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List of Alpha Phi Alpha members

The list of Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) brothers (commonly referred to as Alphas)[1] includes initiated and honorary members. Alpha Phi Alpha is the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for Black college students.[2] Convened in December 1905 as a literary society with the first presiding officer being CC Poindexter, it was established as a fraternity on December 4, 1906, at Ithaca, New York. Alpha Phi Alpha opened chapters at other colleges, universities, and cities, and named them with Greek letters. Members traditionally pledge into a chapter, although some members were granted honorary status before the fraternity discontinued the practice of granting honorary membership. A chapter name ending in "Lambda" denotes an alumni chapter.[3] The only alumni chapter that does not end in "Lambda" is Rho Chapter, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

No chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha is designated Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet that traditionally signifies "the end". Deceased brothers are respectfully referred to as having their membership transferred to Omega Chapter, the fraternity's chapter of sweet rest.[4] Frederick Douglass is distinguished as the only member initiated posthumously when he became an exalted honorary member of the Omega chapter in 1921.[5]

The fraternity through its college and alumni chapters serves the community through nearly a thousand chapters in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.[6]

The fraternity has been led by 36 General Presidents. Its membership includes two premiers; four governors; a vice president, four senators; a Supreme Court justice; two presidential candidates; Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Lenin Peace Prize, Kluge Prize, Golden Globe, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Emmy Award winners; French Légion d'honneur and Croix de Guerre laureates; at least four Rhodes Scholars; eighteen diplomats; fourteen Presidential Medal of Freedom, seven Congressional Gold Medal, and seventeen Spingarn Medal recipients; and eighteen Olympians. Buildings, monuments, stadiums, arenas, courthouses, and schools have been named after Alpha men, such as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the Thurgood Marshall Public Policy Building at the University of Maryland, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge, the Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, the Paul Robeson Plaza at Rutgers University, the Jack Trice Stadium at Iowa State University, the John H. Johnson School of Communication at Howard University, the Oscar W. Ritchie Pan-African Cultural Arts Center at Kent State University, the Arvarh E. Strickland General Classroom Building at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the G. Larry James Memorial Stadium, the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse, the John H. Stroger Cook County hospital, the John Hope Franklin Memorial Plaza in Tulsa Oklahoma, the Stephan P. Mickle Sr. Courthouse, the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building, the Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building, the A. Maceo Smith Federal Building, the Robert F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, and the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

The House of Alpha

The House of Alpha was first published in the December 1923 edition of The Sphinx Magazine. The poem would later be attributed to Bro. Sidney P. Brown and quickly became a staple within the fraternity. When speaking about the poem in 1981, Brown cited his experiences with Beta (Washington, D.C.), Theta (Chicago), Xi Lambda (Chicago Alumni), and Eta Lambda (Atlanta Alumni) as collective inspirations for the poem.[7] Loyalty to the Fraternity was repeatedly urged by brothers on the part of those who were among the initiated, and for every chapter with the vision of a fraternity house. The statement has become a manifesto for the national fraternity and chapters, as each may symbolically be referred to as a "House of Alpha".[8][9]

Eugene K. Jones, sometimes referred to as "The Visionary Jewel", once said:

Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good and practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem...should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.[10]

Here follows a list of notable Alphas.

Founders

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Henry Arthur CallisAlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 6th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; physician[11][12]
Charles Henry ChapmanAlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Professor of Agriculture at FAMU[11]
Eugene Kinckle JonesAlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; first Executive Director of the National Urban League; member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet[11][13]
George Biddle KelleyAlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; first Black licensed engineer of New York[11]
Nathaniel Allison MurrayAlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; career educator[11]
Robert Harold OgleAlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; professional staff member to the US Congressional Committee on Appropriations[11]
Vertner Woodson TandyAlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha; architect, whose most famous commission was the mansion of Harlem millionaire Madam C.J. Walker[11][14]
Charter for Alpha Phi Alpha's Alpha chapter with signatures of founders, Cornell University, circa 1906

Academia

Educators

Ninety-five percent of all Black colleges have been headed by an Alpha.[9]

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Herman BransonBeta GammaPresident of Central State University and Lincoln University; co-discoverer of the alpha helix; sickle-cell physicist[15][16]
James P. BrawleyAlpha DeltaPresident of Clark College[citation needed]
Calvin BurnettDelta LambdaPresident of Coppin State University[17]
Julius ChambersGamma BetaAttorney who argued in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; third Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; president of North Carolina Central University[17][18]
James CheekBeta RhoPresident of Howard University[19]
Thomas W. Cole Jr.Alpha SigmaFirst President of Clark Atlanta University, president of West Virginia State University, Interim Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Amherst[20]
Thomas W. Cole Sr.Alpha SigmaPresident of Wiley College; 21st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha[12][17]
Matthew DavageAlpha PhiPresident of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University[21]
William B. DelauderBeta AlphaPresident of Delaware State University[19]
James DouglasDelta ThetaPresident of Texas Southern University[17]
John Malcus EllisonGammaFirst African American President of Virginia Union University, 1941[13]
Ernest A. Finney Jr.Delta AlphaChief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Representatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University[19][22]
Floyd H. FlakeZeta Gamma LambdaFormer US Congressman from New York; president of Wilberforce University; pastor of Greater Allen Cathedral of New York[23][24]
Elson S. FloydMu ZetaFirst African American President of three universities: Western Michigan University, University of Missouri, and Washington State University[25]: 78 
Luther H. Foster Jr.Beta GammaFourth President of Tuskegee University[26]
Luther H. Foster Sr.Gamma PhiPresident of Virginia State University[27]
Norman FrancisSigma LambdaPresident of Xavier University; President of Louisiana Recovery Authority; 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient[28][29]
Robert Michael Franklin Jr.Eta LambdaPresident of Morehouse College[30]
James R. GavinGamma MuPresident of Morehouse School of Medicine[21]
Hugh M. GlosterAlpha RhoPresident of Morehouse College; Physician, Founder and namesake of the Morehouse School of Medicine Hugh M. Gloster Society[21]
George Gore Jr.Tau LambdaFifth President of Florida A&M University; Interim President of Fisk University; founder of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society[31][32]
Ervin V. Griffin Sr.Beta ThetaPresident of West Virginia State College[33]
William H. HaleBeta KappaPresident of Langston University[34]
Jaffus HardrickZeta Xi14th President of Florida Memorial University[35]
G. Lamar HarrisonBetaPresident of Langston University[36]
Cornelius HendersonAlpha PhiPresident of Gammon Theological Seminary[17][37]
Charles A. HinesBetaPresident of Prairie View A&M University; Major General[38]
Ernest HollowayBeta Kappa14th President of Langston University[17]
John HopeEta LambdaFirst Black President of Morehouse College; president of Atlanta University; co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; fourth president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History; 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient[21][39][40][41]
Freeman A. Hrabowski IIIGamma IotaPresident of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; social activist[42][43]
Frederick S. HumphriesBeta NuEighth President of Florida A&M University[19]
William P. Hytche Sr.Beta KappaPresident of University of Maryland Eastern Shore[44]
Charles S. JohnsonGammaEditor of the National Urban League's Opportunity magazine; first Black President of Fisk University[13]
Walter M. KimbroughZeta PiPresident of Dillard University; author[19][45]
Raphael LanierMu LambdaUnited States Ambassador to Liberia; first president of Texas Southern University[15]
Thomas F. LawDelta RhoFirst President of Saint Paul's College[17]
John H. LewisZetaPresident of Morris Brown College[21]
Joseph T. McMillan Jr.BetaFirst President of Huston–Tillotson College[17]
John A. MiddletonNu Eta LambdaPresident of Morris Brown College[21]
Luna MishoeAlpha Pi LambdaPresident of Delaware State University[46]
Elfred A. PackardChi Lambda22nd President of Wilberforce University[47]
Frederick D. PattersonAlpha NuThird President of Tuskegee University; co-founder of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF); 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom; 1988 Spingarn Medal recipient[28][39][48]
Benjamin PaytonBeta DeltaFifth President of Tuskegee University[17]
Henry PonderBeta KappaPresident of Talladega College, Fisk University and Benedict College; 28th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; vice chairman of the World Policy Council[12][15][49]
Earl RichardsonDelta NuPresident of Morgan State University[17]
John B. SlaughterKappa TauPresident of University of Maryland and Occidental College; first African American Director of the National Science Foundation[citation needed]
Kent J. Smith Jr.Beta Sigma16th President of Langston University[17]
Louis Wade SullivanAlpha RhoSecretary of Health and Human Services; co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine[19]
Ronald TempleDelta Gamma LambdaPresident of City Colleges of Chicago[19]
Jack ThomasTau Lambda11th President of Western Illinois University; first African American President of WIU; author; national and international keynote speaker/lecturer[50]
Gregory J. VincentAlpha Rho LambdaPresident of Hobart College and William Smith College; Professor; Attorney, civil rights and social justice expert[12][19][17]
Walter WashingtonGamma UpsilonPresident of Alcorn State University; 24th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha[12][17]
Charles H. WesleyZetaPresident of Central State University; president of Wilberforce University; executive director and president of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH); 14th general president and historian of Alpha Phi Alpha[12][19][41]
Sidney David WilliamsBeta ZetaFourth President of Elizabeth City State University[51]
Floyd Flake
Norman Francis
Charles S. Johnson
Louis Sullivan

