Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier (February 16, 1927 – May 25, 1994) was a Sierra Leone Creole diplomat, chief justice of Sierra Leone and educator. His granddaughter is WNBA player Napheesa Collier.
Career
He was called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple Inns of Court, London. When Albert Margai left the Sierra Leone People's Party in 1958, Gershon Collier was one of the supporters and was a member of that People's National Party's first executive committee. In 1961, he became Sierra Leone's first permanent representative to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. On October 16, 1963, he was designated concurrently ambassador in Washington, D.C. war he was concurrently accredited from , until . He got in contact with Gamal Abdel Nasser who became Godparent of his son Gamal. In 1967, Albert Margai arranged his nomination as chief justice of Sierra Leone. However, Albert Margai lost the election in 1967 and Collier lost his office as chief justice. In 1967, Collier migrated to New York City where he took a teaching appointment at New York University. Collier's granddaughter Napheesa Collier won a gold medal in basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.