List of Morehouse College alumni

This is a list of notable alumni including currently matriculating students and alumni who are graduates or non-matriculating students of Morehouse College.

Statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Morehouse campus

Morehouse College is a private, four-year, all-male, historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia. During enrollment at the college students are known as "Men of Morehouse." Upon graduation, alumni are ceremoniously initiated as lifetime "Morehouse Men." There are over 17,000 alumni of Morehouse College.[1]

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Academia
Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson 1911 first African-American president of Howard University [2]
John Warren Davis 1911 President of West Virginia State College (1919–1953) [3]
Russell L Adams 1952 Chair, Department Afro-American Studies, Howard University (1971–2005); Professor Emeritus, Howard University
Benjamin Brawley 1901 first Dean of Morehouse College
Calvin O. Butts 1972 President, SUNY College at Old Westbury; Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church [4]
James A. Colston 1932 2nd President, Bethune-Cookman University; President Knoxville College; President Savannah State University; 2nd President, Bronx Community College
Albert W. Dent 1926 President of Dillard University, Chief Executive of Flint-Goodridge Hospital, advocate for education and healthcare of impoverished people
Eddie Glaude 1989 Chair, Center for African American Studies and Professor at Princeton University; guest contributor: The Tavis Smiley Show [5]
William E. Holmes former President of Central City College, faculty of the Atlanta Baptist Institute for 25 years.
John Hopps, Jr. 1958 former Director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Distinguished Physics Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; recipient of the Materials Advancement Award
James Nabrit, Jr. 1923 Second African-American president of Howard University and former Deputy United Nations Ambassador
Calvin Mackie 1990 former Professor of Engineering, Tulane University; winner of the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering; Black Engineer of the Year for College Level Educators
Walter E. Massey 1958 President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; former Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago; former Dean of the College of Physics at Brown University; former Provost of the University of California System; President Emeritus at Morehouse College
Kevin D. Rome 1989 former president of Lincoln University (2013–2017); former president of Fisk University (June 2017–August 2020) [6]
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. 1989 First African American Faculty Dean, Harvard College. Professor, Harvard Law School and Director of the Criminal Justice Inst. at Harvard Law; legal analyst CNN, Fox News; legal representative for Harvey Weinstein
James F. Williams current Dean of Libraries University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002 Melvil Dewey Medal recipient
Charles V. Willie 1948 Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
John Silvanus Wilson 1977 Ph.D, Eleventh president of Morehouse College, former executive director, White House Initiative on HBCUs

Business
Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Herman Cain 1967 former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and 2012 Republican presidential candidate [7]
James W. Compton 1961 Board of Directors, Ariel Investments, Inc.; retired President and CEO, Chicago Urban League
Paul Q. Judge 1998 noted entrepreneur and scholar [8] [9]
Walter E. Massey 1958 former Chairman, Bank of America; former Director of the National Science Foundation
Karim Webb American restaurateur [10]

Entertainment, media, and literature
Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Lerone Bennett, Jr. 1949 senior editor for the Johnson Publishing Group (JET, Ebony); author of Before the Mayflower
Fonzworth Bentley 1997 well-known media personality
Sanford Biggers 1992 artist, professor Columbia University School of the Arts
Byron Cage 1987 Grammy-nominated gospel singer; NAACP Image Award nominee; winner of six Stellar Awards [11]
Michael DeMond Davis 1961 Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist; author of Black American Women in Olympic Track & Field and co-author of Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench.
Thomas Dent 1952 writer and poet; author of Magnolia Street [12]
Rockmond Dunbar actor, Soul Food, Girlfriends
Keith "Guru" Elam 1983 rapper, founder of Gang Starr [13]
Brian Tyree Henry 2004 actor, Atlanta (TV series)
Wendell Holland 2006 Winner of the thirty-sixth season of Survivor [14]
Samuel L. Jackson 1972 actor [15]
Edmund Jenkins 1914 Harlem Renaissance composer, studied under Kemper Harreld
Robert E. Johnson 1948 former Executive Editor and Associate Publisher, Jet Magazine
Tope Folarin 2004 Nigerian-American writer
Canton Jones 1985 Grammy-nominated gospel singer
Erik King 1985 actor, Dexter
Spike Lee 1979 film director and producer [15]
Miles Marshall Lewis 1993 pop culture critic, essayist, and author
Seith Mann 1995 television director: The Wire, Grey's Anatomy; winner of the NAACP Image Award
Martin Luther McCoy 1992 musician and actor [16]
PJ Morton 2003 Grammy Award winning Maroon 5 keyboardist and artist [17]
Bill G. Nunn III 1976 actor, School Daze, Mo Better Blues, New Jack City [18]
Babatunde Olatunji 1954 Grammy Award-winning Nigerian drummer, social activist and recording artist; Drums of Passion [19]
Kevin A. Ross 1985 host/executive producer of daytime syndicated legal show America's Court with Judge Ross
Shakir Stewart 1996 Senior Vice President of Island Def Jam Music Group, Executive Vice President of Def Jam
Vincent Tubbs c.1938 co-founder of National Negro Newspaper Week and first African American to head a motion picture industry union [20][21]
John David Washington 2006 actor, BlacKkKlansman, Tenet
Saul Williams 1994 performing artist and actor

