Lorna Goodison

Lorna Gaye Goodison CD is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades. She is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, previously serving as the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017, serving in the role until 2020. ^{Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author}

1 August 1947

Born on the same birth date (1 August 1947): Chantal Montellier

Born on the same birth day (1 August): Boz Burrell • Cliff Branch • Dean Cox • Gerda Taro • James Henry Govier • James St. James • Madison Bumgarner • María Teresa López Boegeholz • Pancho Villa (boxer) • Raul Renter • Tiffany Young • Tommy Bolin • Trevor Goddard (cricketer)

Born in the same month (August 1947): Alan Ward (cricketer) • Anwar Ibrahim • John Spencer (rugby union, born 1947) • John Varley (author) • Katharine Hamnett • Linda Thompson (singer) • Liza Wang • Luca Cordero di Montezemolo • Nicolae Dobrin • Theo de Jong