Members of the Order of Jamaica
Rt Rev Neville Wordsworth de Souza
Former Lord Bishop of Jamaica
Peter Henry Abrahams
Writer
Vernin Arnett
Formerly Member of Parliament and Minister of Government
His Excellency Don Patricio Asocar Aylwyn
Former President of the Republic of Chile
Professor Barbara Evelyn Bailey
Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Humanities and Education [UWI]
Dr. Lloyd George Barnett
Attorney-at-law
Harry Belafonte
Entertainer, Humanitarian
Dr. Richard Leighton Bernal
Ambassador to the USA
Hon Desmond Aylmer Blades
Businessman, Philanthropist
Rev Herro Verne Blair
Political Ombudsman
Donald Courtney Brice, CD
Former Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister
Steve Anthony Bucknor, OD
International Umpire
Rafael Leonardo Callejas-Romero
Former President of the Republic of Honduras
Dr. Edwin Carrington
Secretary General, Caricom
Professor Karl Carstens
Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany
Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz
Former President of the Republic of Cuba
Hopeton St. Joseph Caven, CD
Trade Unionist, General Secretary Trade Union Congress
Lascelles Agustas Chin, CD
Chairman, Lasco, Businessman, Philanthropist
Oliver Frederick Clarke
Chairman Gleaner Company, Businessman
William Eleaza Clarke, CD
Banker
Daisy May Coke, CD
Actuary
Headley Washington Cunningham, CD, QC
Dr. Carlton Earl Davis, CD
Former Cabinet Secretary, Head Jamaica Bauxite Institute
Dr. Rae Anthony Davis, CD
Former Chancellor, University of Technology
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado
Former President of  the United Mexican States
Dr. Ludlow Lawson Douglas
Urology professor, the Caribbean's premier practitioner of kidney transplantation, Honorary Consultant Urologist at the University Hospital of the West Indies
Carlyle Anthony Dunkley
Diplomat, WWII veteran
Mignonette Patricia Durrant, CD
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations, New York
Luis Echeverria Alvarez
Former President of the Republic of Mexico
Maurice William Facey
Businessman, Philanthropist , Chairman Pan Jamaican Trust Ltd.
Michael Sanford Fennell, CD
Chairman, Jamaica Olympic Association and the Commonwealth Games Federation
Professor John Peter Figueroa
Epidemiologist, Specialist HIV/AIDS Health
Douglas Valmore Fletcher, CBE
Former Jamaican Ambassador to Washington;
Privy Counsellor
Ian Xavier Forte, CD
Former President of the Court of Appeal
Eric Frank Francis, CD
Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Emil Calvin George, QC
Attorney-at-law
Barbara Joy Gloudon, OD
Playwright, Journalist
Dr. John Ambrose Samuel Hall, CD
Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Professor Kenneth Octavious Hall
Former Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of the West Indies
Former Governor General of Jamaica
Senator Oswald Gaskell Harding, CD, QC Attorney-at-law
Statesman, Served as Senator 1977-2002
Paul Theodore Harison, CD
Karl Reginald Maurice Hendrickson, CD
Businessman, Philanthropist, Chariman National Continental Corporation Ltd
Roald Nigel Adrian Henriques,
For service to the Legal Profession
Dr. Luis Herrera Campins
Former President of the Republic of Honduras
Rev Father Richard Ryan Ho Lung, OD
Founder Brothers for the Poor, Songwriter, Actor, Playwright
Byron St Michael Hylton, QC
Former Solicitor General
Noel Arthur Anthony Hylton, CD
Chairman, Port Authority of Jamaica
Anthony George Russell Irons, CD
Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour
John Joseph Issa, CD
Hotelier. Super Clubs Group
Dr. Owen Collin Jefferson, CD
Former Chairman, Export Import Bank; Securities Commission
Professor Edwin Samuel Jones, CD
For excellence in Academia and Public Service
Dennis Lalor
Businessman, Group Chairman, Insurance Company of the West Indies
Professor Gerald Cecil Lalor, CD
Former Pro Vice Chancellor, UWI, Chairman National Council on Science and Technology
Derick Milton Latibeaudiere
Governor, Bank of Jamaica
Vincent Milton Lawrence
Former Executive Chairman, Urban Development Commission
Michael Anthony Lee Chin
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
Karl Reginald Maurice Lewin, CD
Executive Chairman, National Continental Corporation Ltd
Dr. Olive Wilhelmina Mahoney Lewin, CD
Musician, Musical Anthropologist, Founder Jamaica Folk Singers
