heritage Peter-Lee Vassell, professional footballer Melaine Walker, sprinter, 400m Olympic record holder (Beijing 2008) Courtney Walsh, cricketer Nicholas Walters, professional boxer, former WBA (Super) World Featherweight champion Devon White, baseball player Theodore Whitmore, former professional footballer, coach Arthur Wint, OD MBE, Olympic former 400m gold medalist Others Diane Abbott, first female member of the African-Caribbean community to be elected to the UK House of Commons in 1987 Hope Arthurine Anderson, national chess champion and Olympian Emily Rose Bleby (1849-1917), temperance reformer Dawn Butler, Labour MP since 2015. Butler became the first black woman to speak from the despatch box in the House of Commons in December 2009 Alan Eyre, geographer and environmentalist Michael Fuller, Britain's first black Police Chief Constable and Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) St. William Grant, trade unionist and activist Henry Gunter, civil rights campaigner, trade unionist and the first black delegate to be elected to the Birmingham Trades Council Stuart Hall, cultural theorist, political activist and co-founder of New Left Review Thomas Duffus Hardy, archivist and antiquary Donald J. Harris, economist Lenford "Steve" Harvey, AIDS activist Barrington Irving, pilot who previously held the record for the youngest person to pilot a plane around the world solo Baroness Lawrence, campaigner Ian McKnight, founder of Jamaica AIDS Support for LIFE (JASL) Bill Morris, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003, and became the first black leader of a major British trade union. Colin Powell, politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American Secretary of State Roxroy Salmon, Jamaican-American immigration activist See also List of Jamaican British people List of Jamaican Americans List of Jamaican Jews References