The list of Sierra Leone Creole people is an incomplete list of notable individuals of Creole ethnicity and ancestry. The Sierra Leone Creole people, who are also referred to as (), are the descendants of African-Americans, Jamaican Maroons and Liberated Africans who settled in Freetown between 1787 and around 1885., originally published by Longman & Dalhousie University Press (1976).
This list is ordered by category of human endeavour. Persons who have a Wikipedia article containing references showing that they are of Sierra Leone Creole descent, and have made significant contributions in two fields, are listed in both of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy look-up.
Academic figures
Economists Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr (born 1967), economist and chartered accountant David Omashola Carew, economist and former minister of finance Noah Arthur Cox-George (1915–2004), professor of economics and dean at Fourah Bay College Omotunde E.G. Johnson (born 1941), economist and senior research associate at the IMF
Educational administrators Hannah Benka-Coker (née: Luke) (1903–1952), educator and founder of Freetown Secondary School for Girls"Our History" , FSSG Ex-Pupils Association UK. Henry Rawlingson Carr (1863–1945), administrator and director of education Bertha Conton (1923–2022), educator, and founder of Leone Preparatory School William Farquhar Conton (1925–2003), historian, author and chief education officer Florence Agnes Dillsworth (1937–2000), former principal of St. Joseph's Convent School and one-time mayor of Freetown Cassandra Garber, former headmistress at Freetown Secondary School for Girls and current president of the Krio Descendants Union Sam Franklyn Gibson (born 1951), educator and one-time mayor of Freetown Lati Hyde-Forster (1911–2001), first African principal of Annie Walsh Memorial School and first female graduate of Fourah Bay College
Engineers Ogunlade Davidson (1949–2022), senior Fulbright fellow, professor of mechanical engineering and dean at Fourah Bay College Thomas Frederick Hope (1919–1996), first chief engineer, Guma Valley Water Company and first chairman, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated Trudy Morgan (born 1966), first African woman to be awarded a fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Historians Violet Showers Johnson, professor of history and director of Africana studies at Texas A&M University Florence Peters Mahoney (born 1929), Fulbright professor of African history and first Gambian woman to be awarded a PhDDavid Perfect, "Mahoney, Dr. (Asi) Florence Kezia Omolara", Historical Dictionary of The Gambia (Fifth edition), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, p. 281. Arthur Daniel Porter III (1924–2019), author, professor of history and university administrator Aaron Belisarius Sibthorpe (c. 1830–1916), nineteenth century historian Akintola Gustavus Wyse (died 2002), author and professor of history at Fourah Bay College
Humanists and political theorists Nicholas G.J. Ballanta (born: Nicholas Taylor) (1893–1962), musicologist and Guggenheim Fellow, who pioneered the scientific study of the musical conceptions of African people Edward Wilmot Blyden III (1918–2010), political scientist and former dean at Fourah Bay College Reginald Akindele Cline-Cole, author, associate professor and developmental geographer Delia Jarrett-Macauley (born 1958), multi-disciplinary scholar in history, literature and cultural politics who is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Victor Okrafo-Smart, author and genealogical researcher Abiodun Williams (born 1961), professor of practice and former president of The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Legal scholars James Ayodele Jenkins-Johnston (1946–2017), barrister and legal scholar in Professional Practice and Ethics at the Sierra Leone Law SchoolCentral Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, The London Gazette, June 06, 1969; retrieved September 26, 2016 George Gelaga King (1932–2016), former judge and legal scholar at the Sierra Leone Law School who was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts John Bankole Thompson (1936–2021), judge and former professor in the department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at Eastern Kentucky University
Linguists and literary theorists Dennis Bright, academic in francophone studies and former director of the Franco-Sierra Leonean Pedagogical Centre Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet, playwright and first author to write in the Krio language Thomas Decker (1916–1978), linguist, poet, and Krio language revisionist Clifford Nelson Fyle (1933–2006), professor of english and co-author of the Krio-English Dictionary Lemuel A. Johnson (1941–2002), poet, literary critic and professor of english at the University of Michigan Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925–2020), linguist, literary critic, university professor and principal of Fourah Bay CollegeAfrica Who's Who, London: Africa Journal for Africa Books Ltd, 1981, p. 537. Eustace Palmer, literary critic, public orator and professor of english at the University of Texas
Scientists Charles Farrell Easmon (born 1946), professor and clinical director of medical microbiology at St Mary's Hospital Medical SchoolM. C. F. Easmon, "A Nova Scotian Family", Eminent Sierra Leoneans in the nineteenth century (1961) Enid Ayodele Forde (1932–2010), geospatial analyst, chair of the geography department at Fourah Bay College and first Sierra Leonean woman to gain a PhDFlorence Mugambi, Blazing a trail: Women Africanist PhDs, Northwestern Program of African Studies News and Events, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2020). Monty Patrick Jones (born 1961), agronomist, research professor and former minister of agriculture, forestry and food security Tanniemola Liverpool (born 1971), author and professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol Abioseh Davidson Nicol (1925–1994), physician, biomedical researcher, professor and first Sierra Leonean principal of Fourah Bay College
