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Howardites are persons affiliated with Howard University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable alumni and former students.

Contents 1 Alumni 1.1 Academia 1.2 Athletics 1.3 Business 1.4 Civil Rights, Law & Government 1.5 Media & Literature 1.6 Military 1.7 Nobel laureates 1.8 Pageant queens 1.9 Religion 1.10 Science, Medicine & Mathematics 1.11 Visual and Performing Arts 2 Faculty 3 References

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Academia

• Delbert W. Baker (Ph.D.), president Oakwood College
• John T. Baker, First African-American dean of the Albany Law School.
• Kenneth Clark, educator and pyschologist who conducted the 'doll research' for the Brown vs. Board of Education case.
• Charlene Drew Jarvis (Ph.D.), president Southeastern University, daughter of Dr. Charles Drew.
• E. Franklin Frazier, sociologist
• Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D., first African-American president of Gannon University. Former Dean of College of Arts and Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana.
• Edison O. Jackson, President of Medgar Evers College
• Weldon Jackson, the current Provost and Executive Vice President of Manhattan College
• Walter J. Leonard, former president of Fisk University; former Assistant Dean, Howard University School of Law and Harvard University Law School; executive director, Cities in Schools
• Beverly D. Malloy, executive vice president, Barber-Scotia College
• Kelly Miller, mathematician, scientist, sociologist, first African-American admitted to Johns Hopkins University.
• R. Charles Moyer, dean emeritus Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, fifth permanent dean of the University of Louisville's College of Business and Public Administration.
• Irvin Reid (Ph.D.), president Wayne State University
• H. Patrick Swygert, president Howard University
• Dr. Thelma Barnaby Thompson, 12th president of the University of Maryland-Eastern Sho
• Doris Evans McGinty, first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in musicology from Oxford University.

[edit] Athletics

• Ronald Bartell, NFL cornerback (Saint Louis Rams)
• Milan Brown, head men's basketball coach at Mount Saint Mary's University
• Marques Douglas, NFL defensive end (New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco Forty-Niners)
• Omar Evans, Canadian Football League defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders)
• Dennis Felton, head men's basketball coach at the University of Georgia.
• Rhadi Ferguson, 4-time US National Judo Champion, a 2004 Judo Olympian
• Pep Hamilton, quarterbacks coach for the Chicago Bears
• Shaka Hislop, goalkeeper for FC Dallas and Trinidad and Tobago national football team who played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup
• Gary Harrell, NFL/WLAF receiver, New York Giants, Frankfurt Galaxy, assistant coach, Texas Southern University
• Nigel Henry, professional soccer player
• Wycliffe Nathaniel Bubba Morton, Major League Baseball player, (Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Braves, California Angels), first African-American to sign with the Detroit Tigers.
• David Oliver, professional athlete-track and field.
• Jay Walker, ESPNU Football analyst, NFL quarterback (New England Patriots, 1994; Barcelona Dragons, 1995; Minnesota Vikings, 1996-97), Maryland State Delegate
• Billy Jenkins, former National Football League Defensive Back
• Antoine Bethea, NFL safety (Indianapolis Colts)
• Geoff Pope, NFL cornerback (New York Giants)

[edit] Business

• Oliver McIntosh, President and CEO of International Media Content, the largest sports rights company in the Caribbean
• Vernon Jordan, Attorney, Senior Managing Director with Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, former president of the Urban League
• Dumarsais Simeus, owner Simeus Foods, International.
• Lillian Lincoln Lambert, Founder, Former President & Chief Executive Officer Centennial One, Inc.; first African-American woman to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School
• H. Naylor Fitzhugh, one of the first African American graduates of Harvard Business School and is also credited with creating the concept of target marketing.

