List of Guyanese Canadians

Guyanese Canadians are Canadians of Guyanese descent or Guyana-born persons who reside in Canada.

The following are notable Canadians of Guyanese descent:

Notable Guyanese Canadians

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2021)

Entertainers

• Anjulie - singer
• Dave Baksh - lead guitarist for the band Sum 41 (now Brown Brigade)
• Deborah Cox - singer
• Simone Denny - singer
• Melanie Fiona - singer
• Keysha Freshh - rapper
• Nicole Holness - singer and TV host
• JDiggz - rapper
• Vaughn Lal
  - bassist and backing vocalist for band Brown Brigade
• Rich London - rapper
• Shakira Baksh
  - fashion model and actress
• Maestro Fresh Wes - rapper and actor
• More or Les - rapper and DJ
• Saukrates - rapper and hip hop producer
• Melinda Shankar - actress, television series Degrassi: The Next Generation^[2]
• Eon Sinclair - bassist for the band Bedouin Soundclash
• Maiko Watson - former member of Sugar Jones
• Roy Woods - rapper and singer
• P Reign
  now known as Preme - rapper
• Priyanka - drag queen, winner of the first season of Canada's Drag Race

Arts

• Sonnet L'Abbé - author and poet
• Yolanda T. Marshall - author

Politics

• Governor of British Columbia
  .
• James W. Douglas - British Columbia MLA
• Owen Sound
• Victor Quelch - Social Credit Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Acadia
• Sudbury
• Mark Persaud - Liberal Party of Canada National Executive Liberal Party of Canada - twice elected

Sports

• Charles Allen
  - hurdler and sprinter
• Troy Amos-Ross
  - boxer
• Andreas Athanasiou - ice hockey player
• Natasha Bacchus - deaf athlete
• Sheridon Baptiste - bobsledder, sprinter, Canadian football player
• Ian Beckles - American football player
• Alex Bunbury - soccer player
• Laura Creavalle - Guyanese-born Canadian/American professional bodybuilder
• Keevil Daly - weightlifter
• Ian Danney - bobsledder
• Nicholas de Groot - first-class cricketer
• Dwayne De Rosario - soccer player
• Sunil Dhaniram - first-class cricketer
• Philip Edwards - Olympic sprinter 1928, 1932, 1936; five-time Olympic medalist
• Nicolette Fernandes - squash player
• Gary Holmes - wrestler
• Lawrence Holmes - wrestler
• Charmaine Hooper - soccer player
• Lyndon Hooper - soccer player
• Priscilla Lopes-Schliep - hurdler
• Egerton Marcus - boxer
• Mark McKoy - hurdler
• Jaime Peters - soccer player
• Danny Ramnarais - first-class cricketer
• Quillan Roberts, soccer player
• Abdool Samad - first-class cricketer
• Walter Spence - swimmer
• Paul Stalteri - soccer player
• Stella Umeh - gymnast

Business

• Shawn Allen - Founder Matrix Mortgage Global, 2022 Scarborough Walk Of Fame Inductee

Guyanese Canadians by Canadian province or territory (

2016

)

Province	Population	Percentage	Source
Ontario	73,360	0.6%	[3]
Quebec	3,670	0.1%	[4]
Alberta	3,095	0.1%	[5]
British Columbia	1,930	0.0%	[6]
Manitoba	1,480	0.1%	[7]
Nova Scotia	355	0.0%	[8]
Saskatchewan	185	0.0%	[9]
New Brunswick	120	0.0%	[10]
Newfoundland and Labrador	55	0.0%	[11]
Prince Edward Island	10	0.1%	[12]
Northwest Territories	0	0.0%	[13]
Nunavut	0	0.0%	[14]
Yukon	10	0.0%	[15]
Canada	84,275	0.3%	[16]

See also

• Guyanese people
• Caribbean Canadians
• Indo-Canadians
• Guyanese Americans
• Guyanese in the United Kingdom
• Chinese Canadians

References