List of Guyanese Britons

This is a list of notable Guyanese British people.

John Agard, playwright, poet and children's writer^[1]
Kate Abdo, sports broadcaster
Arif Ali, publisher
Waheed Alli (born 1964) media entrepreneur and politician, Indo-Guyanese father from Guyana^[2]
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, Director of SOAS, University of London, UN representative, and Labour Peer in the House of Lords. Born British Guiana, 1954.
Shaheera Asante, broadcaster, environmental activist Cambridge, United Kingdom, Guyanese mother
Thomas Baptiste, actor.*
Tina Barrett, singer from S Club, Guyanese mother^[3]
Frank Bowling artist. Born British Guiana, 1934.^[4]
Gabrielle Brooks (born 1990), actress
Craig Charles (born 1964), actor, comedian and broadcaster, Guyanese father.
Bob Collymore (1958–2019), Vodafone executive and second CEO of Safaricom
Peter Davison, actor known for All Creatures Great and Small and Doctor Who, Guyanese father^[5]
Nubya Garcia (born 1991) jazz musician, Guyanese mother
Bernie Grant (1944–2000) British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, London, from 1987 to his death in 2000. Born Georgetown, British Guiana^[6]
Eddy Grant (born 1948), Guyanese-born singer and musician^[7]
Eric Huntley (born 1925), activist, publisher and educator. Co-founder of Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications alongside his wife, Jessica Huntley
Jessica Huntley (1927—2013), Community rights activist, political reformer and publisher.
Meiling Jin (born 1956), Guyanese-born writer^[8]
David Lammy (born 1972) Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham. Guyanese mother and father^[9]
Central Cee, (born 1998) UK drill rapper born to Chinese Guyanese father
Hew Locke, contemporary sculptor, son of Guyanese sculptor Donald Locke^[10]
Phil Lynott, frontman of the rock band Thin Lizzy, with an Afro-Guyanese father^[11]
Gina Miller, Guyanese-born business owner known for initiating the 2016 R (Miller and Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union court case against the British government over its authority to implement Brexit without approval from Parliament^[12]^[13]
Grace Nichols (born 1950), poet
Trevor Phillips (born 1953), former UK government equality advisor and broadcaster
Meridian Dan (born 1985), Tottenham-born UK Grime rapper
Jan Lowe Shinebourne (born 1947), Guyanese-born novelist^[14]
Laurie Taitt (1934–2006), Olympic sprint hurdler^[15]
Aubrey Williams (1926–1990) artist. Born Georgetown, British Guiana^[16]
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