List of Alpha Phi Alpha members

The list of Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) brothers (commonly referred to as Alphas) includes initiated and honorary members. Alpha Phi Alpha is the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for Black college students. Convened in December 1905 as a literary society with the first presiding officer being CC Poindexter, it was established as a fraternity on December 4, 1906, at Ithaca, New York. Alpha Phi Alpha opened chapters at other colleges, universities, and cities, and named them with Greek letters. Members traditionally pledge into a chapter, although some members were granted honorary status before the fraternity discontinued the practice of granting honorary membership. A chapter name ending in "Lambda" denotes an alumni chapter. The only alumni chapter that does not end in "Lambda" is Rho Chapter, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

No chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha is designated Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet that traditionally signifies "the end". Deceased brothers are respectfully referred to as having their membership transferred to Omega Chapter, the fraternity's chapter of sweet rest. Frederick Douglass is distinguished as the only member initiated posthumously when he became an exalted honorary member of the Omega chapter in 1921.

The fraternity through its college and alumni chapters serves the community through nearly a thousand chapters in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

The fraternity has been led by 36 General Presidents. Its membership includes two premiers; four governors; a vice president, four senators; a Supreme Court justice; two presidential candidates; Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Lenin Peace Prize, Kluge Prize, Golden Globe, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Emmy Award winners; French Légion d'honneur and Croix de Guerre laureates; at least four Rhodes Scholars; eighteen diplomats; fourteen Presidential Medal of Freedom, seven Congressional Gold Medal, and seventeen Spingarn Medal recipients; and eighteen Olympians. Buildings, monuments, stadiums, arenas, courthouses, and schools have been named after Alpha men, such as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the Thurgood Marshall Public Policy Building at the University of Maryland, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge, the Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, the Paul Robeson Plaza at Rutgers University, the Jack Trice Stadium at Iowa State University, the John H. Johnson School of Communication at Howard University, the Oscar W. Ritchie Pan-African Cultural Arts Center at Kent State University, the Arvarh E. Strickland General Classroom Building at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the G. Larry James Memorial Stadium, the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse, the John H. Stroger Cook County hospital, the John Hope Franklin Memorial Plaza in Tulsa Oklahoma, the Stephan P. Mickle Sr. Courthouse, the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building, the Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building, the A. Maceo Smith Federal Building, the Robert F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, and the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

The House of Alpha

The House of Alpha was first published in the December 1923 edition of The Sphinx Magazine. The poem would later be attributed to Bro. Sidney P. Brown and quickly became a staple within the fraternity. When speaking about the poem in 1981, Brown cited his experiences with Beta (Washington, D.C.), Theta (Chicago), Xi Lambda (Chicago Alumni), and Eta Lambda (Atlanta Alumni) as collective inspirations for the poem. Loyalty to the Fraternity was repeatedly urged by brothers on the part of those who were among the initiated, and for every chapter with the vision of a fraternity house. The statement has become a manifesto for the national fraternity and chapters, as each may symbolically be referred to as a "House of Alpha".

Eugene K. Jones, sometimes referred to as "The Visionary Jewel", once said:

Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good and practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem...should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.

Here follows a list of notable Alphas.

Founders

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Henry Arthur Callis	Alpha	Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 6th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; physician
Charles Henry Chapman	Alpha	Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Professor of Agriculture at FAMU
Eugene Kinckle Jones	Alpha	Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; first Executive Director of the National Urban League; member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet
George Biddle Kelley	Alpha	Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; first Black licensed engineer of New York
Nathaniel Allison Murray	Alpha	Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; career educator
Robert Harold Ogle	Alpha	Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; professional staff member to the US Congressional Committee on Appropriations
Vertner Woodson Tandy	Alpha	Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha; architect, whose most famous commission was the mansion of Harlem millionaire Madam C.J. Walker

Charter for Alpha Phi Alpha's Alpha chapter with signatures of founders, Cornell University, circa 1906

Academia

Educators

Ninety-five percent of all Black colleges have been headed by an Alpha.

Name	Original chapter	Notability	References
Herman Branson	Beta Gamma	President of Central State University and Lincoln University; co-discoverer of the alpha helix; sickle-cell physicist
James P. Brawley	Alpha Delta	President of Clark College	^{[citation needed]}
Calvin Burnett	Delta Lambda	President of Coppin State University
Julius Chambers	Gamma Beta	Attorney who argued in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; third Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; president of North Carolina Central University
James Cheek	Beta Rho	President of Howard University
Thomas W. Cole Jr.	Alpha Sigma	First President of Clark Atlanta University, president of West Virginia State University, Interim Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thomas W. Cole Sr.	Alpha Sigma	President of Wiley College; 21st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Matthew Davage	Alpha Phi	President of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University
William B. Delauder	Beta Alpha	President of Delaware State University
James Douglas	Delta Theta	President of Texas Southern University
John Malcus Ellison	Gamma	First African American President of Virginia Union University, 1941
Ernest A. Finney Jr.	Delta Alpha	Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Representatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University
Floyd H. Flake	Zeta Gamma Lambda	Former US Congressman from New York; president of Wilberforce University; pastor of Greater Allen Cathedral of New York
Elson S. Floyd	Mu Zeta	First African American President of three universities: Western Michigan University, University of Missouri, and Washington State University	^: 78
Luther H. Foster Jr.	Beta Gamma	Fourth President of Tuskegee University
Luther H. Foster Sr.	Gamma Phi	President of Virginia State University
Norman Francis	Sigma Lambda	President of Xavier University; President of Louisiana Recovery Authority; 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Robert Michael Franklin Jr.	Eta Lambda	President of Morehouse College
James R. Gavin	Gamma Mu	President of Morehouse School of Medicine
Hugh M. Gloster	Alpha Rho	President of Morehouse College; Physician, Founder and namesake of the Morehouse School of Medicine Hugh M. Gloster Society
George Gore Jr.	Tau Lambda	Fifth President of Florida A&M University; Interim President of Fisk University; founder of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society
Ervin V. Griffin Sr.	Beta Theta	President of West Virginia State College
William H. Hale	Beta Kappa	President of Langston University
Jaffus Hardrick	Zeta Xi	14th President of Florida Memorial University
G. Lamar Harrison	Beta	President of Langston University
Cornelius Henderson	Alpha Phi	President of Gammon Theological Seminary
Charles A. Hines	Beta	President of Prairie View A&M University; Major General
Ernest Holloway	Beta Kappa	14th President of Langston University
John Hope	Eta Lambda	First Black President of Morehouse College; president of Atlanta University; co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; fourth president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History; 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient
Freeman A. Hrabowski III	Gamma Iota	President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; social activist
Frederick S. Humphries	Beta Nu	Eighth President of Florida A&M University
William P. Hytche Sr.	Beta Kappa	President of University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Charles S. Johnson	Gamma	Editor of the National Urban League's Opportunity magazine; first Black President of Fisk University
Walter M. Kimbrough	Zeta Pi	President of Dillard University; author
Raphael Lanier	Mu Lambda	United States Ambassador to Liberia; first president of Texas Southern University
Thomas F. Law	Delta Rho	First President of Saint Paul's College
John H. Lewis	Zeta	President of Morris Brown College
Joseph T. McMillan Jr.	Beta	First President of Huston–Tillotson College
John A. Middleton	Nu Eta Lambda	President of Morris Brown College
Luna Mishoe	Alpha Pi Lambda	President of Delaware State University
Elfred A. Packard	Chi Lambda	22nd President of Wilberforce University
Frederick D. Patterson	Alpha Nu	Third President of Tuskegee University; co-founder of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF); 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom; 1988 Spingarn Medal recipient
Benjamin Payton	Beta Delta	Fifth President of Tuskegee University
Henry Ponder	Beta Kappa	President of Talladega College, Fisk University and Benedict College; 28th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; vice chairman of the World Policy Council
Earl Richardson	Delta Nu	President of Morgan State University
John B. Slaughter	Kappa Tau	President of University of Maryland and Occidental College; first African American Director of the National Science Foundation	^{[citation needed]}
Kent J. Smith Jr.	Beta Sigma	16th President of Langston University
Louis Wade Sullivan	Alpha Rho	Secretary of Health and Human Services; co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine
Ronald Temple	Delta Gamma Lambda	President of City Colleges of Chicago
Jack Thomas	Tau Lambda	11th President of Western Illinois University; first African American President of WIU; author; national and international keynote speaker/lecturer
Gregory J. Vincent	Alpha Rho Lambda	President of Hobart College and William Smith College; Professor; Attorney, civil rights and social justice expert
Walter Washington	Gamma Upsilon	President of Alcorn State University; 24th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Charles H. Wesley	Zeta	President of Central State University; president of Wilberforce University; executive director and president of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH); 14th general president and historian of Alpha Phi Alpha
Sidney David Williams	Beta Zeta	Fourth President of Elizabeth City State University

