List of Kappa Alpha Psi brothers

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The following is a list of notable members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. recognized as leaders in the arts, athletics, business, civil rights, education, government, and science.^[1] Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on the campus of Indiana University in 1911 and has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin. The fraternity has over 105,000 members with 700 undergraduate and alumni chapters in every state of the United States, and international chapters in the United Kingdom, Germany, Korea, Japan, the Caribbean, Saint Thomas, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and South Africa.^[1]

Kappa Alpha Psi is a major contributor in the fields of political, social, cultural and scholastic achievement. The fraternity sponsors programs providing community service, social welfare and academic scholarship through the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation and is a supporter of the United Negro College Fund and Habitat for Humanity.

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Contents 1 Academics 2 Arts and entertainment 3 Business 4 Government and politics 5 Law 6 Literature 7 Military 8 Religion 9 Science 10 Sports 10.1 Baseball 10.2 Basketball 10.3 Football 10.4 Soccer 10.5 Swimming 10.6 Tennis 10.7 Track and Field 10.8 Other athletics 11 Citations 12 External links

[edit] Academics

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
C.C. Baker		President of Alabama State University
Horace Mann Bond		First African-American president of Lincoln University	[2]
Calvin O. Butts	Pi	President of The State University of New York at Old Westbury and pastor at the Abyssinian Baptist Church	[3]
Elbert Frank Cox	Alpha	first African American to earn a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, a field concerned with mathematical theory rather than with practice or application	[4]
Michael K. Fauntroy		assistant professor of public policy, George Mason University; author of the book Republicans and the Black Vote
Joe A. Lee	Gamma Gamma	President of Alabama State University and Tougaloo College
Hakeem M. Oluseyi		Assistant Professor of Physics & Space Science, Florida Institute of Technology; Adjunct Professor of Physics; Alabama A&M University; Astrophysicist and Inventor; Historian of Astronomy
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg	Omicron	historian and scholar of African-American culture	[5]
D'Errico Wylie		first Mr. Tennessee, 2007-2008

[edit] Arts and entertainment

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Sharif Atkins	Theta	Actor
Alvin Batiste	Alpha Sigma	Jazz Clarinetist	[6]
Ed Bradley	Gamma Omega	Investigative reporter for 60 Minutes	[7]
Kenny Burrell	Alpha Beta	Jazz guitarist; Director of Jazz Studies at UCLA	[8]
Donald Byrd	Alpha Beta	jazz and R&B trumpeter	[8]
Byron Cage		gospel musician
Joe Clair		Television host, best known for Host of BET's Rap City	[8]
Kevin Corke	Beta Theta	NBC News Correspondent	[9]
Danny!	Gamma Nu	Hip hop artist/record producer
Kevin Eubanks		band leader and composer, best known for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	[10]
Jester Hairston	Theta Iota	American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor, and actor on sitcom Amen	[8]
Kwame Jackson	Theta Omicron	Runner-Up on Donald Trump's The Apprentice; Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author	[11][12]
Donell Jones		R&B musician	[7]
John Marshall Jones	Theta	actor
Edward Jordan	Alpha Sigma	Jazz Saxophonist	[6]
Montell Jordan	Beta Omega	R&B musician	[8]
Cedric 'The Entertainer' Kyles	Beta Omega	Comedian	[8]
Whitman Mayo		Actor, best known as the character Grady Wilson on the sitcom Sanford and Son	[8]
Finesse Mitchell	Iota Chi	comedian
Ray McCampbell		The Mac Band	[8]
Smokie Norful	Gamma Sigma	gospel musician
William Raspberry		syndicated columnist for Washington Post	[13]
John Singleton	Beta Omega	Director, best known for Boyz N the Hood and Rosewood	[8]
Tavis Smiley	Alpha	talk show host, political commentator; author	[11][14]
William Grant Still	Delta	classical composer, first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra	[15]
Billy Taylor	Alpha Phi	Jazz musician	[13]
Ernest Lee Thomas		Actor, best known as Roger "Raj" Thomas of What's Happening and What's Happening Now!!	[8]
Ralph Wiley	Beta Phi	sports writer and author
Pretty Willie	Lambda Pi	R&B singer
Phillip Beasley	Gamma Tau	Founder and Co-CEO of So Official Entertainment and Masterworth Enterprise

