List of Howard University people
This list of notable Howard University Alumni, sometimes known as Bison, includes faculty, staff, graduates, honorary graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of the American Howard University, a private, coeducational, nonsectarian historically black university,[1] located in Washington, D.C.[2]
Academics
Science, medicine and mathematics
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Bath | 1968 (Medicine) | ophthalmologist; first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention | |
| Louis Arnett Stuart Bellinger | 1914 | prominent Pittsburgh architect of the early 20th-century | |
| David Blackwell | faculty, not alumnus | first African-American elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences | |
| Beth A. Brown | 1991 | NASA astrophysicist; first African-American woman to earn a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan's Department of Astronomy | [3] |
| Marjorie Lee Browne | 1935 | educator, one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics in the U.S. | |
| Mamie Clark | 1940 | Howard M.A., Columbia Ph.D., educator and psychologist; with husband Kenneth Clark, conducted the "doll research" for the Brown vs. Board of Education case | |
| Craig E. Cameron | 1937 | Howard M.A., Case Western Reserve University Ph.D., educator and microbiologist; demonstration of mechanism of action of ribavirin case | |
| Ethelene Crockett | 1942 | Michigan’s first African-American female board certified OB/GYN | [4] |
| Alexander Darnes | 1880 | born into slavery; owned by Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith; second African-American physician in Florida, first African-American physician in Jacksonville, Florida | |
| Cheick Modibo Diarra | astrophysicist; former director of education and public outreach, NASA's Mars Exploration Program;[5] former chairman of Microsoft Africa;[6] former acting Malian prime minister (2012)[7] | ||
| Lena Frances Edwards | physician (obstetrics and gynecology) and humanitarian; received U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964) | ||
| Anna Epps | microbiologist; possibly the first African-American woman with a PhD to lead a medical school | [8] | |
| Roselyn P. Epps | 1951, 1955 (MD) | physician (pediatrician and public health physician); received Elizabeth Blackwell Medal (1988), first African-American elected president of the American Medical Women's Association (1991) | [9] |
| Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee | physician (obstetrician) and educator; joined faculty of the Medical School in 1927; founding president of the Women's Institute; director of Medical School's health services, 1949 until 1968 | [10] | |
| E. Franklin Frazier | 1916 | sociologist | [11]
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| Julia R. Hall | 1892 (MD) | physician and first woman resident of the school's gynaecology clinic | [12] |
| Louis Eugene King | c. 1920 | anthropologist; first to study African-American communities in the United States | |
| Harry Penn | c. 1931 | dentist; first African-American school board member south of Mason-Dixon Line | [13] |
| Melba Roy Mouton | 1950 | Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA's Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called "computers" | |
| Charles DeWitt Watts | 1943 (Medicine) | first African-American board-certified surgeon in North Carolina; founder of Lincoln Community Medical Center | [14] |
| Frances Cress Welsing | 1960 | psychiatrist; author of The Isis Papers[15] | |
| Marguerite Williams | 1923 | geologist, received B.A. from Howard | [16] |
| Dudley Weldon Woodard | established graduate mathematics program at Howard | [17] | |
| Dr. N. Louise Young | first African American woman to work as a licensed physician in Maryland |
Historians
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camille Akeju | art historian and museum administrator | [18] | |
| Louise Daniel Hutchinson | historian | [19] | |
| Rosalyn Terborg-Penn | historian | [20] | |
| Carter G. Woodson | historian, founder of Negro History Week (now Black History Month); author of Mis-Education of the Negro[21] | [22] |
University administrators
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delbert Baker | president, Oakwood College |