Scholarship

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
David H. BlackwellTauProfessor of Mathematics University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley); first Black person admitted to the National Academy of Sciences; first tenured black professor in UC Berkeley history; former Chair of the Department of Statistics[52]
William Jelani CobbKappa Phi LambdaProfessor of Journalism at Columbia University; former Professor of History and Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut; author of The Substance of Hope; staff writer at The New Yorker magazine; contributor to MSNBC TV; Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism[53]
Kevin CokleyXi EtaAuthor of The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism; former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Black Psychology; University of Texas at Austin educational psychology professor; first Black person admitted to the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers; Association of Black Psychologists Distinguished Psychologist[54]
William P. FosterUpsilonCreator of the Florida A&M University Marching "100" Band[55]
E. Franklin FrazierDelta Nu LambdaAmerican sociologist; author of The Negro Family, Black Bourgeoisie, and On Race Relations; Fisk University Professor; recipient of 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the most significant work in the field of race relations; Guggenheim Fellowship Award recipient[56]
John Hope FranklinAlpha ChiPresident of American Historical Association; 1995 Spingarn Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2006 Kluge Prize recipient; author of From Slavery To Freedom; namesake of the John Hope Franklin Memorial Plaza at the site of the Tulsa, Oklahoma "Black Wall Street" massacre and race riot.[17][39][57][58]
Ernest J. HarrisGamma DeltaResearch entomologist; developer of the "male annihilation" method of insect control adopted by over 20 countries; original Montford Point Marine and 2017 recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal[59]
Hobart JarrettAlpha SigmaMember of the Wiley College Debate Team that in 1935 defeated the University of Southern California national champions; author of the second volume of The History of Sigma Pi Phi[60][61]
Elgy JohnsonAlpha OmicronMathematician[15]
Marshall JonesBeta Pi LambdaAcclaimed research scientist in the field of laser additive technologies; 2017 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame[62]
Kelly MillerBeta
(honorary)		Leading African-American intellectual for more than half a century; first Black person admitted to Johns Hopkins University[19][63][64]
James A. PorterBetaScholar whose book Modern Negro Art became a standard reference work on Black art in America[65][66]
J. Marshall ShepherdKappa Phi LambdaPhysicist; NASA meteorologist; international expert on weather and global climate change; university professor[67]
Warren WashingtonEpsilon Zeta LambdaClimate change scientist; 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for Science recipient; first African American President of the American Meteorological Society; awarded 2010 National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama; presidential advisor to Presidents Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes; professor of climatology at the University of Oregon[68]
Robert E. Weems Jr.ThetaWillard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University; acclaimed for extensive and systematic research on African American consumerism; lecturer and author of books on the economic history of African Americans including Black Business in the Black Metropolis, Desegregating the Dollar, and Business in Black and White[69]
Cornel WestZeta Beta LambdaProfessor of religion at Harvard and Princeton; author and social activist[19]
Roger L. YoumansUpsilonSurgeon; University of California Berkeley medical professor; author of When Elephants Fight: An American Surgeon's Chronicle of Congo[67]
John Franklin
Kelly Miller
Cornel West

Rhodes scholars

The Rhodes Scholarship is the world's oldest and arguably most prestigious international fellowship. The scholarships have been awarded to applicants annually since 1902 by the Rhodes Trust in Oxford based on academic qualities, as well as those of character.

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Heyward DotsonEta1970 Rhodes Scholar; former NBA player[70]
Norman Washington ManleyBeta Beta Lambda1914 Rhodes Scholar; Premier of Jamaica; founder of Jamaica's People's National Party[71][72]
Westley MooreSigma Sigma2001 Rhodes Scholar; New York Times bestselling author[73]
Randal PinkettKappa Phi Lambda1994 Rhodes Scholar; fourth winner of NBC's reality show The Apprentice[74][75]
Andrew ZawackiKappa Pi1994 Rhodes Scholar[28]
Westley Moore

Business

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Mark D. BanksDelta Alpha LambdaPresident of Logos Consulting[19]
Jesse BingaTheta

(honorary)

Founder of Binga State Bank in Chicago[63]
Henry BrownAlpha Eta LambdaVice President for Marketing Affairs and Development with Anheuser-Busch[76]
W. Melvin BrownBeta DeltaCEO of American Development Corporation[19]
Thomas J. BurrellThetaCEO of Burrell Advertising[19]
Theodore Colbert IIIGamma LambdaCEO, Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Allen CountsBetaChairman of Doley Securities, Inc.; former President of Mcclendon, Pryor, Counts (once the largest black-owned investment bank in the US)[38]
Nathaniel GoldstonDelta Psi LambdaCEO and founder of Gourmet Services[76]
Brett J. HartEpsilonCEO and President of United Airlines[77]
Alonzo F. HerndonEta Lambda
(honorary)		Founder and President of Atlanta Life Insurance; namesake of the Alonzo Herndon Stadium at Morris Brown College[21][78]
Norris HerndonSigmaPresident of Atlanta Life Insurance[79]
Eugene JacksonEpsilon PsiCEO of World African Network[46]
Charles James IIIDelta ZetaCEO of James Produce[76]
Clifton JeterBetaCEO of the Agricultural Federal Credit Union; CFO of Kennedy Center[38]
John H. JohnsonThetaFounder of Johnson Publishing Company, which publishes Ebony and Jet magazines; the first Black person to appear on the Forbes 400 "Rich List"; namesake of Howard University's School of Communications; Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1966 Spingarn Medal recipient; a portion of Chicago's famed Michigan Avenue was renamed "John H. Johnson Avenue"[28][39][80]
Joe W. LaymonDelta PhiVice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services; Chevron Corporation[81]
L. D. MiltonunknownPresident of Citizens Bank[46]
Randy ParkerEta PsiCEO Hyundai Automotive Corporation North America[82]
Henry ParksKappaFounder of Parks Sausage[19]
William F. PickardEpsilon XiCEO Global Automotive Alliance; professor University of Michigan School of Business; 2001 Michigan Citizen of the Year award winner; business lecturer[83]
Samuel PierceAlphaSecretary of Housing and Urban Development; argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther King Jr. and The New York Times in the important First Amendment case styled New York Times v. Sullivan; first African-American to serve on the board of directors of a Fortune 500 company[84][85][86]
Jonathan RodgersAlpha EpsilonCEO of TV One; president of CBS Television Stations; executive producer for the CBS Morning News and weekend evening newscasts[citation needed]
Joshua SmithDelta XiCEO of Maxima Corporation[19]
Robert F. SmithAlphaFounder of Vista Equity Partners; namesake of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University[87]
Everette TaylorTheta IotaCEO of PopSocial, co-founder of GrowthHackers[88]
Don ThompsonGamma RhoCEO and President of McDonald's, worldwide[89]
Alonzo Herndon
Gerald Albright
Duke Ellington

Entertainment

Music

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Cannonball AdderleyBeta NuJazz saxophonist[90]
Gerald AlbrightIota ChiJazz saxophonist[19]
Jerry ButlerXi LambdaSongwriter, composer; former lead singer of The Impressions; 1991 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; 1993 NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame inductee[19]
Duke EllingtonAlpha Zeta LambdaComposer, bandleader, actor; Grammy Award winner; 1959 Spingarn Medal and 1969 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Pulitzer Prize in recognition of his musical genius[19][39][91]
Marc GayBetaSinger in the R&B group Shai[19]
Lionel HamptonPhiJazz percussionist and bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient; Goodwill Ambassador for the United States[90][92]
Antonio HartSigmaJazz saxophonist[19]
Donny HathawayBetaSongwriter and arranger for The Staple Singers, Jerry Butler, and Aretha Franklin; singer who recorded duets with Roberta Flack; recorded the theme song to the TV series Maude[19][93]
Fletcher HendersonAlpha PhiPianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music[94]
Carl MartinBetaSinger in the R&B group Shai[90]
Lionel RichieAlpha Nu LambdaSinger and member of the Commodores; Grammy Award and Academy Award winner; 2003 Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree[90]
Noble SissleThetaJazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, and singer of the Harlem Renaissance; lyricist of Shuffle Along, which became the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African-Americans[95][96]
Lanzel Smith Jr.Delta ZetaInternational Disc Jockey and multi-faceted producer[97]
Darnell Van RensalierBetaSinger in the R&B group Shai[90]
Jonathan WhiteGamma DeltaJazz composer, saxophonist[90]
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Richie
Noble Sissle