Dr. Vernon Oswald Lindo
Privy Counsellor and Medical Practitioner
The Most Rev Orland Ugham Lindsay
Former Bishop of the Diocese of the West Indies
Clive Hubert Lloyd
International Cricketer
Beverley Eleanor Lopez, CD
Businesswoman
Dr. Phyllis Claire McPherson-Russell, CD
Consultant to the University of the West Indies, Former Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Former President of South Africa
Mayer Michael Matalon
Businessman, Philanthropist, Former Chairman International Commercial Developments Ltd
Moses M Matalon
Businessman, former Minister of Government, former Mayor of Kingston
Zaila Rowena McCalla
Chief Justice
William Anthony McConnell, CD
Businessman
Neville Maurice Mc Cook, CD
Sports Administrator
Velma Corrine McLarty, CD
Former MD, Jamaica National Investment Promotions Ltd
Dr. Carlos Saul Menem
Former President of the Republic of Argentina
Professor Errol Lawrence Miller, CD
Chancellor Mico College, Chairman, Electoral Commission of Jamaica
Shirley Isabelle Miller, CD, QC Attorney-at-law
Donald Owen Mills
Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations
Professor Owen St. Clair Morgan Medical Professor
William Manuel Morris
General Secretary, Transport and General Works Union, United Kingdom;
Chancellor, The University of Technology
Professor Errol York St. Aubyn Morrison
Former president of the University of Technology (UTech) and first Director-General of the National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST); Biomedical Scientist and Diabetologist
Robert Gabriel Mugabe
President of the Republic of Zimbabwe
David Manual Muirhead, CD, QC
Member of the Privy Council
Seymour St Edward Mullings
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minster of Foreign Affairs
Seymour Radcliffe Panton, CD
President of the Court of Appeal
Uriah Nathaniel Parnell, CD
Senior Puisne Judge
Dorothy Yvonne Pine-McClarty
former executive member of the Electoral Advisory Commission, council member of the University of Technology
General Colin Luther Powell
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Department of Defence (Retired); Former Secretary of State, USA, Served President George W Bush
Roderick George Rainford, CD
Governor of the Bank of Jamaica;
Formerly Secretary-General - CARICOM
His Excellency Flt Lt. Terry J. Rawlings
Former President of the Republic of Ghana
The Right Reverend and Honourable Alfred Charles Reid
Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands; Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
Sir Egerton (Rudolph) Richardson, CMG
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of the Public Service; Member,
National Bauxite Commission; Formerly Jamaican Ambassador to the United Nations and Jamaican Ambassador to the United States of America
Basil Linton Robinson, CD, QPM
Commissioner of Police, Jamaica Constabulary Force
Mrs. Joyce Lelieth Robinson, CD, MBE
Managing Director, Human Employment and Resource Training (HEART) Trust; Formerly Director, Jamaica Library Service; Director, JAMAL (retired)
The Honourable Mr Justice Leacroft Hercot Ulyssess Robinson
President, The Court of Appeal (Retired)
Professor Leslie Roy Bruce Robinson
Professor of Mathematics, The University of the West Indies
Patrick Hoppner Orla Rousseau
Former Chairman, National Bauxite Commission
The Honourable Mr Justice Ira deCordova Rowe
President, The Court of Appeal (retired)
His Excellency Carlos Salinos De Gortari
Former President of the United Mexican States
Dr. Alfred Watt Maxwell Sangster, CD
President, The College of Arts, Science and Technology (now The University of Technology) (retired)
Dr. Mary Jane Seivwright, CD
Director, (Retired) Advanced Nursing Education Unit,
The University of the West Indies; Past President, Nurses Association of Jamaica
The Honourable Mr. Justice Ronald Hugh Small
High Court Judge (Retired)
The Honourable Mr. Justice Kenneth George Smith
Chief Justice of Jamaica (retired)
The Reverend and Honourable Dr. Carmen Lois Stewart, OD
Custos of Kingston
Gordon Arthur (Butch) Stewart, CD
Chairman, Appliance Traders Limited Group of Companies, International Hotelier
Adrian Patrick Strachan, CD
Auditor General (retired)
Dr. Garth Alfred Taylor OJ, CD
Ophthalmologist; President Ophthalmological Society of the West Indies
