List of Famous Black Americans
Benjamin
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Arna Bontemps
Banneker
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Ralph Boston
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Amira Baraka
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Edward Bouchet
Jabbar
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Charles Barkley
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Lil' Bow Wow
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Ralph Abernathy
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Richmond Barthé
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Boyz II Men
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Freddy Adu
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Count Basie
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Benjamin Bradley
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Alvin Ailey
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Jean-Michel

Tom Bradley
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Brandy

Herman Russell
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Aaliyah
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Hank Aaron
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Kareem Abdul-
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Basquiat
Akon
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Angela Bassett
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Daisy Bates
Alexander
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Elgin Baylor
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Andre Braugher
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Muhammad Ali
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Bob Beamon
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Carol Moseley-
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Debbie Allen
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Romare Bearden
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Richard Allen
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DaMarcus Beasley

Marian Anderson
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Harry Belafonte
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Maya Angelou

Shari Belafonte-
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Lou Brock
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Carmelo Anthony
Harper

Edward Brooke

James Armistead
James "Cool Papa"

Avery Brooks

Henry Armstrong
Bell

Gwendolyn Brooks
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Louis Armstrong

Albert Belle
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Foxy Brown

Matthew Ashby

Andre Benjamin

James Brown

Arthur Ashe

Jim Brown
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Evelyn Ashford

Willie Brown
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Crispus Attucks
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Blanche Bruce
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Kobe Bryant
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Buck Buchanan

Edward Bullins
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Ralph Bunche
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Harry T. Burleigh

Leroy Burrell
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LeVar Burton
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Octavia Butler
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Ira Aldridge
Archibald Alphonso

(Andre 3000)
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Chuck Berry
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Halle Berry
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Mary McLeod
B
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Bethune
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James Baldwin
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Black Panthers

Ella Baker
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Eubie Blake
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Josephine Baker
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Mary J. Blige
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Vernon Baker
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Guion Bluford
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Ernie Banks

Manute Bol
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Tyra Banks

Julian Bond

Barry Bonds
Branson
Braun

Valerie BriscoHooks
List of Famous Black Americans
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Johnny Cochran
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Lee Calhoun
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Jewel Plummer
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Cab Calloway
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Roy Campanella
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Earl Campbell

Milt Campbell
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Rod Carew
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Stokely

Carmichael

Diahann Carroll

Julia Carson

Benny Carter

Betty Carter

Cris Carter
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George
Washington Carver
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Wilt Chamberlain
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Chamillionaire

Emmett W.
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Destiny's Child

Natalie Cole

Robert Nathaniel

Nat "King" Cole

Rebecca Cole

Gail Devers

Bessie Coleman

Eric Dickerson

John Coltrane

Bo Diddley

Sean "Diddy"

Harrison Dillard
Combs
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David Dinkins
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John Conyers
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Father Divine
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Coolio
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DMX

Bill Cosby

Larry Doby

David Crosthwait,

Snoop Dogg
Jr.

Antoine "Fats"
Scatman Crothers

Paul Cuffe

Tony Dorsett

Countee Cullen

Thomas A. Dorsey
Domino

Frederick Douglass

James "Buster"
D
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Ray Charles
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Angela Davis

Charles W.

Benjamin O.
Chesnutt
Shirley Anita St.
Dett
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Dorothy Dandridge
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Delany
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
Chingy
Martin Robinson
Cobb
Chappelle


Douglas
Davis, Jr.


Dr. Dre

Charles Richard
Drew
Benjamin O.
Davis, Sr.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Paul Laurence
Hill Chisholm

Ernie Davis

Chuck D
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Miles Davis
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Ciara

Ossie Davis

Joseph Cinqué

Sammy Davis Jr.

Kenneth B. Clark

Dominique Dawes

Eldridge Cleaver

William L. Dawson

George Clinton

Ruby Dee

Alice Coachman

Anita DeFrantz
Dunbar

Katherine Dunham

Jean Baptiste Point
du Sable
E
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Marian Wright
Edelman
List of Famous Black Americans
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Kenneth
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"Babyface"
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Joe Greene
Franklin

Greensboro Four
Edmonds

Joe Frazier

Pam Grier

Clarence L. Elder

Walt Frazier

Ken Griffey, Jr.

