Those listed here qualify for being black or other Ethnic origin / minority within a culture that is predominantly not so.
| Daymond John (Shark Tank investor, founder of FUBU) | |
| Theo Paphitis (Dragon’s Den panelist, retail magnate, entrepreneur, and university Chancellor) | |
| Alexander Faludy (Maths prodigy) | |
| Baruj Benacerraf (Nobel Prize winning immunologist) | |
| Maggie Aderin-Pocock, MBE (space scientist and consistent UK Power List member) | |
| Carol Moseley Braun (America’s first female African-American Senator,and U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand) | |
| Muhammad Ali | |
| Dorrit Moussaieff (Israeli businesswoman, First Lady of Iceland) | |
| Kendrick Meek (US politician, member of the House of Representatives, and campaigner for racial equality) | |
| Benjamin Zephaniah (poet) | |
| Jay Blades (“The Repair Shop” craftsman) | |
| Idris Elba | |
| Eric Adams – Mayor of New York City | |
| Octavia E Butler (science fiction writer) | |
| Cher | |
| Steve McQueen (Oscar winning director: “12 Years a Slave”) | |
| Jerry Pinkney (award-winning book illustrator) | |
| Stevie Wonder | |
| Tomasz Starzewski (top clothes designer) | |
| Danny Glover (actor) | |
| Dustin Hoffman | |
| Salma Hayek (actor, and women’s / children’s campaigner) | |
| Zoe Saldana (actor, dancer) | |
| Usher (award-winning singer, dancer, actor, philanthropist, and political activist) | |
| Whoopie Goldberg | |
| Will Smith | |
| Michelle Carter (Olympic Gold medal shot-put winner) | |
| Jason Conley (American basketball star) | |
| Frank Gore (American football player) | |
| Kobe Bryant (basketball superstar) | |
| Magic Johnson (the greatest basketball player of all time?) | |
| Lewis Hamilton (F1 superstar and equality campaigner) | |
| Kelli Blankenship (Hockey star) |
