List of Harlémites famous

List personalities having incipient or having lived with Harlem.

Caption: RH = Rebirth of Harlem AA = Afro-American

With

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, (Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor), born on April 16th, 1947 in Harlem, player of Basketball.
Maya Angelou, born on April 4th, 1928 with Saint Louis (Missouri), poetess; lived in the 120e Rue on Mount Morris Park (AA).
Louis Armstrong (August 4th, 1901 with La Nouvelle-Orléans - July 6th, 1971), musician of Jazz (AA).

B

Amiri Luck, (LeRoi Jones), born with Newark (New Jersey) on October 7th, 1934, Playwright; in Harlem (AA)
James Baldwin (August 2nd, 1924 with Harlem - December 1st, 1987) lived, writer; lived on the 131e Rue and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (the Seventh Avenue) (AA).
Count Basie (August 21st, 1904 - April 26th, 1984), Pianist, Organist, Leader of jazz, born in the New Jersey; he lived to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue.
Romare Bearden, (born on September 2nd, 1911, with Charlotte (North Carolina) - died on March 11th, 1988 in New York), Artist and writer.
Harry Belafonte, born the March 1927 in Harlem, singer and Actor (AA).
Arna Wendell Bontemps (October 13rd, 1902 - June 4th, 1973), Poet, born in Louisiana, installed in Harlem (RH, AA).
Ronald Harmon Brown (born on April 1st, 1941 with Washington and deceased on April 3rd, 1996), Politician, high in Harlem.

C

John Henrik Clarke (January 1st, 1915 - July 16th, 1998), born in the Alabama, Activist, writer, poet, Historian. He lived in Harlem in 1933.
Countee Cullen (1903-1946), poet, high in Harlem (RH, AA)

D

Ossie Davis, born on December 18th, 1917 in Cogdell (Georgia), deceased on February 4th, 2005 with Miami Beach (Florida), actor, Scenario writer, producing Realizer and . Lived in Harlem between the end of the year 1930 and beginning of the year 40 (AA).
Douglas Aaron (May 26th, 1898 - February 3rd, 1979), painter, born in the Kansas, lived to the 409 Edgecombe Avenue.
William Edward Burghardt Dubois (February 23rd, 1868 - August 27th, 1963), born in the Massachusetts, activist and writer, lived to the 409 Edgecombe Avenue, (AA).
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935), born with New-Orleans, poet, installed in Harlem where it was teaching (RH, AA).

E

Edward Kennedy Ellington, pianist, type-setter and leader of jazz was born on April 29th, 1898 in Washington and died on May 24th, 1974 in New York. Lived on Riverside Drive and to the 555 Edgecombe (AA).
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1st 1913, April 16th 1994), Intellectual and writer, born with Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. To the 730 Riverside Drive (Harlem) lived.
Erik Estrada born on March 16th, 1949 in New York (East Harlem), actor and producer.

F

Father Divine (C. 1880 - September 10th, 1965), religious leader, born in Pennsylvania, lived with Astor Row and had its offices to the 20 West 115e Rue (AA).
Jonathan Franzen (born in 1959 with Springfield (Illinois), writer, novelist and Essay writer, lived on the 125e Rue.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (September 24th, 1896 - December 21st, 1940), writer, born with Saint Paul (Minnesota).
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24th, 1900 - March 10th, 1948), écrivaine, born in Alabama, lived in Harlem.

G

Marcus Garvey (1887– 1940), activist and writer of origin jamaïcaine (RH, AA).
George Gershwin (September 26th, 1898 with Brooklyn, New York - † July 11th, 1937 with Hollywood) type-setter, lived its youth to the 520 W. 144e Rue.
Althea Gibson (August 25th, 1927, Silver, South Carolina - September 28th, 2003, Orange East, New Jersey), player of Tennis; she lived to the 115 West 143e Rue.

