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The list of '''Alpha Phi Alpha''' ('''{{lang|grc|ΑΦΑ}}''') brothers (commonly referred to as ''Alphas'')<ref name="alphas">{{cite web|url=http://www.union.arizona.edu/csil/greek/chapters/view.php?id=39 |title=Arizona Student Unions |work=Fraternity and sorority programs |publisher=[[University of Arizona]] |access-date=2007-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070618020703/http://www.union.arizona.edu/csil/greek/chapters/view.php?id=39 |archive-date=2007-06-18 |url-status=dead}}</ref> includes initiated and honorary members. [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] is the first inter-collegiate [[Greek alphabet|Greek-letter]] [[Fraternities and sororities|organization]] established for Black college students.<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|p=v|loc=Preface to the First Edition}}</ref> 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 alphabet|Greek letters]]. Members traditionally [[Fraternities and sororities#Joining a fraternity or sorority|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.<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|p=82}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|p=122}}</ref> [[Frederick Douglass]] is distinguished as the only member initiated posthumously when he became an exalted honorary member of the Omega chapter in 1921.<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=135–136}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.alphaphialpha.net/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=43&newsCat=Press%20Release |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927213639/http://www.alphaphialpha.net/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=43&newsCat=Press%20Release |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-09-27 |title=Alpha Response to Supreme Court Decision |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. |access-date=2007-07-18}}</ref>

The fraternity has been led by 36 General Presidents. Its membership includes two [[premier]]s; four [[governor]]s; a [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]], four [[United States Senate|senators]]; a [[Supreme Court of the United States|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 Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]]; eighteen [[Ambassadors of the United States|diplomats]]; fourteen [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], seven [[Congressional Gold Medal]], and seventeen [[Spingarn Medal]] recipients; and eighteen [[Olympic Games|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==
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The ''[[#References|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 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.<ref>{{cite book | last=Smoot |first=Charles | title=The Jewel of the Midwest: A History of Alpha Phi Alpha in Illinois | publisher=Artisian House |location=Mount Pleasant, SC |year=2018| isbn= 978-0-9755660-6-0| chapter=The Story of House of Alpha}}</ref> 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 [[wikt:manifesto|manifesto]] for the national fraternity and chapters, as each may symbolically be referred to as a "House of Alpha".<ref name=273hb>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|p=273}}</ref><ref name=epsilonzeta>{{cite web|url=http://organizations.uncfsu.edu/apa/facts.htm |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Facts |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Epsilon Zeta chapter |access-date=2007-08-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928091942/http://organizations.uncfsu.edu/apa/facts.htm |archive-date=2007-09-28}}</ref>

[[Eugene K. Jones]], sometimes referred to as "The Visionary Jewel", once said:
{{blockquote|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.<ref>{{cite book | last=Mason |first=Herman | title=The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha | publisher=Four-G |location=Winter Park, FL |year=1999| isbn=1-885066-63-5 | chapter=The Visionary Jewel—Eugene Kinckle Jones}}</ref>}}

Here follows a list of notable Alphas.

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==Founders==
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Alphacharter.jpeg|100px|thumb|right|Charter for Alpha Phi Alpha's Alpha chapter with signatures of founders, Cornell University, circa 1906]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Henry Arthur Callis]]
|chapter=[[Cornell University|Alpha]]
|nota=Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 6th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; physician
|ref=<ref name=founders>{{cite web|url=http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/Page.php?id=138 |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Founders |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |access-date=2009-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214175746/http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/Page.php?id=138 |archive-date=February 14, 2009}}</ref><ref name=alphapres>{{cite web|url=http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/Page.php?id=140 |title=General Presidents of Alpha Phi Alpha |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |access-date=2009-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922103449/http://alpha-phi-alpha.com/Page.php?id=140 |archive-date=September 22, 2010}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles Henry Chapman (Alpha Phi Alpha co-founder)|Charles Henry Chapman]]
|chapter=Alpha
|nota=Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Professor of Agriculture at [[Florida A&M University|FAMU]]
|ref=<ref name=founders/> }}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eugene Kinckle Jones]]<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" -->
|chapter=Alpha
|nota=Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; first Executive Director of the [[National Urban League]]; member of President [[Franklin D Roosevelt]]'s [[Black Cabinet]]
|ref=<ref name=founders/><ref name=vuu>{{cite web|url=http://vuu.edu/about_vuu/history.aspx |title=Virginia Union History |publisher=vuu.edu |access-date=2010-01-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020132009/http://www.vuu.edu/about_vuu/history.aspx |archive-date=2009-10-20 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[George Biddle Kelley]]
|chapter=Alpha
|nota=Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; first Black licensed engineer of New York
|ref=<ref name=founders/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Nathaniel Allison Murray]]
|chapter=Alpha
|nota=Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; career educator
|ref=<ref name=founders/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert Harold Ogle]]
|chapter=Alpha
|nota=Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; professional staff member to the [[U.S. House Committee on Appropriations|US Congressional Committee on Appropriations]]
|ref=<ref name=founders/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Vertner Woodson Tandy]]<!-- Also listed in "Others"-->
|chapter=Alpha
|nota=Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha; architect, whose most famous commission was the mansion of [[Harlem]] millionairess [[Madam C.J. Walker]]
|ref=<ref name=founders/><ref name=vwt>{{cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E0DF1331F937A15757C0A962958260 |title=Streetscapes/The Walker Town House |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1994-04-24 |access-date=2006-10-03}}</ref>}}
}}

==Academia==

===Educators===
Ninety-five percent of all Black colleges have been headed by an Alpha.<ref name=epsilonzeta/>

{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Floyd Flake.jpg|100px|thumb|Floyd Flake]]
[[File:Norman Francis awarded 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom.jpg|100px|thumb|Norman Francis]]
[[File:Charles S. Johnson.jpg|100px|thumb|Charles S. Johnson]]
[[File:SullivanLouis.jpg|100px|thumb|Louis Sullivan]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Herman Branson]]
|chapter=[[Virginia State University|Beta Gamma]]
|nota=President of [[Central State University]] and [[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)|Lincoln University]]; co-discoverer of the [[alpha helix]]; [[Sickle-cell disease|sickle-cell]] physicist
|ref=<ref name=mulambda>{{cite web|url=http://www.mulambda.org/notable-members |title=Notable Members of Mu Lambda |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Mu Lambda chapter |access-date=26 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121104908/http://www.mulambda.org/notable-members |archive-date=21 January 2012 }}</ref><ref name=hbranson>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1668/Herman_Branson_sickle_cell_physicist___ |title=Herman Branson, sickle cell physicist . . . |publisher=African American Registry |access-date=2007-07-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070617033925/http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1668/Herman_Branson_sickle_cell_physicist___ |archive-date=June 17, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[James P. Brawley]]
|chapter=[[Clark Atlanta University|Alpha Phi]]
|nota=President of [[Clark Atlanta University|Clark College]]
|ref=<ref name=adw>{{cite news|url=http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1077&dept_id=237833&newsid=10114164&PAG=461&rfi=9 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930035450/http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1077&dept_id=237833&newsid=10114164&PAG=461&rfi=9 | archive-date=September 30, 2007 | title='Supremes' Founder Mary Wilson To Be Honored By Alpha Phi Alpha | newspaper=[[Atlanta Daily World]] | date=September 4, 2003 |access-date=February 17, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Calvin Burnett
|chapter=[[Baltimore, Maryland|Delta Lambda]]
|nota=President of [[Coppin State University]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu>{{cite web|url=http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/education.html |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Educators |publisher=[[Cornell University]] |access-date=2007-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702002256/http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/education.html |archive-date=2007-07-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Julius Chambers]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" and "Service and social reform" -->
|chapter=[[North Carolina Central University|Gamma Beta]]
|nota=Attorney who argued in the [[Supreme Court of the United States|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]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/><ref name=juliusc>{{cite news |url=http://www.law.duke.edu/features/news_chambers_lecture.html |title=Great Lives in the Law: Julius Chambers Lecture
|work=Duke Law News and Events |publisher=[[Duke University|Duke University School of law]] |access-date=2007-07-29}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=James Cheek
|chapter=[[Shaw University|Beta Rho]]
|nota=President of [[Howard University]]
|ref=<ref name=soa>{{cite web|url=http://www.mulambda.org/notable-alpha-men |title=Notable Alpha Men |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Mu Lambda chapter |access-date=2007-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023221113/http://www.mulambda.org/page.php?parent_id=&page_id=15979 |archive-date=2007-10-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Thomas W. Cole Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Wiley College|Alpha Sigma]]
|nota=First President of [[Clark Atlanta University]], president of [[West Virginia State University]], Interim [[w:Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.massachusetts.edu/amherstsearch/news.cfm?mode=detail&news_id=293 |title=UMass Amherst Chancellor Search |publisher=University of Massachusetts |access-date=2008-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230175723/http://www.massachusetts.edu/amherstsearch/news.cfm?mode=detail&news_id=293 |archive-date=2007-12-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Thomas W. Cole Sr.]]
|chapter=Alpha Sigma
|nota=President of [[Wiley College]]; 21st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Matthew Davage]]
|chapter=[[Clark Atlanta University|Alpha Phi]]
|nota=President of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University
|ref=<ref name=adw/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William B. Delauder]]
|chapter=[[Morgan State University|Beta Alpha]]
|nota=President of [[Delaware State University]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=James Douglas
|chapter=[[Texas Southern University|Delta Theta]]
|nota=President of [[Texas Southern University]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John Malcus Ellison]]
|chapter=[[Virginia Union University|Gamma]]
|nota=First African American President of [[Virginia Union University]], 1941
|ref=<ref name=vuu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ernest A. Finney Jr.]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" -->
|chapter=[[Claflin University|Delta Alpha]]
|nota=Chief Justice of the [[South Carolina Supreme Court]]; [[South Carolina House of Representatives]]; Interim President of [[South Carolina State University]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=promgov>{{cite web|url=http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/government.html |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Government Leaders |publisher=rso.cornell.edu |access-date=2007-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704205558/http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/government.html |archive-date=2007-07-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Floyd H. Flake]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" -->
|chapter=[[Langston, Oklahoma|Zeta Gamma Lambda]]
|nota=Former US Congressman from [[New York (state)|New York]]; president of [[Wilberforce University]]; pastor of Greater Allen Cathedral of New York
|ref=<ref name=colpres>{{cite web|url=http://www.alphaphialpha.net/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=40&newsCat=Announcements |title=Alpha Phi Alpha College Presidents |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |access-date=2007-10-02 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name=fhf>{{cite web|url=http://www.allencathedral.org/allen/home.aspx?nid=250&idv=209&sbnav=237 |title=Floyd H. Flake Professional Profile |publisher=Allen Cathedral |access-date=2007-10-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929102140/http://www.allencathedral.org/allen/home.aspx?nid=250&idv=209&sbnav=237 |archive-date=2007-09-29 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Elson S. Floyd]]
|chapter=[[University of North Carolina|Mu Zeta]]
|nota=First African American President of three universities: Western Michigan University, University of Missouri, and Washington State University
|ref=<ref name=Sphinx20172018>{{cite magazine|date=19 March 2018|title=Winter 2017/2018
|url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/15000_sphinx__2_winter_20172018 |magazine=The SPHINX |volume=11 |issue=1 |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity|via=issuu.com|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>{{rp|78}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Luther H. Foster Jr.]]
|chapter=Beta Gamma
|nota=Fourth President of [[Tuskegee University]]
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|p=402}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Luther H. Foster Sr.]]
|chapter=Gamma Phi
|nota=President of [[Virginia State University]]
|ref=<ref name=lhfoster>{{cite web |url=http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vsu/vipets00011.xml |title=A Guide to the Papers of Luther Hilton Foster, 1928–1949 |publisher=Luther Hilton Foster Papers, Accession number: # 1976-56, Johnston Memorial Library, Virginia State University |access-date=2007-10-10}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Norman Francis]]
|chapter=[[New Orleans, Louisiana|Sigma Lambda]]
|nota=President of [[Xavier University of Louisiana|Xavier University]]; President of [[Louisiana Recovery Authority]]; 2006 [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] recipient
|ref=<ref name=promalpha>{{cite web|url=http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/Page.php?id=139 |title=Prominent Alphas |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |access-date=2007-07-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922100951/http://alpha-phi-alpha.com/Page.php?id=139 |archive-date=2010-09-22 }}</ref><ref name=nfrancis>{{cite web|url=http://www.xula.edu/president/award.html |title=Dr. Norman C. Francis Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom |publisher=Xavier University |access-date=2007-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070517093329/http://www.xula.edu/president/award.html |archive-date=May 17, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert Michael Franklin Jr.]]
|chapter=Eta Lambda
|nota=President of [[Morehouse College]]
|ref=<ref name=apagpu1210>{{cite press release |title=Civil rights veterans join Martin Luther King Jr.'s fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |date=December 2010 |quote=Most of you have been walking in the light of Alpha all these years, and now you have finally have made it official.}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[James R. Gavin]]
|chapter=[[Livingstone College|Gamma Mu]]
|nota=President of [[Morehouse School of Medicine]]
|ref=<ref name=adw/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Hugh M. Gloster]]
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=President of Morehouse College; Physician, Founder and namesake of the Morehouse School of Medicine Hugh M. Gloster Society
|ref=<ref name=adw/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[George Gore Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Nashville, Tennessee|Tau Lambda]]
|nota=Fifth President of [[Florida A&M University]]; Interim President of [[Fisk University]]; founder of [[Alpha Kappa Mu|Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society]]
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1969}}</ref><ref name=gwgore>{{cite web |url=http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/gorebio.htm |title=George Gore Biographical Information |publisher=tristate.edu |access-date=2007-10-10}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ervin V. Griffin Sr.]]
|chapter=[[Bluefield State College|Beta Theta]]
|nota=President of [[West Virginia State College]]
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'' 2000 volume 85 number 2 page 78</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William H. Hale]]
|chapter=[[Langston University|Beta Kappa]]
|nota=President of [[Langston University]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.langston.edu/about-us/resources/history-langston-university |title=History of Langston University |publisher=[[Langston University]] |access-date=2022-03-12 }}</ref>
}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jaffus Hardrick]]
|chapter=[[Zeta Xi]]
|nota=14th President of Florida Memorial University
|ref=<ref>"Sphinx Magazine" Innovation Issue Summer 2019 volume 12 number 1 page 57</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[G. Lamar Harrison]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=President of [[Langston University]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.langston.edu/student-life/campus/libraries/g-lamar-harrison-library/history-langston-university-libraries |title=History of Langston University Libraries |publisher=[[Langston University]] |access-date=2022-03-12 }}</ref>
}}
{{mem/f 
|name=[[Cornelius Henderson]]
|chapter=[[Clark Atlanta University|Alpha Phi]]
|nota=President of [[Interdenominational Theological Center|Gammon Theological Seminary]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/><ref name=corhen>{{cite news
 |first=Waveney Ann
 |last=Moore
 |date=2008-12-08
 |url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/120800/SouthPinellas/Cornelius_Henderson__.shtml
 |title=Cornelius Henderson, Methodist bishop, dies
 |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times
 |access-date=2007-07-06
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041229153030/http://sptimes.com/News/120800/SouthPinellas/Cornelius_Henderson__.shtml
 |archive-date=2004-12-29
}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name={{autolink|Charles A. Hines}}
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=President of [[Prairie View A&M University]]; Major General
|ref=<ref name=betaalum/>
}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ernest Holloway]]
|chapter= Beta Kappa
|nota=14th President of [[Langston University]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John Hope (educator)|John Hope]]<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" -->
|chapter=[[Atlanta, Georgia|Eta Lambda]]
|nota=First Black President of [[Morehouse College]]; president of [[Atlanta University Center|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
|ref=<ref name=adw/><ref name=spingarn>{{cite web|url=http://spingarn.k12.dc.us/sclub/medal.html |title=The Spingarn Medal |publisher=spingarn.k12.dc.us |access-date=2007-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704033336/http://spingarn.k12.dc.us/SClub/medal.html |archive-date=2007-07-04 }}</ref><ref name=johnhope>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/915/Activist_John_Hope_had_a_vision |title=Activist John Hope had a vision. |publisher=aaregistry.com |access-date=2007-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930032430/http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/915/Activist_John_Hope_had_a_vision |archive-date=September 30, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=asalhpres>{{cite web|url=http://www.asalh.org/asalhpresidents.html |title=Walking with Giants: The ASALH Presidents |publisher=asalh.org |access-date=2007-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023257/http://www.asalh.org/asalhpresidents.html |archive-date=2007-09-27 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Freeman A. Hrabowski III]]
|chapter=Gamma Iota
|nota=President of the [[University of Maryland, Baltimore County]]; social activist
|ref=<ref name=deltalambda>{{cite web |url=http://www.deltalambda.org/ |title=Delta Lambda Chapter
|publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Delta Lambda chapter |access-date=2007-07-19}}</ref><ref name=hrabowski>{{cite web|url=http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/president/index.php |title=Freeman A. Hrabowski III |publisher=The University of Maryland, Baltimore County |access-date=2007-07-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215082019/http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/president/index.php |archive-date=December 15, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Frederick S. Humphries]]
|chapter=[[Florida A&M University|Beta Nu]]
|nota=Eighth President of Florida A&M University
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William P. Hytche Sr.]]
|chapter=[[Langston University|Beta Kappa]]
|nota=President of [[University of Maryland Eastern Shore]]
|ref=<ref name=wph>{{cite web|url=https://www.umes.edu/125/Content/Stories/William-P--Hytche-Sr-/ |title=William P. Hytche Sr. |publisher=[[University of Maryland Eastern Shore]] |access-date=2022-03-12}}</ref>
}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles S. Johnson]]<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" -->
|chapter=Gamma
|nota=Editor of the [[National Urban League]]'s ''Opportunity'' magazine; first Black President of Fisk University
|ref=<ref name=vuu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walter M. Kimbrough]]
|chapter=[[University of Georgia|Zeta Pi]]
|nota=President of [[Dillard University]]; author
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=walterk>{{cite web|url=http://www.philander.edu/PresidentsOfc.aspx |title=President's Office |publisher=[[Philander Smith College]] |access-date=2007-07-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702091222/http://www.philander.edu/PresidentsOfc.aspx |archive-date=July 2, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Raphael Lanier]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" -->
|chapter=[[Washington, D.C.|Mu Lambda]]
|nota=United States Ambassador to Liberia; first president of [[Texas Southern University]]
|ref=<ref name=mulambda/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Thomas F. Law]]
|chapter=[[University of Missouri–Kansas City|Delta Rho]]
|nota=First President of [[Saint Paul's College, Virginia|Saint Paul's College]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John H. Lewis]]
|chapter=[[Yale University|Zeta]]
|nota=President of [[Morris Brown College]]
|ref=<ref name=adw/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Joseph T. McMillan Jr.]]
|chapter=Beta
|nota=First President of [[Huston–Tillotson College]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John A. Middleton]]
|chapter=[[Gainesville, Florida|Nu Eta Lambda]]
|nota=President of Morris Brown College
|ref=<ref name=adw/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Luna Mishoe]]
|chapter=[[Winston-Salem, North Carolina|Alpha Pi Lambda]]
|nota=President of Delaware State University
|ref=<ref name=brown/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Elfred A. Packard]]
|chapter=[[Chi Lambda]]
|nota=22nd President of Wilberforce University
|ref=<ref>"Sphinx Magazine" Innovation Issue Summer 2019 volume 12 number 1 page 54</ref>}}
{{mem/f 
|name=[[Frederick D. Patterson]]
|chapter=Alpha Nu
|nota=Third President of [[Tuskegee University]]; co-founder of the [[United Negro College Fund]] (UNCF); 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom; 1988 Spingarn Medal recipient
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=spingarn/><ref name=fredp>{{cite web |url=http://www.patterson-uncf.org/aboutpatterson.htm |title=Significant Events in the Life of Dd. Frederick D. Patterson |publisher=[[United Negro College Fund]] |access-date=2007-07-28}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Benjamin Payton]]
|chapter=[[South Carolina State University|Beta Delta]]
|nota=Fifth President of [[Tuskegee University]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Henry Ponder]]
|chapter=[[Langston University|Beta Kappa]]
|nota=President of [[Talladega College]], Fisk University and [[Benedict College]]; 28th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; vice chairman of the [[World Policy Council]]
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=mulambda/><ref name=wpc>{{cite web|first1=Horace |last1=Dawson |author-link=Horace Dawson |first2=Edward |last2=Brooke |author-link2=Edward Brooke |first3=Henry |last3=Ponder |author-link3=Henry Ponder |first4=Vinton R. |last4=Anderson |first5=Bobby William |last5=Austin |author-link5=Bobby William Austin |first6=Ron |last6=Dellums |author-link6=Ron Dellums |first7=Kenton |last7=Keith |author-link7=Kenton Keith (diplomat) |first8=Huel D. |last8=Perkins |first9=Charles |last9=Rangel |author-link9=Charles B. Rangel |first10=Clathan McClain |last10=Ross |first11=Cornel |last11=West |author-link11=Cornel West |name-list-style=amp |title=The Centenary Report Of The Alpha Phi Alpha World Policy Council |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |date=July 2006 |url=http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/Resources/ImageFile/File/image/WPC06-WEB.pdf |access-date=2011-05-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225132901/http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/Resources/ImageFile/File/image/WPC06-WEB.pdf |archive-date=2009-02-25}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Earl Richardson]]
|chapter=Delta Nu
|nota=President of [[Morgan State University]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John Brooks Slaughter|John B. Slaughter]]
|chapter=[[Kansas State University|Kappa Tau]]
|nota=President of [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]] and [[Occidental College]]; first African American Director of the [[National Science Foundation]]
|ref={{citation needed|date=August 2022}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Kent J. Smith Jr.]]
|chapter= Beta Sigma
|nota=16th President of [[Langston University]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Louis Wade Sullivan]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" and "Science" -->
|chapter=Alpha Rho
|nota=[[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services|Secretary of Health and Human Services]]; co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ronald Temple]]
|chapter=[[Cincinnati, Ohio|Delta Gamma Lambda]]
|nota=President of [[City Colleges of Chicago]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jack Thomas (academic)|Jack Thomas]]
|chapter=[[Nashville, Tennessee|Tau Lambda]]
|nota=11th President of [[Western Illinois University]]; first African American President of WIU; author; national and international keynote speaker/lecturer
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Fall 2011 volume 96 number 4 page 36</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gregory J. Vincent]]
|chapter=[[Columbus, Ohio|Alpha Rho Lambda]]
|nota=President of Hobart College and William Smith College; Professor; Attorney, civil rights and social justice expert
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=soa/><ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walter Washington (educator)|Walter Washington]]
|chapter=[[Tougaloo College|Gamma Upsilon]]
|nota=President of [[Alcorn State University]]; 24th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=promedu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles H. Wesley]]
|chapter=[[Yale University|Zeta]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=soa/><ref name=asalhpres/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Sidney David Williams]]
|chapter=[[Elizabeth City State University|Beta Zeta]]
|nota=Fourth President of [[Elizabeth City State University]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ecsu.edu/about/history/index.cfm |title=Historical Highlights |access-date=27 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523230012/http://www.ecsu.edu/about/history/index.cfm |archive-date=23 May 2012 }}</ref>}}
}}

