List of people from Freetown

Below is a list of notable people from Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Football (soccer)

B. J. Tucker, American football player of the San Francisco 49ers (NFL)
Madieu Williams, American football player of the Cincinnati Bengals
Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean track and field athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump
Hawanatu Bangura, Sierra Leonean sprinter
Horace Dove-Edwin, a retired Sierra Leonean sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres

Adelaide Casely-Hayford, was a strong advocate, nationalism, and educationist
Jamil Sahid Mohamed, was a powerful businessman from Sierra Leone who made millions of dollars in diamond trade
Patricia Piccinini, Australian artist
Farid Raymond-Anthony, Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet

Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992-1996
Herbert George-Williams, former mayor of Freetown
Winstanley Bankole Johnson, former mayor of Freetown
Andrew Juxon-Smith, former Head of State of Sierra Leone
John 'Johnny' Taylor, Krio trader during colonial era
Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings, mayor of Freetown from 1948-1954
Ade Renner Thomas, current Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962-1967
Isaac Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean journalist and a politician
Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor
Siaka Probyn Stevens, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 21 April 1971 – 28 November 1985
Jongopie Stevens, Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the people republic of Germany October 2007 – present
Bockarie Kortu Stevens,Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the United States October 2007 – present
Ernest Bai Koroma Is the current Head of State of Sierra Leone and the fourth since 2007
Joseph Saidu Momoh, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1985 - 1992.
Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah,the third Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007.
Major Johnny Paul Koroma Was the Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1997 to 1998.

Issa Hassan Sesay, served as senior officer in the Sierra Leonean army and commander of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC)
Brigadier-General Arthur Nelson-Williams, the The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces spokesman
Brigadier-General Tom Carew was in the Sierra Leonean army and Chief of Defence Staff of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces from April 2000 to November 2003

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