Floyd Flake

Norman Francis

Charles S. Johnson

Louis Sullivan

Scholarship

Name	Original chapter	Notability
David H. Blackwell	Tau	Professor of Mathematics University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley); first Black person admitted to the National Academy of Sciences; first tenured black professor in UC Berkeley history; former Chair of the Department of Statistics
William Jelani Cobb	Kappa Phi Lambda	Professor of Journalism at Columbia University; former Professor of History and Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut; author of The Substance of Hope; staff writer at The New Yorker magazine; contributor to MSNBC TV; Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism
Kevin Cokley	Xi Eta	Author of The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism; former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Black Psychology; University of Texas at Austin educational psychology professor; first Black person admitted to the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers; Association of Black Psychologists Distinguished Psychologist
William P. Foster	Upsilon	Creator of the Florida A&M University Marching "100" Band
E. Franklin Frazier	Delta Nu Lambda	American sociologist; author of The Negro Family, Black Bourgeoisie, and On Race Relations; Fisk University Professor; recipient of 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the most significant work in the field of race relations; Guggenheim Fellowship Award recipient
John Hope Franklin	Alpha Chi	President of American Historical Association; 1995 Spingarn Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2006 Kluge Prize recipient; author of From Slavery To Freedom; namesake of the John Hope Franklin Memorial Plaza at the site of the Tulsa, Oklahoma "Black Wall Street" massacre and race riot.
Ernest J. Harris	Gamma Delta	Research entomologist; developer of the "male annihilation" method of insect control adopted by over 20 countries; original Montford Point Marine and 2017 recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal
Hobart Jarrett	Alpha Sigma	Member of the Wiley College Debate Team that in 1935 defeated the University of Southern California national champions; author of the second volume of The History of Sigma Pi Phi
Elgy Johnson	Alpha Omicron	Mathematician
Marshall Jones	Beta Pi Lambda	Acclaimed research scientist in the field of laser additive technologies; 2017 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Kelly Miller	Beta (honorary)	Leading African-American intellectual for more than half a century; first Black person admitted to Johns Hopkins University
James A. Porter	Beta	Scholar whose book Modern Negro Art became a standard reference work on Black art in America
J. Marshall Shepherd	Kappa Phi Lambda	Physicist; NASA meteorologist; international expert on weather and global climate change; university professor
Warren Washington	Epsilon Zeta Lambda	Climate change scientist; 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for Science recipient; first African American President of the American Meteorological Society; awarded 2010 National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama; presidential advisor to Presidents Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes; professor of climatology at the University of Oregon
Robert E. Weems Jr.	Theta	Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University; acclaimed for extensive and systematic research on African American consumerism; lecturer and author of books on the economic history of African Americans including Black Business in the Black Metropolis, Desegregating the Dollar, and Business in Black and White
Cornel West	Zeta Beta Lambda	Professor of religion at Harvard and Princeton; author and social activist
Roger L. Youmans	Upsilon	Surgeon; University of California Berkeley medical professor; author of When Elephants Fight: An American Surgeon's Chronicle of Congo

John Franklin

Kelly Miller

Cornel West

Rhodes scholars

The Rhodes Scholarship is the world's oldest and arguably most prestigious international fellowship. The scholarships have been awarded to applicants annually since 1902 by the Rhodes Trust in Oxford based on academic qualities, as well as those of character.

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Heyward Dotson	Eta	1970 Rhodes Scholar; former NBA player
Norman Washington Manley	Beta Beta Lambda	1914 Rhodes Scholar; Premier of Jamaica; founder of Jamaica's People's National Party
Westley Moore	Sigma Sigma	2001 Rhodes Scholar; New York Times bestselling author
Randal Pinkett	Kappa Phi Lambda	1994 Rhodes Scholar; fourth winner of NBC's reality show The Apprentice
Andrew Zawacki	Kappa Pi	1994 Rhodes Scholar

Westley Moore

Business

Name	Original chapter	Notability	References
Mark D. Banks	Delta Alpha Lambda	President of Logos Consulting
Jesse Binga	Theta (honorary)	Founder of Binga State Bank in Chicago
Henry Brown	Alpha Eta Lambda	Vice President for Marketing Affairs and Development with Anheuser-Busch
W. Melvin Brown	Beta Delta	CEO of American Development Corporation
Thomas J. Burrell	Theta	CEO of Burrell Advertising
Theodore Colbert III	Gamma Lambda	CEO, Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Allen Counts	Beta	Chairman of Doley Securities, Inc.; former President of Mcclendon, Pryor, Counts (once the largest black-owned investment bank in the US)
Nathaniel Goldston	Delta Psi Lambda	CEO and founder of Gourmet Services
Brett J. Hart	Epsilon	CEO and President of United Airlines
Alonzo F. Herndon	Eta Lambda (honorary)	Founder and President of Atlanta Life Insurance; namesake of the Alonzo Herndon Stadium at Morris Brown College
Norris Herndon	Sigma	President of Atlanta Life Insurance
Eugene Jackson	Epsilon Psi	CEO of World African Network
Charles James III	Delta Zeta	CEO of James Produce
Clifton Jeter	Beta	CEO of the Agricultural Federal Credit Union; CFO of Kennedy Center
John H. Johnson	Theta	Founder of Johnson Publishing Company, which publishes Ebony and Jet magazines; the first Black person to appear on the Forbes 400 "Rich List"; namesake of Howard University's School of Communications; Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1966 Spingarn Medal recipient; a portion of Chicago's famed Michigan Avenue was renamed "John H. Johnson Avenue"
Joe W. Laymon	Delta Phi	Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services; Chevron Corporation
L. D. Milton	unknown	President of Citizens Bank
Randy Parker	Eta Psi	CEO Hyundai Automotive Corporation North America
Henry Parks	Kappa	Founder of Parks Sausage
William F. Pickard	Epsilon Xi	CEO Global Automotive Alliance; professor University of Michigan School of Business; 2001 Michigan Citizen of the Year award winner; business lecturer
Samuel Pierce	Alpha	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther King Jr. and The New York Times in the important First Amendment case styled New York Times v. Sullivan; first African-American to serve on the board of directors of a Fortune 500 company
Jonathan Rodgers	Alpha Epsilon	CEO of TV One; president of CBS Television Stations; executive producer for the CBS Morning News and weekend evening newscasts	^{[citation needed]}
Joshua Smith	Delta Xi	CEO of Maxima Corporation
Robert F. Smith	Alpha	Founder of Vista Equity Partners; namesake of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University
Everette Taylor	Theta Iota	CEO of PopSocial, co-founder of GrowthHackers
Don Thompson	Gamma Rho	CEO and President of McDonald's, worldwide

