- Source: List of Kappa Kappa Psi members
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There are currently 210 active chapters out of 314 chapters that have been chartered since 1919 and 7 colonies.
Prominent members
= Founding Fathers
=William Alexander Scroggs, "Founder"
William Houston Coppedge
Clyde DeWitt Haston
George Asher Hendrickson
Dick Hurst
A. Frank Martin, "Mr. kappa" target="_blank">Kappa kappa" target="_blank">Kappa Psi"
Iron Hawthorne Nelson
Raymond David Shannon
Clayton Everett Soule
Carl Anderson Stevens
Other important early members
These members were not undergraduate members or considered "founding fathers," but were important to the early success of the fraternity.
Dr. Hilton Ira Jones, professor of chemistry; gave the name and Greek letters "kappa" target="_blank">Kappa kappa" target="_blank">Kappa Psi"
Bohumil Makovsky, the "Guiding Spirit" of kappa" target="_blank">Kappa kappa" target="_blank">Kappa Psi; Oklahoma A&M band director
Colonel Frank D. Wickham, ROTC Commandant; assisted with work on the Ritual
= Band leaders
=Herbert L. Clarke
Henry Fillmore
Edwin Franko Goldman
Richard Franko Goldman
Derek Hilliard
George S. Howard
Karl King
Paul Lavalle
Frank Simon
John Philip Sousa
= Composers
=Leroy Anderson
Milton Babbitt
Robert Russell Bennett
Lucien Caillet
Hoagy Carmichael
Jay Chattaway
Paul Creston
Norman Dello Joio
Don Gillis
Julie Giroux
Morton Gould
Ferde Grofe
David Holsinger
Karel Husa
David Maslanka
Bill Moffit
Václav Nelhýbel
Robert W. Smith
= Educators
=Leonard Falcone
Frederick Fennell
William P. Foster
Isaac B. Greggs
Tim Lautzenheiser
Tyler Long
Joseph Maddy
William Revelli
H. Robert Reynolds
Thomas Tyra
Herman B Wells
John Whitwell
= Performing artists
=Count Basie
William Bell
Velvet Brown
Ray Charles
Van Cliburn
John Denver
Mo B. Dick
Dwele
Earth, Wind & Fire
Maynard Ferguson
Pete Fountain
Dizzy Gillespie
Al Hirt
Dave Hollister
Freddie Hubbard
Stan Kenton
Ellie Mannette
Branford Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Harvey Phillips
Sigurd Rascher
Buddy Rich
Lionel Richie
Peter Schickele ("P. D. Q. Bach")
Doc Severinsen
Ed Shaughnessy
Red Skelton
Rickey Smiley
Midnight Star
Fred Waring
Lawrence Welk
D'Extra Wiley
= Others
=Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon
Lauro Cavazos, United States Secretary of Education
Bill Clinton, President of the United States
Bob Knight, long-time coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
Chuck Norris, actor
Truman Washington Dailey, member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians and last native speaker of the Chiwere language