List of Bahamians

This is a list of Bahamians, who are identified with The Bahamas through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability.

Business people

 * Pauline Allen-Dean –  first woman to become manager of a commercial bank and the first woman to serve as managing director of a commercial bank
 * Garet 'Tiger' Finlayson OBE –  owner of Solomon Mines (luxury retail goods), Burns House and Butler & Sands
 * Sherrexcia (Rexy) Rolle – Vice-president of Operations & General Counsel of Western Air

Entertainers



 * Etta Cameron – jazz singer; based in Denmark; frontrunner of the Danish 1970s and 1980s music scene
 * Wendy Coakley-Thompson – writer; author of the novels Back to Life (2004) and What You Won't Do for Love (2005)
 * Langston Fishburne – actor, son of Laurence Fishburne
 * "King" Eric Gibson – entrepreneur and musician; semi-official Ambassador of Bahamian Goodwill
 * Lenny Kravitz – actor, multi-instrumentalist, music arranger, record producer and rock singer-songwriter; son of Roxie Roker
 * Zoë Kravitz – actress and musician; daughter of Lenny Kravitz
 * Shakara Ledard – super model
 * Myles Munroe – televangelist
 * Tia Mowry – actress
 * Tamera Mowry – actress
 * Sir Sidney Poitier – actor and diplomat; Ambassador of the Bahamas to Japan
 * Roxie Roker – actress; known for role on the television series The Jeffersons
 * Angelique Sabrina – teenage actor, dancer and singer-songwriter
 * Persia White – actress; known for role on the television series Girlfriends

Politicians

 * Perry Christie – became Prime Minister of the Bahamas in 2012
 * Frederick Gottlieb – former MP and FNM activist
 * Hubert Ingraham – former Prime Minister of the Bahamas
 * Sir Lynden Pindling – former Prime Minister of the Bahamas
 * Allan Glaisyer Minns – first Black Mayor in Britain
 * Brandon Russell –  Founder of the Neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division

Sportspeople



 * Deandre Ayton – No.1 overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft, NBA player for Phoenix Suns
 * Shaunae Miller – professional sprinter
 * Edner Cherry – professional boxer
 * André Deveaux – retired professional NHL ice hockey player
 * Yves Edwards – mixed martial artist
 * Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie – Olympian/Golden Girl and sprint athlete
 * Rick Fox – actor and retired professional basketball player; former National Basketball Association player for the Los Angeles Lakers
 * Eric Gordon – NBA player
 * Steven Gardiner – professional sprinter
 * Buddy Hield – NBA player; consensus NCAA Division I player of the year in 2015–16
 * Tureano Johnson – boxer
 * Mark Knowles – professional tennis player
 * Antoan Richardson – Major League baseball player and coach
 * Myron Rolle – professional football player; former National Football League player for the Tennessee Titans; Rhodes scholar
 * Kimbo Slice – streetfighter turned mixed martial artist
 * Ryan Sweeting – professional tennis player
 * Klay Thompson – NBA player for the Golden State Warriors
 * Mychal Thompson – professional basketball player; former National Basketball Association player for the Portland Trail Blazers and the Los Angeles Lakers; nicknamed "Sweet Bells"
 * Tonique Williams-Darling – 2004 Olympic gold medalist (400m), 2005 IAAF World Champion, she split the Golden League – Million Dollar Jackpot ($500,000) by winning eight consecutive 400m events in the championship series; Bahamian government named a major highway the "Tonique Williams-Darling Highway"

Celebrities and billionaires
The Bahamas has one of the largest registers of celebrities who reside permanently or have legal resident status in a country, not of their native birth, hometown, or place of origin. This is primarily due to the favourable financial sector that is tax free (from income, capital gains, inheritance, among others ) and is one of the top three worldwide centres in offshore banking. Also, there is a high-quality tourism product, ranking first in the Caribbean and Atlantic region among island destinations. Another is a favorable immigration policy toward wealthy nationals. Those who invest $500,000 in property can be eligible for permanent residential status.


 * Nicolas Cage - owns estate residence on Paradise Island and a private island in the Exuma chains.
 * Mariah Carey - owns a house on Windermere, a private island connected to Eleuthera, where she married Nick Cannon in 2008.
 * Sean "Diddy" Combs
 * Sean Connery - owned a property in Lyford Cay; had lived in the Bahamas since the 1990s
 * David Copperfield
 * Johnny Depp - owns private island
 * Rick Fox - Bahamian/Canadian
 * Bill Gates
 * Michael Jordan
 * Helen Singer Kaplan
 * Lenny Kravitz
 * Joe Lewis (British businessman) - British billionaire (347th richest person on Forbes list of billionaires ), owns a property in Lyford Cay
 * Terry Manning - American record producer, operator of Compass Point Studios
 * Tim McGraw and Faith Hill - own private island
 * Shakira Mebarak
 * Eddie Murphy
 * Daniel Nestor
 * Peter Nygard - Canadian billionaire
 * Stephen O'Brien - politician
 * Mike Oldfield - guitarist/composer (Tubular Bells etc.)
 * Sidney Poitier - Bahamian
 * Anna Nicole Smith (28 November 1967 – 8 February 2007)
 * John Travolta
 * Tiger Woods - owns the Albany Estate
 * Louis Bacon - billionaire American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. Owns property in Lyford Cay.