List of Americo-Liberian people

This is a list of notable Americo-Liberian people.

The Americo-Liberian or Congau ethnic group has produced several notable politicians, businessman, and professionals including:

Politicians and Administrators

 * Wilmot Collins, Liberian-born American politician serving as the mayor of Helena, Montana
 * Nathaniel Barnes, Liberian businessman and politician
 * Charles Cecil Dennis, Liberian diplomat and politician
 * C. Cyvette M. Gibson, Mayor of Paynesville, Liberia
 * Louis Arthur Grimes, Liberian jurist
 * Richard Abrom Henries, Liberian politician
 * Elijah Johnson, Liberian pioneer and founding father of Liberia
 * James A. A. Pierre, Liberian politician
 * Charles Taylor, Liberian President and convicted war criminal
 * Hilary Teague, Liberian pioneer and author of the Liberian Declaration of Independence
 * Frank E. Tolbert, Liberian politician and businessman
 * E. Reginald Townsend, Liberian politician and journalist
 * Winston Tubman, Liberian lawyer and politician
 * Clarence Lorenzo Simpson Sr., Liberian politician and former Vice President
 * Kimmie Weeks, Liberian human rights activist

Educators and Writers

 * Edward Wilmot Blyden, Liberian intellectual scholar and Pan-Africanist pioneer
 * Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman, Liberian educator and first African woman to serve as president of a university
 * Anna E. Cooper, educator, dean of the University of Liberia
 * Helene Cooper, journalist for The New York Times
 * John Payne Jackson, influential journalist in the Lagos Colony and founder of the Lagos Weekly Record
 * Wayétu Moore, author

Entrepreneurs and Businesspersons

 * Romeo A. Horton, a founder of the Africa Development Bank
 * Clarence Lorenzo Simpson Jr., Liberian judge and businessman
 * Benoni Urey, Liberian businessman and the wealthiest Liberian
 * Rhoda Weeks-Brown, General counsel to the IMF

Scientists and Medical professionals

 * Solomon Carter Fuller, Liberian pioneer and African-American psychiatrist and physician

American-born presidents of Liberia
Americo-Liberians formed a cultural elite in Liberia that produced every Liberian president before 1980. The following presidents of Liberia, however, were born in the United States:
 * Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first and seventh president. Born in Norfolk, Virginia
 * Stephen Allen Benson, second president. Born in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland
 * Daniel Bashiel Warner, third president. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland
 * James Spriggs-Payne, fourth and eighth president. Born in Richmond, Virginia
 * Edward James Roye, fifth president. Born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio.
 * James Skivring Smith, sixth president. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston County, South Carolina
 * Anthony W. Gardiner, ninth president. Born in Southampton County, Virginia
 * Alfred F. Russell, tenth president. Born in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
 * William D. Coleman, thirteenth president. Born in Fayette County, Kentucky
 * Garretson W. Gibson, fourteenth president. Born in Baltimore, Maryland

Also one Americo-Liberian president of Liberia was born in the British West Indies:
 * Arthur Barclay, fifteenth president of Liberia, was born in Bridgetown, Barbados