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John James Audubon
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)
maroons
Africans in the Americas and islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and lived in independent settlements, were referred to as maroons in English, and as cimarrones in Spanish America. The English word "maroon" likely derives from the Spanish word "cimarron".
Alejandro Petion
1st President of the Republic of Haiti (1770-1818)
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
French general (1762–1806)
François l'Olonnais
French pirate of the Caribbean
Jean Lafitte
French pirate and privateer
Faustin Soulouque
president and emperor of Haiti (1782-1867)
jacobinism
political ideology
Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc
French count (1756–1845)
Dutty Boukman
early leader of Haitian Revolution
François Mackandal
Haitian Maroon leader
Vincent Ogé
Haitian revolutionary
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
French abolitionist (1763-1813)
Cécile Fatiman
Haitian Vodou practitioner, leader of the Bois-Caïman ceremony and women marroon
Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu
French opera soprano
Étienne Eustache Bruix
French admiral (1759-1805)
Jean-Baptiste Belley
former slave from the French West Indies who became a member of the National Convention and the Council of Five Hundred of France
Louis-Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry
French Creole colonist (1750-1819), politician, gouvernor of Parma
Anne Dieu-le-Veut
French Pirate (1661-1710)
Laurens de Graaf
Dutch pirate
Jean-Joseph de Laborde
French politician, entrepreneur and banker
Adolphe Dureau de la Malle
French geographer, naturalist, historian and artist (1777-1857)
Free people of color
persons of partial African and European descent who were not enslaved
Victor-Therese Charpentier
French colonial governor
Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon
French violinist, composer and music theorist (1730-1792)
Pierre le Grand
French pirate
Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle
French translator (1742-1807)
Michel Bégon
French colonial governor (1638–1710)
Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez
French admiral
Edward Mansvelt
Dutch corsair
Dominique You
privateer, soldier, and politician (1775-1830)
Mademoiselle Montansier
French actress
Michel Étienne Descourtilz
French physician, botanist and historiographer of the Haitian revolution (1775-1835)
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais was a Haitian politician.
Bertrand d'Ogeron de La Bouëre
French governor (1613-1676)
Louis William Valentine DuBourg
French Catholic archbishop and missionary in the American West (1766–1833)
Bruno Blanchet
Haitian politician (1760-1822)
Jacques Bins, comte de Jacqueline
Poet and writer (1772–1858)
François Budan de Boislaurent
French mathematician
White Haitian
Haitians of predominantly European and in some cases Levantine descent
Claude Fournier
French revolutionary
Julien Raimond
French abolitionist (1744-1801)
Magloire Ambroise
Magloire Ambroise is a hero of the Haitian Independence.
Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse
French noble (1765-1845)
Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville
French botanist (1739-1780)
Jean-Baptiste Bernard de Vaublanc
French military officer
Jeanne-Marie Marsan
French dramatic actress and an opera singer
François Richard de Tussac
French botanist and writer (1751–1837)
Minette et Lise
Stage artist groups
Alexander Placide
French circus entertainer
Simone Brocard
slave trader and slave holder
Jean Baptiste Le Sueur Fontaine
French actor
Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières
French soldier and officer
Zabeau Bellanton
slave trader and slave owner
Afro-Haitians
Afro-Haitians or Black Haitians (French: Afro-Haïtiens or Haïtiens Noirs; Haitian Creole: Afwo-Ayisyen, Ayisyen Nwa) are Haitians who have ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. They form the largest racial group in Haiti and together make up the largest subgroup of Afro-Caribbean people.
François Fournier de Pescay
French physician (1771-1833)
Mlle Marthe
French actress
Pierre le Picard
French buccaneer
Charles Frédéric Chassériau
French architect
Marabou
multiracial admixture in Haiti