[edit] Business

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Ray Williams	Gamma Phi	Founder and Co-CEO of The Young Affluent Professionals Group
Robert Sengstacke Abbott		lawyer editor, and publisher of the Chicago Defender	[16]
Rodney C. Adkins		Vice president of development for the IBM Systems & Technology Group; 2007 Black Engineer of the Year Award at the 21st Annual U.S. Black Engineer Conference
Danny J. Bakewell		President and COO of The Bakewell Company, one of the nations oldest and largest African-American owned-and-operated real estate development companies. The company owns & operates WBOK and The Los Angeles Sentinel
Toye L. Bogard		Past UG Grand Board Member; Appointed C.E.O of Men of Valor Services, Inc. a non-profit organization serving non-medical care to seniors citizens throughout the southeast region of United States	[17]
Valentino D. Carlotti		President, Goldman Sachs do Brasil Banco Multiplo
Keith Clinkscales	Alpha Xi	President and C.E.O. of Vibe Magazine	[7]
Bert Collins		President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance	[13]
John Edward Jacob		Vice President of Anheuser-Busch; former CEO, National Urban League (NUL)
Robert L. Johnson	Beta	Founder and CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET)	[8]
Reginald Lewis	Alpha Phi	CEO of TLC Beatrice International, first black-owned company to have more than $1 billion in annual sales	[8]
William G. Mays	Alpha	Founder and CEO of Mays Chemical Company; owner of the Indianapolis Recorder	[11][18]
Kedar Massenburg		President and CEO of Motown Records
Rodney J. Reynolds	Beta Eta	Founder and Publisher of American Legacy Magazine, President of RJR Media Group
Max L. Siegel		President of global operations for Dale Earnhardt Inc, former Sony BMG/Zomba Label Group executive

[edit] Government and politics

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Archie Alexander	Gamma	Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands	[13]
Richard H. Austin		Michigan Secretary of State	[19]
Sanford Bishop	Pi	Representative from Georgia	[20]
Tom Bradley	Alpha Upsilon	Mayor of Los Angeles, California, Grand Polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi	[8]
Lacy Clay	Theta Theta	Representative from Missouri	[20]
Michael B. Coleman	Columbus Alumni	Mayor of Columbus, Ohio	[20]
John Conyers	Alpha Beta	Representative from Michigan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee	[20]
George W. Crockett	Pi	Representative from Michigan; civil rights activist	[8]
Mike Davis		California State Assembly member
Mervyn M. Dymally	Alpha Mu	Representative from California	[8]
Walter E. Fauntroy	Alpha Gamma	Representative from Washington, D.C.; civil rights leader	[8]
Adrian Fenty		Mayor of Washington, D.C.	[21]
Johnny Ford		Mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama
Wilson Goode	Alpha Iota	First African-American Mayor of Philadelphia	[22]
Elihu Harris		Mayor of Oakland, California	[15]
Alcee Hastings	Alpha Delta	Representaive from Florida; Federal Judge	[20]
Alphonso R. Jackson	Epsilon Eta	13th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)	[20]
Vernon Jones	Alpha Kappa	CEO of DeKalb County, Georgia; Senator from Georgia 2008 candidate	[15]
Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer		Statewide Party Secretary, California Democratic Party
Obie Patterson	Johnson C. Smith University	Maryland House of Delegates, fmr. chairman Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland
James Perkins		First African-American Mayor of Selma, Alabama	[23]
Edward J. Perkins		U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations, and Australia	[24]
Carl B. Stokes		Mayor of Cleveland, first black mayor of a major U.S. city	[8]
Louis Stokes		First African-American Congressman from Ohio, civil rights lawyer	[24]
John F. Street		Mayor of Philadelphia	[21]
Shawn Z. Tarrant	Epsilon Zeta	Maryland House of Delegates
Bennie Thompson	Gamma Rho	Representative from Mississippi; Chairman of House Homeland Security Committee	[8]
Wellington Webb		Mayor of Denver	[8]
Jesse White	Beta Zeta	Secretary of State of Illinois	[25]
Albert Wynn	Beta Epsilon	Representative from Maryland	[20]

