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Agrippa Hull (March 7, 1759 – May 21, 1848) was an American patriot who served as an orderly to Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military officer, engineer and nobleman, for five years during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he received a…
1893–1997
Aileen Cole Stewart (1893–1997) was a prominent, pioneering African American United States Army Nurse Corps nurse during World War I. One of the first African American United States Army Nurse Corps nurses during World War I, Stewart is best known for her…
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Aisha Bowe (born November 4, 1985) is a Bahamian American aerospace engineer, entrepreneur, and STEM advocate. She is the co-founder and chief executive officer of STEMBoard, a technology and professional services company, and the founder of LINGO, an…
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Akeel Henry is a Canadian record producer and recording engineer. He was the winner of the Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award at the Juno Awards of 2023 for various musical contributions including Giveon's "For Tonight" and John Legend's "Splash".…
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Akilah Faizah Weber Pierson (born July 2, 1978) is an American politician and physician serving as a member of the California State Senate since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents the 39th district, which includes parts of central San…
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Ala Stanford (born December 1970) is an American pediatric surgeon. She founded Philadelphia's Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium. What began as free COVID-19 testing, funded by Stanford herself, reaching nearly 400 patients each day, developed into a step…
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Alan Lee Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is an American politician, political scientist, and perennial candidate who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987. A member of the Republican Party, Keyes…
1920–1966
Alan Powell Goffe (9 July 1920 – 13 August 1966) was a British pathologist whose research contributed to the development and improvement of vaccines, most notably the polio and measles vaccines. He was a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, a Fellow…
1895–1992
Alan Thacker Busby (December 12, 1895 – June 10, 1992) was an American animal scientist and educator who taught at two historically black universities from 1921 to 1966. He was the first African American to attend the University of Connecticut, enrolling…
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Albert C. Johnston (August 17, 1900 – June 23, 1988) was an American doctor. Described as part-black and of multiracial parentage Johnston and his family, passed as white while living in Gorham and Keene, New Hampshire. William Lindsay White wrote a…
1927–1985
Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid (November 13, 1927 – February 26, 1985) was an American mathematician who worked extensively on probability theory, Markov chains, and statistics. The author of more than 70 papers and 6 books, his work touched on such diverse…
1924–2014
Alberta Jones Seaton (December 24, 1924 – April 4, 2014) was one of the first African-American women awarded a doctorate in zoology, in Belgium in 1949. She then moved to East Africa, where she and her husband became involved in African independence…
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Albuíno Cunha de Azeredo (January 21, 1945 – September 16, 2018) was a Brazilian civil engineer and politician. He served as the Governor of Espírito Santo from 1991 until 1995 as a member of the Democratic Labour Party (PDT).
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Alec Damian Gallimore is an American aerospace engineer, currently serving as provost of Duke University since July 2023. Previously at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, he served as the 15th dean of engineering from 2016 to 2023 and as a…
2008–
Alena Analeigh (Wicker) McQuarter (born November 19, 2008) is an American student who is the youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States, and the second-youngest person to be accepted into medical school overall.
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Alexa Irene Canady (born November 7, 1950) is a retired American neurosurgeon, medical educator, and public health advocate. She was the first African American woman in the United States to become board-certified in neurosurgery. In 1987, she was appointed…
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Alexander Anim-Mensah, also known as Alexander Raymond Anim-Mensah, is a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer, inventor, and author. He is especially known for contributions he made towards the field of membrane science and technology. He is a recipient of…
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Alexander Hanson Darnes (c. 1840 – February 11, 1894) was the first African-American physician in Jacksonville, Florida, and the second in the state. Born into slavery in St. Augustine, Florida, as a young man he served as a valet to Edmund Kirby Smith,…
1912–1980
Alexander Durley (December 18, 1912 – July 18, 1980) was an American college football coach, college athletics administrator, and mathematics professor. He served as the head football coach at Texas College from 1942 to 1948, at Texas Southern University…
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Alexander Mills Lane (October 26, 1857 – November 12, 1911) was an American physician and politician. He was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, serving as a Republican, for two terms from 1906 until 1910. He also served as the assistant…
1838–1918
Miles’s 1887 patent for a mechanism that opened and closed elevator doors automatically made elevators much safer to use.
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Alexander Thomas Augusta (March 8, 1825 – December 21, 1890) was a surgeon, veteran of the American Civil War, and the first African-American professor of medicine in the United States. After gaining his medical education in Toronto, Canada West from 1850…
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Alexis Floyd is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Neff in the Netflix series Inventing Anna (2022) and Dr. Simone Griffith on Grey's Anatomy (2022–present).
1978–2005
Alexis Mazurin (April 18, 1978 – October 20, 2005) was a Canadian comedian and radio personality, best known as one of the original hosts of CBC Radio 3. Born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Mazurin grew up in Penticton, and later studied journalism at…
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