Famous Black People

Adam Clayton Powell

Al Green

Al Jarreau

Al Roker

Al Sharpton

Alan Keyes

Albert King

Alex Haley

Alexander Crummell

Alexandre Dumas

Alice Walker

Alicia Keys

Althea Gibson

Alvin Ailey

Andrew Young

Angela Bassett

Aretha Franklin

Arsenio Hall

Arthur Ashe

Arthur Mitchell

August Wilson

B.B. King

Barack Obama

Barbara Jordan

Barry Bonds

Bayard Rustin

Bell Hooks

Ben Carson

Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin O. Davis

Benny Carter

Bernie Mac

Berry Gordy

Bessie Smith

Beyonce Knowles

Bill Cosby

Bill Russell

Billie Holiday

Bo Diddley

Bo Jackson

Bob Marley

Bobby Bland

Bobby Seale

Booker T. Washington

Buddy Guy

Cab Calloway

Carl Lewis

Carol Moseley Braun

Carter G. Woodson

Chaka Khan

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Charles Barkley

Charles Chesnutt

Charles Drew

Charles Hamilton Houston

Charles Henry Turner

Charles Rangel

Charley Patton

Charlie Parker

Chris Brown

Chris Gayle

Chris Rock

Chubby Checker

Chuck Berry

Cicely Tyson

Clara Brown

Clarence Thomas

Claude McKay

Claudette Colvin

Colin Powell

Condoleezza Rice

Constance Baker Motley

Coretta Scott King

Cornel West

Count Basie

Countee Cullen

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Curtis Mayfield

Cynthia McKinney

Daisy Bates

Damon Wayans

Daniel Hale Williams

Daniel James

Danny Glover

Darius Rucker

Dave Chappelle

David Dinkins

David Paterson

David Walker

Debbie Allen

Deion Sanders

Denmark Vesey

Denzel Washington

Diahann Carroll

Diana Ross

Dinah Washington

Dionne Warwick

Dizzy Gillespie

Djimon Hounsou

Don Cheadle

Dorothy Dandridge

Douglas Wilder

Dred Scott

Duke Ellington

Eartha Kitt

Ed Bradley

Eddie Murphy

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Elijah McCoy

Elijah Muhammad

Ella Baker

Ella Fitzgerald

Emmett Till

Eric Holder

Ernest Everett Just

Ernest Gaines

Esther Rolle

Etta James

Evander Holyfield

Fannie Lou Hamer

Fats Domino

Fats Waller

Florence Griffith-Joyner

Forest Whitaker

Freddie King

Frederick Douglass

Gabourey Sidibe

Garrett Morgan

Geoffrey Canada

George Clinton

George Foreman

George Washington Carver

Gladys Knight

Grandmaster Flash

Granville T. Woods

Gregory Hines

Guion Bluford

Gwendolyn Brooks

Halle Berry

Hank Aaron

Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Tubman

Harry Belafonte

Hattie McDaniel

Henry Louis Gates

Hiram Revels

Howlin’ Wolf

Huey Newton

Ida B. Wells

Isaac Hayes

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Wilson

Jacob Lawrence

Jam-Master Jay

James Armistead

James Baldwin

James Brown

James Earl Jones

James Forten

James Meredith

James Van Der Zee

James Weldon Johnson

James West

Jamie Foxx

Janet Jackson

Jay-Z

Jean Toomer

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jelly Roll Morton

Jennifer Hudson

Jesse Jackson

Jesse L. Martin

Jim Brown

Jimi Hendrix

Joe Louis

John Archer

John Coltrane

John Hope Franklin

John Lee Hooker

John Legend

John Singleton

Johnnie Cochran

Josephine Baker

Joycelyn Elders

Judith Jamison

Julian Bond

Julius Erving

Kanye West

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Kenneth Clark

Kimora Lee Simmons

Kofi Annan

Kweisi Mfume

Langston Hughes

Laurence Fishburne

Lauryn Hill

LaVar Burton

Lee Daniels

Lena Horne

Lewis Howard Latimer

Lisa Jackson

Little Richard

LL Cool J

Lonnie Johnson

Lorraine Hansberry

Lou Rawls

Louis Armstrong

Louis Farrakhan

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Louis Jordan

Ludacris

Luther Vandross

Ma Rainey

Madam C. J. Walker

Mae C. Jemison

Magic Johnson

Mahalia Jackson

Malcolm X

Marcus Garvey

Margaret Walker

Marian Anderson

Marian Wright Edelman

Marion Jones

Mark Dean

Martha Reeves

Martin Lawrence

Martin Luther King

Marva Collins

Marvin Gaye

Mary Church Terrell

Mary J. Blige

Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary Seacole

Matthew Henson

Maya Angelou

Medgar Evers

Mekhi Phifer

Michael Clarke Duncan

Michael Jackson

Michael Jordan

Miles Davis

Missy Elliott

Mo’Nique

Morgan Freeman

Mr. T

Muddy Waters

Muhammad Ali

Naomi Campbell

Nat King Cole

Nat Turner

Nelson Mandela

Nikki Giovanni

Nina Simone

Octavia Butler

Olaudah Equiano

Oprah Winfrey

Ossie Davis

Otis Boykin

Otis Redding

Patricia Bath

Patricia Roberts Harris

Patti LaBelle

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Mooney

Paul Robeson

Paul Winfield

Percy Lavon Julian

Philip Randolph

Phillis Wheatley

Phylicia Rashad

Prince

Queen Latifah

Quincy Jones

Ralph Abernathy

Ralph Bunche

Ralph Ellison

Ray Charles

Redd Foxx

Reggie Jackson

Richard Pryor

Richard Wright

Rick James

Rihanna

Rita Dove

Robert Hayden

Robert Johnson

Robert L. Johnson

Robert Weaver

Rosa Parks

Rubin Carter

Ruby Dee

Russell Simmons

Rutina Wesley

Sam Cooke

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Samuel Jackson

Satchel Paige

Savion Glover

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

Sean Combs

Septima Clark

Serena Williams

Shaquille O’Neal

Sheila Johnson

Shirley Chisholm

Sidney Poitier

Sly Stone

Smokey Robinson

Snoop Dogg

Sojourner Truth

Solomon Burke

Spike Lee

Stevie Wonder

Stokely Carmichael

Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Robinson

Susan Rice

Taye Diggs

Thelonious Monk

Thurgood Marshall

Tiger Woods

Timbaland

Tina Turner

Toni Morrison

Tupac Shakur

Tyler Perry

Tyra Banks

Usher

Vanessa Williams

Venus Williams

Viv Richards

W.C. Handy

W.E.B. DuBois

Walter Mosley

Walter Payton

Wayne Brady

Wendy Williams

Whitney Houston

Whoopi Goldberg

Will Smith

William Wells Brown

Willie Brown

Willie Mays

Wilma Rudolph

Wilson Pickett

Wilt Chamberlain

Wynton Marsalis

Zora Neale Hurston