[edit] Law

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
A. A. Birch, Jr.		First African-American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
John Brittain		civil rights attorney and former law school dean
Johnnie Cochran		defense attorney, best known for his role in the legal defense during the O. J. Simpson murder case	[8]
George Edward Chalmer Hayes	Lambda Xi	civil rights attorney
Donald L. Hollowell		civil rights attorney	[26]
Donald Gaines Murray	Nu Tau	central figure in Murray v. Pearson (1935), which ruled that the University of Maryland School of Law policy of racial segregation was unconstitutional.	[27]
Percy Sutton		attorney and civil rights activist
Dennis Hayes		interim president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Vernon Mason		Alabama Supreme Court	[15]

[edit] Literature

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Lerone Bennett, Jr.	Pi	author and Executive Editor, Ebony	[26]
Cecil Cross		Author of First Semester
Alan Roger Currie		author, public speaker
C. Eric Lincoln		Author of Black Muslims in America	[15]

[edit] Military

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Daniel James, Jr.		First African-American four star general	[8]
Frederick C. Branch		First African American officer in the United States Marine Corps
Alfonza W. Davis	Alpha Eta	Tuskegee Airman, first African American aviator from North Omaha to be awarded his Aircrew Badge

[edit] Religion

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Ralph Abernathy		Civil Rights Leader and former president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)	[8]
Jamal-Harrison Bryant		pastor of Empowerment Temple AME, Baltimore, MD
Calvin O. Butts		Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, NY	[8]
Jesse Curney		pastor of New Mercies Christian Church, one of Atlanta's largest churches
Eddie L. Long		pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church	[15]
Cornelius Parks		Pastor of Worship at the Greater St. John Bible Church in Chicago, Illinois; civil rights leader and social activist
Samuel D. Proctor		Pastor Emeritus of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City; Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University; President Emeritus of Virginia Union University and North Carolina A&T State University
Leon Sullivan		Baptist minister; civil rights leader and social activist, General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist. Pastor Emeritus of Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, PA	[15]
Gardner C. Taylor		Pastor Emeritus of the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, NY; regarded as the dean of African-American preachers	[15]

[edit] Science

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Darren R. Cross		President of the National Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
John P. Eagan		3rd Black Orthodontist; Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal recipient
Henry Foster	Pi	Surgeon General nominee	[8]
Bernard A. Harris, Jr.	Eta Lambda	Astronaut, first African-American to walk in space	[8]
Hakeem M. Oluseyi		Astrophysicist and Inventor

[edit] Sports

[edit] Baseball

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Don Buford	Beta Omega	former MLB player coach	[28]
Kenny Lofton		MLB player	[28]
Lloyd McClendon	Zeta Alpha	Hitting Coach for Detroit Tigers; former manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates	[28]

[edit] Basketball

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Elgin Baylor		NBA Hall of Fame
Bernie Bickerstaff		General Manager of the Charlotte Bobcats	[8]
Rolando Blackman	Beta Psi	NBA player	[7]
Jason Capel	Theta Omicron	Basketball player at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jeff Capel	Iota Xi	Head Coach University of Oklahoma Men's Basketball
Wilt Chamberlain	Mu	NBA Hall of Fame	[8]
John Chaney		former head coach of Temple University	[8]
Erick Dampier	Eta Upsilon	Center for the Dallas Mavericks	[8]
Alex English	Zeta Epsilon	NBA Hall of Fame
Penny Hardaway	Kappa Beta	4-Time All Star	[7]
Leonard Hamilton	Zeta Kappa(Charter Member)	head basketball coach at Florida State University
Alan Henderson	Alpha	Power Forward for the Philadelphia 76ers	[8]
Allan Houston	Mu Rho	NBA player	[8]
Sam Jones	Alpha Kappa	NBA Hall of Fame	[8]
Kerry Kittles		NBA player	[8]
Danny Manning	Mu	NBA player	[8]
Johnny Newman		NBA player for 16 seasons	[8]
David Noel	Theta Omicron	Small Forward for the Milwaukee Bucks
Oscar Robertson	Beta Eta	NBA Hall of Fame	[8]
Bill Russell		NBA Hall of Fame	[8]
Darrell Walker	Gamma Sigma	NBA player and coach	[8]
Lorenzen Wright		Atlanta Hawks forward

