Category

People from Paramaribo

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François Levaillant

French explorer, ornithologist, naturalist, author and zoological collector

Dutch presenter, journalist and politician

Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author

Pim de la Parra

Surinamese-Dutch film director

Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Surinamese inventor

Surinamese-Dutch university professor

Surinamese photographer (1873–1937)

Surinamese author

Constantine Hering

Homeopathic physician and naturalist (1800-1880)

Giorgio Tuinfort

Surinamese-born Dutch composer and record producer

Surinamese physician and activist (1907-1955)

Surinamese artist (1929-2018)

Surinamese linguist (1922–2022)

Kathleen Ferrier

Dutch politician and development aid worker

Dutch-Surinamese journalist

Elisabeth Samson

Afro-Surinamese coffee plantation owner

Surinamese-Dutch author and makeup artist

American astronomer

Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout

poet (1910–1992)

Felipe Enrique Neri

Dutch businessman (1759-1827)

Prem Radhakishun

lawyer and television producer

Surinamese poet & anthropologist

Philomena Essed

American professor

Dutch schoolbook writer

Tobias Lewenstein

Chief Rabbi of Denmark (1903-1910)

Jörgen Raymann

Netherlands entertainer

Beauty pageant winner

Alfred Morpurgo

Surinamese journalist and politician

Henna Goudzand Nahar

Surinamese-Dutch writer and literary critic

Surinamese painter (1911-1980)

Marinus Bernardus Rost van Tonningen

Dutch military officer (1852-1927)

Herman Benjamins

Dutch writer and editor (1850–1933)

Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You

Surinam-Dutch jurist

Shlomit C. Schuster

Israeli philosopher

Henk Herrenberg

Surinamese diplomat and politician (1938–2024)

Ietje Paalman-de Miranda

Dutch full professor

OAS Rapporteur on the Rights of Afro-Descendants and against Racial Discrimination

Raymond Henri Pos

Surinamese politician (1910-1964)

Ernst-Paul Hasselbach

Dutch television host (1966–2008)

Dutch pedagogue (1953-2014)