professional wrestler Haiti Kid, retired WWF professional wrestler; had dwarfism Samyr Laine, Olympic triple jumper; competed for Haiti at the 2012 Summer Olympics Al Silvera (1935–2002), major league baseball player Rodney St. Cloud, professional bodybuilder Touki Toussaint, professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves Fashion designers Azéde Jean-Pierre Kerby Jean-Raymond, founder of the menswear label, Pyre Moss Fabrice Simon, award-winning artist and fashion designer, best known for his handmade beaded dresses Historical personalities W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist, first person of African descent to earn a doctorate at Harvard Jeremiah Hamilton, Wall Street broker noted as "the only black millionaire in New York" about a decade before the American Civil War Jean-Jacob Jeudy, activist, politician and currently a soldier in the United States Army Viter Juste, coined the name "Little Haiti" for the neighborhood in Miami, Florida which is a center of the Haitian American community in Florida; considered the father of the community in Miami Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of the city of Chicago Fred Staten, Haitian-born nightclub performer and infamous Voodoo King of New Orleans, known as Chicken Man Charles Terres Weymann, racing pilot; flew for Nieuport during World War I as a test pilot; was awarded the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour Lawyers Combat Jack, hip hop music attorney and executive Edwin Warren Moïse, lawyer, physician and Confederate States of America Karl Racine, first elected Attorney General of the District of Columbia Mildred Trouillot, lawyer who married Jean-Bertrand Aristide Literature Yamiche Alcindor, journalist Lylah M. Alphonse, news editor Elsie Augustave, author Dean Baquet, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and the executive editor of The New York Times Steve Canal, author Jacqueline Charles, journalist Anne-Christine d'Adesky, journalist and activist Edwidge Danticat, author Donna Denizé, poet and award-winning teacher Joel Dreyfuss, journalist, editor, and writer Roxane Gay, writer Nathalie Handal, award-winning poet, writer, and playwright Sacha Jenkins, journalist James Weldon Johnson, author, and civil rights activist Peniel E. Joseph, historian Josaphat-Robert Large, writer Dimitry Elias Léger, novelist and essayist Roland Martin, journalist and syndicated columnist Marilene Phipps, poet, painter, and short story writer Alvin Francis Poussaint, author Victor Séjour, writer Luisah Teish, author Gina Athena Ulysse, poet Science Gerard A. Alphonse, electrical engineer, physicist and research scientist; 2005 president of the United States division of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Louis Gustave De Russy, engineer and U.S. army officer