List of people of Dominica

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This is a list of notable people from the Commonwealth of Dominica.

Contents 1 Politicians 1.1 Presidents 1.2 Prime Ministers 1.3 Political Party leaders 1.4 Past figures 2 Writers and historians 3 Musicians 4 Television personalities 5 Religious personalities 6 Other

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Presidents

• Sir Clarence Seignoret
• Sir Crispin Sorhaindo
• Vernon Shaw
• Nicholas Liverpool (current President)

[edit] Prime Ministers

• Dame Eugenia Charles (first woman Prime Minister of the Caribbean)
• Pierre Charles
• Rosie Douglas
• Edison James
• Patrick John
• Roosevelt Skerrit (incumbent)

[edit] Political Party leaders

• Roosevelt Skerrit - Dominica Labour Party
• Earl Williams - United Workers' Party

[edit] Past figures

• C.E.O. Rawle (born in Trinidad)
• Edward Oliver LeBlanc
• Patrick John
• Emmanuel Christopher Loblack

[edit] Writers and historians

(with notable books listed)

• Phyllis Shand Allfrey([The Orchid House]])
• Alec Waugh (Island in the Sun)
• Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea)
• Lennox Honychurch (The Dominica Story)
• Irwin Andre (Distant Voices)
• Juliana T. Magloire (The Sea Hawk)

[edit] Musicians

• Scrunter and Hunter, two famous calypsonians of the 1990s
• Gregory Rabess
• Swinging Stars
• Levi Loblack
• Music Lovers Band
• Michele Henderson

[edit] Television personalities

• Lennox Linton (host of What About...!)
• Nazarine Gordon (anchor of Marpin Evening News)
• Tim Durand (anchor of Marpin Evening News)

[edit] Religious personalities

• Brother Egbert Germain (former principal of Saint Mary's Academy)
• Gilbert Malzaire (current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church)
• Arnold Bogehart (Catholic Bishop from 1975 until 1993)

[edit] Other

• Fred White (whose amateur radio served as Dominica's only form of communication in the aftermath of 1979's Hurricane David)
• Phillip DeFreitas cricketer born in Dominica who subsequently played for the England cricket team.