List of recipients of the Order of Jamaica

This list includes the names of people who have received the Order of Jamaica, sorted alphabetically by last name, along with the year in which they were honoured.^[1] Members of the Order of Jamaica are entitled to be styled "The Honourable" and have the post-nominal letters 'O.J.' and 'O.J. (Hon.)', as appropriate.^[1]

Recipient	Year
Giuseppe (Pino) Maffessanti	2018[2]
Howard Aris	2012[3]
Professor Barbara Evelyn Bailey	2008[4]
Amy Bailey	1990[5]
Enid Bennett	2012[3]
Christopher Blackwell	2004[6]
Bishop Herro Blair	2007[7][8]
Usain Bolt	2009[9][10]
Steve Bucknor	2007[8]
Archbishop Lawrence Burke	2009[10]
Dr. Gladstone Chang	2011[11]
Bill Clarke	2007[8]
Sue M. Cobb	2010[12]
Headley Cunningham	2007[7]
Queen Sofía of Spain	2009[13]
Dr. Rae Davis	2006[14]
Godfrey Glengoffe Dyer	2018[15]
May Farquharson	1990[5]
Michael Fennell	2005[16]
Professor Peter Figueroa	2008[4]
Arnold Foote	2010[12]
Terrence Forrester	2012[3]
Vincent Stephen Francis	2017[17]
Dr. Julius Winston Garvey	2019[18]
Dr. Mavis Gilmour-Petersen	2009[19]
Dr. Carolyn Gomes	2009[10]
Reverend Weeville Gordon	2007[7]
Phillip Frederick Gore	2017[17]
Ray Elias Hadeed	2006[14]
Professor Kenneth O. Hall	2004[6]
Tony Hart	2017[17]
Zaila McCalla	2007[20]
Dr. Marshall McGowan Hall	2010[12]
Hugh Hart	2011[11]
Toots Hibbert	2012[3]
Richard Ho Lung	2008[21]
Patrick Andrew Alwyn Junior Hylton	2020[22]
Earl Wesley Adolph Jarrett	2018[15]
Professor Edwin Jones	2007[8]
Grace Beverly Jones	2018[15]
Byron Lee	2008[23]
Michael Lee-Chin	2008[4]
Robert Earle Levy	2019[18]
Beverley Lopez	2006[14]
Henry Lowe	2012[3]
Ferdinand Mahfood	2012[3]
Dr. Alferita Constantia "Rita" Marley	2019[18]
Neville McCook	2006[14]
Archibald McDonald	2017[17]
Claude McKay	1977 (posthumous)[24][25]
Queen's Counsel Shirley Miller	2004[6]
Professor Owen St. Clair Morgan	2006[14]
Peter Moses	2011[11]
Keble Munn	2007[8]
Merlene Joyce Ottey	2020[22]
Frank Phipps	2011[11]
Robert Dixon Pickersgill	2019[18]
Dorothy Pine-McLarty	2007[8]
Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon	2010[12]
Donald Reece	2012[3]
Reverend Alfred Reid	2005[16]
Molly Rhone	2011[11]
Patrick Robinson	2009[10]
Derrick Rochester	2012[3]
Karl George Samuda	2020[22]
Douglas Anthony Clive Saunders	2011[11]
Professor Gordon Shirley	2009[10]
Reverend Carmen Stewart	2007[7]
Clifton George Whyms Stone	2017[17]
Adrian Strachan	2007[26]
Thomas George Tavares-Finson	2020[22]
Garth Taylor	2005[16]
Muriel Lowe Valentine	2009[10]
Bunny Wailer	2012[3]
Danville Walker	2008[4]
Basil Watson	2005[16]
Brian Hector John Wynter	2020[22]
Professor Sylvia Wynter	2010[12]
Kenneth Smith	1973[27][28]
Dr. Kenneth Osbourne Rattray	1983[29][30]
Pearnel Patroe Charles	2021[31]
Dr. Peter David Phillips	2021[31]
Ian Kent Levy	2021[31]
Ernest Adheir "Ernie" Ranglin	2021[31]
Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander	2022[32]
Joan Isabelle Duncan	2022 (posthumous)[32]
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	2022[32]
Olivia "Babsy" Grange	2022[32]
Justice (Ret'd) Karl Stanhope Harrison	2022[32]
Rita Humphries-Lewin	2022[32]
Professor Maureen A. Samms-Vaughan	2022[32]
Audrey Vivia Sewell	2022[32]
Professor Alvin George Wint	2022[32]
Sheryl Lee Ralph	2022 (honorary)[32]
Howard Gregory	2023[33]

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External links

• "Members of the Order of Jamaica", Jamaica Information Service. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
• Order of Jamaica, Office of the Prime Minister. Retrieved 19 April 2016.