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The White population would dramatically decrease during the 1800s, making up only 4% of the population at a peak. [8] According to the 2011 Census of Population and Housing for Jamaica, 0.2% of Jamaica's population is considered White. Over half of the White population lives in the Saint Andrew Parish. [9]
Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War; Jean Springer, Jamaican mathematics professor; Garth Taylor, Jamaican ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian; Manley West, Jamaican pharmacologist who developed a treatment for glaucoma
Founder of the Jamaica Gleaner [111] Brian A. Cunningham – member of the New York State Assembly [112] Alexander J. Dallas (1759–1817) – United States Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison [113] Claudia L. Gordon – Associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Angella Reid, White House Chief Usher and Ritz-Carlton hotel manager; Junior Reid, reggae singer; Sanya Richards-Ross, Olympic gold medalist and world champion in track and field; Hazelle P. Rogers, politician; U-Roy, pioneer of toasting; Ricky Sappleton, footballer for Cheshunt; Mary Seacole, medical pioneer; Shaggy, reggae singer; Winsome ...
White Caribbean or European Caribbean is the term for people who are born in the Caribbean whose ancestors are from Europe or people who emigrated to the Caribbean from Europe and had acquired citizenship in their respective Caribbean countries. White Caribbean people include:
White was a founding member of The Jamaican Folk Singers, [1] and trained at the Jamaican School of Music. In a visit to Jamaica, Evelyn Rothwell, the oboist and wife of conductor Sir John Barbirolli, heard him sing and suggested that he go to study in London. Instead, his father bought him a one-way ticket to New York City, because "the flight ...
Elroy Josephs (b. 1939, Jamaica; d. 1997), actor and dancer who was the first black dance teacher at a British University Venice Kong (b. 1961, St. Mary, Jamaica), model and actress Ky-Mani Marley (b. 1976, Falmouth, Jamaica), actor and reggae musician
This is a list of Jamaican writers, including writers either from or associated with Jamaica ... Heather Little-White (1952–2013) Edward Long (1734–1813) M.