Science
Anna DeCosta Banks- nursing
Dr. Thaddeus J. Bell- physician
Charles Bolden- astronaut- Pre-K/K/M
James Roland Clark- Dr- Sickle Cell expert
Edward Sawyer Cooper- former President of the American heart Association
Everett L Dargan- thoracic, cardiovascular surgeon
Matilda Arabelle Evans- 1st African American female Dr.
Ernest Everett Just- Biologist
Jonas Thomas Kennedy- farmer
Raphael C. Lee- surgeon
Dr. Alonzo Clifton McClennan- health care pioneer
Ronald McNair- astronaut and physicist- Pre-K/K/M
Hemphill P. Pride- dentist
Edwin Roberts Russell- scientist- atomic bomb
Dori Sanders- peach farmer and writer
James F. Brown, DDS- dental surgeon
John W. Bluford, III- president and CEO of Truman Medical Center
Anna Love Boyd- nurse and educator
Alma Byrd, PhD- cofounder of Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation
William H. Carson, MD- developer of ABILIFY, a medicine to treat mental illness
Dr. Stuart A. Hamilton- CEO and founder of Eau Clair Cooperative Health Centers
Irene Trowell-Harris – 1st female African American general, National Guard and nurse
Technology
Paul and Wendy C. Brawley- Brawley Business-Government Solutions- tech consulting firm
Jeffrey Livingston- launched Achieva.com
Engineering
Willie Dereef- master boatbuilder
Philip Simmons- ironworker and blacksmith
Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr.- restoration consultant and contractor
Robert Satcher, MD, PhD- Orthopedic Oncology Surgeon, Astronaut, and Engineer- Pre-K/K/M
Henry “Dad” Brown- brick mason
JohnHenryBlancheJr. - architect/engineer
Arts
Jenkin’s Orphanage Band members
Augusta Baker- librarian and storyteller
Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates- dancer
Kitty Black-Perkins- fashion designer/ Chief Designer of Fashions and Doll Concepts for Mattel’s Barbie
Chadwick Boseman- actor
James Brown- singer
Martin Douglass Cooper- fashion designer and photographer
Willis H. Crosby- radio legend
Beryl Dakers- filmmaker and journalist
Larry Doby- 1st African American in American League baseball
Dave Drake- Dave the Potter
Ethel Martin Bolden- groundbreaking Librarian
EarthaKitt- singer actress
Etta Jones- jazz singer
William H. Johnson- Harlem Renaissance artist
Mamie “Peanut” Johnson- only female to pitch in Negro Leagues
Jarvis Brothers- Jubilee Gospel singers
Jesse Jackson
Ernest Henderson, Sr. - Flight Instructor
Alberta Tucker Grimes- organized 1stHead Start Program in SC
Jonathan Green- artist
Dizzy Gillespie- musician
Althea Gibson- athlete
Joe Frazier- champion boxer
Etu Evans- shoe designer
Pearl Moore- holds the women’s basketball point record
Mark and Sandra Myers- promoters of African American cowboy culture
Thales Thomas “Skipp” Pearson- jazz legend
Sarah Reese- opera singer
Richard Samuel Roberts- photographer
Arthur Rose, Sr.–painter and sculptor
Fouche’naEverlyne “Che” Sheppard- storyteller
Drink Small- blues musician
Bennie Lee Cunningham, Jr.- athlete, NFL player
Beryl Dakers- Journalist- Documentarian
Mac Arnold- Blues and R & B legend
Sandra Blake- award winning doll maker
Gwendolyn Bradley- opera singer
Marie and Will Van Brailey- Chair Caners
Craig Melvin- journalist
Harry Carson- NFL player and CEO and President of Harry Carson, Inc., a sports consulting and promotion company
Mary Jackson- artist and Sweetgrass basket maker
Darius Rucker- musician
Chubby Checker- musician
Chris Rock- entertainer
Viola Davis-actress
Vertamae Grosvenor- cook and author
Mike Colter- actor
Vivian Glover- Journalist
Math
J. Arthur Jones- mathematician
Lt. Col. Charity Edna Adams Earley- Mathematician and highest ranking achieved by an African American woman in WWII
Kelly Miller- mathematician
Gloria Hewitt- mathematician
Katherine Johnson- NASA Mathematician
Others
Robert Purvis- President of the Underground Railroad
Joseph Hayne Rainey- US Congressman- 1st African American to be elected to the House of Representatives and take his seat
BishopSanco King Rembert- 1st African American Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church
Charlotta Spears Bass- 1st African American to run for Vice President also a newspaper publisher
Mary McLeod Bethune- founded Bethune College
Ruth Ann Butler- founded Greenville Cultural Exchange
SeptimaPoinsette Clark- Civil Rights Leader
James Clyburn- politician
Clementa Pinckney- minister, advocate, politician, attorney
Rev. Joseph Armstrong DeLaine- helped end segregation in SC schools
Anna May Manigault Hurley- business owner- funeral home director and embalmer
Maxine Smith Martin- president and CEO of Trident Urban League
Cassandra Maxwell- 1st African American woman admitted to the SC Bar
Benjamin Elijah Mays- Civil Rights Leader and president of Morehouse College, and 1st African American president of Atlanta’s school board
Frieda Mitchell- director of United Communities for Child Development
General Lloyd “Fig” Newton- commander of Air Education and Training Command, US Air Force
Patty Jaye Garrett Patterson- law enforcement pioneer
Eugene Robinson- Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist
Robert Smalls- slave who hijacked a confederate steamship and sailed to Union safety, captain in US Navy, and representative in US Congress
Juanita Willmon-Goggins- 1st African American woman elected to the SC General Assembly
Kimberly Aiken- Miss America 1994 and founder and president of HERO (Homeless Education and Resource Organization)
Webster Anderson- Congressional Medal of Honor for service in Vietnam War
Charles and Valerie Aiken- only African American licensed, Medicare-certified Home Health Agency in SC
Marjorie Amos-Frazier- Community leader
Luther J. Battiste, III, Esq.- lawyer, business leader
James E. Bostic, Jr. PhD- businessman
1st Lt. Leroy Bowman- Tuskegee Airman
Israel Brooks, Jr. - US Marshal
W. Melvin Brown- businessman
Marion Wright Edelman, Esq. - founded Washington Research Project/ Children’s Defense Fund
Patricia Sowell Harris- founder of Women’s Foodservice forum, Global Chief Diversity officer for McDonalds
Alonzo J. Ransier- Lt. Governor of SC