List of people from Freetown

Below is a list of notable people from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Please only include entries with a Wikipedia article.

Academics and educators

 * Edward Wilmot Blyden III, diplomat, political scientist and educator.
 * Violet Showers Johnson, academic, author and historian.
 * Aaron Belisarius Cosmo Sibthorpe, nineteenth century historian.
 * Victor Okrafo-Smart, author and genealogical researcher.
 * Noah Arthur William Cox-George, academic and economist.
 * Bertha Conton, teacher, educator, and founder of Leone Preparatory School.
 * Eustace Palmer, academic, author and public orator.
 * Lemuel A. Johnson, academic, poet, and author.
 * Lati Hyde-Forster, first Sierra Leonean woman to graduate from Fourah Bay College.
 * William Farquhar Conton, educator, historian, and author.
 * Hannah Benka-Coker (born Hannah Luke), educator and founder of Freetown Secondary School for Girls.
 * Abiodun Williams, academic and former president of The Hague Institute for Global Justice.
 * Akintola Josephus Gustavus Wyse, academic, author and historian.
 * Arthur Thomas Daniel Porter III, academic, author and historian.
 * Edna Elliott-Horton, first West African woman to complete a BA degree in the liberal arts.
 * Edward Fasholé-Luke, academic and theologian.
 * Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr, writer and Anglican theologian.
 * Eldred Durosimi Jones, academic and literary critic.
 * Enid Rosamund Ayodele Forde, academic, earth scientist, geographer and first Sierra Leonean woman to earn a PhD.
 * Trudy Morgan, first African woman to be awarded a Fellowship of the Institute of Civil Engineers.
 * Reginald Akindele Cline-Cole, academic, earth scientist and developmental geographer.
 * Thomas Frederick Hope, first Engineer-in-Chief, Guma Valley Water Company and first chairman, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated.

Activists/writers/artists

 * Adelaide Casely-Hayford, was an advocate, nationalist, and educator.
 * Patricia Piccinini, Australian artist.
 * FannyAnn Eddy, gay rights activist.
 * Farid Raymond-Anthony, Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet.
 * Syl Cheney-Coker, poet, novelist, and journalist.
 * Thomas Decker, writer, poet, journalist, and linguist.
 * Eyamide Ella Lewis-Coker (Eyamide Ella Smith), writer and book author.
 * Gaston Bart-Williams, journalist, novelist and film director.
 * Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist and biographer.
 * Raymond Caleb Ayodele Charley, playwright and writer.
 * Yulisa Amadu Maddy (Pat Maddy), composer, journalist and writer.
 * Clifford Nelson Fyle, composer of the Sierra Leone National Anthem.
 * Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew, prominent photographer appointed for the visit of the Duke of Connaught.

Actors/actresses

 * Jeillo Edwards
 * Desmond Finney
 * Adetokumboh McCormack

Criminals

 * Issa Hassan Sesay, convicted war criminal who served in the Sierra Leonean army and the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).
 * Brima Bazzy Kamara, rebel leader and convicted war criminal.
 * Santigie Borbor Kanu, rebel leader and convicted war criminal.
 * Jamil Sahid Mohamed, former businessman, convicted for involvement in assassination plot.

Health care and social justice

 * Frederica Williams, President and chief executive officer of Whittier Street Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts since 2002.
 * Sir Ernest Dunstan Morgan (1896–1979), pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist

Military personnel

 * Brigadier-General Arthur Nelson-Williams, The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces spokesman
 * Brigadier-General Tom Carew was in the Sierra Leonean army and Chief of Defence Staff of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces from April 2000 to November 2003
 * Emmanuel Cole, soldier and hero of the "Gunners Revolt"
 * John Henry Clavell Smythe, former Royal Air Force navigation officer, barrister and Attorney General of Sierra Leone

Religious leaders

 * George Gurney Mather Nicol, clergyman and first African graduate of Cambridge University.
 * Daniel Coker, missionary and founder of the West African Methodist Church.
 * Thomas Sylvester Johnson, educator and former bishop of Sierra Leone.
 * Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Sierra Leonean-Nigerian clergyman and first Anglican Bishop of West Africa.
 * Moses Nathanael Christopher Omobiala Scott, clergyman and Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone who later became Archbishop of the Province of West Africa.

