Valentine Strasser

Valentine Strasser

male, 42 years old
Valentine Esegragbo Melvine Strasser (born 1967 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a former head of state of Sierra Leone. He is a Krio (descendants of...
Bai Bureh

Bai Bureh

male, deceased (1908)
Bai Bureh (ca. 1840-1908) was a Sierra Leonean ruler and military strategist who led the Temne uprising against the British and the Krios who were...

David Lansana

male
Brigadier David Lansana was the army commander of Sierra Leone in 1967. He came from the Mende tribe and as such was part of one of the larger...

Thomas Peters

male, deceased (1792)
Thomas Peters was an African American slave who fled North Carolina with the British during the American Revolutionary War and later ended up as a...

Andrew Juxon-Smith

male, deceased (1996)
Brigadier Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith (1933 - 1996) was a politician and military official in Sierra Leone. He was briefly (27 March 1967 to 18...
Africanus Horton

Africanus Horton

male, deceased (1883)
Africanus Horton (1835-1883), also known as James Beale, was a writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone. Africanus Horton was a surgeon, scientist,...

Samuel Lewis

male, deceased (1903)
Sir Samuel Lewis (1843-1903) was a Sierra Leonean mayor of Freetown and lawyer. Sir Samuel was the first West African ever knighted and was the...
Abioseh Nicol

Abioseh Nicol

male, deceased (1994)
Abioseh Nicol (Davidson Nicol) (14 September 1924 - 20 September 1994) was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

male, deceased (1912)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (August 15, 1875-September 1, 1912) was a black, English composer who achieved such success he was called "The Black Mahler."
Eunice Barber

Eunice Barber

female, 35 years old
Eunice Barber (born November 17, 1974 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump. Barber initially competed for...