Emperor Septimius Severus
Lucius Septimius Severus was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa.
Abbot Hadrian
Adrian, also spelled Hadrian (born before 637, died 710), was a North African scholar in Anglo-Saxon England and the abbot of Saint Peter’s and Saint Paul’s in Canterbury. He was…
Sara Forbes Bonetta
Sara Forbes Bonetta, (born Omoba Aina; 1843 – 15 August 1880), was a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people in West Africa who was orphaned during a…
Eric Irons OBE
Eric George Irons OBE (1921–2007) was Britain’s first black magistrate and a campaigner for equal rights.
Betty Campbell
Betty Campbell MBE (6 November 1934 – 13 October 2017, born Rachel Elizabeth Johnson) was a Welsh community activist, who was Wales’ first black head teacher.
John Ystum
John Ystumllyn (born c. 1738, died 1786), also colloquially known as Jac Du or Jack Black, was an 18th-century Welsh gardener and the first well-recorded black person of North Wales.
Louise Marie Thérèse The Black Nun of Moret
Louise Marie-Thérèse, also known as The Black Nun of Moret (c. 1658 – 1730), was a French nun and the subject of accounts from the 18th century in which she…
Emma Clarke (footballer)
Emma Clarke (born 1876) was a British footballer, considered to be the first known black women’s footballer in Britain.
Shirley Bassey
In 1977 she received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in the previous 25 years.
Wilfred Wood (Bishop of Croydon)
Wilfred Denniston Wood KA (born 15 June 1936) is a Barbadian-British Anglican who was the Bishop of Croydon from 1985 to 2003 (and the first area bishop there from 1991),…