Film, television, and theatre

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Yahya Abdul-Mateen IIAlpha EpsilonActor, best known for Candyman, The Get Down, The Greatest Showman, Baywatch, Aquaman, Watchmen; 2020 Emmy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor[98]
Darryl M. BellDelta ZetaActor, best known for A Different World[19]
Bret E. BensonMu GammaActor in TV and film; motivational speaker, best known for ATLANTA, Fatal Attraction, Angie's List[19]
Benny BoomPi RhoDirector of music videos; director of 2017 Tupac biography movie All Eyez On Me[19]
Rusty CundieffAlpha DeltaActor, writer; director of Tales from the Hood and Chappelle's Show; correspondent on TV Nation[19]
Rel DowdellAlpha ChiWriter and director of feature films Train Ride and Changing the Game[19]
Todd DuncanMu LambdaFirst Black person to sing with a major opera company; the original Porgy in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; 1984 George Peabody Medal of Music recipient[19][99]
Andra FullerTau AlphaActor, best known for Black Jesus, RoomieLoverFriends, The L.A. Complex[19]
Kevin GreviouxBetaWriter, producer, actor in Underworld films, The Mask, Steel, Congo, Planet of the Apes[citation needed]
Gary HardwickEpsilonProducer, writer, director of The Brothers, Deliver Us from Eva, Radio, and Bring It On[19]
Omari HardwickZeta PiActor in Saved, Dark Blue, Power, and The A-Team[100][101]
Rob HardyBeta NuFilm director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director[citation needed]
Hill HarperKappa Phi LambdaActor on The Good Doctor, CSI: NY; author of Letters to a Young Brother[102][103]
Lanre IdewuAlpha ThetaActor, producer best known for South Side, Sherman’s Showcase, Arrested Development, The Game, The Choir[citation needed]
Barry JenkinsIota DeltaFirst African American director to win an Oscar Academy Award for Best Picture (Moonlight); Director of 2019 Golden Globe Award-winning movie If Beale Street Could Talk[104]
Christian KeyesZeta BetaTelevision and movie actor, singer, and model; Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Let's Stay Together, Moonlight, Sex Chronicles[105]
Vaughn LoweryAlphaModel, actor, and president/founder of 360 Magazine; model for Joe Boxer, Gap, Fila, Target, Old Navy, Dasani, Skechers, and Ecko Unlimited; runway model for Tommy Hilfiger, Phat Farm, and Karl Kani[106]
Yohance MylesBeta UpsilonTelevision and movie actor; Containment, Into the Badlands, 2 Guns[107]
William PackerBeta NuProducer and director of films, including The Gospel, Pandora's Box, Stomp the Yard, Trois, and Roots (2016 remake); first African American to produce the Academy Awards Oscar presentations ceremony (2022)[108]
Joseph C. PhillipsIota Zeta LambdaActor on The Cosby Show, General Hospital, and Strictly Business; political commentator on NPR's News and Notes with Ed Gordon[19]
Randal PinkettKappa Phi LambdaFourth winner of NBC's reality show The Apprentice; Rhodes Scholar[74][75]
Kevin PowellZeta EtaCast member of The Real World: New York; political activist; poet; writer; entrepreneur[109]
Tim ReidEta LambdaActor, Sister, Sister, WKRP in Cincinnati, That '70s Show[110]
Paul RobesonNuNFL player; actor; singer; attorney; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate[39]
Terrell TilfordAlpha EpsilonTelevision and movie actor, Soul Food, Days Of Our Lives, Guiding Light, One Life To Live, The Protector[citation needed]
Drew WatkinsBetaProducer of Inside the NBA; two-time Emmy Award winner[38]
Keenen Ivory WayansGamma PhiCreator of comedy series In Living Color; actor, comedian, writer, director; Emmy Award winner[19]
Hill Harper
Paul Robeson

Government, law, and public policy

Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the first relevant section.

US Vice Presidents and Supreme Court

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Hubert HumphreyHonorary38th Vice President of the United States; 1968 Presidential candidate; Senator from Minnesota; Mayor of Minneapolis; 1979 Congressional Gold Medal and 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient[111][112][113]
Thurgood MarshallNuFirst African American Justice of US Supreme Court; attorney in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; first Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; 1946 Spingarn Medal and 1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; authored the Constitution for the newly independent African nation of Kenya[84][114]
Hubert Humphrey
Thurgood Marshall

Cabinet and Cabinet-level ranks

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Lee P. BrownEpsilon BetaDirector of National Drug Control Policy; first African-American mayor of Houston, Texas
Robert J. BrownMu LambdaSpecial Assistant to President Nixon for Minority Affairs[115][116]
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.PsiSecretary of Transportation; first Black Supreme Court law clerk; co-author of the brief in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; co-counsel on the landmark case McLaughlin v. Florida, which established the constitutionality of interracial marriages; editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient[84][117]
Don Cravins Jr.Nu PsiUnder Secretary of Commerce for Minority Business Development; Executive Vice President and COO of the National Urban League; Louisiana State Legislature[84][118]
Malcolm JacksonDelta PhiChief Information Officer and Assistant Administrator: Office of Environmental Information[63][119]
Rayford LoganOmicronFirst Executive Director of the National Urban League; member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet; second Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha[12][120]
Samuel PierceAlphaSecretary of Housing and Urban Development; argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther King Jr. and The New York Times in the important First Amendment case styled New York Times v. Sullivan; first African-American to serve on the Board of Directors of a Fortune 500 company[84][85]
Emmett ScottHonorarySpecial Assistant to the Secretary of War[63]
Ron C. SimsZeta Pi LambdaDeputy Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; served as King County Executive, King County, Washington[63]
Louis Wade SullivanAlpha RhoSecretary of Health and Human Services; co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine[19]
Lee Brown
Samuel Pierce
Louis Sullivan
Don R. Cravins Jr.

Members of the United States Congress

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Edward BrookeBetaSenator from Massachusetts; Attorney General of Massachusetts; Chairman Emeritus of World Policy Council; 1967 Spingarn Medal and 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient[38][84][121]
Roland BurrisBeta EtaSenator from Illinois, appointed to fill the seat vacated by President Barack Obama; first Black Illinois Attorney General[122][123]
Hansen ClarkeGamma LambdaRepresentative from Michigan[124]
Emanuel CleaverEta GammaRepresentative from Missouri; Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri[28][125]
Danny K. DavisGamma DeltaRepresentative from Illinois[126]
William DawsonThetaRepresentative from Illinois; first African-American chairman of a regular House Committee (Committee on Expenditures in Executive Department); Dawson Technical Institute at Kennedy-King College (Chicago) is named in his honor[19]
Ron DellumsDelta OmicronRepresentative from California; co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; Mayor of Oakland; led the fight in the US against South African apartheid; namesake of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland[84][127][128]
Julian C. DixonAlpha DeltaRepresentative from California[84]
Chaka FattahZeta Omicron LambdaRepresentative from Pennsylvania[19]
Floyd H. FlakeZeta Gamma LambdaRepresentative from Illinois; president of Wilberforce University[23][24]
Harold Ford Sr.Beta OmicronRepresentative from Tennessee; legislator of Tennessee[84]
William H. GrayRhoRepresentative from Pennsylvania; House Majority Whip and House Democratic Whip; CEO of the United Negro College Fund[19]
Al GreenBeta NuRepresentative from Texas[126]
Earl F. HilliardAlpha RhoRepresentative from Alabama; Legislator of Alabama[84]
Steven HorsfordEta LambdaRepresentative from Nevada[129]
Gregory W. MeeksZeta Zeta LambdaRepresentative from New York; New York State Assembly[84]
Ralph MetcalfeAlpha XiRepresentative from Illinois; co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; 1932 and 1936 Olympian; Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building (Chicago) is named in his honor[84][128]
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.EtaFirst Black Representative from New York (Harlem); Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee; first African American Chairman of a major committee in the U.S. House of Representatives; early civil rights and racial equality legislation advocate; long-time pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church[84]
Charles B. RangelAlpha Gamma LambdaRepresentative from New York; co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; the first Black person to chair the Committee on Ways and Means; New York State Assembly Representative; Marine combat veteran awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals[19][128][130]
David ScottBeta NuRepresentative from Georgia[131]
Robert C. ScottSigmaRepresentative from Virginia[19]
Bennett M. StewartXi LambdaRepresentative from Illinois[22]
Raphael WarnockAlpha Gamma LambdaSenator from Georgia; first African American Senator elected from Georgia; Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta[132]
William Dawson
Ron Dellums
Julian Dixon
Chaka Fattah
Harold Ford Sr.
William H. Gray

US Governors and Lieutenant Governors

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Justin FairfaxKappa OmicronLieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia[25]: 31 
Walter A. GordonAlpha Epsilon17th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands; Federal District Judge of the United States Virgin Islands[133][134]
Westley MooreSigma Sigma2001 Rhodes Scholar; 63rd Governor of Maryland[73]
Joe RogersOmicron TauLieutenant Governor of Colorado[135]
Roy L. SchneiderBeta25th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands[38]
Charles Wesley TurnbullGamma Iota26th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands[135][136]
James R. WilliamsAlpha TauLieutenant Governor of Ohio candidate; 25th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha[137][12]
Ralph Metcalfe
Adam Powell Jr.

