Notable Sorors of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Ethel Hedgeman Lyle - Founder and "guiding light" of Alpha Kappa  Alpha Sorority, Inc. whose purpose was to promote scholarship, sisterhood, and service among Black college women.

Jane Addams - Founder of Hull House, Chicago, Illinois.

Marian Anderson - The first Black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.

Maya Angelou - Renowned novelist and poet.

Gwendolyn Calvert Baker, PhD. - President of the United States Committee for UNICEF.

Angie Brookes - The first woman President of the United Nations.

Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke - Former Congresswoman from California and first woman to chair the Democratic National Convention.

Bebe Moore Campbell - Author of Brothers and Sisters and Your Blues Aint Like Mine.

Suzette Charles - Miss America, 1984.

Marva Collins - Founder of her own private school in Chicago's west side.

Sharon Pratt Kelly - The first woman to serve as mayor of Washington, D.C.

Ella Fitzgerald - Internationally famous jazz singer.

Bettiann Gueno Gardner - Co-Chairman of Soft Sheen Products.

Zina Garrsion - Tennis Star.

Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant - Advice Columnist for Essence.

Dr. Marilyn Hughes-Gatson - Assistant Surgeon General.

Shirlee Tailor Haizlip - Author of The Sweeter The Juice.

Janice Huff - NBC Meteorologist and St. Louis Emmy Award Winner.

Dr. Mae Jemison - The first Black woman astronaut.

Coretta Scott King - Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change and Civil Rights Activism.

Jewell Jackson McCabe - President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.

Lt. Col. Anita McMiller - Deputy Legislative Assistant to Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Toni Morrison - Nobel prize winning novelist and poet.

Jomarie Payton Noble - Humanitarian and actress; star of Family Matters.

Hazel O'Leary - United States Secretary for the Department of Energy.

Rosa Parks - Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.

Jada Pinkett - Actress whose movies include; The Nutty Professor, Set It Off, and Menace to Society.

Phylicia Rashad - Actress on the award-winning Cosby Show and the tv series Cosby.

Eleanor Roosevelt - Humanitarian and former First Lady of the United States.

Sonia Sanchez - Noted author and poet.

Ntozake Shange - Author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".

C. Delores Tucker - National Chairman of the National Political Congress of Black Women.

Dr. Debbye Turner - Humanitarian and Miss America, 1990.

Leah Tutu - Wife of South African activist Bishop Desmond Tutu.

Marjorie Judith Vincent - Miss America, 1991.

Diane Watson - The first Black woman to preside over the California State Senate.

Faye Wattleton - The first woman to head the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Lynn Whitfield - Humanitarian and actress; star of The Josephine Baker Story.