List of people from Tennessee
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The following is a list of prominent people who were born in the U.S. state of Tennessee, live in Tennessee, or for whom Tennessee is a significant part of their identity:
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[edit] A
- Roy Acuff (1903–1992), musician; born in Maynardville
- Charlie Adams; drummer, percussionist, and drum engineer
- Lily Afshar classical guitarist, University of Memphis music professor
- James Agee (1909–1955); Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic; born in Knoxville
- The Aldridge Sisters, singing duo that appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1977 to 1982
- Lamar Alexander (b. 1940), lawyer and U.S. Senator from Tennessee; born and raised in Maryville
- Duane Allman (1946–1971); guitarist; born in Nashville
- Gregg Allman (b. 1947); singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter; born in Nashville
- Monroe Dunaway Anderson
- William R. Anderson (1921-2007); naval officer and member of Congress; born in Humphreys County
- Jessica Andrews (b. 1983); country singer
- Jade Arcade (b. 1971); comics artist, writer, voice actor, composer, musician and animator; born in Nashville
- Lil Hardin Armstrong
- Victor Ashe
- Chet Atkins (1924–2001); guitarist and record producer; born in Luttrell
- Doug Atkins (b. 1930); Hall of Fame defensive end primarily with the Chicago Bears
[edit] B
- DeFord Bailey
- Howard Baker
- Robert Baker
- George Franklin Barber
- Ronnie Barrett
- William M. Bass
- Kathy Bates
- Kate Batts (a.k.a. The Bell Witch)
- Robin Beard
- Brian Bell
- John Bell
- Bill Belichick, New England Patriots Head Coach, born in Nashville
- Jeff Bennett
- Aaron Benward
- Polly Bergen
- Joe Blanton
- Jerry Blevins
- William Blount
- Willie Blount
- Alexander Bonnyman, Jr.
- Arna W. Bontemps
- Pat Boone
- Rachel Boston
- Charles Boyce, syndicated cartoonist
- Richard Henry Boyd (1843-1922), founder and head of the National Baptist Publishing Board
- Rod Brasfield
- Corey Brewer
- Clarence Brown
- Jonathan Browning
- William Gannaway Brownlow
- James M. Buchanan, economist, Nobel laureate
- Josh Bullocks
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Kenneth C. Burns, "Jethro" of Homer and Jethro
- Charles Burson
- Jake Butcher
- Joseph W. Byrns
[edit] C
- Matt Cain
- Duke Calhoun
- Archie Campbell
- Guy Carawan
- Hattie Caraway
- Dixie Carter
- Kellye Cash
- Johnny Cash
- June Carter Cash
- Rosanne Cash
- David Catching
- John Catron
- Tracy Caulkins
- Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham
- Doc Cheatham
- Kitty Cheatham
- Richard Boone Cheatham
- Richard Cheatham
- John R. Cherry III
- Kenny Chesney
- Philander P. Claxton
- Jim Clayton
- Frank G. Clement
- Chad Clifton
- Randall Cobb
- Fred Coe
- Michael Coe
- Lynnette Cole - Miss USA 2000
- Mark Collie
- Dustin Colquitt, punter for the Kansas City Chiefs
- Darby Conley
- Lester Conner
- James Craig
- David "Davy" Crockett
- Dixie Lee Crosby
- Edward Hull "Boss" Crump
- John Cullum
- Lowell Cunningham
- Billy Ray Cyrus
- Miley Cyrus, star of Hannah Montana
[edit] D
- Jeremy Davis(originally from North Little Rock, Ark
- Beauford Delaney
- George Roby Dempster
- Jamie Denton
- Dale Dickey
- R. A. Dickey
- Bobby Dodd
- Shannen Doherty
- Andrew Jackson Donelson
- Aaron Douglas
- Josh Drake
- Johnny Duncan
- King Dunlap
[edit] E
[edit] F
- David Farragut
- Josh Farro
- Zac Farro
- Jerome Felton
- Lester Flatt
- Ric Flair
- Shelby Foote
- Harold Ford, Jr.