Lee Elder

John Freeman

Archie Griffin

Joycelyn Elders

Morgan Freeman

Florence Griffith

Duke Ellington

The Fugees

Missy Elliott

Charles Fuller

Ralph Ellison

Philip Emeagwali

Julius "Dr. J"
Erving

April Ericsson

Lee Evans

Medgar Evers

Myrlie Evers-
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
John Hope
Joyner

Grimke
G
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Clarence "Big
House" Gaines
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Alonzo "Jake"
Archibald H.
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Guru

Tony Gwynn
H
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Gaither
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Marvin Hagler
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The Game

Alex Haley

Henry Highland

Lloyd Augustus
Garnet
Hall
Williams

Marcus Garvey

Prince Hall
Patrick Ewing
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Cito Gaston

Fannie Lou
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Henry Louis Gates,
(Townsend)
Jr.
Hamer
F
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James Farmer
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Louis Farrakhan

Marvin Gaye

Lisa Gay Hamilton

Cecil Fielder
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George Gervin

Jupiter Hammon

Ella Fitzgerald

Althea Gibson

Lionel Hampton

Laurence

Bob Gibson

Herbie Hancock
Fishburne

Josh Gibson

William

Lil' Fizz

Dizzy Gillespie

Curt Flood

Yolande Cornelia

Evan Forde

George Foreman

Danny Glover

Ben Harper

Jamie Foxx

Whoopi Goldberg

Barbara C. Harris

Redd Foxx

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Franco Harris

Aretha Franklin

Berry Gordy, Jr.

William H. Hastie

Louis Gossett, Jr.
Christopher Handy

Lorraine
Hansberry
"Nikki" Giovanni
List of Famous Black Americans
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Richard Gordon

Ice Cube

Johnnie Johnson
Hatcher

Ice T

Judy Johnson

Elvin Hayes

Samuel Elmer

Michael Johnson

Isaac Hayes
Imes

Rafer Johnson

Roland Hayes
Roy Innis

Robert Johnson

Thomas Hearns

Robert L. Johnson

Height, Dorothy,
activist

Rickey Henderson

Jimi Hendrix

Matthew Henson

Leon A.
Higginbotham, Jr.

Anita Hill

Lauryn Hill

Gregory Hines

Billie Holiday

Larry Holmes

Evander Holyfield

John Lee Hooker

Bell Hooks

Benjamin Hooks

Lena Horne

Charles Hamilton
Houston

Whitney Houston

William DeHart
Hubbard

Langston Hughes

Joe Hunter

Zora Neale
Hurston
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I
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J
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Bo Jackson
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Deacon Jones

Janet Jackson

Frederick McKinley

Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson Jr.

James Earl Jones

Mahalia Jackson

Lois Mailou Jones

Maynard Jackson

Marion Jones

Michael Jackson

Mike Jones

Reggie Jackson

Quincy Jones

Samuel L. Jackson

Roy Jones Jr.

Daniel "Chappie"

Scott Joplin
James, Jr.

Barbara Jordan

LeBron James

Michael Jordan

Judith Jamison

Jackie Joyner-

Ja Rule

Jay-Z

Percy Julian

Eve Jeffers

Johanna July

Mae Jemison

Ernest Everett Just

Thomas L.
Jones
Kersee
K

Jennings

Maulana Karenga

Derek Jeter

Jason Kidd

Dennis Johnson

Lil' Kim

Ervin "Magic"

Jamaica Kincaid

B.B. King

Coretta Scott King

Don King
Johnson

Jack Johnson

James Weldon
Johnson

John Johnson
List of Famous Black Americans
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Martin Luther King

Jr.

Yolanda King

Anna Kingsley

Eartha Kitt
Loving, Mildred,
activist


Bernie Mac
John Mercer

Malcolm X
Langston

Karl Malone

Nella Larsen

Moses Malone

Eriq La Salle

Wynton Marsalis

Queen Latifah

Thurgood Marshall

Lewis Howard

Willie Mays

Bob McAdoo

Henry Cecil

Latimer

Martin Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence

Huddie Ledbetter

Willie McCovey

Spike Lee

Elijah J. McCoy

Buck Leonard

Hattie McDaniel

Sugar Ray

Steve McNair

Floyd McKissick

Carrie P. Meek

James Meredith

Kweisi Mfume

Cheryl Miller

Charles Mingus

Arthur Mitchell

Parren Mitchell

Joe Morgan

Thelonious Monk

Warren Moon

Archie Moore

Michael Moorer
Leonard

Bill Lewis

Carl Lewis

Edmonia Lewis

John R. Lewis

Reginald Lewis

Sonny Liston

Earl Lloyd

Alain Locke

Greenbury Logan

Joe Louis

Toussaint
L'Ouverture

Toni Morrison

Ferdinand "Jelly
Roll" Morton
M

Garrett Augustus
Morgan
Ludacris
L



Mos Def

Edwin Moses

Walter Mosley

Marion Motley

Robert Russa
Moton

Benjamin Franklin
Muhammad
Ransom McBay

Elijah Muhammad

Calvin Murphy

Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murray

Mya
N
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
Nas

Nelly

Aaron Neville

Huey Newton

Thandie Newton

Fayard Nicholas

Jessye Norman

Eleanor Holmes
Norton

The Notorious
B.I.G.
O


Barack Obama

Hakeem Olajuwon
List of Famous Black Americans

Shaquille O'Neal

Leontyne Price

Outkast

Prince

Jesse Owens

Richard Pryor

Jackie Robinson
P

Gabriel Prosser

Smokey Robinson

Master P

Kirby Puckett

Sugar Ray

Alan Page

Satchel Paige

Charlie "Bird"

Parker

Peete
Robinson
R
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
Maurice F. Rabb,
Jr.

