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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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