List of people from Freetown

List of people from Freetown

Below is a list of notable people from Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Football (soccer)

*Sheriff Suma
*Roda Antar
*Sarway Dollar
*Samuel Barlay
*Sidney Kargbo
*Obi Metzger
*Alhassan Bangura
*Mustapha Sama
*Michael Tommy
*Lamine Conteh
*Muwahid Sesay
*Kewullay Conteh
*Ibrahim Kargbo
*Albert Cole
*Alimamy Sesay
*Christian Caulker
*Albert Jarrett
*Kabba Samura

Other Sports

*B. J. Tucker, American football player of the San Francisco 49ers (NFL)
*Madieu Williams, American football player of the Cincinnati Begals
*Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump
*Hawanatu Bangura, Sierra Leonean athlete competing in sprinting
*Horace Dove-Edwin, a retired Sierra Leonean sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres

Activist/writer/artist/trade

*Adelaide Casely-Hayford, was a strong advocate, nationalism, and educationist
*Jamil Sahid Mohamed, was a powerful businessman from Sierra Leone who made millions of dollars in diamond trade
*Patricia Piccinini, Australian artist
*Farid Raymond-Anthony, Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet

Musicians

*Emerson
*Reuben Koroma

Politicians

*Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992-1996
*Herbert George-Williams, current mayor of Freetown
*Winstanley Bankole Johnson, former mayor of Freetown
*Andrew Juxon-Smith, former Head of State of Sierra Leone
*John 'Johnny' Taylor, Krio trader during colonial era
*Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings, mayor of Freetown from 1948-1954
*Ade Renner Thomas, current Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
*Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962-1967
*Isaac Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean journalist and a politician
*Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor

military personnel

*Issa Hassan Sesay, served as senior officer in the Sierra Leonean army and commander of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC)
*Brigadier-General Arthur Nelson-Williams, the The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces spokesman
*Brigadier-General Tom Carew was in the Sierra Leonean army and Chief of Defence Staff of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces from April 2000 to November 2003

Actor/actress

*Jeillo Edwards, Sierra Leonean actress


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