Exclude subscriber users from user list

I want to exclude Subscribers from a user list. My code is:

$users = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT display_name FROM $wpdb->users ORDER BY display_name ASC" );

How can I change that so subscribers are excluded from the list?

I also looked at the get_users function in codex but it did not have an exclude by role parameter. 

Edit: Or another way would be to get the results filtered by capability (one that subscribers doesn’t have).

This new method should work. It looks at all the capability values to find “subscriber”, and hides it.

Try this query

$wpdb->get_results(
    "SELECT display_name 
    FROM $wpdb->users WHERE 1=1 AND {$wpdb->users}.ID IN (
        SELECT {$wpdb->usermeta}.user_id FROM $wpdb->usermeta 
        WHERE {$wpdb->usermeta}.meta_key = '{$wpdb->prefix}capabilities'
        AND {$wpdb->usermeta}.meta_value NOT LIKE '%subscriber%') ORDER BY display_name ASC" 
);