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This is a list of famous people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
, and its surrounding metropolitan statistical area, including Crittenden County, Arkansas
Crittenden County, Arkansas

Crittenden County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the United States Census, 2000, the population was 50,866. The county seat is Marion, Arkansas, while its largest city is West Memphis, Arkansas....
, DeSoto County, Mississippi
DeSoto County, Mississippi

DeSoto County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. DeSoto County is part of the Memphis metropolitan area. Its county seat is Hernando, Mississippi....
, Marshall County, Mississippi
Marshall County, Mississippi

Marshall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 34,993. Its county seat is Holly Springs, Mississippi....
, Tate County, Mississippi
Tate County, Mississippi

Tate County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi, east of the Mississippi Delta. As of 2000, the population was 25,370....
, Tunica County, Mississippi
Tunica County, Mississippi

Tunica County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 9,227. Its county seat is Tunica, Mississippi....
, Fayette County, Tennessee
Fayette County, Tennessee

Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 28,806. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 34,458 ....
, Shelby County, Tennessee
Shelby County, Tennessee

Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The county is the state's largest in terms of both population and geographic area....
, and Tipton County, Tennessee
Tipton County, Tennessee

Tipton County is a county located on the western end of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 51,271. Its county seat is Covington, Tennessee....
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This list is in alphabetical order by last name
Last Name

"Last Name" is a song composed by country pop singer Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird. It is the third single from Underwood's second studio album, Carnival Ride....
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This is a list of famous people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
, and its surrounding metropolitan statistical area, including Crittenden County, Arkansas
Crittenden County, Arkansas

Crittenden County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the United States Census, 2000, the population was 50,866. The county seat is Marion, Arkansas, while its largest city is West Memphis, Arkansas....
, DeSoto County, Mississippi
DeSoto County, Mississippi

DeSoto County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. DeSoto County is part of the Memphis metropolitan area. Its county seat is Hernando, Mississippi....
, Marshall County, Mississippi
Marshall County, Mississippi

Marshall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 34,993. Its county seat is Holly Springs, Mississippi....
, Tate County, Mississippi
Tate County, Mississippi

Tate County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi, east of the Mississippi Delta. As of 2000, the population was 25,370....
, Tunica County, Mississippi
Tunica County, Mississippi

Tunica County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population was 9,227. Its county seat is Tunica, Mississippi....
, Fayette County, Tennessee
Fayette County, Tennessee

Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 28,806. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 34,458 ....
, Shelby County, Tennessee
Shelby County, Tennessee

Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The county is the state's largest in terms of both population and geographic area....
, and Tipton County, Tennessee
Tipton County, Tennessee

Tipton County is a county located on the western end of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 51,271. Its county seat is Covington, Tennessee....
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This list is in alphabetical order by last name
Last Name

"Last Name" is a song composed by country pop singer Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird. It is the third single from Underwood's second studio album, Carnival Ride....
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  • Johnny Ace
    Johnny Ace

    Johnny Ace , born John Marshall Alexander, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, was one of the stars of United States of America rhythm and blues singing....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Stephen Adams
    Stephen Adams

    Stephen Adams was a United States Representative and United States Senate from Mississippi....
     – United States Congressman and United States Senator
  • Traci Adell
    Traci Adell

    Traci Adell is an United States Model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1994 issue. She has also appeared in numerous List of Playboy videos....
     – Playboy
    Playboy

    Playboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, with a presence in nearly every medium....
     centerfold
  • Richard "Pistol" bob Allen, drummer who was one of the Funk Brothers that played on the Motown hits in the 1960s
  • Estelle Axton
    Estelle Axton

    Estelle Axton was the co-founder, with her brother Jim Stewart , of Stax Records.Born in Middleton, Tennessee, Estelle Stewart grew up on a farm....
     – co-founder of Stax Records
    Stax Records

    Stax Records is an USA record label founded in 1957, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing Gospel music, funk, jazz, and blues recordings....
  • Archbishop LeRoy Bailey; Senior Pastor of The First Cathedral
    The First Cathedral