[edit] Football

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Shawn Andrews	Iota Tau	National Football League (NFL) Offensive Lineman, Philadelphia Eagles
Bishop Arvin		Nebraska B.E.A.R.S, Cornerback
Nnamdi Asomugha	Gamma Alpha	NFL All-Pro Cornerback Oakland Raiders
Chris Barclay	Omicron Sigma	Special teams Cleveland Browns, Running back Tennessee Titans
Lem Barney	Delta Delta	NFL Hall of Fame	[8]
Larry Brown	Gamma Phi(Alabama A&M)	Super Bowl XXX MVP Dallas Cowboys, Cornerback	[8]
Drew Carter	Zeta	Wide Receiver Oakland Raiders
Eric Davis	Eta Mu(Jacksonville State University)	NFL Cornerback SF 49ers, Carolina Panthers, Detroit Lions	[8]
Willie Davis	Gamma Psi	NFL Hall of Fame
Ron Dickerson		former head coach of Temple University and Alabama State University	[8]
Jamar Fletcher	Beta Omicron	Jim Thorpe Awardee, Cornerback Houston Texans
Jason Goss		Cornerback Edmonton Eskimos Canadian Football League {CFL), Former Arizona Cardinals
DeJuan Groce	Eta	Cornerback New Orleans Saints
Corey Harris	Nu Rho	NFL, safety Detroit Lions
Kahlil Hill	Gamma	Wide Receiver Jacksonville Jaguars
Earl Holmes	Alpha Xi	NFL Linebacker
John Henry Johnson	Gamma Iota	NFL Hall of Fame	[8]
Kevin Jones	Theta Psi	Running Back Detroit Lions	[15]
Charles Lee	Lambda Omega	NFL Wide Receiver
Andre Lott	Mu Rho	Strong Safety Pittsburgh Steelers
Brandon Marshall		NFL Wide Receiver Denver Broncos
Ollie Matson		NFL Hall of Fame	[8]
Kirk Morrison	Delta Epsilon	Middle Linebacker Oakland Raiders
Pellom McDaniels	Iota Iota	Defensive End Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Falcons
Anthony McFarland	Nu Iota	Defensive Tackle Indianapolis Colts
Stanley Pritchett	Zeta Epsilon	NFL Fullback
Gale Sayers	Mu	NFL Hall of Fame Chicago Bears	[8]
Duke Slater	Gamma	College Football Hall of Fame
Rod Smith		Wide Receiver Denver Broncos
Tre' Stallings		Offensive Guard Amsterdam Admirals of the disbanded NFL Europa
		Punt Return and Kick Return
Jason Tucker	Kappa Epsilon	Wide Receiver, Edmonton Eskimos CFL
George Taliaferro	Alpha	First African-American drafted by an NFL team
Dontarrious Thomas	Theta Delta	Linebacker Minnesota Vikings
Andre Tippett	Gamma	NFL linebacker New England Patriots; Class of 2008 NFL Hall of Fame Inductee
Mike Tomlin	Xi Theta	Head Coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers
Courtney Van Buren	Gamma Sigma	NFL Offensive Tackle
Aeneas Williams	Alpha Sigma	Pro Bowl Defensive Back St. Louis Rams	[8]
Bill Willis	Zeta	one of the first African American football players to play professional football. NFL Hall of Fame	[8]

[edit] Soccer

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Dasan Robinson	Iota Mu	MLS player
Dante Washington	Theta Psi	MLS Player, and 1992 Olympian	[29][30]

[edit] Swimming

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Darryl Washington	Beta Epsilon	Top Ranked USA Swimmer: University of Pittsburgh Record Holder

[edit] Tennis

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Arthur Ashe	Upsilon	Tennis legend, social activist	[8]

[edit] Track and Field

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
Hollis Conway	Theta Nu	1988 and 1992 Olympic medalist	[8]
Jon Drummond		2000 Olympic gold medalist in 4X100 relay	[8]
Vincent Henderson		world class sprinter
Gregory A. Pipkin		1992 Kane County IL, 4th place in the discus
Erick Walder	Gamma Sigma	top-ranked high jumper

[edit] Other athletics

Name	Original Chapter	Notability	Reference
James Ellis		founded the Philadelphia Department of Recreation Swim Team; subject of the movie Pride
Damon Evans	Zeta Iota	First African American Director of Athletics at the University of Georgia

[edit] Citations

[edit] External links

• College Chapters of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity