Famous People from Alabama

Alabama Biographies, Famous People from Alabama

Alexander McGillivray

Henry Louis (Hank) Aaron (1934 - ) Baseball player that holds the record for home runs and runs batted in; born in Mobile.
George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943), educator and agricultural chemist at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute.
Nathaniel Adams Nat King Cole (1917 - 1965) Popular singer known as the man with the velvet voice and song Unforgettable; born in Montgomery.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) Famous minister and civil rights leader; lived in Montgomery.
Mae Jemison (1956 - ) First African-American woman in space; born in Decatur.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) Blind and deaf author and lecturer; born in Tuscumbia.
Harper Lee (1926 - ) Pulitzer Prize author of To Kill a Mockingbird; born in Monroeville.
Carl Lewis (1961 - ) Olympic Gold Medallist in track and field; born in Birmingham.
Joe Louis (1914 - 1981) Famous boxer; born in Lexington.
Willie Howard Mays (1931 - ) Famous baseball player; born in Westfield.
James Cleveland (Jesse) Owens (1913 - 1980) Track & Field athlete. Winner of four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics; born in Oakville.
Rosa Parks (1913 - ) Civil rights leader who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, born in Tuskegee.
Heather Whitestone (1973 - ) In 1995 served as the first Miss America chosen with a disability; born in Dothlan.
Hiram Hank Williams (1923 - 1953) Country western singer, born in Georgiana.
Tuscaloosa, Choctaw chief.

More Famous People of Alabama

Ralph Abernathy civil rights activist, Linden
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead actress, Huntsville
Hugo LaFayette Black jurist, Harlan
Marva Collins educator, Monroeville
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald writer, Montgomery
Bobby Goldsboro entertainer, Dothan
William Crowford Gorgas army officer, physician, Mobile
Lionel Hampton jazz musician, Birmingham
William Christopher Handy composer, Florence
Emmy Lou Harris singer, Birmingham
Kate Jackson actress, Birmingham
Percy Lavon Julian inventor, Montgomery
Helen Adams Keller author, educator, Tuscumbia
Coretta Scott King civil rights leader, Marion
Jim Nabors actor, Sylacauga
Jimmie Rodgers singer, Geiger
David Satcher surgeon general, Anniston
Waldo L. Semon inventor, Demopolis
George Wallace governor, Clio
William Weatherford (Red Eagle) Creek indian leader

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