Black people
Black people is a term often used in North America to refer to Americans and Canadians of Sub-Saharan African descent. Outside North America, the term "black" or close translations of it, is also used in other socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity for persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned due to high levels of the chemical melanin in their skin relative to other "racial" groups – or else who are defined as belonging to a "black" ethnicity in the country. Please note that the phrase "black people" is not necessarily common parlance in most of Africa, as the vast majority of the population there is black and thus not given to self describing as "black".
African people[edit]
Julius Nyerere, Zanaki people, Tanzania
Lwegeleza III King of Vira people or Bavira people, DR Congo
Jean Ping, Afro-Asian, from Gabon, of Wenzhou Chinese ancestry
Woman of the Maasai people, Tanzania
San woman
Mother and child, Makua people, Mozambique
Woman of the Fula people, Niger
Woman of the Himba people, Namibia
Woman, Gambia
South African family, of European and Black African descent (the Coloured of Southern Africa)
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Girl and child of the Malagasy people of Madagascar (of Black African and Southeast Asian ancestry)
Youssou N’Dour, of Wolof and Serer ancestry, Senegal
Ali Farka Touré, of Songrai and Fula ancestry, Mali
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Wole Soyinka, Yoruba people, Nigeria
Uhuru Kenyatta, Kikuyu people, Kenya
Robert Mugabe, of Malawian and Shona ancestry, Zimbabwe
Goodluck Jonathan, Ijaw people, Nigeria
Women of the South Ndebele people
Salif Keita, Mandinka, Mali (Albinism renders him without skin pigment)
Man of the Hausa people, Northern Nigeria
Babatunde Osotimehin, Ogun State, Nigeria
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African Americans[edit]
Portrait of George Washington's Cook, Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1795-1797
Peter Williams, unidentified artist, ca. 1810-1815
Joseph Jenkins Roberts, later a citizen of Liberia
Edward James Roye, African American of Igbo ancestry, later an Americo-Liberian (People of Liberia of African American, not direct Black African descent)
Creole in a Red Turban, Louisiana Creole woman, Jacques Amans, ca. 1840
Patrick Francis Healy, of European, Irish American and African American ancestry 
"Uncle Marian", African American held as a slave in North Carolina 
Four generations, held as slaves, South Carolina 
North Carolina children, ca. 1870 (after Emancipation)
Photograph curated by Du Bois for the Exposition Universelle (1900)
Basin Street, African American and Louisiana Creole people, painting by Palmer Hayden
Cousins Charles Alston (left) and Romare Bearden, with Bearden's Cotton Workers
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Tommy Potter, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Jordan (Max Roach in background)
Lena Horne, of both maternal and paternal, Native American, European American and African American ancestry
Nation of Islam (Black Muslim) women
Sidney Poitier (of Bahamian ancestry) and Harry Belafonte (of Jamaican and Martiniquan ancestry)
Members of the Jackson family children
American Gothic, portrait of Ella Watson, by Gordon Parks
Tina Turner, African American, with Native American and European American ancestry, now a citizen of Switzerland
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O. J. Simpson, with daughter Sydney Brooke Simpson of African American and European ancestry
Condoleezza Rice, scientifically determined to be of 51% African, 40% European and 9% Asian or Native American genetic descent, with Mitochondrial DNA tracing back to the Tikar people of Cameroon
Barack Obama, of Irish American and Kenyan ancestry, with Michelle Obama, of African American (Gullah/South Carolina Lowcountry) ancestry
Eric Holder, whose father and both maternal grandparents were from Barbados
Oprah Winfrey, scientifically determined to be of 89% Sub-Saharan African, 8% Native American and 3% East Asian (possibly Native American) descent
Tiger Woods, self described as "Cablinasian" (abbreviation from Caucasian, Black, American Indian and Asian); African American, mixed European, Dutch, Chinese, Thai and possibly Native American
Kamala Harris, of (Black African) Jamaican American and (East) Indian American ancestry
