List of people from Dominica

Commonwealth of Dominica

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

Politics

Presidents

• Nicholas Liverpool
• Charles Savarin
• Clarence Seignoret
• Vernon Shaw
• Crispin Sorhaindo

Prime Ministers

• Dame Eugenia Charles
• Pierre Charles
• Roosevelt Douglas
• Edison James
• Patrick John
• Oliver Seraphin
• Roosevelt Skerrit

Political personalities

• Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1907–86), politician
• Ronald Green, politician
• Edward Oliver LeBlanc, government official
• Emmanuel Christopher Loblack (1898–1995), union leader and politician
• Cecil Rawle (1891–1938), attorney and politician
• Baroness Scotland, former Attorney General for England and Wales

Activists

• Kellyn George

Actors

• Danny John-Jules, of "Red Dwarf" and of "Death in Paradise (TV series)," filmed in Guadeloupe

Media

• Trisha Goddard, host of Trisha
• Moira Stuart, female newsreader on British television and radio, working for the BBC

Musicians

• Bashy
• Nasio Fontaine
• Ophelia Marie
• Swinging Stars
• Windward Caribbean Kulture ("WCK")
• Shakka

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
• Jerome Romain, athlete
• Adam Sanford, cricketer
• Grayson Shillingford, cricketer
• Shane Shillingford, cricketer

Visual artists

• Tam Joseph
• Pauline Marcelle
• Marvin Fabien

Writers

• Phyllis Shand Allfrey, novelist (The Orchid House)
• Trish Cooke, Author (So Much)
• 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)

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