| Aaron, Hank (Baseball Player) |
| Alcorn, George Edward, Jr. (Physicist And Inventor) |
| Ali, Muhammad (Boxer) |
| Ammons, Virgie (Inventor) |
| Amos, Harold (Microbiologist) |
| Anderson, Marian (Operatic And Concert Singer) |
| Andrews, James J. (Mathematician) |
| Angelou Mya (Poet, Author And Civil Rights Activist) |
| Armstrong, Louis (JazzArmstrong, Louis (Jazz Trumpeter And Singer) |
| Bailey, L.C. (Inventor) |
| Baker, Josephine (Entertainer, War Heroine & Civil Rights..) |
| Ball, Alice Augusta (Chemist) |
| Banneker, Benjamin(Mathematician, Astornomer, Inventor, And |
| Banyaga, Augustin (Mathematician) |
| Baraka, Amiri (Poet, Author, Activist And More) |
| Bath, Patricia (Ophthalmologist) |
| Beard, Andrew (Farmer, Carpenter Inventor And More) |
| Bell, Earl S. (Inventor, Architect, Entrepreneur And More) |
| Benjamin, Miriam (Inventor And Educator) |
| Berry, Leonidas (Gastroenterologist) |
| Bharucha-Reid, Albert T. (Mathematician And Statistician) |
| Biggie Smalls / The Notorious B.I.G. (Hip Hop Artist) |
| Black, Keith (Neurosurgeon) |
| Blackwell, David (Mathematician And Statistician) |
| Blair, Henry (Inventor) |
| Boahen, Kwabena (Bioengineer) |
| Booker, James (Piano Player) |
| Boone, Sarah (Inventor) |
| Bouchet, Edward (Physicist) |
| Bowman, James (Physician) |
| Boykin, Otis (Inventor And Engineer) |
| Brady, St. Elmo (Chemist) |
| Branson, Herman (Physicist And Educator) |
| Brazil, Bobo (Professional Wrestler) |
| Briscoe, Marlin (Football Player) |
| Brooks, Charles (Inventor) |
| Brooks, Phil (Inventor) |
| Brown, James (Singer, Song-Writer, Entertainer & More) |
| Brown, Jim (Football Player) |
| Bumbry, Grace (Opera Singer) |
| Burr, John Albert (Inventor) |
| Cardozo, P. William (Pediatrician) |
| Carlos, John (Professional Runner) |
| Carson, Ben (Pediatric Neurosurgeon) |
| Carver, George Washington (Botanical Researcher) |
| Chappelle, Emmett (Scientist And Researcher) |
| Charles, Ray (Singer, Pianist) |
| Clark, Kenneth (Psychologist) |
| Clark, Mamie (Psychologist) |
| Crosthwait, David, Jr. (Research Engineer) |
| Dabiri, John (Biophysicist) |
| Daly, Marie Maynard (Chemist) |
| Davis, Anthony (Composer) |
| Davis, Ernie (Football Player) |
| Davis, Miles (Jazz Musician And Trumpeter) |
| Dean, Mark (Computer Scientist) |
| Drew, Charles (Medical Researcher) |
| Dubois, William Edward Burghardt (Educator, Author, Philosopher And More) |
| Easley, Annie (Computer Scientist) |
| Ejeta, Gebisa (Geneticist) |
| Ejigu, Kitaw (Systems Engineer) |
| Ellis, Skip (Clarence) (Computer Scientist) |
| Ezerioha, Bisi (Automotive Engineer) |
| Ferguson, Lloyd Noel (Chemist And Educator) |
| Fitzgerald, Ella (Singer) |
| Franklin, Aretha (Singer) |
| Franklin, Kirk (Singer, Song Writer, Musician) |
| Fryer, Roland G., Jr. (Economist, Statistician And More) |
| Gaines, Matthew (Former Slave, Minister, And State Senator) |
| Garvey, Marcus Mosiah (Black Nationalist And Pan-African Theorist) |
| Gates, Sylvester James (Theoretical Physicist) |
| Gay, Marvin (R&B Singer) |
| Gibson, Althea (Tennis Player) |
| Gibson, Bob (Baseball Player) |
| Gilbert, Juan E. (Computer Scientist) |
| Gillespie, Dizzie (Jazz Musician) |
| Goode, Sarah E. (Inventor) |
| Graves, Joseph L. (Evolutionary Biologist) |
| Green, Al (R&B Singer) |
| Greenaugh, Kevin (Nuclear Engineer) |
| Griffin, Bessie Blount (Physical Therapist And Inventor) |
| Haile, Sossina M. (Engineer) |
| Haile-Selassie, Yohannes (Paleoanthropologist) |
| Haley, Alex (Author) |
| Hall, Lloyd (Chemist) |
| Hamilton, Virginia (Author) |
| Harris, James A. |
| Hawkins, Walter Lincoln (Scientist) |
| Hendrix, Jimmy (Guitarist) |
| Henry Brown (Inventor) |
| Hodge, John E. (Chemist) |
| Holiday, Billie (Jazz Singer) |
| Holley, Kerrie (Research Computer Scientist) |
| Hope, Akua Lezli (Poet, Writer, And More) |
| Horne, Lena (Singer) |
| Houston, Whitney (Singer) |
| Hughes, Langston (Poet, Essayist, Novelist, Playwright And More) |
| Hurston, Zora Neale (Author) |
| Jackson, Janet (Singer, Song-Writer, Entertainer) |