Holly Robinson-
Gertrude "Ma"
Rainey

Chris Rock

Dennis Rodman

Esther Rolle

Howard E. Rollins,

Gordon Parks

Rosa Parks

Joseph Rainey

David Paterson

A. Philip Randolph

Floyd Patterson

Virginia Randolph

Antwan Patton

Charles Rangel
(Big Boi)

Otis Redding

Walter Payton

Willis Reed

Calvin Peete

Irene Reid

Teddy Pendergrass

Gloria Reuben

Ann Petry

Hiram R. Revels

John L. Phillips

Butch Reynolds

P. B. S. Pinchback

Ving Rhames

Jada Pinkett-Smith

Condoleezza Rice

Horace Pippin

Jerry Rice

Ignatius Sancho

Scottie Pippen

Pretty Ricky

Barry Sanders

Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Norbert Rillieux

Deion Sanders

Homer Plessy

Max Roache

Augusta Christine

Sidney Poitier

Oscar Robertson

Fritz Pollard

Paul Robeson

Adam Clayton

David Robinson
Powell, Jr.

Eddie Robinson

Colin Powell

Frank Robinson

Mike Powell
Jr.

Lil' Romeo

Diana Ross

Carl Rowan

Darius Rucker

Wilma Rudolph

Bobby Rush

Bill Russell

John Russwurm

Bayard Rustin

Busta Rhymes
S

Fells Savage

Gale Sayers

Dred Scott

Seal

Bobby Seale

Myra C. Selby

Betty Shabazz
List of Famous Black Americans

Tupac Shakur

Clarence Thomas

Dwyane Wade

Ntozake Shange

Frank Thomas

Derek Walcott

Fred Shuttlesworth

Isiah Thomas

Jersey Joe Walcott

Charlie Sifford

Thurman Thomas

Alice Walker

Nina Simone

John Thompson

Herschel Walker

O.J. Simpson

Wallace Thurman

Maggie Lena

Sinbad

Tone-Loc

Robert Smalls

Jean Toomer

Tavis Smiley

Pierre Toussaint

Bessie Smith

Virgil Garnett

Emmitt Smith

Lee Smith

Sojourner Truth

Ozzie Smith

Harriet Tubman

Will Smith

Chris Tucker

Wesley Snipes

Charles Henry

(Mitchell) Walker

J Walker" Walker

Joel Elias Spingarn
Thomas "Fats"
Waller
Trice, Jr.
Turner
Sarah "Madame C

Charlie Ward

Booker T.
Washington

Denzel
Washington

Dinah Washington

Harold Washington

Maxine Waters

Muddy Waters

Faye Wattleton

J. C. Watts

Damon Wayans

Keenan Ivory

Ike Turner

Tina Turner

Nat Turner

Cicely Tyson
Kenzie) Steele

Mike Tyson

William Grant Still

Wyomia Tyus

Carl B. Stokes

Moorfield Storey

Gene Upshaw

Lynn Swann

Usher

Carl Weathers

Howard Swanson
V

Robert C. Weaver

Sheryl Swoopes

Luther Vandross

Junior Wells
T

Gustavus Vassa

Ida B. Wells-

Henry Tanner

Sarah Vaughan

Lawrence Taylor

Mo Vaughn

Cornel West

Mary Eliza Church

Denmark Vesey

Dorothy West
W

James West

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


Leon Spinks
Latrell Sprewell
Willie Stargell
C. K. (Charles
Terrell
U



Wayans
Barnett
List of Famous Black Americans

Kanye West

Stevie Wonder

Phyllis Wheatley

Granville T. Woods

Forest Whitaker

Tiger Woods

Pernell Whitaker

Carter G. Woodson

Bill White

Jacqueline

Reggie White

Walter White

Alfre Woodard

John Edgar

Richard Wright
Wideman

Wu-Tang Clan

Lenny Wilkens

Dominique Wilkins

Roy Wilkins

Daniel Hale
Woodson

George
Washington

Andrew Young

Lester Young

Roger Arliner
Young
Williams

Jayson Williams

Peter Williams, Jr.

Peter Williams, Sr.

Serena Williams

Vanessa Williams

Venus Williams

Fred Williamson

John Lee "Sonny
Boy" Williamson

August Wilson

Cassandra Wilson

Flip Wilson

Dave Winfield

Paul Winfield

Oprah Winfrey

Howlin' Wolf
Malcolm X
Y

Williams

X


Whitney M. Young,
Jr.
Z

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James Van Der
Zee