Top 10 Jamaicans Ever

[Diplomat]

See if you agree with veteran journalist and passionate Jamaican Philip Mascoll's <span style="font-style: italic">personal choice.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">1.</span> Marcus Mosiah Garvey
<span style="font-weight: bold">2.</span> Mary Seacole
<span style="font-weight: bold">3.</span> Sergeant William Gordon
<span style="font-weight: bold">4.</span> George Stiebel (Jamaica's first black millionaire)
<span style="font-weight: bold">5.</span> Michael Manley (former Prime Minister of Jamaica, leader of the non-aligned movement, apartheid opponent, advocate for a new international economic order).
<span style="font-weight: bold">6.</span> Portia Simpson-Miller (First woman prime minister of Jamaica, twice prime minister, first Jamaican to be named to the Time Magazine’s List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World).
<span style="font-weight: bold">7.</span> Bob Marley (A dreadlocked Bob Marley is to most people the iconic image of Jamaican music, to many the best known image of Jamaica and the face of the Rastafarian worldwide).
<span style="font-weight: bold">8.</span> Jody-Ann Maxwell (first contestant from outside the United States to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee).
<span style="font-weight: bold">9.</span> Claude McKay
<span style="font-weight: bold">10. </span>Lousie Bennett

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Do you think he missed anyone? Who?

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Do you think he missed anyone? Who? </div></div>

yes you missed a whole lot;

i certainly would put J.A. Rogers...Nanny, Cudjoe...before a &quot;first millionaire&quot; and a spelling bee winner

[Diplomat]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Do you think he missed anyone? Who? </div></div>

yes you missed a whole lot;

i certainly would put J.A. Rogers...Nanny, Cudjoe...before a &quot;first millionaire&quot; and a spelling bee winner </div></div>
Ah, it wasn't MY list - read the first sentence The list is Mascoll's personal one so it is likely that there will be many who disagree with him.

I am wondering though: Can there be a Miss Lou without a Mass Ran?

[SmoothOperator]

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This is of course a BS list. Michael Manley and Simpson Miller who presided over some of the most tumultous times in Jamaica's history offering little in the way of leadership are on there but not Bustamante or Norman Manley? Does not seem right to me. Usain Bolt should probably be on there since he has done more to inspire Jamaicans than any politician.

[Derek]

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I think Osbourne Ruddock and Clement Dodd should be in the top 10.

[Wahalla]

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<span style="color: #FF0000">1 Dutty Boukman</span>- The Grand Dadddi of them all Immigrant extaordiaire ... And a Taino/ African...The first leader of the anti colonial movement- Yes and hated Christianity called by a Jamaican.comer a devil worshiper and the cause of Haiti failure...
2 Norman Manley- He defined the ideal of what Jamaica should be...without which we would be like anotehr Carribean island...
3 Sam Sharpe- He was Gandhi before Gandhi unlike Gandhi he proved u need a Tacki!
4 Tacky - three Finger Jack - They died for what he beleived- violence is justified. both killed by Maroons...
5 Cudjoe / Juan De Bola/ Quao (All three were Maroons, all signed treaties with the British,all hunted runaways just a centuary apart one is known two are forgotten )
6 Maud Arial (née McKoy) ... The most succesful Jamaican immigrant....
7 Marcus Let down by his pomposity...
8 Howell Poverty is no a limit to interlect
9 Bogle idealist and died for it
10 Mutaburuka- I needed a poet an interlectual who is self educated who manifest the best of the esotheric nature of humanity

I left off VS Reid the first to use the Jamaican Dilect in printed form.. And played an important part in bringing the Jamaican story to the masses....

[mangoskin]

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Bob Marley should be number 1, as he has done more for Jamaica's economy and culture, going on 30 years after his death (kudo's to Rita too)
Most influential Jamaican

[sistactry]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">1 Dutty Boukman- The Grand Dadddi of them all Immigrant extaordiaire ... And a Taino/ African...The first leader of the anti colonial movement- Yes and hated Christianity called by a Jamaican.comer a devil worshiper and the cause of Haiti failure...
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by wikki, it seems to confirm this

the only good thing he seem to have done, was to try and teach his people how to read, the rest was not good at all

[sistactry]

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i agree, whatever good they might have done, the bad overshadows it all, and was their efforts self motivated for power - this is difficult to decipher

[makabush]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
the only good thing he seem to have done, was to try and teach his people how to read, the rest was not good at all

</div></div> I mean it was his religion. Most Black Jamaicans converted to Christianity fairly late in history.

[Yuriatin]

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Yes - he missed more than one - he missed many.

For one thing, my Mom needs to be on that list. Fi real ...

[makabush]

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1. Nanny - any woman weh can ketch cannonball in a belly a di boss
2. Miss Lou - trying to free us from our mental enslavement regarding our language, didn't work fully
3. King Tubby - invented a world influencing music. Invented the &quot;remix&quot;
4. Count Machuki - first DJ
5. Tom Wong - created first sound system
6. Henry Morgan - infamous pirate
7. Greta and Henry Fowler - founders of the LTM from which came pantomime etc etc
8. Bob Marley - unfortunately, for both good and bad reasons
9. Dutty Boukman - his revolution sparked end of English slave trade
10. Sam Sharpe - his rebellion sparked the end of slavery

[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: makabush</div><div class="ubbcode-body">1. Nanny - any woman weh can ketch cannonball in a belly a di boss </div></div>

My dad told me she used to catch them with her bottom.

[Peasie]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ChurchDude</div><div class="ubbcode-body">See if you agree with veteran journalist and passionate Jamaican Philip Mascoll's <span style="font-style: italic">personal choice.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">1.</span> Marcus Mosiah Garvey
<span style="font-weight: bold">2.</span> Mary Seacole
<span style="font-weight: bold">3.</span> Sergeant William Gordon
<span style="font-weight: bold">4.</span> George Stiebel (Jamaica's first black millionaire)
<span style="font-weight: bold">5.</span> Michael Manley (former Prime Minister of Jamaica, leader of the non-aligned movement, apartheid opponent, advocate for a new international economic order).
<span style="font-weight: bold">6.</span> Portia Simpson-Miller (First woman prime minister of Jamaica, twice prime minister, first Jamaican to be named to the Time Magazine’s List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World).
<span style="font-weight: bold">7.</span> Bob Marley (A dreadlocked Bob Marley is to most people the iconic image of Jamaican music, to many the best known image of Jamaica and the face of the Rastafarian worldwide).
<span style="font-weight: bold">8.</span> Jody-Ann Maxwell (first contestant from outside the United States to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee).
<span style="font-weight: bold">9.</span> Claude McKay
<span style="font-weight: bold">10. </span>Lousie Bennett

Do you think he missed anyone? Who? </div></div>

Well I disagree with his list <span style="font-weight: bold">except</span>:

Louise Bennett

Bob Marley

But I don't know who I would choose as the next 8 to my top 10
There are so many of us who run tings!