Inventors, Scientists, and Mathematicians
Jo Anderson (inventor)
Benjamin Banneker (mathematician; astronomer; compiler of almanacs)
Patricia Bath (inventor; ophthalmologist; laserphaco probe for cataract treatment)
Andrew Jackson Beard (inventor; railroad)
Henry Blair (inventor; agricultural technology)
Henry Boyd (inventor; carpenter and furniture designer)
Otis Boykin (inventor and engineer; wire precision resistor used in computing, missile guidance, and pacemakers)
George Carruthers (inventor; ultraviolet camera and spectrograph)
George Washington Carver (agricultural scientist; botanist; inventor)
Kenneth Bancroft Clark (psychologist)
Mark Dean (computer scientist and engineer)
Charles Drew (inventor; surgeon and medical researcher)
Joseph Hunter Dickinson (inventor; player piano improvements)
Thomas Elkins (inventor; refrigeration)
James Forten (inventor; sailmaker; abolitionist)
Sarah E. Goode (inventor; folding cabinet bed)
Meredith Gourdine (physicist; engineer; Olympic athlete)
Mary Jackson (mathematician; N.A.S.A.; story featured in Hidden Figures)
Shirley Ann Jackson (physicist)
Thomas L. Jennings (inventor; patent for method of dry cleaning)
Creola Katherine Coleman Johnson (mathematician; N.A.S.A.; story featured in Hidden Figures)
Frederick McKinley Jones (inventor; refrigeration and long-haul transportation of perishable foods)
Percy Lavon Julian (chemist)
Ernest Everett Just (biologist; academic and science writer)
Lewis Howard Latimer (inventor; lightbulb and telephone)
Joseph Lee (inventor; automatic breadmaker)
Jan Ernst Matzeliger (inventor; shoe manufacturing)
Elijah McCoy (inventor; railroad; engineer)
Benjamin Thornton Montgomery (inventor; architectural design; steamboat navigation)
Garrett Morgan (inventor; breathing device, sewing machine and traffic signal improvements)
George Peake (inventor; agricultural technology)
Judy W. Reed (inventor; bread kneader)
Humphrey H. Reynolds (inventor; railroad)
Norbet Rillieux (chemical engineer)
Robert Shurney (inventor; engineer for N.A.S.A.)
Stephen Slade (inventor; Bright Leaf Tobacco Process)
Lewis Temple (inventor; whalecraft maker)
Dorothy Johnson Vaughn (mathematician; N.A.S.A.; story featured in Hidden Figures)
Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove) (inventor; hair products for Black hair care)
Dr. Gladys West (mathematician; modern day GPS)
James Edward Maceo West (inventor; electret transducer technology)
Granville T. Woods (mechanical and electrical engineer)