Alonzo Herndon

Gerald Albright

Duke Ellington

Entertainment

Music

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Cannonball Adderley	Beta Nu	Jazz saxophonist
Gerald Albright	Iota Chi	Jazz saxophonist
Jerry Butler	Xi Lambda	Songwriter, composer; former lead singer of The Impressions; 1991 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; 1993 NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame inductee
Duke Ellington	Alpha Zeta Lambda	Composer, bandleader, actor; Grammy Award winner; 1959 Spingarn Medal and 1969 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Pulitzer Prize in recognition of his musical genius
Marc Gay	Beta	Singer in the R&B group Shai
Lionel Hampton	Phi	Jazz percussionist and bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient; Goodwill Ambassador for the United States
Antonio Hart	Sigma	Jazz saxophonist
Donny Hathaway	Beta	Songwriter and arranger for The Staple Singers, Jerry Butler, and Aretha Franklin; singer who recorded duets with Roberta Flack; recorded the theme song to the TV series Maude
Fletcher Henderson	Alpha Phi	Pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music
Carl Martin	Beta	Singer in the R&B group Shai
Lionel Richie	Alpha Nu Lambda	Singer and member of the Commodores; Grammy Award and Academy Award winner; 2003 Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree
Noble Sissle	Theta	Jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, and singer of the Harlem Renaissance; lyricist of Shuffle Along, which became the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African-Americans
Lanzel Smith Jr.	Delta Zeta	International Disc Jockey and multi-faceted producer
Darnell Van Rensalier	Beta	Singer in the R&B group Shai
Jonathan White	Gamma Delta	Jazz composer, saxophonist

Lionel Hampton

Lionel Richie

Noble Sissle

Film, television, and theatre

Name	Original chapter	Notability	References
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II	Alpha Epsilon	Actor, best known for Candyman, The Get Down, The Greatest Showman, Baywatch, Aquaman, Watchmen; 2020 Emmy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor
Darryl M. Bell	Delta Zeta	Actor, best known for A Different World
Bret E. Benson	Mu Gamma	Actor in TV and film; motivational speaker, best known for ATLANTA, Fatal Attraction, Angie's List
Benny Boom	Pi Rho	Director of music videos; director of 2017 Tupac biography movie All Eyez On Me
Rusty Cundieff	Alpha Delta	Actor, writer; director of Tales from the Hood and Chappelle's Show; correspondent on TV Nation
Rel Dowdell	Alpha Chi	Writer and director of feature films Train Ride and Changing the Game
Todd Duncan	Mu Lambda	First Black person to sing with a major opera company; the original Porgy in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; 1984 George Peabody Medal of Music recipient
Andra Fuller	Tau Alpha	Actor, best known for Black Jesus, RoomieLoverFriends, The L.A. Complex
Kevin Grevioux	Beta	Writer, producer, actor in Underworld films, The Mask, Steel, Congo, Planet of the Apes	^{[citation needed]}
Gary Hardwick	Epsilon	Producer, writer, director of The Brothers, Deliver Us from Eva, Radio, and Bring It On
Omari Hardwick	Zeta Pi	Actor in Saved, Dark Blue, Power, and The A-Team
Rob Hardy	Beta Nu	Film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director	^{[citation needed]}
Hill Harper	Kappa Phi Lambda	Actor on The Good Doctor, CSI: NY; author of Letters to a Young Brother
Lanre Idewu	Alpha Theta	Actor, producer best known for South Side, Sherman’s Showcase, Arrested Development, The Game, The Choir	^{[citation needed]}
Barry Jenkins	Iota Delta	First African American director to win an Oscar Academy Award for Best Picture (Moonlight); Director of 2019 Golden Globe Award-winning movie If Beale Street Could Talk
Christian Keyes	Zeta Beta	Television and movie actor, singer, and model; Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Let's Stay Together, Moonlight, Sex Chronicles
Vaughn Lowery	Alpha	Model, actor, and president/founder of 360 Magazine; model for Joe Boxer, Gap, Fila, Target, Old Navy, Dasani, Skechers, and Ecko Unlimited; runway model for Tommy Hilfiger, Phat Farm, and Karl Kani
Yohance Myles	Beta Upsilon	Television and movie actor; Containment, Into the Badlands, 2 Guns
William Packer	Beta Nu	Producer and director of films, including The Gospel, Pandora's Box, Stomp the Yard, Trois, and Roots (2016 remake); first African American to produce the Academy Awards Oscar presentations ceremony (2022)
Joseph C. Phillips	Iota Zeta Lambda	Actor on The Cosby Show, General Hospital, and Strictly Business; political commentator on NPR's News and Notes with Ed Gordon
Randal Pinkett	Kappa Phi Lambda	Fourth winner of NBC's reality show The Apprentice; Rhodes Scholar
Kevin Powell	Zeta Eta	Cast member of The Real World: New York; political activist; poet; writer; entrepreneur
Tim Reid	Eta Lambda	Actor, Sister, Sister, WKRP in Cincinnati, That '70s Show
Paul Robeson	Nu	NFL player; actor; singer; attorney; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate
Terrell Tilford	Alpha Epsilon	Television and movie actor, Soul Food, Days Of Our Lives, Guiding Light, One Life To Live, The Protector	^{[citation needed]}
Drew Watkins	Beta	Producer of Inside the NBA; two-time Emmy Award winner
Keenen Ivory Wayans	Gamma Phi	Creator of comedy series In Living Color; actor, comedian, writer, director; Emmy Award winner

Hill Harper

Paul Robeson

Government, law, and public policy

Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the first relevant section.

US Vice Presidents and Supreme Court

Name	Original chapter	Notability	References
Hubert Humphrey	Honorary	38th Vice President of the United States; 1968 Presidential candidate; Senator from Minnesota; Mayor of Minneapolis; 1979 Congressional Gold Medal and 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Thurgood Marshall	Nu	First African American Justice of US Supreme Court; attorney in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; first Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; 1946 Spingarn Medal and 1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; authored the Constitution for the newly independent African nation of Kenya

Hubert Humphrey

Thurgood Marshall

Cabinet and Cabinet-level ranks

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Lee P. Brown	Epsilon Beta	Director of National Drug Control Policy; first African-American mayor of Houston, Texas
Robert J. Brown	Mu Lambda	Special Assistant to President Nixon for Minority Affairs
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.	Psi	Secretary of Transportation; first Black Supreme Court law clerk; co-author of the brief in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; co-counsel on the landmark case McLaughlin v. Florida, which established the constitutionality of interracial marriages; editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Don Cravins Jr.	Nu Psi	Under Secretary of Commerce for Minority Business Development; Executive Vice President and COO of the National Urban League; Louisiana State Legislature
Malcolm Jackson	Delta Phi	Chief Information Officer and Assistant Administrator: Office of Environmental Information
Rayford Logan	Omicron	First Executive Director of the National Urban League; member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet; second Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Samuel Pierce	Alpha	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther King Jr. and The New York Times in the important First Amendment case styled New York Times v. Sullivan; first African-American to serve on the Board of Directors of a Fortune 500 company
Emmett Scott	Honorary	Special Assistant to the Secretary of War
Ron C. Sims	Zeta Pi Lambda	Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; served as King County Executive, King County, Washington
Louis Wade Sullivan	Alpha Rho	Secretary of Health and Human Services; co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine

Lee Brown

Samuel Pierce

Louis Sullivan

Don R. Cravins Jr.

Members of the United States Congress

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Edward Brooke	Beta	Senator from Massachusetts; Attorney General of Massachusetts; Chairman Emeritus of World Policy Council; 1967 Spingarn Medal and 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient
Roland Burris	Beta Eta	Senator from Illinois, appointed to fill the seat vacated by President Barack Obama; first Black Illinois Attorney General
Hansen Clarke	Gamma Lambda	Representative from Michigan
Emanuel Cleaver	Eta Gamma	Representative from Missouri; Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
Danny K. Davis	Gamma Delta	Representative from Illinois
William Dawson	Theta	Representative from Illinois; first African-American chairman of a regular House Committee (Committee on Expenditures in Executive Department); Dawson Technical Institute at Kennedy-King College (Chicago) is named in his honor
Ron Dellums	Delta Omicron	Representative from California; co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; Mayor of Oakland; led the fight in the US against South African apartheid; namesake of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland
Julian C. Dixon	Alpha Delta	Representative from California
Chaka Fattah	Zeta Omicron Lambda	Representative from Pennsylvania
Floyd H. Flake	Zeta Gamma Lambda	Representative from Illinois; president of Wilberforce University
Harold Ford Sr.	Beta Omicron	Representative from Tennessee; legislator of Tennessee
William H. Gray	Rho	Representative from Pennsylvania; House Majority Whip and House Democratic Whip; CEO of the United Negro College Fund
Al Green	Beta Nu	Representative from Texas
Earl F. Hilliard	Alpha Rho	Representative from Alabama; Legislator of Alabama
Steven Horsford	Eta Lambda	Representative from Nevada
Gregory W. Meeks	Zeta Zeta Lambda	Representative from New York; New York State Assembly
Ralph Metcalfe	Alpha Xi	Representative from Illinois; co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; 1932 and 1936 Olympian; Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building (Chicago) is named in his honor
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.	Eta	First Black Representative from New York (Harlem); Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee; first African American Chairman of a major committee in the U.S. House of Representatives; early civil rights and racial equality legislation advocate; long-time pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church
Charles B. Rangel	Alpha Gamma Lambda	Representative from New York; co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; the first Black person to chair the Committee on Ways and Means; New York State Assembly Representative; Marine combat veteran awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals
David Scott	Beta Nu	Representative from Georgia
Robert C. Scott	Sigma	Representative from Virginia
Bennett M. Stewart	Xi Lambda	Representative from Illinois
Raphael Warnock	Alpha Gamma Lambda	Senator from Georgia; first African American Senator elected from Georgia; Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

William Dawson

Ron Dellums

Julian Dixon

Chaka Fattah

Harold Ford Sr.

