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The list of Sierra Leone Creole people is an incomplete list of notable individuals of Creole ethnicity and ancestry . The Sierra Leone Creole people , who are also referred to as (Krio : Krio people ), are the descendants of African-Americans , Jamaican Maroons and Liberated Africans who settled in Freetown between 1787 and around 1885.[1] [2] [3]
This list is ordered by category of human endeavour. Persons who have a Wikipedia article containing references showing that they are of Sierra Leone Creole descent, and have made significant contributions in two fields, are listed in both of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy look-up.
Academic figures Economists Educational administrators Hannah Benka-Coker (née : Luke) (1903–1952), educator and founder of Freetown Secondary School for Girls [8] Henry Rawlingson Carr (1863–1945), administrator and director of education[9] [10] [11] Bertha Conton (1923– 2022), educator, and founder of Leone Preparatory School [12] William Farquhar Conton (1925–2003), historian, author and chief education officer [13] Florence Agnes Dillsworth (1937–2000), former principal of St. Joseph's Convent School and one-time mayor of Freetown[14] Cassandra Garber , former headmistress at Freetown Secondary School for Girls and current president of the Krio Descendants Union [15] Sam Franklyn Gibson (born 1951), educator and one-time mayor of Freetown[16] Lati Hyde-Forster (1911–2001), first African principal of Annie Walsh Memorial School and first female graduate of Fourah Bay College [17] [18] Engineers Historians Humanists and political theorists Legal scholars Linguists and literary theorists Dennis Bright , academic in francophone studies and former director of the Franco-Sierra Leonean Pedagogical Centre[36] Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet, playwright and first author to write in the Krio language [37] Thomas Decker (1916–1978), linguist , poet, and Krio language revisionist [38] Clifford Nelson Fyle (1933–2006), professor of english and co-author of the Krio-English Dictionary[39] Lemuel A. Johnson (1941–2002), poet, literary critic and professor of english at the University of Michigan [40] Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925–2020), linguist, literary critic, university professor and principal of Fourah Bay College[41] Eustace Palmer , literary critic, public orator and professor of english at the University of Texas [42] Scientists Charles Farrell Easmon (born 1946), professor and clinical director of medical microbiology at St Mary's Hospital Medical School [43] [44] Enid Ayodele Forde (1932–2010), geospatial analyst , chair of the geography department at Fourah Bay College and first Sierra Leonean woman to gain a PhD[45] Monty Patrick Jones (born 1961), agronomist , research professor and former minister of agriculture, forestry and food security[46] Tanniemola Liverpool (born 1971), author and professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol [47] Abioseh Davidson Nicol (1925–1994), physician, biomedical researcher , professor and first Sierra Leonean principal of Fourah Bay College [48] [49] Theologians Actors and actresses Aviators and military figures Tom Carew , Major-General and former chief of defence staff[62] Emmanuel Cole (1907–1972), soldier and hero of the "Gunners Revolt"[63] James Pinson Davies (1828–1906), merchant, former British naval officer and later agronomist known as the pioneer of cocoa farming in West Africa[64] Adesanya Kwamina Hyde (1915–1993), diplomat and former aviator in the Royal Air Force awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for acts of valour and courage[65] [66] Andrew Juxon-Smith (1931–1996), former commander of the armed forces and head of state of Sierra Leone [67] Arthur Nelson-Williams , Brigadier-General and former chief of defence staff[68] Richard Akinwande Savage (1903–1993), medical doctor and first West African to serve as a British Army officer [69] [70] John Clavell Smythe (1915–1996), former Royal Air Force aviation officer, barrister and attorney-general of Sierra Leone[71] Valentine Strasser (born 1967), former army officer and head of state of Sierra Leone[72] Emanuel Adeniyi Thomas (1914–1945), first black African to qualify as a pilot and first West African commissioned to serve as a Royal Air Force officer [73] Beauty pageant winners and models Composers Creole-descended families Diplomats Entrepreneurs and businesspersons Richard Beale Blaize (1845–1904), Sierra Leonean-Nigerian businessman, newspaper publisher, financier, and black nationalist [82] [83] James Pinson Davies (1828–1906), merchant, former British Naval officer and later agronomist known as the pioneer of cocoa farming in West Africa[64] John Ezzidio (1810–1872), businessman, politician and pre-municipality era mayor of Freetown[84] [85] Thomas Frederick Hope (1919–1996), first engineer-in-chief , Guma Valley Water Company and first chairman, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated [20] [21] Maximiliano Jones (1871–1944), farmer and millionaire[86] Henry Olufemi Macauley (born 1962), businessman with expertise in the oil industries and former Minister of EnergySir Ernest Dunstan Morgan (1896–1979), pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropistSamuel Herbert Pearse , wealthy Nigerian businessman and legislator of Sierra Leone Creole decent[87] John 'Johnny' Taylor (died 1898), Sierra Leone Creole merchant during 1898 Hut Tax War John Malamah Thomas (1844–1922), entrepreneur and mayor of Freetown from 1904 to 1912[88] Samuel Benjamin Thomas (1833–1901), philanthropist, entrepreneur and one of the richest men in 19th-century Africa[89] William Vivour (1830–1890), single most successful 19th-century planter in Africa[90] [91] Frederica Williams (born 1958), president and chief executive officer at Whittier Street Health Center [92] Human-rights activists Herbert Christian Bankole-Bright (1883–1958), political activist, medical doctor and founder of the National Council of Sierra Leone [93] James Desmond Buckle (1910–1964), trade unionist and political activist[94] [95] Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), activist of cultural nationalism , writer, feminist and pioneer of women's education in Sierra Leone[96] FannyAnn Eddy (1974–2004), activist for LGBT rightsEdna Elliott-Horton (1904–1994), political activist and first West African woman to complete a BA degree in the liberal arts [97] Herbert Olayinka Macauley (1864–1946), political activist and founder of Nigerian nationalism [98] Lamina Sankoh (born : Etheldred Jones) (1884–1964), political activist, educator, banker and cleric who founded the "Peoples Party " which eventually became the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)[51] [52] Nancy Victoria Steele (1923–2001), labour activist , founder and leader of the National Congress of Sierra Leone Women [99] Isaac Wallace-Johnson (1894–1965), political activist and trade unionist during the colonial era [100] Judges and barristers Sir Samuel Bankole-Jones (1911- 1981), former Chief Justice and first Sierra Leonean president of the Court of Appeal[101] Sir Salako Benka-Coker (1900–1965), first Sierra Leonean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [102] Nicholas Colin Browne-Marke (born 1957), judge in the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone and The Gambia [103] Christian Frederick Cole (1852–1885), first black graduate of Oxford and first African barrister to practice in the English courts [104] [105] Gershon Beresford Collier (1927–1994), former Chief Justice of Sierra Leone , educator and diplomat[106] Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs (born 1951), first non-white person to be appointed to the senior judiciary of England and Wales [107] [108] Patrick Omolade Hamilton , Supreme Court judge of Sierra Leone[109] James Ayodele Jenkins-Johnston (1946–2017), barrister and human rights defender[34] George Gelaga King (1932–2016), judge presiding at the Special Court for Sierra Leone Jamesina Leonora King , jurist and first Sierra Leonean Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights [110] Augustus Merriman-Labor (1877–1919), barrister, writer and munitions worker[111] John Clavell Smythe (1915–1996), former Royal Air Force navigation officer, barrister and attorney-general of Sierra Leone[71] Ade Renner Thomas (born 1945), barrister and one-time Chief Justice of Sierra Leone [112] Stella Thomas (1906–1974), Nigerian of Sierra Leone Creole descent who was the first West African female to qualify as a lawyer[113] John Bankole Thompson (1936–2021), jurist, judge and academic[114] Frances Claudia Wright (1919–2010), first Sierra Leonean woman to be called to the Bar in Great Britain and to practice law in Sierra Leone[115] Knights and Dames Commander Mayors of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr , (born 1969), finance professional and current mayor of Freetown[4] Samuel Sigismund Barlatt, prominent lawyer and one-time mayor of