This is a list of notable alumni which includes currently matriculating students, and alumni who are graduates or non-matriculating students of Morehouse College.
Morehouse College is a private, four-year, all-male, historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia. During enrollment at the college students are known as "Men of Morehouse." Upon graduation, alumni are ceremoniously initiated as lifetime "Morehouse Men."
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See also Morehouse College alumni.
Academia
Educators
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Russell L Adams |
1952 |
Chair, Department Afro-American Studies, Howard University (1971-2005); Professor Emeritus, Howard University |
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Benjamin Brawley |
1901 |
first Dean of Morehouse College |
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Calvin O. Butts |
1972 |
President, SUNY College at Old Westbury; Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church |
[1] |
Ronald L. Carter |
1971 |
President, Johnson C. Smith University; former Dean of Students Boston University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa |
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Charles D. Churchwell |
1952 |
former Dean of Library Services at Washington University in St. Louis; Brown University and Miami University (OH) |
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James A. Colston |
1932 |
2nd President, Bethune-Cookman University; President Knoxville College; President Savannah State University; 2nd President, Bronx Community College |
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Samuel DuBois Cook |
1948 |
first Black Professor Emeritus and Trustee Emeritus at Duke University; President, Dillard University 1974-1997 |
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Guy C. Craft |
1951 |
former Dean of Library Services at Chicago State University; former Library Director at Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center and former Interim Dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at Clark Atlanta University |
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Abraham L. Davis |
1961 |
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Political Science Department, Morehouse College |
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James C. Early |
1969 |
Distinguished Director of Cultural Heritage Policy at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Washington, D.C. |
[2] |
Eddie Glaude |
1989 |
Chair, Center for African American Studies and Professor at Princeton University; guest contributor: The Tavis Smiley Show |
[3] |
Marshall Grigsby |
1968 |
former President of Benedict College and former Vice President, Provost and CEO of Hampton University |
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John Hopps, Jr. |
1958 |
former Director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Distinguished Physics Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; recipient of the Materials Advancement Award |
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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson |
1911 |
first African-American president of Howard University |
[4] |
David Jones |
1983 |
Vice President of Human Resources, Stanford University |
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Walter J. Leonard |
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former Assistant Dean Harvard Law School; former President of Fisk University; two fellowships are named in his honor at Oxford University |
[5] |
James Nabrit, Jr. |
1923 |
Second African-American president of Howard University and former Deputy United Nations Ambassador |
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Calvin Mackie |
1990 |
former Professor of Engineering, Tulane University; winner of the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering; Black Engineer of the Year for College Level Educators |
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Walter E. Massey |
1958 |
President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; former Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago; former Dean of the College of Physics at Brown University; former Provost of the University of California System; President Emeritus at Morehouse College |
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Richard McKinney |
1931 |
first African American President of Storer College; former Dean at Virginia Union University and Morgan State University |
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Richard J. Powell |
1975 |
Distinguished Professor of Art History at Duke University; editor-in-chief, the Art Bulletin; Wilbur Lucius Cross Medalist, Yale University Alumni of the Year Award |
[6] |
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. |
1989 |
Professor, Harvard Law School and Director of the Criminal Justice Inst. at Harvard Law; legal analyst CNN, Fox News |
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James F. Williams |
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current Dean of Libraries University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002 Melvil Dewey Medal recipient |
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Charles V. Willie |
1948 |
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Graduate School of Education |
