She was a dancer, actress, teacher and beauty queen, served as a volunteer member of the Guyana National Service around 1976 and was part of the Messenger Group promoting ‘Coolie’ art forms at a time when Indo-Guyanese culture was virtually excluded from national life.
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Suns In My Blood (1945) contained at least three poems that have come to be considered classics: "Sun Is a Shapely Fire", "There Runs a Dream", and "The Legend of Kaieteur" (this last poem was later set to music by the Guyanese composer Philip Pilgrim).
David A. Granger (born 1945), Guyanese, Commander of the Guyana Defence Force, 2011 PNC presidential candidate
Sir Fenton Ramsahoye QC (born 20 May 1929) is a Guyanese lawyer and politician who served for over twenty years in Antigua and Barbuda.
In 1986, a Guyanese student, known to the world only as “C.S.”, met him at a subway station in the Queens borough of New York.
Additionally, the Indo-Caribbean population has grown rapidly in the Floridian cities of Tampa, Orlando (a large concentration of Guyanese from New York have migrated here), Fort Lauderdale, Port Saint Lucie, Coral Springs, Margate, North Lauderdale (more than 1% of residents in the city were born in Trinidad & Tobago), Sunrise, Plantation, Pompano Beach and Pembroke Pines.
Jason Miskiri (born August 19, 1975, in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese professional basketball player.
He was part of a team under UNESCO Consultant and Broadcast Executive Hugh Cholomondeley of Guyana, and including fellow Trinidadian broadcaster Dik Henderson, Guyanese broadcaster Ron Saunders, and Guyanese diplomat Evan Drayton, responsible for promoting the Caribbean integration movement.
He won the Guyanese national chess championship in 2007, beating players such as Ronuel Greenidge and Learie Webster in the 18-round tournament with a total of 15 points.
Bunbury was born in Hamilton, Ontario to an Grenadine/Scottish American mother, Kristi, and Guyanese-born Canadian Alex Bunbury, a professional soccer player who won the sixth most caps all time for the Canadian men's soccer team.
She staged her first show in the early 1970s when there was considerable resistance within the ruling PNC to regard Indo-Guyanese culture as being truly Guyanese.
The character's voice was provided by Guyanese actor and singer Cy Grant, on whom the puppet's appearance was based.
Similarly, because of its nature as live theatre rather than as published scripts, his important work, first with fellow Guyanese Ken Corsbie in Dem Two, then in All Ah We, which added John Agard and Henry Muttoo, has largely vanished from the record, if not the memory of those who witnessed them.
and received a Master of Philosophy degree in 1967, the focus of which concerned the poetry of the French Guyanese writer Léon Damas.
Progressive Youth Organisation of Guyana, a wing of the Guyanese People's Progressive Party (PPP)
Nezam Hafiz (1969–2001), Guyanese-American cricketer, killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City.
Rosignol United is a Guyanese football club based in Berbice that competes in the GFF National Super League, the top tier of Guyanese football.
Roy A(ubrey) K(elvin) Heath (13 August 1926 – 14 May 2008) was a Guyanese writer, most noted for his "Georgetown Trilogy" of novels (also published in an omnibus volume as The Armstrong Trilogy, 1994), consisting of From the Heat of the Day (1979), One Generation (1980), and Genetha (1981).
Ruth Thorne's paternal Grandfather was Alfred P. Thorne Alfred P. Thorne a Guyanese-Bajan international economist who devoted his life's work to researching the mechanics of perpetuated poverty.
Sipaliwini district has seen occasional fighting between Guyanese and Surinamese troops over border disputes in the south-west so called Tigri Area of the Coeroeni resort.
His younger brother, Robert Corbin, is the current leader of the People's National Congress Reform (PNCR), the main Guyanese opposition political party.
With the completion of the Berbice Bridge in December 2008, and the earlier completion of the Coppename Bridge in 1999, the Courantyne River is the only river between the Guyanese capital of Georgetown and the Surinamese capital of Paramaribo still left without a bridge.
Surama village extends across 12.95 squared kilometres (5 square miles) of land, and is located in a valley on the border of the Guyanese rainforest and the North Rupununi savannahs.
Khan has been described by noted Guyanese chess player and head of the Guyana Chess Federation, Errol Tiwari, as, "a person serious about his games, coming from a family of chess players and may have been the reason why he won 14 games and will be moving on to the senior level for the second tournament".
T. Ras Makonnen, Guyanese-born activist, whose birth name was Thomas Griffiths
The son of Guyanese writer Roy Heath, Rohan was the driving force behind the group as the keyboardist, writer and producer of their music.