Read About 11 Famous People from Trinidad and Tobago; Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles) is a Grammy Award winning popular music performer

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Famous People from Trinidad and Tobago

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Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine MBE (d.1 July 1971) was a Trinidadian-British cricketer, broadcast journalist, administrator, lawyer, and politician.

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Eric Eustace Williams (d. 29 March 1981) was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian.

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Beryl McBurnie (d. March 3, 2000) was a Trinidadian dance legend. She established the Little Carib Theatre, and promoted the culture and arts of Trinidad and Tobago as her life's work. McBurnie helped to promote the cultural legitimacy of Trinidad and Tobago that would ultimately arm its people to handle independence psychologically and healthily. Beryl McBurnie dedicated her life to dance, becoming one of the greatest influences on modern Trinidadian popular culture.

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Hazel Dorothy Scott (d. October 2, 1981) was a jazz and classical pianist and singer.

She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and raised in New York City from the age of four. She performed extensively on piano as a child, then trained at the Juilliard School. She appeared in the production Priorities of 1942 and performed numerous times at the famed Carnegie Hall.

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(Emmanuel) McDonald Bailey was a British athlete, who was born in in Williamsville, Trinidad. He competed for Great Britain in the men's 100 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, where he finished sixth and last in the final, and the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland, where he won the bronze medal.

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Geoffrey Holder is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, director, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist.

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Sir Trevor McDonald OBE is a Trinidadian-born British newsreader and journalist. He is a news presenter with ITN, notable for having been the first black news reader in the UK. He has won more awards than any other British reporter.

McDonald was knighted in 1999 for his services to journalism.

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Rudolph Walker, OBE is a British character actor. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Walker came to the United Kingdom in 1960.

His first major television role was as a policeman in the British drama The Wednesday Play, in the episode titled "Fable" (aired 27 January 1965). He is known for his comedic roles in Love Thy Neighbour, The Thin Blue Line and in Ali G Indahouse. He also appeared in Doctor Who, in the 1969 serial The War Gamesbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb. He was one of the first black actors to be seen regularly on British television, and has always been proud of his role on the controversial Love Thy Neighbour as a result.

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Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles) is a Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the main British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the 1980s. He waited seven years after scoring his first four UK top 20 successes, before accumulating a series of transatlantic successes, including three U.S. number ones.

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Pete Louis Vincent de Freitas (d. 14 June 1989) was a musician and producer, best known as a drummer with Echo & the Bunnymen.

De Freitas was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and educated by the Benedictines at Downside School. He joined the Bunnymen in 1979. He died in a motorcycle accident in 1989 at the age of 27, on his way to Liverpool from London. His ashes are buried in Goring-on-Thames.

His twin sisters Rose and Rachel were founding members of the band The Heart Throbs.

His brother Frank is the bass player of The Woodentops.

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Glenroy John Gilbert (born in Port of Spain) is a Canadian former athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Glenroy Gilbert formed along with Robert Esmie, Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey the best 4x100 m relay team in the mid-1990s.

Gilbert made his debut at the major international championships at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he was 21 in the Long Jump. At the 1990 Commonwealth Games, Gilbert was eighth in long jump and reached to the semifinal as a member of Canadian 4x100 m relay team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Gilbert won his first medal at the 1993 World Championships, when the Canadian 4x100 m relay team finished in a third place. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games, Gilbert won the gold medal in 4x100 m relay and was fifth in 100 m. Gilbert also competed in bobsleigh at 1994 Winter Olympics, where he finished fifteenth in two-man bobsled and eleventh in four-man bobsled.

In 1995, Gilbert won a gold medal in 100 m at the Pan-American Games and was a member of gold medal winning Canadian 4x100 m relay team at the 1995 World Championships.

At the Atlanta Olympics, the Canadian relay team weren't the hot favourites, although they won almost all the titles available during the last couple of years. At the 4x100 m relay final, the Canadian team beat United States by almost half a second, to establish itself the best relay team in the world. Gilbert also reached the quarterfinal of 100m.

Gilbert and the Canadian team won a gold medal again at the 1997 World Championships and at the 1998 Goodwill Games, but again in absence of United States. At the 1999 World Championships the Canadian team were disqualified in semifinal and Gilbert ended his running career after the 2000 Summer Olympics, where the Canadians were eliminated in the semifinal.

After his retirement, Gilbert worked for a short time in CBC radio in Ottawa and is now a coach of Canadian 4x100 m relay team. He is also a coach for the Ottawa Lions Track & Field club, where he coaches sprints and relays.

In 2008 he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as part of the 1996 Summer Olympics 4x100 relay team.

Read About 11 Famous People from Trinidad and Tobago; Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles) is a Grammy Award winning popular music performer

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