William H. Gray

US Governors and Lieutenant Governors

Name	Original chapter	Notability	References
Justin Fairfax	Kappa Omicron	Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia	^: 31
Walter A. Gordon	Alpha Epsilon	17th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands; Federal District Judge of the United States Virgin Islands
Westley Moore	Sigma Sigma	2001 Rhodes Scholar; 63rd Governor of Maryland
Joe Rogers	Omicron Tau	Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
Roy L. Schneider	Beta	25th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
Charles Wesley Turnbull	Gamma Iota	26th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
James R. Williams	Alpha Tau	Lieutenant Governor of Ohio candidate; 25th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha

Ralph Metcalfe

Adam Powell Jr.

Diplomats

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Samuel Clifford Adams Jr.	Alpha Chi	U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Niger
Orison Rudolph Aggrey	Gamma Iota	Ambassador to Republic of The Gambia, Republic of Senegal, and Romania
Archibald Carey Jr.	Theta	Diplomat; attorney; Circuit Court Judge; Pastor
Walter Carrington	Sigma	Ambassador to Republic of Senegal and Federal Republic of Nigeria
Horace Dawson	Nu	Ambassador to Republic of Botswana; Director of the Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University; Chairman of the World Policy Council
Frederick Douglass	(honorary)	Minister to Republic of Haiti; anti-slavery activist
Edward R. Dudley	Alpha Omicron	United States Ambassador to Liberia; First African American to hold the rank ambassador; Justice of the New York Supreme Court
Walter A. Gordon	Alpha Epsilon	U.S. Federal District Court Judge; Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands; First All-American football player in University of California history and California state champion in wrestling and boxing; Chartering member of Alpha Epsilon chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Lionel Hampton	Phi	Goodwill Ambassador; jazz percussionist and bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient
James A. Joseph	Beta Sigma	Ambassador to South Africa; Under Secretary of Interior
Kenton Keith	Upsilon	Ambassador to State of Qatar
Raphael Lanier	Mu Lambda	Minister to Liberia; first president of Texas Southern University
Delano Lewis	Upsilon	Ambassador to South Africa; President and Chief Executive Officer of National Public Radio; President of The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Frenise A. Logan	Alpha Chi	Diplomatic cultural affairs attache' in Madras and Calcutta, India; Historian; Poet
Donald McHenry	Eta Tau	Ambassador to United Nations
John H. Morrow	Delta Iota	First United States Ambassador to Guinea after its independence; first US Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Gerald Eustis Thomas	Sigma	Ambassador to Guyana and Kenya; Admiral, US Navy
Terence Todman	Delta Zeta	Ambassador to Republic of Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark, and Argentina
Lester Walton	Eta	Minister to Liberia
Clifton Reginald Wharton Sr.	Sigma	Ambassador to Norway and Minister to Romania
Franklin H. Williams	Nu	Ambassador to Republic of Ghana and the United Nations; President of the Phelps-Stokes Fund
Andrew Young	Beta	Ambassador to the United Nations; Representative from Georgia; two-term Mayor of Atlanta; 1990 Governor of Georgia candidate; 1978 Spingarn Medal, 1981 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and French Légion d'honneur recipient

Robert Scott

Charles Turnbull

Frederick Douglass

Mayors

Name	Original chapter	Notability	References
Dennis Archer	Alpha Upsilon	Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court; Mayor of Detroit, Michigan; first Black President of the American Bar Association
Richard Arrington Jr.	Gamma Kappa	First Black Mayor of Birmingham
Ras J. Baraka	Alpha Alpha Lambda	Mayor of Newark, New Jersey; Grammy Award-winning music producer; educator; author
Thomas V. Barnes	Gamma Rho	Mayor of Gary, Indiana
Marion Barry	Beta Xi	Mayor of Washington, D.C.; first Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Ted Berry	Alpha Alpha	First Black Mayor of Cincinnati; board member of the NAACP
Byron Brown	Delta Epsilon	Senator of New York; first Black Mayor of Buffalo
Willie Brown	Xi Rho	First Black Mayor of San Francisco; Speaker of the California State Assembly; the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is in part named in his honor
Melvin Carter	Beta Nu	First Black Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota	^: 42
Lawrence D. Crawford	Epsilon	Mayor of Saginaw, Michigan
David Dinkins	Beta	First Black Mayor of New York City
Gow Fields	Mu Zeta Lambda	First Black Mayor of Lakeland, Florida
Anthony Ford	Xi Iota	Mayor of Stockridge, Georgia	^: 35
Maynard Jackson	Alpha Rho	First Black and three-term Mayor of Atlanta; Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is in part named in his honor
Harvey Johnson Jr.	Beta Omicron	First Black Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
Kwame Kilpatrick	Beta Nu	Mayor of Detroit who resigned after pleading guilty to felony charges stemming from a text message scandal; convicted of federal charges including racketeering and extortion
Henry L. Marsh III	Gamma	First African American Mayor of Richmond
Rudolph McCollum Jr.	Beta	Mayor of Richmond
James McGee	Xi	First Black Mayor of Dayton
Wayne M. Messam	Iota Delta	First Black Mayor of Miramar, Florida
Ernest Nathan Morial	Beta Tau	Louisiana State Legislature; first Black Mayor of New Orleans; namesake of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans
Marc Morial	Psi	Louisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League
J.O. Patterson	Alpha Chi	First African American Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee
Timothy L. Ragland	Upsilon Eta	First African American and youngest Mayor in the history of Talladega, Alabama
Norm Rice	Zeta Pi Lambda	First and only African-American Mayor of Seattle
Eugene Sawyer	Beta Upsilon	Mayor of Chicago
Frank Scott Jr.	Kappa Eta	Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas	^: 42
AC Wharton	Beta Omicron	Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee
Lionel Wilson	Alpha Epsilon	First Black Mayor of Oakland
Randall Woodfin	Alpha Rho	Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama	^: 42

