People
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Artist-Music
Wyclef Jean - Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant Debuted at #28 on the Billboard 200. As of March 14, 2008, 189,211 Sold.
Harve Pierre - President Of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Records
Rick Ross - Ozone Awards - Best Rap Album [Trilla], 2008
Félix Morisseau-Leroy - Succeeded in having Créole recognized as an official language of Haiti by 1961
DJ Quest - One Half of the #1 Night Show in South Florida, 1055 The Beat WBTT
Emeline Michel - Received Haiti’s Musique En Folie awards for Best Haitian Album and Best Production 2000
Coupé Cloué - Defined a style of Haitian Compas music Called Mompa Mamba
Actor-Director
Raoul Peck - Award-Winning Haitian Filmmaker And Political Activist
Political
Jean-Jacques Dessalines - A Leader of the Haitian Revolution
Emmanuel “Manno” Charlemagne - Former Mayor of Port-au-Prince
Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis - Haiti’s Second Female And Current Prime Minister
Charlemagne Peralte - Haitian Nationalist Leader
Prezidan Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Anacaona -Taino Queen
Claudette Werleigh - First Female Prime Minister of Haïti, from November 7, 1995 to February 7, 1996
Loune Viaud - Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 2002
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture - Important Leader of the Haitian Revolution
Yvonne Hakim Rimpel - Founder of the First Haitian Feminist Organization, the Women’s League for Social Action
Gérard Pierre-Charles - Former leader of the Unified Party of Haitian Communists
Dr. François Duvalier [Papa Doc] - 32nd President of Haiti
Rose-Anne Auguste - Human Rights Activist
Marleine Bastien - Founder of Haitian Women Of Miami [FANM]
Esther Boucicault - AIDS Activist [Keith D. Cylar International AIDS Activist Award Winner]
Inventor
Michel Molaire - Inducted into Eastman Kodak’s Distinguished Inventor’s Gallery in 1994
Athlete
Andre Berto - WBC Welterweight Champion 2008
Olden Polynice - Ranked 15th in the NBA in rebounds per game (8.9) in 1998-99 Source:NBA.Com
Manno Sanon - Member of 1974 Haitian Soccer National Team who Participated in the World Cup in Munich, Germany
Daniel Edouard - On August 27, 2004, Edouard won the USBA Middleweight title via a 4th round TKO over the previously unbeaten Willie Gibbs.
Adler Volmar - Gold - U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Judo [100kg] 220 Pound Weight Class
Ronald Agénor - Former Top 20 Tennis Player in the World
Claude Vilgrain - Played in 89 NHL Games with the Vancouver Canucks, New Jersey Devils, and Philadelphia Flyers.
Comedian
Model
Tyrone Edmond - Haitian Super Model And CEO of GMB Records
Novelist
Jean Dominique - Assassinated Haitian Journalist
Jacques Roumain - Renowned Haitian Contemporary Writer and Pro-Revolutionary
Maurice Sixto - Foyer Maurice Sixto, honored his work and social commentary found in Ti Sentanize
Jacques Roumain - Renowned Haitian Contemporary Writer and Pro-Revolutionary Renowned Haitian contemporary writer and pro-revolutionary
Edwidge Danticat - Received the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize and Fiction Awards from The Carribean Writer, Seventeen, and Essence magazines
Edwidge Danticat -2008 The National Book Critics Circle Award for “Brother, I’m Dying”
Artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Successful 1980s-Era Neo-Expressionist Artist
Hector Hyppolite - Prolific Painter And Vodou Priest
Oni the Haitian Sensation - Voted “Ottawa’s Favorite Full Time Writer/Poet”
Ottawa Xpress Arts Weekly
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