Winston Vernon Saunders, CMG (3 October 1941 – 25 November 2006) was a Bahamian educator, lawyer, actor, playwright and cultural director.
Having attended the Bahamas Teachers' College, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Classics from the University of London in 1964.
Saunders was called to the Bahamas Bar in 1974, and later became a partner in the prestigious Bahamian law firm of McKinney, Bancroft and Hughes.
[1] An actor, playwright, director and producer, Saunders assumed the position of chairman of the Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts from 1975 to 1998.
[3] Saunders died aged 65 on 25 November 2006 in Jamaica, where, in his role as chairman of the Bahamas’ National Commission on Cultural Development, he was assisting in discussions to plan the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.