Freetown [123] Sir Ernest Beoku-Betts (1895–1957), jurist and one-time mayor of Freetown[119] William John Campbell, former mayor of Freetown Emmanuel Cummings , former mayor of Freetown[124] Eustace Taylor Cummings (1890–1967), medical doctor and mayor of Freetown from 1948 to 1954[125] Constance Cummings-John (1918–2000), educator, politician and first female mayor of Freetown[126] Florence Agnes Dillsworth (1937–2000), one-time mayor of Freetown and former principal of St. Joseph's Convent School John Ezzidio (1810–1872), businessman, politician and pre-municipality era mayor of Freetown[85] Sam Franklyn Gibson (born 1951), teacher and one-time mayor of Freetown[16] Herbert George-Williams , former mayor of FreetownJune Holst-Roness (1929–2008), medical doctor and former mayor of FreetownWinstanley Bankole Johnson , one-time mayor of FreetownSir Samuel Lewis (1843–1903), first mayor of Freetown and first West African to receive a knighthood [121] John Malamah Thomas (1844–1922), entrepreneur and mayor of Freetown from 1904 to 1912[88] Thomas Josiah Thompson (1867–1941), lawyer, one-time mayor of Freetown and founder of the Sierra Leone Daily Mail [127] Musicians Patrice Bart-Williams (born 1979), singer-songwriter, music producer and film-makerEbenezer Calendar (1912–1985), musician who created and popularized Creole gumbe music and maringa music [128] Asadata Dafora (1890–1965), multidisciplinary musician[129] Evelyn Mary Dove (1902–1987), singer and actress[130] Devonté Hynes (born 1985), singer, songwriter and record producer[131] Bunny Mack (1945–2015), singer, songwriter and performer[132] N'fa (born 1979), hip hop recording artist[133] [134] Dr. Oloh (1944–2007), afropop and jazz musician[135] [136] Daddy Saj (born 1978), rapper who blends hip hop and traditional Creole gumbe music [137] Physicians and surgeons John Augustus Abayomi-Cole (1848–1943), medical doctor and herbalist [138] Crispin Adeniyi-Jones (1876–1957), psychiatrist and first director of the Yaba Asylum in Nigeria[139] Herbert Christian Bankole-Bright (1883–1958), political activist, medical doctor and founder of the National Council of Sierra Leone party[93] Edward Mayfield Boyle (1874–1936), medical practitioner and one of the first West Africans to attend Howard University College of Medicine [140] Robert Wellesley Cole (1907–1995), general surgeon and first West African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons [141] William Broughton Davies (1831–1906), first West African to qualify as a medical doctor [142] Charles Odamtten Easmon (1913–1994), performed the first successful Open-Heart Surgery in West Africa[143] John Farrell Easmon (1856–1900), medical doctor who coined the term Blackwater fever and wrote the first clinical diagnosis of the disease linking it to malaria [144] Macormack Farrell Easmon (1890–1972), medical doctor and founder of the Sierra Leone National Museum [145] George Bernard Frazer (1933–2018), medical practitioner and gynaecologist George Adeniji Garrick (1917–1988), medical doctor and high jump record holder[146] June Holst-Roness (1929–2008), medical doctor and former mayor of FreetownJames Africanus Horton (1835–1883), surgeon, scientist and political thinker who worked towards African independence a century before it occurred[147] Irene Ighodaro (née : Wellesley-Cole) (1916–1995), first Sierra Leonean woman to qualify as a medical doctor[148] Ulric Emmanuel Jones (1940–2020), first Sierra Leonean neurosurgeon [149] Nathaniel Thomas King (1847–1884), one of the earliest western-trained West African doctors to practise medicine in Nigeria [150] [151] Olayinka Koso-Thomas (born 1937), medical doctor known internationally for her efforts to abolish female genital mutilation [152] Abioseh Davidson Nicol (1925–1994), physician and biomedical researcher who discovered the breakdown of insulin in the human body, a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes [153] [48] [49] Lenrie Wilfred Peters (1932–2009), surgeon, poet and educator[154] Arthur Thomas Porter IV (1956–2015), physician and hospital administrator.