Diplomats

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Samuel Clifford Adams Jr.Alpha ChiU.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Niger[138]
Orison Rudolph AggreyGamma IotaAmbassador to Republic of The Gambia, Republic of Senegal, and Romania[84]
Archibald Carey Jr.ThetaDiplomat; attorney; Circuit Court Judge; Pastor[139][140]
Walter CarringtonSigmaAmbassador to Republic of Senegal and Federal Republic of Nigeria[141][142]
Horace DawsonNuAmbassador to Republic of Botswana; Director of the Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University; Chairman of the World Policy Council[15]
Frederick Douglass(honorary)Minister to Republic of Haiti; anti-slavery activist[28][143]
Edward R. DudleyAlpha OmicronUnited States Ambassador to Liberia; First African American to hold the rank ambassador; Justice of the New York Supreme Court[144]
Walter A. GordonAlpha EpsilonU.S. Federal District Court Judge; Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands; First All-American football player in University of California history and California state champion in wrestling and boxing; Chartering member of Alpha Epsilon chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.[145]
Lionel HamptonPhiGoodwill Ambassador; jazz percussionist and bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient[90][92]
James A. JosephBeta SigmaAmbassador to South Africa; Under Secretary of Interior[19]
Kenton KeithUpsilonAmbassador to State of Qatar[49]
Raphael LanierMu LambdaMinister to Liberia; first president of Texas Southern University[15]
Delano LewisUpsilonAmbassador to South Africa; President and Chief Executive Officer of National Public Radio; President of The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company[19][146]
Frenise A. LoganAlpha ChiDiplomatic cultural affairs attache' in Madras and Calcutta, India; Historian; Poet[147]
Donald McHenryEta TauAmbassador to United Nations[84]
John H. MorrowDelta IotaFirst United States Ambassador to Guinea after its independence; first US Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)[148][149]
Gerald Eustis ThomasSigmaAmbassador to Guyana and Kenya; Admiral, US Navy[22][150]
Terence TodmanDelta ZetaAmbassador to Republic of Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark, and Argentina[22][150]
Lester WaltonEtaMinister to Liberia[151][152]
Clifton Reginald Wharton Sr.SigmaAmbassador to Norway and Minister to Romania[79][153]
Franklin H. WilliamsNuAmbassador to Republic of Ghana and the United Nations; President of the Phelps-Stokes Fund[19]
Andrew YoungBetaAmbassador to the United Nations; Representative from Georgia; two-term Mayor of Atlanta; 1990 Governor of Georgia candidate; 1978 Spingarn Medal, 1981 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and French Légion d'honneur recipient[28][39][154][155]
Robert Scott
Charles Turnbull
Frederick Douglass

Mayors

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Dennis ArcherAlpha UpsilonJustice of the Michigan Supreme Court; Mayor of Detroit, Michigan; first Black President of the American Bar Association[19]
Richard Arrington Jr.Gamma KappaFirst Black Mayor of Birmingham[19]
Ras J. BarakaAlpha Alpha LambdaMayor of Newark, New Jersey; Grammy Award-winning music producer; educator; author
Thomas V. BarnesGamma RhoMayor of Gary, Indiana[22]
Marion BarryBeta XiMayor of Washington, D.C.; first Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)[15][156]
Ted BerryAlpha AlphaFirst Black Mayor of Cincinnati; board member of the NAACP[157]
Byron BrownDelta EpsilonSenator of New York; first Black Mayor of Buffalo[158]
Willie BrownXi RhoFirst Black Mayor of San Francisco; Speaker of the California State Assembly; the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is in part named in his honor[19][159]
Melvin CarterBeta NuFirst Black Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota[25]: 42 
Lawrence D. CrawfordEpsilonMayor of Saginaw, Michigan[160]
David DinkinsBetaFirst Black Mayor of New York City[19]
Gow FieldsMu Zeta LambdaFirst Black Mayor of Lakeland, Florida[161]
Anthony FordXi IotaMayor of Stockridge, Georgia[25]: 35 
Maynard JacksonAlpha RhoFirst Black and three-term Mayor of Atlanta; Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is in part named in his honor[19]
Harvey Johnson Jr.Beta OmicronFirst Black Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi[162]
Kwame KilpatrickBeta NuMayor of Detroit who resigned after pleading guilty to felony charges stemming from a text message scandal; convicted of federal charges including racketeering and extortion[19][163][164]
Henry L. Marsh IIIGammaFirst African American Mayor of Richmond[165]
Rudolph McCollum Jr.BetaMayor of Richmond[38]
James McGeeXiFirst Black Mayor of Dayton[166]
Wayne M. MessamIota DeltaFirst Black Mayor of Miramar, Florida[167]
Ernest Nathan MorialBeta TauLouisiana State Legislature; first Black Mayor of New Orleans; namesake of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans[28]
Marc MorialPsiLouisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League[28][168]
J.O. PattersonAlpha ChiFirst African American Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee[169]
Timothy L. RaglandUpsilon EtaFirst African American and youngest Mayor in the history of Talladega, Alabama[170]
Norm RiceZeta Pi LambdaFirst and only African-American Mayor of Seattle[28]
Eugene SawyerBeta UpsilonMayor of Chicago[46]
Frank Scott Jr.Kappa EtaMayor of Little Rock, Arkansas[25]: 42 
AC WhartonBeta OmicronMayor of Memphis, Tennessee[28]
Lionel WilsonAlpha EpsilonFirst Black Mayor of Oakland[28]
Randall WoodfinAlpha RhoMayor of Birmingham, Alabama[25]: 42 
Marion Barry
Byron Brown
Willie Brown
David Dinkins

Judges and lawyers

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Ralph Bailey Jr.Alpha PiFirst full-time African-American male judge in Henry County, Georgia[171]
Robert BenhamEta LambdaChief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia[21]
Joe BrownKappa EtaHost of the syndicated show Judge Joe Brown; presided over James Earl Ray's last appeal for Ray's conviction for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.[19][172]
Robert L. CarterNuPivotal role in Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, and NAACP v. Alabama; US District Court Judge; 2004 Spingarn Medal recipient; Federal District Appellate Judge[39][173][174]
Julius ChambersGamma BetaAttorney in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; third Director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; president of North Carolina Central University[17][18]
U. W. ClemonOmicron LambdaU.S Federal District Court Judge for Alabama[175]
Christopher DardenEpsilon MuProsecutor in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson[176]
Milton C. DavisGamma PhiAssistant Attorney General of the state of Alabama who researched and wrote opinions which led Governor George Wallace to pardon Clarence Norris, the last known surviving defendant in the international cause célèbre case of the Scottsboro Boys; 29th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha[12][177]
Harry T. EdwardsTheta Zeta LambdaJustice for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[84]
Jerome FarrisAlpha RhoFirst Black Federal Judge appointed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals[178]
Ernest A. Finney Jr.Delta AlphaChief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Representatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University; attorney in the civil rights case styled The Friendship 9[19][22]
Charles Hamilton HoustonSigmaChief architect of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategy for racial equality in dismantling the Jim Crow laws; first Black editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1950 Spingarn Medal recipient[39][79][179]
Charles Preston Howard Sr.Gamma PhiCo-founder of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest organization of African American Attorneys[165][180]
Harry E. JohnsonBeta TauPresident of the Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc., which oversees the fundraising, design, and construction of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial; 31st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha[12][181]
Damon KeithAlpha ZetaChief Justice of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan who famously ruled in United States v. Sinclair (upheld in United States v. US District Court) that President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell had to disclose the transcripts of illegal wiretaps that Mitchell had authorized without first obtaining a search warrant; 1974 Spingarn Medal recipient[84][182]
Belford Lawson Jr.EpsilonCo-founder of New Negro Alliance; successfully argued in United States Supreme Court cases styled New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. to safeguard the right to boycott, and Henderson v. United States which abolished segregation in railroad dining cars; 16th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha[12][183]
Robert Anthony MalloyZeta Omicron LambdaJudge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands[184]
Greg MathisGamma LambdaHost of television series Judge Mathis[185]
Daryl D. ParksBeta NuManaging partner in the law firm that represented the parents of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, and the family of Eric Garner[186]
Aubrey E. Robinson Jr.AlphaU.S. Federal District Judge for the District of Columbia (DC)[187]
Jawn SandiferAlpha OmicronChief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the NAACP who successfully argued Henderson v. United States[188][189]
Michael A. ShippDelta IotaNominated as a judge for the US District Court for the District of New Jersey by President Obama on January 23, 2012[190]
Arthur ShoresAlpha BetaAttorney in Lucy v. Adams, which prevented the University of Alabama from denying admission to applicants solely on account of race or color; civil rights activist; namesake of the Arthur Davis Shores Law Center and A. D. Shores Park in Birmingham, Alabama[191][192]
Charles Z. SmithBeta NuFirst African-American to serve as Washington State Supreme Court Justice 1998-2002; first African-American to serve as King County Superior Court judge and Seattle Municipal Court judge; served as a special assistant to United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (1960-64) to investigate corruption related to Teamster Union pension funds; brought an indictment in Chicago against Teamster Union President James Hoffa; appointed by President Clinton in 1999 to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom[193]
A. P. TureaudBetaAttorney in Garner v. Louisiana, which legalized sit-in protests at segregated private businesses and restaurants[194][195]
Reggie B. WaltonAlpha ZetaFederal Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia[196]
Horace WardAlpha RhoSenator of Georgia; first African American to serve on the federal bench in Georgia[21][197]
Kwame Kilpatrick
Marc Morial
Norm Rice
Joe Brown
Robert Carter

