The following is a list of notable people from Jamaica. The list includes some non-resident Jamaicans who were born in Jamaica and also people of predominantly Jamaican heritage.
Artists
Carl Abrahams, painter
Hope Brooks, painter
John Dunkley, painter and sculptor
Gloria Escoffery, painter and art critic
Laura Facey, sculptor and installation artist
Christopher González, painter and sculptor
Ras Daniel Heartman, artist
Albert Huie, painter
George "Fowokan" Kelly, sculptor
Edna Manley, painter, sculptor and arts educator
Alvin Marriott, sculptor
Ronald Moody, sculptor; Moody crater on Mercury was named after him
Keith Anthony Morrison, painter, printmaker, educator, critic, curator and administrator Petrona Morrison, sculptor and media artist Ebony G. Patterson, visual artist and educator David Pottinger, painter Mallica Reynolds, painter and sculptor Margaret Rose Vendryes, multimedia artist Barrington Watson, painter Basil Watson, painter and sculptor Donnette Zacca, fine arts photographer, lecturer, and artist
Beauty contest winners
Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976
Carole Joan Crawford, Miss World 1965
Lisa Hanna, Miss World 1993, politician
Toni-Ann Singh, Miss World 2019
Business and Law
Alexander Aikman, printer, publisher, and landowner
Chris Blackwell, president and CEO of Island Records and Palm Pictures, NYC
Morris Cargill, lawyer and businessman
G. Raymond Chang, co-founder of CI Financial and the third chancellor of Ryerson University Alexandra Chong, founder and CEO of Jacana
Tanya Sue Chutkan
Jamaican born American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district court for the District of Columbia. She is the judge oversee the criminal trial of former president Donald Trump over his attempts to overturn the 2020 general election including events leading up to the January 6, 3021 United States Capitol attack
Gloria Cumper, barrister, the first black woman to study at the University of Cambridge Jak Beula Dodd, entrepreneur and inventor of the board game Nubian Jak Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, businessman, farmer and founder of "The Black Farmer" range of food products Renatha Francis, circuit Judge in Palm Beach County, Florida
Alfred Constantine Goffe, The Banana King of Port Maria
Claudia L. Gordon, lawyer, the first deaf black female attorney in the United States Ephraim and Lowell Hawthorne, founders of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery Joseph John Issa, founder of Cool Group Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman/CEO of AIC Limited, Chairman of NCB Jamaica Henry Lowe, owns and manages a variety of businesses in the health industry Val McCalla, accountant and media entrepreneur; he is the founder of The Voice, a British weekly newspaper aimed at the Britain's black community Caroline Newman, entrepreneur and the first black solicitor to be elected to the Council of the Law Society of England and Wales Philip Ernest Housden Pike, barrister and judge who served as the second Chief Justice of Borneo Heather Rabbatts, businesswoman, solicitor and broadcaster; became the youngest council chief in the UK and was the first ethnic minority person to serve as a Football Association director Patrick Lipton Robinson, member of the International Court of Justice Tracy Robinson, lawyer and lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies Lascelles Robotham, lawyer and Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Levi Roots, Chairman of Reggae Reggae Sauce David P. Rowe, lawyer Jewel Scott, first woman and first Caribbean-American District Attorney for Clayton County 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 Dame Sharon White, businesswoman and Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury from 2013 to 2015 She was the first black person, and the second woman, to become a Permanent Secretary at the UK HM Treasury Damian Williams, first African-American U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York