List of people from Freetown

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

Contents 1 Football (soccer) 2 Other Sports 3 Activist/writer/artist/trade 4 Musicians 5 Politicians 6 military personnel 7 Actor/actress

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Musicians

• Emerson
• Reuben Koroma

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Actor/actress

• Jeillo Edwards, Sierra Leonean actress