[edit] Civil Rights, Law & Government

• Aris T. Allen, fmr. member Maryland State Senate, first African-American to run for Lt. Governor of Maryland
• The Rt. Hon (Dr.) Nnamdi Azikwe, First President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1960-66)
• Boce W. Barlow, Jr., first African-American to be elected to the Connecticut State Senate.
• William V. Bell mayor of Durham, North Carolina
• Adolphus A. Birch, first African-American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
• Aisha N. Braveboy, member, Maryland House of Delegates
• Dr. Percival Broderick, Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica
• Hon. Edward Brooke, first African-American elected to the United States Senate
• Gayleatha Brown, Ambassador to Benin
• Hon. Ewart Brown, Deputy Premier and Minister of Transport of Bermuda
• Basil Keith Bryan, Consul General to New York for Jamaica
• Hon. Arthur L. Burnett, Sr., Senior Judge currently Judge Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Hon. Roland Burris, former State Attorney General, Illinois
• Hon. Robert L. Carter,(School of Law) civil rights advocate and judge of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York
• Mary Ann Shadd Cary, publisher, abolitionist and suffragist, founded the first racially-integrated school in Canada, first female newspaper editor in Canada, second woman to graduate as a lawyer in the United States, first black woman to cast a vote in a national election
• Hon. Elijah Cummings, United States Congress
• Hon. David Dinkins, first African-American mayor of New York City
• Hon. Herbert B. Dixon, Jr., Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Hon. George W. Draper III, first African-American Chief Judge for the Missouri Chourt of Appeals Eastern District, first African-American male to be appointed a judge in St. Louis *Hon. Mike Espy, first African-American United States Secretary of Agriculture
• Melvin Evans former Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, former Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives
• Nathaniel Exum, member, Maryland State Senate
• James Farmer, civil rights activist, founder and first leader of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
• Hon. Adrian Fenty, current mayor of Washington, D.C.
• Harold Ford, Sr. former United States Representative from Tennessee
• Hon. Shirley Franklin, first female and currentmayor of Atlanta, Georgia
• Hon. Garrin P. Gayles, Judge, Miami-Dade County Court.
• Emma Gillett, co-founder of the first law school in the world founded by women, first woman to be appointed notary public by the President of the United States.
• John R. Hargrove, Sr., Judge, United States District Court Maryland
• Dr. James W. Holley, III, D.D.S., mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia.
• Dr. Cheddi Jagan, President, Guyana
• Jack Johnson, County Executive, Prince George's County, MD.
• William A. Johnson, Jr., mayor, Rochester, NY.
• Elaine R. Jones, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
• Hon. John Junor, Minister of Health, Jamaica
• Dr. Oliver Harper, Minister of Health, Guyana
• Hon. Patricia Roberts Harris, United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, United States Ambassador
• Kamala D. Harris, San Francisco District Attorney
• Hon. Joseph W. Hatchett, Former Florida Supreme Court Judge, first African-American in the south to win a statewide election.
• Hon. Earl F. Hilliard, United States Congress
• Benjamin Hooks, former executive director of the NAACP
• Lonna Hooks, Secretary of State of New Jersey from 1994 to 1998, under Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman.^[1]
• Hon. Sharon Pratt Kelly, first African-American female mayor of a major city, Washington, D.C.
• Hon. Keith Knight, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Jamaica
• Hon. Thurgood Marshall,(School of Law) first African-American United States Supreme Court justice
• Rudolph C. McCollum, former mayor, Richmond, Virginia
• Hon. Gabrielle McDonald, judge Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands
• Enolia McMillan first female national president of the NAACP
• Hon. Gregory W. Meeks Representative for New York's sixth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives
• Hon. Vicki Miles-LaGrange District Judge, Western district of Oklahoma, first African-American woman U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Senate.
• Keith Mitchell, Ph.D. Prime Minister of Grenada
• Hon. Thomas R. Monroe, first African-American judge in Arlington County, VA.
• Brandon T. Neal, national director of the NAACP Youth and College Division
• James E. O'Hara member, United States House of Representatives (1883 to 1887) representing North Carolina.
• Hon. Ronald Palmer, Ambassador to Togo, Malaysia and Mauritius
• Adam Clayton Powell IV, Member of the New York State Assembly. Son of Civil Rights leader - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
• Hon. Peggy Quince, the first African American woman on Florida Supreme Court
• Charlotte E. Ray, the first African American woman lawyer
• M. Kasim Reed, Georgia State Senator
• Hon. Spottswood Robinson, judge, United States Court of Appeals
• J. Todd Rutherford, South Carolina State Representative
• Hon. Roy Schneider, Governor United States Virgin Islands
• SirArleigh Winston Scott first native Governor-General of Barbados
• James R. Spencer Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• Hon. Craig S. Strong, Michigan Third Circuit Court judge
• Hon. Emmet G. Sullivan, judge of United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• Kwame Ture, activist, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), born Stokely Carmichael
• Dale Wainwright first African American ever elected to the Texas Supreme Court
• Hon. Walter Washington, first elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
• Hon. L. Douglas Wilder, first elected African-American United States governor, current Mayor of Richmond, Virginia
• Hon. Harris Wofford, United States Senator representing Pennsylvania (1991-95)
• Hon. Albert Wynn, first African-American elected to the United States Congress from Prince George's County and Montgomery County in Maryland
• Hon. Andrew Young, first African-American United Nations Ambassador and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

