Black Panthers

[Magda Hassan]

This is a list of members of the Black Panther Party, including those famous for being Panthers as well as former Panthers who became famous for other reasons. This list does not include outside supporters, sympathisers, or allies.

• Mumia Abu-Jamal, Lieutenant Minister of Information, Philadelphia chapter. Currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.
  
• Ashanti Alston
  
• Richard Aoki, Field Marshall
  
• Charles Barron former member Harlem chapter, community activist and Democratic New York City Councilmember
  
• William Lee Brant, hijacked a plane to Cuba in 1968, lived in exile there until his death in 2006
  
• Elaine Brown, Chairwoman, Minister of Defense (mid 1970s), for a time was a 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate [1].
  
• H. Rap Brown, Justice Minister, currently serving life sentence in Georgia for impersonating a police officer and murdering a black Sheriff's Deputy and wounding others with a machine gun.
  
• Stokely Carmichael, Honorary Prime Minister
  
• Bunchy Carter, Deputy Minister of Defense, Southern California chapter
  
• Mark Clark, Defense Captain, Illinois chapter
  
• Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information
  
• Kathleen Neal Cleaver
  
• James "Jim" Coleman, Peoria, Arizona physical education instructor
  
• Aaron Dixon, community activist, former captain of the Seattle chapter of the Party. Ran with the Green Party for U.S. Senate on his opposition to the Iraq War
  
• Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
  
• Larry J.Gaiters, Sr, One of the founding members of the Columbus, Ohio Chapter - Now a Christian Minist
  
• Steve Green, founder of the Louisiana Chapter
  
• Jon Gwara, Corporal Minister of Arms, Former Senate Member of Connecticut
  
• Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman, Illinois chapter; shot to death in police raid by Chicago police and the FBI after refusing to surrender after shooting an FBI agent.
  
• Tina Harris
  
• David Hilliard
  
• Darcus Howe
  
• Bobby Hutton, Treasurer; fatally wounded in shoot-out with Oakland police after he shot officer knocking on his door.
  
• George Jackson, killed in California prison.
  
• Jamal Joseph, Writer, director, producer, poet, activist, and educator.
  
• Timothy Lewis, Rapper, alive & well living in Brooklyn NY [chapter]
  
• David Lemieux, actor (The Spook Who Sat By The Door), retired Chicago Police Detective
  
• Chaka Khan, Singer.
  
• Owen Midgley, Political adviser, Brooklyn NY [chapter]
  
• Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, co-founder
  
• Pete O'Neal, Chairman, Kansas City chapter
  
• Larry Pinkney
  
• Geronimo Pratt, Deputy Minister of Defense
  
• Malik Rahim, early New Orleans chapter organizer, currently a co-founder of Common Ground Collective, a post Hurricane Katrina relief organization.
  
• Nile Rodgers, music producer
  
• Bobby Rush, Deputy Minister of Defense, Illinois chapter, Democratic Congressman Ist Congressional District, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Victor Cumberbatch, Sergeant at arms. Brooklyn NY [chapter]
  
• Kyle Sanders, Founder of the Florida chapter of the Bloods
  
• Bobby Seale, Chairman and co-founder of the Black Panthers
  
• Afeni Shakur, mother of rapper Tupac Shakur
  
• Assata Shakur
  
• Mutulu Shakur, Brother of Assata Shakur and Stepfather of Tupac Shakur.
  
• Billy Garland, Biological Father of Tupac Shakur
  
• Johnny Spain
  
• Robert Trivers, evolutionary biologist
  
• Karen Tustin
  
• Toni Watkins
  
• Flores A. Forbes
  
• Tim Hayes, founder Atlanta chapter
  
• Roland Freeman
  
• Veronza Bowers, Jr.
  
• Wayne Tharr
  
• Jeffery Everett