Kingsley Charles St. George Thomas
Former Managing Director, Development Bank of Jamaica Limited
The Right Reverend Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Johannesburg and Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa (retired)Â Â (Citizen of the Republic of South Africa)
Miss Shirley Tyndall, CD
Financial Secretary (retired)
Mr. Danville Anthony Ludlow Walker
Former Director of Elections; Former Commissioner of Customs
Ambassador Herbert Samuel Walker CD
Formerly Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Courtney Walsh OD
Former captain of the West Indies Cricket Team; the only West Indian to hold the world record for most wickets in test cricket
Basil Barrington Watson, OJ, CD
Artist
Burchell Anthony Whiteman
Member of Parliament, Minister of Education; High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Raby Danvers, CD
Former President / Chief Executive Officer, Life of Jamaica; Medical Practitioner
The Honourable Mr. Justice Lensley Wolfe
Chief Justice (retired)
Hugh Hastings Wynter CD
Professor of Obstectrics and Gynaecology, The University of the West Indies
The Rt Hon Honourable Mr Justice Edward Zacca
Chief Justice (Retired)
Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain
Citizen of Spain; conferred during the Royal visit of February 2009
Mr. Arnold Foote, CD
For his service to Jamaica and internationally in the fields of Advertising, Sports and Diplomacy
Dr. Marshall McGowan Hall, CD
For Public Service and his contributions in the fields of Agriculture, Industry and Education
The Very Reverend Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon
For services to Community Development and the Care of the Poor and Disadvantaged
Professor Emeritus Sylvia Wynter
For service in the fields of Education, History and Culture
HONORARY
Ambassador Sue M. Cobb
For her service as United States Ambassador to Jamaica and her Continuing Efforts to promote Jamaica's Interests and Support its Development.
Members of the Order of Jamaica (Deceased)
Rev the Hon Canon Weeville McHervin Gordon
Former Custos of Kingston
Carlos Andres Perez
Former President of the Republic of Venezuela
The Hon Allan Fitzroy Rae CD
Attorney-at-Law, Cricketer, Former President West Indies Cricket Board of Control; Former President Jamaica Cricket Association
The Hon Ian Mc Donald Ramsay QC,
Attorney-at-Law
The Hon Alfred Adolphus Rattray
Ambassador to the USA
The Hon Kenneth Osbourne Rattray CD, QC
Attorney-at-Law, Solicitor General since 1972. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Jamaica, Ambassador-at-large since 1974.
The Hon Sir Egerton Richardson CMG
The Hon Basil Linton Robinson CD, QP
The Hon Leacroft Hercot Ulysses Robinson
Attorney-at-Law. Retired President of the Court of Appeal (1976-81) Chairman, Restricted Persons Review Tribunal
The Hon Leslie Roy Bruce Robinson
The Hon Theodore Eustace Sealy, CBE
Editor, The Gleaner Newspaper
Dr. the Hon Julius Kambarage Nyerere
Former President of Kenya
Valentine Winston Parnell, CD
The Hon Aston Wesley Powell, OBE
Educator, Founder Excelsior Schools
The Hon Aston Zachariah Preston
Former Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies
The Hon John Kenneth McKenzie Pringle, CBE
Former Director, Jamaica Tourist Board
The Hon Allan Fitzroy Rae, CD
The Hon Victor Stafford Reid Journalist, Writer
Rt Hon Hugh Lawson Shearer
Former Prime Minister of Jamaica
Rev the Hon Dr Hugh Braham Sherlock, OBE
Founder, Boys Town
Dr Arthur Stanley Wint, CD, ME
Jamaica's first Olympic Gold Medalist
The Hon Hector Lincoln Wynter
Editor, the Gleaner Newspaper
The Hon Lady Bustamante
Treasurer, Bustamante Industrial Trade Union, Wife National Hero
Keith Meredith Johnson, CD
Former Ambassador to the United States of America and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States
The Hon Horace Antonio Clarke
Member of Parliament and Minister of Government, 1972-1980 and 1989-1997
David Hilton Coore, QC
Formerly Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs
Dudley Joseph Thompson, QC
Attorney-at-Law; Jamaican High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria
The Honourable Mr Justice Carl Raphael Rattray, QC
President of the Court of Appeal
Dr Kenneth Osbourne Rattray, CD, QC
Solicitor General; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Retired)
