This list of Howard University people, sometimes known as Howardites, includes faculty, staff, graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Howard University. Howard University (HU) is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian historically black university (HBCU) located in Washington, D.C.

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  • This list of Howard University people, sometimes known as Howardites, includes faculty, staff, graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Howard University. Howard University (HU) is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian historically black university (HBCU) located in Washington, D.C.
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  • Morgan's legendary football, basketball and track coach
  • 4-time US National Judo Champion, a 2004 Judo Olympian
  • Academy award nominated actress ("Hustle and Flow", "Curious case of Benjamin Button", "Something New", "Smokin Ace's", "Talk To Me")
  • Ambassador to Benin
  • Ambassador to Togo, Malaysia and Mauritius
  • Anchor, CNN
  • Attorney, Senior Managing Director with Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, former president of the Urban League
  • Band - "If I Ever Fall in Love"
  • Brigadier General, first African-American general in the U.S. Army
  • CBS News, 60 Minutes correspondent-New York
  • Canadian Football League defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders)
  • Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
  • Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica
  • District Judge, Western district of Oklahoma, first African-American woman U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Senate.
  • ESPNU Football analyst, NFL quarterback , Maryland State Delegate
  • Emmy award-winning actress, ("The Josephine Baker Story", "Stompin' At The Savoy", "Head of State", "Eve's Bayou")
  • Filmmaker
  • First African-American dean of the Albany Law School
  • Former BET Personality and actor
  • Former Florida Supreme Court Judge, first African-American in the south to win a statewide election
  • Founder, Former President & Chief Executive Officer Centennial One, Inc.; first African-American woman to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School
  • General, U.S. Air Force, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Commander, Air Force Material Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
  • Georgia State Senator
  • German literature
  • Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer ("Saturday Night Fever")
  • Grammy award-winning gospel singer, pianist, and arranger
  • Grammy nominated music producer, musician and songwriter, a/k/a, Donnie Scantz
  • Grammy winning record producer and song writer
  • Judge, Miami-Dade County Court
  • Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
  • Major League Baseball player, (Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Braves, California Angels), first African-American to sign with the Detroit Tigers
  • Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Health and Seniors (2003-present); founder of Bermuda's first school of dance, Jackson School of the Performing Arts (1953); and author of "The Bermuda Gombey: Bermuda's Unique Dance Heritage" (1987) and a companion children's book "Bermuda Gombey Boy" credited with re-igniting popular interest in Bermuda's form of indigenous African dance.
  • Member of the New York State Assembly. Son of Civil Rights leader - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Michigan Third Circuit Court judge
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Jamaica
  • Minister of Health, Jamaica
  • Minister of Health, Guyana
  • Miss Black District of Columbia USA 2008
  • Miss Black Virginia America 2009
  • Miss District of Columbia America 2008
  • Music journalist, photographer, promoter, NPR music commentator
  • NFL cornerback (New York Giants)
  • NFL cornerback (Saint Louis Rams)
  • NFL defensive end (New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco Forty-Niners)
  • NFL safety (Indianapolis Colts)
  • NFL/WLAF receiver, New York Giants, Frankfurt Galaxy, assistant coach, Texas Southern University
  • Oscar-nominated filmmaker
  • Ph.D. Prime Minister of Grenada
  • Pierre-Noel, artist and educator
  • Premier and Minister of Tourism and Transport of Bermuda
  • President and CEO of International Media Content, the largest sports rights company in the Caribbean
  • President, Guyana
  • Professor - African American writer, philosopher, educator
  • Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Washington Post
  • Representative for New York's sixth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • San Francisco District Attorney
  • Senior Judge currently Judge Superior Court of the District of Columbia
  • South Carolina State Representative
  • The First Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He was also instrumental in them gaining their Independence. He was a noted Caribbean historian, and a Howard rofessor from1939- 1944.
  • United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, United States Ambassador
  • United States Senator representing Pennsylvania (1991-95)
  • actor ("Little Man", "White Chicks")
  • actor ("Stomp the Yard", "Jarhead", "All souls: Dia delos muertos", "This Christmas")
  • actor ("The Cosby Show, "Martin")
  • actor (Two Can Play that Game, Barbershop, Kangaroo Jack, "The Shield," "Law & Order.")
  • actor and activist
  • actor, ("Get On The Bus", "Grey's Anatomy")
  • actor, ("Tyler Perry's House of Payne", He is now engaged to ANTM winner Eva Marcille (formally known as Eva Pigford)
  • actress ("Hustle and Flow", "Idlewild")
  • actress ("Rent-The Movie", "The Devil Wears Prada", "Grindhouse")
  • actress , first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play ("Raisin")
  • actress Lifetime Television "Army Wives"
  • actress, ("The Cosby Show")
  • actress, ("The Jeffersons"), also Lenny Kravitz's mother
  • actress, ("The Steve Harvey Show", "The Game", "Two Can Play That Game", "Something New")
  • anthropologist and author
  • astrophysicist, director of NASA's "Mars Exploration Program Education and Public Outreach," chairman of Microsoft West Africa.
