List of Barbadian Americans

This is a list of notable Barbadian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

Actors

 * Meagan Good - actress (paternal grandfather)
 * Cuba Gooding, Jr. - actor (paternal grandfather was from Barbados)
 * Omar Gooding - actor (same grandfather as Cuba Jr.)
 * Adrian Holmes - Canadian actor (ancestry vague)
 * Nia Long - actress (ancestry vague)
 * Mari Morrow - actress (ancestry vague)
 * Gwyneth Paltrow - (her great-grandmother was Barbadian)
 * Redd Pepper - (born Richard Green in Barbados)
 * Jada Pinkett Smith - actress (ancestry vague on mother's side)
 * Robert Christopher Riley - actor (father from Barbados)
 * Lamman Rucker - (ancestry vague)

Entertainers

 * Lene Hall - supermodel
 * Norma Miller - dancer (both parents from Barbados)

Musicians

 * Tory Lanez - rapper
 * A$AP Rocky - real name Rakim Mayers, rapper
 * KRS-One - real name Lawrence Parker, rapper
 * Afrika Bambaataa - musician
 * Damon Dash - co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records; Stacey Dash's cousin
 * Grandmaster Flash - hip hop musician and DJ
 * Dave East - rapper
 * Faith Evans - singer and actress
 * Doug E. Fresh - hip hop musician
 * Desiigner - hip hop musician/rapper
 * Cuba Gooding, Sr. - singer
 * Ryan Leslie - musician, producer
 * Mr. Lif - hip hop musician
 * LL Cool J - musician
 * Lord Burgess - songwriter
 * Shontelle - musician
 * Arturo Tappin - musician
 * Tweet - real name Charlene Keys, singer
 * Rayvon - real name Bruce Alexander Michael Brewster, Barbadian singer-songwriter
 * Remy Ma - rapper
 * Rowdy Rebel - rapper
 * Lil’ Kim - rapper

Public service figures

 * Shirley Chisholm - Congresswoman
 * Adrian Fenty - former Mayor of Washington, District of Columbia
 * Charles Gittens - first black United States Secret Service agent
 * Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix - New York State Supreme Court Judge
 * Eric Holder - former Attorney General of the United States
 * Sherrilyn Ifill - lawyer and activist
 * Thomas Jones - former Civil Court judge and civil rights activist in Brooklyn, New York
 * Chirlane McCray - poet, public speech writer, married to New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio
 * Bret Schundler - former Mayor of Jersey City, NJ
 * Lloyd Sealy - first African American NYPD officer to command a police precinct and patrol borough
 * Dennis M. Walcott - Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development in New York City, New York

Religious figures

 * Arnold Josiah Ford - rabbi

Scientists

 * Cardinal Warde - physicist, full professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sports figures

 * Robert Bailey - National Football League player
 * Anson Carter - Canadian hockey player
 * Rajah Caruth - American NASCAR driver
 * Andre De Grasse - Canadian Sprinter
 * Ramon Harewood - National Football League player
 * Orlando Jordan - professional wrestler
 * Winston Justice - National Football League player
 * Sam Seale - National Football League player
 * Alana Shipp - American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder
 * Christian Taylor - track and field athlete
 * Obadele Thompson - track and field athlete
 * Kevin Weekes - Canadian hockey player
 * Andrew Wiggins - Canadian basketball player
 * Nick Wiggins - Canadian basketball player

Writers

 * Gwen Ifill - American journalist and television newscaster
 * Agymah Kamau - novelist
 * Odimumba Kwamdela - poet and novelist
 * Paule Marshall - novelist
 * Susan L. Taylor - editor-in-chief of Essence magazine
 * Neville Goddard - writer and mystic

Others

 * Frank L. White - chef, the original chef's face on Cream of Wheat box