Government, law, and public policy
Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Raphael Warnock 1991 First Democratic U.S. African-American Senator elected in the South
Sanford Bishop 1968 U.S. Congressman (Georgia) [22]
A. Scott Bolden 1984 Noted Attorney and television political commentator, [23]
Marlon Kimpson 1991 South Carolina Senate member and attorney
James H. Shelton III 1989 former Deputy Secretary of Education for the United States [24]
Julius E. Coles 1964 former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal; former President of Africare
George W. Crockett 1931 Representative from Michigan; civil rights activist [23]
George Haley 1949 former Chair U.S. Postal Rate Commission and Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana; brother of Alex Haley [25]
James R. Hall 1957 retired United States Army Lieutenant General, final commander of the Fourth United States Army [26][27]
Earl F. Hilliard 1964 former U.S. Congressman (Alabama) [28]
John Hopps Jr. 1958 former Deputy Under Secretary United States Department of Defense [29]
James Nabrit, Jr. 1923 former Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; second African American President of Howard University [28]
Major Owens 1956 U.S. Congressman (New York) [30]
Cedric Richmond 1995 U.S. Congressman (Louisiana)
David Satcher 1963 16th U.S. Surgeon General, former president of Morehouse School of Medicine [31]
Louis W. Sullivan 1954 former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and current President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine [32]
Horace T. Ward 1927 first African American to challenge the racially discriminatory practices at the UGA School of Law; first African-American to be appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia;former member of the Georgia Senate [33]
Julian Bond 1971 civil rights leader, former Georgia state representative and Chairman of the NAACP [15]
Terrance Carroll 1992 Speaker, Colorado House of Representatives
Kenneth Dunkin 1989 Illinois House of Representatives
John Monds 1987 Highest number of votes received by any Libertarian candidate ever [34]
Frank Peterman 1985 Florida House of Representatives
Bakari Sellers 2005 Youngest member elected to the South Carolina General Assembly [35]
Sebastian Ridley-Thomas 2009 California State Assembly
Andre Thapedi 1990 Illinois House of Representatives
Perry Thurston Jr. 1982 Florida House of Representatives
S. Howard Woodson 1942 Bachelor of Divinity Morehouse School of Religion; former Speaker, New Jersey General Assembly
Claude Black Jr. 1937 first Black mayor Pro Tem San Antonio, Texas; civil rights leader; Pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas [36][37]
John Wesley Dobbs 1897 the unofficial "Mayor" of Sweet Auburn Avenue (1937–1949); Civic Leader and co-founder of the Atlanta Negro Voters League [38]
Maynard Jackson 1956 first Black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson served three terms as Mayor; founder and CEO of Jackson Securities Inc.; National Development Chair, Democratic National Committee [39]
Ed McIntyre 1956 first African-American mayor of Augusta, Georgia
Randall Woodfin 2003 29th mayor of Birmingham, Alabama [40]
Steven Reed 1998 first African-American mayor of Montgomery, Alabama [41]
George W. Crockett Jr. 1931 former U.S. Congressman, United States Congress; Founding Member of the National Lawyer's Guild; Co-founded the first racially integrated law firm in the U.S.; first Black attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor [42]
George Crockett III 1961 Judge, Recorder's Court (Detroit); served on the same bench as his father, Judge George Crockett, Jr. [43]
Ralph B. Everett 1973 President and CEO, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies [44]
Joseph Jerome Farris 1951 Justice, United States Court of Appeals 9th Circuit [45]
Odell Horton 1951 Justice, U.S. District Court W. Tenn. [46]
Jeh Johnson 1979 Secretary of Homeland Security, first black Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, named to the National Law Journal's 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers; appointed General Counsel for the Defense Department by President Barack Obama; former General Counsel U.S. Air Force.
Reginald C. Lindsay 1967 Justice, United States Court of Appeals 7th Circuit [47]
C. Vernon Mason 1967 disbarred lawyer, Tawana Brawley case, Howard Beach incident.
Graham T. Perry 1923 first African American Assistant Attorney-General for State of Illinois [48][49]
Horace T. Ward 1949 Federal Judge, U.S. District Court Northern, Georgia; inducted into the National Bar Association Hall of Fame; recipient of the Trumpet Award for Civil Rights Advocacy [50]

Religion
Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Harrison N. Bouey 1873 pastor and missionary
J. Pius Barbour 1917 Pastor Calvary Baptist Church; executive director of National Baptist Association; editor of National Baptist Voice; mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr. [51]
Amos C. Brown 1964 Pastor, Third Baptist Church of San Francisco; President, San Francisco branch of NAACP [52]
Calvin O. Butts 1972 Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York; President of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury; Chairman and founder of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, an engine for $500 million in housing and commercial development in Harlem
M. William Howard, Jr. 1968 Pastor Bethany Baptist Church, former President, New York Theological Seminary; Chair, Rutgers University Board of Governors [53]
Otis Moss III 1992 Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ; listed on the Root 100 [54]
Kelly Miller Smith 1942 Assistant Dean, Vanderbilt University Divinity School (circa 1970s–1980s)
Howard Thurman 1923 theologian; Dean of Chapel Boston University
Raphael Warnock 1991 Senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta [55]
Frederick B. Williams Canon of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York (1971–2005)

