Famous Omega Men

Entertainment

Bro. Langston Hughes - The Black Poet Laureate, excelled as a poet, playwright, novelist, lyricist, and humorist.
Bro. Sterling Brown - Teacher, poet, writer, Professor Emeritus of Literature at Howard University, has a special foundation for folk culture and jazz music.
Bro. Carl Rowan - Syndicated columnist.
Bro. Joe Torry - Comedian, author, actor, producer.
Bro. William H. "Bill" Cosby - Comedian, author, actor, producer.
Bro. Roland Hayes - Internationally known tenor of the 1920s. Hayes sang in five different languages.

Athletes

Bro. Michael Jordan - Outstanding basketball player with the Chicago Bulls of the NBA.
Bro. De Hart Hubbart - A University of Michigan sprinter; was the first Black person to represent the United States in the Olympic Games (1924).
Bro. Ed "Too Tall" Jones - Outstanding player with the Dallas Cowboys football team.
Bro. Joe Black - An all-time great Brooklyn Dodger baseball pitcher. In 1952, he had the lowest earned-run average in the Major Leagues.
Bro. James Hasty - Outstanding player with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Bro. Charlie Ward - Heisman Trophy winner and NY Knicks guard.
Bro. Steve "Air" McNair - Outstanding player with the Houston Oilers.
Bro. Hank Aaron - Home-run King who broke Babe Ruth's record.
Bro. John Salley - Player with the Chicago Bulls.
Bro. Shaquille O'Neal - Star center with the Los Angles Lakers.
Bro. Jerry Ball - Player with the Oakland Raiders.
Bro. Cedric Maxwell - Outstanding professional basketball player with the Boston Celtics and other teams.
Bro. Leroy Walker - A U.S. Olympic coach (sprinters) for many years.
Bro. John Salley - Outstanding basketball player with the Detroit Pistons.
Bro. Keith Jackson - Outstanding football player with the Miami Dolphins.
Bro. Mark Duper - Another fantastic Miami Dolphins player.
Bro. William Floyd - Big man on the San Francisco 49ers football team.
Bro. Earl "The Pearl" Monroe

Bro. Michael Jordan

Entrepreneurs

Bro. Earl Graves - Publisher of Black Enterprise magazine.
Bro. Gillard S. Glover - President, Afro-American Life Insurance Company.
Bro. Thurman McKenzie - Co-owner of M and M Products (Sta Soft Fro).
Bro. Otis M. Smith - General Counsel, General Motors Corporation.
Bro. Nathaniel Bronner - Co-owner of Bronner Brothers Beauty Supplies.
Bro. Jesse Hill - President of Atlanta Life Insurance Company.
Bro. William Kennedy III - President of North Carolina Mutual Insurance
Company.

Civil Rights

Bro. Rev. Jesse Jackson - Former Director of Operation PUSH; Founder, Rainbow Coalition.
Bro. Grant Reynolds - Played a major role in President Truman's 1948 decision to desegregate the United States Armed Forces.
Bro. James Nabrit - Former Dean of Howard University Law School and former president of Howard University. A leader in the training of the early Civil Rights lawyers.
Bro. Wiley Branton - Attorney of the "Little Rock Nine" and former Dean of Howard University School of Law.
Bro. Roy Wilkins - Long-time Executive Director of the NAACP.
Bro. Benjamin Hooks - Succeeded Bro. Roy Wilkins as Executive Director of the NAACP, the most effective of all civil rights organizations.
Bro. Vernon Jordan - Former Executive Director of the National Urban League.
Bro. Khalid Muhammad

Education

Bro. Dr. Carter G. Woodson - The earliest and most outspoken proponent for the study of Black History.
Bro. Benjamin E. Mays - President Emeritus of Morehouse College, writer and lecturer.
Bro. Herman Dreer - Teacher, minister, writer, and author of The History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., 1911-1961.

Colleges & Universities

Known as of 1991

Name of President Institution Location

Bro. Dr.
William Harris Alabama State University Montgomery, Alabama

Bro. Dr. Billy Black Albany State College Albany, Georgia

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Lawrence A. Davis University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, Arkansas

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Nathaniel Pollard, Jr. Bowie State University Bowie, Maryland

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Ivory V. Nelson Central Washington University Ellensburg, Washington

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Henry N. Tisdale Claflin College Orangeburg, South Carolina

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Samuel D. Cook Dillard University New Orleans, Louisiana

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Oscar Prater Fort Valley State College Fort Valley, Georgia

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William Harvey Hampton University Hampton, Virginia

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H. Patrick Swygert Howard University Washington, D.C.

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James E. Lyons Jackson State University Jackson, Mississippi

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Roy D. Hudson Livingstone College Salisbury, North Carolina

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David Satcher Meharry Medical College Nashville, Tennessee

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Albert Sloan Miles College Birmingham, Alabama

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William W. Sutton Mississippi Valley State University

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Walter E. Massey Morehouse College Atlanta, Georgia

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Luns Richardson Morris College Sumter, South Carolina

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Samuel D. Jolley, Jr. Morris Brown College Atlanta, Georgia

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David Beckley Rust College

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William E. Gardner Savannah State College Savannah, Georgia

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James A. Hefner Tennessee State University Nashville, Tennessee

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Haywood Strickland Texas College

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Jesse L. Burns Edward Waters College

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Eddie N. Moore, Jr. Virginia State University Petersburg, Virginia

Politics

Bro. Lawrence Douglas Wilder - Became Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1990. He also received the Bronze Star for his military heroics in the Korean War.
Bro. William Hastie - First Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Bro. George L.P. Weaver - Former U.S. Secretary of Labor.
Bro. Vernon Jordan
Bro. Robert C. Weaver - First African American to serve on the Presidential Cabinet when he became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966 under President Franklin Roosevelt.
Bro. Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. - Secretary, Department of the Army.
Bro. Rev. Jesse Jackson - Candidate for the United States Presidency in 1984 and 1988.

Sciences

Bro. Dr. Ernest Everett Just - Internationally known biologist and professor at Howard University.
Bro. Dr. Charles Drew - Perfected the use of blood plasma; Professor of Surgery at Howard University. Physics (civilian)
Bro. Percy Julian - Discovered the use of foam to extinguish fires and discovered a method of producing cortisone synthetically.
Bro. Dr. Fred Drew Gregory - Astronaut, graduate of the United States Air Force Academy (pilot).
Bro. Charles Bolden - Astronaut, graduate of the United States Naval Academy (pilot).
Bro. Lt. Colonel Guion Bluford - First African-American in Space. He boarded the Space Shuttle "Challenger" in 1983 and performed the first "spacelab mission" on the Orbiter Challenger.