Whitney Houston, of Native American, African American and Dutch ancestry
Beyoncé, of African American and Louisiana Creole (Native American, European and African) ancestry
Yaya DaCosta, of African American, Brazilian and Nigerian ancestry
France Winddance Twine (Black Indian: Native American and African American)
Chanel Iman, of African American and Korean ancestry
Leilani Leeane, of African American, Puerto Rican and Filipino ancestry
Pam Grier, of Native American (Cheyenne), African American, Hispanic American and Filipino ancestry
Jennifer Beals, of African American and Irish American ancestry
Mariah Carey, of African American, Venezuelan (including Afro-Venezuelan) and Irish American ancestry
Vin Diesel, of English, Scottish and German maternal ancestry and unknown paternal ancestry and who self-identifies as "definitely a person of color" (raised by his mother and an African American stepfather)
Lenny Kravitz, of African American, Bahamian and Russian Jewish ancestry, with his daughter Zoë Kravitz, whose mother, Lisa Bonet, is of African American and Jewish ancestry
Henry Louis Gates, scientifically determined to be of 60% European, 34% African (including the Yoruba people) and 6% Asian ancestry
Gabourey Sidibe, of African American and Senegalese ancestry
Isis King (born male, now a transgender female)
Andres Serrano, of Honduran and Afro-Cuban ancestry
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, of Black Nova Scotian and Samoan ancestry
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African Brazilian[edit]
Brazil has the world's largest population of Black African people outside of Africa, with upwards of 50% of the nation's people having black or partial black ancestry.
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Black people from other regions[edit]
The Negress Katherina, Germany Albrecht Dürer (1521)
Alessandro de' Medici, "il Moro" ("the Moor"), Italy, believed by some historians to be of Black African ancestry
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Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, France (father of Alexander Dumas
Afro Turk of the Ottoman Empire, Jean-Léon Gérôme
Ivan Gannibal, Russian of Black African descent, great-uncle to Aleksander Pushkin
Angelo Soliman, Kanuri (Nigeria), resident of Vienna, Austria
Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, 1/4 African ancestry, grandson of Angelo Soliman
John Ware with family, African American, later a citizen of Canada
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, of English and Sierra Leonean Creole ancestry
Kwasi Boakye, prince of the Ashanti Empire, later a citizen of the Netherlands and a resident of the Dutch East Indies
Josephine Baker, African American, then a citizen of France in 1937
Marabou man (African and East Indian), Haiti
Naomi Campbell, of Black British descent
Susana Baca, Peruvian of African descent
Derek Walcott, from Saint Lucia, of European and Black African descent
Afro Mexicans
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Afro-Cuban
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Piedad Córdoba, of Afro-Colombian descent
José Leonardo Chirino, Venezuelan of European and Black African descent
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Sara Forbes Bonetta, Yewa royalty, living briefly under the auspices of Queen Victoria in England
Portrait, by Jan Mostaert, of a man possibly in the court of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy
Ruud Gullit, of Afro-Surinamese and Dutch ancestry
V V Brown, British, of Jamaican and Puerto Rican ancestry
Woman of the Siddi people (Bantu ancestry), India
Deborah Cox, Canadian of Afro-Guyanese ancestry
Melanie Fiona, Canadian of Afro-Guyanese, Indo-Guyanese and Portuguese ancestry
Bob Marley, of European-Jamaican (British/Syrian) and Afro-Jamaican ancestry
Idris Elba, from the United Kingdom, of Sierra Leonean and Ghanaian ancestry
Malcolm Gladwell, born in the United Kingdom of Jamaican and British ancestry, now a citizen of Canada
Wifredo Lam, Afro-Cuban and Afro-Asian, of Chinese, Congolese and Cuban mulatto ancestry
Arabic man, Jerusalem
Bill White, Black Nova Scotian (Canada)
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People of Australasia and the Southeast Asian archipelago, not of African descent, often perceived as black[edit]
Ati woman from the Philippines
Sam Watson, Indigenous Australian
A Great Andamanese Negrito