Marion Barry

Byron Brown

Willie Brown

David Dinkins

Judges and lawyers

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Ralph Bailey Jr.	Alpha Pi	First full-time African-American male judge in Henry County, Georgia
Robert Benham	Eta Lambda	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
Joe Brown	Kappa Eta	Host of the syndicated show Judge Joe Brown; presided over James Earl Ray's last appeal for Ray's conviction for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert L. Carter	Nu	Pivotal role in Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, and NAACP v. Alabama; US District Court Judge; 2004 Spingarn Medal recipient; Federal District Appellate Judge
Julius Chambers	Gamma Beta	Attorney in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; third Director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; president of North Carolina Central University
U. W. Clemon	Omicron Lambda	U.S Federal District Court Judge for Alabama
Christopher Darden	Epsilon Mu	Prosecutor in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson
Milton C. Davis	Gamma Phi	Assistant Attorney General of the state of Alabama who researched and wrote opinions which led Governor George Wallace to pardon Clarence Norris, the last known surviving defendant in the international cause célèbre case of the Scottsboro Boys; 29th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Harry T. Edwards	Theta Zeta Lambda	Justice for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jerome Farris	Alpha Rho	First Black Federal Judge appointed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Ernest A. Finney Jr.	Delta Alpha	Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Representatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University; attorney in the civil rights case styled The Friendship 9
Charles Hamilton Houston	Sigma	Chief architect of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategy for racial equality in dismantling the Jim Crow laws; first Black editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1950 Spingarn Medal recipient
Charles Preston Howard Sr.	Gamma Phi	Co-founder of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest organization of African American Attorneys
Harry E. Johnson	Beta Tau	President of the Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc., which oversees the fundraising, design, and construction of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial; 31st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Damon Keith	Alpha Zeta	Chief Justice of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan who famously ruled in United States v. Sinclair (upheld in United States v. US District Court) that President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell had to disclose the transcripts of illegal wiretaps that Mitchell had authorized without first obtaining a search warrant; 1974 Spingarn Medal recipient
Belford Lawson Jr.	Epsilon	Co-founder of New Negro Alliance; successfully argued in United States Supreme Court cases styled New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. to safeguard the right to boycott, and Henderson v. United States which abolished segregation in railroad dining cars; 16th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Robert Anthony Malloy	Zeta Omicron Lambda	Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands
Greg Mathis	Gamma Lambda	Host of television series Judge Mathis
Daryl D. Parks	Beta Nu	Managing partner in the law firm that represented the parents of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, and the family of Eric Garner
Aubrey E. Robinson Jr.	Alpha	U.S. Federal District Judge for the District of Columbia (DC)
Jawn Sandifer	Alpha Omicron	Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the NAACP who successfully argued Henderson v. United States
Michael A. Shipp	Delta Iota	Nominated as a judge for the US District Court for the District of New Jersey by President Obama on January 23, 2012
Arthur Shores	Alpha Beta	Attorney in Lucy v. Adams, which prevented the University of Alabama from denying admission to applicants solely on account of race or color; civil rights activist; namesake of the Arthur Davis Shores Law Center and A. D. Shores Park in Birmingham, Alabama
Charles Z. Smith	Beta Nu	First African-American to serve as Washington State Supreme Court Justice 1998-2002; first African-American to serve as King County Superior Court judge and Seattle Municipal Court judge; served as a special assistant to United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (1960-64) to investigate corruption related to Teamster Union pension funds; brought an indictment in Chicago against Teamster Union President James Hoffa; appointed by President Clinton in 1999 to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
A. P. Tureaud	Beta	Attorney in Garner v. Louisiana, which legalized sit-in protests at segregated private businesses and restaurants
Reggie B. Walton	Alpha Zeta	Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Horace Ward	Alpha Rho	Senator of Georgia; first African American to serve on the federal bench in Georgia

Kwame Kilpatrick

Marc Morial

Norm Rice

Joe Brown

Robert Carter

Other US political and legal figures

Name	Original chapter	Notability
William T. Andrews	Eta	New York State Assembly
Michael L. Ankton	Theta Kappa	Justice of the Peace, Clark County Quorum Court, Clark County, Arkansas
Calvin Ball III	Kappa Phi Lambda	Howard County Executive
Daniel T. Blue Jr.	Gamma Beta	North Carolina House of Representatives; Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; 2002 Democratic candidate for the United States Senate
Roy A. Burrell	Eta Chi	Louisiana House of Representatives; former member of the Shreveport City Council; former president of the Delta Upsilon Lambda chapter
Randy D. Dunn	Omicron Xi Lambda	Missouri House of Representatives
Al Edwards	unknown	Texas House of Representatives; considered the father of the Juneteenth Holiday
Kambrell Garvin	Xi Phi	South Carolina House of Representatives
Patrick O. Jefferson	Beta Phi	Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 11; lawyer in Arcadia, Louisiana
Carl McCall	Theta Zeta	Legislator of New York; Comptroller of New York; 2002 Democratic candidate for Governor of New York
William Byron Rumford	Gamma Phi Lambda	Member of the California State Legislature
C. O. Simpkins Sr.	Dillard University	Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish, 1992 to 1996
Albert Vann	Alpha Xi Lambda	New York State Assembly
Herb Wesson	Nu	California State Assembly; Speaker of the California State Assembly
Tyrone Yates	Alpha Alpha	Ohio House of Representatives

Government officials outside the U.S.

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Joseph Boakai	Eta Epsilon Lambda	President of Liberia, previously Vice President serving under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
E. David Burt	Nu Beta	Member of Parliament; Deputy Leader of the Progressive Labour Party; former Senator, Bermuda
Shawn Crockwell	Rho Chi	Member of Parliament and Minister of Tourism, Development & Transport, Bermuda
Clifton Stanley Hardy	Tau	Chief auditor for the Republic of Liberia, European correspondent for the Associated Negro Press in Paris, a government adviser on export-import banking issues for Liberia
Stuart Hayward	Beta	House of Assembly of Bermuda
Norman Washington Manley	Beta Beta Lambda	Premier of Jamaica; founder of Jamaica's People's National Party; 1914 Rhodes Scholar
Prince K. Moye	Eta Epsilon Lambda	Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia
Diallo Rabain	Epsilon Theta Lambda	Member of Parliament; former Opposition Senate Leader and Senator, Bermuda
Edward Richards	Epsilon Theta Lambda	First Premier of Bermuda
Lawrence Scott	Epsilon Theta Lambda	Member of Parliament, Bermuda; son of former Premier of Bermuda William Alexander Scott
Peter Turnquest	Eta Gamma	Member of Parliament, Deputy Leader of the Free National Movement Party, the Bahamas

Journalists and media personalities

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Ron Allen	Psi	News correspondent for NBC and ABC
Tony Brown	Alpha Upsilon	Commentator on the syndicated television show Tony Brown's Journal; founding dean of Howard University's School of Communication
Malvin Russell Goode	Omicron	First Black news correspondent for ABC as a United Nations reporter
Jay Harris	Nu Theta	Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS
Corey Hébert	Alpha Rho	Celebrity physician, radio talk show host, Chief Medical Editor for National Broadcasting Company for the Gulf Coast, first Black Chief Resident of Pediatrics at Tulane University, chief executive officer of Community Health TV
Shannon Lanier	Epsilon Delta	Author of Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family; TV personality; journalist; descendant of President Thomas Jefferson
Roland S. Martin	Pi Omicron	Editor of the Chicago Defender; radio talk show host; contributor to CNN; anchor for TV One network news
Harry S. McAlpin	Gamma Epsilon	First African American White House Press Correspondent; CBS National (DC) reporter; journalist; attorney
Lu Palmer	Alpha Kappa	Chicago Sun-Times columnist; community activist; campaign manager for Harold Washington mayoral race
Stuart Scott	Mu Zeta	Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter
Chuck Stone	Alpha Kappa	Speechwriter for Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; first president of the National Association of Black Journalists; Tuskegee Airman
Lewis Ossie Swingler	Beta Beta	Editor of the Sphinx; editor in chief of the Memphis World; co-founder and editor in chief of the Tri-State Defender; southern vice president of Alpha Phi Alpha during the Montgomery bus boycott
Pierre Thomas	Theta Iota	ABC Network News Senior Justice Correspondent; 2012 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Journalist of the Year Award winner; two-time Emmy Award winner (2001 and 2009); winner of the George Foster Peabody and Alfred I DuPont Awards
Stan Verrett	Beta	Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS

Literature

Name	Original chapter	Notability	References
Countee Cullen	Eta	Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Eric Jerome Dickey	Kappa Eta	Author
E. Lynn Harris	Kappa Kappa	Author, playwright
Chester Himes	Kappa	Author whose works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels	^{[failed verification]}
Lawrence Ross	Alpha Epsilon	Author of The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities
Carl Weber	Beta Gamma	Author
Clint Wilson	Alpha Delta	Author, Whither the Black Press?; journalist; Howard University professor
Frank Yerby	Theta	Best-selling author

