Previous members of The Drifters include:

Clyde McPhatter, David Baughan, William Anderson, David Baldwin, James Johnson, Bill Pinkney, Gerhart Thrasher, Andrew Thrasher, Willie Ferbee, Jimmy Oliver, David Baughan, Johnny Moore, Tommy Evans, Charlie Hughes, Jimmy Millinder, Ben E. King, Dock Green, Elsbeary Hobbs, James Clark, Johnny Lee Williams, Reggie Kimber James Poindexter, Rudy Lewis, William Van Dyke, George Grant, Tommy Evans, Billy Davis, Gene Pearson, Johnny Terry, Johnny Moore, Dan Danbridge, William Brent, Rick Sheppard, Bill Fredericks, Charles Baskerville, Milton Turner, Don Thomas, Butch Leake, Grant Kitchings, Butch Mann, Clyde Brown, Joe Blunt, Ray Lewis, Louis Price, Ben E. King, Billy Lewis, Jonah Ellis, Gene Jenkins, George Chandler, John Thurston, Joe Cofie, Tony Jackson, Keith John, Jason Leigh, Peter Larmar, Rohan Turney, Patrick Allen, Roy Hemmings, Christophe Richards, Steve V King