===Scholarship===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:John Hope Franklin.png|100px|thumb|John Franklin]]
[[File:Kelly Miller.jpg|100px|thumb|Kelly Miller]]
[[File:Cornel West Utah 2008.jpg|100px|thumb|Cornel West]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[David H. Blackwell]]
|chapter=[[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|Tau]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>''The Sphinx Magazine'' Fall 2010 volume 95 no.3 pages 57-58</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William Jelani Cobb]]
|chapter=Kappa Phi Lambda
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>" The Sphinx Magazine " Fall 2010 volume 95 number3 pages 57-58</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Kevin Cokley]]
|chapter=[[Xi Eta]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'' Spring/Summer 2015 volume 100 number 3 page 50</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William P. Foster]]
|chapter=[[University of Kansas|Upsilon]]
|nota=Creator of the [[Florida A&M University]] Marching "100" Band
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.kc.fosterwilliam.xml;route=ksrlead;brand=ksrlead;query= |title=William Foster papers, 1940–2004 |publisher=University of Kansas |access-date=12 February 2012}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[E. Franklin Frazier]]
|chapter=Delta Nu Lambda
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'' spring/February 1932 volume 18 number 1 page 17</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John Hope Franklin]]
|chapter=[[Fisk University|Alpha Chi]]
|nota=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. 
|ref=<ref name=promedu/><ref name=spingarn/><ref name=jfranklin>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/181/John_Hope_Franklin_a_timeless_educator___ |title=John Hope Franklin, a timeless educator |publisher=aaregistry.com |access-date=2007-07-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930031238/http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/181/John_Hope_Franklin_a_timeless_educator___ |archive-date=September 30, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=kluge>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/prize/winners.html |title=Kluge Prize Winners |year=2006 |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=2007-07-19}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ernest J. Harris]]
|chapter=Gamma Delta
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>''The Sphinx Magazine'', Spring 2017 volume 10.3 number 1 page 45</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Hobart Jarrett]]
|chapter=[[Wiley College|Alpha Sigma]]
|nota=Member of the [[Wiley College|Wiley College Debate Team]] that in 1935 defeated the [[University of Southern California]] national champions; author of the second volume of ''[[Sigma Pi Phi|The History of Sigma Pi Phi]]''
|ref=<ref name=skip19>{{cite web |first=Herman |last=Mason |url=http://www.skipmason.com/hm/hm19.htm |title=Sigma Pi Phi: The Boule |work=Skip's Historical Moments, Number 19 |date=1999-05-11 |publisher=skipmason.com |access-date=2008-01-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128073031/http://skipmason.com/hm/hm19.htm |archive-date=2007-11-28 }}</ref><ref name=2adv>{{cite news|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/jragland/stories/123007dnmetragland.1629c85.html |last=Ragland |first=James |title='Great Debaters' sparks Wiley College's hopes for reinvention |work=The Dallas Morning News |publisher=dallasnews.com |date=2007-12-29 |access-date=2008-01-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101080055/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/jragland/stories/123007dnmetragland.1629c85.html |archive-date=January 1, 2008 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Elgy Johnson]]
|chapter=Alpha Omicron
|nota=Mathematician
|ref=<ref name=mulambda/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Marshall Jones (research scientist)|Marshall Jones]]
|chapter=Beta Pi Lambda
|nota=Acclaimed research scientist in the field of laser additive technologies; 2017 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
|ref=<ref>''The Sphinx Magazine'', Spring 2017 volume 10.3 number 1 pages 50-51</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Kelly Miller (scientist)|Kelly Miller]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]<br>(Honorary)
|nota=Leading African-American intellectual for more than half a century; first Black person admitted to [[Johns Hopkins University]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=skip24/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://afam.nts.jhu.edu/people/Miller/miller.html |title=Dr. Kelly Miller: Johns Hopkins University's First Black Student |work=The History of African Americans form Johns Hopkins University |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University]] |access-date=13 December 2010 |archive-date=7 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707003430/http://afam.nts.jhu.edu/people/Miller/miller.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[James A. Porter]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=[[Scholar]] whose book ''Modern Negro Art'' became a standard reference work on Black art in America
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|p=219}}</ref><ref name=japorter>{{cite web|url=http://www.artnoir.com/index.porter.html |title=John Amos Porter |publisher=artnoir.com |access-date=2007-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070409092821/http://artnoir.com/index.porter.html |archive-date=2007-04-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[J. Marshall Shepherd]]
|chapter=[[Kappa Phi Lambda]]
|nota=Physicist; NASA meteorologist; international expert on weather and global climate change; university professor
|ref=<ref name="The Sphinx Magazine page 75">''The Sphinx Magazine'', Fall 2004 volume 89 number 1 page 75</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Warren Washington]]
|chapter=[[Epsilon Zeta Lambda]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>Forbes magazine online article| date= September 2018</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert E. Weems Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Chicago|Theta]]
|nota=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''
|ref=<ref>Mosaics magazine University of Missouri-Columbia College of Art and Sciences winter 2000 page 28</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Cornel West]]
|chapter=[[Sacramento, California|Zeta Beta Lambda]]
|nota=Professor of religion at [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Princeton University|Princeton]]; author and social activist
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Roger L. Youmans]]
|chapter= [[University of Kansas|Upsilon]]
|nota=Surgeon; University of California Berkeley medical professor; author of When Elephants Fight: An American Surgeon's Chronicle of Congo
|ref=<ref name="The Sphinx Magazine page 75" />}}
}}

===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.
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Wes Moore Official Governor Portrait.jpg|100px|thumb|Westley Moore]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Norman Washington Manley]]<!-- Also listed in "Government"-->
|chapter=[[Miami, Florida|Beta Beta Lambda]]
|nota=1914 Rhodes Scholar; Premier of Jamaica; founder of [[Jamaica]]'s [[People's National Party]]
|ref=<ref name=nwm>{{cite web|url=http://www.munualphas.com/manley.html |title=Faces of Alpha Phi Alpha, Manley |access-date=2007-06-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929182951/http://www.munualphas.com/manley.html |archive-date=2007-09-29 }}</ref><ref name=jamobs>{{cite news|last=Burke |first=Michael |date=2004-09-04 |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20040901T220000-0500_65567_OBS_NORMAN_MANLEY_AND_ALOUN_ASSAMBA.asp |title=Norman Manley and Aloun Assamba |work=Jamaica Observer |access-date=2007-06-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926232541/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20040901T220000-0500_65567_OBS_NORMAN_MANLEY_AND_ALOUN_ASSAMBA.asp |archive-date=September 26, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Heyward Dotson]]<!-- Also listed in "Sports"-->
|chapter=[[Columbia University|Eta]]
|nota=1970 Rhodes Scholar; Former NBA player
|ref=<ref>{{cite news |date=2020-07-01 |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/summer20/article/heyward-h-dotson-%E2%80%9970-law%E2%80%9976-lions-basketball-star |title=Heyward H. Dotson, Lions Basketball Star |work=Columbia College Today |publisher=Columbia University in the City of New York |access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Wes Moore|Westley Moore]] <!-- Also listed in "Government"-->
|chapter=[[Johns Hopkins University|Sigma Sigma]]
|nota=2001 Rhodes Scholar; ''New York Times'' bestselling author
|ref=<ref name="WesMoore">{{cite news |date=2001-01-22 |url=http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2001/jan2201/22briefs.html |title=Hopkins' Honors Rhodes Scholar |work=The Gazette Online |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=2007-06-30}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Randal Pinkett]]<!-- Also listed in "Entertainment" -->
|chapter=[[Columbia, Maryland|Kappa Phi Lambda]]
|nota=1994 Rhodes Scholar; fourth winner of [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]]'s reality show ''[[The Apprentice (US Season 4)|The Apprentice]]''
|ref=<ref name=pinkett>{{cite web|url=http://www.randalpinkett.com/about/affiliations.asp |title=Dr. Randal Pinkett, Affiliations |access-date=2007-10-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012113850/http://www.randalpinkett.com/about/affiliations.asp |archive-date=2007-10-12 }}</ref><ref name=apprentice>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbc.com/The_Apprentice_4/candidates/bio_randal.shtml |title=The Apprentice |publisher=[[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] |access-date=2007-10-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013015345/http://www.nbc.com/The_Apprentice_4/candidates/bio_randal.shtml |archive-date=2007-10-13 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Andrew Zawacki]]
|chapter=[[College of William & Mary|Kappa Pi]]
|nota=1994 Rhodes Scholar
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
}}

==Business==
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Alonzo herndon.jpg|100px|thumb|Alonzo Herndon]]
[[File:Gerald Albright.jpg|100px|thumb|Gerald Albright]]
[[File:Duke Ellington restored.jpg|thumb|100px|Duke Ellington]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Mark D. Banks]]
|chapter=Delta Alpha Lambda
|nota= President of Logos Consulting
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jesse Binga]]
|chapter=Theta
(Honorary)
|nota=Founder of Binga State Bank in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]]
|ref=<ref name=skip24>{{cite web |first=Herman |last=Mason |url=http://www.skipmason.com/hm/hm24.htm |title=Notable Honorary Members |work=Skip's Historical Moments, Number 24 |publisher=skipmason.com |date=1999-05-25 |access-date=2008-01-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128043946/http://skipmason.com/hm/hm24.htm |archive-date=2007-11-28 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Henry Brown
|chapter=Alpha Eta Lambda
|nota=Vice President for Marketing Affairs and Development with [[Anheuser-Busch]]
|ref=<ref name=tabus>{{cite web|url=http://www3.baylor.edu/Alpha_Phi_Alpha/business.htm |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Business Leaders |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Tau Alpha chapter |access-date=2007-07-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128110828/http://www3.baylor.edu/Alpha_Phi_Alpha/business.htm |archive-date=2007-01-28 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[W. Melvin Brown]]
|chapter=[[South Carolina State University|Beta Delta]]
|nota=CEO of American Development Corporation
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Thomas J. Burrell]]
|chapter=[[University of Chicago|Theta]]
|nota=CEO of Burrell Advertising
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Theodore Colbert III]]
|chapter=[[Detroit Alumni|Gamma Lambda]]
|nota=CEO, [[Boeing Defense, Space & Security]]
|ref=}} 
{{mem/f
|name=[[Allen Counts]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=Chairman of Doley Securities, Inc.; former President of Mcclendon, Pryor, Counts (once the largest black-owned [[Investment banking|investment bank]] in the US)
|ref=<ref name=betaalum>{{cite web|url=http://www.aphiabeta.com/prominent.html |title=Prominent Initiates of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Beta Chapter |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Beta chapter |access-date=2007-10-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120060732/http://aphiabeta.com/prominent.html |archive-date=2009-01-20 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Nathaniel Goldston]]
|chapter=Delta Psi Lambda
|nota=CEO and founder of Gourmet Services
|ref=<ref name=tabus/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Brett J. Hart]]
|chapter=[[University of Michigan|Epsilon]]
|nota=CEO and President of [[United Airlines]]
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Winter 2011 volume 96 number 1 page 14</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Alonzo Herndon|Alonzo F. Herndon]]
|chapter=[[Atlanta, Georgia|Eta Lambda]]<br>(Honorary)
|nota=Founder and President of Atlanta Life Insurance; namesake of the [[Herndon Stadium|Alonzo Herndon Stadium]] at [[Morris Brown College]]
|ref=<ref name=adw/><ref name=herndon>{{cite news|url=http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1077&Nav_Sec=35462 |title=Bike tour of historic neighborhoods |work=Atlanta Daily World |publisher=townnews.com |access-date=2007-07-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070918032135/http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1077&Nav_Sec=35462 |archive-date=2007-09-18 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Norris Herndon]]
|chapter=[[Boston, Massachusetts|Sigma]]
|nota=President of Atlanta Life Insurance
|ref=<ref name=hoa>{{cite web |url=http://www.17th-house.com/ |title=17th House of Alpha |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Sigma chapter |access-date=2007-07-04}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eugene Jackson]]
|chapter=[[University of Missouri|Epsilon Psi]]
|nota=CEO of World African Network
|ref=<ref name=brown>{{cite web|url=http://www.brown.edu/Students/Alpha_Phi_Alpha/famous.html |title=Famous Alpha Phi Alpha members |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Alpha Gamma chapter |access-date=2007-07-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610100905/http://www.brown.edu/Students/Alpha_Phi_Alpha/famous.html |archive-date=June 10, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles James III]]
|chapter=[[Syracuse University|Delta Zeta]]
|nota=CEO of James Produce
|ref=<ref name=tabus/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Clifton Jeter]]
|chapter=Beta
|nota=CEO of the Agricultural Federal Credit Union; CFO of [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|Kennedy Center]]
|ref=<ref name=betaalum/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John H. Johnson]]
|chapter=[[University of Chicago|Theta]]
|nota=Founder of Johnson Publishing Company, which publishes ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'' and ''[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]]'' magazines; the first Black person to appear on the [[Forbes 400]] "Rich List"; namesake of [[Howard University]]'s School of [[Communication]]s; [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] and 1966 [[Spingarn Medal]] recipient; a portion of [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago's]] famed [[Michigan Avenue (Chicago)|Michigan Avenue]] was renamed "John H. Johnson Avenue"
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=spingarn/><ref name=johnjohnson>{{cite web|url=http://www.johnsonpublishing.com/media/john_johnson/funeral_program.pdf |title=Celebration Of The Life Of John H. Johnson 1918–2005 |work=Funeral Program |publisher=johnpublishing.com |page=3 |access-date=2007-07-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711153526/http://www.johnsonpublishing.com/media/john_johnson/funeral_program.pdf |archive-date=2007-07-11 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Joe W. Laymon]]
|chapter=[[Jackson State University|Delta Phi]]
|nota=Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services; [[Chevron Corporation]]
|ref=<ref name=Henderson>Henderson, Tom (April 15, 2012).[http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20120415/FREE/304159964/wsu-to-build-93m-biotech-hub WSU to build $93M biotech hub]. ''Crains Detroit Business''. Retrieved on March 15, 2015.</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[L. D. Milton]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=President of Citizens Bank
|ref=<ref name=brown/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Henry G. Parks Jr.|Henry Parks]]
|chapter=[[Ohio State University|Kappa]]
|nota=Founder of Parks Sausage
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William F. Pickard]]
|chapter=[[Western Michigan University|Epsilon Xi]]
|nota=CEO Global Automotive Alliance; professor [[University of Michigan]] School of Business; 2001 Michigan Citizen of the Year award winner; business lecturer
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Spring 2003 pg.14-15, Volume 88, No.1</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Samuel Pierce]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" -->
|chapter=[[Cornell University|Alpha]]
|nota=[[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development|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 to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] case styled ''[[New York Times v. Sullivan]]''; first African-American to serve on the Board of Directors of a [[Fortune 500]] company
|ref=<ref name=politics>{{cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-phi-alpha.html |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Politicians |access-date=2007-06-07}}</ref><ref name=sp>{{cite web |url=http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=376&invol=254 |title=New York Times v. Sullivan |work=findlaw.com |access-date=2007-07-04}}</ref><ref name=fortune500>{{cite news|author=<!--Not stated-->  |url=http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf?/news/pd/w04nec1.html |title=Samuel Pierce Jr., housing secretary in Reagan era |date=2004-11-04 |work=The Plain Dealer |access-date=2007-07-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607112904/http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf?%2Fnews%2Fpd%2Fw04nec1.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name={{autolink|Jonathan Rodgers}}
|chapter=[[University of California, Berkeley|Alpha Epsilon]]
|nota=CEO of [[TV One (Radio One)|TV One]]; president of [[CBS]] Television Stations; executive producer for the ''[[CBS Morning News]]'' and weekend evening newscasts
|ref={{citation needed|date=August 2022}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=Joshua Smith
|chapter=[[Central State University|Delta Xi]]
|nota=CEO of Maxima Corporation
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert F. Smith (investor)|Robert F. Smith]]
|chapter=[[Cornell University|Alpha]]
|nota=Founder of Vista Equity Partners; Namesake of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University
|ref=<ref>{{citation |title=The Sphinx 90th Anniversary Limited Edition page 69}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name= [[Everette Taylor]]
|chapter= [[Virginia Tech|Theta Iota]]
|nota=CEO of PopSocial, co-founder of GrowthHackers
|ref=<ref>{{cite news |title=Everette Taylor-alpha-phi Alpha |publisher=Watch The Yard|date=May 2017 |url=https://www.watchtheyard.com/alphas/alpha-phi-alpha-everette-taylor-1/attachment/everette-taylor-alpha-phi-alpha/|access-date=July 5, 2018 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Don Thompson (executive)|Don Thompson]]
|chapter=[[Purdue University|Gamma Rho]]
|nota=CEO and President of [[McDonald's]], worldwide
|ref=<ref>{{cite press release |title=Ebony Magazine's "Power 150" |date=May 2008 |url=http://www.blacknews.com/news/alpha_phi_alpha201.shtml |access-date=June 7, 2009 |quote=Alpha continues to stand as the organization that represents the totality of the Black male... |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703182704/http://www.blacknews.com/news/alpha_phi_alpha201.shtml |archive-date=July 3, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
}}

==Entertainment==

===Music===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Lionelhampton.jpg|100px|thumb|Lionel Hampton]]
[[File:LionelRichie0995-1000.jpg|thumb|100px|Lionel Richie]]
[[File:Noble Sissle 2.jpg|100px|thumb|Noble Sissle]]

|alist=
<!--{{mem/f
|name=[[Broderick Daniels]]
|chapter=[[University of Arkansas|Kappa Kappa]]
|nota=[[Gospel/R&B]] Arkansas Gospel Mass Choir
}}-->
{{mem/f
|name=[[Cannonball Adderley]]
|chapter=[[Florida A&M University|Beta Nu]]
|nota=[[Jazz]] saxophonist
|ref=<ref name=proment>{{cite web|url=http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/entertainment.html |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Entertainers |publisher=[[Cornell University]] |access-date=2007-07-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701142138/http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/entertainment.html |archive-date=July 1, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gerald Albright]]
|chapter=[[University of Redlands|Iota Chi]]
|nota=Jazz saxophonist
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jerry Butler (singer)|Jerry Butler]]
|chapter=[[Chicago, Illinois|Xi Lambda]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Duke Ellington]]
|chapter=[[Bluefield, West Virginia|Alpha Zeta Lambda]]
|nota=Composer, bandleader, actor; [[Grammy Award]] winner; 1959 [[Spingarn Medal]] and 1969 [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] recipient; [[Pulitzer Prize]] in recognition of his musical genius
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=spingarn/><ref name=duke>{{cite web|url=http://www.dclibrary.org/blkren/bios/ellingtond.html |title=Duke Ellington–Composer, Pianist and Jazz Bandleader |publisher=dclibrary.org |access-date=2007-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709114455/http://dclibrary.org/blkren/bios/ellingtond.html |archive-date=2007-07-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Marc Gay]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=Singer in the [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] group [[Shai]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lionel Hampton]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy -->
|chapter=[[Ohio University|Phi]]
|nota=Jazz percussionist and bandleader; [[National Medal of Arts]] recipient; Goodwill Ambassador for the [[United States]]
|ref=<ref name=proment/><ref name=bennyg/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Antonio Hart]]
|chapter=[[Boston, Massachusetts|Sigma]]
|nota=Jazz saxophonist
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Donny Hathaway]]
|chapter=Beta
|nota=Songwriter and arranger for [[The Staple Singers]], Jerry Butler, and [[Aretha Franklin]]; singer who recorded duets with [[Roberta Flack]]; recorded the [[And Then There's Maude|theme song]] to the TV series ''[[Maude (TV series)|Maude]]''
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=dhathaway>{{cite web |url=http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Donny%20Hathaway.html |title=Donny Hathaway biography |publisher=soulwalking.co.uk |access-date=2007-07-23}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Fletcher Henderson]]
|chapter=[[Clark Atlanta University|Alpha Phi]]
|nota=Pianist, bandleader, arranger and [[composer]], important in the development of [[big band]] [[jazz]] and [[Swing (genre)|swing music]]
|ref=<ref name=skip11>{{cite web |first=Herman |last=Mason |url=http://www.skipmason.com/hm/hm11.htm |title=Our Brother Duke Ellington would have been 100 years old today! |date=1999-04-29 |work=Skips Historical Moments, Number 11 |publisher=skipmason.com |access-date=2007-09-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021042149/http://skipmason.com/hm/hm11.htm |archive-date=2007-10-21 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Carl Martin
|chapter=Beta
|nota=Singer in the R&B group Shai
|ref=<ref name=proment/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lionel Richie]]
|chapter=Alpha Nu Lambda
|nota=Singer and member of the [[Commodores]]; [[Grammy Award]] and [[Academy Award]] winner; 2003 [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] honoree
|ref=<ref name=proment/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Noble Sissle]]
|chapter=Theta
|nota=[[Jazz]] composer, lyricist, bandleader, and singer of the [[Harlem Renaissance]]; lyricist of ''[[Shuffle Along]]'', which became the first hit musical on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] written by and about African-Americans
|ref=<ref name=noble>{{cite news|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=KLIVAM.story&STORY=/www/story/01-10-2007/0004503552&EDATE=Jan+10,+2007 |title=Martin L. King Jr. Holiday Exclusive: How a Historic Photo Serves as Inspiration for Writer of 'Stomp The Yard' Gregory Anderson |date=2001-01-10 |work=PR Newswire |publisher=Empire Broadcasting |access-date=2007-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122645/http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=KLIVAM.story&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F01-10-2007%2F0004503552&EDATE=Jan%2B10%2C%2B2007 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=shuffle>{{cite web|url=http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/themes/shufflealong_text.html |title=Shuffle Along |publisher=The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |access-date=2007-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202155958/http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/themes/shufflealong_text.html |archive-date=February 2, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Lanzel Smith Jr.
|chapter=[[Syracuse University|Delta Zeta]]
|nota= International [[Disc Jockey]] and multi-faceted [[Record producer|producer]]
|ref=<ref name=Lanzel1>{{cite web|url=https://www.thefbma.org/post/the-adventures-of-dj-zel-millenial-renaissance-man |title=The Adventures of DJ Zel – Millennial Renaissance Man |access-date=2020-01-27}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Darnell Van Rensalier
|chapter=Beta
|nota=Singer in the R&B group Shai
|ref=<ref name=proment/>
}}
{{mem/f
|name=Jonathan White
|chapter=Gamma Delta
|nota=[[Jazz]] composer, saxophonist
|ref=<ref name=proment/>}}
}}

===Film, television, and theatre===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=

