- Diana Lebacs was born on September 12, 1947 in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. She was an actress, known for Sensei Redenshon (2013) and Apo-Clypse (1979). She died on July 11, 2022 in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.
- Her mother, Esther Amalia Doelwijt, was from Suriname and spoke Sranan Tongo, having moved to Curaçao at the age of eighteen.
- Her grandmother never learned Dutch and only spoke the Malay language and Papiamento. As her parents could only communicate in Dutch, Lebacs grew up speaking Dutch and Papiamento at home.
- Her father, Willem Mertjo Lebacs, was a chief customs officer, who also worked artistically as a carpenter and woodcarver.
- In 2007 she was honored as a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
- In 1976 she received Silver Stylus award, one of the Netherlands' highest honors for youth literature for her book Nancho van Bonaire.
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