H

Alexander Hamilton, (1757 or 1755 - 1804), politician born in the the Antilles, lived the end of its life with Harlem.
Oscar Hammerstein I (May 8th, 1847 - August 1st, 1919) business manager, born in Germany, lived to the 333 Edgecombe Avenue.
Lionel Hampton is a vibraphonist of jazz and American percussionnist born with Louisville (Kentucky), on April 20th, 1908 and died in New York on August 31st, 2002, lived in Harlem during Second world war (AA).
William Christopher Handy (born on November 16th, 1873 with Florence (Alabama) and dead on March 28th, 1958) was a musician and type-setter of blues lived on Strivers' Row at the end of his life (AA).
Gay Marcia Harden, actress, born on August 14th, 1959 with La Jolla, California, lived in Harlem.
Billie Holiday (Baltimore, April 7th, 1915 - New York, July 17th, 1959) singer of jazz, lived with his/her mother to the 108 West 139e Rue (AA).
Harry Houdini born in Hungary on March 24th, 1874, deceased on October 31st, 1926, magician, bought a house in 1904 to the 278 West 113e Rue.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), poet, writer and leader-writer, born in the Missouri (RH, AA).
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7th, 1891 - January 28th, 1960) écrivaine born in Alabama, (RH, AA).

J

James P. Johnson (1894 - 1955), pianist of jazz, born in New Jersey (AA).
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), born in Florida, writer, poet and activist, lived to the 187 West 135e Rue (RH; AA).
Scott Joplin (November 24th, 1868 - April 1st, 1917), pianist and type-setter of ragtime, born with the Texas. To the 133 West 138e Rue in 1916 lived, then to the 163 West 131e Rue until 1917. It had a studio to the 160 West 133e Rue.

L

Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia, born on December 11th, 1882 with East Harlem and deceased on September 20th, 1947, mayor of New York of 1934 to 1945.
Burt Lancaster (November 2nd, 1913 - October 20th, 1994) born in New York, it passed part of its childhood in the district of East Harlem.
Nella Larsen (April 13rd, 1891 - March 30th, 1964) écrivaine, born with Chicago (RH).
Canada Lee, (born Lionel Cornelius Canegata, (March 3rd, 1907 - May 9th, 1952), born and died in New York, actor; he lived to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue (AA).
Frank Joseph " Frankie" Lymon (September 30th, 1942 - February 27th, 1968) singer, born and died in Harlem (AA).

M

Claude McKay (1889-1946) born in Jamaica, naturalized American, novelist and poet, settled a time with Harlem (RH, AA).
John Lenwood " Jackie" McLean, Saxophonist and Professor born on May 17th, 1931 in the district of Harlem and deceased on March 31st, 2006 with its residence of Hartford.
Malcolm X (born Little with Omaha (Nebraska), May 19th, 1925 - February 21st, 1965 died in New York), religious leader and activist (AA)
Earl The Goat Manigault (September 7th, 1944 - May 15th, 1998), player of tennis shoe, born with Charleston (South Carolina) high with Harlem.
Thurgood Marshall (born on July 2nd, 1908 with Baltimore in the Maryland and deceased on January 24th, 1993 in Maryland) was a lawyer, he lived to the 409 Edgecombe Avenue (AA).

NR

Richard Bruce Nugent (1906 - 1987), writer and painter born in Washington, lived with Wallace Henry Thurman in Harlem (RH, AA).

P

Gordon Parks, Photographer, realizer, Journalist and black militant American, born on November 30th, 1912 in the Kansas and deceased on March 7th, 2006, settles in Harlem in the years 1940 (AA).
Ann Petry (October 12th, 1908 - April 28th, 1997) écrivaine, born in the Connecticut (RH, AA).
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29th, 1908 with New Heaven- April 4th, 1972), politician and reverend, pass his youth to Harlem (AA).
Earl "Bud" Powell (born in New York on September 27th, 1924 - died in New York on July 31st, 1966), pianist of jazz.
Tito Puente (born in 1923, died in 2000), musician and type-setter born in El Barrio de Harlem.

