Mauléart Monton – composer; notable for composing the classic song choucoune (known as yellow bird in the English version) Emerante Morse – singer Richard Auguste Morse – founder of a mizik rasin band, RAM, named after his initials, and famous in Haiti for their political songs Beethova Obas – guitarist Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade (1840–1908) – Haitian classical pianist and music educator J. Perry – singer and songwriter; song Dekole inspired the theme of the 2012 Carnival and was awarded a Gold Disk Plaque Qwote – singer Fabrice Rouzier – pianist, producer, and entrepreneur Sha Money XL – rapper Sweet Micky – singer, politician Webert Sicot – saxophone player, composer and band leader, and one of the creators of compas direct. He renamed the music cadence rampa after he left Nemours' band in 1962. Ti Ro Ro – drummer; known as 'King of the drum' in Haiti André Toussaint – singer and guitarist Won-G Bruny – rapper and entrepreneur Édouard Woolley – tenor, actor, composer, and music educator Naturalists and agronomists John James Audubon – French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (born in Saint-Domingue, the modern-day Haiti) Jean-Baptiste Chavannes – agronomist, awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005 Marilise Neptune Rouzier – biologist and ethnobotanist Jean Wiener – marine biologist, awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 Political figures André Apaid – politician and activist leader of Group 184, which helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide – President of Haiti Prosper Avril – President of Haiti (1988–1990) Jean-Claude Bajeux – political activist and professor of Caribbean literature Marc Bazin – United Nations diplomat and World Bank official Jean-Pierre Boyer – soldier and President of Haiti François Capois – hero of the war of independence Ulrick Chérubin – Canadian politician Bonivert Claude – former governor of the Banque de la République d'Haïti Jean Rénald Clérismé – politician, diplomat, and ambassador Marie-Louise Coidavid – Queen of Haiti (1811–1820) as the spouse of Henri I Philippe Derose – first Haitian elected to public office in the U.S. Emmanuel Dubourg – Canadian politician Thomas-Alexandre Dumas – general in Revolutionary France, the highest-ranking person of color in a continental European army François Duvalier – former President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier – President of Haiti Simone Duvalier – First Lady of the 'Baby Doc' regime Mathieu Eugene – U.S. New York City councilman Jonathas Granville – soldier, diplomat, civil servant, musician and poet. He promoted the emigration