at the time of arrival of Christopher Columbus Sanité Bélair – freedom fighter and revolutionary; sergeant in the army of Toussaint Louverture Georges Biassou – rebel slave Tony Bloncourt – communist who joined the French Resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II Rosalvo Bobo – nationalist leader who opposed the U.S. Invasion Dutty Boukman – slave who was one of the most visible early leaders of the Haitian Revolution Pauline Brice-Thézan – liberal advocator Luckner Cambronne – head of the Tonton Macoutes; known as the "Vampire of the Caribbean" for his profiting from the sale of Haitian blood and cadavers to the West for medical uses Raymond Cassagnol (fr) – World War II fighter pilot, one of five Haitian members of the Tuskegee Airmen Jean-Baptiste Chavannes – Haitian soldier and abolitionist Cécile Fatiman – Vodou priestess and a figure of the Haitian Revolution Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité – Empress of Haiti (1804–1806) as the spouse of Jean-Jacques Dessalines Catherine Flon – sewed the first Haitian flag Guy François – colonel of the armed forces of Haiti, accused of conspiring to overthrow the government in 1989 and 2001 Jean François – rebel slave Michel François – Haitian army colonel who plotted a coup d'etat Alice Garoute – Haitian suffragist and women's rights advocate, a founder of Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale (Feminine League for Social Action) Victoire Jean-Baptiste – Haitian politician de facto, mistress to President Florvil Hyppolite Jeannot – rebel slave Marie-Madeleine Lachenais – first First Lady of Haiti, married to Alexandre Pétion Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche – engineer and passenger on the ill-fated RMS Titanic Adélina Lévêque – Empress Consort of Haiti, 1849–1859, as wife of Faustin I Abner Louima – victim of assault and sexual abuse in 1997 by officers of the New York City Police Department Macaya – traitor François Mackandal – houngan (Vodou priest) and rebel slave leader Étienne Mentor – Martinique-born politician who represented Saint-Domingue in the Council of Five Hundred Clairvius Narcisse – man said to have been turned into a living zombie by a combination of drugs Alix Pasquet – World War II fighter pilot, one of five Haitian members of the Tuskegee Airmen Charlemagne Péralte – nationalist leader who opposed the U.S. Invasion Gérard Pierre-Charles – politician and former leader of the Unified Party of Haitian Communists Jean Baptiste Point du Sable – founder of Chicago, born in Saint-Domingue, the modern-day Haiti Marie