Famous Nupes

Business

  • Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr.* – Prominent Los Angeles, CA Attorney
  • Robert Johnson – BET Founder
  • Reginald F. Lewis* – Former CEO of world’s largest AA company, TLC
  • Percy Sutton – Entrepreneur and Owner of the Apollo Theater
  • Lerone J. Bennett, Jr. – Editor
  • Keith Clinkscales – CEO/President of Vibe Magazine
  • John E. Jacob – Exec VP of Anheuser-Busch, Inc and former CEO, National Urban League
  • C.C. Spaulding – First President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co.
  • Bert Collins – Current President of NC Mutual Life Insurance
  • Edward G. Gartner – President of Soft Sheen Products, Inc.

Civic

  • Dr. Rev. Ralph Abernathy* – Civil Rights Leader and former president of SCLC
  • Dr. Samuel D. Proctor
  • Dr. Rev. Leon Sullivan – Pastor of Zion Baptist Church – Philadelphia, PA
  • Rev. Gardner C. Taylor
  • Bishop Eddie L. Long
  • Rev. Calvin O. Butts – Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church – Harlem, NY
  • Dr. William Gibson – Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of NAACP
  • C. Vernon Mason – Prominent civil rights attorney and activist
  • Judge Herman Thomas -State Supreme Court of Alabama, Board of Trustees -University of South Alabama

Education

  • Dr. Joseph B. Johnson
  • Dr. Harold M. McNeil
  • Dr. Robert L. Randolph
  • Dr. Dallas Simmons
  • Dr. William E. Sims
  • Dr. Harrison B. Wilson Jr.
  • Dr. Samuel Massie
  • Dr. Horace M. Bond – Past president of Lincoln University (PA)
  • Dr James Shepherd* – Founder and first president of NCCU
  • Dr. Kenneth B. Clark – Prominent social psychologist and researcher
  • Dr. C. Eric Lincoln – Author of Black Muslims in America
  • Arthur Schomburg – Historian and scholar of African-American culture

Entertainment

  • Sterling Robert Macer, Jr. – Director (Mu Epsilon)
  • Kenny Burrell – Jazz
  • Donald Byrd – Jazz
  • John Singleton – Oscar nominated Director/Screenwriter
  • Dr. Billy Taylor – Jazz
  • Cedric the Entertainer – Comedian, The Steve Harvey Show
  • Joe Clair – Rap City Host
  • Tavis Smiley – BET Talk Show Host
  • Montell Jordan – R&B Singer
  • William Grant Still – Composer and Musician
  • William Raspberry – Syndicated Columnist for Washington Post
  • Ralph Wiley – Sports Writer and Author
  • Whitman Mayo – Actor who starred as Grady on ‘Sanford and Son’
  • Jester Hairston – Actor who starred as Rolly Forbes on ‘Amen’
  • Earnest Thomas – Actor who starred as Roger on ‘What’s Happening’

Government

  • Past Grand Polemarch Thomas Bradley – Former Mayor of LA
  • John Conyers – Congressman (D-MI)
  • Vernon Jones – Georgia State Representative
  • George Crockett Jr.- Congressman (D-MI)
  • Walter Fauntroy – Congressman (D-D.C.)
  • Mayor Elihu Harris – Oakland, CA.
  • Judge Carl Stokes – First A-A mayor of a major US city (Cleveland)
  • Louis B. Stokes – Congressman (D-OH)
  • Mayor Wellington Webb – Denver CO
  • Mayor Michael White – Cleveland, OH
  • Marvin Arrington – Atlanta City Council President
  • Mervyn Dymally – Congressman (D-CA)
  • Rep. Alcee Hastings – Florida
  • Rep. Albert R Wynn – Maryland
  • Rep. Sanford Bishop – Georgia
  • Bennie Thompson – Congressman (D-MS)
  • Edward Perkins – Ambassador to Australia
  • W. Wilson Goode – First AA Mayor of Philadelphia

Military

  • Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr. USAF* – First AA 4 Star General , Tuskeegee Airman
  • Thomas D. Parham, Jr. USN

Science

  • Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. – First Black Astronaut
  • Dr. Henry Foster – Surgeon General Nominee

Sports

  • Rod Smith- Football (Mu Epsilon)
  • Wilt Chamberlain – Basketball
  • Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway – Beta Mu Memphis Basketball
  • Arthur Ashe* – Tennis
  • Ernest Byner – Football – Eta Psi East Carolina Univ.
  • Wilt Chamberlain* – Basketball – Mu Chapter Kansas
  • Willie D. Davis – Football
  • Greg Lloyd – Football
  • Kenny Lofton – Baseball
  • Bill Russell – Basketball
  • Oscar Robertson – Basketball
  • Tarras Ross – Football
  • Gayle Sayers – Football
  • Kerry Kittles – Basketball
  • Lorenzen Wright – Basketball – Beta Mu- Memphis
  • Jon Drummond – Track and Field
  • J.J. Birden – Football
  • Bernie Bickerstaff – Basketball
  • Rolando Blackman – Basketball
  • Danny Manning – Basketball- Mu Chapter Kansas
  • Johnny Newman – Basketball Spring 83 Eta Xi VA Commonwealth / Univ. Richmond
  • Elliot Perry – Basketball
  • Chris Oldham – Football
  • Ron Dickerson – Football
  • Derek Loville – Football
  • Steve Wallace – Football
  • Elijah Williams – Football
  • Eric Davis – Football
  • Larry Finch – Basketball
  • Alex English – Basketball
  • Alan Henderson – Basketball
  • Larry Brown – Football
  • Glyn Milburn – Football
  • Carl Jackson – Football
  • Willie Jackson – Football
  • Terry Kackson – Football
  • Bob Simmons – Football
  • John Chaney – Basketball
  • Sam Jones – Basketball
  • Allan Houston – Basketball
  • Emmett L. Ashford – Baseball Umpire (first black)
  • Frederick “Duke” Slater – Football
  • Antonio Pettigrew- Track & Field- (Spring 1990 Gamma Omicron St. Augustine’s)
  • Kevin Jones- Football- Running Back Detroit Lions (Spring 2003 Theta Psi- VA Tech)
  • David Noel –
  • Basketball- Milwaukee Bucks (Spring 2003 Theta Omicron- UNC)
  • Christopher Barclay- Football- Running Back- Chicago Bears (Spring 2003 Omicron Sigma- Wake Forest)