[[File:Hill Harper.jpg|thumb|100px|Hill Harper]]
[[File:Paul Robeson 1942.jpg|thumb|100px|Paul Robeson]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lanre Idewu]]
|chapter=[[University of Iowa|Alpha Theta]]
|nota=Actor, producer best known for ''[[South Side (TV series)|South Side]]'', ''[[Sherman’s Showcase]]'', ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', ''[[The Game (American TV series)|The Game]]'', ''[[The Choir (web series)|The Choir]]''
|ref={{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Yahya Abdul-Mateen II]]
|chapter=Alpha Epsilon
|nota=Actor, best known for Candyman, The Get Down, The Greatest Showman, Baywatch, Aquaman, Watchmen; 2020 Emmy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~aphia/?page_id=27|title=Lineage-Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. – Alpha Epsilon Chapter |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha |access-date=29 February 2020}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Darryl M. Bell]]
|chapter=[[Syracuse University|Delta Zeta]]
|nota=Actor, best known for ''[[A Different World (TV series)|A Different World]]''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Bret E. Benson]]
|chapter=[[Georgia College|Mu Gamma]]
|nota=Actor TV and film; motivational speaker, best known for ''[[ATLANTA, Fatal Attraction, Angie's List]]''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Benny Boom]]
|chapter=[[Temple University|Pi Rho]]
|nota=Director of music videos; director of 2017 Tupac biography movie ''All Eyez On Me''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Rusty Cundieff]]
|chapter=[[University of Southern California|Alpha Delta]]
|nota=Actor, writer; director of ''[[Tales from the Hood]]'' and ''[[Chappelle's Show]]''; correspondent on ''[[TV Nation]]''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Rel Dowdell]]
|chapter=[[Fisk University|Alpha Chi]]
|nota= Writer and director of feature films ''[[Train Ride]]'' and ''[[Changing the Game (film)|Changing the Game]]''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Todd Duncan]]
|chapter=Mu Lambda
|nota=First Black person to sing with a [[New York City Opera|major opera company]]; the original Porgy in [[George Gershwin]]'s ''[[Porgy and Bess]]''; 1984 [[George Peabody]] Medal of Music recipient
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=toddd>{{cite web|url=http://music.aol.com/artist/todd-duncan/151256/biography |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121129220709/http://music.aol.com/artist/todd-duncan/151256/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-11-29 |title=Todd Duncan biography |publisher=[[America Online]] |access-date=2007-07-20 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Andra Fuller]]
|chapter=[[Baylor University|Tau Alpha]]
|nota=Actor, best known for ''[[Black Jesus, Roomies, Lovers, & Friends; LA Complex]]''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Kevin Grevioux]]
|chapter=Beta
|nota=Writer, producer, actor in ''[[Underworld (film series)|Underworld]]'' films, ''[[The Mask (1994 film)|The Mask]]'', ''[[Steel (1997 film)|Steel]]'', ''[[Congo (film)|Congo]]'', ''[[Planet of the Apes (2001 film)|Planet of the Apes]]''
|ref={{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=Gary Hardwick
|chapter=[[University of Michigan|Epsilon]]
|nota=Producer, writer, director of ''[[The Brothers (2001 film)|The Brothers]]'', ''[[Deliver Us from Eva]]'', ''Radio'', and ''[[Bring It On (film)|Bring It On]]''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Omari Hardwick]]
|chapter=[[University of Georgia|Zeta Pi]]
|nota=Actor in ''[[Saved (TV series)|Saved]]'', ''[[Dark Blue (TV series)|Dark Blue]]'', ''[[Power (TV series)|Power]]'', and ''[[The A-Team]]''
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uga.edu/alpha/zplines89-99.html |title=Zeta Pi Lines 1990 – 1999 |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha, Theta Pi chapter |access-date=10 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601175734/http://www.uga.edu/alpha/zplines89-99.html |archive-date=June 1, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://television.aol.com/celebs/omari-hardwick/465531/biography |title=Omari Hardwick biography |publisher=[[AOL]] |access-date=10 September 2010}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Rob Hardy]]
|chapter=[[Florida A&M University|Beta Nu]]
|nota=Film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director
|ref={{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Hill Harper]]
|chapter=[[Columbia, Maryland|Kappa Phi Lambda]]
|nota=Actor on ''[[The Good Doctor (American TV series)|The Good Doctor]]'', ''[[CSI: NY]]''; author of ''[[Letters to a Young Brother]]''
|ref=<ref>{{cite press release |title=President Mason sets focus on America's black boys |url=http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=80&newsCat=Press%20Release |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |date=2009-01-28 |access-date=2009-04-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717235548/http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=80&newsCat=Press%20Release |archive-date=2011-07-17 }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |title=Fraternity Highlights Activism, Commitment To Improving Community |url=http://www.blacknews.com/news/alpha_phi_alpha301.shtml |publisher=blacknews.com |access-date=2009-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007040112/http://www.blacknews.com/news/alpha_phi_alpha301.shtml |archive-date=2008-10-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Barry Jenkins]]
|chapter=[[Florida State University|Iota Delta]]
|nota=First African American director to win an Oscar Academy Award for Best Picture (''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'') Director of Golden Globe Award-winning movie " If Beale Street could talk " 2019
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |title= Congrats, Brother Barry Jenkins #Oscars |url= https://www.apa1906.net/congrats-brother-barry-jenkins-oscars |publisher= Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity newsletter |access-date= 2018-05-23 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180310171508/http://www.apa1906.net/congrats-brother-barry-jenkins-oscars |archive-date= 2018-03-10 |url-status= dead |date= 2017-02-27 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Christian Keyes]]
|chapter=[[Ferris State University|Zeta Beta]]
|nota=Television and movie actor, singer, and model; ''Diary of a Mad Black Woman'', ''Let's Stay Together'', ''Moonlight'', ''Sex Chronicles''
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://atrustar.blogspot.com/2008/08/next-big-thing-christian-keyes-so-sexy.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707124554/http://atrustar.blogspot.com/2008/08/next-big-thing-christian-keyes-so-sexy.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-07 |title=Next Big Thing: Christian Keyes |publisher=A Tru Star |access-date=2011-01-08 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Vaughn Lowery
|chapter=[[Cornell University|Alpha]]
|nota=Model, actor, and president/founder of ''360 Magazine''; model for [[Joe Boxer]], [[Gap Inc.|Gap]], [[Fila (company)|Fila]], [[Target Corporation|Target]], [[Old Navy]], [[Dasani]], [[Skechers]], and [[Ecko Unlimited]]; runway model for [[Tommy Hilfiger]], [[Phat Farm]], and [[Karl Kani]]
|ref=<ref name=alpha1>{{cite web|url=http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/brother/lineage3.html |title=Alpha Chapter Lineage (1988–2003) |publisher=rso.cornell.edu |access-date=2007-07-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610065439/http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/brother/lineage3.html |archive-date=June 10, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Yohance Myles]]
|chapter=Beta Upsilon
|nota=Television and movie actor; ''Containment'', ''Into the Badlands'', ''2 Guns''
|ref=<ref name=HerCampus>{{cite web |url=http://www.hercampus.com/school/ucla/profile-jackson-state-university-professor-shots-fired-star-yohance-myles |title=Profile Jackson State University Professor & Shots Fired Star Yohance Myles |date=May 14, 2017 |publisher=Her campus |access-date= 1 July 2017}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William Packer (director)|William Packer]]
|chapter=Beta Nu
|nota=Producer and director of films, including ''[[The Gospel (film)|The Gospel]]'', ''Pandora's Box'', ''[[Stomp the Yard]]'', ''Trois'', and ''[[Roots (2016 miniseries)|Roots]]'' (2016 remake), First African American to produce the Academy Awards Oscar Presentations Ceremony.(2022)
|ref=<ref name=willp2>{{cite web|first=Joshua |last=Alston |date=2007-01-12 |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16583100/site/newsweek/ |title=Stepping Out of Line? |work=Newsweek Entertainment |publisher=MSNBC |access-date=2007-07-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127214515/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16583100/site/newsweek/ |archive-date=January 27, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Joseph C. Phillips]]
|chapter=[[Compton, California|Iota Zeta Lambda]]
|nota=Actor on ''[[The Cosby Show]]'', ''[[General Hospital]]'', and ''[[Strictly Business (1991 film)|Strictly Business]]''; political commentator on [[NPR]]'s ''News and Notes with Ed Gordon''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Randal Pinkett]]<!-- Also listed in "Entertainment" -->
|chapter=[[Columbia, Maryland|Kappa Phi Lambda]]
|nota=Fourth winner of [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC's]] reality show ''[[The Apprentice (US Season 4)|The Apprentice]]''; Rhodes Scholar
|ref=<ref name=pinkett/><ref name=apprentice/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Kevin Powell]]
|chapter=[[University of Oklahoma|Zeta Eta]]
|nota=Cast member of ''[[The Real World: New York]]''; political activist; poet; writer; entrepreneur
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blacknews.com/news/alpha_phi_alpha501.shtml |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc Tackled the "N-Word" |publisher=Blacknews.com |access-date=2011-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928193952/http://www.blacknews.com/news/alpha_phi_alpha501.shtml |archive-date=2011-09-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Tim Reid]]
|chapter=Eta Lambda
|nota=Actor, ''[[Sister, Sister (TV series)|Sister, Sister]]'', ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', ''[[That '70s Show]]''
|ref=<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Fall 2010 |title=Tim Reid Initiated |magazine=The Sphinx |volume=95 |issue=3 |page=35 |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Paul Robeson]]<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" & "Athletics" -->
|chapter=[[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)|Nu]]
|nota=NFL player; actor; singer; attorney; social activist, 1945 [[Spingarn Medal]] recipient; [[Lenin Peace Prize|Stalin Peace Prize]] laureate
|ref=<ref name=spingarn />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Terrell Tilford]]
|chapter=[[University of California, Berkeley|Alpha Epsilon]]
|nota=Television and movie actor, ''Soul Food'', ''Days Of Our Lives'', ''Guiding Light'', ''One Life To Live'', ''The Protector''
|ref={{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}	}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Drew Watkins]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=Producer of ''Inside the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]]''; two-time Emmy Award winner
|ref=<ref name=betaalum/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Keenen Ivory Wayans]]
|chapter=[[Tuskegee University|Gamma Phi]]
|nota=Creator of comedy series ''[[In Living Color]]''; actor, comedian, writer, director; [[Emmy Award]] winner
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
}}

==Government, law, and public policy==
:'''''Note:''' individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the first relevant section.''

===Vice Presidents and Supreme Court===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Hubert Humphrey crop.jpg|90px|thumb|Hubert Humphrey]]
[[File:Thurgood-marshall-2.jpg|90px|right|thumb|Thurgood Marshall]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Hubert Humphrey]]
|chapter=Honorary
|nota=38th [[Vice President of the United States]]; 1968 Presidential candidate; [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Minnesota]]; [[Mayor of Minneapolis]]; 1979 [[Congressional Gold Medal]] and 1980 [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] recipient
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=453–454}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000953 |title=HUMPHREY, Hubert Horatio, Jr., (1911 – 1978) |publisher=United States Congress |access-date=29 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/91184a.htm |title=Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony of the Congressional Gold Medal Honoring Hubert H. Humphrey |publisher=University of Texas |access-date=29 February 2012}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Thurgood Marshall]]
|chapter=[[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)|Nu]]
|nota=First African American Justice of [[Supreme Court of the United States|US Supreme Court]]; attorney in the landmark case ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' of [[Topeka, Kansas|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
|ref=<ref name=politics/><ref name=thurgood>{{cite web|url=http://www.africanamericans.com/ThurgoodMarshall.htm |title=Thurgood Marshall |publisher=africanamericans.com |access-date=2007-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301040923/http://www.africanamericans.com/ThurgoodMarshall.htm |archive-date=March 1, 2007 }}</ref>}}
}}

===Cabinet and Cabinet-level ranks===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Leepbrown.jpg|90px|thumb|Lee Brown]]
[[File:Samuel Pierce.png|90px|right|thumb|Samuel Pierce]]
[[File:SullivanLouis.jpg|90px|right|thumb|Louis Sullivan]]
[[File:Donald R. Cravins, Under Secretary of Commerce.jpg|90px|right|thumb|Don R. Cravins Jr.]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lee P. Brown]]
|chapter=[[California State University, Fresno|Epsilon Beta]]
|nota=[[Office of National Drug Control Policy|Director of National Drug Control Policy]]; first African-American mayor of [[Houston, Texas]]
|<ref name=lpb>{{Cite press release|url=http://www.clintonfoundation.org/legacy/020994-press-briefing-by-drug-control-director-lee-brown.htm |title=Press Briefing by Drug Control Director Lee Brown |date=1994-02-09 |publisher=William J. Clinton Foundation |access-date=2007-07-04 |quote=Our belief is that supply and demand are equally important and, therefore, they should not be competing with each other. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094341/http://www.clintonfoundation.org/legacy/020994-press-briefing-by-drug-control-director-lee-brown.htm |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert J. Brown]]
|chapter=Mu Lambda
|nota=Special Assistant to President Nixon for Minority Affairs
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=481–482}}</ref><ref name=rjb>{{cite web |url=http://www.nixonfoundation.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=Administration1969&category=Research+Center |title=Executive Office of the President |publisher=nixonfoundation.org |access-date=2007-08-02}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.]]
|chapter=[[University of Pennsylvania|Psi]]
|nota=[[United States Secretary of Transportation|Secretary of Transportation]]; first Black [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] law clerk; co-author of the brief in the landmark case ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' of [[Topeka, Kansas|Topeka]]; co-counsel on the landmark case'' [[McLaughlin v. Florida]]'', which established the constitutionality of [[interracial marriage]]s; editor of the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''; 1995 [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] recipient
|ref=<ref name=politics/><ref name=wtc>{{cite web |url=http://law.wlu.edu/faculty/facultydocuments/pepperst/colemanarticle.pdf|title=William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.: Breaking the Color Barrier at the U.S. Supreme Court|last=Peppers|first=Todd}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Malcolm Jackson
|chapter=[[Jackson State University|Delta Phi]]
|nota=Chief Information Officer and Assistant Administrator: Office of Environmental Information
|ref=<ref name=skip24/><ref name=lpb>{{cite web 
|url=http://www.businessofgovernment.org/bio/malcolm-jackson|title=Executive Office of the President |publisher=nixonfoundation.org |access-date=2007-08-02}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Rayford Logan]]<!-- Also in "Service and reform" -->
|chapter=[[University of Pittsburgh|Omicron]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=talented10>{{cite book | last=Mason |first=Herman | title=The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha | publisher=Four-G |location=Winter Park, FL |year=1999| isbn=1-885066-63-5 | chapter=Rayford Wittingham Logan}}</ref>|}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Samuel Pierce]]<!-- Also in "Business" -->
|chapter=[[Cornell University|Alpha]]
|nota=[[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development|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 to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] case styled ''[[New York Times v. Sullivan]]''; first African-American to serve on the Board of Directors of a [[Fortune 500]] company
|ref=<ref name=politics/><ref name=sp/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Emmett Scott]]
|chapter=Honorary
|nota=[[United States Secretary of War|Special Assistant to the Secretary of War]]
|ref=<ref name=skip24/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ron C. Sims]]
|chapter=Zeta Pi Lambda
|nota=[[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development|Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development]]; served as King County Executive, [[King County, Washington]]
|ref=<ref name=skip24/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Louis Wade Sullivan]]<!-- Also in "Academia" and "Science" -->
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=[[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services|Secretary of Health and Human Services]]; co-founder and first President of [[Morehouse School of Medicine]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/> ref=<ref}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Don Cravins Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Louisiana State University|Nu Psi]]
|nota=[[Under Secretary of Commerce for Minority Business Development]]; Executive Vice President and COO of the [[National Urban League]]; Louisiana State Legislature
|ref=<ref name=politics/><ref name=mbda>{{cite web 
|url=https://www.mbda.gov/node/730|title=Minority Business Development Agency |publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce |access-date=2022-09-21}}</ref>}}
}}

===Members of the United States Congress===
{{further|United States Congress}}
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:William L. Dawson.jpg|90px|thumb|William Dawson]]
[[File:Ron Dellums.jpg|90px|right|thumb|Ron Dellums]]
[[File:Julian Carey Dixon.jpg|90px|thumb|Julian Dixon]]
[[File:Chaka Fattah official House photo.jpg|90px|thumb|Chaka Fattah]]
[[File:Harold Ford, Sr.jpg|90px|thumb|Harold Ford Sr.]]
[[File:William Gray III.jpg|90px|thumb|William H. Gray]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Edward Brooke]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=betaalum/><ref name=politics/><ref>{{cite news  |date=28 October 2009
|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/congressional.medal/
|title=Former senator awarded Congressional Gold Medal |work=[[CNN]]
|publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System|TBS]] | access-date=5 October 2010 |quote=He ran for office, as he put it, to bring people together who had never been together before, and that he did.}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Roland Burris]]
|chapter=[[Southern Illinois University Carbondale|Beta Eta]]
|nota=Senator from [[Illinois]], appointed to fill the seat vacated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Barack Obama]]; first Black [[Illinois Attorney General]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siu.edu/~cola/burris.html |title=The Honorable Roland Burris |publisher=Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus |access-date=2007-07-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030228140904/http://www.siu.edu/~cola/burris.html |archive-date=February 28, 2003 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Not stated-->  |title=Burris sworn in as senator |url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1380620,w-burris-sworn-senator-011509.article |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |publisher=Chicago Sun News Group |location=[[Chicago]] |date=2009-01-15 |access-date=15 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117172748/http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1380620%2Cw-burris-sworn-senator-011509.article |archive-date=17 January 2009 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Hansen Clarke]]
|chapter=[[Detroit, Michigan|Gamma Lambda]]
|nota=Representative from [[Michigan]]
|ref=<ref>''The Sphinx Magazine'' Fall 2010 volume 95 no.3, page 11</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Emanuel Cleaver]]
|chapter=[[Prairie View A&M University|Eta Gamma]]
|nota=Representative from [[Missouri]]; [[Mayor]] of [[Kansas City, Missouri]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=emanuelc>{{cite news|url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001061/ |date=2006-04-07 |title=Members of Congress–Emanuel Cleaver |newspaper=washingtonpost.com |access-date=2007-07-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813205449/http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001061/ |archive-date=2007-08-13 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Danny K. Davis]]
|chapter= [[University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff|Gamma Delta]]
|nota=Representative from [[Illinois]]
|ref=<ref name=hinchey>{{cite press release|title=U.S. Senate approves resolution |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |date=2006-11-06 |url=http://www.alphaphialpha.net/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=25&newsCat=Press+Release |access-date=2008-12-31 |quote=Alpha Phi Alpha is an exceptional organization that deserves to be recognized and honored for all of its many great achievements.  The fraternity has helped shape more than 175,000 young men into extraordinary leaders who contribute positively to their communities and the world. }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William L. Dawson (politician)|William Dawson]]
|chapter=[[Northwestern University|Theta]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ron Dellums]]
|chapter=[[San Francisco State University|Delta Omicron]]
|nota=Representative from [[California]]; co-founder of the [[Congressional Black Caucus]]; [[List of mayors of Oakland, California|Mayor of Oakland]]; led the fight in the US against South African apartheid; namesake of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland
|ref=<ref name=politics/><ref name=dellums>{{cite news |last=Heredia |first=Christopher|date=2007-01-08 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/08/BAGVQNF1PV7.DTL&feed=rss.news |title=Dellums sworn in as Oakland mayor |work=San Francisco Chronicle |publisher=Hearst |access-date=2007-07-01}}</ref><ref name=cbc>{{cite web|url=http://cbcfinc.org/About/CBC/index.html |title=Origins and the History of the Congressional Black Caucus |publisher=cbcfinc.org |access-date=2007-07-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702085927/http://www.cbcfinc.org/About/CBC/index.html |archive-date=July 2, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Julian C. Dixon]]
|chapter=[[California State University, Los Angeles|Alpha Delta]]
|nota=Representative from California
|ref=<ref name=politics/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Chaka Fattah]]
|chapter=[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Zeta Omicron Lambda]]
|nota=Representative from [[Pennsylvania]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Floyd H. Flake]]<!-- Also in "Academia" -->
|chapter=[[Langston, Oklahoma|Zeta Gamma Lambda]]
|nota=Representative from Illinois; president of [[Wilberforce University]]
|ref=<ref name=colpres/><ref name=fhf/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Harold Ford Sr.]]
|chapter=[[Tennessee State University|Beta Omicron]]
|nota=Representative from [[Tennessee]]; legislator of Tennessee
|ref=<ref name=politics/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William H. Gray (Pennsylvania)|William H. Gray]]
|chapter=[[Temple University|Rho]]
|nota=Representative from Pennsylvania; House Majority Whip and House Democratic Whip; CEO of the [[United Negro College Fund]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Al Green (politician)|Al Green]]
|chapter=[[Florida A&M University|Beta Nu]]
|nota=Representative from [[Texas]]
|ref=<ref name=hinchey/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Earl F. Hilliard]]
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=Representative from [[Alabama]]; Legislator of Alabama
|ref=<ref name=politics/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Steven Horsford]]
|chapter=[[Atlanta, Georgia|Eta Lambda]]
|nota=Representative from [[Nevada]]
|ref=<ref>''The Sphinx Magazine'' Winter 2013 / Spring 2014 volume 100 no.1, pages 39 and 51</ref>
}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gregory W. Meeks]]
|chapter=[[St. Albans, Queens|Zeta Zeta Lambda]]
|nota=Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]]; [[New York State Assembly]]
|ref=<ref name=politics/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ralph Metcalfe]]<!-- Also listed in "Athletics"-->
|chapter=[[Marquette University|Alpha Xi]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=politics/><ref name=cbc/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Adam Clayton Powell Jr.]]
|chapter=Eta
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=politics/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles B. Rangel]]
|chapter=[[New York City|Alpha Gamma Lambda]]
|nota=Representative from New York; co-founder of the [[Congressional Black Caucus]]; the first Black person to chair the [[United States House Committee on Ways and Means|Committee on Ways and Means]]; New York State Assembly Representative; Marine combat veteran awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=cbc/><ref name=cbr>{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000053 |title=Rangel, Charles B. |publisher=United States Congress |access-date=2007-07-01}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[David Scott (Georgia)|David Scott]]
|chapter=Beta Nu
|nota=Representative from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
|ref=<ref name=ds>{{cite web |url=http://davidscott.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=47752 |title=Congressman Scott Honors Centennial Anniversary of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |date=2006-07-25 |publisher=Davidscott.gov |access-date=2007-07-04}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert C. Scott]]
|chapter=[[Boston, Massachusetts|Sigma]]
|nota=Representative from [[Virginia]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Bennett M. Stewart]]
|chapter=[[Chicago, Illinois|Xi Lambda]]
|nota=Representative from Illinois
|ref=<ref name=promgov/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Raphael Warnock]]
|chapter=[[Alpha Gamma Lambda]]
|nota=Senator from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], First African American Senator elected from the state of Georgia. Current Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|date=7 January 2021|title=Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity congratulates member Raphael Warnock on victory in Georgia
|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533243-alpha-phi-alpha-fraternity-congratulates-member-raphael-warnock-on-victory-in|website=TheHill.com|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>}}

}}

===US Governors and Lieutenant Governors===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Ralph Metcalfe.jpg|90px|thumb|Ralph Metcalfe]]
[[File:Adam Clayon Powell Jr.jpg|90px|thumb|Adam Powell Jr.]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Justin Fairfax]]
|chapter=[[Kappa Omicron]]
|nota=Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
|ref=<ref name=Sphinx20172018/>{{rp|31}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walter A. Gordon]]
|chapter=[[University of California, Berkeley|Alpha Epsilon]]
|nota=17th [[List of United States Virgin Islands Governors|Governor of the United States Virgin Islands]]; Federal [[United States federal judge|District Judge]] of the [[United States Virgin Islands]]
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=139,327}}</ref><ref name=wag>{{cite web |url=http://collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=10051 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930050116/http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=10051 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-09-30 |title=Hall of Famers, Walter Gordon |publisher=National Football Foundation |access-date=2007-06-30}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Wes Moore|Westley Moore]] <!-- Also listed in "Rhodes scholars"-->
|chapter=[[Johns Hopkins University|Sigma Sigma]]
|nota=2001 Rhodes Scholar; 63rd [[List of governors of Maryland|Governor of Maryland]]
|ref=<ref name="WesMoore" />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Joe Rogers (politician)|Joe Rogers]]
|chapter=[[Colorado State University|Omicron Tau]]
|nota=[[Lieutenant Governor of Colorado]]
|ref=<ref name=springfield>{{cite web|url=http://home.comcast.net/~springfieldalphas/history.htm |title=Alpha Phi Alpha History |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Springfield chapter |access-date=2007-07-03 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Roy L. Schneider]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=25th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
|ref=<ref name=betaalum/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles Wesley Turnbull]]
|chapter=[[Hampton University|Gamma Iota]]
|nota=26th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
|ref=<ref name=springfield/><ref name=vigovs>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Virgin_Islands.html |title= U.S. Virgin Islands Statesmen |publisher=worldstatesmen.org |access-date=2007-07-03}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[w:James R. Williams (lawyer)|James R. Williams]]
|chapter=[[University of Akron|Alpha Tau]]
|nota=[[Lieutenant Governor of Ohio]] candidate; 25th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
|ref=<ref name=jrw>{{cite book | last=Mason |first=Herman | title=The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha | publisher=Four-G |location=Winter Park, FL |year=1999| isbn=1-885066-63-5 | chapter=James R. Williams}}</ref><ref name=alphapres/>}}
}}

