List of people from the United States Virgin Islands

List of people from the United States Virgin Islands

This is a list of prominent people who were born in, lived in, or are otherwise closely associated with the United States Virgin Islands. This is not a list of people from the British Virgin Islands. The list covers notable individuals who have garnered international recognition via artistic, cultural, economic, historical, notorious, and political methods.

Actors

* Lisa Canning (born 1966), television actress; born in the U.S. Virgin Islands
* Kelsey Grammer (born 1955), actor; born in St. Thomas
* Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (born 1953), actor; born in New York City
* Jasmin St. Claire (born 1970), adult film actress; born in Christiansted, St. Croix
* Karrine Steffans (born 1978), hip hop music video performer, actress; born in St. Thomas

Artists

* Austin Hansen, photographer
* Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) artist, French Impressionist painter; born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

Athletes

* Raja Bell (born 1976), basketball player; born in St. Croix
* Joe Christopher (born 1935), the first V.I. native to play in Major League Baseball; born in Frederiksted, St. Croix
* Midre Cummings (born 1971), baseball player; born in St. Croix
* Tim Duncan (born 1976), professional basketball player (San Antonio Spurs); born in Christiansted, St. Croix
* Emile Griffith (born 1938), boxer; born in the U.S. Virgin Islands
* Elrod Hendricks (1940–2005), Major League Baseball player and coach; born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
* Julian Jackson (born 1960), boxer; born in St. Thomas
* Calvin Pickering (born 1976), baseball player; born in St. Thomas

Entrepreneurs

* Sosthenes Behn (1882-1957), Puerto Rico Telephone Company and ITT Corporation Founder; born in St. Thomas
* William Leidesdorff
* Alfred H. Lockhart
* Adolph E. Sixto

Musicians

* Alton Adams (1889–1987), musician, first black bandmaster in the United States Navy; born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
* Bennie Benjamin (1907–1989), composer; born in Christiansted, St. Croix
* Doug E. Fresh (born 1966), hip hop recording artist, actor; born in St. Thomas
*Iba Wicked,(born ?), Dancehall Artist

Political Leaders

* Archie Alexander (1888–1958), mathematician, engineer, Governor of the Virgin Islands; born in Ottumwa, Iowa
* Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884), Secretary of the Treasury, Confederate States of America; born a British subject in Christiansted, St. Croix
* Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912), Liberian educator, writer, diplomat, and politician; born in St. Thomas
* Frank Rudolph Crosswaith (1892–1965), socialist and labor leader; born in Frederiksted, St. Croix
*Ron De Lugo, St. Croix politician and former candidate for governor
* Rothschild Francis (1891–1963), councilman, civil rights and labor leader; born in St. Croix [http://mls.stx.k12.vi/MLS_Website/Profiles/FrancisR.htm]
* Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927), orator, political activist; born in St. Croix
* William H. Hastie (1904–1976), jurist, lawyer, Governor of the Virgin Islands; born in Knoxville, Tennessee
* Elizabeth Anna Hendrickson (1884–1946), civil rights leader; born in St. Croix [ [http://mls.stx.k12.vi/MLS_Website/Profiles/Hend_EA.htm Elizabeth Anna Hendricks] ]
* Casper Holstein (born 1888), humanitarian; born in St. Croix
* Roy Innis (born 1934), African-American activist, civil rights leader; born in St. Croix
* D. Hamilton Jackson (1884–1946), journalist, labor leader, attorney, judge; born in St. Croix [ [http://mls.stx.k12.vi/MLS_Website/Profiles/JacksonD.htm] ]
* J. Raymond Jones (1899–1991), political leader, humanitarian; born in St. Thomas [ [http://mls.stx.k12.vi/MLS_Website/Profiles/Jones_JR.htm] ]
* William Leidesdorff (1810–1848), entrepreneur; born in St. Croix
* Ruby Margaret Rouss (1921–1988) first black woman to be elected to preside over a state legislature; born in St. Croix
* Terence Todman (born 1926), ambassador; born in the U.S. Virgin Islands
* Ashley L. Totten (1884–1963), union leader, humanitarian; born in Frederiksted, St. Croix [ [http://mls.stx.k12.vi/MLS_Website/Profiles/Totten.htm] ]
* Denmark Vesey (1767–1822), slave revolt leader; from the Danish Caribbean island of St. Thomas
* Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten (1784–1854), Governor-General of the Danish West Indies from 1827 to 1848

Writers and Intellectuals

* Barbara Christian (1943–2000), educator, feminist critic; born in St. Thomas
* Gus Edwards, playwright
* Geraldo Guirty, journalist
* Ariel Melchior, Sr., journalist, publisher

References

ee also

*List of Eastern Caribbean people

External links

* [http://webpac.uvi.edu/imls/profiles1972/index.shtml University of the Virgin Islands: Profiles of outstanding Virgin Islanders (1972)]
* [http://mls.stx.k12.vi/MLS_Website/Profiles/ProfilesGo.htm Media Library Services, Department of Education, St. Croix District: Profiles of Outstanding Virgin Islanders]


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