The following is a list of prominent Indo-Guyanese people.

Notable Indo-Guyanese

Politics

• Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana
• Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, life peer in the British House of Lords
• Shaik Baksh, Minister of Education
• Isahak Basir, Member of Parliament
• Vickram Bharrat, politician
• Ranji Chandisingh, former Vice President of Guyana
• Ronald Gajraj, politician
• Cheddi Jagan, former President of Guyana, dentist, and the Father of the Nation
• Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President of Guyana, former President of Guyana, and former Prime Minister of Guyana
• Syed Kamall, British MEP for London 2005 - 2019
• Edward Luckhoo, politician and Governor-General of British Guiana and Acting President of Guyana
• Lionel Luckhoo, politician and lawyer
• Gina Miller, British lawyer who took the UK Government to court over its handling of Brexit negotiations
• Manzoor Nadir, Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana
• Moses Nagamootoo, former Prime Minister of Guyana
• Sase Narain, former Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana
• Shiw Sahai Naraine, former Vice President of Guyana and engineer
• Reepu Daman Persaud, former Vice President of Guyana and Hindu pandit
• Balram Singh Rai, politician
• Khemraj Ramjattan, former Vice President of Guyana and former Minister of Public Security
• Shridath Ramphal, former Commonwealth Secretary General
• Deolatchmee Ramotar, former First Lady of Guyana
• Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana
• Bishwaishwar Ramsaroop, former Vice President of Guyana
• Peter Ramsaroop, politician
• Kayman Sankar, politician and rice farmer
• Mohamed Shahabuddeen, former Vice President of Guyana and judge
• Doodnauth Singh, former Attorney General of Guyana
• Lutchman Sooknandan, former Director of Public Prosecutions of Belize and Honorary Consul of Guyana in Belize
• Tara Singh Varma, Dutch politician
• Mark Persaud, Lawyer Twice elected to the National Executive of Liberal Party of Canada

Academics

• David Dabydeen, professor at the University of Warwick and historian
• Clem Seecharan, professor and Caribbean historian
• Bertrand Ramcharan, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Bishnodat Persaud, professor at the University of the West Indies and former Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat
• Jamal Deen, Distinguished University Professor, McMaster University, Canada.
• Adam Rutherford, Geneticist and science populariser, University College London.
• Katharine Birbalsingh, teacher and education reform advocate.

Business

• Stanley Praimnath, bank executive and survivor of the September 11 attacks

Medicine

• Deborah Persaud, virologist, named among the world's most influential people in the Time 100 in 2013

Arts and entertainment

• Raymond Ablack, Canadian actor
• Anjulie, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Gaiutra Bahadur, writer
• Dave Baksh, lead guitarist of the Canadian band Sum 41 (also plays with Brown Brigade)
• Shakira Caine, actress, fashion model, and former Miss Guyana
• Mahadai Das, poet
• Melanie Fiona, Canadian R&B singer-songwriter, who is also of Afro-Guyanese descent
• Rhona Fox, actress
• Terry Gajraj, chutney singer
• Emma Heming, Maltese model
• Harischandra Khemraj, writer
• Laxmi Kallicharan, writer
• Isabella Laughland, British actress
• Avi Nash, American actor
• Priyanka (stage name of Mark Suknanan), Canadian television presenter, drag artist, and winner of Canada's Drag Race Season 1
• Sandhja, Finnish singer
• Melinda Shankar, Canadian actress
• Nandini Sharan, bhajan singer and wife of Hari Om Sharan
• "Princess Anisa" Singh, chutney-soca singer
• Shana Yardan, poet
• Gordon Warnecke, British actor
• Janice Griffith, Adult Entertainer

Sports

• Andreas Athanasiou, Canadian NHL player for the Chicago Blackhawks
• Faoud Bacchus, West Indian cricketer
• Shivnarine Chanderpaul, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
• Narsingh Deonarine, West Indian cricketer
• Rohan Kanhai, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
• Alvin Kallicharran, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
• Mahendra Nagamootoo, West Indian cricketer
• Kriskal Persaud, chess player
• Harry Prowell, Marathon Olympian and British West Indies Champion in long-distance running
• Mark Ramprakash, former England cricket player
• Ramnaresh Sarwan, former captain of the West Indies cricket team
• Dhanraj Singh, boxer
• Devendra Bishoo, West Indian cricketer
• Beni Sankar, businessman and former cricket player
• Nezam Hafiz, cricketer and victim of the September 11 attacks
• Paul Stalteri, former soccer player

Religion and philosophy

• Maya Tiwari, Hindu spiritual teacher
• Shabir Ally, Muslim imam

Criminality

• Shaheed "Roger" Khan, druglord and head of Phantom Squad

References