===Diplomats===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:BobbyScott.jpg|90px|thumb|Robert Scott]]
[[File:CharlesTurnbull.jpg|90px|thumb|Charles Turnbull]]
[[File:Frederick Douglass (2).jpg|90px|thumb|Frederick Douglass]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Samuel Clifford Adams Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Fisk University|Alpha Chi]]
|nota=U.S. Ambassador to the [[Niger|Republic of the Niger]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite magazine|date=May 1940|title=Spring|magazine=The SPHINX|volume=26|issue=2|publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity|page=28}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Orison Rudolph Aggrey]]
|chapter=[[Hampton University|Gamma Iota]]
|nota=Ambassador to [[The Gambia|Republic of The Gambia]], [[United States Ambassador to Senegal|Republic of Senegal]], and [[United States Ambassador to Romania|Romania]]
|ref=<ref name=politics/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Archibald Carey Jr.]]
|chapter=Theta
|nota=[[Diplomatic rank|Diplomat; attorney; Circuit Court Judge; Pastor]]
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=341,344}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|date=7 August 1995 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n13_v88/ai_17387696 |title=Archibald Carey, Jr., Judge, diplomat, policymaker |magazine=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]] |publisher=[[Johnson Publishing Company|Johnson]] |access-date=5 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628175107/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n13_v88/ai_17387696/ |archive-date=28 June 2009 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walter Carrington]]
|chapter=[[Boston, Massachusetts|Sigma]]
|nota=Ambassador to Republic of Senegal and [[United States Ambassador to Nigeria|Federal Republic of Nigeria]]
|ref=<ref name=centvid>{{cite video |people=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Men: A Century of Leadership |medium=Video |publisher=Rubicon Productions |date=2005}}</ref><ref name=carrington>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Members.view&memberid=68 |title=Walter C. Carrington |work=Council of American Ambassadors |publisher=americanambassadors.org |access-date=2007-07-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105180221/http://www.americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Members.view&memberid=68 |archive-date=January 5, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Horace Dawson]]
|chapter=[[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)|Nu]]
|nota=Ambassador to [[United States Ambassador to Botswana|Republic of Botswana]]; Director of the Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University; Chairman of the [[World Policy Council]]
|ref=<ref name=mulambda/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Frederick Douglass]]<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" -->
|chapter=(Honorary)
|nota=Minister to [[United States Ambassador to Haiti|Republic of Haiti]]; anti-slavery activist
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=fredd>{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/douglass-hypo.html |title=Frederick Douglass: The Hypocrisy of American Slavery, July 4, 1852 |work=Modern History Sourcebook |publisher=fordham.edu |access-date=2007-07-05}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Edward Richard Dudley|Edward R. Dudley]]
|chapter=[[Alpha Omicron]]
|nota=United States Ambassador to Liberia; First African American to hold the rank ambassador; Justice of the New York Supreme Court
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Spring 1965 volume 51 number 2 page 35</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walter A. Gordon]]
|chapter=[[University of California Berkley|Alpha Epsilon]]
|nota=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.
|ref=<ref>" Sphinx Magazine ", Fall October 1946 volume 32 number 3 page 40</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lionel Hampton]]<!-- Also in "Entertainment -->
|chapter=[[Ohio University|Phi]]
|nota=[[Goodwill Ambassador]]; [[jazz]] percussionist and bandleader; [[National Medal of Arts]] recipient
|ref=<ref name=proment/><ref name=bennyg>{{cite web|url=http://www.uidaho.edu/hampton/bio.html |title=Lionel Hampton: His Life and Legacy |publisher=Alpha [[University of Idaho]] |access-date=2007-07-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070805002458/http://www.uidaho.edu/hampton/bio.html |archive-date=2007-08-05 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[James A. Joseph]]
|chapter=[[Southern University|Beta Sigma]]
|nota=Ambassador to [[United States Ambassador to South Africa|South Africa]]; [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Under Secretary of Interior]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Kenton Keith (diplomat)|Kenton Keith]]
|chapter=[[University of Kansas|Upsilon]]
|nota=Ambassador to [[United States Ambassador to Qatar|State of Qatar]]
|ref=<ref name=wpc/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Raphael Lanier]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" -->
|chapter=[[Washington, D.C.|Mu Lambda]]
|nota=Minister to [[Liberia]]; first president of [[Texas Southern University]]
|ref=<ref name=mulambda/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Delano Lewis]]
|chapter=Upsilon
|nota=Ambassador to South Africa; President and Chief Executive Officer of [[National Public Radio]]; President of [[C&P Telephone|The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=delanol>{{cite web|url=http://www.kckps.org/recognition/alumni/2005/lewis.html |title=Delano Lewis |publisher=kckps.org |access-date=2007-06-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109152528/http://www.kckps.org/recognition/alumni/2005/lewis.html |archive-date=January 9, 2009 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f

|name=[[Donald McHenry]]
|chapter=[[Illinois State University|Eta Tau]]
|nota=Ambassador to [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations|United Nations]]
|ref=<ref name=politics/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John H. Morrow]]
|chapter=[[Rutgers University|Delta Iota]]
|nota=First [[United States Ambassador to Guinea]] after its independence; first US Representative to the [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]] (UNESCO)
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|p=417}}</ref><ref name=johnhm>{{cite web|url=http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cswebpg/diversityadvantage/history2.html |title=Biographical Sketches of Diversity at Rutgers |publisher=Rutgers University |access-date=2007-07-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606185513/http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cswebpg/diversityadvantage/history2.html |archive-date=2011-06-06 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gerald Eustis Thomas]]
|chapter=Sigma
|nota=Ambassador to [[United States Ambassador to Guyana|Guyana]] and [[United States Ambassador to Kenya|Kenya]]; Admiral, US Navy
|ref=<ref name=promgov/><ref name=sgovt>{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/11682.htm |title=State Department-T |access-date=2007-06-30 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Frenise A. Logan]]
|chapter=[[Fisk University|Alpha Chi]]
|nota=Diplomatic cultural affairs attache' in Madras and Calcutta, India; Historian; Poet
|ref=<ref>Blackpast.org/ page 8</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Terence Todman]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=Ambassador to [[United States Ambassador to Chad|Republic of Chad]], Guinea, [[United States Ambassador to Costa Rica|Costa Rica]], [[United States Ambassador to Spain|Spain]], [[United States Ambassador to Denmark|Denmark]], and [[United States Ambassador to Argentina|Argentina]]
|ref=<ref name=promgov/><ref name=sgovt/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lester Walton]]
|chapter=Eta
|nota=Minister to Liberia
|ref=<ref name=nypols>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/black.html |title=Black Politicians in New York |publisher=politicalgraveyard.com |access-date=2009-01-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013200326/http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/black.html |archive-date=October 13, 2008 }}</ref><ref name=amblib>{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10906.htm |title=U.S. Ambassadors to Liberia |publisher=state.gov |access-date=2009-01-24 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Clifton Reginald Wharton Sr.]]
|chapter=Sigma
|nota=Ambassador to [[United States Ambassador to Norway|Norway]] and Minister to [[Romania]]
|ref=<ref name=hoa/><ref name=disting>{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/faq/#distinguished |title=State Department History |date=4 February 2005 |publisher=state.gov |access-date=2007-08-06 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Franklin H. Williams]]
|chapter=Nu
|nota=Ambassador to [[United States Ambassador to Ghana|Republic of Ghana]] and the United Nations; President of the Phelps-Stokes Fund
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Andrew Young]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=Ambassador to the United Nations; Representative from Georgia; two-term [[List of mayors of Atlanta|Mayor of Atlanta]]; 1990 [[List of Governors of Georgia|Governor of Georgia]] candidate; 1978 [[Spingarn Medal]], 1981 [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], and French [[Légion d'honneur]] recipient
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=spingarn/><ref name=ay>{{cite web|url=http://aysps.gsu.edu/people/YoungA.htm |title=Andrew Young, statesman, businessman, humanitarian |publisher=Georgia State University |access-date=2007-06-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616022922/http://aysps.gsu.edu/people/YoungA.htm |archive-date=June 16, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=ayoung>{{cite news |first=Robin |last=Toner |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30611F839590C718EDDAC0894D8494D81&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fY%2fYoung%2c%20Andrew%20J%2e |title=Young as Candidate: Hard Road, Light Touch |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2007-08-17 |date=1990-05-22 }}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>}}
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===Mayors===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Marionbarry001.jpg|90px|thumb|Marion Barry]]
[[File:20080927 Byron Brown cropped.jpg|90px|thumb|Byron Brown]]
[[File:Willie Brown in 2006.jpg|90px|thumb|Willie Brown]]
[[File:David dinkins.jpg|90px|thumb|David Dinkins]]
|alist={{mem/f
|name=[[Dennis Archer]]
|chapter=[[Wayne State University|Alpha Upsilon]]
|nota=Justice of the [[Michigan Supreme Court]]; Mayor of [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]; first Black President of the [[American Bar Association]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>
{{mem/f
|name=[[Richard Arrington Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Miles College|Gamma Kappa]]
|nota=First Black [[List of mayors of Birmingham, Alabama|Mayor of Birmingham]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name={{autolink|Thomas V. Barnes}}
|chapter=[[Purdue University|Gamma Rho]]
|nota=Mayor of [[Gary, Indiana]]
|ref=<ref name=promgov/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ras J. Baraka]]
|chapter=[[Alpha Alpha Lambda]]
|nota=Mayor of Newark, New Jersey; Grammy Award-winning music producer; educator; author
|ref=}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Marion Barry]]
|chapter=[[LeMoyne-Owen College|Beta Xi]]
|nota=[[List of mayors of Washington, D.C.|Mayor of Washington, D.C.]]; first Chairman of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] (SNCC)
|ref=<ref name=mulambda/><ref name=alphaconvention>{{cite news |title= Alpha's National Convention in D.C. |work= The Baltimore Afro-American |date= August 18, 1979 |page= 12 |id= {{ProQuest|532444541}} }}</ref>
}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ted Berry]]
|chapter=[[University of Cincinnati|Alpha Alpha]]
|nota=First Black [[List of mayors of Cincinnati, Ohio|Mayor of Cincinnati]]; board member of the [[NAACP]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite news |first=Harry |last=Wilkinson |url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/10/19/loc_berry_showed_them.html |title=Theodor M. Barry showed them the way |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer  |access-date=7 March 2010}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Byron Brown]]
|chapter=[[University at Buffalo|Delta Epsilon]]
|nota=Senator of New York; first Black [[List of mayors of Buffalo, New York|Mayor of Buffalo]]
|ref=<ref name=byronb>{{cite web|url=http://www.bnmc.org/BNMC/Bios/Bio_Brown.html |title=Byron W. Brown, Mayor of Buffalo, New York |publisher=Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus |access-date=2007-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927040835/http://www.bnmc.org/BNMC/Bios/Bio_Brown.html |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Willie Brown (politician)|Willie Brown]]
|chapter=[[San Francisco State University|Xi Rho]]
|nota=First Black [[List of mayors of San Francisco|Mayor of San Francisco]]; [[List of Speakers of the California State Assembly|Speaker of the California State Assembly]]; the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is in part named in his honor
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=willieb>{{cite news|first=James D. |last=Richardson |url=http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1602/Richardson/Richardson.html |title=Willie Brown: The Members' Speaker |publisher=aliciapatterson.org |access-date=2007-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607150851/http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1602/Richardson/Richardson.html |archive-date=June 7, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Melvin Carter (politician)|Melvin Carter]]
|chapter=[[Florida A&M University|Beta Nu]]
|nota=First Black [[List of mayors of Saint Paul, Minnesota|Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota]]
|ref=<ref name=Sphinx20172018/>{{rp|42}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lawrence D. Crawford]]
|chapter=
|nota= Mayor of [[List of mayors of Saginaw, Michigan|Saginaw, Michigan]]
|ref= <ref>{{cite journal |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= October 4, 2019|title=Brother Lawrence D. Crawford, DDS, Elected Mayor of Saginaw, Michigan |url=https://issuu.com/detroitalphas/docs/2019_detroit_alphas_centennial_gala_souvenir_journ |journal=2019 Detroit Alphas Centennial Gala Souvenir Journal   |volume= |issue=2019 |pages= |doi= |access-date= }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[David Dinkins]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=First Black [[Mayor of New York City]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gow Fields]]
|chapter=Mu Zeta Lambda
|nota=First Black Mayor of [[Lakeland, Florida]]
|ref=<ref name=sphinxwinter2011p50>{{cite magazine | title=Brothers on the Move |magazine=The Sphinx |date=Winter 2011 |volume=96 |issue=1 |page=50}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Anthony Ford]]
|chapter=[[Xi Iota]]
|nota=[[Mayor of Stockridge, Georgia]]
|ref=<ref name=Sphinx20172018/>{{rp|35}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Maynard Jackson]]
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=First Black and three-term [[List of mayors of Atlanta|Mayor of Atlanta; Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is in part named in his honor]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Harvey Johnson Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Tennessee State University|Beta Omicron]]
|nota=First Black [[List of mayors of Jackson, Mississippi|Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi]]
|ref=<ref name=harveyj>{{cite web|url=http://www.mayorharveyjohnson.com/about_mayor_johnson.html |title=About Mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. |access-date=2007-07-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929145632/http://www.mayorharveyjohnson.com/about_mayor_johnson.html |archive-date=2007-09-29 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Henry L. Marsh III]]
|chapter=[[Virginia Union University|Gamma]]
|nota=[[List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia|First African American Mayor of Richmond]]
|ref=<ref name=Sphinx>''Sphinx Magazine'', Summer 1977 volume 63 number 2 page 8</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Kwame Kilpatrick]]
|chapter=[[Florida A&M University|Beta Nu]]
|nota=[[List of mayors of Detroit, Michigan|Mayor of Detroit]] who resigned after pleading guilty to [[Kilpatrick-Beatty criminal trial|felony charges]] stemming from a [[Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal|text message scandal]]; convicted of federal charges including [[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|racketeering]] and extortion
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref>{{cite news |first=Jim |last=Schaffer |author2=M.L. Elrick |author3=Joe Swickard |author4=Ben Schmitt |name-list-style=amp|date=2008-09-05 |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080905/NEWS01/809050375 |title=Kilpatrick admits guilt, resigns |work=Detroit Free Press  |access-date=2008-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Caron |last=Paul |date=2013-03-11|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/justice/michigan-kilpatrick-verdict/index.html?iref=allsearch |title=Ex-Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick convicted in corruption case |work=CNN  |access-date=2013-03-11}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Rudolph McCollum Jr.]]
|chapter=Beta
|nota=[[List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia|Mayor of Richmond]]
|ref=<ref name=betaalum/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[James H. McGee|James McGee]]
|chapter=[[Wilberforce University|Xi]]
|nota=First Black [[List of mayors of Dayton, Ohio|Mayor of Dayton]]
|ref=<ref name=jamesmc>{{cite web |url=http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/manuscripts/ms322.html |title=MS-322 James H. McGee Papers |work=Special Collection and Archives |publisher=Wright State University |access-date=2007-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828100322/http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/manuscripts/ms322.html |archive-date=2006-08-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name={{autolink|Wayne M. Messam}}
|chapter=[[Florida State University|Iota Delta]]
|nota=First Black Mayor of [[Miramar, Florida]]
|ref=<ref name=waynem>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.miramar.fl.us/cityofficials/messam.html |title=Wayne M. Messam |publisher=ci.miramar.fl.us |access-date=2015-08-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151109155726/http://www.ci.miramar.fl.us/cityofficials/messam.html |archive-date=2015-11-09 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Marc Morial]]<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" -->
|chapter=[[University of Pennsylvania|Psi]]
|nota=[[Louisiana State Legislature]]; [[List of mayors of New Orleans|Mayor of New Orleans]]; 8th CEO of the [[National Urban League]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=mmorial>{{cite web|url=http://www.nul.org/marchmorial.html |title=Marc H. Morial, President and CEO |publisher=National Urban League |access-date=2007-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626173623/http://www.nul.org/marchmorial.html |archive-date=2007-06-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ernest Nathan Morial]]
|chapter=[[Xavier University of Louisiana|Beta Tau]]
|nota=Louisiana State Legislature; first Black Mayor of [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]]; namesake of the [[Ernest N. Morial Convention Center]] in New Orleans
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[J.O. Patterson]]
|chapter=[[Fisk University|Alpha Chi]]
|nota=First African American Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee
|ref=<ref name=sphinxwinter1982>{{cite magazine |title=Patterson:First Black Mayor of Memphis |magazine=The Sphinx |date=Winter 1982 |volume=68 |issue=4 |page=5}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Timothy L. Ragland]]
|chapter=[[Auburn University|Upsilon Eta]]
|nota=First African American and youngest Mayor in the history of [[Talladega, Alabama]]
|ref=<ref name=tlragland>{{Cite web|url=http://www.apa1906.net/timothyragland.html|title=Ragland:First Black Mayor of Talladega}}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Norm Rice]]
|chapter=Zeta Pi Lambda
|nota=First and only African-American [[List of mayors of Seattle|Mayor of Seattle]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eugene Sawyer]]
|chapter=[[Alabama State University|Beta Upsilon]]
|nota=[[List of mayors of Chicago|Mayor of Chicago]]
|ref=<ref name=brown/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Frank Scott Jr.]]
|chapter=[[University of Memphis|Kappa Eta]]
|nota=[[Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas]]
|ref=<ref name=Sphinx20172018/>{{rp|42}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[AC Wharton]]
|chapter=[[Tennessee State University|Beta Omicron]]
|nota=[[List of mayors of Memphis, Tennessee|Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Randall Woodfin]]
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=[[Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama]]
|ref=<ref name=Sphinx20172018/>{{rp|42}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lionel Wilson (politician)|Lionel Wilson]]
|chapter=[[University of California, Berkeley|Alpha Epsilon]]
|nota=First Black [[List of mayors of Oakland, California|Mayor of Oakland]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
}}}}

===Judges and lawyers===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Kwame Kilpatrick.jpg|90px|thumb|Kwame Kilpatrick]]
[[File:MarcMorialNatUrbanLeage.jpg|90px|thumb|Marc Morial]]
[[File:Norm Rice.jpg|90px|thumb|Norm Rice]]
[[File:Joebrown (cropped).jpg|90px|right|thumb|Joe Brown]] [[File:JudgeCarter2.jpg|90px|thumb|Robert Carter]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ralph Bailey Jr.]]
|chapter=[[University of Louisville|Alpha Pi]]
|nota=First full-time African-American male judge in Henry County, Georgia
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/557724023/more-about-gov-kemp-announces-appointments-to-flint-judicial-circuit-superior-court-and-henry-county-state-court.html |title=More about Gov. Kemp Announces Appointments to Flint Judicial Circuit Superior Court and Henry County State Court |date=December 6, 2021 |access-date=2021-12-06}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert Benham (judge)|Robert Benham]]
|chapter=[[Atlanta|Eta Lambda]]
|nota=Chief Justice of the [[Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)|Supreme Court of Georgia]]
|ref=<ref name=adw/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Joe Brown (judge)|Joe Brown]]
|chapter=[[Memphis State University|Kappa Eta]]
|nota=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.]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=joeb>{{cite web |date=2004-01-16 |url=https://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200401/20040116_brown.html |title=Judge Joe Brown |work=Tavis Smiley |publisher=pbs.org |access-date=2007-07-18}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert L. Carter]]
|chapter=[[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)|Nu]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=spingarn/><ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=313,404,467}}</ref><ref name=rlcarter>{{cite news|author=<!--Not stated-->  |url=http://www.brooklaw.edu/news/homepage_news/rcarter4-21-2004.php |title=Judge Robert L. Carter Honored by Phi Alpha Delta |publisher=Brooklyn Law School |access-date=2007-07-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905013904/http://www.brooklaw.edu/news/homepage_news/rcarter4-21-2004.php |archive-date=September 5, 2006 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Julius Chambers<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" and "Academia"-->
|chapter=[[North Carolina College|Gamma Beta]]
|nota=Attorney in the [[Supreme Court of the United States|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]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/><ref name=juliusc/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[U. W. Clemon]]
|chapter=[[Omicron Lambda]]
|nota=U.S Federal District Court Judge for Alabama
|ref=<ref>" Sphinx Magazine "Fall1980 volume66 number3 page4</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Christopher Darden]]
|chapter=[[San Jose State College|Epsilon Mu]]
|nota=Prosecutor in the murder trial of [[O. J. Simpson]]
|ref=<ref name=cdarden>{{cite web |url=http://www.wma.com/christopher_darden/bio/CHRISTOPHER_DARDEN.pdf |title=Christopher Dardern biography |publisher=wma.com |access-date=2007-07-18}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Milton C. Davis]]
|chapter=[[Tuskegee University|Gamma Phi]]
|nota=Assistant Attorney General of the state of Alabama who researched and wrote opinions which led [[Governor of Alabama|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
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=mcdavis>{{cite web|url=http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1772221 |title=Milton C. Davis, Attorney at Law, Tuskegee, Alabama |publisher=[[Tuskegee University]] |date=2004-04-08 |access-date=2008-01-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060910125740/http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1772221 |archive-date=September 10, 2006 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Harry T. Edwards]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=Justice for the United States Court of Appeals for the [[District of Columbia]] Circuit
|ref=<ref name=politics/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jerome Farris]]
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=First Black Federal Judge appointed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
|ref=<ref>Blackpast.org/ page6</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ernest A. Finney Jr.]]<!-- Also in "Academia" -->
|chapter=[[Claflin University|Delta Alpha]]
|nota=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''
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=promgov/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles Preston Howard Sr.]]
|chapter=[[Tuskegee Institute|Gamma Phi]]
|nota=Co-founder of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest organization of African American Attorneys.
|ref=<ref name=Sphinx/><ref>{{citation |title=Spring May|year = 1932|volume = 18|issue = 2|page = 11}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles Hamilton Houston]]
|chapter=[[Boston, Massachusetts|Sigma]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=spingarn/><ref name=hoa/><ref name=chouston>{{cite web |first=Richard |last=Wormser |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_houst.html |title=Charles Hamilton Houston |work=Jim Crow Stories |publisher=pbsorg |access-date=2007-07-18}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Harry E. Johnson]]
|chapter=[[Xavier University of Louisiana|Beta Tau]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=harryj>{{cite web |date=2007-04-16 |url=https://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200704/20070404_johnson.html |title=Harry Johnson |work=Tavis Smiley |publisher=pbs.org |access-date=2007-07-18 |archive-date=2007-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929134649/http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200704/20070404_johnson.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Damon Keith]]
|chapter=[[West Virginia State University|Alpha Zeta]]
|nota=Chief Justice of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan]] who famously ruled in ''{{autolink|United States v. Sinclair}}'' (upheld in ''[[United States v. US District Court]]'') that [[President of the United States|President]] [[Richard Nixon|Nixon's]] [[John N. Mitchell|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
|ref=<ref name=politics/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://keithcollection.wayne.edu/about/bio.html |title=Summary Biography The Honorable Damon J. Keith |access-date=17 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715080630/http://keithcollection.wayne.edu/about/bio.html |archive-date=July 15, 2009}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Belford Lawson Jr.]]
|chapter=[[University of Michigan|Epsilon]]
|nota=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 (1950)|Henderson v. United States]]'' which abolished [[Racial segregation|segregation]] in railroad dining cars; 16th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=nnasan>{{cite web|url=http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/info-url3948/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=212961&attrib_id=7970 |title=New Negro Alliance's Sanitary Grocery Protest Site |publisher=culturaltourismdc.org |access-date=2007-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311200241/http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/info-url3948/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=212961&attrib_id=7970 |archive-date=2007-03-11 |url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert Anthony Malloy]]
|chapter=[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Zeta Omicron Lambda]]
|nota=Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands
|ref=<ref>Blackpast.org page1</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Greg Mathis]]
|chapter=[[Detroit, Michigan|Gamma Lambda]]
|nota=Host of television series ''[[Judge Mathis]]''
|ref=<ref name=udmercy>{{cite news|first=Niraj |last=Warikoo |date=2006-03-31 |url=http://www.udmercy.edu/news_events/inthenews/March%2006/3-31-06_dearborn.pdf |title=Dearborn to host Alpha Phi Alpha meeting |work=Detroit Free Press |access-date=2007-07-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320005818/http://www.udmercy.edu/news_events/inthenews/March%2006/3-31-06_dearborn.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-20}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Daryl D. Parks
|chapter=[[Florida A&M University|Beta Nu]]
|nota=Managing partner in the law firm that represented the parents of [[Trayvon Martin]] and [[Shooting of Michael Brown|Michael Brown, and the family of Eric Garner]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite news |last=Selah |first=Makkada B. |url=http://www.ebony.com/news-views/justice-for-trayvon-attorney-daryl-parks-450#ixzz3Aebgz3BB |title=Justice for Trayvon: Attorney Daryl Parks Speaks |work=Ebony  |access-date=2014-08-17}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Aubrey E. Robinson Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Cornell University|Alpha]]
|nota=U.S. Federal District Judge for the District of Columbia (DC)
|ref=<ref>Sphinx Magazine Winter 1962 volume 48 number 4</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name={{autolink|Jawn Sandifer}}<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" -->
|chapter=[[Johnson C. Smith University|Alpha Omicron]]
|nota=Chief Justice of the [[New York Supreme Court]]; one of two staff lawyers for the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People|NAACP]] who successfully argued ''Henderson v. United States''
|ref=<ref name=jawnhb>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=298,301,304,306–307,309,323,344}}</ref><ref name=jawn>{{cite news |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=2006-09-07 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/obituaries/07sandifer.html?ex=1315281600&en=8bbb4c75f207e2a6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=Jawn Sandifer, Civil Rights Lawyer, Dies at 92 |work=[[Obituary|Obituaries]] |publisher=The New York Times |access-date=2007-07-27}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Michael A. Shipp]]
|chapter=[[Rutgers–Newark|Delta Iota]]
|nota=Nominated as a judge for the US District Court for the District of New Jersey by President Obama on January 23, 2012
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/23/president-obama-nominates-judge-michael-shipp-serve-us-district-court|title=President Obama Nominates Judge Michael A. Shipp to Serve on the US District Court|date=23 January 2012|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|access-date=2017-12-23}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Arthur Shores]]
|chapter=[[Talladega College|Alpha Beta]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=283,307,367,373,377,385,447}}</ref><ref name=ashores>{{cite web|url=http://www.alabar.org/members/hallfame/shores.cfm |title=Arthur Davis Shores—Biography |publisher=Alabama Bar Association |access-date=2008-01-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070410173944/http://alabar.org/members/hallfame/shores.cfm |archive-date=April 10, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Charles Z. Smith
|chapter=[[Florida A&M|Beta Nu]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |title=Smith, Charles Z. (1927- )|work=[[BlackPast.org]]|date=July 11, 2007 |url=http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/smith-justice-charles-z-1927}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[A. P. Tureaud]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=Attorney in ''[[Garner v. Louisiana]]'', which legalized sit-in protests at segregated private businesses and restaurants
|ref=<ref name=aptureaud>{{cite web |url=http://webusers.xula.edu/betatau/BT_history.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040429233605/http://webusers.xula.edu/betatau/BT_history.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-04-29 |title=Beta Tau Chapter History |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Beta Tau chapter |access-date=2007-07-19}}</ref><ref name=sit-in>{{cite web |url=http://supreme.justia.com/us/368/157/ |title=Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961) |publisher=supreme.justia.com |access-date=2007-10-04}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Reggie B. Walton]]
|chapter=[[West Virginia State University|Alpha Zeta]]
|nota=Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/sports/03vecsey.html |title=Gridiron and Steel Toughened Judge In Clemens Case |work=The New York Times |date=2011-03-02}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Horace Ward]]
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=Senator of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]; first African American to serve on the federal bench in Georgia
|ref=<ref name=adw/><ref name=horacew>{{cite press release|url=http://www.uga.edu/news/newsbureau/releases/2000releases/horaceward.html |title=Documentary Chronicles Efforts of First African-American To Sue For Admission to UGA |date=2000-02-11 |publisher=University Community News Bureau of the [[University of Georgia]] |access-date=2007-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051101104518/http://www.uga.edu/news/newsbureau/releases/2000releases/horaceward.html |archive-date=November 1, 2005 }}</ref>}}
}}