    The First Cathedral exists both as a Christian ministry based in Bloomfield, Connecticut as well as the edifice in which the ministry is held . Originally known as The 1st Baptist Church, it was founded in 1968 in Hartford, Connecticut....
    , A Megachurch in Bloomfield, Connecticut
    Bloomfield, Connecticut

    Bloomfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. The population was 19,587 at the 2000 United States Census....
    ; Clergy
    Clergy

    Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. The term comes from the Greek language ?????? - kleros, "a lot", "that which is assigned by lot" or metaphorically, "heritage"....
  • The Bar-Kays – musicians
  • Kathy Bates
    Kathy Bates

    Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an Academy Awards-, two-time Golden Globe-, and two-time Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American theatrical, film and television actress, and a stage and television director....
     – actress
  • Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin
    Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin

    Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin was a poet and influential member of the Memphis, Tennessee literary community.Beaudoin is best known for inventing the "eye poem," a poetic form that combined words and pictures....
     – poet
    Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry....


  • Big Daddy V; Wrestler
  • Michael Beck
    Michael Beck

    John Michael Beck Taylor is an United States actor....
     – actor, best known for The Warriors
    The Warriors

    The Warriors is a 1979 in film cult film Action film/Thriller film directed by Walter Hill and based on the The Warriors by Sol Yurick. Much like the novel, the film borrows certain elements from the Anabasis by Xenophon....
  • Chris Bell
    Chris Bell (musician)

    Chris Bell was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star , which recorded albums during the early 1970s....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Bobby "Blue" Bland – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Elizabeth Bolden
    Elizabeth Bolden

    Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jones Bolden was an United States supercentenarian woman who, at the time of her death list of the verified oldest people, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest people....
     – oldest person in the world during most of 2006
  • Charles Boyce
    Charles Boyce

    Charles Boyce is an American cartoonist known for his syndicated comic panel Compu-toon. He's also known for the creation and developing of the KeyPad Kid, a cartoon character used in public affairs awareness programs for training within the telecommunication industry....
     – syndicated cartoonist
    Cartoonist

    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. Traditionally much of this work was, and still is, humorous, and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes....
  • Craig Brewer
    Craig Brewer

    Craig Brewer is an United States film film director and screenwriter.His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Original Song, It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp....
     – film director
    Film director

    A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
  • Judge Joe Brown
    Joe Brown (judge)

    Judge Joe Brown is a judge and host of a court show which shares his name, and proudly declares to all viewers, "It's Joe time!" Raised in Los Angeles, California, California, Brown earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a Juris Doctor degree at UCLA, before moving to Memphis, Tennessee in 1974....
     – politician
    Politician

    A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
  • Isaac Bruce
    Isaac Bruce

    Isaac Isidore Bruce is an American football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the St....
     – NFL
    National Football League

    The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
     player for the San Francisco 49ers
    San Francisco 49ers

    The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team. The team plays its home games in , while the club's headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara, California....
  • Charles Bulfinch
    Charles Bulfinch

    Charles Bulfinch was an early United States architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a architect....
    , architect and designer of Massachusetts General Hospital
    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility in Boston, Massachusetts.It is owned and operated by Partners HealthCare ....
  • John Calipari
    John Calipari

    John Vincent Calipari From 1982?85, he was an assistant at the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball under Ted Owens and Larry Brown . From 1985–88, he was an assistant coach at the Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball under Paul Evans....
     – coach of the University of Memphis
    University of Memphis

    The University of Memphis is an American public university research university located in the Normal Station, Memphis neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States, and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
     men's basketball team
  • Dixie Carter
    Dixie Carter

    Dixie Virginia Carter is an United States Emmy Award-nominated actress....
     – actress
  • Bob Caruthers
    Bob Caruthers

    Robert Lee Caruthers , nicknamed "Parisian Bob," was an United States right-handed pitcher and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the St....
     – major league baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     player
  • Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Kellye Cash
    Kellye Cash

    Kellye Cash from Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, was Miss America 1987.Since her year as Miss America, Kellye has appeared nationally on The David Letterman Show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, the Trinity Broadcasting Network and more....
     – Miss America
    Miss America

    The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands....
     1987
  • David Catching
    David Catching

