Sierra Leone

This page lists 567 biographies of sierra leones, covering lives from 1763 to 2008. Featuring Zainab Hawa Bangura, Ernest Bai Koroma and Ishmael Beah. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People of this nationality

Akintola J.G. Wyse

1901 – 2002

writer

Christiana Thorpe

b. 1949

politician

Momodu Koroma

b. 1956

politician

Abdul Koroma

b. 1943

judge

Solomon Bockarie

b. 1990

athletics competitor

John Keister

b. 1988

association football player

Priscilla Schwartz

b. 1967

politician

Sheka Tarawalie

b. 1901

journalist

Bindi Hindowa Samba

politician

Augustine Williams

b. 1997

association football player

Ibrahim Bah

b. 1969

association football player

Isha Johansen

b. 1965

businessperson

Nancy Steele

1923 – 2001

politician

Mike Lamin

b. 1960

politician

Amadu Wurie

1898 – 1977

politician

Sia Kamanor

b. 1977

sprinter

Sheriff Suma

b. 1986

association football player

Tamba Kaingbanja

politician

Mohamed Kabia

b. 1988

association football player

Henry Olufumi Macauley

b. 1962

politician

Aminata Adialin Bangura

b. 1994

beauty pageant contestant

Alice Koroma

1932 – 2012

politician

Gibril Massaquoi

b. 1969

soldier

Mohamed Bangura

b. 1959

boxer

Ibrahim Khalil Tahini

b. 1987

association football player

Edward Tamba Charles

b. 1956

Catholic priest

Albert Cole

b. 1981

association football player

Chernor Maju Bah

b. 1972

politician

Enid Jones-Boston

b. 1995

beauty pageant contestant

Albert Joe Demby

1934 – 2021

politician

Mohamed Camara

b. 1981

association football player

Moustapha Bangura

b. 1989

association football player

Asmaa James

b. 1950

journalist

Lamina Sankoh

1884 – 1964

banker

Edward Fasholé-Luke

b. 1934

theologian

Khadija Gbla

human rights defender

Kaifala Marah

b. 2000

economist

Sahr Randolf Fillie-Faboe

diplomat

Joseph Mustapha

politician

Denton Guy-Williams

b. 1972

sprinter

Ibrahim Kallay

b. 1993

association football player

Lamin Suma

b. 1991

association football player

Hawanatu Bangura

b. 1988

sprinter

Patricia Kabbah

1933 – 1998

teacher

Al Bangura

b. 1988

association football player

Fatmata Turay

b. 1987

model

Frank Turay

b. 1976

athlete

Frank Williams

b. 1964

sport cyclist

Leonard Bundu

b. 1974

boxer

Arnold Jonathan Bishop-Gooding

b. 1950

politician

Paul Kpaka

b. 1981

association football player

Ibrahim Bundu

politician

Nicholas G. J. Ballanta

1893 – 1962

composer

Lara Taylor-Pearce

statutory auditor

Gbassay Sessay

b. 1968

association football player

Ishmael Beah

b. 1980

writer

Ola Sesay

b. 1979

athletics competitor

Samuel Sam-Sumana

b. 1962

politician

Enid Forde

1932 – 2010

geographer

Lamin Jusu Jarka

b. 1958

Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh

b. 1949

judge

Ibrahim Sesay

politician

Issa Sesay

b. 1970

Sarway Dollar

b. 1988

association football player

Binta Mansaray

lawyer

Teteh Bangura

b. 1989

association football player

David Sesay

b. 1998

association football player

Margaret Mannah-Macarthy

midwife

George Branche

b. 1953

athletics competitor

Arthur T. Porter

1924 – 2019

writer

Bockarie Stevens

b. 1950

diplomat

Siaka Stevens

1905 – 1988

politician

Frances Claudia Wright

1919 – 2010

lawyer

Mustapha Bundu

b. 1997

association football player

Saidu Fofanah

b. 1997

association football player

Mohamed Fornah

b. 1987

association football player

George Wyndham

1990 – 2026

athlete

Asoka Bandarage

b. 1950

sociologist

Filomina Chioma Steady

anthropologist

Silvanus Nicol-Cole

1920 – 2016

economist

Kelvin Doe

b. 1996

engineer

Thaimu Bangura

1901 – 1999

politician

Israel Sesay

b. 1990

association football player

Rugiatu Turay

activist

Lamin Tucker

b. 1982

athletics competitor

Rashin Wurie

b. 1972

association football player

Alusine Fofanah

politician

Thomas Leighton Decker

1916 – 1978

linguist

Modupe Jonah

b. 1966

athlete

Abdul Serry-Kamal

1954 – 2014

politician

Patrick Omolade Hamilton

judge

Alfred Sankoh

b. 1988

association football player

Nathaniel Tongovula

b. 1996

association football player

Karamoh Kabba

b. 1965

journalist

Victor Bockarie Foh

b. 1946

politician

Ahmad Tejan Sillah

Barbara Bangura

b. 1958

academic

Komba Mondeh

1966 – 2023

soldier

Hafsatu Kamara

b. 1991

athletics competitor

Sam Bockarie

1963 – 2003

politician