Guyanese Canadians are Canadian citizens of Guyanese descent or Guyana-born persons who reside in Canada.

The following are notable Canadians of Guyanese descent:

Notable Guyanese Canadians

Entertainers

  • Anjulie - singer
  • Dave Baksh - lead guitarist for the band Sum 41 (now Brown Brigade)
  • Deborah Cox - singer
  • Simone Denny - singer
  • Melanie Fiona - singer
  • Keysha Freshh - rapper
  • Nicole Holness - singer and TV host
  • JDiggz - rapper
  • Vaughn Lal - bassist and backing vocalist for band Brown Brigade
  • Rich London - rapper
  • Shakira Baksh - fashion model and actress
  • Maestro Fresh Wes - rapper and actor
  • More or Les - rapper and DJ
  • Saukrates - rapper and hip hop producer
  • Melinda Shankar - actress, television series Degrassi: The Next Generation
  • Eon Sinclair - bassist for the band Bedouin Soundclash
  • Maiko Watson - former member of Sugar Jones
  • Roy Woods - rapper and singer
  • P Reign now known as Preme - rapper
  • Priyanka - drag queen, winner of the first season of Canada's Drag Race

Arts

  • Sonnet L'Abbé - author and poet
  • Yolanda T. Marshall - author

Politics

  • James Douglas - Governor of Vancouver Island and Governor of British Columbia.
  • James W. Douglas - British Columbia MLA
  • Ovid Jackson - former Liberal Party Member of Parliament and former Mayor of Owen Sound
  • Victor Quelch - Social Credit Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Acadia
  • John Rodriguez - former New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Nickel Belt and former Mayor of Sudbury
  • Mark Persaud - Liberal Party of Canada National Executive Liberal Party of Canada - twice elected

Sports

  • Charles Allen - hurdler and sprinter
  • Troy Amos-Ross - boxer
  • Andreas Athanasiou - ice hockey player
  • Natasha Bacchus - deaf athlete
  • Sheridon Baptiste - bobsledder, sprinter, Canadian football player
  • Ian Beckles - American football player
  • Alex Bunbury - soccer player
  • Laura Creavalle - Guyanese-born Canadian/American professional bodybuilder
  • Keevil Daly - weightlifter
  • Ian Danney - bobsledder
  • Nicholas de Groot - first-class cricketer
  • Dwayne De Rosario - soccer player
  • Sunil Dhaniram - first-class cricketer
  • Philip Edwards - Olympic sprinter 1928, 1932, 1936; five-time Olympic medalist
  • Nicolette Fernandes - squash player
  • Gary Holmes - wrestler
  • Lawrence Holmes - wrestler
  • Charmaine Hooper - soccer player
  • Lyndon Hooper - soccer player
  • Priscilla Lopes-Schliep - hurdler
  • Egerton Marcus - boxer
  • Mark McKoy - hurdler
  • Jaime Peters - soccer player
  • Danny Ramnarais - first-class cricketer
  • Quillan Roberts, soccer player
  • Abdool Samad - first-class cricketer
  • Walter Spence - swimmer
  • Paul Stalteri - soccer player
  • Stella Umeh - gymnast

Business

  • Shawn Allen - Founder Matrix Mortgage Global, 2022 Scarborough Walk Of Fame Inductee

Guyanese Canadians by Canadian province or territory (2016)

{| class="wikitable sortable"

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! Province !! Population !! Percentage !! Source

|-

| || 73,360 || 0.6% ||

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| || 3,670 || 0.1% ||

|-

| || 3,095 || 0.1% ||

|-

| || 1,930 || 0.0% ||

|-

| || 1,480 || 0.1% ||

|-

| || 355 || 0.0% ||

|-

| || 185 || 0.0% ||

|-

| || 120 || 0.0% ||

|-

| || 55 || 0.0% ||

|-

| || 10 || 0.1% ||

|-

| || 0 || 0.0% ||

|-

| || 0 || 0.0% ||

|-

| || 10 || 0.0% ||

|-

| || 84,275 || 0.3% ||

|}

See also

  • Guyanese people
  • Caribbean Canadians
  • Indo-Canadians
  • Chinese Canadians
  • Guyanese Americans
  • Guyanese in the United Kingdom

References

  • History of Guyanese Canadians