    David Catching is an United States musician from Memphis, Tennessee....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Egypt Central
    Egypt Central

    Egypt Central is a five-piece rock music group from Memphis, Tennessee....
     – musicians
  • Alex Chilton
    Alex Chilton

    Alex Chilton is an United States songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known for his work with the pop music bands the Box Tops and Big Star ....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • – entrepreneur and philanthropist.
  • Philip Claypool
    Philip Claypool

    Philip Claypool is an American country music artist. Between 1995 and 1999, he recorded two studio albums for the Curb Records label , in addition to charting four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts....
     – musician
  • Lashundra Trenyce Cobbin
    Trenyce

    Trenyce is an American singer and was a finalist for the second season of American Idol in 2003, finishing in fifth place....
     – American Idol
    American Idol

    American Idol is an Television in the United States Singing airing on Fox network. It debuted on June 11, 2002, and has since become one of the most popular shows on American television....
     Contestant
  • Steve Cohen
    Steve Cohen

    Stephen Ira "Steve" Cohen is a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives representing Tennessee's 9th congressional district....
    , politician
  • George Coleman
    George Coleman

    George Edward Coleman is an United States hard bop saxophone, bandleader, and composer, known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Barron Collier
    Barron Collier

    Barron Gift Collier was an American advertising entrepreneur, who became the largest landowner and developer in the U.S. state of Florida, as well as, the owner of a chain of hotels, bus lines, several banks, and newspapers....
     – businessman
  • Hank Crawford
    Hank Crawford

    Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. was an United States rhythm and blues, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Steve Cropper
    Steve Cropper

    Steve "The Colonel" Cropper is an United States guitarist, songwriter and producer....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Edward H. Crump – political boss
    Political boss

    A boss, in political science, is a person who wields de facto power over a particular political region or constituency. Bosses may dictate voting patterns, control appointments, and wield considerable influence in other political processes....
     and U.S. Representative
  • John Daly
    John Daly (golfer)

    John Patrick Daly is an United States professional golfer on the PGA Tour.Daly is known primarily for his "zero to hero" victory in the 1991 PGA Championship, his driving distance off the teeing ground , his non-country club appearance and attitude, and his rough-and-tumble personal life....
     – professional golf
    Golf

    Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
    er
  • Rick Dees
    Rick Dees

    Rick Dees is an American comedic performer, entertainer, and radio personality, best known for his #1 internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the novelty song "Disco Duck." He is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy nominated performing artist, and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee....
     – former disc jockey
    Disc jockey

    A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
  • Shannen Doherty
    Shannen Doherty

    Shannen Maria Doherty is an United States actress and television director. She appeared as Heather Duke in the 1989 in film black comedy film Heathers....
     – actress
  • Michael Douglas
    Michael Douglas

    Michael Kirk Douglas is an United States actor and film producer, primarily in movies and television. Douglas's first television exposure was that of Karl Malden's young college-educated partner, Insp....
     Air Force member
  • Josh Driver
    Josh Driver

    Josh Driver is an United States entertainer. He is Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Talk Show Host, and Comedian. Josh Driver was born September 3, 1985 in Memphis, Tennessee.He is most known for his music and comedy talk show he host called "The Josh Driver Show" and "Twitter Speaks" on TwitterRadioLive.com....
     – Singer/Songwriter/Actor and founder/host (event) of The Josh Driver Show
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Johnny Dowd
    Johnny Dowd

    Johnny Dowd is an United States alternative country musician from Ithaca, New York. Typical of his style are experimental, noisy breaks in his songs and strong Gothic rock elements in the lyrics as well as in the music....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Johanna Edwards
    Johanna Edwards

    Johanna Edwards is a bestselling United States novelist and award-winning entertainment journalist.Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Edwards attended The University of Memphis where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in journalism in 2001....
     – author
    Author

    An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
  • William Eggleston
    William Eggleston

    William Eggleston is an American photographer. He is widely credited with securing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries....
     – photographer
    Photographer