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| Kenneth Clark | educator and psychologist; with wife Mamie Clark, conducted the "doll research" for the Brown vs. Board of Education case | ||
| Wayne A. I. Frederick | 17th president of Howard University | [24] | |
| James Monroe Gregory | 1872 | Professor of Latin at Howard, Dean of the Howard Collegiate Department | |
| Edison O. Jackson | president, Medgar Evers College | ||
| Charlene Drew Jarvis | 1964 M.S. | president, Southeastern University; daughter of Dr. Charles Drew | |
| Franklyn Jenifer | 14th president of Howard University; third president of University of Texas at Dallas | ||
| Dr. Heather Knight | 21st president, Pacific Union College | ||
| Howard Hale Long | 1915 | Dean, Knoxville College and later Wilberforce University, Superintendent of DC Public Schools (1925-1948) | [25] |
| Marion Mann | 1954 | former dean, Howard University College of Medicine (1970–1979) | |
| Kelly Miller | 1886 | mathematician, scientist, sociologist; first African-American admitted to Johns Hopkins University; dean of Howard University College of Arts and Sciences (1907–1919); established sociology department at Howard University | [26]
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| Inman E. Page | president of four schools: the Lincoln Institute, Langston University, Western University, and Roger Williams University | ||
| Harry G. Robinson III | 1966, 1970 | dean of Howard University School of Architecture and Design; chairman of United States Commission of Fine Arts | [27] |
| H. Patrick Swygert | 1965 | president, Howard University | [28] |
| Thomas Wyatt Turner | 1901 | professor of botany, acting dean at Howard School of Education; professor Hampton Institute; founding member of NAACP | |
| Cynthia Warrick | 1975 | 7th president of Stillman College | |
| Johnson O. Akinleye | 12th Chancellor of North Carolina Central University |
Business
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Ali | co-founder and owner of Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark restaurant in Washington, D.C. | ||
| David Bullock | American tech entrepreneur and media executive | [29] | |
| H. Naylor Fitzhugh | one of the first African-American graduates of Harvard Business School; credited with creating the concept of target marketing | ||
| Cathy Hughes | founder and executive of TV One, Radio One | ||
| Vernon Jordan | attorney; senior managing director; Lazard Freres & Co. LLC; former president, National Urban League | ||
| Lillian Lincoln Lambert | founder, former president and chief executive officer of Centennial One, Inc.; first African-American woman to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School |
Politics and public service
Civil rights, law, and government
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| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archie Alexander | former Governor of US Virgin Islands | ||
| Aris T. Allen | former member Maryland State Senate, first African-American to run for Lt. Governor of Maryland | ||
| Ras Baraka | 1991 | mayor of Newark, New Jersey July 1, 2014- | |
| Boce W. Barlow Jr. | first African-American to be elected to the Connecticut State Senate | ||
| William V. Bell | mayor of Durham, North Carolina | ||
| Aisha N. Braveboy | member, Maryland House of Delegates | ||
| Edward Brooke | 1941 | first African-American elected to the United States Senate | |
| Hon. Ewart Brown | 1968, School of Medicine 1972 | Premier and Minister of Tourism and Transport of Bermuda | |
| Gayleatha Brown | Ambassador to Benin | ||
| Roland Burris | 1963 (School of Law) | United States Senator, former State Attorney General and Comptroller, Illinois | |
| Robert L. Carter | 1940 (School of Law) | civil rights advocate and judge of the United States District Court | |
| Walter Percival Carter | civil rights advocate | ||
| Charles E. "Charlie" Cobb Jr. | civil rights activist; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; "Freedom Schools"; founding member of National Association of Black Journalists; writer | ||
| Elijah Cummings | 1973 | United States Congress | |
| David Dinkins | 1950 | first African-American mayor of New York City | [30] |
| Rachel Dolezal | 2002 | civil rights activist | [31] |
