List of Kappa Alpha Psi members

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The following is a list of the most notable members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., a Greek-letter fraternity which was founded on the campus of Indiana University in 1911.

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Academics

Horace Mann Bond, venerable educator, first African-American president of Lincoln University
Michael K. Fauntroy, assistant professor of public policy, George Mason University and author of the book Republicans and the Black Vote
Arthur Schomburg, historian and scholar of African-American culture
Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, President of The State University of New York College at Old Westbury

Sharif Atkins, actor
Benny Da Kidd, record producer
Byron Cage, gospel musician
Cedric The Entertainer, comedian
Danny!, hip-hop musician
Jester Hairston, American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor, and actor on sitcom Amen
John Marshall Jones, actor
Montell Jordan, R&B musician
Whitman Mayo, African-American actor best known for playing the character Grady Wilson on the sitcom Sanford and Son.
Willie Moore a.k.a. Pretty Willie, r&b singer
Smokie Norful, gospel musician
John Singleton, director
Tavis Smiley, talk show host, political commentator, and author
Billy Taylor, jazz musician

Jon Drummond, world class sprinter, 2000 olympic gold medalist in 4X100 relay (Athens)
Hollis Conway, former top-ranked high jumper, two-time olympic medalist

Robert Sengstacke Abbott, lawyer editor,and publisher of the Chicago Defender
Robert L. Johnson, founder and former CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Reginald Lewis, late CEO of TLC Beatrice International, first black-owned company to have more than $1 billion in annual sales
William G. Mays, founder and CEO of Mays Chemical Company and owner of the Indianapolis Recorder
Max L. Siegel, President of global operations for Dale Earnhardt Inc, former Sony BMG/Zomba Label Group executive

A. A. Birch, Jr., first African-American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
Johnnie Cochran, famous defense attorney
George Edward Chalmer Hayes, civil rights attorney
Donald L. Hollowell, civil rights attorney
Percy Sutton, attorney and civil rights activist

Sanford Bishop, U.S. member of Congress from Georgia
Tom Bradley, former mayor of Los Angeles
John Conyers, U.S. member of Congress from Michigan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
George W. Crockett, former U.S. member of Congress from Michigan, civil rights activist
Walter E. Fauntroy, civil rights leader and former member of Congress from Washington, D.C.
Adrian Fenty, mayor of Washington, D.C.
Alcee Hastings, U.S. member of Congress from Florida, former Federal Judge, impeached for corruption
Wellington Webb, former mayor of Denver
Carl Stokes, former mayor of Cleveland, first black mayor of a major U.S. city
Bennie G. Thompson, U.S. member of Congress from Mississippi, Chairman of House Homeland Security Committee
W.Wilson Goode, former mayor of Philadelphia
John F. Street, mayor of Philadelphia

Eddie L. Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, one of America’s largest churches
Jesse Curney, III, pastor of New Mercies Christian Church, one of Atlanta's largest churches