    A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. A professional photographer uses photography to make a living whilst an amateur photographer does not earn a living and typically takes photographs for pleasure and to record an event, place or person for future enjoyment....
  • Eightball & MJG – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
    s
  • Ben Ferguson
    Ben Ferguson

    Ben Ferguson is an United States radio personality and Conservatism in the United States political commentator. His radio syndication talk radio, The Ben Ferguson Show, airs throughout the United States on Radio America....
     – nationally- syndicated talk radio
    Talk radio

    Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests....
     host
  • Veronica Finn - former pop singer of the now disbanded group innosense
  • Ric Flair
    Ric Flair

    Richard Morgan Fliehr better known by his ring name, Ric Flair, is a retired Professional wrestling. Also known as "The Nature Boy," Flair is among the most well known wrestlers in the world, and has been one of wrestling's biggest stars since the late 1970s....
     – professional wrestler
    Professional wrestling

    Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional sport, where matches are prearranged by the Professional wrestling promotion List of professional wrestling terms#B, and is also considered an athletic performing art, containing strong elements of catch wrestling, mock combat and theatre....
     (adopted
    Adoption

    Adoption is the act of Family law placing a child with a parent or parents other than those to whom they were born. An adoption order has the effect of severing parental responsibilities and rights of the original parent and transferring those responsibilities and rights to the adoptive parent....
     at six weeks; raised in Minnesota
    Minnesota

    Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
    )
  • Rey Flemings
    Rey Flemings

    Rey Flemings is the Chief Operating Officer of a newly formed record label, Tennman Records and President of Tennman Digital. Prior to his role with Tennman, Flemings was Commissioner of Music for Memphis, Tennessee and Shelby County, Tennessee....
     – music commissioner
    Commissioner

    Commissioner is in principal the title given to the holder of a commission, in the sense of a mandate, whether individually or shared, notably as member of a collegial commission....
  • Shelby Foote
    Shelby Foote

    Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an United States novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, writing a massive, three-volume history of the war entitled The Civil War: A Narrative....
     – author
    Author

    An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
  • Harold Ford, Jr.
    Harold Ford, Jr.

    Harold Eugene Ford, Jr. is the current chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council . He was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from , centered in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1997 to 2007....
     – politician
    Politician

    A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
  • Abe Fortas
    Abe Fortas

    Abraham Fortas was a Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served in that role from October 4, 1965 until May 14, 1969, when he resigned under pressure....
     – politician
    Politician

    A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
     and U.S. Supreme Court justice
  • Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
     – singer
  • Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman

    Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. is an American actor, film director, and narrator. Freeman is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • David Gest
    David Gest

    David Alan Gest is an United States television producer, concert promoter and TV personality....
     – event and concert producer
  • Ginnifer Goodwin
    Ginnifer Goodwin

    Ginnifer Michelle Goodwin is an American television and film actress, best known for her role as Margene Heffman on the HBO series Big Love....
    ; actress
  • Al Green
    Al Green

    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • The Gentrys
    The Gentrys

    The Gentrys were an United States musical ensemble of the 1960s and early 1970s best known for their hit record, 1965's "Keep on Dancing" . Follow up singles charted outside of the top 40: Keep On Dancing , Every Day I Have To Cry , Spread It On Thick , Cinnamon Girl , Why Should I Cry , Wild World , and a 'Bubbling Under' Billboard chart ent...
     – 1960's Rock band with Larry Raspberry and Larry Wall
  • Larkin Grimm
    Larkin Grimm

    Larkin Grimm is an United States singer-songwriter and musician born in Memphis, Tennessee.She was born into a spiritual commune/cult called 'The Holy Order of MANS'....
     – folk singer
  • Richard Halliburton
    Richard Halliburton

    Richard Halliburton was an United States traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known nowadays for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history?thirty-six cents?Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career....
     – explorer and author
    Author

    An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
  • Lucy Hale
    Lucy Hale

    Lucy Kate Hale is an American actress and singer.Hale appeared on the reality show American Juniors in 2003. She was part of the vocal quintet formed with the top 5 finishers....
     – singer and actress
  • George Hamilton
    George Hamilton (actor)

    George Hamilton in Memphis, Tennessee is an United States film and television actor and occasional film director....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • W.C. Handy – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway – professional basketball
    Basketball