| 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 L. Farmer | 1941 | civil rights activist, founder and first leader of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | |
| Adrian Fenty | 1996 (School of Law) | former mayor of Washington, D.C. | [32] |
| Wilkie D. Ferguson | (School of Law) | judge who served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the Florida Third District Court of Appeal, and the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida | |
| Harold Ford Sr. | former United States Representative from Tennessee | ||
| Shirley Franklin | first female and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia | ||
| 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 | ||
| Kamala Harris | 1986 | 49th Vice President of the United States; first woman, first African-American, and first Asian-American elected Vice President; second African-American woman elected to the United States Senate | [33][34][35] |
| Patricia Roberts Harris | 1945 | United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, United States Ambassador | |
| William Henry Harrison Hart | attorney who won the 1905 Hart v. State of Maryland case | ||
| William H. Hastie | former Governor of US Virgin Islands | ||
| Joseph Hatchett | 1959 | former Florida Supreme Court judge; first African-American in the south to win a statewide election | |
| Earl F. Hilliard | United States Congress | ||
| Dr. James W. Holley, III, D.D.S. | mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia | ||
| Benjamin Hooks | former executive director of the NAACP | ||
| Lonna Hooks | Secretary of State of New Jersey (1994–1998) | [36] | |
| Hutchins F. Inge | (School of Medicine) | first African-American to serve in the New Jersey Senate | [37] |
| His Excellency Cheddi Jagan | Fourth President, "Father of Guyana" | ||
| Letitia James | first African-American woman elected Attorney General of New York | ||
| Jack B. Johnson | former County Executive, Prince George's County, Maryland | ||
| Elaine Jones | former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | ||
| Howard Jenkins Jr. | 1946–1956 | former faculty, labor lawyer and civil servant | [38] |
| Hon. John Junor | Minister of Health, Jamaica | ||
| Sharon Pratt Kelly | 1965 | first African-American female mayor of a major city, Washington, D.C. | |
| Terry Kennedy | Influential City of St. Louis politician, former activist and journalist | ||
| John S. Leary | 1873 | North Carolina lawyer and politician | |
| Peta Lindsay | anti-war activist and candidate for U.S. president with the Party for Socialism and Liberation | ||
| Prince Joel Dawit Makonnen | 2015 (School of Law) | lawyer and member of the Ethiopian Imperial Family | |
| Thurgood Marshall | 1933 (School of Law) | first African-American United States Supreme Court justice | |
| William E. Matthews | 1873 (School of Law) | lawyer, financier, and civil rights activist | |
| Gabrielle Kirk McDonald | 1966 (School of Law) | judge, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands | |
| Enolia McMillan | first female national president of the NAACP | ||
| Gregory W. Meeks | Representative for New York's sixth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives | ||
| Donna Miller | Cook County commissioner | [39] | |
| 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 | ||
| James E. O'Hara | member, United States House of Representatives (1883–1887) representing North Carolina | ||
| Robert Pelham Jr. | 1904 | Journalist, activist, and federal employee | |
| Clarence M. Pendleton Jr. | 1954 | Chairman, United States Commission on Civil Rights (1981–1988); swimming coach at Howard (1957–1968) | [40] |
| Marcia "Cia" Price | 2005 | Member of the Virginia House of Delegates | [41] |
| Meshea Poore | Member of the West Virginia House of Delegates | [42] | |
| Adam Clayton Powell, IV | member of the New York State Assembly; son of former U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. | ||
| Randy Primas | 1971 | first African-American Mayor of Camden, New Jersey (1981–1990) | [43] |
| Eugene Puryear | anti-war activist; candidate for Vice President of the United States with the Party for Socialism and Liberation | ||
| Hon. Peggy Quince | first African-American woman on Florida Supreme Court | ||