===Other US political and legal figures===
{{mem/fstart
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[William T. Andrews]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=[[New York State Assembly]]
|ref=<ref name=nypols/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Daniel T. Blue Jr.]]
|chapter=[[North Carolina Central University|Gamma Beta]]
|nota=[[North Carolina House of Representatives]]; [[Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives]]; 2002 Democratic candidate for the [[United States Senate]]
|ref=<ref name=politics/><ref name=sphinxfall02>{{cite magazine|date=Fall 2002 |title=Support of Alpha Brothers Campaigning For Senate and Congressional Seats |magazine=The Sphinx |volume=87 |issue=3 |page=19 |url=http://www.alphaineurope.com/Sphinx-Magazine/FAL_2002_vol_87_3.pdf |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |access-date=2007-12-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707115840/http://www.alphaineurope.com/Sphinx-Magazine/FAL_2002_vol_87_3.pdf |archive-date=July 7, 2011 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Roy A. Burrell]]
|chapter=[[University of Louisiana at Monroe|Eta Chi]]
|nota=[[Louisiana House of Representatives]]; former member of the Shreveport City Council; former president of the Delta Upsilon Lambda chapter
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/35269/roy-burrell#.VUEOQ_nF-S8
|title=Roy Burrell's Biography|publisher=[[Project Vote Smart]]|access-date=April 27, 2015}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Randy D. Dunn]]
|chapter=Omicron Xi Lambda
|nota=[[Missouri House of Representatives]]
|ref=<ref name=rdunn>{{cite web |url=http://www.house.mo.gov/member.aspx?district=023 |title=Representative Randy Dunn District 023 |publisher=www.house.mo.gov |access-date=2015-04-20}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Al Edwards (politician)|Al Edwards]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=[[Texas House of Representatives]]; considered the father of the [[Juneteenth|Juneteenth Holiday]]
|ref=<ref name=aedwards>{{cite web|url=http://www.texasjuneteenthusa.com/about.html |title=Juneteenth U.S.A Holiday Thanks to Texas State Representative Al Edwards |publisher=texasjuneteenthusa.com |access-date=2007-07-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20010803224042/http://www.texasjuneteenthusa.com/about.html |archive-date=August 3, 2001 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Patrick O. Jefferson]]
|chapter=[[Dillard University|Beta Phi]]
|nota=Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 11; lawyer in [[Arcadia, Louisiana]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite news|title=Alumnus Patrick Jefferson Takes Office as Louisiana State Representative |url=http://www.dillard.edu/index.poption=com_content&view=article&id=1120:alumnus-patrick-jefferson-takes-office-as-louisiana-state-representative&Itemid=890 |access-date=December 20, 2013 |newspaper=[[Dillard University]] }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Carl McCall]]
|chapter=[[Dartmouth College|Theta Zeta]]
|nota=Legislator of New York; [[New York State Comptroller|Comptroller of New York]]; 2002 Democratic candidate for [[Governor of New York]]
|ref=<ref name=politics/><ref name=carlmc>{{cite news |url=http://www.gothamgazette.com/eyeonalbany/state/governor.shtml |title=Eye on Albany Campaign 2002 |work=Gotham Gazette |access-date=2007-07-01}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William Byron Rumford]]
|chapter=[[Galveston, Texas|Gamma Phi Lambda]]
|nota=Member of the [[California State Legislature]]
|ref=<ref name=gpl>{{cite web|url=http://www.alphagpl.org/history.htm |title=History of Gamma Phi Lambda |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Alpha Phi Lambda chapter |access-date=2007-07-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006125910/http://www.alphagpl.org/history.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=calpol>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/black.html |title=Black Politicians in California |publisher=politicalgraveyard.com |access-date=2007-07-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214150401/http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/black.html |archive-date=December 14, 2006 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[C. O. Simpkins Sr.]]
|chapter=[[Dillard University]]
|nota=Member of the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]] for [[Caddo Parish]], 1992 to 1996
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cosimpkins.com/Biography/|title=C. O. Simpkins, Sr.: Civil Rights Champion|publisher=cosimpkins.com|access-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Albert Vann]]
|chapter=[[Toledo, Ohio|Alpha Xi Lambda]]
|nota=[[New York State Assembly]]
|ref=<ref name=avann>{{cite journal |first=Ron |last=Howell |url=http://www.citylimits.org/news/articles/2637/al-vann-and-the-revolution-unplugged/6 |title=Al Vann and the Revolution unplugged |date=November 1997 |journal=City Limits |publisher=City Futures |access-date=28 February 2012 |quote=Coming out of my role in the sixties, it was understood that the role of the politician was to help build institutions.}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Herb Wesson]]
|chapter=[[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)|Nu]]
|nota=[[California State Assembly]]; Speaker of the California State Assembly
|ref=<ref name=herbw>{{cite press release|url=http://www.lincoln.edu/marketing/pr/news042602.html |title=Lincoln University Presents 143rd Commencement |date=2002-04-26 |publisher=Lincoln University |access-date=2007-07-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927092624/http://www.lincoln.edu/marketing/pr/news042602.html |archive-date=2007-09-27}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Tyrone Yates]]
|chapter=[[University of Cincinnati|Alpha Alpha]]
|nota=[[Ohio House of Representatives]]
|ref=<ref name=tky>{{cite web|url=http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=33 |title=Tyrone K. Yates |publisher=Ohio House of Representatives |access-date=June 7, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511140417/http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=33 |archive-date=May 11, 2009}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Calvin Ball III]]
|chapter=[[Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter]]
|nota=[[Howard County Executive]]
|ref=<ref name="tky2">{{cite web|date=12 November 2018
|title=2018 Election Results Howard County – County Executive
|url=https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2018/results/general/gen_results_2018_2_by_county_14-1.html|website=Elections Maryland|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Michael L. Ankton]]
|chapter=[[Henderson State University|Theta Kappa]]
|nota=[[Justice of the Peace, Clark County Quorum Court, Clark County, Arkansas]]|
|ref=<ref name="tky3">{{cite web|date=8 November 2022
|title=Hannah, Johns, Angle keep JP seats; Buscher ousted
|url=https://arkadelphian.com/2022/11/08/most-jp-incumbents-maintain-seats/|website=Arkadelphian Election Results|access-date=24 November 2022}}</ref>}}
}}

===Government officials outside the U.S.===
{{mem/fstart
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Joseph Boakai]]
|chapter=Eta Epsilon Lambda
|nota=[[Vice President of Liberia]], serving under President [[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]]
|ref=<ref name=JNB>{{cite web |url=http://www.emansion.gov.lr/2content.php?sub=25&related=20&third=25&pg=sp |title=Biography of Vice President Joseph N. Boakai |publisher=Government of Liberia|access-date=2018-01-15}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=E. David Burt
|chapter=[[American University|Nu Beta]]
|nota=Member of Parliament; Deputy Leader of the Progressive Labour Party; former Senator, Bermuda
|ref=<ref name=DB>{{cite web |url=http://plp.bm/leadership/mps/18 |title=PLP Party |publisher=PLP1 |access-date=2012-04-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317103809/http://plp.bm/leadership/mps/18 |archive-date=2012-03-17 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Shawn Crockwell
|chapter=unknown
|nota=Member of Parliament and Minister of Tourism, Development & Transport, Bermuda
|ref=<ref name=SC>{{cite web |url=http://www.oba.bm/index.php/your-candidates/list/109-shawn-crockwell |title=OBA Party |publisher=OBA |access-date=2012-04-06}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Clifton Stanley Hardy]]
|chapter=[[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|Tau]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name="sphinxsummer1988"/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Stuart Hayward]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=[[House of Assembly of Bermuda]]
|ref=<ref name=betaalum/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Norman Washington Manley]]<!-- Also listed in "Rhodes scholars"-->
|chapter=[[Miami, Florida|Beta Beta Lambda]]
|nota=Premier of Jamaica; founder of [[Jamaica]]'s [[People's National Party]]; 1914 [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]]
|ref=<ref name=nwm/><ref name=jamobs/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Prince K. Moye]]
|chapter=Eta Epsilon Lambda
|nota=Deputy Speaker of the [[House of Representatives of Liberia]]
|ref=<ref name=PM>{{cite web |url=http://frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/news/6631-chambers-takes-over-from-nuquay-liberia-legislature-elects-new-speaker |title=House Elects Speaker and Deputy Speaker |publisher=FrontpageAfrica |access-date=2018-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115162915/http://www.frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/news/6631-chambers-takes-over-from-nuquay-liberia-legislature-elects-new-speaker |archive-date=2018-01-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Diallo Rabain]]
|chapter=[[Hamilton, Bermuda|Epsilon Theta Lambda]]
|nota=Member of Parliament; former Opposition Senate Leader and Senator, Bermuda
|ref=<ref name=DR>{{cite web |url=http://plp.bm/ParliamentaryGroup/mps/13 |title=PLP Party |publisher=PLP2 |access-date=2012-04-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316064417/http://plp.bm/ParliamentaryGroup/mps/13 |archive-date=2016-03-16 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Edward Richards]]
|chapter=[[Hamilton, Bermuda|Epsilon Theta Lambda]]
|nota=First [[List of Premiers of Bermuda|Premier of Bermuda]]
|ref=<ref name=etr>{{cite web |url=http://www.bermuda-island.net/INTRODUCTION/Government.php |title=Bermuda Government |publisher=Bermuda-Island.net |access-date=2007-07-03}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lawrence Scott]]
|chapter=[[Hamilton, Bermuda|Epsilon Theta Lambda]]
|nota=Member of Parliament, Bermuda; son of former Premier of Bermuda William Alexander Scott
|ref=<ref name=PT>{{cite web|url=http://plp.bm/leadership/mps/24|title=PLP Party|publisher=PLP1|access-date=2012-11-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811171335/http://plp.bm/leadership/mps/24|archive-date=2012-08-11}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Peter Turnquest
|chapter=Eta Gamma
|nota=Member of Parliament, Deputy Leader of the Free National Movement Party, the Bahamas
|ref=<ref name=FNM>{{cite web|url=https://www.fnm2012.org/the-fnm/peter-turnquest-east-grand-bahama/ |title=FNM Party |publisher=FNM |access-date=2012-11-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121220210857/https://www.fnm2012.org/the-fnm/peter-turnquest-east-grand-bahama/ |archive-date=2012-12-20 }}</ref>}}
}}

==Journalists and media personalities==
{{mem/fstart
|alist={{mem/f
|name=[[Ron Allen (journalist)|Ron Allen]]
|chapter=[[University of Pennsylvania|Psi]]
|nota=News correspondent for [[NBC]] and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
|ref=<ref name=ronupenn>{{cite web|url=http://www.college.upenn.edu/img/careers.pdf |title=Penn Careers |publisher=college.upenn.edu |access-date=2007-11-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724090528/http://www.college.upenn.edu/img/careers.pdf |archive-date=July 24, 2008 }}</ref><ref name=rona>{{cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> 
|date=2007-04-10 |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080793/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040215173041/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3080793/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-02-15 |title=Ron Allen NBC News Correspondent |publisher=MSNBC |access-date=2007-07-14}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Tony Brown (journalist)|Tony Brown]]
|chapter=[[Wayne State University|Alpha Upsilon]]
|nota=Commentator on the syndicated television show ''Tony Brown's Journal''; founding dean of [[Howard University]]'s School of Communication
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=tonyb>{{cite news|first=Richard |last=Prince |date=2004-07-20 |url=http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/040720_prince |title=Tony Brown Named Hampton J-School Dean |work=Richard Prince's Journal-isms |publisher=Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education |access-date=2007-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928095215/http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/040720_prince |archive-date=2007-09-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Malvin Russell Goode]]
|chapter=[[University of Pittsburgh|Omicron]]
|nota=First Black news correspondent for ABC as a [[United Nations]] reporter
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jay Harris (sportscaster)|Jay Harris]]
|chapter=[[Old Dominion University|Nu Theta]]
|nota=Sportscaster for [[ESPN]] on [[SportsCenter]] and [[ESPNEWS]]
|ref=<ref name=harrisodu>{{cite web|url=http://studentaffairs.odu.edu/osal/forms/greeklife/NPHC_2007_Publication.pdf |title=Annual ODU NPHC Events and Programs |publisher=studentaffairs.odu.edu |access-date=2007-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625191124/http://studentaffairs.odu.edu/osal/forms/greeklife/NPHC_2007_Publication.pdf |archive-date=June 25, 2008 }}</ref><ref name=harrisespn>{{cite magazine |last=Lidington |first=James J. |date=Fall 2003 |title=News Anchor Makes The Jump To ESPN |magazine=Old Dominion University Magazine |volume=5 |issue=1 |url=http://www.odu.edu/ao/alumni_magazine/fall03/newsanchor.html |access-date=2007-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311185007/http://www.odu.edu/ao/alumni_magazine/fall03/newsanchor.html |archive-date=2007-03-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Corey Hébert]]
|chapter=Alpha Rho
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=coreyh>{{cite news |url=http://drcoreyhebert.com/ |title=Dr. Corey Hébert |publisher=drcoreyhebert.com |access-date=2017-03-06}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Shannon Lanier]]
|chapter=[[Kent State University|Epsilon Delta]]
|nota=Author of " Jefferson's Children; the story of one American family ", TV personality, Journalist, descendant of President Thomas Jefferson
|ref=<ref>Paulus Valley Daily Democrat.com web/January 22, 2022 | title= " Jefferson descendant to speak at ECU "}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Roland S. Martin]]
|chapter=[[Texas A&M University|Pi Omicron]]
|nota=[[Editor in chief|Editor]] of the ''[[Chicago Defender]]'', radio talk show host; contributor to [[CNN]], Anchor for TV One network news
|ref=<ref name=rolandm>{{cite news |url=http://www.creators.com/opinion/roland-martin-about.html |title=Roland S. Martin |publisher=creators.com |access-date=2007-07-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thepotentpio.com |title=The Pi Omicron Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. |publisher=www.thepotentpio.com |access-date=2010-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207095041/http://thepotentpio.com/ |archive-date=2011-02-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Harry S. McAlpin]]
|chapter=[[University of Wisconsin|Gamma Epsilon]]
|nota=First African American White House Press Correspondent; CBS National (DC) reporter; Journalist; Attorney
|ref=<ref>" Sphinx Magazine " Fall October1945 volume31 page2</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lu Palmer]]
|chapter=[[Alpha Kappa]]
|nota=''Chicago Sun-Times'' columnist; community activist; campaign manager for Harold Washington mayoral race
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Spring, 1983, volume 69 number 1 page 14</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Stuart Scott]]
|chapter=[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|Mu Zeta]]
|nota=Sportscaster for ESPN on ''SportsCenter''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Chuck Stone]]
|chapter=Alpha Kappa
|nota=Speechwriter for [[Adam Clayton Powell Jr.]]; first president of the [[National Association of Black Journalists]]; [[Tuskegee Airmen|Tuskegee Airman]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=chucks>{{cite news|first=Paul |last=Brock |date=2004-07-28 |url=http://www.nabj.org/newsroom/publications/committed/story/418p-572c.html |title=Chuck Stone |publisher=nabj.org |access-date=2007-07-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003203802/http://www.nabj.org/newsroom/publications/committed/story/418p-572c.html |archive-date=October 3, 2006 }}</ref><ref name=airman>{{cite press release |author=<!--Not stated-->  |date=2006-10-25 |url=http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct06/vetsday102506.htm |title=Chuck Stone, former Tuskegee Airman, to speak at UNC Veterans Day ceremony |publisher=The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |access-date=2007-07-20}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lewis Ossie Swingler]]
|chapter=Beta Beta<ref>''Alpha Phi Alpha: A Development in College Life'' by Charles Harris Wesley</ref>
|nota=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]]
|ref=<ref name=jetobit>{{cite magazine|title=This Week's Census|magazine = Jet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JbwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28|access-date=28 August 2012|date=11 October 1962|page=28|issn=0021-5996}}</ref><ref name="Jr.1997">{{cite book|author=Martin Luther King Jr.|title=The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkHrnFzEykwC&pg=PA119|access-date=28 August 2012|date=27 February 1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-07952-6|page=119}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Pierre Thomas (journalist)|Pierre Thomas]]
|chapter=Theta Iota
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Winter/Spring 2012, page 47</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Stan Verrett]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS
|ref=<ref name=nicfsbw>{{cite web|url=http://nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_sports/other/Sportscasters%20and%20Sportswriters.php |title=Sports Broadcasters and Writers |work=Greeks in Sports |publisher=[[North American Interfraternity Conference]] |access-date=2007-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070724081106/http://www.nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_sports/other/Sportscasters%20and%20Sportswriters.php |archive-date=2007-07-24 }}</ref>}}
}}

==Literature==
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Counteecullen.jpg|100px|right|thumb|Countee Cullen]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Countee Cullen]]
|chapter=[[Columbia University|Eta]]
|nota=Poet of the [[Harlem Renaissance]]
|ref=<ref name=proment/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eric Jerome Dickey]]
|chapter=[[University of Memphis|Kappa Eta]]
|nota=Author
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[E. Lynn Harris]]
|chapter=[[University of Arkansas|Kappa Kappa]]
|nota=Author, playwright
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Chester Himes]]
|chapter=[[Ohio State University|Kappa]]
|nota=Author whose works include ''[[If He Hollers Let Him Go]]'' and a series of [[Harlem Detective]] novels
|ref=<ref name=soa/>{{failed verification|date=January 2013}}<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://www.flyetapi.org/famous.html
  |access-date=2013-01-28
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311133927/http://www.flyetapi.org/famous.html
  |archive-date=2007-03-11
  |title=Alpha Phi Alpha
  |quote=Chester Himes, Kappa, (Ohio State University), Author }}
</ref> }}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lawrence Ross]]
|chapter=[[University of California, Berkeley|Alpha Epsilon]]
|nota=Author of ''The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities''
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Carl Weber
|chapter=[[Virginia State University|Beta Gamma]]
|nota=Author
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Clint Wilson]]
|chapter=Alpha Delta
|nota=Author, ''Whither the Black Press?''; journalist; Howard University professor
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Fall/Winter 2014 pg.31 volume 100 number 3</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Frank Yerby]]
|chapter=Theta
|nota=Best-selling author
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
|name=[[Kevin Cokely]]
|chapter=Xi Eta
|nota=Psychology professor; editor in chief of the ''Journal of Black Psychology''; author of ''The Myth of Black Anti-intellectualism''
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Spring/Summer 2015 volume 100 number 3></ref>{{clarify|reason=same volume and issue numbers as Fall/Winter 2014 ref @ Clint Wilson|date=July 2018}}
}}

