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Adam Stewart. Gordon "Butch" Stewart. George Stiebel, trader and entrepreneur who became Jamaica's first black millionaire. Tom Tavares-Finson, lawyer. Gail Vaz-Oxlade, financial adviser, TV personality. James S. Watson, one of the first Black Americans elected as a judge in the state of New York.
Susan Collins – President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (from July 2022). The first black female to lead a regional Federal bank [57][58] Emma Grede – CEO and co-founder (with Khloe Kardashian) of Good American. Founding partner of Skims. [59] Golden Krust – founded in Jamaica by the Hawthorne family.
Chinese Jamaicans. Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, which include descendants of migrants from China to Jamaica. Early migrants came in the 19th century; there was another moment of migration in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of the descendants of early migrants have moved abroad, primarily to Canada and the United States. [3]
Coromantee, Jamaicans of African descent, Sierra Leone Creoles, Maroon people. Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery in the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the island's mountainous interior, primarily in the eastern parishes. Africans who were enslaved during Spanish rule ...
Culture of Jamaica. Jamaican culture consists of the religion, norms, values, and lifestyle that define the people of Jamaica. The culture is mixed, with an ethnically diverse society, stemming from a history of inhabitants beginning with the original inhabitants of Jamaica (the Taínos). The Spaniards originally brought slavery to Jamaica.
Elroy Josephs (b. 1939, Jamaica; d. 1997), actor and dancer who was the first black dance teacher at a British University Venice Kong (b. 1961, St. Mary, Jamaica), model and actress Ky-Mani Marley (b. 1976, Falmouth, Jamaica), actor and reggae musician
Nanny of the Maroons. Queen Nanny, Granny Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (c. 1686 – c. 1760), was an early-18th-century freedom fighter and leader of the Jamaican Maroons. She led a community of formerly-enslaved escapee slaves, the majority of them West African in descent, called the Windward Maroons, along with their children and ...
Pages in category "Jamaican people of Chinese descent" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. +