    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
     player
  • E. Hunter Harrison
    E. Hunter Harrison

    E. Hunter Harrison is a Tennessee-born railroader who currently is the president and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian National Railway ....
     (CEO)
  • Jimmy Hart
    Jimmy Hart

    Jimmy Ray Hart is a professional wrestling Manager , executive, composer, and musician. He has worked in the World Wrestling Entertainment, World Championship Wrestling, Continental Wrestling Association, Memphis Wrestling, United States Wrestling Association, Xcitement Wrestling Federation, WrestleXpress, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling....
     – singer, pro wrestling personality
  • Jon Hassell
    Jon Hassell

    Jon Hassell is an United States trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Isaac Hayes
    Isaac Hayes

    Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an United Statesn Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s....
     – Academy Award-winning musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker

    John Lee Hooker was an influential United States post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi near Clarksdale, Mississippi....
     – blues
    Blues

    Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
     musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • John Hulse
    John Hulse

    John Hulse was an England theologian. He is now known mainly as the founder of the series of Hulsean Lectures at the University of Cambridge....
     – Porn Star
  • Howlin' Wolf
    Howlin' Wolf

    Chester Arthur Burnett , better known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match [Howlin' Wolf] for the singular...
     – blues
    Blues

    Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
     musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Al Jackson, Jr. – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Quinton "Rampage" Jackson – Mixed martial arts
    Mixed martial arts

    Mixed martial arts is a Contact sport combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions....
     fighter
  • Michael Jeter
    Michael Jeter

    Michael Jeter was an United States actor...
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Ashley Jones
    Ashley Jones

    Ashley Aubra Jones is an United States television soap opera actress....
     – actress
Ashli Jonestennis player
  • Booker T. Jones
    Booker T. Jones

    Booker T. Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for frontman the band , Booker T. and the MGs....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • George "Machine Gun" Kelly – Great Depression
    Great Depression

    File:International depression.pngThe Great Depression was a worldwide economic Recession starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries....
    -era bank robber and kidnapper
  • Carlton W. Kent
    Carlton W. Kent

    Sergeant Major#United States Marine Corps Carlton W. Kent is the current Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, assuming the post on April 25, 2007....
     – Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
    Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

    Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps is a unique Non-commissioned officer rank and billet#United States usage in the United States Marine Corps....
  • B.B. King – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Brian Lawler
    Brian Lawler

    Brian Christopher Lawler is a Professional wrestling currently performing for Memphis Wrestling and other Independent circuit promotions. He is the son of professional wrestler Jerry Lawler and brother of wrestling Referee Kevin Christian....
     – professional wrestler
  • Jerry Lawler
    Jerry Lawler

    Jerry O'Neil Lawler is an United States Professional wrestling, wrestling announcer, musician, film actor, and politician, known throughout the wrestling world as Jerry "The King" Lawler....
     – professional wrestler
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
    Jerry Lee Lewis

    Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Alan Lightman
    Alan Lightman

    Alan Lightman is a physicist, novelist, and essayist born in Memphis, Tennessee on November 28, 1948. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams....
     – novelist and physicist
    Physicist

    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
  • Booker Little
    Booker Little

    Booker Little, Jr was an United States jazz trumpeter and composer.Despite his premature death from kidney failure at the age of 23, Little made an important contribution to the jazz music....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Charles Lloyd – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Jim Mabry
    Jim Mabry

    Jim Mabry is an United States American football player. He played on both offensive line and defensive line at Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1981-1985....
     – Arkansas Razorbacks football
    Arkansas Razorbacks football

    The Arkansas Razorbacks football program is a college football team that represents the University of Arkansas. The team is a member of the Southeastern Conference's Western Division, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....
     All-American
  • The Mar-Keys – musicians
  • Wink Martindale
    Wink Martindale

    Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale is a disc jockey and television game show host....
     – disc jockey
    Disc jockey

    A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
     and television personality
  • Tim McCarver
    Tim McCarver

    James Timothy McCarver is an United States former Major League Baseball baseball catcher, and a current Presenter for FOX Sports....
     – professional baseball
    Baseball