==Military personalities==
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:LtGen Walter E. Gaskin (2).jpg|100px|thumb|Walter E. Gaskin]]
[[File:Samuel Gravely.jpg|100px|thumb|Samuel L. Gravely Jr.]]
[[File:Hacker Benjamin T RADM.jpg|100px|thumb|Benjamin Hacker]]
[[File:Winston scott.jpg|100px|thumb|Winston E. Scott]]
[[File:Johnnie E Wilson.jpg|100px|thumb|Johnnie Wilson]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ronald L. Bailey]]
|chapter=[[Zeta Lambda]]
|nota=[[Major General]], United States Marine Corps; first African American Commander of the 1st Marine Division
|ref=<ref>''The Sphinx Magazine'' Fall 2010 volume 95 number 3 page 21 (captioned photo)</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Terrence Adams]]
|chapter=[[Auburn University|Upsilon Eta]]
|nota=[[Brigadier General]], United States Air Force
|ref=<ref>alasu.edu-detachment-019-alum-nominated-brigadier- general</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William Banton]]
|chapter=[[Beta]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>''The Sphinx Magazine'' spring 2017 volume 10.3 number 1 pages 59-60</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[David L. Brewer]]
|chapter=[[Prairie View A&M|Gamma Zeta]]
|nota=Admiral, United States Navy; Superintendent of L.A. Unified School District, community activist
|ref=<ref name=sphinxspring1994>{{cite magazine | title=Bro. Brewer newest Navy Admiral |magazine=The Sphinx |date=Spring 1994 | volume=79 |issue=1 |page=4}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Arnold Gordon Bray]]
|chapter=[[Central Missouri University|Zeta Gamma]]
|nota=Brigadier General; United States Army
|ref=<ref name=What'supkansascity.net/nathaniel-friends>http://www.YouTube.com - What's Up KC? |date=August 20, 2016>|</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Alvin Bryant]]
|chapter=[[Zeta Lambda]]
|nota=Brigadier General; U.S. Army
|ref=<ref name=sphinxfall1988>{{cite magazine | title=Bro. Bryant Promoted to Brigadier General |magazine=The Sphinx |date=Fall 1988 | volume=74 |issue=3 |page=23}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles Q. Brown]]
|chapter=[[Eta Upsilon]]
|nota=Four star general; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Previously U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff; 1st African American military service chief. 
|ref=<ref name=cqbrow>{{Cite web|url=https://www.watchtheyard.com/|title=Home|date=June 1, 2016}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Wesley A. Brown]]
|chapter=Sigma
|nota=[[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
|ref=<ref name=wesleyb>{{cite web|url=http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca/Braithwaite-Prejudice.htm |title=The Untold Story of Leonard Braithwaite |publisher=Ontario Black History Society |access-date=2007-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928141411/http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca/Braithwaite-Prejudice.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Roscoe Cartwright]]
|chapter=[[Zeta Alpha]]
|nota=General, [[United States Army]], founder of ROCKs, inc. an international organization for U.S Armed Forces commissioned Officers. 
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Anthony J. Cotton]]
|chapter=[[Eta Omicron]]
|nota=[[United States Air Force]] [[General (United States)|four-star general]] U.S. Air Force Global Strike Force Commander| Strategic Air Command 
|ref=<ref name="biography">{{cite web |url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108714/lieutenant-general-anthony-j-cotton/ |title=Lieutenant General Anthony J. Cotton (USAF) |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=June 28, 2021 |publisher=[[United States Air Force]] |access-date=August 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628170121/https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108714/lieutenant-general-anthony-j-cotton/ |archive-date=June 28, 2021 |url-status=live}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Victor Daly]]
|chapter=[[Cornell University|Alpha]]
|nota=[[France|French]] [[Croix de Guerre]] recipient; novelist and author
|ref=<ref name=greatwar>{{cite web |url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/alpha/greatwar/greatwar_1.html |title=Alpha Phi Alpha and the Great War |work=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity: A Centennial Celebration |publisher=[[Cornell University|Cornell University Library]] |access-date=2007-08-17}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gracus K. Dunn]]
|chapter=[[Nu Alpha]]
|nota=[[Brigadier General]], United States Army
|ref=<ref>''The Sphinx Magazine'', Summer/Fall 2009 volume 00 number 1 page 11</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Amos M. Gailliard Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Queens|Zeta Zeta Lambda]]
|nota=[[Brigadier General (United States)|One-star general]], United States Army, New York Guard
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/198407001|title=The SPHINX &#124; Spring 1984 &#124; Volume 70 &#124; Number 1 198407001 by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity - Issuu|website=issuu.com|date=February 4, 2012 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walter E. Gaskin]]
|chapter=[[Savannah State University|Delta Eta]]
|nota=[[Lieutenant general (United States)|Three-star general]], United States Marine Corps
|ref=<ref name="sphinxwinter2011p10">{{cite magazine|title=Gaskin Marks One Year At NATO |url=http://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/thesphinxwinter2011 |magazine=The Sphinx|date=Winter 2011|volume=96|issue=1|page=10}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Fred A. Gorden]]
|chapter=[[Honolulu, Hawaii|Mu Beta Lambda]]
|nota=Brigadier General; first African-American First Captain of the [[United States Military Academy|West Point Academy]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=fgordon>{{cite web|first=George E. |last=Curry |date=2003-04-23 |url=http://www.georgecurry.com/columns/index1.shtml?id=1059854800 |title=Success of Brooks Brothers Caps Long Struggle at West Point |publisher=georgecurry.com |access-date=2007-07-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927105547/http://www.georgecurry.com/columns/index1.shtml?id=1059854800 |archive-date=2007-09-27 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Samuel L. Gravely Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Virginia Union University|Gamma]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Benjamin Thurman Hacker]]
|chapter=[[Pensacola, Florida|Epsilon Mu Lambda]]
|nota=[[Rear Admiral]], United States Navy
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Clifton Stanley Hardy]]
|chapter=[[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|Tau]]
|nota=Commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Regional translator for the 365th infantry(french) World War I
|ref=<ref name=sphinxsummer1988>{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/198807402/48 | title=The Sphinx – Summer 1988 | date=July 1988 | access-date=February 17, 2017}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Edward Honor]]
|chapter=[[Southern University|Beta Sigma]]
|nota=[[Lieutenant general (United States)|Lieutenant General]], United States Army
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[James E. Huger]]
|chapter=Alpha Zeta
|nota=[[Montford Point|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
|ref=<ref name=jameshuger>{{cite web |url=http://72.32.8.111/alpha-v2/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=233&newsCat=News |title=The Legacy Celebration Honoring Dr. James E. Huger |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity |access-date=2016-10-19}}</ref><ref name=copyline/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Prince C. Johnson III]]
|chapter=Eta Epsilon Lambda
|nota=Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS), [[Armed Forces of Liberia]]
|ref=<ref name=PCJ>{{cite web |url=http://mod.gov.lr/the-forces/deputy-chief-of-staff-dcos/ |title=Deputy Chief of Staff – AFL |access-date=2018-01-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118122612/http://mod.gov.lr/the-forces/deputy-chief-of-staff-dcos/ |archive-date=2018-01-18 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=James McCall
|chapter=[[University of Pennsylvania|Psi]]
|nota=Major General Chief in the [[The Pentagon|Pentagon Budget Office]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles McGee (Tuskegee Airman)|Charles McGee]]
|chapter=[[University of Illinois|Tau]]
|nota=[[Colonel (United States)|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
|ref=<ref name=sphinxwinter2011p52>{{cite magazine | title=McGee earns Boy Scouts' top honor at national jamboree |url=http://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/thesphinxwinter2011 | magazine=The Sphinx
|date=Winter 2011 |volume=96 |issue=1 |page=52}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Winston E. Scott]]
|chapter=[[Norfolk, Virginia|Alpha Phi Lambda]]
|nota=[[Astronaut]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center|Johnson Space Center]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ronald D. Sullivan]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=[[Brigadier general (United States)]] 
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/Sites/JAGC.nsf/homeDisplay.xsp?open&documentId=583F1B045087E2178525872E00546A33|title=TJAG Special Announcement 41-03 – Announcement of the Confirmation of Colonel Ronald D. Sullivan to Brigadier General|date=August 11, 2021|website=www.jagcnet.army.mil}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William J. Walker]]
|chapter=[[Theta Psi Lambda]]
|nota=[[Major General]], [[United States Army]], commanding general, [[District of Columbia National Guard]]
|ref=<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalguard.mil/Leadership/CNGB/NGB-GOMO/bio-show/2394/|title=Chief, National Guard Bureau - Leadership - The National Guard|website=www.nationalguard.mil}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Bobby Wilks]]
|chapter=[[Harris-Stowe State University|Alpha Eta]]
|nota=First African American [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] [[aviator]]; first African American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain
|ref=<ref name=sphinxwinter2011p55>{{cite magazine | title=Wilks was historically significant aviator, legend in his own time |url=http://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/thesphinxwinter2011 |magazine=The Sphinx |date=Winter 2011 |volume=96 |issue=1 |page=55}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Darryl K. Williams]]
|chapter=[[Gamma Iota]]
|nota= Lieutenant General, Commanding General of combined arms and Senior Mission Commander at Fort Lee, Virginia
|ref=<ref>The Sphinx, Fall/Winter 2006, part 2, page 37</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Johnnie E. Wilson]]
|chapter=[[Frankfurt am Main|Theta Theta Lambda]]
|nota=[[General (United States)|Four-star general]], United States Army
|ref=<ref name=pul>{{cite web |url=http://members.tripod.com/pul1906/history.html |title=Pi Upsilon Lambda Chapter History |access-date=2007-07-20}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Daniel Dee Ziankahn]]
|chapter=Eta Epsilon Lambda
|nota=Major General, Chief of Staff, [[Armed Forces of Liberia]]
|ref=<ref name=DDZ>{{cite web |url=http://mod.gov.lr/the-forces/chief-of-staff-cos/ |title=Chief of Staff – AFL |access-date=2018-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116081252/http://mod.gov.lr/the-forces/chief-of-staff-cos/ |archive-date=2018-01-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
}}

==Religion==
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:JKnight 2289 140210.jpg|100px|thumb|Cain Hope Felder]]
[[File:Martin Luther King, Jr..jpg|100px|thumb|Martin Luther King Jr.]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[John Hurst Adams]]
|chapter=[[Johnson C Smith University|Alpha Omicron]]
|nota=Founder of the Congress of National Black churches; Senior Bishop of the A.M.E. church; civil rights activist; President of Paul Quinn College
|ref=<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Battle|first=Marc Kevin|date=March 1999|title=Spring Cover Story |url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/199908401|magazine=The SPHINX|edition=African-American History |volume=84|issue=1|publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity|via=issuu.com|page=50|id=199908401|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Vinton R. Anderson]]
|chapter=Xi
|nota=92nd Bishop of [[African Methodist Episcopal Church]]; President of [[World Council of Churches]]
|ref=<ref name=wpc/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[James H. Cone]]
|chapter=[[Beta Chi]]
|nota=Author of ''Black Theology & Black Power''; considered the "father of Black Liberation Theology"; Distinguished Professor of Theology at [[Union Theological Seminary (New York City)|Union Theological Seminary]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|last=Adams|first=Rebecca Feldhaus|date=28 April 2018|title=James H. Cone, Founder Of Black Liberation Theology, Dies At 79 : The Two-Way : NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/28/606757226/james-h-cone-founder-of-black-liberation-theology-dies-at-79|website=NPR|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Vultaggio|first=Maria|date=28 April 2018|title=Who Was James Cone? Founder of Black Liberation Theology Dies|url=https://www.newsweek.com/who-was-cause-death-james-cone-theology-black-905098|website=Newsweek|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Tyrone Crider]]
|chapter=[[Theta Mu Lambda]]
|nota=National Director of [[People United to Save Humanity|Operation PUSH]]
|ref=<ref name=promrel>{{cite web|url=http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/religious.html |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Religious Leaders |publisher=[[Cornell University]] |access-date=2007-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701145242/http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/religious.html |archive-date=2007-07-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=tcrider>{{cite press release|date=2005-12-28 |url=http://www.calumet.purdue.edu/news/releases/05-12-28_mlk.html |title=Rev. Tyrone Crider, former national director of Operation PUSH, is speaker Jan. 19 |publisher=[[Purdue University]] Calumet |access-date=2007-07-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819135119/http://www.calumet.purdue.edu/news/releases/05-12-28_mlk.html |archive-date=2007-08-19 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Harold Davis (minister)|Harold Davis]]
|chapter=[[Southern University|Beta Sigma]]
|nota=President of [[American Baptist Churches]]; pastor
|ref=<ref name=promrel/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Cain Hope Felder]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=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''
|ref=<ref name=betaalum/><ref name=felderc>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/witnesses/cain_hope_felder.html |title= This Far By Faith, Witnesses to Faith |publisher=[[Public Broadcasting Service]] |access-date=2007-07-30}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Robert E. Hayes Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Huston–Tillotson University]]
|nota=Bishop in the [[United Methodist Church]]
|ref=}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[T. J. Jemison]]<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" -->
|chapter=[[Alabama State University|Beta Upsilon]]
|nota=Co-founder of the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]] (SCLC); President of [[National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.|National Baptist Convention]]; organized the [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]] Bus Boycott of 1953
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[E. Edward Jones]]
|chapter=[[Grambling State University|Delta Sigma]]
|nota=President of [[National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.]] from 1986 to 2003
|ref=<ref name=promrel/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Martin Luther King Jr.]]<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" -->
|chapter=[[Boston, Massachusetts|Sigma]]
|nota=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 [[Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial|memorial]] on the [[National Mall]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=spingarn/><ref name=mlkjr>{{cite web|url=http://www.africanamericans.com/MartinLutherKingBio.htm |title=Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. |publisher=africanamericans.com |access-date=2007-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070722181633/http://www.africanamericans.com/MartinLutherKingBio.htm |archive-date=July 22, 2007 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Otis Moss Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=Acclaimed African American Pastor, Theologian, author, lecturer, and Civil Rights Activist and aide to Martin Luther King jr.; Author of " Preach !: The Power and Purpose Behind our Praise "
|ref=<ref>{{cite magazine|date=1 December 2010|title=Fall|url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/fallsphinx2010|magazine=The SPHINX|volume=95|issue=3|page=42|publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity|via=issuu.com|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Clementa C. Pinckney]]
|chapter=[[Allen University|Gamma Gamma]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|last=Blakeney|first=Barney|title=Rev. Clementa Pinckney: Good Shepherd Remained With His Flock To The End|url=http://www.charlestonchronicle.net/96434/2152/rev-clementa-pinckney-good-shepherd-remained-with-his-flock-to-the-end|website=The Charleston Chronicle|access-date=18 June 2015|date=18 June 2015|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619104957/http://www.charlestonchronicle.net/96434/2152/rev-clementa-pinckney-good-shepherd-remained-with-his-flock-to-the-end|archive-date=19 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Liptak|first=Kevin|title=Obama eulogizes pastor in Charleston shooting |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/politics/obama-charleston-eulogy-pastor/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=26 June 2015|date=26 June 2015}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[J. Alfred Smith]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=President of [[Progressive National Baptist Convention]]
|ref=<ref name=promrel/>
}}
}}

==Science==
Sixty percent of all Black male doctors and sixty-five percent of all Black male dentists are Alphas.<ref name=epsilonzeta/>

{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Garrett Morgan.gif|100px|thumb|Garrett Morgan]]
[[File:Renfroe.jpg|100px|thumb|Earl Renfroe]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=Leonidas H. Berry
|chapter=[[Wilberforce University|Xi]]
|nota=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''
|ref=<ref>{{cite magazine|date=1979|title=Summer|url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/1979065022|magazine=The SPHINX |volume=65 |issue=2|page=17|publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity|id=1979065022|via=issuu.com|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Herman Branson]]
|chapter=[[Virginia State University|Beta Gamma]]
|nota=President of [[Central State University]] and [[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)|Lincoln University]]; co-discoverer of the [[Alpha helix]]; [[Sickle-cell disease|sickle-cell]] physicist
|ref=<ref name=mulambda/><ref name=hbranson/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[George Sherman Carter]]
|chapter=[[Lincoln University (Missouri)|Nu]]
|nota=Nuclear Physicist working on the Manhattan Project (Atomic bomb WWII )
|ref=<ref name=BPGSC>{{cite web |title=You searched for George Sherman Carter • |url=https://www.blackpast.org/?s=George+Sherman+Carter |website=blackpast.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=George Sherman Carter |url=https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/george-sherman-carter |website=Atomic Heritage Foundation |language=en}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f 
|name=[[James P. Comer]]
|chapter=[[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Gamma Eta]]
|nota=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]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=jcomer>{{cite news|author=<!--Not stated-->  |date=2004-02-24 |url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2004-02-26/comer.shtml |title=James P. Copmer, Yale University Child Psychiatrist, to Give Keynote Address at march 26 Conference / Bryn Mawr Now |publisher=[[Bryn Mawr College]] |access-date=2007-07-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111530/http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2004-02-26/comer.shtml |archive-date=2007-09-29 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lloyd Hall]]
|chapter=Theta
|nota=Chemist who contributed to the science of [[food preservation]]; author of 59 [[United States]] [[patent]]s; a number of his inventions were also patented in foreign countries
|ref=<ref name=lloydh>{{cite web|url=http://library.thinkquest.org/2907/hall.htm |title=Lloyd Augustus Hall biography |publisher=library.thinkquest.org |access-date=2007-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212134628/http://library.thinkquest.org/2907/hall.htm |archive-date=2008-02-12 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[LaSalle Leffall Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Florida A&M University|Beta Nu]]
|nota=President of [[American College of Surgeons]]; president of [[American Cancer Society]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name= [[Julian Herman Lewis]]
|chapter=[[University of Chicago|Theta]]
|nota=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.
|ref=<ref>{{cite magazine|date=October 1926|title=Fall|url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/192601204|magazine=The SPHINX|volume=12|issue=4|page=4|publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity|id=192601204|via=issuu.com|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Garrett A. Morgan]]
|chapter=[[Cleveland, Ohio|Delta Alpha Lambda]]
|nota=Inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to modern [[gas mask]]s) and a [[hair-straightening]] preparation; patented a type of [[traffic light]] signal
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=garrettm>{{cite web |url=http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/garrettmorgan.html |title=Garrett Morgan biography |publisher=blackinventor.com |access-date=2007-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717174804/http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/garrettmorgan.html |archive-date=2007-07-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Earl W. Renfroe]]
|chapter=Theta
|nota=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
|ref=}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[J. Marshall Shepherd]]
|chapter=Iota Delta
|nota=[[Physicist]]; NASA meteorologist; professor at University of Georgia; expert on global climate change and environmental issues
|ref=<ref>''The Sphinx Magazine'' Fall 2004 volume 89 number 1 page 75</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Louis Wade Sullivan]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" and "Academia" -->
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=[[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services|Secretary of Health and Human Services]]; co-founder and first President of [[Morehouse School of Medicine]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Levi Watkins Jr.]]
|chapter=[[Tennessee State University|Beta Omicron]]
|nota=Chief of [[Cardiac surgery|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]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[William Warwick Cardozo]]
|chapter=Kappa
|nota=[[Physician]];Pioneer researcher of sickle cell anemia; Howard University professor of Medicine; Chief of Staff [[Gastroenterology]] at Providence Hospital
|ref=<ref>"The Sphinx Magazine" April 1931 volume 17 number 2 page 2(listed as third vice president)</ref>}}
}}

==Service and social reform==
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Frederick Douglass.jpg|100px|thumb|Frederick Douglass]]
[[File:WEB DuBois 1918.jpg|100px|right|thumb|W. E. B. Du Bois]]
[[File:Dick Gregory.jpg|100px|thumb|Dick Gregory]]
[[File:Charles S. Johnson.jpg|100px|thumb|Charles S. Johnson]]
[[File:Martin Luther King, III 2007 NYC crop.jpg|100px|thumb|Martin Luther King III]]
[[File:Rev. Joseph Lowery.jpg|100px|thumb|Joseph Lowery]]
[[File:MarcMorialNatUrbanLeage.jpg|100px|thumb|Marc Morial]]
[[File:Whitney Young at White House, January 18, 1964.jpg|100px|thumb|Whitney Young]]
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[William J. Barber II]]
|chapter=Gamma Beta
|nota=North Carolina NAACP State President, 2018 MacArthur Foundation Genius award recipient, architect of the Moral Mondays Movement, author of The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays
|ref=<ref>Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Advocacy and Action booklet, page 28</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Cornell William Brooks]]
|chapter=[[Jackson State University|Delta Phi]]
|nota=18th President/CEO of the NAACP; attorney; social and civil rights activist
|ref=<ref>Alpha Phi Alpha: Advocacy and Action; page 30 January 6th, 2017</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Julius Chambers]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" and "Academia"-->
|chapter=[[North Carolina College|Gamma Beta]]
|nota=Attorney in the [[Supreme Court of the United States|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]]
|ref=<ref name=promedu/><ref name=juliusc/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Frederick Douglass]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" -->
|chapter=Omega <br> (Honorary)
|nota=United States Ambassador to Haiti; anti-slavery activist
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=fredd/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[W. E. B. Du Bois]]
|chapter=[[University of Michigan|Epsilon]]<br>(Honorary)
|nota=Co-founder of [[Niagara Movement]] and [[NAACP]]; founder and [[editor-in-chief]] of ''[[The Crisis]]''; first African American to receive a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from [[Harvard University]]; 1920 [[Spingarn Medal]] recipient; author of ''The Souls of Black Folks''
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=spingarn/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lloyd L. Gaines]]
|chapter=[[Lincoln University of Missouri|Alpha Psi]]
|nota=Central figure of one of the most important cases in the [[Civil Rights Movement]], the Supreme Court case ''[[Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada]]''
|ref=<ref name=lloydg>{{cite news|first=Robert W. |last=Tabscott |date=2007-03-03 |url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/srlinks.nsf/story/D60BC9A524A7CE5C86257292007C2508?OpenDocument |title=In 1938, Lloyd Gaines was poised to become a major figure in the desegregation of America. But then he vanished. |work=Post-Dispatch |publisher=STLtoday.com |access-date=2007-07-22 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lester Granger]]
|chapter=[[Dartmouth College|Theta Zeta]]
|nota=3rd Executive Secretary of the [[National Urban League]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Dick Gregory]]
|chapter=[[Southern Illinois University|Beta Eta]]
|nota=[[1968 United States presidential election|1968 Presidential candidate]]; comedian, social activist, writer
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=dickg>{{cite web|url=http://www.africanamericans.com/DickGregory.htm |title=Dick Gregory, For the People |publisher=africanamericans.com |access-date=2007-07-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070617221924/http://www.africanamericans.com/DickGregory.htm |archive-date=June 17, 2007 }}</ref> }}
{{mem/f
|name=[[George Edmund Haynes]]
|chapter=Beta
|nota=Founder and first President of the [[National Urban League]]; first African American to receive a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] from [[Columbia University]]
|ref=<ref name=nul>{{cite web|url=http://www.nul.org/history.html |title=History of the National Urban League |publisher=nul.org |access-date=2007-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707181451/http://www.nul.org/history.html |archive-date=2007-07-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John Hope (educator)|John Hope]]<!-- Also in "Academia" -->
|chapter=[[Atlanta, Georgia|Eta Lambda]]
|nota=First Black President of [[Atlanta University]]; president of [[Atlanta University Center|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
|ref=<ref name=adw/><ref name=spingarn/><ref name=johnhope/><ref name=asalhpres/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[T. J. Jemison]]<!-- Also in "Religion" -->
|chapter=[[Alabama State University|Beta Upsilon]]
|nota=Co-founder of the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]]; President of the [[National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.|National Baptist Convention]]; organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles S. Johnson]]<!-- Also in "Academia" -->
|chapter=Gamma
|nota=Editor of the National Urban League's ''Opportunity'' magazine; first Black President of [[Fisk University]]
|ref=<ref name=vuu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lyman T. Johnson]]
|chapter=[[Virginia Union University|Gamma]]
|nota=Plaintiff whose successful legal challenge opened the [[University of Kentucky]] to African-American students in 1949
|ref=<ref name=lyman>{{cite web|date=15 January 1997|title=GREAT LEADERS: THE BLACK ODYSSEY OF LYMAN JOHNSON
|url=https://www.ket.org/program/great-leaders-the-black-odyssey-of-lyman-johnson-14337/|website=KET Kentucky Educational Television|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=8 December 2017
|title=Johnson, Lyman T. [Johnson v. Board of Trustees]|url=https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/408
|website=Notable Kentucky African Americans Database|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eugene K. Jones]]<!-- Also in "Founders" -->
|chapter=[[Cornell University|Alpha]]
|nota=Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; second Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President [[Franklin D Roosevelt]]'s [[Black Cabinet]]
|ref=<ref name=founders/><ref name=vuu/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Martin Luther King Jr.]]<!-- Also in "Religion" -->
|chapter=[[Boston, Massachusetts|Sigma]]
|nota=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 [[Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial|memorial]] on the [[National Mall]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=spingarn/><ref name="mlkjr"/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Martin Luther King III]]
|chapter=Eta Lambda|nota=President and CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change; former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
|ref=<ref name=apagpu1210/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Rayford Logan]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and policy" -->
|chapter=[[University of Pittsburgh|Omicron]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/><ref name=talented10/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Joseph Lowery]]
|chapter=Eta Lambda
|nota=Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); delivered the benediction at the [[First inauguration of Barack Obama|inauguration of Barack Obama]] in 2009; 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
|ref=<ref name=apagpu1210/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Floyd McKissick]]
|chapter=Alpha Rho
|nota=2nd President of [[Congress of Racial Equality]]; Founder of [[Soul City, North Carolina|Soul City]]
|ref=<ref name=unctv>{{cite news|url=http://www.unctv.org/bif/transcripts/2005/transcript2116.html |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Celebrates 100 |work=Black Issues Forum |publisher=UNC-TV |access-date=2007-07-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612111002/http://www.unctv.org/bif/transcripts/2005/transcript2116.html |archive-date=June 12, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=floydmc>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/573/Floyd_McKissick_former_CORE_director |title=Floyd McKissick, former CORE director |publisher=aaregistry.com |access-date=2007-07-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061027030932/http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/573/Floyd_McKissick_former_CORE_director |archive-date=October 27, 2006 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jesse E. Moorland]]
|chapter=Beta
|nota=Co-founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); namesake of [[Howard University]]'s [[Moorland-Spingarn Research Center]]
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=110,149,154,157}}</ref><ref name=moorland>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1141/Jesse_Moorland_civic_leader_and_much_more |title=Jesse Moorland, civic leader and much more! |publisher=aaregistry.com |access-date=2007-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927190826/http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1141/Jesse_Moorland_civic_leader_and_much_more |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Marc Morial]]<!-- Also in "Government, law and policy" -->
|chapter=[[University of Pennsylvania|Psi]]
|nota=[[Louisiana State Legislature]]; [[List of mayors of New Orleans|Mayor of New Orleans]]; 8th CEO of the National Urban League
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/><ref name=mmorial/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Hugh Bernard Price]]
|chapter=[[New Haven, Connecticut|Eta Alpha Lambda]]
|nota=7th President of the National Urban League
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Paul Robeson]]<!-- Also in "Entertainment" & "Athletics" -->
|chapter=[[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)|Nu]]
|nota=NFL player, Actor and singer; social activist, 1945 [[Spingarn Medal]] recipient; [[Lenin Peace Prize|Stalin Peace Prize]] laureate
|ref=<ref name=spingarn/><ref name=robeson>{{IMDb name|id=0732079|section=bio|name=Paul Robeson}}. Retrieved 2007-07-15.</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name={{autolink|Jawn Sandifer}}<!-- Also in "Government, law and public policy" -->
|chapter=[[Johnson C. Smith University|Alpha Omicron]]
|nota=Chief Justice of the [[New York Supreme Court]]; one of two staff lawyers for the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People|NAACP]] who successfully argued ''[[Henderson v. United States (1950)|Henderson v. United States]]''
|ref=<ref name=jawnhb/><ref name=jawn/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ozell Sutton]]
|chapter=[[Little Rock, Arkansas|Pi Lambda]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=copyline>{{cite web |date=2012-06-27 |url=http://www.copylinemagazine.com/news/2012/07/03/alpha-phi-alpha-members-honored-with-the-congressional-gold-medal/|title=Alpha Phi Alpha members honored with the Congressional Gold Medal |work=Copy Line News Magazine |access-date=2012-07-21}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name={{autolink|Heman Sweatt}}
|chapter=[[Wiley College|Alpha Sigma]]
|nota=Plaintiff in the [[Supreme Court of the United States|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]]''
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=281,294,303,313}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Channing Heggie Tobias]]
|chapter=[[Howard University|Beta]]
|nota=Chairman of the [[NAACP]], Director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund; 1948 Spingarn Medal recipient
|ref=<ref name=spingarn/><ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=149,154–155,165,238,276–277,307.338,346}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[C. T. Vivian]]
|chapter= Eta Lambda
|nota=Civil rights activist and aide to Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]; 2013 [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] recipient; author and humanitarian
|ref=<ref name=APADec2010>{{cite web|url=http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=172=News |title=Civil rights veterans join Martin Luther King Jr.'s fraternity; Alpha Phi Alpha holds initiation ceremony in Atlanta |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha |date=10 December 2010 |access-date=2013-11-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203052536/http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=172%3DNews |archive-date= 3 February 2015 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Wyatt Tee Walker]]
|chapter=[[Virginia Union University|Gamma]]
|nota=Co-founder and 3rd Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); civil and human rights activist
|ref=<ref name=promrel/><ref name=wyatt>{{cite web |url=http://www.blackseek.com/bh/2001/218_WWalker.htm |title=Wyatt Tee Walker Leader of SCLC |publisher=blackseek.com |access-date=2007-07-19}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Alfred Bitini Xuma]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=President of the [[African National Congress]]
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=148,239}}</ref><ref name=xuma>{{cite web|url=http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/people/xuma.html |title=Alfred Bitini Xuma ANC President 1940–1949 |publisher=anc.org.za |access-date=2007-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630205236/http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/people/xuma.html |archive-date=2007-06-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Max Yergan]]
|chapter=Theta
|nota=2nd President of the [[National Negro Congress]]; Co-founder of the International Council on African Affairs; 1933 Spingarn Medal recipient
|ref=<ref name=spingarn/><ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|p=277}}</ref><ref name=yergan>{{cite news |first=Scott |last=Rappaport |url=http://currents.ucsc.edu/05-06/03-20/anthony.asp |title=New book explores black activist's political odyssey |date=2006-03-20 |work=U.C. Santa Cruz. Currents |publisher=UC Santa Cruz Public Affairs Office |access-date=2007-07-14}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Whitney Young]]
|chapter=[[Kentucky State College|Beta Mu]]
|nota=4th President of the National Urban League; 1968 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; namesake of the [[Whitney Young Memorial Bridge]]
|ref=<ref name=whitney>{{cite news |first=John F. |last=Kelly |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1129-2005Apr19.html |title=Bridges Carry Bits of History Along With the Traffic |date=2005-04-21 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=2007-07-02}}</ref>}}
}}

