Notable people

World Bank staffer

Guyanese-American basketball player (born 1983)

Guyanese sprinter

former World Cup winning captain of West Indies in 1975 and 1979

Zambian author and museum founder

Zambian-American scholar of English, feminist academic, and writer (born 1980)

Saint and siddha of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism

Bhutanese filmmaker and screenwriter

One of the four wives and queens of Bhutanese king Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Queen consort of Bhutan

Buddhist Vajrayana master, scholar, poet, and teacher (1910–1991)

Sierra Leonean athletics competitor

Burundian middle-distance runner

King of Lanxang

Chadian Roman Catholic archbishop (born 1952)

Cape Verdean writer (1907–1989)

Caribbean physician

Equatoguinean journalist and political scientist, writer, teacher and researcher on women's issues in Africa

Equatorial Guinean athlete (born 1980)

Djiboutian policewoman

Saint Kitts and Nevis sprinter

Mosotho bishop (1933–2012)

Comoran-French filmmaker

Nauruan judoka

São Tomé and Príncipe poet, writer and narrator

President of São Tomé and Príncipe

2nd Governor of Santa Cruz

Bolivian feminist activist

Bolivian physician

Bolivian entrepreneur in aviation and oil business