List of people from Dominica

This is a list of notable people from the Commonwealth of Dominica. The list include also individuals with Dominican ancestry and citizenship.

Presidents

 * Nicholas Liverpool
 * Charles Savarin
 * Clarence Seignoret
 * Vernon Shaw
 * Crispin Sorhaindo
 * Alwin Bully (created or artist of the national flag of Dominica)

Prime Ministers

 * Patrick John 1st
 * Oliver Seraphin 2nd
 * Dame Eugenia Charles 3rd
 * Edison James 4th
 * Roosevelt Douglas 5th
 * Pierre Charles 6th
 * Roosevelt Skerrit (current)

Leader(s) of the Opposition

 * Hector John
 * Lennox Linton

Political personalities

 * Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal (born 1955), current Commonwealth of Nations Secretary General; former Attorney General for England and Wales
 * Denise Charles-Pemberton minister of tourism
 * Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1907–1986), politician
 * Ronald Green, politician
 * Edward Oliver LeBlanc (1923–2004), government official
 * Emmanuel Christopher Loblack (1898–1995), union leader and politician
 * Cecil Rawle (1891–1938), attorney and politician

Spiritual personalities

 * Ogyen Trinley Dorje, (widely known as the 17th Karmapa), head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Activists

 * Kellyn George
 * Whitney Mélinard, Kalinago Territory issues
 * Asquith Xavier, Dominican-born Briton who fought a colour bar to become the first non-white train guard at Euston station in London in 1966.

Actors

 * Danny John-Jules, of Red Dwarf and of Death in Paradise, filmed in Guadeloupe
 * Trish Cooke, of Playdays

Doctors

 * Jasmine R. Marcelin, physician

Scientists

 * Chelsea Connor, herpetologist

Media

 * Trisha Goddard, host of Trisha
 * Moira Stuart, female newsreader on British television and radio, working for the BBC
 * Urban Dangleben, proprietor of the first private radio station "Radio En Ba Mango" in the Commonwealth of Dominica..

Musicians
Signal Band Gordon Henderson Exile One Freddy Nicholas Fitzroy Williams Phillip " Chubby" Mark and Marcel "Co" Mark of Midnight Groovers
 * Gabrielle
 * Bashy
 * Pearle Christian
 * Nasio Fontaine
 * Ophelia Marie
 * Shakka
 * Swinging Stars
 * Windward Caribbean Kulture ("WCK")

Sports

 * Frank Bruno, professional boxer
 * Joe Cooke, footballer
 * Phillip DeFreitas, cricketer
 * Billy Doctrove, cricket umpire
 * Luan Gabriel, sprinter
 * Vince Hilaire, footballer
 * Manjrekar James, footballer
 * Garth Joseph, basketballer
 * Karina LeBlanc, footballer
 * Jérôme Romain, athlete
 * Adam Sanford, cricketer
 * Grayson Shillingford, cricketer
 * Shane Shillingford, cricketer

Visual artists

 * Tam Joseph
 * Pauline Marcelle

Writers

 * Phyllis Shand Allfrey, novelist (The Orchid House)
 * Lennox Honychurch, historian (The Dominica Story)
 * Marie-Elena John, novelist (Unburnable)
 * Elma Napier, novelist (Black and White Sands)
 * Jean Rhys, novelist (Wide Sargasso Sea)
 * Alec Waugh, novelist (Island in the Sun)
 * Trish Cooke, children and young adults books (So Much)