13 Notable alumni of
Meharry Medical College
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Meharry Medical College is 2899th in the world, 992nd in North America, and 938th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Meharry Medical College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Hastings Banda
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Hastings Kamuzu Banda was a Malawian politician and statesman who served as the leader of Malawi from 1964 to 1994. He served as Prime Minister from independence in 1964 to 1966, when Malawi was a Dominion/Commonwealth realm. In 1966, the country became a republic and he became the first president as a result, ruling until his defeat in 1994.
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Arikana Chihombori-Quao
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- lecturerphysicianentrepreneurdiplomat
- Biography
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Arikana Chihombori-Quao is a medical doctor and activist. She is a public speaker, educator, diplomat, founder of medical clinics, and an entrepreneur. She moved to the United States after living many years in Zimbabwe. She is the CEO and founder of Bell Family Medical Centers in the United States, and served as the African Union representative to the US from 2017 to 2019. She holds a bachelor's degree in General Chemistry, a master's degree in organic chemistry, and a Doctor of Medicine degree. Chihombori was a family medicine specialist in Tennessee. She practiced medicine for 29 years in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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Dorothy Lavinia Brown
- Enrolled in Meharry Medical College
- In 1948 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeonwriterteacher
- Biography
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Dr Dorothy Lavinia Brown, also known as "Dr. D.", was an African-American surgeon, legislator, and teacher. She was the first female surgeon of African-American ancestry from the Southeastern United States. She was also the first African American female to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly as she was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives. While serving in the House of Representatives, Brown fought for women's rights and for the rights of people of color.
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Audrey F. Manley
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- academic administratorpediatrician
- Biography
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Audrey Forbes Manley is an American pediatrician and public health administrator. Manley was the first African-American woman appointed as chief resident at Cook County Children's Hospital in Chicago (1962). Manley was the first to achieve the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (Rear Admiral) in 1988 and later served as the eighth president of Spelman College.
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Emerson Emory
- Occupations
- psychiatristphysician
- Biography
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Emerson Emory was an American internist and psychiatrist from Dallas, Texas. Aspiring to be a doctor from an early age, he attended Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College before serving in the Quartermaster Corps of the United States Army during World War II. After studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, Emory conducted his residency at St. Paul's Hospital, which was the first major hospital in Dallas to grant staff privileges to African American doctors.
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Carlton Benjamin Goodlett
- Occupations
- newspaper proprietorphysician
- Biography
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Carlton Benjamin Goodlett was an American physician, newspaper publisher, political power broker, and civil rights leader in San Francisco, California. From 1951 until his death, he was the owner of Reporter Publishing Company, which published the Sun-Reporter, the California Voice, and seven other regional African-American weeklies in Northern California. Goodlett maintained a busy medical practice in his newspaper office until his retirement from medicine in 1983.
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Monroe Alpheus Majors
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- physicianeditorcivil rights advocatewriterjournalist
- Biography
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Monroe Alpheus Majors was an American physician, writer and civil rights activist in Texas and Los Angeles. He was one of the first black physicians in the American southwest and established a medical association for black physicians who were not allowed entry into the American Medical Association. He wrote a noted book of biographies of African-American women, Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities, published in 1893, and wrote for numerous African-American newspapers, notably the Indianapolis Freeman, of which he was an associate editor in 1898 and 1899, and the Chicago Conservator, which he edited from 1908 to 1910. He was the father of composer Margaret Bonds.
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Miles Vandahurst Lynk
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Miles Vandahurst Lynk was an American physician and author noted for his efforts to create opportunities for African Americans in science, specifically for medical doctors. He was known both as the founder, editor and publisher of Medical and Surgical Observer (the first medical journal issued by an African American), as well as founding the University of West Tennessee College of Medicine and Surgery.
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Georgia Rooks Dwelle
- Enrolled in Meharry Medical College
- Studied in 1904
- Occupations
- physicianobstetrician
- Biography
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Georgia Rooks Dwelle was an African-American physician in Atlanta, Georgia who specialized in obstetrics and pediatrics. When Dwelle was licensed as a physician in 1904, she was one of only three African American women physicians in the state of Georgia. Dwelle began to practice medicine at a time when Jim Crow laws and social customs in Georgia required racial segregation in medical schools, health care facilities, and medical societies. To counter the lack of medical care for African-Americans in Atlanta, Dwelle opened the Dwelle Infirmary which was the first successful private general hospital for African Americans in Atlanta, and the first obstetrical hospital for African American women in Atlanta.
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John Angelo Lester
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- physicianacademic administratoreducator
- Biography
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John Angelo Lester was an American educator, physician and administrator in Nashville, Tennessee between 1895 and 1934. He was a professor of physiology at Meharry Medical College and was named Professor Emeritus in 1930. Lester served as an executive officer in the National Medical Association and various state and regional medical associations throughout Tennessee, a mecca for African-American physicians since Reconstruction.
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Walter R. Tucker, Jr
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- politicianscientist
- Biography
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Walter Rayford Tucker Jr. was an American dentist and politician who served nine years as the Mayor of Compton, California.
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Eleanor L. Makel
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- civil servantmedic
- Biography
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Eleanor L. Makel was a medical doctor, a hospital administrator, and a government official. During the administration of John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Makel was one of the highest ranking black women in the federal government.
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Jacob Javan Durham
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- Christian minister
- Biography
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Jacob Javan Durham was an American minister, educator, debater and orator, and the founder of a college. He was a Baptist minister in South Carolina, and the founder of Morris College in 1908. He was a member of the board at Morehouse College and an officer in state and national Baptist conventions.
