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Bahamians /bəˈheɪmiənz/ are people originating or having roots from The Commonwealth of The Bahamas. One can also become a Bahamian by acquiring citizenship.
History
Main articles: Battle of the Bahamas|Battle of the Bahamas (disambiguation)|Battle of the Bahamas and History of the Bahamas
Culture
Main articles: Culture of the Bahamas, Music of the Bahamas, Bahamian literature, Bahamian cuisine, and Bahamian Creole
Olympic Games
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World Championships in Athletics
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List
Main article: List of Bahamians
- Sidney Poitier, first black man to win an Oscar, first black American actor to win Best Actor, first black American actor to be nominated for best actor.
- Shaunae Miller-Uibo, sprinter, 2016 Olympic 400m champion, and world record holder in 200m straight
- Buddy Hield, basketball player
- Klay Thompson, basketball player
- Rick Fox, three-time NBA champion, owner of Echo Fox
- Lynden Oscar Pindling, first Prime Minister of the Bahamas.
- Joseph Robert Love, important pan-African leader of the 19th and 20th century who influenced Marcus Garvey
- Allan Glaisyer Minns, first black British mayor
- Bert Williams, first black lead actor on Broadway
- Deandre Ayton, was ranked number-one high-school basketball player in the USA by scout in 2015
- Mychal Thompson, two-time NBA champion and first foreign-born player to be selected as 1st pick in the NBA draft history.
- Angela Palacious, first woman deacon and priest of the Diocese of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Yves Edwards, mixed martial artist
- Kimbo Slice, streetfighter, boxer and mixed martial artist
Gallery
Some women featured in the Leading Women of the Bahamas exhibit, Nassau, 2012.
Some women featured in the Leading Women of the Bahamas exhibit, Nassau, 2012.
See also
- Demographics of the Bahamas
- Bahamian Americans
References
- ↑ Bahamas 2017. Population Pyramid.
- ↑ Access, Data; (DADS), Dissemination Systems (5 October 2010). "Results". https://www.census.gov.
- ↑ "Population by selected ethnic origins, by province and territory (2006 Census)". statcan.gc.ca. 28 July 2009. http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/demo26a-eng.htm. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- ↑ "Country-of-birth database". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Archived from the original on 11 May 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050511105416/http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/23/34792376.xls. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
- ↑ "Religion | The Bahamas Guide". https://www.thebahamasguide.com/facts/religion/.
External links
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