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Alpha Lansana

Alpha Sumoi Lansana (born on October 14, 1980 in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean international footballer who currently plays as a defender for Kamboi Eagles in the Sierra Leone National Premier League.

Bai Bureh Warriors

The Bai Bureh Warriors of Port Loko commonly known as Bai Bureh Warriors is a Sierra Leonean professional football (soccer) club based in Port Loko, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone.

Bai Kelfa Sankoh

Bai Kelfa Sankoh is a Sierra Leonean paramount chief representing Kambia District, one of the five districts that make up the Northern Province.

Bindi Hindowa Samba

Bindi Hindowa Samba is a Sierra Leonean paramount chief of Bo District, one of the four districts that make up the Southern Province.

Brima Keita

Brima Keita is a Sierra Leonean football manager; and he is currently the manager of Sierra Leone National Premier League club, Old Edwardians F.C..

Brima Sesay

Brima Sesay (born 27 January 1981 in Kenema, Sierra Leone – died on April 4, 2009) nicknamed Small Attouga, was a Sierra Leonean international goalkeeper.

Chernor Mansaray

Chernor Mansaray (born on February 5, 1976 in Kabala, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean international footballer, who currently plays as a striker for Al-Sekka Al-Hadid, one of Egypt biggest and most popular clubs, and for the Sierra Leone national football team.

Haidara Kontorfilli

Haidara Kontorfilli (born 1890-1931) was a Sierra Leonean charismatic Islamic religious reformer and an anti-colonialist from the Mandingo ethnic group who championed the cause of the rural masses in Kambia in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone.

Hindowa Momoh

Hindowa Batilo Momoh (born in Kailahun, Sierra Leone) is Sierra Leonean former radical youth activist and former President of the National Union of Sierra Leone Students.

John Farrell Easmon

John Farrell Easmon, M.R.C.S. L.M., L.K.Q.C.P., M.D., CMO, (June 30, 1856-June 9, 1900) was a prominent Sierra Leonean Creole doctor in the British Gold Coast who served as Chief Medical Officer during the 1890s.

John Sherington

John Jebbor Sherington is from the Kru tribe and is a retired Sierra Leonean international footballer and the former manager of the Sierra Leonean national football team.

Jusu Sawie

Jusu Q. B. Sawie is a Sierra Leonean politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) who is currently a member of Parliament of Sierra Leone representing Kailahun District.

Sam Sesay

Joseph Sam Sesay (born on November 26, 1959 in Kamasasa, Kambia District) is a Sierra Leonean politician and currently serves as Sierra Leone Minister of Agriculture.

Steady Bongo

lansana Sheriff (born on August 28, 1966 in Daru, Kailahun District, Sierra Leone) popularly known by his stage name Steady Bongo, is an internationally recognized Sierra Leonean musician and record producer.

Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy

Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, formerly known as Pat Maddy (born 27 December 1936, Freetown), is a Sierra Leonean writer, poet, actor, dancer, director and playwright.


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Augustine Gbao

Augustine Gbao also known as Augustine Bao (born 13 August 1948) is a Sierra Leonean former paramilitary commander of the RUF.

Bai Bureh Warriors

The club is named after Bai Bureh, a great Sierra Leonean warrior and military strategist who led the Temne Uprising against the British in 1898.

Brima Bangura

Brima Attouga Bangura (born January 27, 1981 in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean international goalkeeper.

Dele Charley

Raymond Caleb Ayodele "Dele" Charley (27 March 1948, Freetown – 8 May 1993, Freetown) was a Sierra Leonean writer and playwright in English and Krio language.

Gbinti

Amadu Wurie, early Sierra Leonean educationist and politician

Hassan Sesay

Hassan Koeman Sesay (1986–), Sierra Leonean international football player

Hassan Mila Sesay (1987–), Sierra Leonean international football player

Human trafficking in Sierra Leone

In January 2008, the Sierra Leonean Embassy in Conakry received from the Guinean government four Sierra Leonean women whom Guinean authorities suspected of trafficking children to Sierra Leone, and transported them back to Sierra Leone.

John Benjamin

John Oponjo Benjamin (born 1952), Sierra Leonean economist and politician

Julius Maada Bio

Bio and several other Sierra Leonean soldiers, including Captain Valentine Strasser, and Seargon Solomon Musa were deployed to Liberia as part of Sierra Leone’s contribution to ECOMOG.

K-Man

While in Guinea K-Man worked with several prominent Guinean rappers including Bill De Sam and Sierra Leonean-born Guinean reggae musician Daddi Cool.

Kadija

Kadija Sesay, British literary activist, short story writer and poet of Sierra Leonean descent

Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley Cole

Wellesley-Cole is the uncle of Sierra Leonean historian, Victor Okrafo-Smart, who wrote a book on Wellesley-Cole's maternal family history, the Okrafo-Smart family.

Rotifunk

Rotifunk is the birthplace of Sierra Leonean politician, John Karefa-Smart, and writer, John Akar.

St John of God Hospital Sierra Leone

It is the only Sierra Leonean hospital outside of the capital Freetown which has a microbiological department run by the German NGO GLOBOLAB e.V. and is twinned with Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona.

Thomas Dekker

Thomas Leighton Decker (1916–1978), Sierra Leonean poet, linguist, and journalist

Turay

Sitta Umaru Turay (born 1978), Sierra Leonean journalist and member of the editorial board of the Sierra Express newspaper

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1688

It noted that the trial could not take place in the Sierra Leonean capital of Freetown due to security concerns, nor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as it was engaged with other tasks, and that no other tribunal existed in Africa.

Wallace Johnson

I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson, Sierra Leonean and British West African workers' leader