R

Asa Philip Randolph (April 15th, 1889 - May 16th, 1979) born in Florida, activist and militant for the civic rights (AA).
Charles Rangel ((June 11th 1930 born with New York, democratic politician states-unien.
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9th, 1898 - January 23rd, 1976) actor, Sporting singer, and writer, born in the New Jersey, lived to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue (AA).
Bill Robinson tap dancer born with Richmond (Virginia) on May 25th, 1878 and died in New York on November 25th, 1949; lived on Strivers' Row (AA).
Sugar Ray Robinson, born on May 3rd, 1921 and deceased on April 12th, 1989, was a Boxeur, born with Ailey (Georgia), it grows in Harlem (AA).
Norman Rockwell (February 3rd, 1894 - November 8th, 1978), painter and American illustrator, born in New York, it passed part of its childhood to the 789 St Nicholas Avenue.
Henry Roth (1906-1995), born in Poland, writer who lived in Harlem.

S

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938), Historian, writer, activist born in San Juan (RH, AA).
Nina Simone, (Eunice Kathleen Waymon), born on February 22nd, 1933 with Tryon (North Carolina) the USA, deceased on April 21st, 2003 with Curry it Wheel (Rhone delta), was a pianist and singer; a time in the house of Duke Ellington with Harlem (AA) lived.
Granny Smith, was an American artist, born on May 26th, 1883 with Cincinnati (Ohio), died on September 16th, 1946 with Harlem.
William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith says Willie " The Lion" Smith (November 25th, 1897 - April 18th, 1973) was a pianist of jazz, one of the Masters of the Piano stride, born with Goshen (New York).
Percy Sutton (born on November 24th, 1920 with San Antonio) militant, lawyer and Contractor. (AA)

T

Wallace Henry Thurman (1902-1934), novelist, born in Salt Lake City (RH, AA); to the 267 West 136th
Jean Toomer (December 26th, 1894 - March 30th, 1967) lived poet, novelist, born with Washington, (RH, AA)

W

Fats Waller (1904-1943) was a pianist of jazz, organist, type-setter and humorist of scene, born in New York (AA)
Ethel Waters (October 31st, 1896 - September 1st, 1977), singer of blues, actress born in Pennsylvania (AA)
Dinah Washington (August 29th, 1924 - December 14th, 1963) was an American singer of blues, jazz and gospel; born with Tuscaloosa (Alabama) (AA)
Dorothy West (1907 - 1998) écrivaine, born with Boston, settles in Harlem in 1926 (RH, AA)
Walter Francis White (born on July 1st, 1893, with Atlanta - died on March 21st, 1955, in New York), militant of the civic rights
Mary Elfrieda Winn, said Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger and American type-setter (Pittsburgh, 1910 - North Carolina, May 28th, 1981).

Z

James Van Der Zee (June 29th, 1886 - May 15th, 1983), photographer known for his black portraits of New Yorkean. (HH)

