Category:African-American

The category: African-American, highlights the ethnic and cultural identity of American people of African descent.

See also: United States

Most Famous African-Americans

Born in the 18th century

Crispus Attucks (1723–1770) Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806) Prince Hall (1735–1807) Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) Richard Allen (1760–1831) James Forten (1766–1842) David Walker (1796–1830) Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) John Russwurm (1799–1851)

Born in the 19th century

Nat Turner (1800–1831) Ira Aldridge (1807–1867) Benjamin "Pop" Singleton (1809–1900)

Martin R. Delany (1812–1885) Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882) Frederick Douglass (1817–1895) Alexander Crummell (1819–1898)

Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) Hiram Revels (1827–1901)

Henry McNeal Turner (1834–1915)

Blanche K. Bruce (1841–1898) Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907) Elijah McCoy (1844–1929)

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) Daniel Hale Williams (1856–1931)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) George Washington Carver (1864–1943) Matthew Henson (1866–1955) Matthew Henson (1866–1955) Madame C. J. Walker (1867–1919) W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) William Monroe Trotter (1872–1934) Arturo Schomburg (1874–1938) Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950) Garrett Morgan (1877–1963) Jack Johnson (1878–1946)

Ernest Just (1883–1941) Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951) Alain Locke (1885–1954) Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979)

Claude McKay (1890–1948) Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) Walter F. White (1893–1955) Benjamin E. Mays (1894–1984) Charles Hamilton Houston (1895–1950) Marian Anderson (1897–1993) Elijah Muhammad (1897–1975) Paul Robeson (1898–1978) Duke Ellington (1899–1974) Percy Julian (1899–1975)

Born in the 20th century

Roy Wilkins (1901–1981) Langston Hughes (1901–1967) Arna Bontemps (1902–1973) Ralph Bunche (1903–1971) Countee Cullen (1903–1946) Charles Drew (1904–1950) Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908–1972) Richard Wright (1908–1960) Katherine Dunham (1909–2006)

Romare Bearden (1911–1988) Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (1912–2002) Dorothy Height (1912–2010) Jesse Owens (1913–1980) Rosa Parks (1913–2005) Kenneth B. Clark (1914–2005) Joe Louis (1914–1981) John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998) John Hope Franklin (1915–2009) Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) John H. Johnson (1918–2005) Dorie Miller (1919–1943) Edward W. Brooke (1919–2015) Jackie Robinson (1919–1972)

James Baldwin (1924–1987) Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) Malcolm X (1925–1965) John Coltrane (1926–1967) Maya Angelou (1928–2014) Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)

Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) Toni Morrison (1931–2019) Hank Aaron (1934–2021) Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) Bill Cosby (born 1937) Colin Powell (1937–2021)

Jesse Jackson (born 1941) Maulana Karenga (born 1941) Kwame Ture (1941–1998) Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) Guion Bluford (born 1942) Arthur Ashe (1943–1993) August Wilson (1945–2005)

Oprah Winfrey (born 1954) Mae Jemison (born 1956)

Tiger Woods (born 1975)