The list of Spelman College people includes notable alumnae and faculty of Spelman College.
Notable faculty
- Alma Jean Billingslea (born 1946), civil rights activist and author
- Sylvia Bozeman (born 1947), mathematician and educator
- Ayoka Chenzira (born 1953), director, producer, writer, and animator
- Pearl Cleage (born 1948), author
- Jelani Cobb (born 1969), writer, author, educator
- Julie Dash (born 1952), filmmaker
- Etta Zuber Falconer (1933âÂÂ2002), educator and mathematician
- Christine King Farris (born 1927), author, sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Shirley Franklin (born 1945), former Atlanta mayor
- Cornelia Gillyard (born 1941), chair of the chemistry department
- Beverly Guy-Sheftall (born 1946), black feminist scholar
- Marionette Holmes, economist
- Joyce Johnson (born Joyce Finch), concert pianist and college organist
- Sophia B. Jones (1857âÂÂ1932), first African-American faculty member, organized nursing program
- Shirley McBay (born 1935), founder of the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
- LaVon Mercer (born 1959), American-Israeli basketball player
- Opal J. Moore (born 1953), educator and poet
- Glenda Price, former president of Marygrove College
- Angelino Viceisza, economist
- Gloria Wade-Gayles, author, professor of comparative women's studies
- Howard Zinn (1922âÂÂ2010), historian
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