[edit] Media & Literature

• Pearl Cleage, poet, essayist, and journalist
• A.J. Calloway, on-air personality
• Ernest Dickerson, filmmaker and director (Director), "The Wire"
• Lesli Foster, television anchor, WUSA-TV, Washington, D.C.
• Dianne Houston, Oscar-nominated filmmaker.
• Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist and author
• Hal Jackson, first African-American radio sportscaster; co-owner of the first African-American owned and operated station in New York
• Robert "Scoop" Jackson, sports journalist and contributor, ESPN
• Gus Johnson, sportscaster, CBS Sports
• Michael King, conservative commentator; television producer, WXIA-TV Atlanta
• Ananda Lewis, talk show host (BET,The Ananda Lewis Show)
• Benilde Little, author
• Vickey Mabrey, CBS News, 60 Minutes correspondent-New York
• Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, reality television contestant (The Apprentice, The Surreal Life)
• Michelle Miller, reporter, CBS News
• Camille McDonald, model, appeared on America's Next Top Model, cycle 2"
• Pat Lawson Muse, television anchor, WRC-TV Washington, D.C.
• Solomon Mutswairo, novelist and poet
• Frederick James (Freddie)Perren, Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer ("Saturday Night Fever")
• Malik Sayeed, Filmmaker
• Al Shearer, Former BET Personality and actor
• Cynne Simpson television anchor, WGCL-TV, Atlanta.
• Lori Stokes, News anchor, WABC-TV, New York.
• Tom Terrell, Music journalist, photographer, promoter, NPR music commentator
• Sister Toldja, award winning blogger
• Omar Tyree, award-winning novelist
• Lala Vasquez, on-air personality
• Stan Verrett, reporter, ESPNEWS
• Richard Wesley, playwright and screenwriter
• Fredricka Whitfield, Anchor, CNN
• Ambreal Williams, model - appeared on America's Next Top Model, cycle 9"
• Nancy Anita Williams, journalist and editor (Essence, Washington Post, New York Daily News
• Sadat X, rapper, member of hip hop group Brand Nubian

[edit] Military

• Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. Brigadier General, first African-American general in the U.S. Army.
• Lester Lyles General, U.S. Air Force, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Commander, Air Force Material Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
• Togo West, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs, former Secretary of the Army

[edit] Nobel laureates

Peace, Literature, or Economics

• Toni Morrison, born Chloe Anthony Wofford, Nobel Prize for Literature

[edit] Pageant queens

• Candace Allen, Miss District of Columbia USA 2006
• Christie Davis, Miss Maryland USA - 2000
• Shauntay Hinton, Miss USA 2002
• Alena Neves, Miss District of Columbia USA - 1993
• Shilah Phillips, first African-American to hold the Miss Texas USA title, first runner-up Miss America 2007
• Von Gretchen Shepard - first "Miss Black California" and first "Miss Black America" (1973)

[edit] Religion

• Louis George Gregory, Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith
• Beryl Higgs, second woman to be ordained by the Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas
• Vashti Murphy McKenzie, first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
• Jeremiah Wright, controversial former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ

[edit] Science, Medicine & Mathematics

• Dr. Patricia Bath MD, ophthalmologist, the first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention.
• Dr. David Blackwell PhD, first African-American elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• Dr. St. Elmo Brady PhD, first African-American to earn a doctorate in chemistry.
• Cheick Modibo Diarra, astrophysicist, director of NASA's "Mars Exploration Program Education and Public Outreach," chairman of Microsoft West Africa.
• Dr. Lena Franes Edwards MD, physician (obstetrics and gynecology) and humanitarian, received Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
• Dr. Percy Lavon Julian PhD, second African-American to earn a doctorate in chemistry, second African-American to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences, holds more than 130 chemical patents.
• Dr. Ruth Ella Moore PhD, first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in bacteriology.