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John S. Wilson, Jr. |
1979 |
Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities; former Assistant Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
[7] |
Business
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Nathaniel H. Bronner, Sr. |
1940 |
founder and former CEO, Bronner Bros., which is also the publisher of Upscale Magazine |
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Ronald D. Brown |
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former CEO, Atlanta Life Financial Group, Inc |
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Herman Cain |
1967 |
former CEO, Godfather's Pizza |
[8] |
Emmett Carson |
1981 |
CEO and President, Silicon Valley Community Foundation |
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James W. Compton |
1961 |
Board of Directors, Ariel Investments, Inc.; retired President and CEO, Chicago Urban League |
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Reginald E. Davis |
1984 |
President, RBC Bank, former Senior Executive, Wachovia; named one the "75 Most Powerful African-Americans in Corporate America" by Black Enterprise magazine |
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Russell Ewing |
1991 |
Executive Director, SEI Investments Company |
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Dale E. Jones |
1982 |
Vice Chair, Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. |
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Robert L. Mallett |
1979 |
former Vice President, Pfizer Corporation, President Pfizer Foundation/Member of Accordia Global Health Foundation’s Board of Directors |
[9][10] |
Walter E. Massey |
1958 |
former Chairman, Bank of America; former Director of the National Science Foundation |
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Kent Matlock |
1986 |
CEO of Matlock Advertising & Public Relations |
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John W. Mims |
1982 |
Sr. Vice President Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide |
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Arthur E. Johnson |
1968 |
former President and COO, Lockheed Martin I&SS, and President, IBM, FSC Division |
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Rufus H. Rivers |
1986 |
Managing Director, RLJ Equity Partners, Board of Directors: Thomas & Betts, the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) |
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Robert T. Ross |
1981 |
Director, NJ Wealth Management Banking at Merrill Lynch |
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Maceo K. Sloan |
1971 |
Chair and CEO NCM Capital Management Group; Chair and CEO Sloan Financial Group, Inc., Board of Directors, SCANA Corporation |
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Entertainment
Music
Film, television and theatre
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Rockmond Dunbar |
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actor, Soul Food, Girlfriends |
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Samuel L. Jackson |
1972 |
actor |
[16] |
Stu James |
1989 |
Broadway and television actor; Color Purple, Dreamgirls, All My Children, General Hospital |
[17] |
Erik King |
1985 |
actor, Dexter |
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Spike Lee |
1979 |
film director and producer |
[16] |
Seith Mann |
1995 |
television director: The Wire, Grey's Anatomy; winner of the NAACP Image Award |
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Bill G. Nunn III |
1976 |
actor, School Daze, Mo Better Blues, New Jack City |
[18] |
Avery O Williams |
1986 |
screenwriter; Notes In A Minor Key, Re-Directing Eddie |
[19] |
Government, law, and public policy
Federal government
Congressman Sanford Bishop
Earl Hilliard, fmr. Congressman
State government
Mayors
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
References |
Claude Black Jr. |
1937 |
first Black mayor Pro Tem San Antonio, Texas; civil rights leader; Pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas |
[38][39] |
Chuck Burris |
1971 |
first Black mayor of Stone Mountain, Georgia |
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John Wesley Dobbs |
1897 |
the unofficial "Mayor" of Sweet Auburn Avenue (1937-1949); Civic Leader and co-founder of the Atlanta Negro Voters League |
[40] |
Maynard Jackson |
1956 |
first Black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson served three terms as Mayor; founder and CEO of Jackson Securities Inc.; National Development Chair, Democratic National Committee |
[41] |
Ed McIntyre |
1956 |
first African-American mayor of Augusta, Georgia |
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Alvin Parks, Jr. |
1983 |
Mayor, East St. Louis, Illinois (2007-present) |
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James O. Webb |
1953 |
Mayor Glencoe, Illinois; established the first HMO in Illinois and served as Chair, President and CEO of the Dental Network of America (of the Health Care Service Corporation) |
[42] |
Clinton I. Young |
1972 |
Mayor, Mt. Vernon, New York (2008-present) |
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Judges and lawyers
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
References |
Michael D. Carter |
1986 |
Judge, Superior Court, Los Angeles County |
