Some of the famous persons from Inagua:

Doctor Allan Glaisyer Minns
(First Black Mayor in Britain in 1904) Doctor Allan Minns was born on October 19th, 1858. He was educated under a fig tree in Mathew Town because there was no public school building, Nassau Grammer School and Guys Hospital, London, England. He was registered with the British Medical Association February 14th 1884. His qualifications were MRCS 1881 and LRCP 1884. He was the Hon. Medical Officer of Thetford Cottage Hospital, member of the British MA & Norwich Medico Chirurgical Society and President of the Horticultural Society. In 1904, Dr. Allan Minns was elected as the Mayor of Thetford, Norfolk England, becoming the First Black Mayor in Britain.

Rev. Samuel Minns
(1805-1857 The Uncle of Doctor Allan Minns. He was the first Black Anglican Priest in The Bahamas)

Theophilus Farquharson
(Merchant and Founder of the First Registered Union in The Bahamas in 1943 – West India Employee Improvement Association)

Arthur Lee Symmonett
(Entrepreneur)

Joseph Russel Ford
(Former Member of Parliament)

John Miguel Aranha (1857-1912)
He was the first Inaguan Out Island Commissioner.

James Edward Aranha (1862- 1918)
A civil engineer and land surveyor. He worked in the Surveyor General office, rising to the position of Deputy Surveyor and Acting Surveyor General.

Theodore G. Glover
(Renown Educator)

Blake Alfonso Higgs a.k.a Blind Blake
(Famous Musician)

Sir Arthur Foulkes
(Founding member of Free National Movement Party and the first Minister of Communications in the first Progressive Liberal Party Government. Former Bahamas High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and the current Governor General of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, the highest office in The Bahamas.)

James Palacious
(Arch Deacon)

Samuel Nixon
(Environmentalist and first warden of Bahamas National Trust)

Maxwell Thompson
(Former Magistrate)

Daniel Sargeant
(Entrepreneur who along with several other prominent Bahamians founded Inagua Tramway and Salt Company in 1865)

Alfred Meallet
(Founder of the first printing operation in Great Inagua in 1898. Publisher of newpaper The Inagua Record from 1908 -1913)

William Granger
(Former Dean of Christ Church Cathedral)

Hon. Vernon Joseph Symonette
(Former Speaker of the House of Assembly and former Member of Parliament)

Hannah Ford
(Earned the longevity record for the island of Great Inagua at 102 years of age. A true Bahamian folk storyteller and the only school teacher for all the children living at Northeast Point, Great Inagua. ) 1896 – 1998

James Nixon
(Environmentalist and longest serving warden of Bahamas National Trust)

Lewis Duvalier
(Publisher and Journalist) Published the SearchLight, an Inaguan Newspaper, until 1907.