[155] William Robert Priddy (1926–2003), medical practitioner and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists [156] [157] William Renner (1846–1917), oncologist and Assistant Surgeon-General during the colonial era[158] Agnes Yewande Savage (1906–1964), Nigerian of Sierra Leone Creole descent who was the first West African woman to qualify as a medical doctor[159] Richard Akinwande Savage (1903–1993), medical doctor and first West African to serve as a British Army officer [69] [70] Arthur Farquhar Stuart (1927–2002), consultant physician at Connaught Hospital [160] Pioneer ancestors Daniel Coker (1780–1847), emigrated from Baltimore , Maryland and was missionary and founder of the West African Methodist Church[161] David George (c. 1742–1810), emigrated from Nova Scotia and was preacher of the first recorded Baptist service in Africa held under the Cotton Tree before the land was baptized and christened "Free Town"[162] William Gwinn (born 1755), one of the first black Americans to participate in the antebellum American Back-to-Africa movement to Sierra Leone[163] Abraham Hazeley (1784–1847), Nova Scotian settler and founder of what was to become one of the most prominent Creole families in Freetown.[1] : 309 Montague James (died 1812), leader of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) maroons who settled in Freetown where he helped put down the Black Nova Scotian revolt[164] [165] Major Jarrett (died 1839), leader of the Jamaican Maroons who helped put down the Black Nova Scotian revolt[164] [165] Boston King (c. 1760–1802), soldier and Black Loyalist who helped found Freetown and became the first Methodist missionary to African indigenous people[166] Cato Perkins (died 1805), former African American slave , later missionary, who migrated to Freetown, where he led a strike of carpenters against the Sierra Leone Company [167] Mary Perth (1740–1813), prominent African American colonist and businesswoman in Freetown[168] Thomas Peters (1738–1793), soldier with the auxiliary troops of the British Black Company of Pioneers and the revolutionary founding father of Freetown[169] Elizabeth Renner (died 1826), emigrated from Nova Scotia and became the first female teacher and principal of a girls' school in the missionary in Africa[170] Charles Samuels (died early 1800s), maroon officer from Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) , who was assistant to Colonel Montague James[171] Harry Washington (c. 1740–1800), soldier and Black Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War who was among several hundred settlers who rose up in a brief rebellion against British rule in Freetown[172] Moses 'Daddy' Wilkinson (born 1746), was a Wesleyan Methodist preacher who migrated to Sierra Leone in 1791 where he established the first Methodist church in Settler Town and survived the rebellion in 1800.[173] Politicians and civil administrators Arnold Bishop-Gooding (born 1950), lawyer and former Attorney-General of Sierra Leone[174] Chidi Blyden , American foreign policy advisor who serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs in the Biden administration .[175] Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (born 1971), journalist, political commentator, newspaper editor and one-time cabinet minister[176] Sir Henry Lightfoot Boston (1898–1969), Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962 to 1967[120] Dennis Bright , university instructor and former Minister of Sports[36] David Omashola Carew , economist and former Minister of Finance[5] Christopher Okoro Cole (1921–1990), one-time Governor-General and Chief Justice of Sierra Leone [177] Femi Claudius Cole (born 1962), politician of the Unity Party and first Sierra Leonean woman to form a political party[178] Edmund Cowan (born 1937), former Speaker of Parliament and Ombudsman [179] Ivor Gustavus Cummings (1913–1992), first black official in the British Colonial Office [180] : 235–6 Stanley David Garrick (1888–1958), senior administrator and courtier Prince Alex Harding , former Minister of Transportation and CommunicationVictor Chukuma Johnson (1944–2012), former chairman and deputy leader of the All People's Congress [181] Andrew Juxon-Smith (1931–1996), former commander of the Armed Forces and Head of State of Sierra Leone [67] Charles Burgess King (1875–1961), former President of Liberia and of Sierra Leone Creole heritage[182] Desmond Fashole Luke (1935–2021), diplomat, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and one-time Minister of Health[81] George William Nicol (1810–1884), first African Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone [183] Sir Emile Fashole Luke (1895–1980), former Chief Justice and Speaker of Parliament[122] Murietta Olu-Williams (born 1923), first woman in Africa to achieve the rank of Permanent Secretary in the civil service[184] James Ernest Parkes (1861–1899), first Secretary for Native Affairs during the colonial era in Sierra Leone[185] Solomon James Pratt (1921–2017), former Attorney General and Minister of Justice[186] George Theophilus Robinson (1922–2006), civil administrator and founder of the Krio Descendants Union Valentine Strasser (born 1967), former army officer and Head of State of Sierra Leone[72] Abel Bankole Stronge , lawyer and one-time Speaker of the Parliament of Sierra Leone Nanette Beatrice Thomas (born 1956), former Minister of Political and Public AffairsChristiana Thorpe (born 1949), former two-term Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission[187] Religious leaders Sports figures Samuel Barlay (born 1986), midfielder with IFK Mora who has made numerous appearances for Sierra Leone's national football team – Leone Stars Moses Barnett (born 1990), defender in the English Football League and England under 17s Chris Bart-Williams (born 1974), midfielder in the Premier League and England under 21s Albert Cole (born 1981), midfielder for Mighty Blackpool FC and Leone Stars Carlton Cole (born 1983), striker in the Premier League with several appearances for England Curtis Eugene Davies (born 1985), defender in the English Football League Championship and England under 21sAlbert Jarrett (born 1984), winger in the English Football League Championship with several appearances for Leone Stars Obi Metzger (born 1987), attacking midfielder for Finnish second division side FC Haka who has made several appearances for Leone StarsNigel Reo-Coker (born 1984), midfielder in the Premier League and England under 21sLeroy Rosenior (born 1964), striker for England under 21s and Leone StarsLiam Rosenior (born 1984), full back and winger in the English Football League Championship and England under 21sRodney Strasser (born 1990), defensive midfielder with Turun Palloseura FC based in Turku , FinlandWilliam Sorba Thomas (born 1999), winger for Huddersfield Town FC and the Wales national team [192] Augustine Williams (born 1997), striker who plays in the USL Championship and has made a few appearances for Leone StarsKevin Adrian Wright (born 1995). defender who plays for IK Sirius in Allsvenskan with a few appearances for Leone Stars[193] Track and field athletes William Akabi-Davis (born 1962), sprinter at the 1980 Summer Olympics Julia Helene Armstrong (born 1959), marathon runnerEunice Barber (born 1974), former athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump Horace Dove-Edwin (born 1967), retired sprinter who specialized in the 100-metre dashWalter During (born 1960), sprinter at the 1980 Summer OlympicsGeorge Adeniji Garrick (1917–1988), medical doctor and high jump record holder[146] Rudolph George (born 1957), sprinter at the 1980 Summer OlympicsDenton Guy-Williams (born 1972), sprinter at the 1992 Summer Olympics Modupe Jonah (born 1966), middle-distance runner at the 1988 Summer Olympics Pierre Lisk (born 1971), sprinter at the 1996 Summer OlympicsEugenia Osho-Williams (born 1964), former sprinter and first woman to represent Sierra Leone at the Olympics David Sawyerr (born 1961), sprinter at the 1984 Summer Olympics Josephus Thomas (born 1971), sprinter at the 1996 Summer Olympics Rachel Thompson (born 1964), middle-distance runner at the 1988 Summer Olympics Boxers Rugby players Swimmers Other sports Visual artists Writers and journalists Bankole Awoonor-Renner (1898–1970), first Black African to study in the Soviet Union , and first African to be accredited to the Institute of Journalists in London.[196] Gaston Bart-Williams (1938–1990), journalist, novelist and film directorGladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), first author to write in the Krio language [37] Raymond Ayodele Charley (1948–1993), playwright and writer[197] Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945), poet, novelist, and journalist[198] James Vivian Clinton (1902–1973), expatriate and journalist[104] [199] [200] [201] Thomas Decker (1916–1978), writer, poet, journalist, and linguist [38] Clifford Nelson Fyle (1933–2006), scholar and author known for writing the lyrics to the Sierra Leone National Anthem [39] Delia Jarrett-Macauley (born 1958), writer, academic and broadcaster[32] [31] Eyamide Ella Lewis-Coker (née : Smith), writer and book author[202] Valerie Mason-John (born 1962), author and public speaker[203] Augustus Merriman-Labor (1877–1919), writer best known for his 1909 book Britons Through Negro Spectacles [204] [111] Nii Ayikwei Parkes (born 1974), poet, writer and sociocultural commentator[205] [206] Emmanuel Bankole Timothy (1923–1994), journalist and biographer[207] See also References 
