List of Famous people born in Jamaica
Coleridge Goode
George Coleridge Emerson Goode was a British Jamaican-born jazz bassist best known for his long collaboration with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott. Goode was a member of Harriott's innovatory jazz quintet throughout its eight-year existence as a regular unit (1958–65). Goode was also involved with the saxophonist's later pioneering blend of jazz and Indian music in Indo-Jazz Fusions, the group Harriott co-led with composer/violinist John Mayer.
Martine Beswick
Martine Beswick is an English actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films, From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), who went on to appear in several other notable films in the 1960s.
Alexander J. Dallas
Alexander James Dallas was an American statesman who served as the U.S. Treasury Secretary under President James Madison.
Dionne Rose-Henley
Dionne Rose-Henley was a Jamaican athlete who specialised in the high hurdles. She competed at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, finishing fifth at her second Games.
Tarania Clarke
Tarania Caresh Clarke was a Jamaican footballer who played as a midfielder for Waterhouse F.C. and the Jamaica women's national team. She also represented Jamaica on the under-17 and under-20 national teams.
Tremaine Stewart
Tremaine Stewart was a Jamaican professional footballer who played as a forward or winger.
Pat Kelly
Horatious Adolphus "Pat" Kelly was a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer, whose career began in the mid-1960s. He recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the vocal group the Techniques.
Dobby Dobson
Highland Ralph Dobson OD was a Jamaican reggae singer and record producer, nicknamed "The Loving Pauper" after one of his best known songs.
Evan Parke
Evan Dexter O'Neal Parke is a Jamaican-born American actor perhaps best known for his role as Hayes in King Kong. Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, he was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and then on Long Island. He attended Cornell University where he majored in economics and was initiated into the Iota Phi chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity in 1989.
Beverly Ranger
Beverly Ranger is a Jamaican former footballer who played professionally in Germany during the 1970s. She had a short spell in Serie A with Lazio in 1977, but was not happy in Italy and returned to Germany.