Howard University faculty

diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner (1904–1971)

American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

American actress (born 1948)

American writer, journalist, and educator

first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1911–1981)

French poet and politician (1912–1978)

American theologian (1936–2022)

Nigerian musician and composer (1905-1987)

Nigerian scholar and diplomat

American actor, director and acting teacher (1934-2012)

American mathematician (1919–2010)

African American painter (1905–1998)

African-American chemist (1899-1975)

American historian, writer, and journalist (1875–1950)

Ethiopian director, film professor, philosopher, and writer

American politician (born 1926)

Ethiopian artist (1937-2003)

American coloratura soprano singer

Turkish academic and statesperson (born 1968)

American composer (1921-2017)

American physician

Brazilian-born Canadian historian, author and professor of History at Howard University

African-American entomologist, zoologist and civil rights advocate (1922–1996)

American mathematician

Nigerian politician

Ghanaian politician

American politician (1829–1897)

American nuclear physicist

American theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor (1899–1981)

mathematician (1940-2010)

Lawyer, businessman, public servant (1933–2022)

American opera singer (1903-1998)

American politician

Indian literary critic, academic and Bengali Poet (1901–1986)

Nigerian politician

American biologist (1883–1941)

American zoologist (1889–1964)

Professor of chemical engineering

American gynaecologist (1898-1980)

American lawyer and civil rights attorney

American historian (born 1936)

American botanist (1911-1990)

American bacteriologist (1903–1994)

American politician and civil rights activist (1904-1976)

American writer (1901-1989)

Scholar, diplomat, attorney, and the first African-American graduate of Harvard University and Phillips Academy Andover (1844–1922)

American economist (1893-1987)

American physicist (1914–1995)

American historian

American artist

American politician (1899–1990)

African-American economist and academic (1899-1963)

African American nutritional researcher (1926-2005)

American physiologist and biochemist

American writer, theologian and educator (1886–1961)

Congolese academic, author, and diplomat (born 1944)

American journalist and historian (1938–2003)

American artist (born 1942)

Nigerian neurosurgeon

American creationist author (1927–2024)