Other US political and legal figures

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
William T. AndrewsEtaNew York State Assembly[151]
Michael L. AnktonTheta KappaJustice of the Peace, Clark County Quorum Court, Clark County, Arkansas[198]
Calvin Ball IIIKappa Phi LambdaHoward County Executive[199]
Daniel T. Blue Jr.Gamma BetaNorth Carolina House of Representatives; Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; 2002 Democratic candidate for the United States Senate[84][200]
Roy A. BurrellEta ChiLouisiana House of Representatives; former member of the Shreveport City Council; former president of the Delta Upsilon Lambda chapter[201]
Randy D. DunnOmicron Xi LambdaMissouri House of Representatives[202]
Al EdwardsunknownTexas House of Representatives; considered the father of the Juneteenth Holiday[203]
Kambrell GarvinXi PhiSouth Carolina House of Representatives[204]
Patrick O. JeffersonBeta PhiMember of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 11; lawyer in Arcadia, Louisiana[205]
Carl McCallTheta ZetaLegislator of New York; Comptroller of New York; 2002 Democratic candidate for Governor of New York[84][206]
William Byron RumfordGamma Phi LambdaMember of the California State Legislature[207][208]
C. O. Simpkins Sr.Dillard UniversityMember of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish, 1992 to 1996[209]
Albert VannAlpha Xi LambdaNew York State Assembly[210]
Herb WessonNuCalifornia State Assembly; Speaker of the California State Assembly[211]
Tyrone YatesAlpha AlphaOhio House of Representatives[212]

Government officials outside the U.S.

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Joseph BoakaiEta Epsilon LambdaPresident of Liberia, previously Vice President serving under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf[213]
E. David BurtNu BetaMember of Parliament; Deputy Leader of the Progressive Labour Party; former Senator, Bermuda[214]
Shawn CrockwellRho ChiMember of Parliament and Minister of Tourism, Development & Transport, Bermuda[215]
Clifton Stanley HardyTauChief auditor for the Republic of Liberia, European correspondent for the Associated Negro Press in Paris, a government adviser on export-import banking issues for Liberia[216]
Stuart HaywardBetaHouse of Assembly of Bermuda[38]
Norman Washington ManleyBeta Beta LambdaPremier of Jamaica; founder of Jamaica's People's National Party; 1914 Rhodes Scholar[71][72]
Prince K. MoyeEta Epsilon LambdaDeputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia[217]
Diallo RabainEpsilon Theta LambdaMember of Parliament; former Opposition Senate Leader and Senator, Bermuda[218]
Edward RichardsEpsilon Theta LambdaFirst Premier of Bermuda[219]
Lawrence ScottEpsilon Theta LambdaMember of Parliament, Bermuda; son of former Premier of Bermuda William Alexander Scott[220]
Peter TurnquestEta GammaMember of Parliament, Deputy Leader of the Free National Movement Party, the Bahamas[221]

Journalists and media personalities

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Ron AllenPsiNews correspondent for NBC and ABC[222][223]
Tony BrownAlpha UpsilonCommentator on the syndicated television show Tony Brown's Journal; founding dean of Howard University's School of Communication[19][224]
Malvin Russell GoodeOmicronFirst Black news correspondent for ABC as a United Nations reporter[19]
Jay HarrisNu ThetaSportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS[225][226]
Corey HébertAlpha RhoCelebrity physician, radio talk show host, Chief Medical Editor for National Broadcasting Company for the Gulf Coast, first Black Chief Resident of Pediatrics at Tulane University, chief executive officer of Community Health TV[227]
Shannon LanierEpsilon DeltaAuthor of Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family; TV personality; journalist; descendant of President Thomas Jefferson[228]
Roland S. MartinPi OmicronEditor of the Chicago Defender; radio talk show host; contributor to CNN; anchor for TV One network news[229][230]
Harry S. McAlpinGamma EpsilonFirst African American White House Press Correspondent; CBS National (DC) reporter; journalist; attorney[231]
Lu PalmerAlpha KappaChicago Sun-Times columnist; community activist; campaign manager for Harold Washington mayoral race[232]
Stuart ScottMu ZetaSportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter[19]
Chuck StoneAlpha KappaSpeechwriter for Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; first president of the National Association of Black Journalists; Tuskegee Airman[19][233][234]
Lewis Ossie SwinglerBeta Beta[235]Editor of the Sphinx; editor in chief of the Memphis World; co-founder and editor in chief of the Tri-State Defender; southern vice president of Alpha Phi Alpha during the Montgomery bus boycott[236][237]
Pierre ThomasTheta IotaABC Network News Senior Justice Correspondent; 2012 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Journalist of the Year Award winner; two-time Emmy Award winner (2001 and 2009); winner of the George Foster Peabody and Alfred I DuPont Awards[238]
Stan VerrettBetaSportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS[239]

Literature

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Countee CullenEtaPoet of the Harlem Renaissance[90]
Eric Jerome DickeyKappa EtaAuthor[19]
E. Lynn HarrisKappa KappaAuthor, playwright[19]
Chester HimesKappaAuthor whose works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels[19][failed verification][240]
Lawrence RossAlpha EpsilonAuthor of The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities[19]
Carl WeberBeta GammaAuthor[19]
Clint WilsonAlpha DeltaAuthor, Whither the Black Press?; journalist; Howard University professor[241]
Frank YerbyThetaBest-selling author[19]
Countee Cullen

Armed services

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Terrence AdamsUpsilon EtaBrigadier General, United States Air Force[242]
Ronald L. BaileyZeta LambdaMajor General, United States Marine Corps; first African American Commander of the 1st Marine Division[243]
William BantonBetaFirst Black Brigadier General in the USAF; clinical faculty member of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine; first African American president of the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society[244]
Arnold Gordon BrayZeta GammaBrigadier General; United States Army[245]
David L. BrewerGamma ZetaAdmiral, United States Navy; Superintendent of L.A. Unified School District, community activist[246]
Charles Q. BrownEta UpsilonFour star general; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Previously U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff; 1st African American military service chief.[247]
Wesley A. BrownSigmaLieutenant Commander; first Black graduate from United States Naval Academy; the Wesley A. Brown Field House at the US Naval Academy is named in his honor[248]
Alvin BryantZeta LambdaBrigadier General; U.S. Army[249]
Roscoe CartwrightZeta AlphaGeneral, United States Army, founder of ROCKs, Inc., an international organization for U.S Armed Forces commissioned officers[28]
Anthony J. CottonEta OmicronUnited States Air Force four-star general U.S. Air Force Global Strike Force Commander[250]
Victor DalyAlphaFrench Croix de Guerre recipient; novelist and author[251]
Gracus K. DunnNu AlphaBrigadier General, United States Army[252]
Amos M. Gailliard Jr.Zeta Zeta LambdaOne-star general, United States Army, New York Guard
Walter E. GaskinDelta EtaThree-star general, United States Marine Corps[253]
Fred A. GordenMu Beta LambdaBrigadier General; first African-American First Captain of the West Point Academy[28][254]
Samuel L. Gravely Jr.GammaFirst African American admiral, United States Navy; first African American to command a US fleet; the Arleigh Burke-class warship USS Gravely (DDG 107) was named in his honor and commissioned on November 20, 2010[19]
Benjamin Thurman HackerEpsilon Mu LambdaRear Admiral, United States Navy[19]
Clifton Stanley HardyTauCommissioned as Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, regional translator for the 365th Infantry (French), World War I[216]
Edward HonorBeta SigmaLieutenant General, United States Army[19]
James E. HugerAlpha ZetaMontford Point Marine; awarded Congressional Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama; former executive director and general secretary of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Alpha Award of Merit recipient[255][256]
Prince C. Johnson IIIEta Epsilon LambdaBrigadier General, Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS), Armed Forces of Liberia[257]
James McCallPsiMajor General Chief in the Pentagon Budget Office[28]
Charles McGeeTauColonel, United States Air Force; original Tuskegee Airman and 30-year career officer in the USAF; holds an Air Force record 409 fighter combat missions flown in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam; awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Air Medal, and Army Commendation Medals; awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush in 2007; inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2011; promoted to brigadier general in 2019[258]
Winston E. ScottAlpha Phi LambdaAstronaut, Johnson Space Center[19]
Ronald D. SullivanBetaBrigadier general (United States)[259]
William J. WalkerTheta Psi LambdaMajor General, United States Army, commanding general, District of Columbia National Guard[260]
Bobby WilksAlpha EtaFirst African American Coast Guard aviator; first African American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain[261]
Darryl K. WilliamsGamma IotaLieutenant General, Commanding General of combined arms and Senior Mission Commander at Fort Lee, Virginia[262]
Johnnie E. WilsonTheta Theta LambdaFour-star general, United States Army[263]
Daniel Dee ZiankahnEta Epsilon LambdaMajor General, Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of Liberia[264]
Walter E. Gaskin
Samuel L. Gravely Jr.
Benjamin Hacker
Winston E. Scott
Johnnie Wilson

