Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.

Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ, pronounced A-Phi-A) Fraternity is the oldest Greek letter intercollegiate fraternity founded for African American men in the United States.

Notable Alphas

Activists

• Julius L. Chambers - NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• W.E.B._DuBois - writer, historian, civil rights activist
• William H. Gray, III - United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
• Dick Gregory - activist
• Martin Luther King, Jr. - civil rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• Thurgood Marshall - civil rights activist, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Marc Morial - National Urban League, Mayor of New Orleans (former)
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. - civil rights activist
• Paul Robeson - activist, scholar, singer, football player
• Franklin Williams - Phelps-Stokes Fund

Government

• Dennis Archer - Mayor of Detroit (former)
• Richard Arrington - Mayor of Birmingham
• Edward Brooke - U.S. Senator (former)
• Willie Brown - Mayor of San Francisco (former)
• David Dinkins - Mayor of New York (former)
• Emmanuel Cleaver - Mayor of Kansas City
• Chaka Fattah - U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania
• Ernest Finney - South Carolina Supreme Court Justice
• Harold Ford Sr. - U.S. Congressman, Tennessee (9th District)
• Earl Hilliard - U.S. Congressman, Alabama (7th District)
• Maynard Jackson - first black Mayor of Atlanta (former)
• Howard A Jones - U.S. Department of Psychology
• Kwame M. Kilpatrick - Mayor of Detroit
• Ernest Nathan Morial - first black Mayor of New Orleans (former)
• Samuel Pierce - United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (former)
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. - U.S. Congressman
• Charles Rangel - U.S. Congressman, New York (15th District)
• Robert C. Scott - U.S. Congressman, Virginia (3rd District)
• Andrew Young - United Nations Ambassador (former), Mayor of Atlanta (former)

Business and industry

• W. Melvin Brown - CEO, American Development Corp.
• Thomas J. Burrell - CEO, Burrell Advertising
• Alonzo Herndon - founder, Atlanta Life Insurance
• John H. Johnson - founder, Ebony and Jet magazines
• Delano Lewis - President (former), National Public Radio
• Henry Parks - founder, Parks Sausages, Inc.
• Joshua Smith - CEO, Maxima Corporation

Education and Scholarship

• Thomas W. Cole, Jr. - President (former), Clark Atlanta University
• W.E.B. DuBois - first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard and lecturer at Atlanta University
• Elson Floyd - President, University of Missouri System
• Norm Francis - President, Xavier University
• John Hope Franklin - historian
• William H. Gray, Jr. - President (former), Florida A&M University
• Freeman A. Hrabowski III - President, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
• Cornel West - Professor of African American Studies and Religion at Princeton
• Andrew Zawacki - Rhodes scholar, author

Athletics

• Quinn Buckner - NBA player, coach (former)
• Wes Chandler - NFL player (former)
• Todd Day - NBA player (former)
• Rosie Greer - NFL player (former)
• Charles Haley - NFL player (former)
• Jesse Owens - Olympic gold medalist, 1936 Summer Olympics
• Fritz Pollard - first black head coach, NFL
• Mike Powell - Olympic gold medalist, and long jump world record holder
• Eddie Robinson - winningest football coach in NCAA history
• Art Shell - first black head coach in modern NFL history, NFL player (former)
• Gene Upshaw - President, NFL Players Association
• Lenny Wilkens - winningest coach in NBA history

Media

• Tony Brown - journalist, producer
• Countee Cullen - poet
• Stuart Scott - ESPN anchorman
• Chuck Stone - journalist, author, educator

Entertainment

• Darryl M. Bell - actor
• Duke Ellington - jazz musician
• Lionel Hampton - jazz musician*Donny Hathaway - musician
• Eugene Jackson - National Black Network
• Lionel Richie - singer
• Paul Robeson - actor, singer
• Keenan Ivory Wayans - comedian, producer

Military and NASA

• Roscoe Cartwright - General, AUS
• Edward Honor - Lieutenant General, USA
• Fred A. Gorden - Major General, USA
• Samuel Gravely - Admiral, United States Navy
• Benjamin Hacker - Rear Admiral
• James McCall - Major General
• Winston Scott - Commander NASA
• Johnnie Wilson - General, USA

Philanthropic, literary and religious

• Eric Jerome Dickey - Author
• E. Lynn Harris - Author
• Frederick D. Patterson - founder, UNCF