Chronological list

Born before 1900

Alexander Hamilton, (1755/1757 - 1804), politician born in the the Antilles
Oscar Hammerstein I (May 8th, 1847 - August 1st, 1919), Business manager, born in Germany, lived to the 333 Edgecombe Avenue.
William Edward Burghardt Of Wood (February 23rd, 1868 - August 27th, 1963), born in the Massachusetts, Activist and writer, lived to the 409 Edgecombe Avenue. (AA)
Scott Joplin (November 24th, 1868 - April 1st, 1917) was a Pianiste and Compositeur of ragtime, born with the Texas. To the 133 West 138th Street in 1916 lived, then to the 163 West 131st Street until 1917. It had a studio to the 160 West 133rd Street.
James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938), born in Florida, writer, Poet and activist, lived to the 187 West 135th Street. (RH, AA)
William Christopher Handy (born on November 16th, 1873 with Florence (Alabama) and dead on March 28th, 1958) was a Musicien and type-setter of blues lived on Strivers' Row at the end of his life. (AA)
Harry Houdini in Hungary on March 24th, 1874, deceased on October 31st, 1926, Magician, bought a house in 1904 to the 278 West 113th Street.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874 - 1938), Historian, writer, activist born in San Juan. (RH, AA)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875 - 1935), born with La Nouvelle-Orléans, poet, installed in Harlem where it was teaching. (RH, AA)
Bill Robinson tap dancer American born with Richmond (Virginia) on May 25th, 1878 and died in New York on November 25th, 1949, lived on Strivers' Row. (AA)
Father Divine (C. 1880 - September 10th, 1965), religious leader, born in Pennsylvania, lived with Astor Row and had its offices to the 20 West 115th Street. (AA)
Fiorello LaGuardia, born on December 11th, 1882 with East Harlem and deceased on September 20th, 1947, was the mayor of New York of 1934 to 1945.
Mamie Smith, was an American artist, born on May 26th, 1883 with Cincinnati (Ohio), died on September 16th, 1946 with Harlem.
James Van Der Zee (June 29th, 1886 - May 15th, 1983) was a Photographe Afro-American known for his black portraits of New Yorkean. (HH)
Marcus Garvey (1887 - 1940), activist and writer of origin jamaïcaine. (RH, AA)
Claude McKay (1889 - 1946), born in Jamaica, naturalized American, novelist and poet, travelled much and settled a time with Harlem. (RH, AA)
Asa Philip Randolph (April 15th, 1889 - May 16th, 1979) born in Florida, activist and militant for the civic rights. (AA)
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7th, 1891 - January 28th, 1960) écrivaine born in Alabama. (RH, AA)
Nella Larsen (April 13rd, 1891 - March 30th, 1964) écrivaine, born with Chicago. (RH)
Walter Francis White (born on July 1st, 1893, in Atlanta - died on March 21st, 1955, New York), militant of the civic rights.
Norman Rockwell (February 3rd, 1894 - November 8th, 1978) was a painter and Illustrateur American, born in New York, it passed part of its childhood to the 789 St Nicholas Avenue.
James P. Johnson (1894 - 1955) was a pianist of Jazz, born in the New Jersey. (AA)
Jean Toomer (December 26th, 1894 - March 30th, 1967) poet, novelist, born with Washington. (RH, AA)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (September 24th, 1896 - December 21st, 1940) is an American writer, born at Saint Paul (Minnesota). (LG)
Ethel Toilets (October 31st, 1896 - September 1st, 1977), singer of Blues and actress, nominated with the Oscar S, born in Pennsylvania. (AA)
William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith, known as Willie " The Lion" Smith (November 25th, 1897 - April 18th, 1973) was a pianist of jazz, one of the Masters of the piano stride, born in Goshen (New York).
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9th, 1898 - January 23rd, 1976) actor, singer, writer, activity, born in the New Jersey, lived to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue (AA)
Edward Kennedy " The Duke" Ellington, pianist, type-setter and Leader of jazz were born on April 29th, 1898 in Washington and died on May 24th, 1974 in New York. Lived on Riverside Drive and to the 555 Edgecombe. (AA)
Douglas Aaron (May 26th, 1898 - February 3rd, 1979), painter, born in the Kansas, lived to the 409 Edgecombe Avenue.
George Gershwin (September 26th, 1898 with Brooklyn, New York - July 11th, 1937 with Hollywood) type-setter lived her youth to the 520 W. 144 street.

born between 1900 and 1940

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24th, 1900 - March 10th, 1948), écrivaine, born in Alabama
Louis Armstrong (August 4th, 1901 - July 6th, 1971) American musician of jazz, born with New-Orleans.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), poet, writer and leader-writer, born in Missouri (RH, AA)
Wallace Henry Thurman (1902-1934), novelist, born in Salt Lake City (RH, AA); lived to the 267 West 136th
Countee Cullen (1903-1946), poet, high in Harlem (RH, AA)
Count Basie (August 21st, 1904 - April 26th, 1984) pianist, organist, and especially leader of jazz, born in the New Jersey he lived to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue
Fats Waller (1904-1943) was a pianist of jazz, organist, type-setter and humorist of scene, born to NY (AA)
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906 - 1987), writer and painter born in Washington, lived with Wallace Henry Thurman in Harlem (RH, AA)
Henry Roth (1906-1995), born in Poland, writer who lived in Harlem.
Dorothy West (1907 - 1998) écrivaine, born in Boston, settles in Harlem in 1926 (RH, AA)
Canada Lee, (born Lionel Cornelius Canegata, (3 mar 1907 - May 9th, 1952), actor born and died in New York, to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue (AA) lived
Lionel Hampton is a vibraphonist of jazz and American percussionnist born at Louisville, Kentucky, on April 20th, 1908 and died in New York on August 31st, 2002, lived in Harlem during Second world war (AA)
Thurgood Marshall (born on July 2nd, 1908 in Baltimore in Maryland and deceased on January 24th, 1993 in Maryland) was a lawyer, it lived to the 409 Edgecombe Avenue (AA)
Ann Petry (October 12th, 1908 - April 28th, 1997) écrivaine, born in Connecticut (RH, AA)
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (November 29th, 1908 with New Heaven- April 4th, 1972), politician and reverend, youth with Harlem (AA)
Mary Elfrieda Winn, known as Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger and American type-setter (Pittsburg, 1910 - North Carolina, May 28th, 1981).
Romare Bearden, (born on September 2nd, 1911, in Charlotte (North Carolina) - died on March 11th, 1988 in New York), artist and writer.
Gordon Parks was a photographer, realizer, journalist and black militant American, born on November 30th, 1912 in Kansas and deceased on March 7th, 2006, settles in Harlem in the years 1940 (AA)
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1st 1913, April 16th 1994) was a Intellectuel and American writer , born with Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. To the 730 Riverside Drive in Harlem lived.
Burt Lancaster (November 2nd, 1913 - October 20th, 1994) born in New York, it passed part of its childhood in the district of East Harlem
John Henrik Clarke (January 1st, 1915 - July 16th, 1998), born in Alabama, black militant, historian, écrvian and professor. He lived in Harlem in 1933
Billie Holiday (Baltimore, April 7th, 1915 - New York, July 17th, 1959) singer of jazz, lived with his mother to the 108 West 139th Street (AA)
Ossie Davis is an actor, scenario writer, realizer and American producer born on December 18th, 1917 with Cogdell, Georgia (the United States), deceased on February 4th, 2005 in Miami Beach (Florida). Lived in Harlem between the end of the year 1930 and the beginning of the year 40 (AA)
Percy Sutton (born on November 24th, 1920 in San Antonio) militant, lawyer and contractor. (AA)
Sugar Ray Robinson, born on May 3rd, 1921 and deceased on April 12th, 1989, was a boxer, born in Ailey (Georgia), he grows in Harlem (AA)
Tito Puente (born in 1923, died in 2000), musician and type-setter born in El Barrio de Harlem
James Baldwin (August 2nd, 1924 with Harlem, New York - December 1st, 1987 with Saint-Paul de Vence) writer, lived with the 131st Street and on Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. (the Seventh Avenue)
Dinah Washington (August 29th, 1924 - December 14th, 1963) was an American singer of blues, jazz and gospel; born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (AA)
Earl " Bud" Powell (born in New York on September 27th, 1924 - died in New York on July 31st, 1966) is a pianist of jazz (AA)
Malcolm X (born Little with Omaha (Nebraska), May 19th, 1925 - died February 21st, 1965 with NY), religious leader and activist (AA)
Harry Belafonte, born on March 1st, 1927 in Harlem in the town of New York, is a singer and actor (American). (AA)

Althea Gibson (August 25th, 1927, Silver, South Carolina - September 28th, 2003, East Orange, New Jersey) is a tennis player, it lived to the 115 West 143rd Street

Maya Angelou is a poetess Afro-American born on April 4th, 1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri, (AA) lives with the 120th Street on Mount Morris Park
John Lenwood " Jackie" McLean is a saxophonist viola of jazz and professor born on May 17th, 1931 in the district of Harlem to New York and deceased on March 31st, 2006 in his residence of Hartford (Connecticut)
Nina Simone, of his true name Eunice Kathleen Waymon, born on February 22nd, 1933 with Tryon (North Carolina) the USA, deceased on April 21st, 2003 with Curry-the-Wheel (Rhone delta) France, was a pianist and singer; a time in the house of Duke Ellington with Harlem (AA)
Amiri Baraka lived (of its true name LeRoi Jones), playwright born in Newark (New Jersey) on October 7th, 1934, lived in Harlem (AA)

Born after 1940

Ronald Harmon Brown (born on April 1st, 1941 in Washington and deceased on April 3rd, 1996), is a politician, high in Harlem
Frank Joseph " Frankie" Lymon (September 30th, 1942 - February 27th, 1968), singer born and died in Harlem (AA)
Earl The Goat Manigault (September 7th, 1944 - May 15th, 1998), player of tennis shoe, born in Charleston, South Carolina raised in Harlem
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor (or Lew Alcindor) on April 16th, 1947 in New York, is a former player of basketball of NBA. Born in Harlem
Erik Estrada is an actor and producing American of Porto Rican descent born on March 16th, 1949 in East Harlem
Jonathan Franzen (born in 1959 in Springfield, Illinois) is an American writer, novelist and essay writer, lived on the 125th Street
Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress born on August 14th, 1959 in La Jolla, California

List set of themes

Literature and theater

Maya Angelou is a poetess Afro-American born on April 4th, 1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri, (AA) saw with the 120th Street on Mount Morris Park
James Baldwin (August 2nd, 1924 with Harlem, New York - December 1st, 1987 with Saint-Paul de Vence) writer, lived with the 131st Street and on Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. (the Seventh Avenue)
Arna Wendell Bontemps (October 13rd, 1902 - June 4th, 1973) was a poet, born in Louisiana, installed with Harlem (RH, AA)
John Henrik Clarke (January 1st, 1915 - July 16th, 1998), born in Alabama, militant, writer, poet, professor which lived in Harlem in 1933
Countee Cullen (1903-1946), poet, raised with Harlem (RH, AA)
William Edward Burghardt Of Wood (February 23rd, 1868 - August 27th, 1963), born in Massachusetts, activist and writer, lived to the 409 Edgecombe Avenue, (AA)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935), born with New-Orleans, poet, installed in Harlem where it was teaching (RH, AA)
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1st 1913, April 16th 1994) was a Intellectuel and American writer , born with Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Lived with At 730 Riverside Drive in Harlem.
Jonathan Franzen (born in 1959 in Springfield, Illinois) is an American writer, novelist and essay writer, lived on the 125th Street
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (September 24th, 1896 - December 21st, 1940) is an American writer, born at Saint Paul (Minnesota).
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24th, 1900 - March 10th, 1948), écrivaine, born in Alabama
Marcus Garvey (1887– 1940), activist and writer of origin jamaïcaine (RH, AA)
Oscar Hammerstein I (May 8th, 1847 - August 1st, 1919) business manager, born in Germany, lived to the 333 Edgecombe Avenue
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), poet, writer and leader-writer, born in Missouri (RH, AA)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), born in Florida, writer, poet and activist, lived to the 187 West 135th Street (RH; AA)
Claude McKay (1889-1946) born in Jamaica, naturalized American, novelist and poet, settled a time with Harlem (RH, AA)
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7th, 1891 - January 28th, 1960) écrivaine born in Alabama, (RH, AA)
Nella Larsen (April 13rd, 1891 - March 30th, 1964) écrivaine, born in Chicago (RH)
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906 - 1987), writer and painter born in Washington, lived with Wallace Henry Thurman in Harlem (RH, AA)
Ann Petry (October 12th, 1908 - April 28th, 1997) écrivaine, born in Connecticut (RH, AA)
Henry Roth (1906-1995), born in Poland, writer who lived in Harlem.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938), historian, writer, activist born in San Juan (RH, AA)
Wallace Henry Thurman (1902-1934), novelist, born in SaltLakeCity (RH, AA); lived to the 267 West 136th
Jean Toomer (December 26th, 1894 - March 30th, 1967) poet, novelist, born in Washington, (RH, AA)
Dorothy West (1907 - 1998) écrivaine, born in Boston, settles in Harlem in 1926 (RH, AA)

Policy and right

Ronald Harmon Brown (born on April 1st, 1941 in Washington and deceased on April 3rd, 1996), is a politician, high with Harlem
Alexander Hamilton, (1757 or 1755 - 1804), politician born in the Antilles
Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia, born on December 11th, 1882 in East Harlem and deceased on September 20th, 1947, was the mayor of New York of 1934 to 1945.
Thurgood Marshall (born on July 2nd, 1908 in Baltimore in Maryland and deceased on January 24th, 1993 in Maryland) was a lawyer, he lived to the 409 Edgecombe Avenue (AA)
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (November 29th, 1908 New Heaven- April 4th, 1972), politician and reverend, youth with Harlem (AA)
Asa Philip Randolph (April 15th, 1889 - May 16th, 1979) born in Florida, activist and militant for the civic rights (AA)
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9th, 1898 - January 23rd, 1976) actor, singer, writer and militant, born in the New Jersey, lived to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue (AA)
Percy Sutton (born on November 24th, 1920 in San Antonio) militant, lawyer and contractor. (AA)

Music and song

Louis Armstrong (August 4th, 1901 - July 6th, 1971) American musician of jazz, born with New-Orleans.
Count Basie (August 21st, 1904 - April 26th, 1984) pianist, organist, and especially leader of jazz, born in the New Jersey, it lived to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue
Edward Kennedy Ellington says Duke Ellington, pianist, type-setter and leader of jazz were born on April 29th, 1898 in Washington and died on May 24th, 1974 in New York. Lived on Riverside Drive and to the 555 Edgecombe (AA)
George Gershwin (September 26th, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York - † July 11th, 1937 in Hollywood) type-setter, lived its youth to the 520 W. 144 street
Lionel Hampton is a vibraphonist of jazz and American percussionnist born at Louisville, Kentucky, on April 20th, 1908 and died in New York on August 31st, 2002, lived in Harlem during Second world war (AA)
William Christopher Handy (born on November 16th, 1873 in Florence (Alabama) and died on March 28th, 1958) was a musician and type-setter of blues lived on Strivers' Row with lafind E his life (AA)
Billie Holiday (Baltimore, April 7th, 1915 - New York, July 17th, 1959) singer of jazz, lived with his/her mother to the 108 West 139th Street (AA)
James P. Johnson (1894 - 1955) was a pianist of jazz, born in New Jersey (AA)
Scott Joplin (November 24th, 1868 - April 1st, 1917) was a pianist and type-setter of ragtime, born in Texas. To the 133 West 138th Street in 1916 lived, then to the 163 West 131st Street until 1917. It had a studio to the 160 West 133rd Street
Frank Joseph " Frankie" Lymon (September 30th, 1942 - February 27th, 1968) was a singer Afro-American, born and died in Harlem (AA)
John Lenwood " Jackie" McLean is a saxophonist viola of jazz and professor born on May 17th, 1931 in the district of Harlem to New York and deceased on March 31st, 2006 in its residence of Hartford (Connecticut)
Earl " Bud" Powell (born in New York on September 27th, 1924 - died in New York on July 31st, 1966) is a pianist of jazz (AA)
Tito Puente (born in 1923, died in 2000), musician and type-setter born in El Barrio de Harlem
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9th, 1898 - January 23rd, 1976) born in the New Jersey, lived to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue (AA)
Nina Simone, of his true name Eunice Kathleen Waymon, born on February 22nd, 1933 in Tryon (North Carolina) the USA, died on April 21st, 2003 with Curry-the-Wheel (Rhone delta) France, was a pianist and singer; a time in the house of Duke Ellington with Harlem lived. (AA)
Granny Smith, was an American artist, born on May 26th, 1883 in Cincinnati (Ohio), died on September 16th, 1946 with Harlem.
William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith says Willie " The Lion" Smith (November 25th, 1897 - April 18th, 1973) was a pianist of jazz, one of the Masters of the piano stride, born in Goshen (New York)
Fats Waller (1904-1943) was a pianist of jazz, organist, type-setter and humorist of scene, born to NY (AA)
Ethel Waters (October 31st, 1896 - September 1st, 1977) actress born in Pennsylvania (AA)
Dinah Washington (August 29th, 1924 - December 14th, 1963) was an American singer of blues, jazz and gospel; born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (AA)
Mary Elfrieda Winn known as Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger and American type-setter (Pittsburg, 1910 - North Carolina, May 28th, 1981).

