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List of people from Alabama
Listing of famous people born in Alabama.
- Hank Aaron, Baseball player (Mobile)
- Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist (Linden)
- Mel Allen, sportscaster (Birmingham)
- 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 investment manager & executive (Montgomery)
- Johnny Mack Brown, western film star (Dothan)
- Edward A. Burkhalter, Admiral (Roanoke)
- Pat Buttram, actor ("Smiley" sidekick of Gene Autry) Gadsden
- Nell Carter, actress and singer (Birmingham)
- Truman Capote, writer (Monroeville)
- George Washington Carver, inventor, educator, agricultural chemist (born Diamond Grove, Missouri )
- Nat King Cole, singer (Montgomery)
- Marva Collins, educator (Monroeville)
- L E Cooper , investment banker, attorney, author Roanoke,Alabama
- Courteney Cox, actress (Birmingham)
- William Crowford , physician (Mobile)
- Angela Davis, activist (Birmingham)
- Sam Dees , soul music singer (Birmingham)
- Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes (Birmingham)
- Kenneth Gibson , first black mayor of major eastern city (in Newark, New Jersey)
- Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump (Fairhope)
- Mia Hamm, U.S. Soccer star (Selma)
- Lionel Hampton, jazz musician (Birmingham)
- Erskine Hawkins, jazz composer (Birmingham)
- John M. Harbert, businessman Hoover
- 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)
- Bo Jackson, multi-sport athlete (Bessemer)
- Kate Jackson, actress (Birmingham)
- Lee Roy Jordan, pro football linebacker Excel
- Tom Joyner, radio personality (Tuskegee)
- Helen Keller, writer (Tuscumbia)
- Harper Lee, writer (Monroeville)
- Carl Lewis, track and field athlete (Birmingham)
- Joe Louis, boxer (Lexington)
- 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,Alabama )
- Thomas Hinman Moorer, Admiral( Mount Willing )
- Jim Nabors, actor (Sylacauga)
- Jesse Owens, track and field athlete (Oakville )
- Rosa Parks, civil rights activist (Tuskegee)
- Satchel Paige, Baseball player (Mobile)
- Walker Percy, author (Birmingham)
- Charles Redding Pitt, US & State Attorney, Politician Decatur
- Howell Raines, former New York Times editor (Birmingham)
- Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor (Birmingham)
- Lionel Richie, singer (Tuskegee)
- Wayne Rogers, actor (Birmingham)
- Sonia Sanchez, poet (Birmingham)
- David Satcher, surgeon general (Anniston)
- Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, writer (Montgomery)
- Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader (Marion)
- 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
- Sun Ra, musician (Birmingham)
- Bobby Tanory , pioneering music video jockey (Birmingham)
- Tascaluza , Choctaw chief
- Margaret D. Tutwiler, diplomat (Birmingham)
- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, (Huntsville)
- George Wallace, politician (Clio)
- William Weatherford, (Red Eagle) Creek leader
- William Edgar Weldon, real estate exec, politician Wetumpka,Alabama
- Heather Whitestone, 1995 Miss America (Dothan)
- Hank Williams, musician (Georgiana)
- Tobias Wolff, author (Birmingham)
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Last updated: 08-26-2005 17:19:00
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