Countee Cullen

Armed services

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Terrence Adams	Upsilon Eta	Brigadier General, United States Air Force
Ronald L. Bailey	Zeta Lambda	Major General, United States Marine Corps; first African American Commander of the 1st Marine Division
William Banton	Beta	First Black Brigadier General in the USAF; clinical faculty member of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine; first African American president of the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society
Arnold Gordon Bray	Zeta Gamma	Brigadier General; United States Army
David L. Brewer	Gamma Zeta	Admiral, United States Navy; Superintendent of L.A. Unified School District, community activist
Charles Q. Brown	Eta Upsilon	Four star general; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Previously U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff; 1st African American military service chief.
Wesley A. Brown	Sigma	Lieutenant Commander; first Black graduate from United States Naval Academy; the Wesley A. Brown Field House at the US Naval Academy is named in his honor
Alvin Bryant	Zeta Lambda	Brigadier General; U.S. Army
Roscoe Cartwright	Zeta Alpha	General, United States Army, founder of ROCKs, Inc., an international organization for U.S Armed Forces commissioned officers
Anthony J. Cotton	Eta Omicron	United States Air Force four-star general U.S. Air Force Global Strike Force Commander
Victor Daly	Alpha	French Croix de Guerre recipient; novelist and author
Gracus K. Dunn	Nu Alpha	Brigadier General, United States Army
Amos M. Gailliard Jr.	Zeta Zeta Lambda	One-star general, United States Army, New York Guard
Walter E. Gaskin	Delta Eta	Three-star general, United States Marine Corps
Fred A. Gorden	Mu Beta Lambda	Brigadier General; first African-American First Captain of the West Point Academy
Samuel L. Gravely Jr.	Gamma	First African American admiral, United States Navy; first African American to command a US fleet; the Arleigh Burke-class warship USS Gravely (DDG 107) was named in his honor and commissioned on November 20, 2010
Benjamin Thurman Hacker	Epsilon Mu Lambda	Rear Admiral, United States Navy
Clifton Stanley Hardy	Tau	Commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, regional translator for the 365th Infantry (French), World War I
Edward Honor	Beta Sigma	Lieutenant General, United States Army
James E. Huger	Alpha Zeta	Montford Point Marine; awarded Congressional Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama; former executive director and general secretary of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Alpha Award of Merit recipient
Prince C. Johnson III	Eta Epsilon Lambda	Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS), Armed Forces of Liberia
James McCall	Psi	Major General Chief in the Pentagon Budget Office
Charles McGee	Tau	Colonel, United States Air Force; original Tuskegee Airman and 30-year career officer in the USAF; holds an Air Force record 409 fighter combat missions flown in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam; awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Air Medal, and Army Commendation Medals; awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush in 2007; inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2011; promoted to brigadier general in 2019
Winston E. Scott	Alpha Phi Lambda	Astronaut, Johnson Space Center
Ronald D. Sullivan	Beta	Brigadier general (United States)
William J. Walker	Theta Psi Lambda	Major General, United States Army, commanding general, District of Columbia National Guard
Bobby Wilks	Alpha Eta	First African American Coast Guard aviator; first African American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain
Darryl K. Williams	Gamma Iota	Lieutenant General, Commanding General of combined arms and Senior Mission Commander at Fort Lee, Virginia
Johnnie E. Wilson	Theta Theta Lambda	Four-star general, United States Army
Daniel Dee Ziankahn	Eta Epsilon Lambda	Major General, Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of Liberia

Walter E. Gaskin

Samuel L. Gravely Jr.

Benjamin Hacker

Winston E. Scott

Johnnie Wilson

Religion

Name	Original chapter	Notability
John Hurst Adams	Alpha Omicron	Founder of the Congress of National Black churches; Senior Bishop of the A.M.E. church; civil rights activist; President of Paul Quinn College
Vinton R. Anderson	Xi	92nd Bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Church; President of World Council of Churches
James H. Cone	Beta Chi	Author of Black Theology & Black Power; considered the "father of Black Liberation Theology"; Distinguished Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary
Tyrone Crider	Theta Mu Lambda	National Director of Operation PUSH
Harold Davis	Beta Sigma	President of American Baptist Churches; pastor
Cain Hope Felder	Beta	First national director of the United Methodist Black Caucus; Professor of Theology at Howard University and Princeton University; editor of The African American Jubilee Bible
Robert E. Hayes Jr.	Huston–Tillotson University	Bishop in the United Methodist Church
T. J. Jemison	Beta Upsilon	Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); President of National Baptist Convention; organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953
E. Edward Jones	Delta Sigma	President of National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. from 1986 to 2003
Martin Luther King Jr.	Sigma	1962 Nobel Peace Prize; civil rights activist; co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in his honor; 1957 Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; first African American with a memorial on the National Mall
Otis Moss Jr.	Alpha Rho	Pastor, theologian, author, lecturer, civil rights activist, aide to Martin Luther King jr.; author of Preach!: The Power and Purpose Behind our Praise
Clementa C. Pinckney	Gamma Gamma	Senior Pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church; one of nine people slain in the 2015 Charleston church shooting; his eulogy was delivered by President Barack Obama; South Carolina State Senator
J. Alfred Smith	unknown	President of Progressive National Baptist Convention

Cain Hope Felder

Martin Luther King Jr.

Science

Sixty percent of all Black male doctors and sixty-five percent of all Black male dentists are Alphas.

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Leonidas H. Berry	Xi	Pioneer in the medical sciences of gastroscopy and endoscopy; inventor of the Berry endoscope; President of the National Medical Association 1965-1966; author of I wouldn't take Nothin' for My Journey: Two Centuries of an Afro-American Minister's Family
Herman Branson	Beta Gamma	President of Central State University and Lincoln University; co-discoverer of the Alpha helix; sickle-cell physicist
William Warwick Cardozo	Kappa	Physician; pioneer researcher of sickle cell anemia; Howard University professor of Medicine; Chief of Staff, Gastroenterology at Providence Hospital
George Sherman Carter	Nu	Nuclear physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
James P. Comer	Gamma Eta	Prominent child psychiatrist; founder of the Comer School Development Program at the Yale University Child Study Center; associate dean at the Yale University School of Medicine
Lloyd Hall	Theta	Chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation; author of 59 United States patents; a number of his inventions were also patented in foreign countries
LaSalle Leffall Jr.	Beta Nu	President of American College of Surgeons; president of American Cancer Society
Julian Herman Lewis	Theta	First African American to hold both an MD and a Ph.D.; groundbreaking research scientist exploring differences in disease expressions by race; expert on blood typing and race-based medical diagnosis and treatment
Garrett A. Morgan	Delta Alpha Lambda	Inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to modern gas masks) and a hair-straightening preparation; patented a type of traffic light signal
Earl W. Renfroe	Theta	Orthodontist; for many years, he was acknowledged as one of the best hands-on clinical orthodontics instructors in the world; a dental facility in Barbados is named after him
J. Marshall Shepherd	Iota Delta	Physicist; NASA meteorologist; professor at University of Georgia; expert on global climate change and environmental issues
Louis Wade Sullivan	Alpha Rho	Secretary of Health and Human Services; co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine
Levi Watkins Jr.	Beta Omicron	Chief of cardiovascular surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; performed the world's first human implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator; first African-American medical student at Vanderbilt University