[edit] Visual and Performing Arts

• Debbie Allen, dancer, actress
• Geri Allen, jazz pianist
• Laz Alonzo, actor ("Stomp the Yard", "Jarhead", "All souls: Dia delos muertos", "This Christmas")
• Ambre Anderson, model, actress
• Anthony Anderson, actor (Two Can Play that Game, Barbershop, Kangaroo Jack, "The Shield," "The Bernie Mac Show.")
• Amiri Baraka, author and poet
• Ysaye M. Barnwell, member of a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, actress, author.
• James A. Bland, musician and composer. Author of over 700 songs including the former state song of Virginia.
• Donald Byrd, jazz musician
• Elizabeth Catlett, sculptor and printmaker.
• Sean Combs, music producer, also known as "Puffy", "P. Money", "Puff Daddy", "P. Diddy", and "Diddy"
• Ossie Davis, actor and activist
• Wendy Davis,actress Lifetime Television "Army Wives"
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, late 19th century poet
• Billy Eckstine, singer
• Lillian Evanti, opera singer
• Roberta Flack, singer
• Benny Golson, jazz saxophone
• Rich Harrison, Grammy winning record producer and song writer
• Donny Hathaway, singer
• Taraji P. Henson, actress ("Hustle and Flow", "Baby Boy", "Something New", "Smokin Ace's", "Talk To Me")
• Shirley Horn, jazz singer
• Marcus Johnson, jazz pianist
• Lois Mailou Jones Pierre-Noel , artist and educator
• Kenny Lattimore, singer, husband of singer Chante Moore
• Linda Lou McCall, songwriter and entertainment marketing consultant, widow of Louis A. McCall, drummer and founder of Con Funk Shun
• Me'Shell NdegéOcello, recording artist (singer & bassist)
• Jessye Norman, opera singer, received Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006
• Paula Jai Parker, actress ("Hustle and Flow", "Idlewild")
• Carl Anthony Payne II, actor ("The Cosby Show, "Martin")
• Shaunielle Perry, stage director, playwright and educator
• Tracie Thoms, actress ("Rent-The Movie", "The Devil Wears Prada", "Grindhouse")
• Phylicia Rashad, actress (The Cosby Show, "Raisin In The Sun", "The Old Settler", "The Wiz"), first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play ("Raisin")
• B.J. Reed, actress & singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'","Mama, I Wanna Sing", "A...My Name is Alice", "Indigo")
• Roxie Roker - actress, ("The Jeffersons"), also Lenny Kravitz's mother
• Wendy Raquel Robinson, actress, ("The Steve Harvey Show", "The Game", "Two Can Play That Game", "Something New")
• Darnley Scantlebury, Grammy nominated music producer, musician and songwriter, a/k/a, Donnie Scantz.
• Shai Band - "If I Ever Fall in Love"
• Richard Smallwood, Grammy award-winning gospel singer, pianist, and arranger
• Isaiah Washington, actor, ("Get On The Bus", "Grey's Anatomy")

• Crystal Waters, singer
• Marlon Wayans, actor ("Little Man", "White Chicks")
• Angela Winbush, singer
• Lynn Whitfield, Emmy award-winning actress, ("The Josephine Baker Story", "Stompin' At The Savoy", "Head of State", "Eve's Bayou")
• Karen Malina White, actress, ("The Cosby Show")

[edit] Faculty

• Sterling Brown, writer, teacher, literary critic, poet laureat for Washington, D.C., professor 1929- around 1969
• Merze Tate, first African-American graduate of Western Michigan College, first African-American female to attend Oxford, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from Harvard University, one of the first women members of the Department of History at Howard University, expert in diplomatic history, professor 1942-77
• Dr. Clive Callender, one of the foremost specialists in organ transplant medicine in the United States. Professor at Howard University College of Medicine, 1973- present.
• Alain Locke, Professor - African American writer, philosopher, educator,

[edit] References