* Dwight Yorke: Former footballer who played for Manchester United and Trinidad & Tobago.
* Ato Boldon: Former sprinter who won four Olympic medals.
* Hasley Crawford: Former sprinter who won the Olympic gold medal in the 100 meters at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
* Makandal Daaga: Revolutionary leader who led the Cedula de Población of 1783.
* Jean-Baptiste Belley: Former slave who fought in the French Revolutionary Army and helped secure the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
* W. Arthur Lewis: Nobel laureate in economics and former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
* Derek Walcott: Nobel laureate in literature.
* V.S. Naipaul: Writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.
* Samuel Selvon: Writer known for his novels about the lives of West Indian immigrants in Britain.