Lists of African Americans

This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans. African Americans an ethnic group and citizens of the United States who have full or partial ancestry of any black racial groups of Africa; Black and African Americans form the third largest racial and ethnic group in the United States behind White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans. African Americans are descendants of enslaved black people who are from the United States. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is African-American.

Lists of Americans
By U.S. state
By ethnicity or nationality
  • Danish
  • Dominican Americans (Dominica)
  • Dominican Americans (Dominican Republic)
  • Dutch
  • Gambian
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Ghanaian
  • Greek
  • Guatemalan
  • Guinean
  • Guyanese
  • Karen
  • Kazakh
  • Kenyan
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Kuwaiti
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistani
  • Tanzanian
  • Thai
  • Tibetan
  • Tongan
  • Trinidadian and Tobagonian
  • Turkish
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Actors, actresses, and comedians
John Amos
Angela Bassett
Halle Berry
Chadwick Boseman
Sterling K. Brown
Yvette Nicole Brown
LeVar Burton
Diahann Carroll
Dave Chappelle
Don Cheadle
Bill Cosby
Terry Crews
Viola Davis
Ossie Davis
Ruby Dee
Michael Clarke Duncan
Cedric the Entertainer
Dave Fennoy
Laurence Fishburne
Jamie Foxx
Morgan Freeman
Danny Glover
Whoopi Goldberg
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Kevin Hart
Steve Harvey
Dennis Haysbert
Ernie Hudson
Samuel L. Jackson
Michael B. Jordan
James Earl Jones
Regina King
Sanaa Lathan
Phil LaMarr
Martin Lawrence
Spike Lee
Bernie Mac
Tim Meadows
Tracy Morgan
Eddie Murphy
Nichelle Nichols
Khary Payton
Richard Pryor
Ving Rhames
Kevin Michael Richardson
Craig Robinson
Chris Rock
Richard Roundtree
Jada Pinkett Smith
Will Smith
Wesley Snipes
Glynn Turman
Denzel Washington
Carl Weathers
Forest Whitaker
Fred Williamson
Billy Dee Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Jeffrey Wright

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Beauty queens and fashion models

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Civil rights leaders and activists
Ralph Abernathy
James Baldwin
Marion Barry
James Bevel
Julian Bond
Jesse Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr
John Lewis
Joseph Lowery
Thurgood Marshall
James Meredith
Rosa Parks
Bayard Rustin
Fred Shuttlesworth
C. T. Vivian
Malcolm X
Andrew Young

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Government and politics
See also: List of civil rights leaders

Governors
  • Archie Alexander, former governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands
  • David Paterson (African American mother), served as the 55th Governor of New York.
  • Deval Patrick, served as the 71st Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015, so far the only African American to serve as Governor of Massachusetts.
  • P.B.S. Pinchback, served as the 24th Governor of Louisiana from 1872 to 1873, the first African American to become governor of a U.S. State.
  • Douglas Wilder, served as the 66th Governor of Virginia, became the first elected African-American governor, became the first African American to serve as governor of U.S. State since Reconstruction.[34]

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Historical

Journalism and media
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Harris Faulkner
Don Lemon
Candace Owens
Al Sharpton

Lawyers
Johnnie Cochran
Christopher Darden
Eric Holder
Loretta Lynch
Deval Patrick
Clarence Thomas
Mel Watt

Military

Ministers and other religious leaders
Richard Allen


Novelists and poets
Maya Angelou
Samuel R. Delany
Nikki Giovanni
Toni Morrison

Singers and musicians
Louis Armstrong
George Benson
Chuck Berry
James Brown
Ray Charles
Nat King Cole
John Coltrane
Sam Cooke
Miles Davis
Sammy Davis Jr.
Fats Domino
Dennis Edwards
Duke Ellington
Art Farmer
Ella Fitzgerald
Roberta Flack
Aretha Franklin
Marvin Gaye
Dizzy Gillespie
Buddy Guy
Isaac Hayes
Jimi Hendrix
Gil Scott-Heron
Billie Holiday
John Lee Hooker
Whitney Houston
Michael Jackson
Etta James
Rick James
Al Jarreau
Quincy Jones
B.B. King
Eartha Kitt
Gladys Knight
Patti LaBelle
Taj Mahal
Johnny Mathis
Curtis Mayfield
Aaron Neville
Jessye Norman
Billy Preston
Prince
Charley Pride
Lou Rawls
Otis Redding
Little Richard
Lionel Richie
Max Roach
Smokey Robinson
Nile Rodgers
Sonny Rollins
Diana Ross
Otis Rush
Nina Simone
Mavis Staples
Sly Stone
Donna Summer
Cecil Taylor
Ike Turner
Tina Turner
Dionne Warwick
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Muddy Waters
Barry White
Maurice White
Nancy Wilson
Bill Withers
Stevie Wonder
Howlin' Wolf

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Sports

Baseball
Jackie Robinson
Hank Aaron
Willie Mays
Ernie Banks
Bob Gibson
Lou Brock
Willie McCovey
Barry Bonds
Ken Griffey Jr.
Derek Jeter
Barry Larkin
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  • Frank Robinson, former professional baseball player

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Elgin Baylor
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Magic Johnson
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  • Kevin Knox - professional basketball player
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  • Kemba Walker - professional basketball player (African American Mother)

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Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Ken Norton
Floyd Patterson
Sugar Ray Robinson
Jimmy Ellis
Larry Holmes
Earnie Shavers
Mike Tyson

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Jim Brown
Colin Kaepernick
Cam Newton
Jerry Rice
Deion Sanders
O. J. Simpson
Bubba Smith
Herschel Walker
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Althea Gibson
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Harrison Dillard
Charles Greene
Jim Hines
Michael Johnson
Florence Griffith Joyner
Vincent Matthews
Ralph Metcalfe
Jesse Owens
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  • Michelle Obama, (2009–2017) the first African American First Lady and the 44th First Lady[108]

Anthologies of biographies

There is a substantial body of literature, much of it by African Americans, that collects biographies of black leaders.[109] Notable examples in this genre are:

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See also

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