Artists and Writers
- Faisal Abdu'Allah visual artist
- Alecia McKenzie, writer
- Andrew Salkey, writer
- Anthony McNeill, poet
- Aston Cooke, playwright, artistic director
- Barry Reckord, playwright
- Brian Meeks, novelist
- Carl Abrahams, painter
- Carolyn Cooper, writer and cultural theorist
- Claude McKay, writer
- Claudia Rankine, poet
- Colin Channer, novelist, co-founder of Calabash
- Dennis Scott, poet and playwright
- Edna Manley, sculptor
- Edward Baugh, poet
- Erna Brodber, novelist
- Esther Anderson, actress, photographer, filmmaker
- Geoffrey Philp, writer
- Glen Carty, technology writer
- Grace Jones, model, actor, artist
- Honor Ford-Smith, artist, writer, performer, educator
- Jean "Binta" Breeze, poet
- John Figueroa, poet
- John Hearne, novelist
- Kei Miller, writer
- Kwame Dawes, Ghana-born writer, co-founder of Calabash
- Leone Ross, novelist, editor, short story writer, journalist, academic
- Linton Kwesi Johnson, dub poet
- Lloyd Reckord, actor, producer, director, paywright
- Lorna Goodison, writer
- Louis Marriott, playwright, actor, director, journalist
- Louise Bennett-Coverly, poet
- Madge Sinclair, actress
- Malachi Smith, poet
- Marcus Garvey, political activist
- Margaret Cezair-Thompson, novelist
- Mervyn Morris, poet
- Michael Thelwell, writer
- Michelle Cliff, writer
- Mona Hammond, actress
- Morris Cargill, journalist
- Mutabaruka, poet
- Oku Onuora, writer
- Olive Senior, writer
- Opal Palmer Adisa, writer
- Pamela Colman Smith, artist and writer
- Pamela Mordecai, poet
- Patricia Powell, novelist
- Patrick Brown, writer, director
- Perry Henzell, writer, director
- Peter Williams, actor
- Roger Mais, novelist
- Ryan Fraser writer
- Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress, singer
- Staceyann Chin, poet and writer0
- Stephen Hopkins, film director well known for "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child," 24, Predator 2, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and other popular films.
- Sylvia Wynter, writer
- Thomas Duffus Hardy, historian
- Thomas Glave, Bronx-born writer
- Una Marson, writer, broadcaster
- Vere Johns, writer, broadcaster, actor
- Victor Stafford Reid, writer
- Yvonne Brewster, theatre director
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