Garrett Morgan

Service and social reform

Name	Original chapter	Notability
William J. Barber II	Gamma Beta	North Carolina NAACP State President, 2018 MacArthur Foundation Genius award recipient, architect of the Moral Mondays Movement, author of The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays
Ezell Blair Jr.	Beta Epsilon	Civil rights activist and member of the Greensboro Four
Cornell William Brooks	Delta Phi	18th President/CEO of the NAACP; attorney; social and civil rights activist
Julius Chambers	Gamma Beta	Attorney in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; third director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; president of North Carolina Central University
Frederick Douglass	Omega (honorary)	United States Ambassador to Haiti; anti-slavery activist
W. E. B. Du Bois	Epsilon (honorary)	Co-founder of Niagara Movement and NAACP; founder and editor-in-chief of The Crisis; first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University; 1920 Spingarn Medal recipient; author of The Souls of Black Folks
Lloyd L. Gaines	Alpha Psi	Central figure of one of the most important cases in the Civil Rights Movement, the Supreme Court case Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
Lester Granger	Theta Zeta	3rd Executive Secretary of the National Urban League
Dick Gregory	Beta Eta	1968 Presidential candidate; comedian, social activist, writer
George Edmund Haynes	Beta	Founder and first President of the National Urban League; first African American to receive a PhD from Columbia University
John Hope	Eta Lambda	First Black President of Atlanta University; president of Atlanta University; co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; fourth president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient
T. J. Jemison	Beta Upsilon	Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; President of the National Baptist Convention; organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953
Charles S. Johnson	Gamma	Editor of the National Urban League's Opportunity magazine; first Black President of Fisk University
Lyman T. Johnson	Gamma	Plaintiff whose successful legal challenge opened the University of Kentucky to African-American students in 1949
Eugene K. Jones	Alpha	Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; second Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet
Martin Luther King Jr.	Sigma	1962 Nobel Peace Prize; civil rights activist; co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established in his honor; 1957 Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; first African American with a memorial on the National Mall
Martin Luther King III	Eta Lambda	President and CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change; former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Rayford Logan	Omicron	First Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet; 2nd Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Joseph Lowery	Eta Lambda	Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); delivered the benediction at the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009; 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Floyd McKissick	Alpha Rho	2nd President of Congress of Racial Equality; Founder of Soul City
Jesse E. Moorland	Beta	Co-founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); namesake of Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Marc Morial	Psi	Louisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League
Hugh Bernard Price	Eta Alpha Lambda	7th President of the National Urban League
Paul Robeson	Nu	NFL player, actor and singer; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate
Jawn Sandifer	Alpha Omicron	Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the NAACP who successfully argued Henderson v. United States
Ozell Sutton	Pi Lambda	Co-founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; 2012 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; 26th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; Original Monford Point Marine
Heman Sweatt	Alpha Sigma	Plaintiff in the US Supreme Court case styled Sweatt v. Painter, which successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson
Channing Heggie Tobias	Beta	Chairman of the NAACP, Director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund; 1948 Spingarn Medal recipient
C. T. Vivian	Eta Lambda	Civil rights activist and aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; author and humanitarian
Wyatt Tee Walker	Gamma	Co-founder and 3rd Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); civil and human rights activist
Alfred Bitini Xuma	unknown	President of the African National Congress
Max Yergan	Theta	2nd President of the National Negro Congress; Co-founder of the International Council on African Affairs; 1933 Spingarn Medal recipient
Whitney Young	Beta Mu	4th President of the National Urban League; 1968 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; namesake of the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge

Frederick Douglass

W. E. B. Du Bois

Dick Gregory

Charles S. Johnson

Martin Luther King III

Joseph Lowery

Marc Morial

Whitney Young

Sports

Olympics

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Dave Albritton	Kappa	1936 Olympian, high jump; inducted into the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame, 1980
Don Barksdale	Gamma Xi	1948 Olympian and first African American to play with the USA Olympic Basketball Team; NBA player
Walt Bellamy	Gamma Eta	1960 Olympian NBA player; NBA Rookie of the Year (1962); NBA Hall of Fame (1993)
Quinn Buckner	Gamma Eta	1976 Olympian; NBA player
James Butts	Eta Pi Lambda	1976 Olympian, track and field
Sayon Cooper	Delta Xi	2000 Olympian, track and field
Otis Davis	Alpha Delta	Winner of two gold medals for record-breaking performances in both the 400 meters and 4x400 meters relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Phil Edwards	Eta	Olympic athlete and winner of five bronze medals
Edward Gourdin	Alpha Eta	1924 Olympian; first man to make 25 feet in the long jump
Chris Huffins	Alpha Epsilon	Bronze medalist in the 2000 Olympics
G. Larry James	unknown	1968 Olympian; 4x400 meter relay gold medalist, 400-meter race silver medalist
Cornelius Johnson	unknown	1932 and 1936 Olympian; high jump
Mel Lattany	Zeta Pi	Gold medal winner at the IAAF World Cup, Summer Universiade, and Liberty Bell Classic; was not able to compete in the 1980 Olympics due to the US boycott on Russia, but held the world record that year in 100m
Ralph Metcalfe	Nu Xi	Representative from Illinois; 1932 and 1936 Olympian; the Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago is named in his honor
Manteo Mitchell	Nu Zeta	2012 silver medalist in track and field
Godfrey Murray	Epsilon	1972 track and field Olympian
Jesse Owens	Kappa	1936 Olympian in track and field; Associated Press Athlete of the Year, 1936; 1976 Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1990 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; namesake of the Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium at Ohio State University
Fritz Pollard Jr.	Alpha Gamma	1936 Olympian, 110m hurdles
Mike Powell	Omicron Eta	1988 and 1992 Olympian, long jump
Andrew Stanfield	Alpha Alpha Lambda	1952 and 1956 Olympian, track and field
Eddie Tolan	Epsilon	1932 Olympian, 100 and 200 meters
Lenny Wilkens	Zeta Pi Lambda	NBA player and coach; 1996 Olympian, basketball coach
Archibald Williams	Alpha Epsilon	1936 Olympian, track and field
John Woodruff	Omicron	1936 Olympian, track and field
Kevin Young	Gamma Xi	1988 and 1992 Olympian, track and field

Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe

Mike Powell

American basketball

Name	Original chapter	Notability
Nate Archibald	Theta Delta Lambda	NBA player; Basketball Hall of Fame; voted one of the NBA 50 All-Time Greatest Players
Don Barksdale	Gamma Xi	1948 Olympian and first African American to play with the USA Olympic Basketball Team; first African American consensus All American college basketball player; NBA player; first African American to play in the NBA All-Star game; Basketball Hall of Fame
Walt Bellamy	Gamma Eta	1960 Olympian NBA player, Basketball Hall of Fame
Junior Bridgeman	Delta Chi Lambda	NBA player; 12 years in the NBA; his number was retired by the Milwaukee Bucks
Quinn Buckner	Gamma Eta	1976 Olympian; NBA player, 10 seasons in the NBA
Todd Day	Kappa Kappa	NBA player, nine seasons in the NBA
Heyward Dotson	Eta	NBA player
Wayne Embry	Delta Upsilon	NBA player and General Manager; five-time NBA All-Star; Basketball Hall of Fame
Clyde Fletcher	Kappa Kappa	NBA player, player for Arkansas Razorbacks 1990 NCAA Final Four team
Walt Frazier	unknown	NBA player; Basketball Hall of Fame; two-time NBA Champion; seven-time NBA All-Star, 4x All NBA First Team; two-time All NBA Second Team; seven-time All-Defensive First Team; NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
George Gregory	Eta	In 1931, the first black basketball player selected as an All-American
Dolly King	unknown	NBL player (predecessor of the NBA)
Stan McKenzie	Delta Lambda	NBA player, seven seasons in the NBA
Jim McMillian	Eta	NBA player; three-time college All-American; three-time Haggerty Award winner; nine seasons in the NBA
Chris Mills	Eta Epsilon Lambda	NBA player, 10 seasons in the NBA
Bobby Phills	Beta Sigma	NBA player, Continental Basketball Association player
Garrett Temple	Nu Psi	NBA player
Wes Unseld	unknown	NBA player and coach; Basketball Hall of Fame
Walt Wesley	Upsilon	NBA player, ten seasons in the NBA
Lenny Wilkens	Zeta Pi Lambda	NBA player and coach; second most wins all-time in NBA history; 1994 NBA Coach of the Year; 1996 Olympian; Basketball Coach; Basketball Hall of Fame; twice inducted into the Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach, the first and only African American so honored
John "Hot Rod" Williams	Rho Iota	NBA player, 13 seasons in the NBA

