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This is a list of notable Guyanese. This list includes people born in Guyana , notably of Guyanese descent, or otherwise strongly associated to Guyana. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
Suchitra Mattai, Guyanese-born American contemporary artist; Avi Nash, American actor; Priyanka (stage name of Mark Suknanan), Canadian television presenter, drag artist, and winner of Canada's Drag Race Season 1; Sandhja, Finnish singer; Melinda Shankar, Canadian actress; Nandini Sharan, bhajan singer and wife of Hari Om Sharan
Unlike the Afro-Guyanese population, who primarily moved to urban areas when they were emancipated, the Indo-Guyanese maintained ties with agriculture after their indenture ended. By 1917, when the indenture system was abolished, nearly all Indo-Guyanese lived on (or worked for) the sugar estates; in 1939, women made up 31.49 percent [ 16 ...
Pages in category "Feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,833 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Nicole Narain, Playboy model, has an Afro-Guyanese mother and her father, who is of mixed Indo-Guyanese and Chinese-Guyanese descent; Trevor Phillips, British politician; CCH Pounder, Guyanese-born American actress; Joy Reid, American news correspondent for MSNBC, Afro-Guyanese mother; Rihanna, Barbados-born singer/billionaire, Afro-Guyanese mother
Although citizens make up the majority of Guyanese, there is a substantial number of Guyanese expatriates, dual citizens and descendants living worldwide, chiefly elsewhere in the Anglosphere. Located on the northern coast of South America, Guyana is part of the main land Caribbean which is part of the historical British West Indies .