bai Koroma, current Head of State of Sierra Leone and the fourth since 2007 • Joseph Saidu Momoh, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1985 to 1992 • Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, third Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007 • Johnny Paul Koroma, former Head of State of Sierra Leone and indicted war criminal ==Physicians and surgeons==

• Abioseh Davidson Nicol, academic, medical doctor and discoverer of the breakdown of insulin in the human body, a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes. • William Broughton Davies, first West African to qualify as a medical doctor. • Irene Ighodaro (Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Wellesley-Cole), first Sierra Leonean woman to qualify as a medical doctor. • Edward Mayfield Boyle, medical practitioner and one of the first West Africans to attend Howard University College of Medicine. • William Robert Gorham Ebun Priddy, medical practitioner and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. • James Africanus Beale Horton, surgeon, scientist and political thinker who worked towards African independence a century before it occurred. • Ulric Oduma Emmanuel Jones, first Sierra Leonean neurosurgeon. • Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole, medical practitioner and first West African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. • Olayinka Koso-Thomas, medical doctor known internationally for her efforts to abolish female genital mutilation. • John Augustus Abayomi-Cole, medical doctor and herbalist. • George Bernard Frazer, medical practitioner and gynaecologist. ==Sports figures==

Football (soccer) Other sports • Eugenia Osho-Williams, former sprinter and first woman to represent Sierra Leone at the Olympics. • Eunice Barber, former athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump. • Horace Dove-Edwin, retired sprinter who specialized in the 100-metre dash. • Denton Guy-Williams, sprinter at the 1992 Summer Olympics. • Josephus Thomas, sprinter at the 1996 Summer Olympics. • William Akabi-Davis, sprinter at the 1980 Summer Olympics. • Modupe Jonah, middle-distance runner at the 1988 Summer Olympics. • Rudolph George, sprinter at the 1980 Summer Olympics. • Pierre Lisk, sprinter at the 1996 Summer Olympics. • David Sawyerr, sprinter at the 1984 Summer Olympics. • Rachel Thompson, middle-distance runner at the 1988 Summer Olympics. • B. J. Tucker, American football player of the San Francisco 49ers (NFL) • Madieu Williams, American football player of the Cincinnati Bengals • Hawanatu Bangura, Sierra Leonean sprinter • Israel Cole, boxer at the 1984 Summer Olympics. • Joshua Wyse, swimmer at the 2020 Summer Olympics. • Frank Williams, cyclist at the 1996 Summer Olympics. • Egerton Forster, boxer at the 1984 Summer Olympics. • Michael 'Joko' Collier, swimmer at the 1996 Summer Olympics.