    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
     player and broadcaster
  • Hilton McConnico
    Hilton McConnico

    Joseph Hilton McConnico is a designer and artist who was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1943 but has lived and worked in Paris since 1965. After working in fashion for such designers as Ted Lapidus and Yves Saint-Laurent , he was set designer & art director for more than 20 films, including the cult classic "Diva." In 1990 Memphis Brooks Museu...
     – designer & artist
  • Kenneth D. McKellar – long-serving U.S. Senator
  • The Memphis Horns
    The Memphis Horns

    The Memphis Horns are an United States horn section made famous by their many appearances on Stax Records. They have been called "arguably the greatest soul music horn section ever." Originally a sextet, the Memphis Horns gradually slimmed down to a duo, Wayne Jackson on trumpet and Andrew Love on tenor saxophone....
     – an American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     horn section
    Horn section

    In music, a horn section refers to two separate groups of musicians. In can refer to the musicians in a symphony orchestra who play Horn . In modern music, it can also refer to a small group of wind instrumentalists who augment a band....
  • Shaun Micheel
    Shaun Micheel

    Shaun Carl Micheel is an United States of America golfer who is best known for his surprise victory in 2003 in one of golf's Men's major golf championships, the PGA Championship....
     – professional golfer
  • Memphis Slim
    Memphis Slim

    John "Memphis Slim" Chatman was a blues music pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump-blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Dr. Cary Middlecoff
    Cary Middlecoff

    Emmett Cary Middlecoff was a dentist who gave up his practice to become a professional golfer on what is now the PGA Tour in the 1940s. At the time, a career as a dentist would quite likely have been more lucrative....
     – professional golf
    Golf

    Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
    er
  • Willie Mitchell – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Chips Moman
    Chips Moman

    Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman is an United States record producer, guitarist and songwriter. The nickname "Chips" apparently derives from his love of gambling....
     – music producer
  • Sputnik Monroe
    Sputnik Monroe (wrestler)

    Sputnik Monroe was a professional wrestler from the mid 1940s through the early 1970s. Monroe was a headliner in many territories, and was best known in Memphis, Tennessee, where he and Billy Wicks set an attendance record that lasted until the Monday Night Wars boom period....
     – professional wrestler
  • Charlie Musselwhite
    Charlie Musselwhite

    Charlie Musselwhite is an American blues-harp player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield....
     – blues musician
  • Phineas Newborn, Jr. – jazz musician
  • Nights Like These
    Nights Like These

    Nights Like These is a metalcore band from Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, heavily influenced by death metal and sludge metal....
     – Victory Records
    Victory Records

    Victory Records is a Chicago, Illinois-based record label founded by Tony Brummel. It is a privately held corporation with several imprint labels, as well as a music publishing company called "Another Victory Publishing."...
     metalcore
    Metalcore

    Metalcore is an umbrella term used to describe fusion genres that incorporate elements of the hardcore punk and heavy metal music genres; but this isn't a true metal genre....
     band
  • Woody Paige
    Woody Paige

    Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Paige, Jr. is a sports columnist for The Denver Post, author, and a regular panelist on the ESPN sports-talk show program Around the Horn....
    - sports writer and guest on ESPN
    ESPN

    ESPN is a United States cable television Television network dedicated to Broadcasting of sports events and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
    's Around the Horn
    Around the Horn

    Around the Horn is a daily, half-hour sports talk program on ESPN filmed in Washington, D.C. It airs at 5:00 pm Eastern Time Zone, as part of a sports talk hour with Pardon the Interruption....
  • Cindy Parlow
    Cindy Parlow

    Cindy Parlow is a retired United States professional sports football player. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, she is the daughter of Larry and Josephine Parlow....
     – athlete
  • Chris Parnell
    Chris Parnell

    Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell is an American actor and comedian who was a Saturday Night Live cast member in 1998-2001 and 2002-2006....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Gilbert E. Patterson
    Gilbert E. Patterson

    Gilbert Earl Patterson was an United States minister of religion who served as presiding bishop and chief apostle of the international Church of God in Christ....
     – bishop
    Bishop

