James Bruce Llewellyn (July 16, 1927 – April 7, 2010) was an American businessman who co-founded the 100 Black Men of America, a social and philanthropic organization, in 1963.
In 1985, he and a group of business partners, among them Julius Erving, Bill Cosby, and Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn, bought a majority share of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company.
Llewellyn was born in Harlem in Manhattan, the son of a Jamaican mother and a Guyanese father.
[1] Llewellyn's sister, Dorothy Cropper, became a judge on the New York State Court of Claims.
His youngest daughter, Jaylaan Ahmad-Llewellyn, is a Harvard graduate and founder of Bluhammock Music and Bluhorse Clothes.