Prominent Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha
Activists
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Activist
- Julius L. Chambers: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Lester Granger: National Urban League
- Frederick Douglass: Anti-Slavery Activist
- W.E.B. Dubois: Writer, Historian, Civil Rights Activist
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: Civil Rights Activist
- Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice
- Paul Robeson: Activist, Scholar, Singer, Football Player
- Dick Gregory: Activist
- William Gray: United Negro College Fund, Businessman
- Franklin Williams: Phelps-Stokes Fund
Education/Scholarship:
- James Check: Howard University
- Thomas W. Cole, Jr.: President, Clark-Atlanta University
- William B. DeLauder: President, Delaware St. University
- John Hope Franklin: Historian
- E. Franklin Frazier: Sociologist
- Dennis Kimbro: Author
- Frederick Patterson: Founder, UNCF
- Dr. Ronald J. Temple: Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
- Cornell West: Author
- Andrew Zawacki: Rhodes Scholar, Author
- Dr. Raymond W. Cannon: 1st Edition, Sphinx Magazine
- Norm Francis: President, Xavier University
Military:
- Roscoe Cartwright: General, AUS
- Samuel Gravel: Admiral, USN
- Edward Honor: Major General, AUS
- Fred A. Gorden: Brigadier General
- Samuel Gravely: Admiral
- Benjamin Hacker: Rear Admiral
- Edward Honor: Major General
- James McCall: Major General
Science/Medicine:
- Dr. Lessall D. Leffall: President, American College of Surgeons
- James Comer: Psychologist
- Garrett Morgan: Inventor, Traffic Signal
- Louis Sullivan: Secretary of Health and Education
- Winston Scott: Commander NASA
Government/Politics:
- Kwame Kilpatrick: Mayor of Detroit
- Dennis Archer: former, Mayor of Detroit
- Richard Arrington: Mayor of Birmingham
- Willie Brown: Mayor of San Francisco
- David Dinkins: Former Mayor of New York
- Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver: Mayor of Kansas City
- Chaka Fattah: Congressman, Pennsylvania
- Ernest Finney: South Carolina Supreme Court Justice
- Earl Hilliard: Congressman, Alabama (7th District)
- Maynard Jackson: Former Mayor of Atlanta
- Thurgood Marshall: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Earnest "Dutch" Morial: 1st Black Mayor of New Orleans
- Marc Morial: Mayor of New Orleans
- Charles Rangel: Congressman, New York (15th District)
- Robert C. Scott: Congressman, Virginia (3rd District)
- Andrew Young: Former Mayor of Atlanta
Business:
- Thomas J. Burrell: CEO, Burrell Advertising
- W. Melvin Brown: CEO, American Development Corp.
- John H. Johnson: Entrepreneur
- Delano Lewis: President, National Public Radio
- Henry Parks: Founder, Parks Sausages, Inc.
- Joshua Smith: CEO, Maxima Corporation
Entertainment:
- Daryl Bell: Actor
- Tony Brown: Journalist/Producer
- Countee Cullen: Poet
- Duke Ellington: Jazz Musician
- Donny Hathaway: Musician
- Eugene Jackson: National Black Network
- Stuart Scott: ESPN Anchorman
- Chuck Stone: Philadelphia Daily News
- Keenan Ivory Wayans: Comedian, Producer
Sports:
- Quinn Buckner: Former NBA Player and Coach
- Wes Chandler: Former NFL Player
- Todd Day: NBA Player
- Rosie Greer: Former NFL Player
- Charles Haley: NFL Player
- Michael Jackson: NFL Player
- Carnell Lake: NFL Player
- Jesse Owens: Olympic Gold Medalist
- Fritz Pollard: 1st Black Head Coach in the NFL
- Mike Powell: Track Star
- Eddie Robinson: Winningest Football Coach in NCAA History
- Art Shell: Former NFL Player and Coach
- Wes Unseld: Former NBA Player and Coach
- Gene Upshaw: President of the NFL Players Association
- Lenny Wilkens: Winningest Coach in NBA History
- John "Hot Rod" Williams: Former NBA Player
- Reggie Williams: Cincinnati Bengals