[43] |
George W. Crockett Jr. |
1931 |
former U.S. Congressman, United States Congress; Founding Member of the National Lawyer's Guild; Co-founded the first racially integrated law firm in the U.S.; first Black attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor |
[44] |
Ralph B. Everett |
1973 |
President and CEO, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies |
[45] |
Joseph Jerome Farris |
1951 |
Justice, United States Court of Appeals 9th Circuit |
[46] |
Robert V. Franklin |
1947 |
Retired Judge, Ohio District Court of Appeals. |
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Odell Horton |
1951 |
Justice, U.S. District Court W. Tenn. |
[47] |
Reginald C. Lindsay |
1967 |
Justice, United States Court of Appeals 7th Circuit |
[48] |
James L. Hudson |
1961 |
Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Chair, National Capitol Revitalization Corporation Board |
[26] |
Michael D. Johnson |
1990 |
Judge, Superior Court, Fulton Co., Georgia |
[49] |
Jeh Johnson |
1979 |
Secretary of Homeland Security, first black Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, named to the National Law Journal's 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers; appointed General Counsel for the Defense Department by President Barack Obama; former General Counsel U.S. Air Force. |
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C. Vernon Mason |
1967 |
disbarred lawyer, Tawana Brawley case, Howard Beach incident. |
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Stephen L. Maxwell |
1942 |
first Black District Court Judge in Minnesota |
[50] |
Tyrone C. Means |
1973 |
Founding Partner, Thomas Means Gillis & Seay; Counsel and Board Member, Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation |
[51][52] |
Graham T. Perry |
c.1920 |
first African American Assistant Attorney-General for State of Illinois |
[53] |
Olu Stevens |
1992 |
circuit court judge for the 30th Circuit, Kentucky |
[54] |
Thomas Sampson Sr. |
1968 |
founding partner of Thompson Kennedy Sampson & Patterson, the oldest minority-owned law firm in the state of Georgia. |
[55][56] |
Jerome Walker |
1981 |
Partner Troutman Sanders, LLP; former General Counsel for the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd. |
[57] |
Horace T. Ward |
1949 |
Federal Judge, U.S. District Court Northern, Georgia; inducted into the National Bar Association Hall of Fame; recipient of the Trumpet Award for Civil Rights Advocacy |
[58] |
Brent Wilson |
1973 |
partner, Elarbee Thompson Sapp & Wilson; Who's Who in American Law; listed among America's Top Black Lawyers by Black Enterprise; Chamber's USA Best Lawyers for Business |
[59] |
Richard T. White |
1967 |
Sr. VP and General Counsel for the Auto Club Group and Chairman of the Association of Corporate Counsel |
[60] |
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Journalist and media personalities
Literature
Military service
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
References |
Otha Thornton, Lt. Colonel |
1989 |
2013-2015 National President and Chairman of the Parent Teacher Association and also the first African-American male elected President in the history of the association. Former Director of Human Resources and Presidential Communications Officer for the White House Communications Agency; awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree by Michigan Technological University; former Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University; winner of the Parting of the Waters Award for Faculty Excellence. |
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James R. Hall, Lt. General (ret.) |
1957 |
Deputy Inspector General, the United States Army |
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Religion
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
M. William Howard, Jr. |
1968 |
Pastor Bethany Baptist Church, former President, New York Theological Seminary; Chair, Rutgers University Board of Governors |
[65] |
Thomas Kilgore, Jr. |
1931 |
civil rights pioneer and Pastor Emeritus, Second Baptist Church; a building is named in his honor on the Morehouse campus |
[65] |
Otis Moss, Jr. |
1956 |
pastor and theologian |
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Otis Moss III |
1992 |
Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ; listed on the Root 100 |
[66] |
Kelly Miller Smith |
1942 |
assistant dean, Vanderbilt University Divinity School (circa 1970s-1980s) |
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Keith L. Somerville |
1992 |
Pastor, Calvary-Houston United Methodist Church |
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Howard Thurman |
1923 |
renowned theologian; Dean of Chapel Boston University |
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Frederick B. Williams |
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Canon of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York (1971-2005) |
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Science and medicine
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
References |
Henry W. Foster, Jr. |
1954 |
President Emeritus, Meharry Medical College; clinical professor, Vanderbilt University; former nominee to post of U.S. Surgeon General; presidential advisor |
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John Hopps, Jr. |
1958 |