Theologians Edward Fasholé-Luke (born 1934) academic and Anglican theologian Thomas Sylvester Johnson (1873–1955), educator, theologian and former bishop of Sierra LeoneBiographical Dictionary of Christian Missions (1998), by Gerald H. Anderson, W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan Lamina Sankoh (born: Etheldred Jones) (1884–1964), cleric, theologian and philosopher who taught at various historically black colleges in the United States Harry Alphonso Sawyerr (1909–1986), writer and Anglican theologian
Actors and actresses
Paul Barber (born 1951), actor best known for his roles in Only Fools and Horses and The Full Monty Nzinga Christine Blake (born 1981), actress and winner of the Emmy awards for best executive producer Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020), actor and winner of the Golden Globe Awards Jeillo Edwards (1942–2004), actress and graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Idris Elba (born 1972), actor and winner of the BET and Golden Globe Awards Desmond Finney, actor and nominee for the Zafaa Global Film Awards Cornelius Macarthy, actor and winner of the London Independent Film Festival Awards
Aviators and military figures
Tom Carew, Major-General and former chief of defence staff Emmanuel Cole (1907–1972), soldier and hero of the "Gunners Revolt" James Pinson Davies (1828–1906), merchant, former British naval officer and later agronomist known as the pioneer of cocoa farming in West Africa Adesanya Kwamina Hyde (1915–1993), diplomat and former aviator in the Royal Air Force awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for acts of valour and courage Andrew Juxon-Smith (1931–1996), former commander of the armed forces and head of state of Sierra Leone Arthur Nelson-Williams, Brigadier-General and former chief of defence staffJalloh, Tanu. 'Brig. Nelson-Williams is New Chief of Defence Staff'. Concord Times (Freetown), 15 September 2008 Richard Akinwande Savage (1903–1993), medical doctor and first West African to serve as a British Army officer John Clavell Smythe (1915–1996), former Royal Air Force aviation officer, barrister and attorney-general of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser (born 1967), former army officer and head of state of Sierra Leone Emanuel Adeniyi Thomas (1914–1945), first black African to qualify as a pilot and first West African commissioned to serve as a Royal Air Force officer
Beauty pageant winners and models
Tyrilla Gouldson (born 1984), beauty pageant contestant who represented Sierra Leone at the Miss World 2008 Enid Jones-Boston (born 1995), model and beauty pageant contestant who represented Sierra Leone at the Miss World 2019 Twilla Ojukutu-Macauley (born 1967), model and beauty pageant contestant who represented Sierra Leone at the Miss World 1988 Neyorlyn Melrose Williams (born 1991), model and beauty pageant contestant who represented Sierra Leone at the Miss World 2010 Vanessa Williams (born 1990), model and beauty pageant contestant who represented Sierra Leone at the Miss World 2012
Composers
Nicholas G.J. Ballanta (born: Nicholas Taylor) (1893–1962), composer and music scholar Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903–1998), pianist–composer and first female conductor at HMS Royal Marines and the London Symphony OrchestraSadie, Julie Anne and Rhian Samuel. Eds. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan: New York, 1995. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912), composer and conductor best known for his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast Yulisa Amadu Maddy (born: Pat Maddy) (1936–2014), composer, journalist and writerC. Magbaily Fyle, Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone, Scarecrow Press, 2006, p. 114.
Creole-descended families
Awoonor-Renner family Davis family Easmon family Smith family Snowball family
Diplomats
Edward Wilmot Blyden III (1918–2010), diplomat, political scientist and educatorStepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss, Earline Rae Ferguson (eds) Ohio University Press, 2002. Collins O. Bright (born 1917), special envoy and diplomat Adesanya Kwamina Hyde (1915–1993), diplomat and former airman in the Royal Air Force John Ernst Leigh, diplomat and former presidential candidate for the Sierra Leone People's Party Desmond Fashole Luke (1935–2021), diplomat, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and one-time Minister of Health"Luke, Desmond Edgar Fashole, BL, MA", in Africa Year Book and Who's Who, London: Africa Journal Limited, 1976, p. 1225. Abiodun Williams (born 1961), academic, diplomat and former president of The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Entrepreneurs and businesspersons
Richard Beale Blaize (1845–1904), Sierra Leonean-Nigerian businessman, newspaper publisher, financier, and black nationalist James Pinson Davies (1828–1906), merchant, former British Naval officer and later agronomist known as the pioneer of cocoa farming in West Africa John Ezzidio (1810–1872), businessman, politician and pre-municipality era mayor of Freetown Thomas Frederick Hope (1919–1996), first engineer-in-chief, Guma Valley Water Company and first chairman, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated Maximiliano Jones (1871–1944), farmer and millionaireFrom slaving to neoslavery: the bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the era of abolition, 1827–1930; by I. K. Sundiata; Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1996; , ; p.158 Henry Olufemi Macauley (born 1962), businessman with expertise in the oil industries and former Minister of Energy Sir Ernest Dunstan Morgan (1896–1979), pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist Samuel Herbert Pearse, wealthy Nigerian businessman and legislator of Sierra Leone Creole decentWalter H Wills, R J Barrett. The Anglo-African Who's who and Biographical Sketchbook, G. Routledge & sons, 1905. p 127. John 'Johnny' Taylor (died 1898), Sierra Leone Creole merchant during 1898 Hut Tax War John Malamah Thomas (1844–1922), entrepreneur and mayor of Freetown from 1904 to 1912 Samuel Benjamin Thomas (1833–1901), philanthropist, entrepreneur and one of the richest men in 19th-century Africa