List of Guyanese

This is a list of notable Guyanese. This list includes people born in Guyana, notably of Guyanese descent, or otherwise strongly associated to Guyana.

Actors and entertainers

 * Robert Adams (1902–1965), British Guyanese actor, of stage and screen
 * Harry Baird (1931–2005), Guyanese-born British actor
 * Marc Matthews (born c. 1940), actor, broadcaster, writer, and producer
 * T-Bone Wilson, Guyanese-born British actor, dramatist, and poet
 * Ian Valz (1957–2010), actor, playwright, and filmmaker

Artists

 * Kwesi Abbensetts, Guyanese-born American photographer
 * Damali Abrams, American-born video artist and performance artist, of Guyanese descent
 * George Barber (born 1958), British Guyanese video artist
 * Frank Bowling (born 1939), British Guyanese painter, based in the United Kingdom
 * Theresa Chromati (born 1992) American-born painter, of Guyanese descent
 * Victor Davson (born 1948), Guyanese-born American collagist, curator, and gallerist
 * Ann Gollifer (born 1960) British Guyanese painter, printmaker, writer and photographer, based in Gaborone, Botswana
 * Maggie Harris, poet, writer, and visual artist, based in the United Kingdom
 * Oswald Hussein (born 1946), Guyanese sculptor of wood, of Lokono descent
 * Donald Locke (1930–2010), drafter, painter, sculptor
 * Hew Locke (born 1959), Scottish-born sculptor, raised in Guyana and based in London
 * Leila Locke (1936–1992), English-born Guyanese painter
 * Suchitra Mattai (born 1973), Guyanese-born American multidisciplinary contemporary artist
 * Philip Moore (1921–2012), sculptor and painter
 * Bernadette Persaud (born 1946), painter
 * Ingrid Pollard (born 1953) British Guyanese photographer
 * Lenny Prince (born 1965), Guyanese-born American sculptor and large scale installation artist
 * Doris Rogers (1929–2016), Guyanese academic who specialized in fine arts

Athletes

 * Martin Braithwaite (born 1991), Danish professional footballer, of Guyanese descent
 * Shivnarine Chanderpaul (born 1974), cricket coach and former captain of the West Indies cricket team
 * Nicolette Fernandes (born 1983), British squash player, representing Guyana
 * Lance Gibbs (born 1934), cricketer
 * Carl Hooper (born 1966), cricketer
 * Rohan Kanhai (born 1935), cricketer
 * Clive Lloyd (born 1944), British Guyanese cricketer
 * Ramnaresh Sarwan (born 1980), cricketer

Businesspeople

 * Arif Ali (born 1935), Guyana-born British publisher, and newspaper proprietor
 * Elizabeth Swain Bannister (1785–1828), Barbadian-born businessperson and freewoman, who lived in Berbice, a Dutch Colony (what is now Guyana)
 * John Meredith Ford (1923–1995), businessman and politician

Musicians

 * Aubrey Cummings (1947–2010), Guyana-born Barbadian musician
 * Lynette Dolphin (1916–2000), musician, educator, chair of the Guyana Department of Culture
 * Rudolph Dunbar (1907–1988), conductor, composer, musician
 * Melanie Fiona (born 1983), Canadian singer and songwriter, of Guyanese descent
 * Eddy Grant (born 1948), British Guyanese singer, songwriter
 * Keko (Guyanese rapper) (born 1974), rapper, radio personality
 * Preme (born 1986; also known as P. Reign), Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer, of Guyanese descent
 * Sol Raye (1936–2006), cabaret musician
 * Red Café (born 1976; born as Jermaine Alfred Denny), Guyanese-born American rapper
 * Rihanna (born 1988), Barbadian singer, of Afro-Guyanese descent on her maternal side
 * Saint Jhn (born 1986; born as Carlos St. John Phillips), American rapper, raised in Guyana

Politicians and activists

 * Margaret Ackman (?–2013), politician and a founding member of the People’s National Congress Reform
 * Andaiye (1942–2019), social, political, and gender rights activist
 * Antony Beaujon ( c. 1763–1805), civil servant and politician
 * Juan Edghill (born 1964), pastor and politician; founder and bishop of Zadok Ministers Fellowship
 * John Meredith Ford (1923–1995), businessman and politician
 * Valerie Hart (1933–2021), indigenous political leader from the Wapishana ethnic group and a member of Guyana's Amerindian Party
 * Edwina Melville (1926–1993), writer, teacher, politician, and advocate of the Wapishana peoples

Writers

 * Michael Abbensetts (1938–2016), Guyana-born British playwright and screenwriter
 * John Agard (born 1949), Guyana-born British playwright, poet and children's writer
 * Arif Ali (born 1935), Guyana-born British publisher, and newspaper proprietor
 * E. R. Braithwaite (1912–2016), writer
 * Jan Carew (1920–2012), Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator
 * Martin Carter (1927–1997), poet and political activist
 * David Dabydeen (born 1955), Guyanese-born broadcaster, writer and academic
 * Wilson Harris (1921–2018) poet, novelist
 * Roy Heath (1926–2008) Guyanese-born writer, based in the UK
 * Matthew James Higgins (1810–1868), British writer, he lived part time in British Guiana
 * Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965), novelist
 * Walter Rodney (1942–1980), politician, activist and historian
 * Ivan Van Sertima (1935–2009) Guyanese-born British Africanist and academic
 * A. J. Seymour (1914–1989), writer, editor, and publisher
 * Eric Walrond (1898–1966), British Guyanese-born American writer and journalist, associated with the Harlem Renaissance
 * Shana Yardan (1943–1989), poet and broadcaster