List of people from Port Antonio, Jamaica

This is a list of notable people who are from Port Antonio, Jamaica, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that city.

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• Edward Baugh, poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott
• Trevor Berbick, former heavyweight boxer and champion
• Martine Beswick, actress
• Watty Burnett, reggae singer

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• Maurice Chambers, cricketer

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• Mikey Dread, singer, producer and broadcaster
• Archibald Dunkley, street preacher and one of the first preachers of the Rastafari movement in Jamaica
• Dillian Whyte, Professional boxer

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• Errol Flynn, screen actor

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• Amy Ashwood Garvey, Pan-Africanist activist and the first wife of Marcus Garvey

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• Donna Hylton, murderer and kidnapper

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• Merrecia James, track and field middle distance athlete

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• King Sporty, DJ, reggae musician, and record producer

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• Michael Lee-Chin, investor and the founder and Chairman of Portland Holdings Inc.

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• Junior Murvin, reggae singer

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• Dever Orgill, footballer, St Georges SC, Jamaica

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• John Brown Russwurm, abolitionist

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