- Co-founder of Choice FM, the UK's first and only licensed, independent black music radio station. Co-founder of the first black British glossy magazine, Root Sam Beaver King - Campaigner and Southwark's first black Mayor Les Ballets Nègres - Europe's first black dance company, founded in 1946 Una Marson - Writer, the first black female radio producer at the BBC Caroline Newman - Best selling author and lawyer, the first black solicitor to be elected to the Council of the Law Society of England and Wales Bill Norris - Britain's first black trade union General Secretary Geoff Palmer - Scientist and inventor of the Barley Abrasion Process. Scotland's' first black university professor Jimmy Peters - Rugby player, England's first black rugby union international Heather Rabbatts - Solicitor, businesswoman and broadcaster. The first female and ethnic minority person to serve as a Football Association director Marvin Rees - Britain's first directly elected black Mayor Jason Robinson - Rugby international, the first black captain of the England national rugby union team. Also the first former professional rugby league player to captain the England rugby union team Tessa Sanderson - Athlete, the first and only British woman to win gold at an Olympic throwing event, and the first black British woman ever to win Olympic gold Mary Seacole - Nurse and businesswoman, voted number one in the list of 100 Great Black Britons Alex Scott - Sports presenter, pundit and footballer. The first female football pundit at a World Cup for the BBC, the first female pundit on Sky Sports Super Sunday, and the first female to be a permanent presenter of Football Focus Ethel Scott - Athlete, the first black woman to represent Great Britain in an international athletics competition Clive Sullivan - Rugby league player, the first black captain for a Great Britain team, in any sport Dame Sharon White - Businesswoman, the first black person, and the second woman, to become a Permanent Secretary at the HM Treasury James (Jim) Alexander Williams - Bristol's first (ceremonial) black Lord Mayor See also Black British Black British population British Mixed British Indo-Caribbean community British African-Caribbean community Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom Jamaicans of African ancestry List of Jamaican British people References External links UK Caribbean Community site Jamaican Jamaican Jamaica Jamaican diaspora