Notable Residents
- René Depestre, a famous Haitian poet and essayist who fled from the Duvalier dictatorship. He was born in Jacmel. The city is the setting for much of his fictional work.
- Préfète Duffaut - painter
- Michaëlle Jean, later Governor General of Canada, was born in Port-au-Prince to a Jacmel family.
- Magloire Ambroise
- Jørgen Leth, Danish filmmaker, writer and former Danish honorary consul in Haiti.
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