•
Samantha Albert (b. 1971), equestrian •
Gerry Alexander OD (1928–2011), West Indies cricket captain •
Monty Alexander OJ (b. 1944), jazz pianist •
Ivan Barrow (1911–1979), cricketer •
Peter Beckford (1672–1735), politician •
William Beckford (1709–1770), plantation owner, Lord Mayor of London •
Isaac Mendes Belisario (1795–1849), artist •
Martine Beswick (b. 1941), actress, Bond girl •
Blaise Bicknell (b. 2001), tennis player •
Blanche Blackwell (nee Lindo) (1912–2017), heiress, mother of
Chris Blackwell and
Ian Fleming's muse •
Chris Blackwell (b. 1937), record producer and the founder of
Island Records •
Cindy Breakspeare (b. 1954), model,
Miss World 1976 •
Lady Colin Campbell (b. 1949), socialite and writer •
Frederic G. Cassidy (1907–2000), editor of the
Dictionary of Jamaican English and the
Dictionary of American Regional English •
Alexander J. Dallas (1759–1817), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury •
Jacob De Cordova (1808–1868), founder of the
Jamaica Daily Gleaner newspaper •
H. G. de Lisser (1878–1944), author and journalist •
R. James deRoux CD (1930–2012), businessman and
Custos Rotulorum •
Keanan Dols (b. 1998), swimmer •
George Ellis (1753–1815), writer •
Gloria Escoffery OD (1923–2002), painter •
Tom Tavares-Finson (b. 1953), attorney-at-law and President of the
Senate of Jamaica •
Henry Fowler CD (1915–2007), educator, chairman of the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation •
Mark Golding (b. 1965), attorney-at-law, Opposition Leader of Jamaica and President of the
People’s National Party since 2020 •
Carolyn Gomes OJ (b. 1958), doctor, human rights activist and co-founder of Jamaicans for Justice •
Thomas J. Goreau (b. 1950), biogeochemist and marine biologist •
Joni Van Ryck De Groot (b. 1955), tennis player •
Anthony Keith Edmund Hart OJ CD (1932–2020) businessman, philanthropist and politician •
Guy Harvey (b. 1955), conservationist and artist •
Perry Henzell (1936–2006), film director •
Lewis Hutchinson (1733–1773), serial killer •
Samantha J (b. 1996), singer •
Francis Moncrieff Kerr-Jarrett (1885–1968), businessman •
William Knibb (1803–1845), Baptist missionary, first white man to receive
Jamaican Order of Merit •
Abraham Alexander Lindo (1775–1849), merchant and developer •
Alexander Joseph Lindo (1799–1867), merchant, planter, Member of
House of Assembly of Jamaica and
Custos rotulorum of St. Mary •
Archie Lindo (1908–1990), photographer, actor, author, playwright and radio show broadcaster •
Cecil Vernon Lindo (1870–1960), banker, industrialist, planter and philanthropist •
Frederick Lindo (1821–1882), merchant, publisher and Member of the Legislative Council •
Percy Lindo (1877–1946), banker, planter, industrialist and Member of the
Legislative Council of Jamaica •
Roy Lindo (1910–1962), industrialist, planter, political economist, politician and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica •
Edward Long (1734–1813), writer, author of the
History of Jamaica •
Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe (1836–1920) •
Edna Manley (1900–1987), sculptor and mother of Prime Minister
Michael Manley •
Justin Masterson (born in 1985 to American parents in Kingston, after a few years raised in the US) •
Fraser McConnell (b. 1998), national rally driver •
Keble Munn OJ (1920–2008), politician, agriculturalist and
World War II veteran •
Paul Nash, (b. 1943), swimmer •
Brendan Nash (b. 1977), cricketer and son of Paul Nash •
Karl Nunes (1894–1958), inaugural West Indies cricket captain and president of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control •
Evelyn O'Callaghan (b. 1954), professor of West Indian literature at the University of the West Indies •
Alex Powell (b. 2007), racing driver •
Simon Preston (b. 1993), Press Officer, Jamaica Football Federation* •
Arthur William Savage (1857–1938), founder of
Savage Arms and inventor of
radial tyres as well as new production methods •
Adam Stewart (b. 1981), businessman •
Butch Stewart OJ CD (1941–2021), businessman, founder of
Sandals Resorts and
Beaches Resorts •
Betsy Sullivan, (b. 1956), first Jamaican diver to compete at the 1966
Commonwealth Games and 1972
Olympics •
Ronald Thwaites (b. 1945), attorney-at-law and former Minister of Education from 2012 to 2016 •
Gail Vaz-Oxlade (b. 1959), financial writer and television personality •
White Yardie, stage name of Harry Gregory, British comedian and social media personality •
David Weller (b. 1957), cyclist and bronze medallist at the 1980
Olympic Games •
Cicely Williams OM (1893–1992), medical researcher, discoverer of
kwashiorkor •
Jenna Wolfe (b. 1974), American journalist born in Jamaica and raised in Haiti ==See also==