Hugh Granville Sesay was a Federation Starfleet officer, of Sierra Leonean descent, on active duty in the late 23rd and 24th centuries. Sesay was born in 2274, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Dr. Julius Sesay, a professor of African languages and literatures at Leeds University, and Dr. Hannah Sesay, a professor of xenobiology at Starfleet Academy College of Medicine in San Francisco. He was promoted to full lieutenant and made assistant chief of communications in 2308.