The list of Sierra Leone Creole people is an incomplete list of notable individuals of Creole ethnicity and ancestry. The Sierra Leone Creole people, who are also referred to as (), are the descendants of African-Americans, Jamaican Maroons and Liberated Africans who settled in Freetown between 1787 and around 1885.
This list is ordered by category of human endeavour. Persons who have a Wikipedia article containing references showing that they are of Sierra Leone Creole descent, and have made significant contributions in two fields, are listed in both of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy look-up.
Academic figures
Economists
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr (born 1967), economist and chartered accountant
David Omashola Carew, economist and former minister of finance
Noah Arthur Cox-George (1915–2004), professor of economics and dean at Fourah Bay College Omotunde E.G. Johnson (born 1941), economist and senior research associate at the IMF
Educational administrators
Hannah Benka-Coker (née: Luke) (1903–1952), educator and founder of Freetown Secondary School for Girls Henry Rawlingson Carr (1863–1945), administrator and director of education Bertha Conton (1923– 2022), educator, and founder of Leone Preparatory School William Farquhar Conton (1925–2003), historian, author and chief education officer Florence Agnes Dillsworth (1937–2000), former principal of St. Joseph's Convent School and one-time mayor of Freetown Cassandra Garber, former headmistress at Freetown Secondary School for Girls and current president of the Krio Descendants Union Sam Franklyn Gibson (born 1951), educator and one-time mayor of Freetown Lati Hyde-Forster (1911–2001), first African principal of Annie Walsh Memorial School and first female graduate of Fourah Bay College
Engineers
Ogunlade Davidson (1949–2022), senior Fulbright fellow, professor of mechanical engineering and dean at Fourah Bay College Thomas Frederick Hope (1919–1996), first chief engineer, Guma Valley Water Company and first chairman, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated Trudy Morgan (born 1966), first African woman to be awarded a fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Historians
Violet Showers Johnson, professor of history and director of Africana studies at Texas A&M University Florence Peters Mahoney (born 1929), Fulbright professor of African history and first Gambian woman to be awarded a PhD Arthur Daniel Porter III (1924–2019), author, professor of history and university administrator Aaron Belisarius Sibthorpe (c. 1830–1916), nineteenth century historian Akintola Gustavus Wyse (died 2002), author and professor of history at Fourah Bay College
Humanists and political theorists
Nicholas G.J. Ballanta (born: Nicholas Taylor) (1893–1962), musicologist and Guggenheim Fellow, who pioneered the scientific study of the musical conceptions of African people Edward Wilmot Blyden III (1918–2010), political scientist and former dean at Fourah Bay College Reginald Akindele Cline-Cole, author, associate professor and developmental geographer Delia Jarrett-Macauley (born 1958), multi-disciplinary scholar in history, literature and cultural politics who is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Victor Okrafo-Smart, author and genealogical researcher Abiodun Williams (born 1961), professor of practice and former president of The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Legal scholars
James Ayodele Jenkins-Johnston (1946–2017), barrister and legal scholar in Professional Practice and Ethics at the Sierra Leone Law School George Gelaga King (1932–2016), former judge and legal scholar at the Sierra Leone Law School who was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts John Bankole Thompson (1936–2021), judge and former professor in the department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at Eastern Kentucky University
Linguists and literary theorists
Dennis Bright, academic in francophone studies and former director of the Franco-Sierra Leonean Pedagogical Centre Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet, playwright and first author to write in the Krio language Thomas Decker (1916–1978), linguist, poet, and Krio language revisionist Clifford Nelson Fyle (1933–2006), professor of english and co-author of the Krio-English Dictionary Lemuel A. Johnson (1941–2002), poet, literary critic and professor of english at the University of Michigan Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925–2020), linguist, literary critic, university professor and principal of Fourah Bay College Eustace Palmer, literary critic, public orator and professor of english at the University of Texas