This is a list of notable Jamaican British people.
Academia
Kehinde Andrews (born 1983), Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University. He is the first black studies professor in the UK and led the establishment of the first black studies programme in Europe, at Birmingham City. Activist and author. Director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association Robert Beckford (born 1965), Professor of Black Theology at the Queen's Foundation, Birmingham Aggrey Burke (born 1943), President of the Transcultural Psychiatry Society. Vice-chair and a trustee of the George Padmore Institute. Britain's first black consultant psychiatrist, appointed by the National Health Service (NHS) Nira Chamberlain (born 1969), President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He is the first black mathematician to feature in the biographical reference book Who’s Who Patricia Daley, Vice Principle of Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor of Human Geography of Africa at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford Len Garrison (died 2003), educationalist, historian and community activist. He set up ACER (Afro-Caribbean Education Resource) and co-founded the Black Cultural Archives
Alan Powell Goffe, Head of the Department of Experimental Cytology at the Wellcome Research Laboratories, Developed the Polio vaccine and has a strain of the Measels named after him.
Kei Miller (born 1978), Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. Poet, fiction writer, essayist and blogger Donald Palmer (1962), Senior Lecturer in Immunology in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Department of the Royal Veterinary College, London Geoff Palmer (born 1940), Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University. Palmer became Scotland's first black university professor in 1989 Winsome Pinnock (born 1961), Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway College and Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Playwright Leone Ross (born 1969), Senior Lecturer in the Creative Writing department at Roehampton University. Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Novelist, short story writer, editor and journalist Tony Sewell (born 1959), Educational consultant and chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Shirley Thompson, Professor of Music at the University of Westminster
Activism and politics
Diane Abbott (born 1953), Labour MP since 1987. Abbott is Britain’s first black female Member of Parliament, the first black female Shadow Home Secretary and the longest-serving black MP in the House of Commons Shaun Bailey (born 1971), politician and former journalist Frances Batty Shand (died 1885), early charitable activist Dawn Butler (born 1963), Labour MP since 2015. Butler became the first black woman to speak from the despatch box in the House of Commons in December 2009 Betty Campbell (died 2017), Welsh community activist and Wales' first black head teacher Janet Daby (born 1970), politician Barbara Follett (born 1942), politician Henry Gunter (died 2007), civil rights campaigner, trade unionist and the first black delegate to be elected to the Birmingham Trades Council Roy Hackett (died 2022), civil rights campaigner Stuart Hall (died 2014), cultural theorist and political activist. Co-founder of New Left Review He was voted one of the 100 greatest black Britons Paulette Hamilton, member of the Labour Party and Birmingham's first black MP Darren Henry (born 1968), politician Lee Jasper (born 1958), politician and activist; served as Senior Policy Advisor on Equalities to the Mayor of London Sam Beaver King (died 2016), campaigner and Southwark's first black Mayor David Kurten, (born 1971), politician Baroness Lawrence (born 1952), campaigner Harold Moody (died 1947), physician and campaigner who established the League of Coloured Peoples in 1931 Olive Morris (died 1979), community leader and activist in the feminist, Black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns Bill Norris (born 1938), General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003, the first black leader of a major British trade union He was voted one of the 100 greatest black Britons Marvin Rees (born 1972), politician who has served as the Mayor of Bristol. He is the UK’s first directly elected black mayor Patrick Roach (born 1965), NASUWT General Secretary Louis Stedman-Bryce (born 1974), property investor and former politician Patrick Philip Vernon (born 1961), Labour councillor, chair of the Labour Party's Race Equality Advisory Group and political activist James (Jim) Alexander Williams, first (ceremonial) black Lord Mayor of Bristol