Archibald Alexander (1888-1958)
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
Rebecca Cole (1846-1922)
Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918)
George Washington Carver (1865?-1943)
Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975)
Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941)
Charles Henry Turner (1867-1923)
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931)
Roger Arliner Young (1889-1964)
Benjamin Bradley (1830? - ?)
David Crosthwait, Jr. (1898-1976)
Dr. Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950)
Thomas L. Jennings (1791-1859)
Frederick McKinley Jones (1892-1961)
Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1929)
Elijah McCoy (1844-1929)
Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963)
Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894)
Madame C. J. Walker (1867-1919)
Granville T. Woods (1856-1910)
Michael Baisden
Connie Briscoe
Tajuana Butler
Christopher Chambers
Eric Jerome Dickey
Lolita Files
Gwynne Forster
E. Lynn Harris
Donna Hill
Hugh Holton
Travis Hunter
Brenda Jackson
Edwardo Jackson
Yolanda Joe
R. M. Johnson
Margaret Johnson-Hodge
Jake Lamar
Benilde Little
Marcus Major
Timmothy McCann
Bernice McFadden
Karen E. Quinones Miller
Denene Millner
Sharon Mitchell
Mary Monroe
Mary B. Morrison
Walter Mosley
J. J. Murray
Kimberla Roby
Jacquelin Thomas
Omar Tyree
Carl Weber
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Van Whitfield
Muhammad Ali
Maya Angelou
Josephine Baker
James Baldwin
George Washington Carver
Ray Charles
Shirley Chisholm
Johnnie Cochran
Nat King Cole
Bessie Coleman
Frederick Douglass
Charles Drew
W.E.B. DuBois
Michael Eric Dyson
Duke Ellington
Medgar Evers
Jamie Foxx
Marcus Garvey
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Savion Glover
Alex Haley
William R. Harvey
Jimi Hendrix
Billie Holiday
Langston Hughes
Jesse Jackson
Scott Joplin
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Coretta Scott King
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Queen Latifah
Spike Lee
Malcolm X
Bob Marley
Thurgood Marshall
Barak Obama
Jesse Owens
Rosa Parks
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Chris Rock
Wilma Rudolph
Dred Scott
Betty Shabazz
Tavis Smiley
Clarence Thomas
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Ross Tubman
Nat Turner
Alice Walker
Booker T. Washington
Cornel West
Serena Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Carter G. Woodson
African Americans of Note associated with N.C. and Forsyth County
Maya Angelou *
Simon Green Atkins *
Gwendolyn Bailey *
Beaufort Bailey *
Romare Bearden
George Black *
Selma Burke *
Vivian Burke *
William Hooper Councill
Thomas Day
Carl Eller *
The Five Royales *
Roberta Flack
John Hope Franklin
Henry Frye
Clarence Bighouse Gaines *
Eliza Atkins Gleason *
Pam Greer *
Larry Hamlin *
Jackee Harry *
Velma Hopkins *
George Moses Horton
Lawrence Joel *
Michael Jordan
Annie Brown Kennedy *
Meadowlark Lemon
Larry Little *
Carl Matthews *
Hiram Rhoades Revels
Ben Ruffin *
Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin *
Chuck Stone
Mel Watt
Larry Womble *
Mazie S. Woodruff *
