List of Belizean people

This is a list of notable and well-known Belizean people, ordered alphabetically.


 * Michael Anthony Ashcroft, international businessman, philanthropist and politician
 * Moses Michael Levi Barrow (born Jamal Michael Barrow; 1978), better known by his stage name Shyne, rapper and politician
 * Simone Biles, American gymnast and Olympian
 * Pi'erre Bourne, rapper and record producer
 * Barry Bowen, bottling magnate, politician and entrepreneur
 * Sharon Carr, murderer who killed a woman in Britain aged only 12
 * Nadia Cattouse, actress, singer-songwriter
 * Pen Cayetano, artist and musician
 * Sue Courtenay, architect
 * Ivan Duran, musician, and the founder and director of Stonetree Records
 * Zee Edgell, novelist and educator, considered Belize's principal contemporary writer
 * Maxime Faget, designer of the Mercury capsule
 * Antonio Soberanis Gómez, activist in the Belizean labour movement, he founded the Labourers and Unemployed Association in 1934 to demand poverty relief work and a minimum wage. He was jailed for sedition in 1935
 * Samuel Alfred Haynes, soldier, activist and poet
 * Houston (of Belizean descent), R&B singer, best known for the hit single "I Like That"
 * Marion Jones (holds dual-citizenship), former world champion track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA
 * Emory King, historian, author, journalist and National Film Commissioner
 * Chito Martínez, first Belizean player in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB)
 * John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and founder of McAfee, Inc.
 * Deon McCaulay, international footballer who last played for R.G. City Boys United in the Premier League of Belize
 * Monrad Metzgen, national hero of Belize
 * Andy Palacio, punta musician and government official. He was also a leading activist for the Garínagu and their culture
 * Milton Palacio (holds dual-citizenship), Belizean American professional basketball player, currently with the Lithuanian team Lietuvos rytas
 * Elijio Panti, traditional healer who used Mayan herbal medical techniques
 * Wilfred Peters, accordionist and band leader, known as the "King of Brukdown"
 * Arlie Petters, mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor and Professor of Mathematics, Physics, and Business Administration at Duke University
 * George Cadle Price, the first prime minister of Belize, considered to have been one of the principal architects of the country's independence
 * Francis Reneau, pianist and composer. In 1994 he was commissioned by the government to produce a representative compilation of Belizean music
 * Gerald Rhaburn, calypso, soca, reggae and brukdown musician
 * Marie Sharp, entrepreneur
 * Shyne, rapper and convert to Judaism
 * Trevon Salazar, competitive cyclist
 * Lisa Tucker (of Belizean descent), singer, musical theater and television actress
 * Deborah L. Turbiville, Houston madam
 * Ann-Marie Williams, public policy advisor
 * Selwyn Walford Young, musician and composer
 * Destiny Wagner, Miss Earth 2021