Religion

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
John Hurst AdamsAlpha OmicronFounder of the Congress of National Black churches; Senior Bishop of the A.M.E. church; civil rights activist; President of Paul Quinn College[265]
Vinton R. AndersonXi92nd Bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Church; President of World Council of Churches[49]
James H. ConeBeta ChiAuthor of Black Theology & Black Power; considered the "father of Black Liberation Theology"; Distinguished Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary[266][267]
Tyrone CriderTheta Mu LambdaNational Director of Operation PUSH[268][269]
Harold DavisBeta SigmaPresident of American Baptist Churches; pastor[268]
Cain Hope FelderBetaFirst national director of the United Methodist Black Caucus; Professor of Theology at Howard University and Princeton University; editor of The African American Jubilee Bible[38][270]
Robert E. Hayes Jr.Huston–Tillotson UniversityBishop in the United Methodist Church
T. J. JemisonBeta UpsilonCo-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); President of National Baptist Convention; organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953[19]
E. Edward JonesDelta SigmaPresident of National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. from 1986 to 2003[268]
Martin Luther King Jr.Sigma1962 Nobel Peace Prize; civil rights activist; co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in his honor; 1957 Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; first African American with a memorial on the National Mall[28][39][271]
Otis Moss Jr.Alpha RhoPastor, theologian, author, lecturer, civil rights activist, aide to Martin Luther King jr.; author of Preach!: The Power and Purpose Behind our Praise[272]
Clementa C. PinckneyGamma GammaSenior Pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church; one of nine people slain in the 2015 Charleston church shooting; his eulogy was delivered by President Barack Obama; South Carolina State Senator[273][274]
J. Alfred SmithunknownPresident of Progressive National Baptist Convention[268]
Cain Hope Felder
Martin Luther King Jr.

Science

Sixty percent of all Black male doctors and sixty-five percent of all Black male dentists are Alphas.[9]

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Leonidas H. BerryXiPioneer in the medical sciences of gastroscopy and endoscopy; inventor of the Berry endoscope; President of the National Medical Association 1965-1966; author of I wouldn't take Nothin' for My Journey: Two Centuries of an Afro-American Minister's Family[275]
Herman BransonBeta GammaPresident of Central State University and Lincoln University; co-discoverer of the Alpha helix; sickle-cell physicist[15][16]
William Warwick CardozoKappaPhysician; pioneer researcher of sickle cell anemia; Howard University professor of Medicine; Chief of Staff, Gastroenterology at Providence Hospital[276]
George Sherman CarterNuNuclear physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project[277][278]
James P. ComerGamma EtaProminent child psychiatrist; founder of the Comer School Development Program at the Yale University Child Study Center; associate dean at the Yale University School of Medicine[19][279]
Lloyd HallThetaChemist who contributed to the science of food preservation; author of 59 United States patents; a number of his inventions were also patented in foreign countries[280]
LaSalle Leffall Jr.Beta NuPresident of American College of Surgeons; president of American Cancer Society[19]
Julian Herman LewisThetaFirst African American to hold both an MD and a Ph.D.; groundbreaking research scientist exploring differences in disease expressions by race; expert on blood typing and race-based medical diagnosis and treatment[281]
Garrett A. MorganDelta Alpha LambdaInventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to modern gas masks) and a hair-straightening preparation; patented a type of traffic light signal[19][282]
Earl W. RenfroeThetaOrthodontist; for many years, he was acknowledged as one of the best hands-on clinical orthodontics instructors in the world; a dental facility in Barbados is named after him
J. Marshall ShepherdIota DeltaPhysicist; NASA meteorologist; professor at University of Georgia; expert on global climate change and environmental issues[283]
Louis Wade SullivanAlpha RhoSecretary of Health and Human Services; co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine[19]
Levi Watkins Jr.Beta OmicronChief of cardiovascular surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; performed the world's first human implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator; first African-American medical student at Vanderbilt University[19]
Garrett Morgan

Service and social reform

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
William J. Barber IIGamma BetaNorth Carolina NAACP State President, 2018 MacArthur Foundation Genius award recipient, architect of the Moral Mondays Movement, author of The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays[284]
Ezell Blair Jr.Beta EpsilonCivil rights activist and member of the Greensboro Four[285]
Cornell William BrooksDelta Phi18th President/CEO of the NAACP; attorney; social and civil rights activist[286]
Julius ChambersGamma BetaAttorney in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; third director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; president of North Carolina Central University[17][18]
Frederick DouglassOmega
(honorary)		United States Ambassador to Haiti; anti-slavery activist[28][143]
W. E. B. Du BoisEpsilon
(honorary)		Co-founder of Niagara Movement and NAACP; founder and editor-in-chief of The Crisis; first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University; 1920 Spingarn Medal recipient; author of The Souls of Black Folks[28][39]
Lloyd L. GainesAlpha PsiCentral figure of one of the most important cases in the Civil Rights Movement, the Supreme Court case Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada[287]
Lester GrangerTheta Zeta3rd Executive Secretary of the National Urban League[28]
Dick GregoryBeta Eta1968 Presidential candidate; comedian, social activist, writer[28][288]
George Edmund HaynesBetaFounder and first President of the National Urban League; first African American to receive a PhD from Columbia University[289]
John HopeEta LambdaFirst Black President of Atlanta University; president of Atlanta University; co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; fourth president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient[21][39][40][41]
T. J. JemisonBeta UpsilonCo-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; President of the National Baptist Convention; organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953[19]
Charles S. JohnsonGammaEditor of the National Urban League's Opportunity magazine; first Black President of Fisk University[13]
Lyman T. JohnsonGammaPlaintiff whose successful legal challenge opened the University of Kentucky to African-American students in 1949[290][291]
Eugene K. JonesAlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; second Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet[11][13]
Martin Luther King Jr.Sigma1962 Nobel Peace Prize; civil rights activist; co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in his honor; 1957 Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; first African American with a memorial on the National Mall[28][39][271]
Martin Luther King IIIEta LambdaPresident and CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change; former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)[30]
Rayford LoganOmicronFirst Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet; 2nd Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha[12][120]
Joseph LoweryEta LambdaCo-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); delivered the benediction at the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009; 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient[30]
Floyd McKissickAlpha Rho2nd President of Congress of Racial Equality; Founder of Soul City[292][293]
Jesse E. MoorlandBetaCo-founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); namesake of Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center[294][295]
Marc MorialPsiLouisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League[28][168]
Hugh Bernard PriceEta Alpha Lambda7th President of the National Urban League[19]
Paul RobesonNuNFL player, actor and singer; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate[39][296]
Jawn SandiferAlpha OmicronChief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the NAACP who successfully argued Henderson v. United States[188][189]
Ozell SuttonPi LambdaCo-founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; 2012 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; 26th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; Original Monford Point Marine[256]
Heman SweattAlpha SigmaPlaintiff in the US Supreme Court case styled Sweatt v. Painter, which successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson[297]
Channing Heggie TobiasBetaChairman of the NAACP, Director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund; 1948 Spingarn Medal recipient[39][298]
C. T. VivianEta LambdaCivil rights activist and aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; author and humanitarian[299]
Wyatt Tee WalkerGammaCo-founder and 3rd Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); civil and human rights activist[268][300]
Alfred Bitini XumaunknownPresident of the African National Congress[301][302]
Max YerganTheta2nd President of the National Negro Congress; Co-founder of the International Council on African Affairs; 1933 Spingarn Medal recipient[39][303][304]
Whitney YoungBeta Mu4th President of the National Urban League; 1968 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; namesake of the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge[305]
Frederick Douglass
W. E. B. Du Bois
Dick Gregory
Charles S. Johnson
Martin Luther King III
Joseph Lowery
Marc Morial
Whitney Young