| Oliver Randolph | (School of Law) | New Jersey lawyer, politician, and civil rights advocate | [44] |
| Charlotte E. Ray | first African-American woman lawyer | ||
| Kasim Reed | 1991 | Mayor of Atlanta | |
| Spottswood Robinson | 1939 (School of Law) | judge, United States Court of Appeals; also faculty | |
| Todd Rutherford | South Carolina State Representative | ||
| Roy Schneider | 1961 | Governor United States Virgin Islands | |
| His Excellency Sir Arleigh Winston Scott | first native Governor-General of Barbados | ||
| Josiah T. Settle | 1872 | member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, Memphis lawyer | |
| Malik Zulu Shabazz | attorney; National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party | ||
| Mary Ann Shadd Cary | first black woman to cast a vote in a national election | ||
| Thomas S. Smith | former mayor of Asbury Park, New Jersey who served in the New Jersey General Assembly[45] | ||
| John H. Smythe | United States ambassador to Liberia | ||
| James R. Spencer | Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | ||
| Hobart Taylor Jr. | 1941 | Served in the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; director of the Export–Import Bank of the United States | |
| Ronald Sapa Tlau | Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, India representing the state of Mizoram | [46] | |
| Kwame Ture | 1964 | activist, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), born Stokely Carmichael | |
| Dale Wainwright | first African-American ever elected to the Texas Supreme Court | ||
| James A. Washington Jr. | 1936; 1939 (School of Law) | Judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia; Dean of Howard Law School 1969–1971 | [47] |
| Walter Washington | 1948 (School of Law) | B.A. and J.D.; first elected mayor of Washington, D.C. | |
| Bali White | researcher and human rights activist | ||
| George Henry White | 1877 | U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, 1897–1901 | |
| L. Douglas Wilder | 1959 (School of Law) | first elected African-American United States governor, Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, 2005-2009 | [48] |
| Harris Wofford | United States Senator representing Pennsylvania (1991–95) | ||
| Carolyn Wright | 1978 (School of Law) | American lawyer, jurist and the Chief Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas | |
| Albert Wynn | first African-American elected to the United States Congress from Prince George's County and Montgomery County in Maryland | ||
| Andrew Young | first African-American United Nations Ambassador and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia |
Military service
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin O. Davis Sr. | few classes, did not matriculate | Brigadier General, first African-American general in the U.S. Army | |
| Frederic E. Davison | 1938 | first African-American Major General and Division commander in the U.S. Army | |
| Lester Lyles | 1968 | General, U.S. Air Force; Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force; Commander, Air Force Material Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio | |
| Togo West | 1965 | also JD 1968; former Secretary of Veterans Affairs; former Secretary of the Army |
Entertainment
Athletics
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norvel Lee | 1952 | Olympic gold medal winner | International Olympic Committee |
| Milan Brown | head men's basketball coach at College of the Holy Cross |
{{William "Rookie" Brown]] Harlem Globetrotter and star of 1951 Harlem Globetrotters Movie | |
| Marques Douglas | former NFL defensive end | ||
| Omar Evans | former Canadian Football League defensive end | ||
| Dennis Felton | head men's basketball coach at the University of Georgia | ||
| Dr. Rhadi Ferguson | 1997 | four-time US National Judo Champion; 2004 Judo Olympian; only African-American male with a Ph.D. to fight on a internationally televised mixed martial arts event; Strikeforce Challengers 13; MMA fighter for Strikeforce | |
| Pep Hamilton | current offensive coordinator at Stanford University; former quarterbacks coach for the Chicago Bears | ||
| Gary Harrell | current head coach of Howard Bison football team; former NFL/WLAF wide receiver (New York Giants and Frankfurt Galaxy); former assistant coach at Texas Southern University | ||