==Sports==

===Olympics===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Owens Metcalfe in1936.gif|100px|right|thumb|Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe]]
[[File:Osaka07 D7A Mike Powell.jpg|100px|right|thumb|Mike Powell]]
|alist={{mem/f
|name=[[Dave Albritton]]
|chapter=[[Ohio State University|Kappa]]
|nota=[[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Olympian]], high jump; inducted into the [[USA Track & Field]] Hall of Fame, 1980
|ref=<ref>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|p=231}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Don Barksdale]]
|chapter=[[University of California, Los Angeles|Alpha Delta]]
|nota=[[1948 Summer Olympics|1948 Olympian]] and first African American to play with the [[Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics|USA Olympic Basketball Team]]; NBA player
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walt Bellamy]]
|chapter=[[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Gamma Eta]]
|nota=[[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Olympian]] NBA player; NBA Rookie of the Year (1962); NBA Hall of Fame (1993)
|ref=<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=Spring 1999 |title=Walt Bellamy |magazine=The Sphinx |volume=84 |issue=2 |page=51 |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Quinn Buckner]]
|chapter=[[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Gamma Eta]]
|nota=[[1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Olympian]]; NBA player
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=quinnb>{{cite web |url=http://www.nba.com/pacers/media/quinn_buckner_bio.html |title=Quinn Buckner, Cable TV Color Analyst |publisher=NBA Media Ventures |access-date=2007-07-20}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[James Butts]]
|chapter=[[Pasadena, California|Eta Pi Lambda]]
|nota=1976 Olympian, track and field
|ref=<ref name=omw>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp |title=Olympic Medal Winners |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date=2008-08-19}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Sayon Cooper]]
|chapter=[[Central State University|Delta Xi]]
|nota=[[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Olympian]], track and field
|ref=<ref name=promath>{{cite web|url=http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/sports.html |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Athletes |publisher=[[Cornell University]] |access-date=2007-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620141643/http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/sports.html |archive-date=2007-06-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Otis Davis]]
|chapter=Alpha Delta
|nota=Winner of two gold medals for record-breaking performances in both the 400 meters and 4x400 meters relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics
|ref=<ref name="Alpha Phi Alpha">{{cite web|url=http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=262&newsCat=News |title=Alpha Men Leave A Legacy of Olympic Greatness |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha |access-date=2012-02-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908192608/http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/PressNewsDetails.php?newsID=262&newsCat=News |archive-date=2013-09-08 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Phil Edwards (athlete)|Phil Edwards]]
|chapter=Eta
|nota=Olympic athlete and winner of five bronze medals
|ref=<ref name="Alpha Phi Alpha"/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Edward Gourdin]]
|chapter=[[Harvard University|Alpha Eta]]
|nota=[[1924 Summer Olympics|1924 Olympian]]; first man to make 25 feet in the long jump
|ref=<ref>{{Cite book | last=Brown |first=Tamara L. |author2=Gregory Parks |author3=Clarenda M. Phillips  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yfTYV_H2XoEC&q=ed+gourdin+alpha+phi+alpha&pg=PA256 |title=African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision |edition=1st |page=256 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |location=[[Lexington, Kentucky]] | year=2005 | isbn=0-8131-2344-5 |access-date=2008-10-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Amy |last=Dean |title=Edward Gourdin: Olympic silver medalist, but a man of firsts  |url=http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2002/02-15/connect.htm |work=B.U. Bridge |publisher=[[Boston University]] |location=[[Boston, Massachusetts]] |date=2002-02-12 |access-date=2009-02-19}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Chris Huffins]]
|chapter=Alpha Epsilon
|nota=Bronze medalist in the 2000 Olympics
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~aphia/members_past.html# |title=AE Lineage |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha AE Chapter |access-date=2012-06-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020184519/http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~aphia/members_past.html |archive-date=2014-10-20 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[G. Larry James]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=1968 Olympian; 4x400 meter relay gold medalist, 400-meter race silver medalist
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'' Fall/Winter 2008 part 2 page 63</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Cornelius Johnson (athlete)|Cornelius Johnson]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=[[1932 Summer Olympics|1932]] and 1936 Olympian; high jump
|ref=<ref name=sol1936>{{Cite magazine |last=Myers II |first=Michael J. |date=Fall–Winter 2008 |url=http://www.sphinxmagazine.com/Articles/Alpha-and-the-Olympic-Games.aspx |title=Alpha Athletes at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and SJW Publishers |magazine=The Sphinx |volume=93 |issue=3–4 |access-date=January 13, 2010}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Mel Lattany]]
|chapter=Zeta Pi
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name="Alpha Phi Alpha"/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ralph Metcalfe]] <!-- Also listed in "Government, law, and public policy"-->
|chapter=[[Marquette University|Nu Xi]]
|nota=[[United States House of Representatives|Representative]] from [[Illinois]]; [[1932 Summer Olympics|1932]] and 1936 Olympian; the Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago is named in his honor
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=metcalfehb>{{harvnb|Wesley|1981|pp=231,481}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Manteo Mitchell]]
|chapter=Nu Zeta
|nota=2012 silver medalist in track and field
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kollegekidd.com/news/alpha-phi-alpha-member-manteo-mitchell-breaks-leg-in-olympic-4x400m-relay-race |title=Alpha Phi Alpha Member Manteo Mitchell Breaks His Leg in Olympic 4x400m Relay Race |date=10 August 2012 |publisher=Kollege Kid |access-date=2012-10-28}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Godfrey Murray]]
|chapter=Epsilon
|nota=1972 Track and field Olympian
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.umich.edu/~echapter/ |title=Epsilon History |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Epsilon Chapter |access-date=2012-02-16}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jesse Owens]]
|chapter=Kappa
|nota=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]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=jesseo>{{cite web|url=http://www.jesse-owens.org/about5.html |title=Who is Jesse Owens? |publisher=The Jesse Owens Foundation |access-date=2007-07-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825062609/http://www.jesse-owens.org/about5.html |archive-date=2007-08-25 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Fritz Pollard Jr.]]
|chapter=Alpha Gamma
|nota=1936 Olympian, 110m hurdles
|ref=<ref name=sol1936/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Mike Powell (athletics)|Mike Powell]]
|chapter=[[University of California, Irvine|Omicron Eta]]
|nota=[[1988 Summer Olympics|1988]] and [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Olympian]], long jump
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Andy Stanfield|Andrew Stanfield]]
|chapter=Alpha Alpha Lambda
|nota=[[1952 Summer Olympics|1952]] and [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Olympian]], track and field
|ref=<ref name=sol1936/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eddie Tolan]]
|chapter=[[University of Michigan|Epsilon]]
|nota=1932 Olympian, 100 and 200 meters
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lenny Wilkens]]
|chapter=[[Seattle, Washington|Zeta Pi Lambda]]
|nota=NBA player and coach; [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Olympian]], [[Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics|basketball coach]]
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name=lennyw>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/bball/mens/wilkens.htm |title=1996 USA Men's Olympic Team Head Coach |newspaper=The Washington Post |publisher=washingtonpost.com |access-date=2007-07-20}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Archie Williams|Archibald Williams]]
|chapter=Alpha Epsilon
|nota=1936 Olympian, track and field
|ref=<ref name=sol1936/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John Woodruff (athlete)|John Woodruff]]
|chapter=[[University of Pittsburgh|Omicron]]
|nota=1936 Olympian, track and field
|ref=<ref name=sol1936/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[w:Kevin Young (athlete)|Kevin Young]]
|chapter=Gamma Xi
|nota=1988 and 1992 Olympian, track and field
|ref=<ref name=gammaxi/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hurdlesfirst.com/kevinyoung.htm |title=Kevin Young: Always in the Trenches |publisher=hurdlesfirst.com |access-date=2008-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004175527/http://www.hurdlesfirst.com/kevinyoung.htm |archive-date=2011-10-04 }}</ref>}}
}}

===American basketball===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=[[File:JohnWoodruff Owl1937.jpg|80px|right|thumb|John Woodruff]]
|alist={{mem/f
|name=[[Nate Archibald]]
|chapter=[[El Paso, Texas|Theta Delta Lambda]]
|nota=NBA player; Basketball Hall of Fame; voted one of the NBA 50 All-Time Greatest Players
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Don Barksdale]]
|chapter=[[University of California, Los Angeles|Gamma Xi]]
|nota=[[1948 Summer Olympics|1948 Olympian]] and first African American to play with the [[Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics|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
|ref=<ref name="gammaxi" /><ref name="autogenerated1"/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walt Bellamy]]
|chapter=[[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Gamma Eta]]
|nota=[[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Olympian]] NBA player, Basketball Hall of Fame
|ref=<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Spring 1999 |title=Walt Bellamy |magazine=The Sphinx |volume=84 |issue=2 |page=51 |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Junior Bridgeman]]
|chapter=[[Milwaukee, Wisconsin|Delta Chi Lambda]]
|nota=NBA player; 12 years in the NBA; his number was retired by the Milwaukee Bucks
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Quinn Buckner]]
|chapter=[[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Gamma Eta]]
|nota=[[1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Olympian]]; NBA player, 10 seasons in the NBA
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name="quinnb" />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Todd Day]]
|chapter=[[University of Arkansas|Kappa Kappa]]
|nota=NBA player, nine seasons in the NBA
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Heyward Dotson]]
|chapter=[[Columbia University|Eta]]
|nota=NBA player
|ref=<ref>{{cite news |date=2020-07-01 |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dotsohe01.html |title=Heyward H. Dotson |work=Basketball Reference |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref>}}

{{mem/f
|name=[[Wayne Embry]]
|chapter=[[Miami University|Delta Upsilon]]
|nota=NBA player and General Manager; five-time NBA All-Star; Basketball Hall of Fame
|ref=<ref name=brown/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Clyde Fletcher]]
|chapter=[[University of Arkansas|Kappa Kappa]]
|nota=NBA player, player for [[Arkansas Razorbacks]] 1990 NCAA Final Four team
|ref=<ref name=cflet>{{cite web|url=http://comp.uark.edu/~apa/Kappakappa/PastLines.html |title=The Lineage of Kappa Kappa |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Kappa Kappa chapter |access-date=2008-01-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060102013926/http://comp.uark.edu/~apa/Kappakappa/PastLines.html |archive-date=2006-01-02 }}</ref><ref name=rasn>{{cite web |url=http://www.arsnonline.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=905 |title=Basketball Midnight Madness Activities |work=Arizona Razorbacks Sports Network |publisher=KATV |date=2004-10-08 |access-date=2008-01-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719064850/http://www.arsnonline.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=905 |archive-date=2011-07-19 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walt Frazier]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |last=Rodriguez |first=Codell |date=2011-02-02 |url=http://thesouthern.com/news/local/bd3a5bda-3cae-11e0-996b-001cc4c002e0.html |title=Wild About Walt |publisher=The Southern.Com |access-date=2011-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://eventful.com/skaneatelesfalls/events/alpha-man-gotham-tribute-mayor-david-dink-/E0-001-062378874-6 |title=An Alpha Man From Gotham |access-date=2015-06-25}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[George Gregory (basketball)|George Gregory]]
|chapter=[[Columbia University|Eta]]
|nota=In 1931, he became the first black basketball player to be selected as an All-American
|ref=}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Dolly King]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=NBL player (predecessor of the NBA)
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |last=King |first=Michael |date=2014-02-08 |url=http://www.blackfives.org/son-of-black-fives-era-pioneer-dolly-king-shares-family-insights-pride/ |title=Son Of Black Fives Era Pioneer "Dolly" King Shares Family Insights, Pride |publisher=Black Fives Foundation |access-date=2015-08-28}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Stan McKenzie (basketball)|Stan McKenzie]]
|chapter= Delta Lambda
|nota=NBA player, seven seasons in the NBA
|ref=<ref name="Alpha Athletes Saluted">{{cite magazine |date=Fall 2010 |title=Alpha Athletes Saluted |magazine=The Sphinx |volume=95 |issue=3 |page=20 |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jim McMillian]]
|chapter=[[Columbia University|Eta]]
|nota=NBA player; three-time college All-American; three-time [[Haggerty Award]] winner; nine seasons in the NBA
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|last=Loving |first=James |date=2003-07-23 |url=http://www.nationalradio.com/snJuly03_28.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030818145807/http://www.nationalradio.com/snJuly03_28.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-08-18 |title=Karl Malone and Gary Payton Sign With Lakers |publisher=[[National Radio]] |access-date=2008-12-06 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Chris Mills (basketball)|Chris Mills]]
|chapter=[[Tucson, Arizona|Eta Epsilon Lambda]]
|nota=NBA player, 10 seasons in the NBA
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Bobby Phills]]
|chapter=[[Southern University|Beta Sigma]]
|nota=NBA player, [[Continental Basketball Association]] player
|ref=<ref name=brown/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Garrett Temple]]
|chapter=Nu Psi
|nota=NBA player
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pinoyfraternity.com/index.php?showtopic=5667 |title="greeks" In The Nba |publisher=Pinoy Fraternity |access-date=2012-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120115711/http://www.pinoyfraternity.com/index.php?showtopic=5667 |archive-date=2016-01-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Wes Unseld]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=NBA player and coach; Basketball Hall of Fame
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Walt Wesley]]
|chapter=[[University of Kansas|Upsilon]]
|nota=NBA player, ten seasons in the NBA
|ref=<ref name="Alpha Athletes Saluted" />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lenny Wilkens]]
|chapter=[[Seattle, Washington|Zeta Pi Lambda]]
|nota=NBA player and coach; second most wins all-time in NBA history; 1994 NBA Coach of the Year; [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Olympian]]; [[Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics|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
|ref=<ref name=soa/><ref name="lennyw"/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John "Hot Rod" Williams]]
|chapter=[[Tulane University|Rho Iota]]
|nota=NBA player, 13 seasons in the NBA
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
}}<!-- end of mem/fstart -->