Sports

Olympics

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Dave AlbrittonKappa1936 Olympian, high jump; inducted into the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame, 1980[306]
Don BarksdaleGamma Xi1948 Olympian and first African American to play with the USA Olympic Basketball Team; NBA player[307][308]
Walt BellamyGamma Eta1960 Olympian NBA player; NBA Rookie of the Year (1962); NBA Hall of Fame (1993)[309]
Quinn BucknerGamma Eta1976 Olympian; NBA player[19][310]
James ButtsEta Pi Lambda1976 Olympian, track and field[311]
Sayon CooperDelta Xi2000 Olympian, track and field[312]
Otis DavisAlpha DeltaWinner of two gold medals for record-breaking performances in both the 400 meters and 4x400 meters relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics[313]
Phil EdwardsEtaOlympic athlete and winner of five bronze medals[313]
Edward GourdinAlpha Eta1924 Olympian; first man to make 25 feet in the long jump[314][315]
Chris HuffinsAlpha EpsilonBronze medalist in the 2000 Olympics[316]
G. Larry Jamesunknown1968 Olympian; 4x400 meter relay gold medalist, 400-meter race silver medalist[317]
Cornelius Johnsonunknown1932 and 1936 Olympian; high jump[318]
Mel LattanyZeta PiGold medal winner at the IAAF World Cup, Summer Universiade, and Liberty Bell Classic; was not able to compete in the 1980 Olympics due to the US boycott on Russia, but held the world record that year in 100m[313]
Ralph MetcalfeNu XiRepresentative from Illinois; 1932 and 1936 Olympian; the Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago is named in his honor[19][319]
Manteo MitchellNu Zeta2012 silver medalist in track and field[320]
Godfrey MurrayEpsilon1972 track and field Olympian[321]
Jesse OwensKappa1936 Olympian in track and field; Associated Press Athlete of the Year, 1936; 1976 Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1990 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; namesake of the Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium at Ohio State University[19][322]
Fritz Pollard Jr.Alpha Gamma1936 Olympian, 110m hurdles[318]
Mike PowellOmicron Eta1988 and 1992 Olympian, long jump[19]
Andrew StanfieldAlpha Alpha Lambda1952 and 1956 Olympian, track and field[318]
Eddie TolanEpsilon1932 Olympian, 100 and 200 meters[312]
Lenny WilkensZeta Pi LambdaNBA player and coach; 1996 Olympian, basketball coach[19][323]
Archibald WilliamsAlpha Epsilon1936 Olympian, track and field[318]
John WoodruffOmicron1936 Olympian, track and field[318]
Kevin YoungGamma Xi1988 and 1992 Olympian, track and field[307][324]
Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe
Mike Powell

American basketball

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Nate ArchibaldTheta Delta LambdaNBA player; Basketball Hall of Fame; voted one of the NBA 50 All-Time Greatest Players[19]
Don BarksdaleGamma Xi1948 Olympian and first African American to play with the USA Olympic Basketball Team; first African American consensus All American college basketball player; NBA player; first African American to play in the NBA All-Star game; Basketball Hall of Fame[307][308]
Walt BellamyGamma Eta1960 Olympian NBA player, Basketball Hall of Fame[325]
Junior BridgemanDelta Chi LambdaNBA player; 12 years in the NBA; his number was retired by the Milwaukee Bucks[312]
Quinn BucknerGamma Eta1976 Olympian; NBA player, 10 seasons in the NBA[19][310]
Todd DayKappa KappaNBA player, nine seasons in the NBA[28]
Heyward DotsonEtaNBA player[326]
Wayne EmbryDelta UpsilonNBA player and General Manager; five-time NBA All-Star; Basketball Hall of Fame[46]
Clyde FletcherKappa KappaNBA player, player for Arkansas Razorbacks 1990 NCAA Final Four team[327][328]
Walt FrazierunknownNBA player; Basketball Hall of Fame; two-time NBA Champion; seven-time NBA All-Star, 4x All NBA First Team; two-time All NBA Second Team; seven-time All-Defensive First Team; NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team[329][330]
George GregoryEtaIn 1931, the first black basketball player selected as an All-American
Dolly KingunknownNBL player (predecessor of the NBA)[331]
Stan McKenzieDelta LambdaNBA player, seven seasons in the NBA[332]
Jim McMillianEtaNBA player; three-time college All-American; three-time Haggerty Award winner; nine seasons in the NBA[333]
Chris MillsEta Epsilon LambdaNBA player, 10 seasons in the NBA[28]
Bobby PhillsBeta SigmaNBA player, Continental Basketball Association player[46]
Garrett TempleNu PsiNBA player[334]
Wes UnseldunknownNBA player and coach; Basketball Hall of Fame[28]
Walt WesleyUpsilonNBA player, ten seasons in the NBA[332]
Lenny WilkensZeta Pi LambdaNBA player and coach; second most wins all-time in NBA history; 1994 NBA Coach of the Year; 1996 Olympian; Basketball Coach; Basketball Hall of Fame; twice inducted into the Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach, the first and only African American so honored[19][323]
John "Hot Rod" WilliamsRho IotaNBA player, 13 seasons in the NBA[28]
John Woodruff

