List of Jamaican Maroons
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This is a list of notable individuals of Jamaican Maroon ancestry.
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, current mayor of Freetown
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- Adelaide Casely-Hayford, activist, nationalist and fiction writer
- Gladys Casely-Hayford, first author to write in the Krio language
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- Doris Darlington, one of Jamaica's first sound system operators, and a force in the development of ska, rocksteady and reggae music
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- Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon, medical doctor
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- Thomas Frederick Hope, engineer and entrepreneur
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- Colin Jackson, former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles
- Albert Jarrett, footballer who last played for Dulwich Hamlet and has represented the Sierra Leone national football team
- Constance Agatha Cummings-John, first woman to serve as mayor of Freetown
- Eldred Durosimi Jones, academic and literary critic
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- Timothy E. McPherson Jr., Jamaican economist
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- Suzanne Packer, actress known for playing the role of Tess Bateman in the BBC medical drama Casualty
- Arthur Thomas Porter, academic and historian