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Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan (January 12, 1884 – November 5, 1933) was an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. Born in Texas to Irish immigrant parents, Guinan decided at an early age to become an entertainer.
Aubrey Cummings (1947-2010), Guyana-born Barbadian musician; Central Cee (born 1998), English rapper of Guyanese and Chinese ancestry; Leona Lewis (born 1985), English singer of Guyanese descent; Lynette Dolphin (1916–2000), musician, educator, chair of the Guyana Department of Culture; Rudolph Dunbar (1907–1988), conductor, composer, musician
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
Guyana is home to people of many different national, ethnic and religious origins. As of 2019, there are 231,649 Guyanese Americans currently living in the United States. The majority of Guyanese live in New York City – some 140,000 – making them the fifth-largest foreign-born population in the city.
As a result of Guyana's 170-year history as a British colony, it is a part of the Anglophone world and part of the Anglophone Caribbean – a subregion of the Caribbean consisting of independent, English-speaking nations that were once British colonies (also known as the Commonwealth Caribbean).
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Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana, 1980-1985; Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow, father of the trade union movement in British Guiana; Cuffy, leader of the Berbice slave uprising; Karen de Souza (born 1958), women and children's activist; Jack Gladstone, leader of the Demerara rebellion of 1823; David A. Granger, President of Guyana
Cheddi Jagan, former President of Guyana, dentist, and the Father of the Nation; Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President of Guyana, former President of Guyana, and former Prime Minister of Guyana; Syed Kamall, British MEP for London 2005 - 2019; Edward Luckhoo, politician and Governor-General of British Guiana and Acting President of Guyana