American football

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
Emmanuel ArceneauxDelta KappaNFL player, Minnesota Vikings[335]
Bobby BellMuNational Football League (NFL) player, Pro Football Hall of Fame[336][337]
Gordon BellEpsilonNFL player[338]
Khari BlasingameKappa ThetaNFL player[339]
Leroy BoldenGamma TauNFL player[340]
Wes ChandlerTheta SigmaNFL player; four-time Pro Bowl player; two-time college All American; 2014 College Football Hall of Fame inductee[19]
Michael ClaytonNu PsiNFL player[341]
Emerson ColeAlpha Xi LambdaNFL player; first African American to be drafted by the Cleveland Browns and a member of the 1950 NFL championship team; University of Toledo Hall of Fame[342]
Don ColemanGamma TauNFL player; first African American All-American football player at Michigan State University; first MSU player to have jersey retired; first African American to serve on the MSU coaching staff; member of College Football Hall of Fame[343]
Greg ColemanBeta NuNFL player; first African American punter in the NFL[312]
Marco ColemanNu MuNFL player; 14 seasons in the NFL; Pro Bowler[344]
Canute CurtisPi MuNFL player[345]
Garrett DickersonAlpha MuNFL player with the New York Giants[346]
Chris DolemanOmicronNFL player, Pro Football Hall of Fame; eight-time Pro Bowl selection; three-time First Team All-Pro selection; two-time Second Team All-Pro selection; four-time First Team All NFC; two-time Second Team All NFC; NFL 1990's All-Decade Team[347]
Donald DriverDelta KappaNFL player; three-time Pro Bowler; author[341]
Carl EllerMuNFL player, 2004 Pro Football Hall of Fame[348]
Mel Farr Jr.Gamma XiNFL player[307][349]
Mike FarrGamma XiNFL player[307][350]
Charles FisherPi MuNFL player, 12 years in the NFL[351]
Julius FranksEpsilonFirst African American to become an All-American football player at the University of Michigan[352]
Kyle FullerTau AlphaNFL player[353]
Derrick GaffneyTheta SigmaNFL player, nine years in the NFL[354][355]
Nesby GlasgowAlpha XiNFL player, 14 years in the NFL[356][357]
Barrett GreenPi MuNFL player, seven years in the NFL[345]
Sammy GreenTheta SigmaNFL player[354][358]
Rosey GrierGamma NuNFL player; two-time Pro Bowler; singer; actor; best known for The Thing with Two Heads; helped apprehend Sirhan Sirhan in the immediate aftermath of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination[citation needed]
Charles HaleyXi DeltaNFL player; 2015 Pro Football Hall of Fame; 5-time Super Bowl Champion (San Francisco 49ers 1988 & 1989; Dallas Cowboys 1992, 1993, & 1995); five-time Pro Bowl player[28]
P. J. HallTheta MuNFL player with the Oakland Raiders[359]
Jackie HarrisDelta Sigma LambdaNFL player; 10 seasons in NFL[360]
Dennis HarrisonKappa ThetaNFL player; played in Super Bowl XV and Pro Bowl[361]
T. J. HeathXi XiNFL player, Jacksonville Jaguars[361]
Darryl HenleyGamma XiNFL player and college All American[362]
Eddie HintonZeta ZetaNFL player, Baltimore Colts; played in Super Bowl V; former all-time leading receiver at the University of Oklahoma[363]
Darius HollandAlpha IotaNFL player, 10 seasons in the NFL[364]
Michael HunterGamma EtaNFL player[365]
Germain IfediPi OmicronNFL player[366]
Duke IhenachoEpsilon MuNFL player[367]
Michael JacksonMu XiNFL player, 8 years in the NFL[28]
Charlie JaneretteGamma NuNFL player, six years in the NFL, first African American to play against the all-White University of Alabama football team[368]
Trezelle JenkinsEpsilonNFL player[351]
Demetrious JohnsonZeta AlphaNFL player; founder of the Demetrious Johnson Charitable Foundation[369]
Ron JohnsonEpsilonNFL player; two-time Pro Bowler; College Football Hall of Fame; college football All-American; chairman of the National Football Foundation[370]
Tyrell JohnsonTheta UpsilonNFL player; starting strong safety for the Minnesota Vikings, 2008 to present[335]
Dhani JonesEpsilonNFL player, 11 seasons in the NFL; TV personality[312]
Jaryd Jones-SmithOmicronNFL player with the Houston Texans[371]
Steve JordanAlpha GammaNFL player; six-time Pro Bowler[312]
Lewis KellyBeta DeltaNFL player, 6 seasons[372]
Reggie KellyKappa BetaNFL player[373]
Carnell LakeGamma XiNFL player; five-time Pro Bowler; NFL 1990s All-Decade Team[19]
Henry LawrenceBeta NuNFL player; two-time Pro Bowler[312]
Mark LeeAlpha XiNFL player, 11 years in the NFL[356][374]
Mike MerriweatherNu ChiNFL player, three-time Pro Bowl player[312]
Ronald MooreGamma ChiNFL player[375]
Bill MunseyMuNFL player CFL player[336]
Adrian MurrellPi MuNFL player, 10 years in the NFL[351]
Marques MurrellPi NuNFL player[341]
Vince NewsomeAlpha XiNFL player, current assistant director of pro personnel for Baltimore Ravens[376]
Roman ObenAlpha PiNFL player, nine years in the NFL[377]
Brig OwensAlpha AlphaNFL player, 11 years in the NFL; included in the list of "70 Greatest Redskins"[312]
Michael Pittman Sr.Epsilon BetaNFL player, 10 years in the NFL[341]
Fritz PollardAlpha GammaOne of the first two Black players in the NFL in 1920; first Black head coach in the NFL; 2005 Pro Football Hall of Fame[28]
Marcus PollardEpsilon KappaNFL player, 14 years in the NFL[19]
Jethro PughBeta ZetaNFL player, 13 years in the NFL[312]
Jay RatliffOmicron KappaNFL player; three-time Pro Bowl selection; First Team All-Pro selection[361]
Ken RileyBeta NuNFL player, 15 years in the NFL, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2023[378]
Paul RobesonNuNFL player; two-time college football All-American; College Football Hall of Fame; actor and singer; social activist; 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate[39][296]
Eddie RobinsonBeta Iota LambdaHead of the Grambling State University football program for 56 years; the winningest coach in college football history; first coach to record 400 wins; 408 total career wins[312]
Darius RushTheta NuNFL player[379]
Bernard RussPi MuNFL player[345]
Art ShellDelta NuNFL player, four-time Pro Bowl player; Pro Football Hall of Fame; second Black head coach in the NFL[46]
Max StarksTheta SigmaNFL player, two-time Super Bowl Champion[380]
Sandy StephensMuNFL player; First African American All-American Quarterback, Rose Bowl Hall of Fame[336][381]
Lemuel StinsonEta UpsilonNFL player[312]
Woody StrodeAlpha DeltaNFL player; one of the first two African-Americans to play in the NFL's modern (post-World War II) era; actor; nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor[382]
Billy TaylorEpsilonUniversity of Michigan football All-American and school record holder of rushing yardage, CFL player[383]
Jesse ThomasGamma TauNFL player[340]
John ThorntonPi MuNFL player, nine years in the NFL[351]
Willie ThrowerGamma TauNFL player, first African American quarterback in the NFL modern era[340]
Wallace TriplettGamma NuNFL player, first African-American to be drafted into and play in the NFL[384]
Gene UpshawGamma Chi LambdaNFL and AFL player; 1987 Pro Football Hall of Fame; president of National Football League Players Association (NFLPA); NFLPA Headquarters building in Washington, D.C. named in his honor[19]
Anthony Walker Jr.Alpha MuNFL player with the Indianapolis Colts[385]
Kenny WashingtonAlpha DeltaOne of the first two African-Americans to play in the NFL's modern (post-World War II) era; member of the College Football Hall of Fame[312]
Gerald WilliamsOmicron KappaNFL player; 11 seasons in the NFL[386]
J. Mayo WilliamsAlpha GammaNFL player; one of the first African Americans to play professional football; recording artist elected to the Blues Hall of Fame[387]
Reggie WilliamsTheta ZetaNFL player; 2007 College Football Hall of Fame Inductee; 1986 NFL Man of the Year; 1987 Sports Illustrated Co-Sportsman of the Year; former Cincinnati City Councilman[388][389]
Eric C. WrightZeta AlphaNFL player, two-time Pro Bowl player[46]
Jason WrightAlpha MuNFL player, businessman, team president of the Washington Football Team; first and only African American NFL team president[312][390]
Donald Driver
Rosey Grier
Paul Robeson

Other athletics

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
George AltmanBeta OmicronMajor League Baseball player[391]
Earl Burl IIIDelta KappaMajor League Baseball player[392]
Gerald HarrisPiProfessional MMA fighter; The Ultimate Fighter (UFC), FCF, TFC, and International Fight League[393][394]
Eulace PeacockPsiMember of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame; rival of Jesse Owens[395]
Fred ValentineBeta OmicronMajor League Baseball player[391]
Willis WardEpsilonUniversity of Michigan Athletic Hall of Fame; second African American to letter in varsity football at Michigan; three-time track and field All-American and eight-time Big Ten champion; famous for being excluded from the 1934 Michigan vs. Georgia Tech football game due to being African American[352]
Gerald WilliamsunknownMajor League Baseball player[396]

Other Alphas

NameOriginal chapterNotabilityReferences
David BaileyGamma Beta2017 Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor recipient; Special Agent of the United States Capitol Police who prevented a massacre of members of the United States Congress during an attack in Alexandria, Virginia[397][398][399]
Abraham BoldenAlpha PsiFirst African-American U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House detail (John F. Kennedy); author of The Echo from Dealey Plaza[400]
Raymond CannonMuFirst Editor of The Sphinx, the official publication of Alpha Phi Alpha; 12th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha[12]
Albert I. CassellAlphaArchitect, designed buildings for Howard University, Morgan State University, and Virginia State University[401]
Cornelius Langston HendersonEpsilonStructural engineer and bridge builder; designed the Canadian approach to the Ambassador Bridge linking the U.S. and Canada; designed and built the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, the first vehicular subway tunnel (under the Detroit River) between two nations[25]: 50–55 
Hamilton HolmesAlpha RhoFirst African-American male student admitted to the University of Georgia; first African-American student to attend the Emory University School of Medicine[402]
James HoodAlpha PhiFirst African-American male student admitted to the University of Alabama[403]
Henry McKee MintonRhoCo-founder of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity; co-founder of Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia; 1891 Valedictorian of Phillips Exeter Academy[60][404]
E. Frederic MorrowAlpha Alpha LambdaFirst African American to hold an executive position at the White House as Administrative Officer for Special Projects under President Dwight Eisenhower; NAACP field secretary; CBS TV writer; author of Black Man in the White House, Way Down South Up North, Forty Years a Guinea Pig, and A Black Man's View From the Top[405]
Hilyard RobinsonEtaArchitect; designed buildings for Howard University, Hampton University and Langston Terrace Dwellings in Washington, D.C.; architect of Tuskegee, Alabama Army Airfield; first and only African American to design a US airbase[15]

General presidents

References

Further reading

  • Mason, Herman (1999). The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha (2nd ed.). Winter Park, FL: Four-G. ISBN 1-885066-63-5.
  • Wesley, Charles H. (1969). The History of Alpha Phi Alpha, A Development in College Life (11th ed.). Chicago, Illinois: Foundation.
  • Wesley, Charles H. (1981). The History of Alpha Phi Alpha, A Development in College Life (14th ed.). Chicago, IL: Foundation. ASIN: B000ESQ14W.

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