List of Indo-Guyanese people

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The following is a list of prominent Indo-Guyanese people.

## Notable Indo-Guyanese

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### Politics

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Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana from 1992 to 1997

* Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana
* Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, life peer in the British House of Lords
* Mohabir Anil Nandlall, Attorney, politician.
* Shaik Baksh, Minister of Education
* Isahak Basir, Member of Parliament
* Vickram Bharrat, politician
* Ranji Chandisingh, former Vice President of Guyana
* Vincent Teekah, former PYO Chairman, Minister of Education and Culture.
* Ronald Gajraj, politician
* Cheddi Jagan, former President of Guyana, dentist, and the Father of the Nation
* Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President of Guyana, former President of Guyana, and former Prime Minister of Guyana
* Syed Kamall, British MEP for London 2005 - 2019
* Edward Luckhoo, politician and Governor-General of British Guiana and Acting President of Guyana
* Lionel Luckhoo, politician and lawyer
* Gina Miller, British lawyer who took the UK Government to court over its handling of Brexit negotiations
* Manzoor Nadir, Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana
* Moses Nagamootoo, former Prime Minister of Guyana
* Sase Narain, former Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana
* Shiw Sahai Naraine, former Vice President of Guyana and engineer
* Reepu Daman Persaud, former Vice President of Guyana and Hindu pandit
* Balram Singh Rai, politician
* Khemraj Ramjattan, former Vice President of Guyana and former Minister of Public Security
* Shridath Ramphal, former Commonwealth Secretary General
* Deolatchmee Ramotar, former First Lady of Guyana
* Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana
* Bishwaishwar Ramsaroop, former Vice President of Guyana
* Peter Ramsaroop, politician
* Kayman Sankar, politician and rice farmer
* Mohamed Shahabuddeen, former Vice President of Guyana and judge
* Doodnauth Singh, former Attorney General of Guyana
* Lutchman Sooknandan, former Director of Public Prosecutions of Belize and Honorary Consul of Guyana in Belize
* Tara Singh Varma, Dutch politician
* Mark Persaud, Lawyer Twice elected to the National Executive of Liberal Party of Canada

### Academics

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* David Dabydeen, professor at the University of Warwick and historian
* Clem Seecharan, professor and Caribbean historian
* Bertrand Ramcharan, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
* Bishnodat Persaud, professor at the University of the West Indies and former Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat
* Jamal Deen, Distinguished University Professor, McMaster University, Canada.
* Adam Rutherford, Geneticist and science populariser, University College London.
* Katharine Birbalsingh, teacher and education reform advocate.

### Business

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* Stanley Praimnath, bank executive and survivor of the September 11 attacks

### Medicine

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* Deborah Persaud, virologist, named among the world's most influential people in the Time 100 in 2013

### Arts and entertainment

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* Raymond Ablack, Canadian actor
* Anjulie, Canadian singer-songwriter
* Gaiutra Bahadur, writer
* Dave Baksh, lead guitarist of the Canadian band Sum 41 (also plays with Brown Brigade)
* Shakira Caine, actress, fashion model, and former Miss Guyana
* Mahadai Das, poet
* Rhona Fox, actress
* Terry Gajraj, chutney singer
* Emma Heming, Maltese model
* Harischandra Khemraj, writer
* Laxmi Kallicharan, writer
* Isabella Laughland, British actress
* Suchitra Mattai, Guyanese-born American contemporary artist
* Avi Nash, American actor
* Priyanka (stage name of Mark Suknanan), Canadian television presenter, drag artist, and winner of Canada's Drag Race Season 1
* Sandhja, Finnish singer
* Melinda Shankar, Canadian actress
* Nandini Sharan, bhajan singer and wife of Hari Om Sharan
* "Princess Anisa" Singh, chutney-soca singer
* Shana Yardan, poet
* Gordon Warnecke, British actor
* Jacob Scipio, British actor

### Sports

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul

* Andreas Athanasiou, Canadian NHL player for the Chicago Blackhawks
* Faoud Bacchus, West Indian cricketer
* Shivnarine Chanderpaul, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
* Narsingh Deonarine, West Indian cricketer
* Rohan Kanhai, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
* Alvin Kallicharran, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
* Mahendra Nagamootoo, West Indian cricketer
* Kriskal Persaud, chess player
* Harry Prowell, Marathon Olympian and British West Indies Champion in long-distance running
* Mark Ramprakash, former England cricket player
* Ramnaresh Sarwan, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
* Dhanraj Singh, boxer
* Devendra Bishoo, West Indian cricketer
* Beni Sankar, businessman and former cricket player
* Nezam Hafiz, cricketer and victim of the September 11 attacks
* Paul Stalteri, former soccer player

### Religion and philosophy

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* Maya Tiwari, Hindu spiritual teacher
* Shabir Ally, Muslim imam

### Criminality

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* Shaheed "Roger" Khan, druglord and head of Phantom Squad

## References

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