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Abe Fortas
- Ramon Foster
- Megan Fox
- Aretha Franklin
- Aubrayo Franklin
- Morgan Freeman
- Bill Frist
- Phillip Fulmer
[edit] G
- Marc Gasol
- Nikki Giovanni
- Guilford Glazer
- Dr. Ernest W. Goodpasture
- Ginnifer Goodwin
- Albert Gore, Jr., 45th Vice President of the United States, 1993-2001
- Albert Gore, Sr.
- Yo Gotti
- Lou Graham
- Red Grooms
[edit] H
- Wayne Haddix
- Lucy Hale (actor, singer) from Pretty Little Liars
- Alex Haley
- George Hamilton
- Ken Hamlin
- W.C. Handy
- Bob Harper
- George "Two Ton" Harris
- Phil Harris
- Nicole Taylor Hart
- James Haslam Jr.
- Trenton Hassell
- Isaac Hayes
- Henry D. Haynes, "Homer" of Homer and Jethro
- Thomas "The Hitman" Hearns
- Todd Helton, major league baseball player
- Christina Hendricks, actress
- Elaine Hendrix, actress
- Hunter Hillenmeyer, NFL player
- Will Hoge
- Charles O. (Chad) Holliday
- Rick Honeycutt
- John Jay Hooker
- Benjamin Hooks
- Ed Hooper
- Myles Horton
- Sam Houston
- Dick Hudson
- Thomas Hughes, English author of Tom Brown's School Days who founded Rugby, Tennessee
- Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State and winner of Nobel Peace Prize
- Con Hunley
- Courtney Hunt
- Alberta Hunter
- Dennis Hwang
[edit] J
- Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States, 1829-1837
- Howell Edmunds Jackson
- Quinton Jackson, The Current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, (Born in Memphis)
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Mark Jacoby
- Claude Jarman Jr.
- Jeff Jarrett
- Josh Jasper (born 1987), All-American college American football placekicker
- William L. Jenkins, U.S. House of Representatives (R-TN-01), 1997-2007
- Michael Jeter
- Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States, 1865-1869
- Thomas Johnson
- Cave Johnson
- Cherry Jones
- Christopher Jones
- Ed "Too Tall" Jones
- Jesse Holman Jones
- Popeye Jones
- Van Jones
[edit] K
- Estes Kefauver
- David Keith
- Adm. Frank B. Kelso
- Kem
- Ke$ha
- Daniel Kilgore
- Johnny Knoxville
- Joseph Wood Krutch
[edit] L
- Dan Landrum - Hammer dulcimer player
- Lucille La Verne
- Jerry "The King" Lawler
- Arthur Lee
- Adriane Lenox
- Michael Levine[disambiguation needed
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- Sondra Locke
- Z. Alexander Looby
- Horace Lurton
- Dustin Lynch
- Andrew Lytle
[edit] M
- Jean (Faircloth) MacArthur
- "Uncle Dave" Macon
- Matt Mahaffey
- Johnny Majors
- Delbert Mann
- Shawn Marion
- Sterling Marlin - Two-time Daytona 500 winner
- Wink Martindale
- Christopher Massey
- Mike Massey - Professional pool player
- Matthew Fontaine Maury
- William McAdoo
- Cormac McCarthy
- Tim McCarver
- Jacques McClendon
- Michael McDonald
- Brownie McGhee
- Stick McGhee
- Kenneth McKellar
- Reggie McKenzie
- Bill McKinney
- Jon Meacham
- Jodie Meeks
- Chris Moneymaker - poker player from Knoxville
- Grace Moore
- Shelly Moore - Miss Teen USA 1997
- Craig Morgan
- Lorrie Morgan
- Ricky Morton
- Anson Mount
- James Cole Mountflorence (___ - 1820). American diplomat
- Mary Noailles Murfree
[edit] N
- Elise Neal
- Patricia Neal
- Lindsey Nelson
- Robert Neyland, UT Vols football coach and namesake for Neyland Stadium
- Alfred O. P. Nicholson
- Bishop James Daniel Niedergeses
- Kenneth Nixon
[edit] O
[edit] P
- Bettie Page
- John Palmer, former NBC News correspondent
- Matt Palmer, starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels
- Hermes Pan