Spectacle, cinema

Harry Belafonte, born on March 1st, 1927 in Harlem in the town of New York, is a singer and actor (American). (AA)
Ossie Davis is an actor, scenario writer, realizer and American producer born on December 18th, 1917 with Cogdell, Georgia (the United States), deceased on February 4th, 2005 in Miami Beach (Florida). Lived in Harlem between the end of the year 1930 and the beginning of the year 40 (AA)
Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress born on August 14th, 1959 in La Jolla, California
Harry Houdini born in Hungary on March 24th, 1874, deceased on October 31st, 1926, magician, bought to a house in 1904 to the 278 West 113th Street
Burt Lancaster (November 2nd, 1913 - October 20th, 1994) actor born in New York, he passed part of its childhood in the district of East Harlem
Canada Lee, (born Lionel Cornelius Canegata, (March 3,1907 - May 9,1952) was an actor born and died in NYC, to the 555 Edgecombe Avenue (AA) lived
Gordon Parks was a photographer, realizer, journalist and black militant American, born on November 30th, 1912 in Kansas and deceased on March 7th, 2006, settles in Harlem in the years 1940 (AA)
Bill Robinson tap dancer American born in Richmond (Virginia) on May 25th, 1878 and died in New York on November 25th, 1949, lived on Strivers' Row (AA)
Ethel Waters (October 31st, 1896 - 1 September 1977) actress and singer Afro-American nominated with the Oscars.

Painting, sculpture, photography

Romare Bearden, (born on September 2nd, 1911, in Charlotte (North Carolina) - died on March 11th, 1988 in New York), artist and writer.
Douglas Aaron (May 26th, 1898 - February 3rd, 1979), American painter, born in Kansas, lived to the 409 Edgecombe Avenue
Gordon Parks was a photographer, realizer, journalist and black militant American, born on November 30th, 1912 in Kansas and deceased on March 7th, 2006, settles in Harlem in the years 1940 (AA)
Norman Rockwell (February 3rd, 1894 - November 8th, 1978) was a painter and American illustrator, born in New York, it passed part of his childhood to the 789 St Nicholas Avenue
James Van Der Zee (June 29th, 1886 - May 15th, 1983) was a photographer Afro-American known for his black portraits of New Yorkean. (HH)

Sports

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor (or Lew Alcindor) on April 16th, 1947 in New York, is a former player of basketball of NBA. Born in Harlem
Althea Gibson (August 25th, 1927, Silver, South Carolina - September 28th, 2003, East Orange, New Jersey) is a tennis player, it lived to the 115 West 143rd Street
Earl The Goat Manigault (September 7th, 1944 - May 15th, 1998), player of tennis shoe, born in Charleston, South Carolina raised in Harlem
Sugar Ray Robinson, born on May 3rd, 1921 and deceased on April 12th, 1989, was a boxer, born in Ailey (Georgia), he grows in Harlem (AA)

Religion

Father Divine (C. 1880 - September 10th, 1965), religious leader, born in Pennsylvania, lived with Astor Row and had its offices to the 20 West 115th Street (AA)
Malcolm X (born Little with Omaha (Nebraska), May 19th, 1925 - died February 21st, 1965 with NY), religious leader and activist (AA)

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