Famous black mathematicians

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Are there any famous black mathematicians?

By famous, I mean in the sense of having a theorem or well-known result named after them.

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Banyaga's theorem on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a closed surface was mentioned here. Banyaga is a black mathematician. Banyaga's article proving this is very influential by mathematical standards: it is cited over 80 times at MathSciNet.

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David Blackwell is one of the creators of the Rao-Blackwell Theorem.