| Nigel Henry | professional soccer player | ||
| Shaka Hislop | goalkeeper for FC Dallas and Trinidad and Tobago national football team who played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup | ||
| Edward P. Hurt | football, basketball and track coach at Morgan State University | ||
| Billy Jenkins | former National Football League defensive back | ||
| Thyron Lewis | professional gridiron football player | ||
| Bubba Morton | Major League Baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Braves, California Angels); first African-American to sign with the Detroit Tigers | ||
| Marques Ogden | former NFL offensive lineman | ||
| David Oliver | 2005 | professional track and field athlete | |
| Geoff Pope | NFL cornerback (New York Giants) | ||
| Larry Spriggs | former NBA player | ||
| Milt Thompson | former Major League Baseball player, hitting coach for the Philadelphia Phillies | ||
| Elijah Thurmon | 2000 | former professional football player with NFLE Berlin Thunder and CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders, Calgary Stampeders, and Montreal Alouettes | [49] |
| Jay Walker | ESPNU football analyst; NFL quarterback (New England Patriots, 1994; Barcelona Dragons, 1995; Minnesota Vikings, 1996–97), Maryland State Delegate | ||
| Tim Watson | former American football safety in the National Football League | [50] | |
| Tracy White | former NFL linebacker | ||
| Steve Wilson | 1979 | former NFL defensive back; former head football coach of the Howard University; former head coach at Texas Southern University |
- James Terry (born 1960), American-Israeli basketball player
Journalism
Gus Johnson
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle Bernard | political/legal analyst, MSNBC, The McLaughlin Group | ||
| Victor Blackwell | television anchor, WPBF, West Palm Beach, Florida; anchor and correspondent, CNN (since 2012) | [51] | |
| Leon Dash | Pulitzer Prize winner, The Washington Post | ||
| Hal Jackson | first African-American radio sportscaster; co-owner of the first African-American-owned-and-operated station in New York | ||
| Gus Johnson | sportscaster, CBS Sports | ||
| Colbert King | Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post | ||
| Michael King | conservative commentator; television producer, WXIA-TV, Atlanta, Georgia | ||
| Jamilah Lemieux | writer and editor, Ebony magazine | ||
| Vicki Mabrey | CBS News and 60 Minutes correspondent | ||
| Michelle Miller | reporter, CBS News | ||
| Ayesha Rascoe | 2007 | reporter, NPR | [52][53] |
| Lori Stokes | news anchor, WABC-TV, New York City | ||
| Karintha Styles | sports journalist, The Hilltop first female sports editor, FanSided writer, Week N Sports host, author, NBA | ||
| Tom Terrell | 1972 | music journalist, photographer, promoter, NPR music commentator | |
| La La Vasquez | on-air personality; wife of basketball player Carmello Anthony | ||
| Stan Verrett | anchor, ESPN | ||
| Fredricka Whitfield | 1987 | anchor, CNN | [54] |
Nobel laureates
Peace, literature, or economics
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ralph Bunche | 1950 Nobel Peace Prize | ||
| Toni Morrison | 1953 | born Chloe Anthony Wofford, Nobel Prize for Literature; Pulitzer Prize Winner | [55] |
Literature
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amiri Baraka | author and poet | ||
| Pearl Cleage | poet, essayist, and journalist | ||
| Ta-Nehisi Coates | attended but did not graduate | author and journalist | |
| Dr. William Jelani Cobb | author, historian, professor and journalist | [56] | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | late-19th-century poet | ||
| G. David Houston | |||
| Zora Neale Hurston | anthropologist and author |
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| May Miller | poet and playwright of the Harlem Renaissance | [57] | |
| Wayétu Moore | author, publisher, activist | [58] | |
| Solomon Mutswairo | novelist and poet | ||
| Gloria Oden | BA 1944, JD 1948 | Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet, professor | |
| Omar Tyree | award-winning novelist | ||
| Valerie Wilson Wesley | author |
Musicians
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geri Allen | 1979 | jazz pianist | [59] |
| James A. Bland | musician; composer; author of over 700 songs including the former state song of Virginia | ||
