Famous Grenadians
Take a look at some of our more famous Grenadians.
Billy Ocean Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Ocean; 21 January 1950)is a British recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s.After scoring his first four UK top 20 successes, seven years passed before he accumulated a series of transatlantic successes, including three U.S. number ones. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit, "Caribbean Queen".
Leslie Hutchinson Leslie Hutchinson Musician, Singer, Composer, Royal Entertainer (1900-1969) A favourite of royals and cabaret goers
Island in the Sun Island in the Sun is a 1957 film that stars an ensemble cast including James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie and Harry Belafonte. The cast includes also Diana Wynyard, Patricia Owens and Stephen Boyd. The film is about race relations and interracial romance set in the fictitious island of Santa Marta. Grenada and arbadoswere selected as the sites for the movie based on the novel by Alec Waugh.
Theophilus Albert Marryshow (1889–1958) is known throughout the British Caribbean as "the Father of Federation."
Eric Matthew Gairy (1922–1997), a labor leader, became the first prime minister of independent Grenada in 1974.
Maurice Bishop (1944–83) ousted Gairy in 1979 and held power as prime minister until his assassination. After the US-led invasion, the task of choosing an interim government fell to the governor-general, Sir Paul Scoon (b. 1935).
Herbert A. Blaize (1919–89) was elected prime minister in 1984; he was Grenada's first chief minister (1957) and its first premier (1967).
Lord Pitt David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead (3 October 1913–14 December 1994) was a civil rights campaigner and was one of the first persons of African descent to sit in the British House of Lords.
T. A Marryshow was born in 1887. Theophilus Albert Marryshow, the late Grenadian and Caribbean statesman, was also a politician, journalist and an orator, who was dubbed the “Father of West Indies Federation.
Kirani James won the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, James won the event in a personal best of 44.60 seconds, becoming the youngest 400m world champion at the age of 18. The medal is the first for Grenada in any event at the World championships in athletics
Lewis Hamilton Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton MBE (born 7 January 1985 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire) is a British Formula One racing driver, currently racing for the McLaren team, and is the youngest ever Formula One World Champion.
Have a famous person or item you'd like to see featured on Grenada's Famous List?