Notable Alumni
This is a list of notable alumni which includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Paine Institute and/or Paine College.
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Channing Tobias | 1902 | civil rights activist and appointee on the President's Committee on Civil Rights | |
| William H. Harris | Past President of Paine College, Texas Southern University, and Alabama State University | ||
| Mack Gipson, Jr. | NASA consultant who was the second African American to obtain a Ph.D. in Geology | ||
| Emma R. Gresham | 1953 | Mayor of Keysville GA (1985-2005) and the second African American female to be elected as a chief official in Georgia | |
| Shirley McBay | First African-American Dean at Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Nathaniel Linsey | Senior Bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church | ||
| Ruth B. Crawford | Dir. of Shiloh Community Center and designer of the Paine College flag | ||
| Mike Thurmond | Attorney and first African-American elected as Georgia Labor Commissioner | ||
| John Wesley Gilbert | First African-American Archaeologist | ||
| Lucius Pitts | First African-American president of Paine College | ||
| Elias Blake | HBCU advocate who helped develop the Upward Bound program and past president of Clark College | ||
| Micah Troy | Hip hop musician (also known as "Pastor Troy") | ||
| Joseph Lowery | President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1977-1997 | ||
| Woodie W. White | 1958 | Bishop of the United Methodist Church | |
| Frank Yerby | 1937 | Internationally acclaimed author and film writer |
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