| Jackson, Michael (Singer, Song-Writer, Entertainer And More) |
| Jackson, Rev. Jesse L. Sr. (Civil Rights Activist) |
| Janet Bashen (Inventor, Entrepreneur, And More) |
| Jarvis, Erich (Neurobiologist) |
| Johnson, Earvin “Magic” (Basketball Player) |
| Johnson, Isaac (Inventor) |
| Johnson, Jack (Boxer) |
| Johnson, Lonnie (Mechanical & Nuclear Engineer & Imventor) |
| Jones, Frederick Mckinley (Inventor) |
| Jones, Quincy (Music) |
| Jordan, Barbara (Congresswoman, Educator, And Constitutionalist) |
| Jordan, Michael (Basketball Player) |
| Julian, Percy (Chemist) |
| Just, Ernest (Woods Hole Marine Biology Institute Biologist) |
| King, Bb (Guitarist) |
| King, Martin Luther Jr. (Civil Rights Activist) |
| Kittles, Rick (Geneticist) |
| Knight, Gladys (Singer) |
| Kountz, Samuel L. (Transplant Surgeon And Researcher) |
| Latimer, Lewis (Inventor, Expert Witness And Drafsman) |
| Lawson, Jerry (Computer Engineer) |
| Lee, Raphael (Surgeon And Biomedical Engineer) |
| Lee, Spike (Director, Actor And More) |
| Leonard, Sugar Ray (Boxer) |
| Leslie, Lisa (Basketball Player) |
| Lynk, Beebe Steven (Chemist) |
| Marley, Bob (Song-Writer, Musician, Singer & More) |
| Matzeliger, Jan (Inventor) |
| McBay, Henry (Chemist) |
| McCann, Les (Jazz Musician) |
| Mccoy, Elijah (Inventor) |
| McLurkin, James (Roboticist) |
| McWhorter, John (Linguist) |
| Montgomery, Benjamin (Inventor) |
| Moon, Warren (Football Player) |
| Morgan, Garrett (Inventor) |
| Morrison, Toni (Author) |
| Nmezi, Murphy (Physician/Biostatistician) |
| Nriagu, Jerome (Geochemist) |
| Obama, Barack (President Of The United States) |
| Ogbu, John Uzo (Anthropologist) |
| Olukotun, Kunle (Computer Scientist) |
| Oubre, Alondra (Medical Anthropologist And Author) |
| Owens, Jesse (Professional Runner) |
| Oyekan, Soni (Chemical Engineer) |
| Petters, Arlie (Physicist) |
| Poindexter, Hildrus (Bacteriologist And Epidemiologist) |
| Poitier, Sidney (Actor) |
| Powell, Colin L. (Secretary Of State And More) |
| Prince (Musician, Song-Writer And More) |
| Quarterman, Lloyd Albert (Scientist And Fluoride Chemist) |
| Renfroe, Earl (Orthodontist) |
| Rice, Condoleezza Dr. (Secretary Of State) |
| Rillieux, Norbert (Engineer And Inventor) |
| Robinson, Jackie (Baseball Player) |
| Robinson, Larry (Environmental Chemist) |
| Rudolph, Wilma (Professional Runner) |
| Russell, Bill (Basketball Player) |
| Russell, Jesse (Engineer And Inventor) |
| Sammons, Walter (Inventor) |
| Smith, Bessie (Singer, Performer) |
| Smith, Tommy (Professional Runner) |
| Snyder, Window (Computer Engineer) |
| Sowell, Thomas (Economist And Social Scientist) |
| Steele, Claude (Psychologist And Social Scientist) |
| Stiff, Lee (Mathematician) |
| Temple, Lewis (Inventor, Blacksmith And Abolitionist) |
| Thomas, Clarence (Justice Of The Supreme Court) |
| Thomas, Debi (Ice Skater) |
| Thomas, Vivien (Surgical Technician) |
| Tupac Shakur / 2Pac (Hip Hop Artist) |
| Turner, Charles Henry (Zoologist) |
| Turner, Tina (Singer, Entertainer) |
| Tyson, Mike (Boxer) |
| Tyson, Neil Degrasse (Astronomer) |
| Walcott, Derek (Poet And Playwright) |
| Walker, Arthur B. C., Jr. (Astronomer) |
| Walker, C. J. (Inventor) |
| Washington, Denzel (Actor) |
| Washington, Warren M. (Atmospheric Scientist) |
| West, James E. (Acoustician And Inventor) |
| Wilkins, J. Ernest, Jr. (Mathematician, Engineer And Nuclear |
| Wilkins, Roy (Civil Rights Leader) |
| Williams, Daniel (Surgeon) |
| Williams, Scott W. (Mathematician) |
| Williams, Walter E. (Economist And Social Scientist) |
| Winfrey, Oprah (Media Proprietor, Talk Show Host, Philanthropist |
| Wonder, Stevie (Singer, Pianist) |
| Woods, Eldrick Tont “Tiger” (Pro Golfer) |
| Woods, Granville (Inventor) |
| Woodson, Carter Godwin (Educator And Philosopher) |
| Wright, Louis T. (Surgeon) |
| X, Malcolm / El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Human Rights Activist) |
| Young, Roger Arliner (Zoologist) |
African Americans, also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.