===American football===
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
[[File:Donald-Driver.jpg|100px|right|thumb|Donald Driver]]
[[File:Rosey Grier.jpg|100px|right|thumb|Rosey Grier]]
[[File:Paul Robeson 1942.jpg|100px|right|thumb|Paul Robeson]]
|alist={{mem/f
|name=[[Emmanuel Arceneaux]]
|chapter=Delta Kappa
|nota=NFL player, Minnesota Vikings
|ref=<ref name=NICFB10greeks>{{cite web|url=http://www.nicindy.org/2010-greeksinprofootball |title=Greeks In Pro Football 2010 |work=Greeks in News |publisher=[[North American Interfraternity Conference]] |access-date=2011-11-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406022031/http://www.nicindy.org/2010-greeksinprofootball |archive-date=2012-04-06 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Bobby Bell]]
|chapter=[[University of Minnesota|Mu]]
|nota=[[National Football League]] (NFL) player, [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]]
|ref=<ref name=muchapter>{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/muchapter1912/linehistory.html |title= Mu Chapter Line History |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Mu chapter |access-date=2007-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040307022510/http://www.geocities.com/muchapter1912/linehistory.html|archive-date=2004-03-07}}</ref><ref name=bbell>{{cite web |url=http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=24 |title=Pro Football Hall of Fame–Bobby Bell |publisher=[[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] |access-date=2007-12-16}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gordon Bell (American football)|Gordon Bell]]
|chapter=Epsilon
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.umich.edu/~echapter/ |title=Epsilon Chapter History |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha, Epsilon chapter |access-date=2012-02-19}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Khari Blasingame]]
|chapter=Kappa Theta
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name="Ashe Scholar Committed to Serving Others">{{cite web|url=http://diverseeducation.com/article/142618/ |title=Ashe Scholar Committed to Serving Others |date=4 April 2019 |publisher=diverseeducation.com |access-date=June 10, 2019}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Leroy Bolden]]
|chapter=Gamma Tau
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name="Notable MSU Brothers">{{cite web|url=http://www.msualphas.com/notable-msu-brothers.html |title=Notable MSU Brothers |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha, Zeta Delta chapter |access-date=June 10, 2018}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Wes Chandler]]
|chapter=[[University of Florida|Theta Sigma]]
|nota=NFL player; four-time [[Pro Bowl]] player; two-time college All American; 2014 College Football Hall of Fame inductee
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Michael Clayton (American football)|Michael Clayton]]
|chapter=[[Louisiana State University|Nu Psi]]
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name=nicfb07>{{cite web|url=http://www.nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_sports/football/2007Football.htm |title=NIC Greeks in Professional Football 2007 |work=Greeks in Sports |publisher=[[North American Interfraternity Conference]] |access-date=2007-11-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605224200/http://www.nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_sports/football/2007Football.htm |archive-date=2008-06-05 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Emerson Cole]]
|chapter=[[University of Toledo|Alpha Xi Lambda]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name="Cole and Thompson, Two Ohio Legends Honored">{{cite magazine |date=Spring 2013 |title=Brothers on the Move |magazine=The Sphinx |volume=99 |issue=1 |page=36 |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Don Coleman (offensive tackle)|Don Coleman]]
|chapter=Gamma Tau
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=MSU>{{cite web |url=http://archives.msu.edu/collections/african_presence_1930.php |title=University Archives & Historical Collections |work=1930s-1950s |publisher=MSU |access-date=2012-05-16}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Greg Coleman]]
|chapter=[[Florida A&M University|Beta Nu]]
|nota=NFL player; first African American punter in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Marco Coleman]]
|chapter=Nu Mu
|nota=NFL player; 14 seasons in the NFL; Pro Bowler
|ref=<ref name=FanBase>{{cite web|url=http://www.fanbase.com/Marco-Coleman |title=Marco Coleman |access-date=2011-09-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013004157/http://www.fanbase.com/Marco-Coleman |archive-date=2011-10-13 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Canute Curtis]]
|chapter=Pi Mu
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name=pimu>{{cite web|url=http://www.wvu.edu/~apa/history.html |title=The History of the Pi Mu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Pi Mu chapter |access-date=2007-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050322183847/http://www.wvu.edu/~apa/history.html |archive-date=2005-03-22 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Garrett Dickerson]]
|chapter=Alpha Mu
|nota=NFL player with the New York Giants
|ref=<ref name=lines>{{cite web |url=https://amualphas.wordpress.com/chapter/lines/ |title=Alpha Mu Chapter |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Alpha Mu chapter |access-date=2018-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141549/https://amualphas.wordpress.com/chapter/lines/ |archive-date=2018-06-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Chris Doleman]]
|chapter=Omicron
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=threegreeks>{{cite web|url=http://www.nicindy.org/greek-news/2011/01/ |title=Greek News/Three Greeks Waiting To Hear Hall Of Fame News |publisher=[[North American Interfraternity Conference]] |access-date=2011-09-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519153652/http://www.nicindy.org/greek-news/2011/01/ |archive-date=2011-05-19 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Donald Driver]]
|chapter=[[Alcorn State University|Delta Kappa]]
|nota=NFL player; three-time Pro Bowler; author
|ref=<ref name=nicfb07/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Carl Eller]]
|chapter=Mu
|nota=NFL player, 2004 [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]]
|ref=<ref name=NICgreeks>{{cite web|url=http://www.nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_sports/football/AmericanFootballHOF.htm |title=NIC Greeks in the American Football Hall of Fame |publisher=[[North American Interfraternity Conference]] |access-date=2007-11-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016061857/http://nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_sports/football/AmericanFootballHOF.htm |archive-date=2007-10-16 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Mel Farr Jr.]]
|chapter=[[University of California, Los Angeles|Gamma Xi]]
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name=gammaxi/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=231&category=businessMakers |title=Mel Farr–biography |publisher=thehistorymakers.com |access-date=2008-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615170828/http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=231&category=businessMakers |archive-date=2008-06-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Mike Farr]]
|chapter=Gamma Xi
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name=gammaxi/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasyplaymakers.com/players.php?subcat3=1185&cat=3&lname=Farr&fname=Mike |title=Mike Farr–Fantasy Football Stats and Player Profile |publisher=fantasyplaymakers.com |access-date=2008-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710224129/http://www.fantasyplaymakers.com/players.php?subcat3=1185&cat=3&lname=Farr&fname=Mike |archive-date=2011-07-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name={{autolink|Charles Fisher (American football)|Charles Fisher}}
|chapter=[[West Virginia University|Pi Mu]]
|nota=NFL player, 12 years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=skip29>{{cite web |first=Herman |last=Mason |url=http://www.skipmason.com/hm/hm29.htm |title=Brothers in the National Football League |work=Skips Historical Moments, Number 29 |publisher=skipmason.com |date=1999-06-10 |access-date=2008-01-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128052025/http://skipmason.com/hm/hm29.htm |archive-date=2007-11-28 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Julius Franks]]
|chapter=Epsilon
|nota=First African American to become an All-American football player at the University of Michigan
|ref=<ref name="Epsilon Chapter History">{{cite web |url=http://www.umich.edu/~echapter/ |title=Epsilon Chapter History |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha, Epsilon chapter |access-date=2012-02-16}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Kyle Fuller (offensive lineman)|Kyle Fuller]]
|chapter=Tau Alpha
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name="Kyle Fuller Houston Center">{{cite web |url=https://247sports.com/Player/Kyle-Fuller-11226/ |title=Kyle Fuller, Houston, Center |publisher=247sports |access-date=2018-12-22}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Derrick Gaffney]]
|chapter=[[University of Florida|Theta Sigma]]
|nota=NFL player, nine years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=thetasigma>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetasigma1906.net/main.html |title=Lineage of Theta Sigma chapter |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Theta Sigma chapter |access-date=10 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101061428/http://www.thetasigma1906.net/main.html |archive-date=January 1, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasyplaymakers.com/players.php/subcat3/1309/cat/3/fname/Derrick/lname/Gaffney/ |title=Derrick Gaffney–Fantasy Football Stats & Player Profiles |publisher=fantasyplaymakers.com |access-date=2008-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106100418/http://www.fantasyplaymakers.com/players.php/subcat3/1309/cat/3/fname/Derrick/lname/Gaffney/ |archive-date=2007-11-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Nesby Glasgow]]
|chapter=[[University of Washington|Alpha Xi]]
|nota=NFL player, 14 years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=alphaxi>{{cite web
 |url=http://students.washington.edu/aphia/index2.html
 |title=Past Lines of Alpha Xi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha
 |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Alpha Xi chapter
 |access-date=10 September 2010
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901192847/http://students.washington.edu/aphia/index2.html
 |archive-date=1 September 2010
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nfl.com/players/nesbyglasgow/profile?id=GLA377530  |title=Seattle Seahawks–Nesby Glasgow |website=NFL.com |access-date=10 September 2010}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Barrett Green]]
|chapter=[[West Virginia University|Pi Mu]]
|nota=NFL player, seven years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name="pimu" />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Sammy Green]]
|chapter=Theta Sigma
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name=thetasigma/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beckys-place.com/samgreen.html |title=Sammy Green Was There |access-date=2008-02-13 |publisher=beckys-place.com}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Rosey Grier]]<!-- Also appears in "Entertainment" -->
|chapter=[[Pennsylvania State University|Gamma Nu]]
|nota=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
|ref=
{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charles Haley]]
|chapter=[[James Madison University|Xi Delta]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[P. J. Hall]]
|chapter=Theta Mu
|nota=NFL player with the Oakland Raiders
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/Sam-Houston-State-DL-P-J-Hall-works-out-for-12799647.php |title=Sam Houston DL P.J. Hall Works Out for the Patriots |date=2 April 2018 |access-date=2 August 2018}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jackie Harris]]
|chapter=Delta Sigma Lambda
|nota=NFL player; 10 seasons in NFL
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/nov/28/virtual-founders-day-event-to-mark-fraternitys/|title=Virtual Founders Day Event To Mark Fraternitys 115th Year |date=28 November 2021 |access-date=4 January 2022}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Dennis Harrison]]
|chapter=Kappa Theta
|nota=NFL player; played in Super Bowl XV and Pro Bowl
|ref=<ref name=NICFB10>{{cite web |url=http://www.nicindy.org/2010AllAmericanFootball |title=2010 ALL NIC Football |work=Greeks in News |publisher=[[North American Interfraternity Conference]] |access-date=2017-12-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928195144/http://www.nicindy.org/2010AllAmericanFootball |archive-date=2011-09-28}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[T. J. Heath]]
|chapter=Xi Xi
|nota=NFL player, Jacksonville Jaguars
|ref=<ref name=NICFB10 />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Darryl Henley]]
|chapter=Gamma Xi
|nota=NFL player and college All American
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://medbib.com/Talk:List_of_Alpha_Phi_Alpha_brothers |title=List of Alpha Phi Alpha Brothers |publisher=Wikiproject |access-date=2012-12-12}}{{dead link |date=March 2013}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eddie Hinton (American football)|Eddie Hinton]]
|chapter=Zeta Zeta
|nota=NFL player, Baltimore Colts; played in [[Super Bowl V]]; former all-time leading receiver at the University of Oklahoma
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |year=2010 |url=http://www.oualphazz.com/lineage.html |title=The 337th House of Alpha |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha, Zeta Zeta Chapter |access-date=2012-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312120413/http://www.oualphazz.com/lineage.html |archive-date=2015-03-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Darius Holland]]
|chapter=Alpha Iota
|nota=NFL player, 10 seasons in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=deltaxi>{{cite web |url=http://www.brickbybrick.net/InfamousDeltaXi/webpages/prombro.htm |title=Prominent Brothers |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Delta Xi chapter |access-date=2 September 2011}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Michael Hunter (American football)|Michael Hunter]]
|chapter=Gamma Eta
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2016/09/5_things_to_know_about_cb_michael_hunter_who_will.html |title=5 Thing To Know About CB Michael Hunter |date=27 September 2016 |access-date=23 April 2018}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Germain Ifedi]]
|chapter=Pi Omicron
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nflmocks.com/2015/12/09/germain-ifedi-ot-texas-am-2016-nfl-draft-scouting-report/ |title=Germain Ifedi 2016 NFL Draft Scouting Report |date=9 December 2015 |access-date=29 April 2016}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Duke Ihenacho]]
|chapter=Epsilon Mu
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://reflectionofduke.blogspot.com/2011/02/men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-venus.html |title=Mind Blog:Men are from Mars |date=23 February 2011 |access-date=25 January 2013}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Michael Jackson (wide receiver)|Michael Jackson]]
|chapter=[[The University of Southern Mississippi|Mu Xi]]
|nota=NFL player, 8 years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Charlie Janerette]]
|chapter=Gamma Nu
|nota=NFL player, six years in the NFL, first African American to play against the all-White University of Alabama football team
|ref=<ref name="Gamma Nu Brothers">{{cite web |url=http://pennstatealphas.wixsite.com/home/brothers |title=Notable Brothers of Gamma Nu |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha, Gamma Nu chapter |access-date=2017-07-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223160751/http://pennstatealphas.wixsite.com/home/brothers |archive-date=2017-12-23 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Trezelle Jenkins]]
|chapter=[[University of Michigan|Epsilon]]
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name=skip29/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Demetrious Johnson (American football)|Demetrious Johnson]]
|chapter=Zeta Alpha
|nota=NFL player; founder of the Demetrious Johnson Charitable Foundation
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://djgivesback.com/?p=239 |title=The Demetrious Johnson Charitable Foundation holds first graduation for GED program |access-date=2012-12-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905220235/http://djgivesback.com/?p=239 |archive-date=2013-09-05 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[w:Ron Johnson (running back)|Ron Johnson]]
|chapter=Epsilon
|nota=NFL player; two-time Pro Bowler; College Football Hall of Fame; college football All-American; chairman of the [[National Football Foundation]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |date=2006-04-17 |url=http://www.collegefootball.org/news.php?id=836 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728181127/http://www.collegefootball.org/news.php?id=836 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-28 |title=Ron Johnson Succeeds Jon Hanson as NFF Chairman |publisher=collegefootball.org |access-date=2008-02-13}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Tyrell Johnson (American football)|Tyrell Johnson]]
|chapter=Theta Upsilon
|nota=NFL player; starting strong safety for the Minnesota Vikings, 2008 to present
|ref=<ref name=NICFB10greeks/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Dhani Jones]]
|chapter=Epsilon
|nota=NFL player, 11 seasons in the NFL; TV personality
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jaryd Jones-Smith]]
|chapter=Omicron
|nota=NFL player with the Houston Texans
|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2017/12/23/tes2/ |title=Adapting to College Life |publisher=newpittsburghcourieronline.com |access-date=2018-08-02}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Steve Jordan (American football)|Steve Jordan]]
|chapter=Alpha Gamma
|nota=NFL player; six-time Pro Bowler
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lewis Kelly]]
|chapter= Beta Delta
|nota=NFL player, 6 seasons
|ref=<ref name="NFL Players">{{cite web |url=http://www.nfl.com/player/lewiskelly/2503914/profile |title=Lewis Kelly |work=nfl.com |access-date=2013-07-31}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Reggie Kelly]]
|chapter=Kappa Beta
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name="Mississippi State University">{{cite web |url=http://www.reggiekelly82.com/mstate.html# |title=Reggie Kelly |publisher=ReggieKelly.com |access-date=2011-12-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426081039/http://www.reggiekelly82.com/mstate.html |archive-date=2012-04-26 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Carnell Lake]]
|chapter=Gamma Xi
|nota=NFL player; five-time Pro Bowler; NFL 1990s All-Decade Team
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Henry Lawrence (American football)|Henry Lawrence]]
|chapter=Beta Nu
|nota=NFL player; two-time Pro Bowler
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[w:Mark Lee (American football)|Mark Lee]]
|chapter=Alpha Xi
|nota=NFL player, 11 years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=alphaxi/><ref name=mrklee>{{cite web|url=http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LEEMAR01 |title=Mark Lee |publisher=databasefootball.com |access-date=2008-01-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205074706/http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LEEMAR01 |archive-date=2007-02-05 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Mike Merriweather]]
|chapter=[[University of the Pacific (United States)|Nu Chi]]
|nota=NFL player, three-time Pro Bowl player
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ronald Moore (American football)|Ronald Moore]]
|chapter=Gamma Chi
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ovguide.com/ronald-moore-9202a8c04000641f8000000000ea4c3f |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082300/http://www.ovguide.com/ronald-moore-9202a8c04000641f8000000000ea4c3f |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-04 |title=Ronald More Video |publisher=OMV |access-date=2012-02-21}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Bill Munsey
|chapter=Mu
|nota=NFL player CFL player
|ref=<ref name=muchapter/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Adrian Murrell]]
|chapter=Pi Mu
|nota=NFL player, 10 years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=skip29/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Marques Murrell]]
|chapter=Pi Nu
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name=nicfb07/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Vince Newsome]]
|chapter=Alpha Xi
|nota=NFL player, current assistant director of pro personnel for [[Baltimore Ravens]]
|ref=<ref name=vnewsome>{{cite web|url=http://www.baltimoreravens.com/Team/StaffBio.aspx?id=1420 |title=Vincent newsome |publisher=baltimoreravens.com |access-date=2007-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927214153/http://www.baltimoreravens.com/Team/StaffBio.aspx?id=1420 |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Roman Oben]]
|chapter=Alpha Pi
|nota=NFL player, nine years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=roben>{{cite web|url=http://www.buccaneers.com/team/playerdetail.aspx?player=Oben%2CRoman%2C72&bioyear=College |title=Roman Oben |publisher=buccaneers.com |access-date=2007-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930153759/http://www.buccaneers.com/team/playerdetail.aspx?player=Oben%2CRoman%2C72&bioyear=College |archive-date=2007-09-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Brig Owens]]
|chapter=[[University of Cincinnati|Alpha Alpha]]
|nota=NFL player, 11 years in the NFL; included in the list of "70 Greatest Redskins"
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Michael Pittman Sr.]]
|chapter=[[Fresno State College|Epsilon Beta]]
|nota=NFL player, 10 years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=nicfb07/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Fritz Pollard]]
|chapter=[[Brown University|Alpha Gamma]]
|nota=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]]
|ref=<ref name=promalpha/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Marcus Pollard]]
|chapter=[[Bradley University|Epsilon Kappa]]
|nota=NFL player, 14 years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jethro Pugh]]
|chapter=[[Elizabeth City State University|Beta Zeta]]
|nota=NFL player, 13 years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jay Ratliff]]
|chapter=[[Auburn University|Omicron Kappa]]
|nota=NFL player; three-time Pro Bowl selection; First Team All-Pro selection
|ref=<ref name="NICFB10"/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Ken Riley]]
|chapter=Beta Nu
|nota=NFL player, 15 years in the NFL, Pro Football Hall of Fame 2023
|ref=<ref name=nicnews>{{cite web|url=http://nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_the_news/ |title=Greeks from NIC member fraternities highlighted in the news |work=Greeks in News |publisher=[[North American Interfraternity Conference]] |access-date=2007-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070724080532/http://www.nicindy.org/whos_greek/greeks_in_the_news/ |archive-date=2007-07-24 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Paul Robeson]]<!-- Also in "Service and social reform" & "Entertainment" -->
|chapter=[[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)|Nu]]
|nota=NFL player; two-time college football All-American; College Football Hall of Fame; actor and singer; social activist; 1945 [[Spingarn Medal]] recipient; [[Lenin Peace Prize|Stalin Peace Prize]] laureate
|ref=<ref name=spingarn/><ref name=robeson/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eddie Robinson (Grambling football coach)|Eddie Robinson]]
|chapter=[[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Beta Iota Lambda]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Darius Rush]]
|chapter=Theta Nu
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url= https://opendorse.com/profile/darius-rush |title=Darius Rush, Defensive Back - NIL Profile |publisher=opendorse |access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Bernard Russ
|chapter=Pi Mu
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name="pimu" />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Art Shell]]
|chapter=[[University of Maryland Eastern Shore|Delta Nu]]
|nota=NFL player, four-time Pro Bowl player; [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]]; second Black head coach in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=brown/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Max Starks]]
|chapter=Theta Sigma
|nota=NFL player, two-time Super Bowl Champion
|ref=<ref name=maxs>{{cite news|first=Bob |last=Rossi |date=2005-10-09 |url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_381238.html |title=Bigger than Big Ben |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |publisher=Tribune-Review |access-date=10 September 2010 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Sandy Stephens]]
|chapter=Mu
|nota=NFL player; First African American [[All-America]]n Quarterback, Rose Bowl Hall of Fame
|ref=<ref name=muchapter/><ref name=sandys>{{cite web|url=http://sandystephens.org/sandys_story.htm |title=The Sandy Stephens Story |publisher=sandystephens.org |access-date=2007-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809022126/http://www.sandystephens.org/sandys_story.htm |archive-date=2007-08-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Lemuel Stinson]]
|chapter=[[University of North Texas|Eta Upsilon]]
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Woody Strode]]
|chapter=Alpha Delta
|nota=NFL player; one of the first two [[African-American]]s to play in the NFL's modern (post-World War II) era; actor; nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.lasentinel.net/Black-History-Month-Pioneering-Blacks-in-professional-football.html |title=Black History Month: Pioneering Blacks in Professional Football |publisher= Los Angeles Sentinel |last=Lewis |first=Jason |date=2011-02-09 |access-date=May 13, 2011}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Billy Taylor (Canadian football running back)|Billy Taylor]]
|chapter=Epsilon
|nota=University of Michigan football All-American and school record holder of rushing yardage, CFL player
|ref=<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vEhYAAAAMAAJ&q=billy+taylor+alpha+phi+alpha&pg=RA12-PA15 |title=The Michigan Alumnus: His Fraternity Honors Billy Taylor |publisher = The University Of Michigan Libraries vol 77-78 |access-date=October 22, 2014|year=1970 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jesse Thomas (American football)|Jesse Thomas]]
|chapter=Gamma Tau
|nota=NFL player
|ref=<ref name="Notable MSU Brothers" />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[John Thornton (American football)|John Thornton]]
|chapter=Pi Mu
|nota=NFL player, nine years in the NFL
|ref=<ref name=skip29/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Willie Thrower]]
|chapter=Gamma Tau
|nota=NFL player, first African American quarterback in the NFL modern era
|ref=<ref name="Notable MSU Brothers" />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Wallace Triplett]]
|chapter=[[Penn State University|Gamma Nu]]
|nota=NFL player, first African-American to be drafted into and play in the NFL
|ref=<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.centredaily.com/sports/colleges/penn_state/story/1199050.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724140515/http://www.centredaily.com/sports/colleges/penn_state/story/1199050.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-24 |title=We Play All Or None: Triplett, PSU helped change history |newspaper=[[Centre Daily Times]] |last=Boyer |first=Lauren |date=2009-02-15 |access-date=January 5, 2009 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gene Upshaw]]
|chapter=Gamma Chi Lambda
|nota=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
|ref=<ref name=soa/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Anthony Walker Jr.]]
|chapter=Alpha Mu
|nota=NFL player with the Indianapolis Colts
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nusports.com/news/2017/6/15/football-dear-northwestern-anthony-walker-jr.aspx | title=Dear Northwestern Anthony Walker Jr | publisher=nusports.com | access-date=2017-10-06}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[w:Kenny Washington (football player)|Kenny Washington]]
|chapter=Alpha Delta
|nota=One of the first two [[African-American]]s to play in the NFL's modern (post-World War II) era; member of the College Football Hall of Fame
|ref=<ref name=promath/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gerald Williams (American football)|Gerald Williams]]
|chapter=Omicron Kappa
|nota=NFL player; 11 seasons in the NFL
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://auburn-alphas.wix.com/ice-ok/main-site#!__main-site/lineage | title=ICE OK Auburn Alphas | publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha, Omicron Kappa Chapter | access-date=2012-02-21}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[J. Mayo Williams]]
|nota=NFL player; one of the first African Americans to play professional football; recording artist elected to the Blues Hall of Fame
|chapter=Alpha Gamma
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hepstrack.com/about/alumni/brown/j-mayo-williams/ |title = J. Mayo Williams | publisher = Hepstrack.com | last = Lentz | first = Eddie |year = 2004 |access-date=January 6, 2011}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Reggie Williams (linebacker)|Reggie Williams]]
|chapter=[[Dartmouth College|Theta Zeta]]
|nota=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
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thetazeta1906.com/ |title=Alpha Spotlight–Reggie Williams |publisher=Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Theta Zeta chapter |access-date=June 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202134238/http://www.thetazeta1906.com/ |archive-date=2009-02-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=57737&SPID=6287&DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=883003&ATCLPID=2&SENDING_AS_EMAIL=&PRINTABLE_PAGE= |date=May 9, 2007 |title=Dartmouth's Reggie Williams Selected for College Football Hall of Fame |work=dartmouthsports.com |publisher=[[Dartmouth College]] |access-date=June 27, 2009}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eric C. Wright]]
|chapter=[[University of Missouri|Zeta Alpha]]
|nota=NFL player, two-time Pro Bowl player
|ref=<ref name=brown/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Jason Wright]]
|chapter=[[Northwestern University|Alpha Mu]]
|nota=NFL player, businessman, team president of the [[Washington Football Team]]; the First and only African American NFL Team President
|ref=<ref name=promath/><ref>{{cite web |title=Alpha Phi Alpha's Jason Wright Just Became the First Black President of an NFL Team |url=https://www.watchtheyard.com/alphas/alpha-phi-alpha-jason-wright-nfl/ |website=WatchTheYard.com |date=17 August 2020 |access-date=18 August 2020}}</ref>}}
}}

===Other athletics===
{{mem/fstart
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[George Altman]]
|nota=Major League Baseball player
|chapter=Beta Omicron
|ref=<ref name="Beta Omicron Alumni Association">{{cite web |url= http://boalumniassociation.celect.org/bo-lineage |title= Beta Omicron Alumni Association – BO Lineage |publisher=Beta Omicron Alumni Association |access-date= 2018-12-22}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Earl Burl III]]
|chapter=Delta Kappa
|nota=Major League Baseball player
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&player_id=665062#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL |title=Earl Burl III |publisher=milb |access-date=2018-06-10}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gerald Harris (fighter)|Gerald Harris]]
|chapter=[[Ohio University|Pi]]
|nota=Professional MMA fighter; ''The Ultimate Fighter'' (UFC), FCF, TFC, and [[International Fight League]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite news|first=Mica |last=Milojevic |url=http://www.csuohio.edu/clevelandstater/Archives/Vol%204/Issue%2012/Sports/sports5.html |title=Gerald Harris, CSU wrestler, works hard on the mat and in life |work=The Cleveland Slater |publisher=[[Cleveland State University]] |access-date=2007-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060921035854/http://www.csuohio.edu/clevelandstater/Archives/Vol%204/Issue%2012/Sports/sports5.html |archive-date=2006-09-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourmedia.org/node/312467 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905213029/http://www.ourmedia.org/node/312467 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-09-05 |title=No Holds Barred: Gerald Harris |publisher=Outhink Media and Drupal |access-date=2007-07-22 }}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Eulace Peacock]]
|chapter=Psi
|nota=Member of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame; rival of Jesse Owens
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2211&dat=19360711&id=kulfAAAAIBAJ&pg=5032,3362267 |title=Eulace Peacock |publisher=The Afro American |access-date=2012-06-17}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Fred Valentine (baseball)|Fred Valentine]]
|chapter=Beta Omicron
|nota=Major League Baseball player
|ref=<ref name="Beta Omicron Alumni Association" />}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Willis Ward]]
|chapter=Epsilon
|nota=University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Fame; second African American to letter in varsity football at Michigan; three-time track and field All-American and eight-time Big Ten champion; famous for being excluded from the 1934 Michigan vs. Georgia Tech football game due to being African American
|ref=<ref name="Epsilon Chapter History"/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Gerald Williams (baseball)|Gerald Williams]]
|chapter=unknown
|nota=Major League Baseball player
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url= http://wfu.tizrapublisher.com/leadership-and-service-3rd-edition/8 |title= Leadership and Service The Making and Remaking of Alpha Phi Alpha |publisher=4 Suns Press |access-date= 2017-12-25}}</ref>}}
}}

==Other Alphas==
{{mem/fstart
|ilist=
|alist=
{{mem/f
|name=[[David Bailey]]
|chapter=[[North Carolina Central University|Gamma Beta]]
|nota=2017 [[Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor]] recipient. Special Agent of the [[United States Capitol Police]] who heroically prevented a massacre of members of the [[United States Congress]] during an [[Congressional baseball shooting|attack]] in [[Alexandria, Virginia]]. The day after the attack, Bailey threw the first pitch at the [[Congressional Baseball Game]].
|ref=<ref>{{cite news |first=Ellie |last=Silverman |date=July 27, 2017 |url=http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170727/officers-who-responded-to-shooting-at-congressional-baseball-practice-receive-medal-of-valor |title=Officers who responded to shooting at Congressional baseball practice receive Medal of Valor |work=The Providence Journal |access-date=2017-08-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Abbie |last=Bennett |date=June 14, 2017 |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article156144309.html |title='Our Eagle hero': NCCU graduate exchanged gunfire, was injured in congressional shooting |work=The News & Observer |access-date=2017-06-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Pete |last=Grieve |date=June 15, 2017 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/politics/david-bailey-first-pitch/ |title=Injured Capitol Police officer throws out first pitch in emotional moment |work=CNN |access-date=2017-06-15}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Abraham Bolden]]
|chapter=[[Lincoln University (Missouri)|Alpha Psi]]
|nota=First African-American U.S. Secret Service Agent assigned to the White House Detail (John F. Kennedy) Author of " The Echo from Dealey Plaza "
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0WcUAAAAIBAJ&pg=7348%2C1057127 |title=Secret Service puts 1st Negro Agent on White House Job |date= June 16, 1961 |access-date=2018-08-04}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=Raymond Cannon
|chapter=[[University of Minnesota|Mu]]
|nota=First Editor of ''The Sphinx'', the official publication of Alpha Phi Alpha; 12th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
|ref=<ref name=alphapres/>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Albert I. Cassell]]
|chapter=Alpha
|nota=Architect, designed buildings for [[Howard University]], [[Morgan State University]], and [[Virginia State University]]
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Spring, February 1932 volume 18 number 1 page 14 (listed in photo caption)</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Cornelius Langston Henderson]]
|chapter=Epsilon
|nota=Structural engineer and bridge builder; designed the Canadian approach to the Ambassador Bridge linking the U.S. and Canada; designed and built the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, the first vehicular subway tunnel (under the Detroit River) between two nations
|ref=<ref name=Sphinx20172018/>{{rp|50–55}}}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Hamilton Holmes]]
|chapter=[[Morehouse College|Alpha Rho]]
|nota=First African-American male student admitted to the [[University of Georgia]]; first African-American student to attend the [[Emory University School of Medicine]]
|ref=<ref name=hholmes>{{cite web|url=http://alpharho.net/AP.html|title=Alpha Rho Chapter History |publisher=Alpha Rho Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha|access-date=July 12, 2018}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[James Hood]]
|chapter=[[Clark College|Alpha Phi]]
|nota=First African-American male student admitted to the [[University of Alabama]]
|ref=<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. James Alexander "Jimmy" "Sonny" Hood |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gadsdentimes/obituary.aspx?n=james-alexander-hood-jimmy-sonny&pid=162586285&fhid=7288 |website=Legacy |publisher=The Gadsen Times}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Henry McKee Minton]]
|chapter=Rho
|nota=Co-founder of [[Sigma Pi Phi]] fraternity; co-founder of Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia; 1891 [[Valedictorian]] of [[Phillips Exeter Academy]]
|ref=<ref name=skip19/><ref name=hminton>{{cite web |url=http://jeffline.tju.edu/SML/archives/exhibits/diverse/minton.html |title=Henry McKee Minton, M.D |publisher=Thomas Jefferson University |access-date=January 11, 2010}}</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[E. Frederic Morrow]]
|chapter=Alpha Alpha Lambda
|nota=First African American to hold an executive position at the White House as Administrative Officer for Special Projects under President Dwight Eisenhower; NAACP field secretary; CBS TV writer; author of ''Black Man in the White House'', ''Way Down South Up North'', ''Forty Years a Guinea Pig'', and ''A Black Man's View From the Top''
|ref=<ref>''Sphinx Magazine'', Spring February 1961 volume 20 number 1 page 27</ref>}}
{{mem/f
|name=[[Hilyard Robinson]]
|chapter=Eta
|nota=Architect; designed buildings for [[Howard University]], [[Hampton University]] and Langston Terrace Dwellings in Washington, D.C.; architect of Tuskegee, Alabama Army Airfield; first and only African American to design a US airbase
|ref=<ref name=mulambda/>}}
}}

==General presidents==
{{Alpha Phi Alpha General Presidents}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{Cite book |last=Mason |first=Herman |title=The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha |edition=2nd |publisher=Four-G |location=Winter Park, FL |year=1999 |isbn=1-885066-63-5}}
* {{cite book | last=Wesley |first=Charles H. |author-link=Charles H. Wesley| title=The History of Alpha Phi Alpha, A Development in College Life | edition=11th |publisher=Foundation |location=[[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] | year=1969 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Wesley |first=Charles H. |title=The History of Alpha Phi Alpha, A Development in College Life | edition=14th |publisher=Foundation |location=Chicago, IL |year=1981 |id=ASIN: B000ESQ14W }}

==External links==
* {{YouTube|WgFNaDe8kfs|The House of Alpha}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090213132429/http://alpha-phi-alpha.com/index.php Alpha Phi Alpha official site] (archived link)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927123954/http://www.greekpages.com/org/org.cfm?Organization_Greek_ID=0121011000&gender=1 List of Alpha Phi Alpha chapters]
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