Notable Residents
- Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer; owns a home near Galley Bay
- Calvin Ayre, billionaire founder of internet gambling company Bodog Entertainment Group
- Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister
- Richard Branson, Virgin Atlantic mogul
- Viv Richards, West Indian cricket legend; the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua was named in his honour
- Timothy Dalton, Actor of James Bond fame
- Eric Clapton, established an Antiguan drug treatment centre; has a home on the south of the island
- Ken Follett, the author of Eye of the Needle owns a house on Jumby Bay
- Marie-Elena John, Antiguan writer and former African Development Foundation specialist. Her debut novel, Unburnable was selected Best Debut of 2006 by Black Issues Book Review
- Jamaica Kincaid, novelist famous for her writings about life on Antigua. Her book A Small Place was banned under the Vere Bird administration
- Lee Malvo, Sniper was recruited by John Allen Mohamed in Antigua in 2001. They went on to kill several people in the Washington DC area in 2002.
- Allen Stanford, Texan billionaire and defrauder
- Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous fame.
- Archibald MacLeish Poet and (U.S.) Librarian of Congress.
- Rachel Lambert Mellon Horticulturist and philanthropist, has owned a compound in Antigua's Half Moon Bay since the 1950s.
- John Allen Muhammad Sniper and trainer lived in Antigua from 2000– 2002.
- Andy Roberts, the first Antiguan to play Test cricket for the West Indies. He was a member of the West Indies teams that won the 1975 and 1979 World Cups.
- Curtly Ambrose, legendary West-Indian cricketer
- Richie Richardson, former West-Indies cricket team captain
- Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner
- John Barrowman, actor, singer, entertainer
- Thomas J. Watson Jr.. CEO of IBM
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