Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt, MBE (21 September 1901 – 1 July 1971) was a Trinidadian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad and Tobago’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK’s first black peer. When Constantine returned to Trinidad and Tobago in late 1954, he found a growing desire for independence from Britain. At Trinidad Leaseholds he felt isolated from other, mainly white, senior staff; this drew him towards political involvement. Eric Williams, leader of the newly founded People’s National Movement (PNM), was aware of Constantine’s popular appeal and recruited him. By January 1956 Constantine, with the full co-operation and blessing of his employers, was party chairman and a member of its executive committee. Feeling that the PNM’s policies were in harmony with his views on improving the lives of black people, and encouraged by his wife, Constantine stood for election in the parliamentary constituency of Tunapuna in 1956. He won a narrow victory, which his colleagues believed few in the party could have done and resigned from Trinidad Leaseholds. The PNM formed a government, in which Constantine became the Minister of Communications, Works and Utilities.

The Rt Hon. Bhadase Sagan Maraj (29 February 1920 – 21 October 1971) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, Hindu leader, civil rights activist, trade unionist, landowner, businessman, philanthropist, wrestler, and writer. He founded the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha in 1952. He was a member of the Legislative Council for Tunapuna from 1950 – 1956

Winifred Atwell, a Trinidad-born classically trained pianist, acquired international fame and prestige in the North Atlantic, particularly in Britain and the United States, and in Australia. She was born on 27 April 1914 in the district of Tunapuna, mere months before the
start of World War I. By 1945, she had gone to the United States where she studied under Alexander Borovsky, and afterward she went to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music. She not only was the first black person to make it to the British top 10, but went on to become a regular star on the British charts during the 1950s. She became the highest paid piano player in Britain. Even during the 1960s, when her days on the charts were over, she remained very popular on television and in the clubs because of the entertaining and captivating nature of her live performances.  She is especially remembered for what she called “honkytonk,” a haunting kind of jazz-like music which she hammered on a specially put-together, untuned piano.

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989), who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was a Trinidadian historian, journalist, Trotskyist activist and Marxist writer. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. His work is a staple of Marxism, and he figures as a pioneering and influential voice in postcolonial literature. A tireless political activist, James is the author of the 1937 work World Revolution outlining the history of the Communist International, which stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and in 1938 he wrote on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins. premier secondary school, and upon graduating, he became a teacher there. He was among those who taught Eric Williams, who later became the country’s first prime minister. James died in London from a chest infection on 19 May 1989, aged 88. His funeral took place on Monday, 12 June in Trinidad, where he was buried at Tunapuna Cemetery. A state memorial service was held for him at the National Stadium, Port of Spain, on 28 June 1989.