Famous Alabamians
These are just a few of the famous people who were either born in Alabama or spent some important time in Alabama.
Hank Aaron, baseball player
Robert Abernathy, civil rights activist
Alabama, country music group
John Badham, director
Tallulah Bankhead, actress
Hugo Black, Supreme Court justice
Peter Bryce, Alabama's first psychiatrist
George Washington Carver, educator and chemist
Nat King Cole, singer
John Cross Jr., minister and civil rights
leader
Larry Csonka, football player
Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy
Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer
Zelda Fitzgerald, author
Vonetta Flowers, Olympic gold medal bobsledder
Bobby Goldsboro, singer
Colonel William Crawford Gorgas, helped eliminated
Lionel Hampton, jazz musician
W. C. Handy, composer
Emmy Lou Harris, country singer
Lester Hill, U.S. senator
Luther Leonidas Hill, doctor who performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere
Guy Hunt, Alabama governor
Kate Jackson, actress
Mae Jemison, astronaut and first African American woman in space
Percy Lavon Julian, inventor
Helen Keler, author and speaker
Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist
Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist
Yolanda King, social activist and actress
Harper Lee, novelist, To Kill a Mockingbird
Iberville and Bienville Le Moyne, pioneers
Carl Lewis, Olympic sprinter
Joe Louis, boxer
Sunny Mabrey, actress
Willie Howard Mays, baseball player
Jim Nabors, singer and actor
Joe Namath, football player
Jesse Owens, Olympic sprinter
Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
John Patterson, Mississippi governor
Allison Pierce, singer
Catherine Pierce, singer
Condoleeza Rice, U.S. secretary of state
Jimmie Rodgers, country singer
David Satcher, U.S. surgeon general
Waldo Semon, inventor
Bernice Sims, artist
Dr. James Marion Sims, the Father of Modern Gynecology
Michael Spann, first U.S. casualty in the war in Afghanistan
Ruben Studdard, singer
Adalius Thomas, football player
Tuscaloosa, Choctaw chief
Werner von Braun, space scientist
George Wallace, Alabama governor and presidential candidate
Lurleen Wallace, Alabama governor
William Weatherford, aka Red Eagle, Creek leader
Heather Whitestone, first Miss America with a disability
Hank Williams, country music singer
Famous Alabamians: http://www.archives.state.
al.us/famous/famous.html.
