Notable Black People

94 items • Updated 10/26/2018

Not found on imdb: Amilcar Cabral (Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean anti-colonialist leader, engineer, poet), Charles Drew (scientist), Kashta (ancient Nubian ruler), Toussaint Louverture (Haitian military leader), Elijah McCoy (scientist, inventor), Menelik II (Ethiopian ruler), Piye/Piankhy (ancient Nubian/ Egyptian ruler), Mary Seacole (nurse), Harriet Tubman (anti-slavery activist), Sojourner Truth (slavery abolitionist, women's rights activist), Shaka Zulu (Zulu ruler)

1	👤	Chinua Achebe Writer
2		Muhammad Ali Actor
3		Maya Angelou Actress
4		Kofi Annan
5	👤	Henry Armstrong Actor
6		Louis Armstrong Music Artist
7		Josephine Baker Actress
8		James Baldwin Writer
9		Shirley Bassey Music Department
10		Kenenisa Bekele
11		Mary McLeod Bethune
12		Beyoncé Music Artist
13	👤	Abebe Bikila Composer
14		Simone Biles Producer
15		Usain Bolt Actor
16		Jim Brown Actor
17		George Washington Carver
18		Wilt Chamberlain Actor
19		Ray Charles Music Artist
20	👤	Joaquim Chissano
21		John Coltrane Music Artist
22		Miles Davis Music Artist
23		Frederick Douglass Writer
24		W.E.B. Du Bois Writer
25		Alexandre Dumas Writer
26		Duke Ellington Music Department
27		Eusébio
28		Ella Fitzgerald Music Artist
29		Aretha Franklin Music Artist
30		Morgan Freeman Actor
31		Marcus Garvey
32		Marvin Gaye Music Artist
33		Haile Gebrselassie Actor
34		Jimi Hendrix Music Artist
35		Billie Holiday Music Artist
36		Whitney Houston Music Artist
37		Langston Hughes Writer
38		Michael Jackson Music Artist
39		LeBron James Producer
40	👤	Jack Johnson Actor
41		Michael Jordan Actor
42		Jackie Joyner Actress
43		Martin Luther King Writer
44		Fela Kuti Music Department
45		Brian Lara
46		Spike Lee Director
47		Carl Lewis Actor
48		Joe Louis Actor
49		Wangari Maathai Actress
50		Graça Machel

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