American academic administrators

lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (2009-2017)

African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)

American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)

American philosopher, diplomat, and educator (1862-1947)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010

American temperance activist and suffragist (1839–1898)

American politician (born 1962)

British-American philosopher and writer

American educator and civil rights leader (1875-1955)

American philosopher and writer (1885–1954)

18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

American political scientist and university administrator

4th United States Secretary of Homeland Security (born 1957)

American astrophysicist and university president (born 1947)

human rights professor

American poet, essayist, playwright, and the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018. (born 1962)

African-American historian and philosopher; theorist of Afrocentricity

Ghazala Firdous Hashmi is an American politician serving as the 43rd lieutenant governor of Virginia since 2026. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as a Virginia state senator for the 15th district from 2020 to 2026. She is the first Asian-American and Muslim elected to statewide office in Virginia, along with being the first Muslim woman to win statewide office anywhere in the United States.

American academic and writer

American historian

American politician and academic administrator (born 1981)

American politician and university administrator

American nurse and nursing theorist (1925-2012)

American academic and founder of schools

American nurse

American Jesuit educator (1834-1910)

American educator and academic administrator

American infectious disease virologist

American politician (1871-1953)

American physician, pharmacist

American neuroscientist known for research in drug abuse and drug addiction

American sociologist known as the father of environmental justice

American mathematician

American educator (1849-1927)

American nurse and professor

American poet, editor, short story writer and educator (1860–1896)

agricultural and veterinary scientist (1853–1921)

American lawyer

American businesswoman, university president

13th Secretary of the Smithsonian, cardiologist and university professor (born 1949)

academic, philosopher, women's rights activist (1939-)

American politician, mayor of Baltimore and President of the University of Baltimore

American businessman

American politician and diplomat (1869–1939)

American nurse (1866–1954)

African American educator, college administrator and civil rights leader (1888-1980)

American scientist and professor