Educated in Sierra Leone
Freetown's schools and colleges trained leaders for much of English-speaking West Africa, which is the origin of its nickname, "Athens of West Africa".
Sources 20
From elsewhere in West Africa
Samuel Ajayi Crowther
From Nigeria
Educated at: Fourah Bay College (first student)
First African Anglican bishop of West Africa
J.E. Casely Hayford
From Ghana
Educated at: Fourah Bay College
Pan-African nationalist, lawyer and journalist
Ladipo Solanke
From Nigeria
Educated at: Fourah Bay College
Founder of the West African Students' Union; first radio broadcast in Yoruba (1924)
Sources 102
Stella Thomas
From Nigeria
Educated at: Annie Walsh Memorial School
First Black African woman called to the bar in Britain (1933); West Africa's first woman magistrate (1943)
Sources 103
Sources give differing dates for Casely Hayford's years at Fourah Bay.
Sources 101
Sierra Leoneans
Sir Milton Margai
Educated at: Albert Academy; Fourah Bay College
First Prime Minister
Sources 61
Sir Albert Margai
Educated at: St Edward's Secondary School
Second Prime Minister
Sources 61
Siaka Stevens
Educated at: Albert Academy
First Executive President
Sources 120
John Karefa-Smart
Educated at: Albert Academy; Fourah Bay College
Doctor and Foreign Minister
Sources 61
Lamina Sankoh
Educated at: CMS Grammar School; Fourah Bay College
Campaigner for Colony–Protectorate unity
Sources 61
Amadu Wurie
Educated at: Bo School (founding pupil)
First Minister of Education after independence
Sources 61
Sir Ernest Beoku-Betts
Educated at: Fourah Bay College
First Sierra Leonean puisne judge
Sources 118
Africanus Horton
Educated at: CMS Grammar School; Fourah Bay Institution
Surgeon and political thinker
Sources 116
Robert Wellesley-Cole
Educated at: Sierra Leone Grammar School; Fourah Bay College
First Black African FRCS of England
Sources 89
Constance Cummings-John
Educated at: Annie Walsh; Methodist Girls' High School; Freetown Secondary School for Girls
First woman Mayor of Freetown
Sources 56
Irene Ighodaro
Educated at: Annie Walsh Memorial School
First Sierra Leonean woman doctor
Sources 92
Lati Hyde-Forster
Educated at: Annie Walsh; Fourah Bay College
First woman graduate of Fourah Bay (1938)
Sources 104
Enid Forde
Educated at: Annie Walsh; Fourah Bay College
First Sierra Leonean woman to earn a PhD
Sources 105
Zainab Hawa Bangura
Educated at: Annie Walsh Memorial School
Democracy campaigner; UN Special Representative
Sources 75
Dr Sheik Umar Khan
Educated at: University of Sierra Leone College of Medicine
Lassa and Ebola physician
Mohamed Kallon
Educated at: St Edward's Secondary School
Inter Milan striker
Sources 86