John Woodruff

American football

Name	Original chapter	Notability	References
Emmanuel Arceneaux	Delta Kappa	NFL player, Minnesota Vikings
Bobby Bell	Mu	National Football League (NFL) player, Pro Football Hall of Fame
Gordon Bell	Epsilon	NFL player
Khari Blasingame	Kappa Theta	NFL player
Leroy Bolden	Gamma Tau	NFL player
Jowon Briggs	Alpha Alpha	Professional Football Player - Cleveland Browns, Defensive Tackle
Wes Chandler	Theta Sigma	NFL player; four-time Pro Bowl player; two-time college All American; 2014 College Football Hall of Fame inductee
Michael Clayton	Nu Psi	NFL player
Emerson Cole	Alpha Xi Lambda	NFL player; first African American to be drafted by the Cleveland Browns and a member of the 1950 NFL championship team; University of Toledo Hall of Fame
Don Coleman	Gamma Tau	NFL player; first African American All-American football player at Michigan State University; first MSU player to have jersey retired; first African American to serve on the MSU coaching staff; member of College Football Hall of Fame
Greg Coleman	Beta Nu	NFL player; first African American punter in the NFL
Marco Coleman	Nu Mu	NFL player; 14 seasons in the NFL; Pro Bowler
Canute Curtis	Pi Mu	NFL player
Garrett Dickerson	Alpha Mu	NFL player with the New York Giants
Chris Doleman	Omicron	NFL player, Pro Football Hall of Fame; eight-time Pro Bowl selection; three-time First Team All-Pro selection; two-time Second Team All-Pro selection; four-time First Team All NFC; two-time Second Team All NFC; NFL 1990's All-Decade Team
Donald Driver	Delta Kappa	NFL player; three-time Pro Bowler; author
Carl Eller	Mu	NFL player, 2004 Pro Football Hall of Fame
Mel Farr Jr.	Gamma Xi	NFL player
Mike Farr	Gamma Xi	NFL player
Charles Fisher	Pi Mu	NFL player, 12 years in the NFL
Julius Franks	Epsilon	First African American to become an All-American football player at the University of Michigan
Kyle Fuller	Tau Alpha	NFL player
Derrick Gaffney	Theta Sigma	NFL player, nine years in the NFL
Nesby Glasgow	Alpha Xi	NFL player, 14 years in the NFL
Barrett Green	Pi Mu	NFL player, seven years in the NFL
Sammy Green	Theta Sigma	NFL player
Rosey Grier	Gamma Nu	NFL player; two-time Pro Bowler; singer; actor; best known for The Thing with Two Heads; helped apprehend Sirhan Sirhan in the immediate aftermath of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination	^{[citation needed]}
Charles Haley	Xi Delta	NFL player; 2015 Pro Football Hall of Fame; 5-time Super Bowl Champion (San Francisco 49ers 1988 & 1989; Dallas Cowboys 1992, 1993, & 1995); five-time Pro Bowl player
P. J. Hall	Theta Mu	NFL player with the Oakland Raiders
Jackie Harris	Delta Sigma Lambda	NFL player; 10 seasons in NFL
Dennis Harrison	Kappa Theta	NFL player; played in Super Bowl XV and Pro Bowl
T. J. Heath	Xi Xi	NFL player, Jacksonville Jaguars
Darryl Henley	Gamma Xi	NFL player and college All American
Eddie Hinton	Zeta Zeta	NFL player, Baltimore Colts; played in Super Bowl V; former all-time leading receiver at the University of Oklahoma
Darius Holland	Alpha Iota	NFL player, 10 seasons in the NFL
Jalyx Hunt	Tau Tau	Professional Football Player - Philadelphia Eagles, Defensive End
Michael Hunter	Gamma Eta	NFL player
Germain Ifedi	Pi Omicron	NFL player
Duke Ihenacho	Epsilon Mu	NFL player
Michael Jackson	Mu Xi	NFL player, 8 years in the NFL
Charlie Janerette	Gamma Nu	NFL player, six years in the NFL, first African American to play against the all-White University of Alabama football team
Trezelle Jenkins	Epsilon	NFL player
Demetrious Johnson	Zeta Alpha	NFL player; founder of the Demetrious Johnson Charitable Foundation
Ron Johnson	Epsilon	NFL player; two-time Pro Bowler; College Football Hall of Fame; college football All-American; chairman of the National Football Foundation
Tyrell Johnson	Theta Upsilon	NFL player; starting strong safety for the Minnesota Vikings, 2008 to present
Dhani Jones	Epsilon	NFL player, 11 seasons in the NFL; TV personality
Jaryd Jones-Smith	Omicron	NFL player with the Houston Texans
Steve Jordan	Alpha Gamma	NFL player; six-time Pro Bowler
Lewis Kelly	Beta Delta	NFL player, 6 seasons
Reggie Kelly	Kappa Beta	NFL player
Carnell Lake	Gamma Xi	NFL player; five-time Pro Bowler; NFL 1990s All-Decade Team
Henry Lawrence	Beta Nu	NFL player; two-time Pro Bowler
Mark Lee	Alpha Xi	NFL player, 11 years in the NFL
Mike Merriweather	Nu Chi	NFL player, three-time Pro Bowl player
Ronald Moore	Gamma Chi	NFL player
Bill Munsey	Mu	NFL player CFL player
Adrian Murrell	Pi Mu	NFL player, 10 years in the NFL
Marques Murrell	Pi Nu	NFL player
Vince Newsome	Alpha Xi	NFL player, current assistant director of pro personnel for Baltimore Ravens
Roman Oben	Alpha Pi	NFL player, nine years in the NFL
Brig Owens	Alpha Alpha	NFL player, 11 years in the NFL; included in the list of "70 Greatest Redskins"
Michael Pittman Sr.	Epsilon Beta	NFL player, 10 years in the NFL
Fritz Pollard	Alpha Gamma	One of the first two Black players in the NFL in 1920; first Black head coach in the NFL; 2005 Pro Football Hall of Fame
Marcus Pollard	Epsilon Kappa	NFL player, 14 years in the NFL
Jethro Pugh	Beta Zeta	NFL player, 13 years in the NFL
Jay Ratliff	Omicron Kappa	NFL player; three-time Pro Bowl selection; First Team All-Pro selection
Ken Riley	Beta Nu	NFL player, 15 years in the NFL, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2023
Paul Robeson	Nu	NFL player; two-time college football All-American; College Football Hall of Fame; actor and singer; social activist; 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate
Eddie Robinson	Beta Iota Lambda	Head of the Grambling State University football program for 56 years; the winningest coach in college football history; first coach to record 400 wins; 408 total career wins
Darius Rush	Theta Nu	NFL player
Bernard Russ	Pi Mu	NFL player
Art Shell	Delta Nu	NFL player, four-time Pro Bowl player; Pro Football Hall of Fame; second Black head coach in the NFL
Max Starks	Theta Sigma	NFL player, two-time Super Bowl Champion
Sandy Stephens	Mu	NFL player; First African American All-American Quarterback, Rose Bowl Hall of Fame
Lemuel Stinson	Eta Upsilon	NFL player
Woody Strode	Alpha Delta	NFL player; one of the first two African-Americans to play in the NFL's modern (post-World War II) era; actor; nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor
Billy Taylor	Epsilon	University of Michigan football All-American and school record holder of rushing yardage, CFL player
Jesse Thomas	Gamma Tau	NFL player
John Thornton	Pi Mu	NFL player, nine years in the NFL
Willie Thrower	Gamma Tau	NFL player, first African American quarterback in the NFL modern era
Wallace Triplett	Gamma Nu	NFL player, first African-American to be drafted into and play in the NFL
Gene Upshaw	Gamma Chi Lambda	NFL and AFL player; 1987 Pro Football Hall of Fame; president of National Football League Players Association (NFLPA); NFLPA Headquarters building in Washington, D.C. named in his honor
Anthony Walker Jr.	Alpha Mu	NFL player with the Indianapolis Colts
Kenny Washington	Alpha Delta	One of the first two African-Americans to play in the NFL's modern (post-World War II) era; member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Gerald Williams	Omicron Kappa	NFL player; 11 seasons in the NFL
J. Mayo Williams	Alpha Gamma	NFL player; one of the first African Americans to play professional football; recording artist elected to the Blues Hall of Fame
Reggie Williams	Theta Zeta	NFL player; 2007 College Football Hall of Fame Inductee; 1986 NFL Man of the Year; 1987 Sports Illustrated Co-Sportsman of the Year; former Cincinnati City Councilman
Eric C. Wright	Zeta Alpha	NFL player, two-time Pro Bowl player
Jason Wright	Alpha Mu	NFL player, businessman, team president of the Washington Football Team; first and only African American NFL team president

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