Tuskegee University alumni

American singer, songwriter and actor

American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)

American jazz pianist (1912–1986)

Jamaican American writer, poet (1889–1948)

Commodores, often billed as the Commodores, are an American funk and soul group. The group's most successful period was in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Lionel Richie was the co-lead singer.

U.S. Representative from Texas

American politician and businessman

American educator and wife of Malcolm X (1934–1997)

American writer and pimp (1918-1992)

Prime Minister of Guyana, teacher, veterinarian, politician (1912-2003)

African American member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation

United States Air Force general

American Air Force officer

American actress and former child star (born 1965)

African-American chemist (1935-1995)

American literary critic, novelist, essayist (1916–2013)

American politician (1937–2020)

American aviator and activist

African American nutritional researcher (1926-2005)

American microbiologist

American composer and composition teacher

American blues singer and guitarist

Academic, educator and theologian (1942–2011)

African American historian

American politician and lawyer (born 1980)

African American trombonist, pianist, arranger and bandleader (1904–1997)

American architect (1885–1949)

Panamanian sprinter

Immunologist and microbiologist

American physicist

Nigerian academic

American photographer

American architect (1875-1958)

Bahamian sprinter and politician