| Amanda Brown | completed one year | recording artist; singer; songwriter, contestant on season 3 of The Voice (U.S. TV series) | |
| Donald Byrd | jazz musician | ||
| Sean Combs | completed two years (1989, 1990), 2014 | music producer and entrepreneur, also known as "Puffy", "P. Money", "Puff Daddy", "P. Diddy", and "Diddy"; received a honorary doctorate from Howard in 2014 at the spring commencement ceremony where he served as the keynote speaker | [60] |
| Frenchie Davis | 2014 | Broadway performer, soul, dance/electronica, and pop singer | |
| Billy Eckstine | singer | ||
| Lillian Evanti | opera singer | ||
| Roberta Flack | singer | ||
| Benny Golson | jazz saxophone player | ||
| Rich Harrison | Grammy-winning record producer and songwriter | ||
| Donny Hathaway | singer | ||
| Shirley Horn | jazz singer and pianist | ||
| Bill Hughes | 1952 | jazz trombonist, director of the Count Basie Orchestra | [61] |
| Marcus Johnson | jazz pianist | ||
| Laraaji | ambient musician | ||
| Kenny Lattimore | singer; ex-husband of singer Chante Moore | ||
| Meshell Ndegeocello | recording artist; singer and bassist | ||
| Jessye Norman | opera singer, received Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 | ||
| Eric Roberson | singer | ||
| Sadat X | rapper, member of hip hop group Brand Nubian | ||
| Shai | band; "If I Ever Fall in Love" | ||
| Richard Smallwood | 1971 | Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, pianist, and composer | |
| Crystal Waters | House and dance music singer, "100% Pure Love," "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" | ||
| Leighla Whipper | songwriter; music publisher | ||
| Angela Winbush | 1977 | singer | [62] |
Pageant queens
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candace Allen | Miss District of Columbia USA 2006 | ||
| Shauntay Hinton | Miss USA 2002 | ||
| Sarah-Elizabeth Langford | (School of Law) | Miss District of Columbia 2002 | |
| Shilah Phillips | first African-American to hold the Miss Texas title, first runner-up Miss America 2007 |
Film and television
Ossie Davis, 1951
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie Allen | dancer, actress, producer/director of A Different World, 1987–1993 | ||
| Laz Alonso | actor (Stomp the Yard, Jarhead, Jumping The Broom, This Christmas, Avatar) | ||
| Anthony Anderson | 1993 | actor (Two Can Play that Game, Barbershop, Kangaroo Jack, The Shield, Law & Order) | |
| Chadwick Boseman | 2000 | actor (Black Panther, 42, Lincoln Heights, Persons Unknown) | |
| Ossie Davis | Attended, but did not graduate. | actor and activist | [63] |
| Wendy Davis | actress, Lifetime Television, Army Wives | ||
| Ernest Dickerson | filmmaker and director, The Wire | ||
| Lance Gross | actor (Tyler Perry's House of Payne) | ||
| Taraji P. Henson | 1995 | Academy Award-nominated actress for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; star of CBS show Person of Interest, has also starred in Baby Boy, Hustle and Flow, Smokin' Aces,The Karate Kid (2010) | |
| Nick Cannon | 2020 | actor, comedian, rapper, director, writer, producer, and television host | |
| Dianne Houston | Oscar-nominated filmmaker | ||
| Sekhar Kammula | Film director, producer, screenwriter | ||
| Ananda Lewis | 1995 | talk show host (BET,The Ananda Lewis Show) | [64] |
| Rita McGhee | 1989 | Emmy Award-nominated costume designer (Empire, The New Edition Story, Zombies, American Soul) | [65][66] |
| Julia Pace Mitchell | actress (Notorious, The Young & The Restless) | ||
| Paula Jai Parker | actress (Friday, Hustle and Flow, Idlewild) | ||
| Carl Anthony Payne II | actor (The Cosby Show, Martin) | ||
| Freddie Perren | 1966 | Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer (Saturday Night Fever) | |
| Shauneille Perry | 1950 | stage director, playwright and educator | [67] |
| Phylicia Rashad | 1970 | 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 In The Sun) | |
| Wendy Raquel Robinson | actress (The Steve Harvey Show, The Game, Two Can Play That Game, Something New) | ||
| Roxie Roker | 1952 | actress (The Jeffersons); Lenny Kravitz's mother | [68] |
| Malik Hassan Sayeed | filmmaker | ||
| Al Shearer | former BET personality and actor | ||
| Tracie Thoms | actress (Rent – The Movie, The Devil Wears Prada, Grindhouse) | ||