Science and medicine
Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Henry W. Foster, Jr. 1954 President Emeritus, Meharry Medical College; clinical professor, Vanderbilt University; former nominee to post of U.S. Surgeon General; presidential advisor
Corey Hébert 1991 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 [56]
John Hopps, Jr. 1958 physicist, former longtime Director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); recipient of the National Materials Advancement Award; former Deputy Under Secretary for the United States Department of Defense
Calvin B. Johnson 1989 24th Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of the Pennsylvania Department of Health
Paul Q. Judge 1998 award-winning computer technologist, inventor and entrepreneur; recipient of MIT Technology Review Magazine's "100 Top Innovators under 35"; voted Black Engineer of the Year (2006)
Samuel M. Nabrit 1925 Distinguished Science Professor; first African-American appointed to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; served on Dwight Eisenhower's National Science Board; first African-American to receive a doctoral degree from Brown University; first African-American to serve as Trustee at Brown University; second president of Texas Southern University [57]
Donald Hopkins 1962 Director and Vice President, Health Programs, The Carter Center; a 1995 MacArthur Fellow; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983
Roderic I. Pettigrew 1972 cardiologist and renowned biomedical engineer; Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering; former Director of Magnetic Resonance Research and Professor of Radiology and Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine; listed annually among the "Best Doctors in America" [58]
Asa G. Yancey Sr. 1937 first African-American professor and Professor Emeritus at Emory University School of Medicine, first African-American doctor and Medical Director at Grady Memorial Hospital
Charles DeWitt Watts 1938 first board-certified African-American surgeon in North Carolina; founder of Lincoln Community Health Center [59]

Service and social reform
Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Hamilton Holmes 1963 desegregated the University of Georgia (along with Charlayne Hunter); attended Morehouse before transferring to UGA [15]
Martin Luther King Jr. 1948 prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; delivered the historic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington 1963 [15]
Martin Luther King III 1979 eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and human rights activist [15]
Howard Zehr 1965 grandfather of Restorative Justice; 2006 winner of the Community of Christ Peace Award; first white student to attend Morehouse
Shaun King (activist) 2002 civil rights activist, entrepreneur and senior justice writer for the New York Daily News [60]

Sports
Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Edwin Moses 1978 Olympic gold medalist [15]
Donn Clendenon 1956 New York Mets Outfielder and 1969 World Series MVP
Harold Ellis (basketball) 1992 former NBA player Los Angeles Clippers and Denver Nuggets, current NBA executive </ref>
T.B. Ellis 1934 Former Jackson State University head football coach (1946-51) and basketball coach (1949-50)
Caesar "Zip" Gayles 1924 former head football coach and former head basketball coach at Langston University, member of SWAC Hall of Fame and NAIA Basketball Hall of Fame [61]
Ramon Harewood 2010 OL, Baltimore Ravens 2010 [62]
Issac Keys LB, Arizona Cardinals 2004-2005 [62]
John David Washington 2006 RB, St. Louis Rams 2006, all-time leading rusher at Morehouse; former RB in the UFL; actor; son of Pauletta Washington and Oscar Award-winning actor Denzel Washington

Others
Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Ennis Cosby 1992 son of comedian Bill Cosby
Joshua Packwood 2008 first white valedictorian of Morehouse [63]

Notable faculty
Name Department Notability Reference
Na'im Akbar Psychology author, Breaking the Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery
Amalia Amaki History modern and contemporary artist
Clayborne Carson History Executive Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Collection; professor, Stanford University
Lawrence Edward Carter Religion Dean, Martin Luther King Chapel; Fulbright Scholar; founder of the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize
Louis Delsarte Fine Arts painter, muralist
Franklin L. Forbes Athletics Former Morehouse College Athletic Director and basketball coach; The 6,000 seat on-campus arena, Forbes Arena, is named after him which hosted basketball preliminaries during the 1996 Summer Olympics and was the home arena to the Atlanta Glory; [23]
E. Franklin Frazier Sociology author, Black Bourgeoisie
Kemper Harreld Music established the Morehouse College Glee Club
John Hope President first black president of Morehouse
John Hopps, Jr. Physics former Director, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, MIT
Edward A. Jones Foreign Language author, A Candle In The Dark: A History of Morehouse College
Benjamin E. Mays President mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; established the institutions international academic reputation and gave rise to the Morehouse Mystique
Henry Cecil McBay Chemistry winner of the Norton Prize in Chemistry, the Norris Award, and the Herty Award for Outstanding Contributions in Chemistry; first MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT
Charles Wilbert Snow Political Science diplomat
Samuel Woodrow Williams Philosophy and Religion Baptist minister, civil rights activist [64]

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