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Jonathan A. Woodson is an American physician, government official, and retired United States Army officer. He has served as president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences since 2022. Woodson retired at the rank of Major General in…
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Jordyn Elizabeth Woods-Towns (born September 23, 1997) is an American model, socialite, and singer. The daughter of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air sound engineer John Woods, she grew up as part of the Smith family's extended circle through her family's…
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Josaphat J. Celestin, also known as Joe Celestin, is an American politician who served as the mayor of North Miami, Florida from 2001 to 2005. A Republican, he was the first Haitian-American mayor of a sizable city in the United States. Celestin was born…
1857–1921
Barbosa practised medicine, founded Puerto Rico’s first political party, and is remembered on the island as the father of the statehood movement.
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Josefa Zaratt (also Zarratt) (March 19, 1871 – August 4, 1962) was the first Black woman to graduate from Tufts Medical School. She was one of the earliest Black women physicians in the United States.
1902–1969
Joseph Alphonso Pierce Sr. (August 10, 1902 – September 18, 1969) was an African American mathematician and statistician. He was one of the first African Americans to earn a PhD in mathematics in the United States.
1889–1936
Joseph Cyrus Bradfield, M.D. (February 19, 1889 – April 11, 1936) was a prominent African-American physician situated in Lima, Ohio, well known for his civic commitment to the Lima community. The Bradfield Community Center in Lima was named after him for…
1905–1977
Joseph James Dennis (11 April 1905 in Gainesville, Florida – April 1977) was an African-American mathematician. He served as the chairman of the Clark College mathematics department from 1930 to 1974. Dennis gained his B.A. from Clark College in 1929, and…
1922–2000
Joseph E. Coleman (1922-2000) was an American politician, attorney and chemist. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
1945–2013
Joseph Grover Gordon II (December 25, 1945 – September 13, 2013) was an American chemist who worked for several companies, including IBM. A graduate of both Harvard and MIT, Gordon spent 33 years working at IBM's Almaden Research Center. Gordon's work was…
1940–2017
Joseph Andrew Johnson III (1940 – 2017) was an American physicist and professor at the Florida A&M University. He was a founding member of the National Society of Black Physicists. He was awarded the 1995 American Physical Society Edward Bouchet award and…
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Joseph L. Graves Jr. (born 1955) is an American evolutionary biologist and geneticist. He is a professor of biological science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and a former associate dean for research at the Joint School for…
1874–1945
Joseph Lowery Johnson (February 14, 1874 – July 18, 1945) was a physician and an early African-American diplomat, serving as the United States Ambassador to Liberia from 1918 to 1922.
1849–1908
Joseph Lee (July 4, 1848 – June 11, 1908) was an American baker and inventor. He successfully managed a hotel in Needham, Massachusetts for about a decade and later managed restaurants near Boston, ran a resort in Squantum, and ran a successful catering…
1936–
Joseph Monroe (born May 18, 1936) is an American computer scientist and the second African American in history to earn a Ph.D. in computer science. He served on the faculties of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Fayetteville State University, and North Carolina…
1937–2025
Joseph N. Jackson (1937-August 19, 2025) is an African-American innovator and inventor. As the inventor of the programmable controller for the VCR, DVR, TIVO, TV systems and holder of six patents relating to telecommunications his contributions to digital…
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Joseph Roosevelt Houchins (August 9, 1900 – January 5, 1990) was an American labor economist, attorney, and academic. He was a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, a leader of the Division of Negro Affairs in the United States Department of…
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Joseph Robert Love, known as Dr. Robert Love (2 October 1839 – 21 November 1914), was a 19th-century Bahamian-born medical doctor, clergyman, teacher, journalist, politician and pan-Africanist. He lived, studied, and worked successively in the Bahamas, the…
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Joseph Lee Simmons (born June 18, 1978) is an American guitarist, bass guitarist, songwriter and brewer. Originally from Houston, Texas, Simmons grew up in Coral Springs, Florida, where he notably played in the hardcore punk bands Dinner Time and Lock…
1937–1988
Joseph Allen Towles (August 17, 1937 – December 19, 1988) was an African American anthropologist and author of the books Nkumbi Initiation and Asa: Myth of Origin of the Blood Brotherhood Among the Mbo of the Ituri Forest. Towles was born in Senora,…
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Joseph Henry Parson Westbrook (February 20, 1878 – September 23, 1939) was a businessman, community leader, and civil-rights activist in Denver, Colorado. An African American physician and dentist who had moved to Denver from Hernando, Mississippi,…
1824–1916
Joseph Richard Winters (August 29, 1824 – November 29, 1916) was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who, on May 7, 1878, received U.S. Patent number 203,517 for a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder. On April 8, 1879, he received U.S. Patent number…
1920–2011
Josephine English (December 17, 1920 - December 18, 2011) was an American gynecologist who was the first black woman to open a private practice in New York. She was also known for her work in real estate and health care, in addition to her philanthropy…
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Josephine Silone Yates (1852 or November 15, 1859 – September 3, 1912) was an American professor, writer, public speaker, and activist. She trained in chemistry and became one of the first black professors hired at Lincoln University in Jefferson City,…
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