Sidney Poitier

Award-winning actor Sidney Poiter has been setting records long before he set the record of being the first Bahamian and African-American to receive an Academy Award for Best Actor. Poitier won the award for his performance in Lilies of the Field.

Before then, Poiter had also set the record of being the youngest soldier in his unit. After all, when he joined the military, he was only sixteen years of age and pretended to be older to get in. During his time in the military, Sidney served as a medical attendant.