List of people from Freetown

Football (soccer)

• Sheriff Suma
• Roda Antar
• Sarway Dollar
• Samuel Barlay
• Sidney Kargbo
• Obi Metzger
• Mustapha Sama
• Michael Tommy
• Lamine Conteh
• Muwahid Sesay
• Kewullay Conteh
• Ibrahim Kargbo
• Albert Cole
• Alimamy Sesay
• Christian Caulker
• Albert Jarrett
• Kabba Samura
• Abdul Thompson Conteh
• George Davies
• Mahmadu Alphajor Bah
• Michael Lahoud

  Other Sports

• B. J. Tucker, American football player of the San Francisco 49ers
• Madieu Williams, American football player of the Cincinnati Bengals
• Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean track and field athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump
• Hawanatu Bangura, Sierra Leonean sprinter
• Horace Dove-Edwin, a retired Sierra Leonean sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres

  Activist/writer/artist/trade

• Adelaide Casely-Hayford, was a strong advocate, nationalism, and educationist
• Jamil Sahid Mohamed, was a powerful businessman from Sierra Leone who made millions of dollars in diamond trade
• Patricia Piccinini, Australian artist
• Farid Raymond-Anthony, Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet

  Musicians

• Emmerson
• Reuben Koroma

  Politicians

• Valentine Strasser, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1992-1996
• Herbert George-Williams, former mayor of Freetown
• Winstanley Bankole Johnson, former mayor of Freetown
• Andrew Juxon-Smith, former Head of State of Sierra Leone
• John 'Johnny' Taylor, Krio trader during colonial era
• Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings, mayor of Freetown from 1948-1954
• Ade Renner Thomas, current Chief Justice of Sierra Leone
• Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962-1967
• Isaac Wallace-Johnson, a Sierra Leonean journalist and a politician
• Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor
• Siaka Probyn Stevens, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 21 April 1971 – 28 November 1985
• Ernest Bai Koroma Is the current Head of State of Sierra Leone and the fourth since 2007
• Joseph Saidu Momoh, Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1985 - 1992.
• Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah,the third Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007.
• Major Johnny Paul Koroma Was the Head of State of Sierra Leone from 1997 to 1998.

  Military Personnel

• Issa Hassan Sesay, served as senior officer in the Sierra Leonean army and commander of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
• Brigadier-General Arthur Nelson-Williams, The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces spokesman
• Brigadier-General Tom Carew was in the Sierra Leonean army and Chief of Defence Staff of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces from April 2000 to November 2003

  Actors/actresses

• Jeillo Edwards
• Desmond Finney