List of Indo-Guyanese people

The following is a list of prominent Indo-Guyanese people.

Politics



 * Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana
 * Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, life peer in the British House of Lords
 * Shaik Baksh, Minister of Education
 * Isahak Basir, Member of Parliament
 * Vickram Bharrat, politician
 * Ranji Chandisingh, former Vice President of Guyana
 * Ronald Gajraj, politician
 * Cheddi Jagan, former President of Guyana, dentist, and the Father of the Nation
 * Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President of Guyana, former President of Guyana, and former Prime Minister of Guyana
 * Syed Kamall, British MEP for London 2005 - 2019
 * Edward Luckhoo, politician and Governor-General of British Guiana and Acting President of Guyana
 * Lionel Luckhoo, politician and lawyer
 * Gina Miller, British lawyer who took the UK Government to court over its handling of Brexit negotiations
 * Manzoor Nadir, Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana
 * Moses Nagamootoo, former Prime Minister of Guyana
 * Sase Narain, former Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana
 * Shiw Sahai Naraine, former Vice President of Guyana and engineer
 * Reepu Daman Persaud, former Vice President of Guyana and Hindu pandit
 * Balram Singh Rai, politician
 * Khemraj Ramjattan, former Vice President of Guyana and former Minister of Public Security
 * Shridath Ramphal, former Commonwealth Secretary General
 * Deolatchmee Ramotar, former First Lady of Guyana
 * Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana
 * Bishwaishwar Ramsaroop, former Vice President of Guyana
 * Peter Ramsaroop, politician
 * Kayman Sankar, politician and rice farmer
 * Mohamed Shahabuddeen, former Vice President of Guyana and judge
 * Doodnauth Singh, former Attorney General of Guyana
 * Lutchman Sooknandan, former Director of Public Prosecutions of Belize and Honorary Consul of Guyana in Belize
 * Tara Singh Varma, Dutch politician
 * Mark Persaud, Lawyer Twice elected to the National Executive of Liberal Party of Canada

Academics

 * David Dabydeen, professor at the University of Warwick and historian
 * Clem Seecharan, professor and Caribbean historian
 * Bertrand Ramcharan, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
 * Bishnodat Persaud, professor at the University of the West Indies and former Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat
 * Jamal Deen, Distinguished University Professor, McMaster University, Canada.
 * Adam Rutherford, Geneticist and science populariser, University College London.
 * Katharine Birbalsingh, teacher and education reform advocate.

Business

 * Stanley Praimnath, bank executive and survivor of the September 11 attacks

Medicine

 * Deborah Persaud, virologist, named among the world's most influential people in the Time 100 in 2013

Arts and entertainment

 * Raymond Ablack, Canadian actor
 * Anjulie, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Gaiutra Bahadur, writer
 * Dave Baksh, lead guitarist of the Canadian band Sum 41 (also plays with Brown Brigade)
 * Shakira Caine, actress, fashion model, and former Miss Guyana
 * Mahadai Das, poet
 * Rhona Fox, actress
 * Terry Gajraj, chutney singer
 * Emma Heming, Maltese model
 * Harischandra Khemraj, writer
 * Laxmi Kallicharan, writer
 * Isabella Laughland, British actress
 * Suchitra Mattai, Guyanese-born American contemporary artist
 * Avi Nash, American actor
 * Priyanka (stage name of Mark Suknanan), Canadian television presenter, drag artist, and winner of Canada's Drag Race Season 1
 * Sandhja, Finnish singer
 * Melinda Shankar, Canadian actress
 * Nandini Sharan, bhajan singer and wife of Hari Om Sharan
 * "Princess Anisa" Singh, chutney-soca singer
 * Shana Yardan, poet
 * Gordon Warnecke, British actor

Sports



 * Andreas Athanasiou, Canadian NHL player for the Chicago Blackhawks
 * Faoud Bacchus, West Indian cricketer
 * Shivnarine Chanderpaul, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
 * Narsingh Deonarine, West Indian cricketer
 * Rohan Kanhai, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
 * Alvin Kallicharran, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
 * Mahendra Nagamootoo, West Indian cricketer
 * Kriskal Persaud, chess player
 * Harry Prowell, Marathon Olympian and British West Indies Champion in long-distance running
 * Mark Ramprakash, former England cricket player
 * Ramnaresh Sarwan, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
 * Dhanraj Singh, boxer
 * Devendra Bishoo, West Indian cricketer
 * Beni Sankar, businessman and former cricket player
 * Nezam Hafiz, cricketer and victim of the September 11 attacks
 * Paul Stalteri, former soccer player

Religion and philosophy

 * Maya Tiwari, Hindu spiritual teacher
 * Shabir Ally, Muslim imam

Criminality

 * Shaheed "Roger" Khan, druglord and head of Phantom Squad