physicist, former longtime Director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); recipient of the National Materials Advancement Award; former Deputy Under Secretary for the United States Department of Defense |
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Roger Wood II |
1966 |
computer scientist; first African-American software developer at Bell Labs |
[67] |
Calvin B. Johnson |
1989 |
24th Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of the Pennsylvania Department of Health |
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Paul Q. Judge |
1998 |
award-winning computer technologist, inventor and entrepreneur; recipient of MIT Technology Review Magazine's "100 Top Innovators under 35"; voted Black Engineer of the Year (2006) |
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Samuel M. Nabrit |
1925 |
Distinguished Science Professor; first African-American appointed to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; served on Dwight Eisenhower's National Science Board; first African-American to receive a doctoral degree from Brown University; first African-American to serve as Trustee at Brown University; President of Texas Southern University |
[68] |
Donald Hopkins |
1962 |
Director and Vice President, Health Programs, The Carter Center; a 1995 MacArthur Fellow; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 |
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Roderic Pettigrew |
1972 |
cardiologist and renowned biomedical engineer; Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering; former Director of Magnetic Resonance Research and Professor of Radiology and Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine; listed annually among the "Best Doctors in America" |
[69] |
Mack Roach III |
1975 |
Chair, Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco; named four times among the "Best Doctors in America"; American Cancer Society Fellow ; American College of Radiology Fellow |
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Asa G. Yancey Sr. |
1937 |
first African-American professor and Professor Emeritus at Emory University School of Medicine, first African-American doctor and Medical Director at Grady Memorial Hospital |
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Charles DeWitt Watts |
1938 |
first board-certified African-American surgeon in North Carolina; founder of Lincoln Community Health Center |
[70] |
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Service and social reform
Sports
Olympics
Baseball
Others
Notable faculty
Name |
Department |
Notability |
Reference |
Na'im Akbar |
Psychology |
author, Breaking the Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery |
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Amalia Amaki |
History |
modern and contemporary artist |
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Clayborne Carson |
History |
Executive Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Collection; professor, Stanford University |
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Lawrence Edward Carter |
Religion |
Dean, Martin Luther King Chapel; Fulbright Scholar; founder of the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Community Builders Prize |
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Claude B. Dansby |
Mathematics |
chair, Mathematics Dept. |
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Louis Delsarte |
Fine Arts |
painter, muralist |
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E. Franklin Frazier |
Sociology |
author, Black Bourgeoisie |
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Kemper Harreld |
Music |
established the Morehouse College Glee Club |
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J.K. Haynes |
Biology |
Chair, Biology Department; New York Academy of Science; Who's Who in Science and Engineering; Who's Who Among America's Teachers; Visiting Scholar, Brown University |
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John Hope |
President |
first black president of Morehouse |
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John Hopps, Jr. |
Physics |
former Director, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, MIT |
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Edward A. Jones |
Foreign Language |
author, A Candle In The Dark: A History of Morehouse College |
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Frederick E. Mapp |
Mathematics |
F.E. Mapp Science & Math Symposium |
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Benjamin E. Mays |
President |
mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; established the institutions international academic reputation and gave rise to the Morehouse Mystique |
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Henry Cecil McBay |
Chemistry |
winner of the Norton Prize in Chemistry, the Norris Award, and the Herty Award for Outstanding Contributions in Chemistry; first MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT |
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Charles Wilbert Snow |
Political Science |
diplomat |
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Harriet J. Walton |
Mathematics |
"Mother Walton" was a UNCF Dana Fellow; Who's Who Men and Women of Science (1974); Who's Who of American Women (1974); Outstanding Educators of America (1971) |
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