President Barack Obama| 2016 1st African-American President of the United States ；
President Bill Clinton |2013 42nd President of the United States；                                                           
Patricia Bath, M.D. | (Medicine) ophthalmologist; first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention；
David Blackwell, Ph.D.| faculty, not alumnus first African-American elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences ；
Beth A. Brown, Ph.D.| NASA astrophysicist；
Marjorie Lee Browne, Ph.D. | one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics in the U.S；
Mamie Clark, |Howard M.A., Columbia Ph.D., educator and psychologist；
Alexander Darnes, M.D| owned by Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith; second African-American physician in Florida, first African-American physician in Jacksonville, Florida ；
Lena Frances Edwards, M.D.|  physician (obstetrics and gynecology) and humanitarian; received U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom；
Roselyn P. Epps, M.D. 1951|hysician (pediatrician and public health physician); received Elizabeth Blackwell Medal ；
E. Franklin Frazier | sociologist ；

Ben Ali  |co-founder and owner of Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark restaurant in Washington, D.C.；