Musicians

 * Ebenezer Calendar, musician who created and popularized Creole gumbe music and maringa music.
 * Oloh Israel Olufemi Cole (Dr. Oloh), musician.
 * Daddy Saj (Joseph Gerald Adolphus Cole), rapper.
 * Bunny Mack (Cecil Bunting MacCormack), singer.
 * Emmerson
 * Reuben Koroma

Judges and lawyers

 * Sir Samuel Bankole-Jones (1911–1981), former Chief Justice and first Sierra Leonean president of the Court of Appeal
 * Sir Salako Benka-Coker (1900–1965), first Sierra Leonean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
 * Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs, first non-white person appointed to the senior judiciary of England and Wales
 * Nicholas Colin Browne-Marke, judge in the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone and The Gambia.
 * George Gelaga King, judge presiding at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
 * Patrick Omolade Hamilton, Supreme Court judge of Sierra Leone.
 * Frances Claudia Wright, first Sierra Leonean woman to be called to the Bar in Great Britain and to practice law in Sierra Leone.
 * Jamesina Essie Leonora King, jurist and first Sierra Leonean sworn in as Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.
 * Ade Renner Thomas, barrister and one-time Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.
 * James Blyden Jenkins-Johnston, barrister and human rights defender.
 * John Rosolu Bankole Thompson, jurist, judge and academic.
 * Stella Thomas, Nigerian of Sierra Leonean descent who was the first West African to qualify as a lawyer.
 * Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier, former Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, educator and diplomat.
 * Christian Frederick Cole, first African barrister to practice in the English courts.
 * Augustus Boyle Chamberlayne Merriman‐Labor, barrister, writer and munitions worker.

Politicians

 * Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor of Freetown and first West African to receive a knighthood.
 * Sir Emile Fashole Luke, former Chief Justice and Speaker of Parliament.
 * Sir Ernest Beoku-Betts, jurist and one-time mayor of Freetown.
 * Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962 to 1967
 * Christopher Elnathan Okoro Cole, one-time Governor-General and Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
 * Andrew Juxon-Smith, former commander of the Armed Forces and Head of State of Sierra Leone.
 * Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1996
 * Herbert George-Williams, former mayor of Freetown
 * Winstanley Bankole Johnson, former mayor of Freetown
 * John Henry Malamah Thomas, mayor of Freetown from 1904 to 1912
 * Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings, mayor of Freetown from 1948 to 1954
 * Ade Renner Thomas, current Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
 * Isaac Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean journalist and a politician
 * Siaka Probyn Stevens, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 21 April 1971 – 28 November 1985
 * Ernest Bai Koroma Is the current Head of State of Sierra Leone and the fourth since 2007
 * Joseph Saidu Momoh, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1985 to 1992.
 * Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, third Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007.
 * Johnny Paul Koroma former Head of State of Sierra Leone and indicted war criminal.

Physicians and surgeons

 * Abioseh Davidson Nicol, academic, medical doctor and discoverer of the breakdown of insulin in the human body, a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes.
 * William Broughton Davies, first West African to qualify as a medical doctor.
 * Irene Ighodaro (Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Wellesley-Cole), first Sierra Leonean woman to qualify as a medical doctor.
 * Edward Mayfield Boyle, medical practitioner and one of the first West Africans to attend Howard University College of Medicine.
 * William Robert Gorham Ebun Priddy, medical practitioner and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
 * James Africanus Beale Horton, surgeon, scientist and political thinker who worked towards African independence a century before it occurred.
 * Ulric Oduma Emmanuel Jones, first Sierra Leonean neurosurgeon.
 * Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole, medical practitioner and first West African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
 * Olayinka Koso-Thomas, medical doctor known internationally for her efforts to abolish female genital mutilation.
 * John Augustus Abayomi-Cole, medical doctor and herbalist.
 * George Bernard Frazer, medical practitioner and gynaecologist.

Football (soccer)
• Sheriff Suma

• Roda Antar

• Sarway Dollar

• Samuel Barlay

• Sidney Kargbo

• Obi Metzger

• Mustapha Sama

• Michael Tommy

• Lamine Conteh

• Muwahid Sesay

• Kewullay Conteh

• Ibrahim Kargbo

• Albert Cole

• Alimamy Sesay

• Christian Caulker

• Albert Jarrett

• Kabba Samura

• Abdul Thompson Conteh

• George Davies

• Mahmadu Alphajor Bah

• Michael Lahoud

• Mehdi Khalil

• Trevoh Chalobah

Other sports

 * Eugenia Osho-Williams, former sprinter and first woman to represent Sierra Leone at the Olympics.
 * Eunice Barber, former athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump.
 * Horace Dove-Edwin, retired sprinter who specialized in the 100-metre dash.
 * Denton Guy-Williams, sprinter at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
 * Josephus Thomas, sprinter at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
 * William Akabi-Davis, sprinter at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
 * Modupe Jonah, middle-distance runner at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
 * Rudolph George, sprinter at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
 * Pierre Lisk, sprinter at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
 * David Sawyerr, sprinter at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
 * Rachel Thompson, middle-distance runner at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
 * B. J. Tucker, American football player of the San Francisco 49ers (NFL)
 * Madieu Williams, American football player of the Cincinnati Bengals
 * Hawanatu Bangura, Sierra Leonean sprinter
 * Israel Cole, boxer at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
 * Joshua Wyse, swimmer at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
 * Frank Williams, cyclist at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
 * Egerton Forster, boxer at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
 * Michael 'Joko' Collier, swimmer at the 1996 Summer Olympics.