  • author
  • author and journalist
  • author and poet
  • award winning blogger
  • award-winning novelist
  • born Chloe Anthony Wofford, Nobel Prize for Literature
  • civil rights activist, founder and first leader of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • co-founder of the first law school in the world founded by women, first woman to be appointed notary public by the President of the United States
  • conservative commentator; television producer, WXIA-TV Atlanta
  • dancer, actress
  • dean emeritus Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, fifth permanent dean of the University of Louisville's College of Business and Public Administration
  • educator and pyschologist who conducted the 'doll research' for the Brown vs. Board of Education case
  • executive vice president, Barber-Scotia College
  • filmmaker and director , "The Wire"
  • first African American ever elected to the Texas Supreme Court
  • first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in bacteriology
  • first African-American graduate of Western Michigan College, first African-American female to attend Oxford, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from Harvard University, one of the first women members of the Department of History at Howard University, expert in diplomatic history, professor 1942-77
  • first African-American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
  • first African-American Chief Judge for the Missouri Chourt of Appeals Eastern District, first African-American male to be appointed a judge in St. Louis
  • first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in musicology from Oxford University
  • first African-American elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
  • first African-American elected to the United States Senate
  • first African-American mayor of New York City
  • first African-American radio sportscaster; co-owner of the first African-American owned and operated station in New York
  • first African-American to hold the Miss Texas title, first runner-up Miss America 2007
  • first African-American to earn a doctorate in chemistry.
  • first African-American president of Gannon University. Former Dean of College of Arts and Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana
  • first African-American judge in Arlington County, VA.
  • first African-American to be elected to the Connecticut State Senate.
  • first African-American to serve in the New Jersey Senate
  • first black woman to cast a vote in a national election
  • first elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
  • first female national president of the NAACP
  • first native Governor-General of Barbados
  • fmr. member Maryland State Senate, first African-American to run for Lt. Governor of Maryland
  • former Dean of the College of Medicine from 1970-1979
  • former Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, former Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives
  • former Major League Baseball player, hitting coach for the Philadelphia Phillies
  • former NBA player
  • former National Football League Defensive Back
  • former Secretary of Veterans Affairs, former Secretary of the Army
  • former United States Representative from Tennessee
  • former executive director of the NAACP
  • former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
  • former president of Fisk University; former Assistant Dean, Howard University School of Law and Harvard University Law School; executive director, Cities in Schools
  • founder The Angelrock Project,incorporater of styleWORKS organization, and creator and manager of Champions for Children Committee. Compton-Rock is the wife of comediam Chris Rock and was highlighted for her work in the lives of African- Americans on CNNs "Black in America II"
  • head men's basketball coach at Mount Saint Mary's University
  • head men's basketball coach at the University of Georgia
  • holds more than 130 chemical patents
  • jazz musician
  • jazz pianist
  • jazz saxophone
  • jazz singer
  • journalist and editor
  • late 19th century poet
  • mathematician, scientist, sociologist, first African-American admitted to Johns Hopkins University; Dean of Howard University's College of Arts and Sciences (1907-1919); established sociology department at Howard
  • mayor, Rochester, NY.
  • member of a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, actress, author.
  • member, United States House of Representatives (1883 to 1887) representing North Carolina.
  • music producer, also known as "Puffy", "P. Money", "Puff Daddy", "P. Diddy", and "Diddy"
  • musician and composer. Author of over 700 songs including the former state song of Virginia.
  • national director of the NAACP Youth and College Division. Finance Director, African-American Affairs for Obama for America Presidential Campaign.
  • noted NASA astrophysicist, first African American woman to earn a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan's Department of Astronomy.
  • novelist and poet
  • on-air personality
  • on-air personality - Entertainment show Extra
  • one of the first African American graduates of Harvard Business School and is also credited with creating the concept of target marketing
  • one of the foremost specialists in organ transplant medicine in the United States. Professor at Howard University College of Medicine, 1973- present.
  • opera singer
  • opera singer, received Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006
  • ophthalmologist, the first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention.
  • owner Simeus Foods, International
  • painter, printmaker and sculptor
  • percussionist, currently tours with Prince
  • physician (obstetrics and gynecology) and humanitarian, received Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964
  • playwright and screenwriter
  • poet and playwright of the Harlem Renaissance;
  • poet, essayist, and journalist
  • president Howard University
  • professional athlete-track and field
  • professional soccer player
  • quarterbacks coach for the Chicago Bears
  • rapper, member of hip hop group Brand Nubian
  • recording artist (singer & bassist)
  • reporter, CBS News
  • reporter, ESPNEWS
  • sculptor and printmaker
  • second African-American to earn a doctorate in chemistry, second African-American to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  • second woman to be ordained by the Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas
  • singer
  • singer, husband of singer Chante Moore
  • singer, musician and record producer
  • sociologist
  • songwriter and entertainment marketing consultant, widow of Louis A. McCall, drummer and founder of Con Funk Shun
  • sportscaster, CBS Sports
  • stage director, playwright and educator
  • talk show host (BET,The Ananda Lewis Show)
  • the current Provost and Executive Vice President of Manhattan College
  • the first African American woman on Florida Supreme Court
  • the first African American woman lawyer
  • writer, teacher, literary critic, poet laureat for Washington, D.C., professor 1929- around 1969
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  • This list of Howard University people, sometimes known as Howardites, includes faculty, staff, graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Howard University. Howard University (HU) is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian historically black university (HBCU) located in Washington, D.C.
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