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Len Barry, lead
singer/songwriter, The Dovells
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John Blake, jazz violinist
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Jerry Blavat, disc jockey
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Guion S. Bluford, Jr.,
space-shuttle astronaut; first African-American in space
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Solomon Burke, soul music
legend
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Bill Cash, Negro League
star, Baseball Hall of Famer
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Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain,
NBA legend*
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Richard M.
Cooper, former chief counsel, Food and Drug Administration
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Joan Daniels, attorney,
family and child abuse law expert
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Ira Davis, track & field
Olympian
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Chaka Fattah, U.S.
Congressman (D-PA)
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Mike Gale, NBA/ABA
basketball player
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Jamal “The Last Emperor” Gray,
rapper
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Walt Hazzard (Mahdi Abdul-Rahmad),
former NBA guard; UCLA All-American player and coach
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Rosetta Hightower, lead
singer, The Orlons
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Calvin Jackson,
Hollywood composer, jazz musician
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Wali Jones, former NBA
player; Miami Heat executive
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Sol Kaplan, Hollywood
composer
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Jacob Landau, nationally
recognized artist,teacher
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Acel Moore, Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Frank Piasecki, helicopter
inventor; National Medal of Technology winner
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Malik Rose, NBA player
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Arthur W. Rovine,
international law expert
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Dee Dee Sharp, singer
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Jerome J.
Shestack, former President, American Bar Assn.
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Will Smith, Oscar-nominated
actor, singer; owner Overbrook Entertainment
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Stanley
Tuttleman, class of 1936, philanthropist
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Willie L. Williams, former
police commissioner, Phila. and Los Angeles
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Herman Wrice,
renowned social worker/community organizer, Mantua Against
Drugs (MAD)
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*Other
Overbrook grads who played in NBA: Tony Costner, Wayne
Hightower, Rich Laurel, Hal Lear, Lewis Lloyd, Andre
McCarter, Jackie Moore
