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Shirley MacLaine
American actress

Diana Ross
Diana Ross is an American singer and actress. Known as the "Queen of Motown", she was the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. They remain the best-charting female group in history, with a total of 12 number-one pop singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Charles Evans Hughes
American jurist; Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941 (1862–1948)

Diahann Carroll
American actress, singer, model and activist (1935–2019)

Fats Waller
American jazz pianist and composer (1904–1943)

Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Sekou Jeffries is an American politician and attorney who has served as House minority leader and leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 2023. Currently in his seventh term, Jeffries has been the U.S. representative for New York's 8th congressional district since 2013 and served three terms as a member of the New York State Assembly from 2007 to 2012.

Al Sharpton
American Baptist minister, activist and talk show host
Pat Robertson
American media mogul and minister (1930–2023)

John D. Rockefeller Jr.
American financier and philanthropist (1874–1960)
Cullen Jones
American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
Walter Rauschenbusch
United States Baptist theologian (1861–1918)
Franklin Graham
American Christian evangelist and missionary, son of Billy Graham
Ruth Warrick
American actress and singer (1916–2005)
Harry Emerson Fosdick
American pastor (1878-1969)
Stephanie Mills
African-American singer and musician (born 1957)
Charles MacArthur
American playwright and screenwriter (1895-1956)
Laura Spelman Rockefeller
American philanthropist, schoolteacher (1839-1915)
Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer (1924-2017)
Robert William Fisher
American fugitive

William Colgate
soap manufacturer and philanthropist (2783-1857)
William Rockefeller
American financier, businessman, and Standard Oil co-founder (1841-1922)
George N. Briggs
Massachusetts Governor and Congressman (1796-1861)
Edolphus Towns
American politician
Mondaire Jones
American politician
Frederick Taylor Gates
American Baptist clergyman (1853–1929)
Byron Brown
American politician (born 1958)

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
American Baptist pastor and politician (1908–1972)
Major Owens
American politician (1936-2013)
Francis Bellamy
American Christian socialist Baptist minister (1855–1931)
Kevin Oh
South Korean singer
Christopher J. Priest
American comic book writer
Adele Marion Fielde
American social activist, missionary, scientist, writer (1839-1916)
Herman Badillo
Puerto Rican politician
Mason Brayman
7th Governor of Idaho Territory and Union Army general (1813-1895)
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Chinese advocate for women's suffrage in the United States
Charles Aubrey Eaton
reverend, journalist, U.S. congressman (1868–1953)
Joyce Sims
American singer (1959–2022)
Francis Wayland
American educator (1796–1865); President of Brown University 1827–1855
Silda Wall Spitzer
First Lady of New York
Tom Leppert
American politician
Augustus Hopkins Strong
American theologian (1836–1921)
Samuel Colgate
American manufacturer and philanthropist (1822-1897)
Nathaniel Schmidt
U.S. orientalist (1862–1939)
Adam Clayton Powell
American pastor (1865–1953)
Jumaane Williams
American politician (born 1976)
George Edwin Rines
United Stated editor (1860-1951)

Robert W. Welch, Jr.
American businessman and anti-communist conspiracy theorist (1899–1985)
Harold Lindsell
evangelical scholar