List of African-American mathematicians

This is a list of African-American mathematicians.

• Grace Alele-Williams, first Nigerian woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, in 1963^[1]
• Idris Assani
• Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)
• Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947 in Rwanda)
• David Blackwell (1919–2010)
• Lillian K. Bradley (b. 1921), first African American woman to receive any type of doctorate from the University of Texas, in 1960, important because of the history of racist attitudes in the university's mathematics department
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), third African American woman to earn Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, in 1950;^[2] she then taught at North Carolina Central University
• William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania ^[3][4]
• Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first black person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Cornell University
• Joseph J. Dennis (1905–1977), Clark College
• Annie Easley (1933-2011)
• Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002)
• Gloria Ford Gilmer, first African American woman to publish a non-Ph.D. thesis mathematics research paper in 1956
• Evelyn Boyd Granville (b. 1924), second African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University, in 1949
• Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Catholic University, in 1943^[2]
• Gloria Conyers Hewitt (b. 1935), fourth African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Washington, in 1962^[2]
• Clifford Victor Johnson (b. 1968), awarded B.S. from Imperial College in 1989
• Katherine Johnson (b. 1918)
• Raymond L. Johnson (b. 1943), first African-American student at Rice University^[5]
• Kelly Miller (1863–1939)
• Charles Reason (1818–1893)
• Georgia Caldwell Smith (1909-1961) passed her Ph.D. defense in 1960, but died before it was conferred posthumously in 1961^[2]
• Clarence F. Stephens (b. 1917)
• Lee Stiff (b. 1941) ^[6]
• Louise Nixon Sutton (1925–2006), the first African-American woman to be awarded a PhD by New York University
• Walter R. Talbot (1909–1979), fourth African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
• John Urschel (b. 1991)
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923–2011)
• LeShawn Williams
• Scott W. Williams (b. 1943)
• Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881–1965), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania

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