Bahamians are people originating or having roots from The Bahamas. One can also become a Bahamian by acquiring citizenship.

History

The Lucayan people, the original inhabitants, migrated from Hispaniola and Cuba to settle in the southern islands of the Bahamas around the 11th century CE.

Culture

Religion

Olympic Games

World Championships in Athletics

List

Sidney Poitier, first black man to win an Oscar, first black Bahamian actor to win Best Actor, first black Bahamian actor to be nominated for best actor. Shaunae Miller-Uibo, sprinter, 2016 Olympic 400m champion, and world record holder in 200m straight Buddy Hield, basketball player Klay Thompson, basketball player Rick Fox, three-time NBA champion, owner of Echo Fox Lynden Oscar Pindling, first Prime Minister of the Bahamas. Joseph Robert Love, important pan-African leader of the 19th and 20th century who influenced Marcus Garvey Allan Glaisyer Minns, first black British mayor Bert Williams, first black lead actor on Broadway Deandre Ayton, was ranked number-one high-school basketball player in the USA by scout in 2015 Mychal Thompson, two-time NBA champion and first foreign-born player to be selected as 1st pick in the NBA draft history. Angela Palacious, first woman deacon and priest of the Diocese of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands Yves Edwards, mixed martial artist Kimbo Slice, streetfighter, boxer and mixed martial artist Helen Singer Kaplan, important psychiatrist and sex therapist

Gallery

See also Demographics of the Bahamas Bahamian Americans

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