- Paramore, 4 members born and raised in Franklin, TN, Hayley Williams born in Meridan, MS, raised in Franklin, TN
- Cindy Parlow
- Chris Parnell
- Hope Partlow
- Dolly Parton
- Craig Patterson, Knoxville, TN - RFID Integration Pioneer [1]
- Elizabeth Patterson
- Minnie Pearl
- Carl Perkins
- John M. Pickard
- James K. Polk, Eleventh President of the United States, 1845-1849
- Bishop Leonidas Polk
- Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States, wife of President James K. Polk
- Annie Potts
- Elvis Presley
- David Price
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Dave Ramsey
- John Crow Ransom
- Sam Rayburn
- J. J. Redick
- B. Carroll Reece
- Florence Patton Reece (folk singer)
- Jerry Reese
- Brad Renfro
- Grantland Rice
- Lee Roberson
- James Robertson
- Oscar Robertson
- Pat Robertson
- Charles P. Roland
- John Ross
- Mitch Rouse
- Mason Rudolph
- Wilma Rudolph
- Fred Russell
[edit] S
- Christine Sadler
- Shane Salerno
- Chip Saltsman
- William Sanderson, actor, Newhart, Deadwood, True Blood
- Clarence Saunders
- Ryan Sarr
- Tom Schulman
- John T. Scopes
- Hillary Scott (lead singer of Lady Antebellum)
- Josey Scott (lead singer of Saliva)
- Rhea Seddon
- John Seigenthaler
- John Michael Seigenthaler
- Gerald Sensabaugh
- Sequoyah
- John Sevier
- Paul Shanklin
- Vicellous Reon Shannon, actor, The Hurricane, 24 Season 1
- Cybill Shepherd
- William Shepherd
- T. G. Sheppard
- George Sherrill
- Dinah Shore
- Daniel Simberloff
- Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
- Bessie Smith
- Brent Smith (lead singer of Shinedown)
- Daniel Smith
- Lee Smith
- Rachel Smith - Miss USA 2007
- Bobby Sowell, (b. 1947) musician, pianist, keyboardist, organist, songwriter, composer Memphis
- Richard Speight, Jr.
- Steve Spurrier
- Andrew Stevens
- John M. Stone
- Harry Stonecipher
- Thomas S. Stribling
- Pat Summitt
- Frank Sutton
- Grady Sutton
- Lynn Swann
- Taylor Swift, Born in *Pennsylvania
[edit] T
- George Taliaferro
- Roscoe Tanner
- Quentin Tarantino; movie director, actor, and screenwriter; born in Knoxville.
- Allen Tate
- Golden Tate
- Peter Taylor
- Three 6 Mafia
- Jake Thomas
- Fred Dalton Thompson
- Isaac Tigrett
- Justin Timberlake
- Mageina Tovah; actress; Joan of Arcadia, the Spider-Man films
- Elston Turner
- Tina Turner
[edit] U
[edit] V
[edit] W
- Barbara Jo Walker- Miss America 1947
- William Walker
- Randall Wallace
- Darrell Waltrip
- Taylor Ware
- Cameron Watson, actor and director
- Robert Penn Warren
- Ida B. Wells
- Scott Wells
- Tina Wesson
- Red West
- James Westerfield
- Kent Whitaker, culinary writer, author, celebrity chef (Born in Kentucky, raised in Nashville)
- Hugh Lawson White
- Reggie White
- Ed Whitson
- John S. Wilder
- Elliot Williams
- Hayley Williams, (singer) lead vocals for Paramore (originally from Meridian, MS)
- Louis Williams
- Shawne Williams
- Sonny Boy Williamson I
- Patrick Willis
- E. Bright Wilson
- Oprah Winfrey (originally from Mississippi)
- Tim Wise
- Reese Witherspoon
- Jason Witten, tight end for the Dallas Cowboys
- Brandan Wright
[edit] Y
- Alvin York, World War I soldier who captured 132 Germans almost single-handedly
- Taylor York
- Chris Young
- Thaddeus Young
[edit] Z
Craig Patterson - Knoxville, TN== References ==
[edit] See also
- List of people from Chattanooga, Tennessee
- List of people from Memphis, Tennessee
- List of people from Nashville, Tennessee
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