| 100% | PEETE | 5 | First African-American golfer with 12 P.G.A. Tour wins |
| 57% | IAN | 3 | Golfer Poulter with three P.G.A. Tour wins |
| 55% | SNEAD | 5 | Golfer Sam with a record 82 P.G.A. Tour wins |
| 49% | ALTHEA | 6 | ___ Gibson, first African American to win a Grand Slam title |
| 49% | SNEAD | 5 | Sam with 82 P.G.A. Tour wins |
| 47% | POITIER | 7 | Sidney who was the first African American to win a Best Actor Oscar |
| 46% | SNEAD | 5 | Oldest golfer to win a P.G.A. Tour event (at 52 years 10 months) |
| 46% | SNEAD | 5 | Sam ___, American golfer who won a record 82 PGA Tour events |
| 45% | SERGIO | 6 | With 12-Across, golfer who won the 2017 Masters Tournament in a sudden-death playoff |
| 44% | POITIER | 7 | First African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar |
| 44% | ERNIE | 5 | ___ Davis, first African-American to win a Heisman |
| 43% | CITO | 4 | ___ Gaston, first African-American manager to win a World Series |
| 42% | ALTHEA | 6 | __ Gibson, first African-American to win a Grand Slam tennis title |
| 41% | POITIER | 7 | Sidney who was the first African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar |
| 41% | BASIE | 5 | Jazz great who was the first African-American man to win a Grammy |
| 41% | ZAILAAVANTGARDE | 15 | First African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee |
| 37% | DARNELL | 7 | ___ Martin, first African American woman to produce a film for a major studio (1994) |
| 37% | MARIE | 5 | ___ Maynard Daly, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry |
| 37% | ANN | 3 | ___ Petry, first female African-American writer with a million-selling novel ("The Street") |
| 37% | SISTERSOULJAH | 13 | African American activist, novelist, and rapper with a "family" name: 2 wds. |
| 37% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" author who died August 5, and who was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize: 2 wds. |
| 37% | VIOLA | 5 | Actress Davis who was the first African American to win the Triple Crown of Acting |
| 37% | AVA | 3 | Director DuVernay who was the first African American woman nominated for a Best Picture Oscar |
| 36% | KERR | 4 | Golfer Cristie with 20 wins on the LPGA Tour |
| 36% | LEEELDER | 8 | First African-American golfer to play in the Masters |
| 36% | SNEAD | 5 | Golfer Sam with a PGA Tour record 82 victories |
| 36% | PIUSI | 5 | First of 12 popes with a religious-sounding name |
| 36% | ERNIE | 5 | Golfer Els who shares his first name with a Muppet |
| 36% | MARIE | 5 | With 33-Across, first woman to win a Nobel Prize |
| 36% | MARIE | 5 | With 7-Across, first woman to win a Nobel Prize |