List of people from Alabama

Listing of famous people born in, or famous for their association with, Alabama.

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Hank Aaron, Baseball player (Mobile)
Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist (Linden)
Mel Allen, sportscaster (Birmingham)
Richard Arrington, first African American mayor of (Birmingham)

B

Tallulah Bankhead, actress (Huntsville)
Charles Barkley, Basketball player (Leeds)
Bill Baxley, Lieutenant Governor (Dothan)
Lucy Baxley, Lieutenant Governor (Dothan)
Michael Biehn, actor (Anniston)
Hugo Black, jurist (Harlan)
Winton Blount, businessman (Union Springs)
Bobby Bowden, football coach (Birmingham)
David G. Bronner CEO for Retirement Systems of Alabama (Cresco, Iowa)
Janice Rogers Brown California Supreme Court Justice (Luverne)
Johnny Mack Brown, western film star (Dothan)
Edward A. Burkhalter, Admiral (Roanoke)
Pat Buttram, actor ("Smiley," Gene Autry's sidekick) (Gadsden)

C

Nell Carter, actress and singer (Birmingham)
Truman Capote, writer (Monroeville)
Nat King Cole, singer (Montgomery)
Marva Collins, educator (Monroeville)
L E Cooper, investment banker, attorney, author (Roanoke)
Courteney Cox, actress (Birmingham)
William Crowford, physician (Mobile)

D

Angela Davis, activist (Birmingham)
Morris Dees, founder of Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery)
Sam Dees, soul music singer (Birmingham)

F

Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Birmingham)

G

Kenneth Gibson, first black mayor of major eastern city (in Newark, New Jersey)
William C. Gorgas, U. S. Army Surgeon General (Mobile)
Urbie Green, jazz trombonist (Mobile)
Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump (Fairhope)

H

Mia Hamm, U.S. Soccer star (Selma)
Lionel Hampton, jazz musician (Birmingham)
Erskine Hawkins, jazz composer (Birmingham)
John M. Harbert, businessman (Hoover)
Marguerite Harbert. billionaire heiress
Emmylou Harris, singer (Birmingham)
W. C. Handy, jazz composer (Florence)
Howell Heflin, judge, senator (born Poulan, Georgia)
Alexis Herman, former Secretary of Labor, (Mobile)
Frank House, Baseball player and Legislator (Bessemer)

J

Bo Jackson, multi-sport athlete (Bessemer)
Kate Jackson, actress (Birmingham)
Lee Roy Jordan, pro football linebacker (Excel)
Ralph "Shug" Jordan college football coach Auburn University (Auburn)
Tom Joyner, radio personality (Tuskegee)

K

Helen Keller, writer (Tuscumbia)

L

Harper Lee, writer (Monroeville)
Carl Lewis, track and field athlete (Birmingham)
Joe Louis, boxer (Lexington)
Shelby Lynne, Country singer (Frankville)

M

F. David Mathews, educator (Grove HIll)
Willie Mays, Baseball player (Birmingham)
Bryant H. McGill, poet (Mobile)
Alexander McGillivray, Creek Chief, Little Tallassee, (Montgomery)
Lachlan McGillivray, Scots-Indian Trader, Little Tallassee, (Montgomery)
Joe McInnes, corporate executive, state exec (Wetumpka)
Thomas Hinman Moorer, Admiral( Mount Willing)

N

Jim Nabors, actor (Sylacauga)

O

Jesse Owens, track and field athlete (Oakville)

P

Rosa Parks, civil rights activist (Tuskegee)
Satchel Paige, Baseball player (Mobile)
Walker Percy, author (Birmingham)
Charles Redding Pitt, US & State Attorney, Politician (Decatur)

R

Sun Ra, musician (Birmingham)
Howell Raines, former New York Times editor (Birmingham)
Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor (Birmingham)
Lionel Richie, singer (Tuskegee)
Wayne Rogers, actor (Birmingham)

S

Sonia Sanchez, poet (Birmingham)
David Satcher, surgeon general (Anniston)
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, writer (Montgomery)
Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader (Marion)
Richard M. Scrushy, indicted healthcare executive (Selma)
Glenn Shadix, actor (Bessemer)
Don Siegelman, former Governor of Alabama (Mobile)
Ella Gaunt Smith, doll manufacturer (Roanoke)
Ozzie Smith, Baseball player (Mobile)
Ken Stabler all pro quarterback (Fairhope)
Bart Starr all pro quarterback ,Hall of Fame Montgomery

T

Bobby Tanory, pioneering music video jockey (Birmingham)
Tascaluza, Choctaw chief
The Temptations - four members: Eddie Kendricks (Union Springs), Paul Williams (Birmingham), Melvin Franklin (Montgomery), and Dennis Edwards (Birmingham)
Julia Tutwiler, educator, prison reformer and writer (Tuscaloosa)
Margaret D. Tutwiler, diplomat (Birmingham)

W

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, (Huntsville)
George Wallace, politician (Clio)
William Weatherford, (Red Eagle) Creek leader
William Edgar Weldon, real estate exec, politician (Wetumpka)
Heather Whitestone, 1995 Miss America (Dothan)
Brian Whitworth, attorney & petroleum co. exec (Birmingham)
Hank Williams, musician (Georgiana)
Tobias Wolff, author (Birmingham)

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