List of Morehouse College alumni

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This is a list of notable alumni which includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Morehouse College.

Morehouse College is a private, four-year, all-male, historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

See also Morehouse College alumni.

Contents 1 Academia 1.1 Educators 1.2 Professors and researchers 2 Business 3 Entertainment 3.1 Music 3.2 Film, television and theatre 3.3 Literature 4 Government, law, and public policy 4.1 Federal government 4.2 State government 4.3 Mayors 4.4 Judges and Lawyers 5 Journalist and media personalities 6 Literature 7 Military Service 8 Religion 9 Science 10 Service and social reform 11 Sports 11.1 Olympics 11.2 Basketball 11.3 Baseball 11.4 American football 11.5 Other Athletics 12 Other notable alumni 13 References

[edit] Academia

[edit] Educators

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Calvin O. Butts	1972	President, SUNY College at Old Westbury	[1]
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson	1911	First African-American president of Howard University	[2]
Michael Lomax	1968	President and CEO of the United Negro College Fund and former president of Dillard University	[3]

[edit] Professors and researchers

[edit] Business

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Ronald D. Brown		CEO and Founder of Atlanta Life Financial Group, Inc
Herman Cain	1967	former Godfather's Pizza CEO	[4]

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Music

[edit] Film, television and theatre

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Samuel L. Jackson	1972	actor	[5]
Spike Lee	1979	film director and producer	[5]
Bill G. Nunn III	1976	notable stage and film actor	[6]
Saul Williams	1994	poet, preacher, actor, rapper, singer and musician	[7]

[edit] Literature

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Miles Marshall Lewis	1993	author	[8]

[edit] Government, law, and public policy

[edit] Federal government

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Sanford Bishop	1968	U.S. Congressman (Georgia)	[9]
Henry W. Foster, Jr.	1954	former US Surgeon General
Earl F. Hilliard	1964	former U.S. Congressman (Alabama)	[10]
Walter E. Massey	1958	Director of the National Science Foundation under President George H.W. Bush, former Provost of the University of California System, and President Emeritus of Morehouse College
Major R. Owens	1956	U.S. Congressman (New York)	[11]
David Satcher	1963	16th U.S. Surgeon General, former president of Morehouse School of Medicine	[12]
Louis W. Sullivan	1954	former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and current President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine	[13]

[edit] State government

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Julian Bond	1971	Civil rights leader, former Georgia state representative & Chairman of the NAACP	[5]

[edit] Mayors

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Claude Black Jr.	1930's	First black Mayor Pro Tem of San Antonio, Texas, civil rights leader, pastor of Mt. Zion First Baptist Church in San Antonio
Maynard Jackson	1956	First African American Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia	[5]

[edit] Judges and Lawyers

[edit] Journalist and media personalities

[edit] Literature

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Lerone Bennett, Jr.	1949	Senior editor for the Johnson Publishing Group (JET, Ebony)

[edit] Military Service

[edit] Religion

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Howard Thurman	1923	Theologian

[edit] Science

[edit] Service and social reform

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Hamilton Holmes	1948	Desegregated the University of Georgia (along with Charlayne Hunter). He first attended Morehouse before transferring to UGA	[5]
Martin Luther King Jr.	1948	civil rights leader and Nobel Laureate	[5]

[edit] Sports

[edit] Olympics

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Edwin Moses	1978	Olympic gold medalist	[5]

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Baseball

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Donn Clendenon	1956	New York Mets Outfielder and 1969 World Series MVP

[edit] American football

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
David Graham		DE, Seattle Seahawks 1982, 1987	[14]
Issac Keys		LB, Arizona Cardinals 2004-2005	[15]
Kalvin Pearson		DB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2002-2007	[16]

[edit] Other Athletics

[edit] Other notable alumni

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Joshua Packwood	2008	the first white valedictorian of Morehouse College	[17]

[edit] References

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