| Stacie Scott Turner | The Real Housewives of D.C. entrepreneur; real estate and marketing professional (Procter & Gamble, BET); founded charity Extra-Ordinary Life | ||
| Isaiah Washington | actor (Get On The Bus, Love Jones, Grey's Anatomy) | ||
| Marlon Wayans | actor (Little Man, White Chicks) | ||
| Susan Kelechi Watson | actress (Louie, This is Us) | ||
| Richard Wesley | 1967 | playwright and screenwriter | |
| Karen Malina White | actress (The Cosby Show, A Different World, Malcolm & Eddie, Lean On Me) | ||
| Lynn Whitfield | Emmy award-winning actress (The Josephine Baker Story, Stompin' At The Savoy, Thin Line Between Love & Hate, Head of State, Eve's Bayou) | ||
| Bradford Young | Cinematographer (Pariah, Middle of Nowhere, Selma, A Most Violent Year, untitled Star Wars: Han Solo film) | ||
| Vantile Whitfield | 1957 | director, playwright, production designer and influential arts administrator | [69] |
Other visual and performing arts
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Catlett | sculptor and printmaker | ||
| Patrick Ellis | 1977 | radio personality | [70] |
| Lois Mailou Jones | artist and educator | ||
| Alma Thomas | painter | ||
| Mildred Thompson | painter, printmaker and sculptor | ||
| Tanekeya Word | artist |
Religion
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leroy Gilbert | Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard | ||
| Louis George Gregory | Hand of the Cause in the Baháʼí Faith | ||
| Vashti Murphy McKenzie | first woman to become a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church | ||
| Anthony J. Motley | religious and community leader from Southeast Washington, D.C. | ||
| Jeremiah Wright | 1968 | former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ |
Other notable alumni
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Louise Brown | 1898 | first African-American woman to receive a wartime medical commission | |
| Mollie Huston Lee | librarian; first African American librarian in Raleigh, North Carolina; founder of the first library in Raleigh to serve African Americans | [71][72] | |
| Rollin Williams | 1943 | first African American professor at the University of Connecticut | [73] |
| Roger Arliner Young | 1923 | first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in zoology, from University of Pennsylvania |
Notable faculty
| Name | Department | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| E. R. Braithwaite | Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat; author of To Sir, With Love; artist-in-residence at Howard beginning in 2002 | ||
| Sterling Brown | writer, teacher, literary critic, poet laureate of Washington, D.C.; professor 1929– around 1969 | ||
| John Melville Burgess | Chaplain | served 1946–56; later the first African-American to head an Episcopal diocese as diocesan bishop of Massachusetts | [74] |
| Morris "Moe" Davis | Assistant Professor, School of law (2011-2015) | Air Force colonel, lawyer, and administrative law judge, notably resigned position as Chief Prosecutor of the Guantanamo military commissions, 2005-2007 over concerns about information obtained through waterboarding | |
| Cecile Hoover Edwards | Dean of School of Human Ecology (1974–1987); Dean of School of Continuing Education | nutritional researcher and government consultant | [75] |
| Danielle Hairston | College of Medicine | psychiatrist; director of residency training in the Department of Psychiatry | [76] |
| Michael Hendricks | Clinical psychopharmacology | psychologist, suicidologist, and an advocate for the LGBT community | |
| John Mercer Langston | Law | first African-American Dean of Howard Law; Congressman | |
| Alain Locke | professor, writer, philosopher | ||
| Ruth Ella Moore | first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in bacteriology; faculty member of the Howard University Medical School 1940–1973 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Emory Tolbert | History | African-American historian, archivist and activist; initiated New York Burial Ground Project | |
| Eric Williams | first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago; instrumental in them gaining their independence; Caribbean historian; Howard professor 1939–1944 |
See also
References
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