List of people from Freetown
Below is a list of notable people from Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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
Actors/actresses
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 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
Musicians
Politicians
- Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992-1996
- Herbert George-Williams, former 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
- Siaka Probyn Stevens, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 21 April 1971 – 28 November 1985
- Ernest Bai Koroma Is the current Head of State of Sierra Leone and the fourth since 2007
- Joseph Saidu Momoh, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1985 - 1992.
- Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, third Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007.
- Major Johnny Paul Koroma Was the Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1997 to 1998.
Science/Medicine
Sports
Football (soccer)
- Sheriff Suma
- Roda Antar
- Sarway Dollar
- Samuel Barlay
- Sidney Kargbo
- Obi Metzger
- Mustapha Sama
- Michael Tommy
- Lamine Conteh
- Muwahid Sesay
- Kewullay Conteh
- Ibrahim Kargbo
- Albert Cole
- Alimamy Sesay
- Christian Caulker
- Albert Jarrett
- Kabba Samura
- Abdul Thompson Conteh
- George Davies
- Mahmadu Alphajor Bah
- Michael Lahoud
- Mehdi Khalil
- Trevoh Chalobah
Other sports
- B. J. Tucker, American football player of the San Francisco 49ers (NFL)
- Madieu Williams, American football player of the Cincinnati Bengals
- Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean track and field athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump
- Hawanatu Bangura, Sierra Leonean sprinter
- Horace Dove-Edwin, a retired Sierra Leonean sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres
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