Grenadians in the United Kingdom
Grenadians in the United Kingdom are citizens or residents of the United Kingdom whose ethnic origins lie fully or partially in Grenada. 9,783 Grenadian-born people were recorded by the 2001 UK Census.[1]
Total population | |
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9,783 Grenadian-born (2001)[1] * Over 0.01% of the UK's population 30,000 (Grenadian ancestry, 2010)[2] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Leicester | |
Languages | |
English (British English, Grenadian Creole) French Patois | |
Religion | |
Roman Catholicism Protestantism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Black Grenadian Indo-Grenadians British African-Caribbean community Caribbean British · Black British · Black African Mulatto · Indo-Caribbean Amerindian | |
* Please note that in 2001 only 40.4% of Afro-Caribbeans in the UK were actually born in the Caribbean, 59.6% were born elsewhere (of which 57.9% of the total ethnic groups population was born in the UK)[3] |
Notable people
The following is an incomplete list of notable UK residents of Grenadian heritage:
- Daniel Dubois, heavyweight boxer.
- Jourdan Dunn, model also of Afro-Jamaican and Syrian descent.
- Lewis Hamilton, racecar driver.
- PW, rapper.
- James Baillie, slave owner and merchant.
- Roger Michael, impresario in London.[4]
- Craig David, singer-songwriter.
- Arthur Wharton, first black professional footballer in the UK.
- Tyler Roberts, footballer.
See also
- Black British
- British Mixed
- British Indo-Caribbean community
- British African-Caribbean community
- Demographics of Grenada
References
- "Country-of-birth database". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Archived from the original on 2009-06-17. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
- "PM Thomas makes direct appeals to overseas nationals to invest at home". GIS. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
- National Statistics 2006 Archived 2010-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
- "London's 1000 most influential people 2010: Night Owls". London Evening Standard. November 15, 2010. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
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