    A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
     of the Church of God in Christ
    Church of God in Christ

    The Church of God in Christ, Incorporated is a Christian church in the Pentecostal tradition. The church has congregations in nearly 60 countries around the world....
  • Luther Perkins
    Luther Perkins

    Luther Monroe Perkins was an American country music guitarist renowned for his work as a member of the Tennessee Three with Johnny Cash and their "boom-chicka" rhythmic style....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Elliot Perry
    Elliot Perry

    Elliot Lamonte Perry is a retired United States professional basketball player in the NBA.The 6'0" point guard from Memphis State University , was selected with the tenth pick of the second round by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1991 NBA Draft....
     – professional basketball player
  • Dewey Phillips
    Dewey Phillips

    "Daddy-O" Dewey Phillips was one of rock 'n' roll's pioneering disk jockeys, along the lines of Cleveland, Ohio's Alan Freed, before Alan Freed....
     – early rock 'n' roll disc jockey
    Disc jockey

    A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
  • Sam Phillips
    Sam Phillips

    Samuel Cornelius Phillips , better known as Sam Phillips, was an United States record producer who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s....
     – founder of Sun Records
    Sun Records

    Sun Records is a record label founded in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, starting operations on March 27 1952. Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers....
  • – businessman
  • David Porter
    David Porter (musician)

    David Porter is an United States soul musician. Porter is best known as the songwriting and production partner of Isaac Hayes at Stax Records during the 1960s....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
     and actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Project Pat
    Project Pat

    Patrick Stephen Houston is an United States Rapping originating from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the older brother of Juicy J, co-founder of the Three 6 Mafia....
     – gangsta rap
    Gangsta rap

    Gangsta rap is a term coined by the mainstream media to describe a certain genre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of some inner-city youths....
    per
  • Tommy Prothro
    Tommy Prothro

    James Thompson "Tommy" Prothro, Jr. was an American football coach at both the collegiate and professional levels for more than 30 years.Prothro, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, was the son of major league baseball player and manager Doc Prothro, who played for three teams between 1920 and 1926, then managed the Philadelphia Phillies from...
     – former football
    Football

    File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
     coach at UCLA
  • Missi Pyle
    Missi Pyle

    Andrea Kay "Missi" Pyle is an American actress. She has appeared in several films, including Galaxy Quest, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay....
     – actress
  • Lisa Quinn
    Lisa Quinn

    Lisa Pickens Quinn is an United States actress, artist, author, columnist, set designer and interior decorator....
     – actress, author, designer
  • Michael Ramirez
    Michael Ramirez

    Michael Patrick Ramirez is a two-time United States Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. His cartoons typically present Conservatism in the United States viewpoints....
     – Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize

    The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
    -winning editorial cartoonist
    Editorial cartoonist

    An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary....
  • Otis Redding
    Otis Redding

    Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Charlie Rich
    Charlie Rich

    Charlie Rich was an United States. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country music, and gospel music genres....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Loren Roberts
    Loren Roberts

    Loren Lloyd Roberts is an United States professional golfer. He was born in San Luis Obispo, California. He competed for San Luis Obispo High School and California Polytechnic State University....
     Professional Golfer
  • Russell Roberts (economist)
    Russell Roberts (economist)

    Russell Roberts, a student of Milton Friedman, is a professor of economics at George Mason University, and former Director of the Center for Experiential Learning at Washington University in St....
     Economist
  • Adrian Rogers
    Adrian Rogers

    Adrian Pierce Rogers , was an United States of America pastor, conservatism in the United States, author, and a three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention ....
     – former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church
    Bellevue Baptist Church

    Bellevue Baptist Church is a large, Southern Baptist Convention megachurch in the Cordova, Tennessee area of Memphis, Tennessee, United States....
     and president of the Southern Baptist Convention
    Southern Baptist Convention

    The Southern Baptist Convention is a United States-based, mostly conservative Christian denomination. The name "Southern" stems from its having been founded and rooted in the Southern United States....
  • Steve Ross
    Steve Ross

    Steve Ross may refer to:* Steve Ross , Time Warner CEO.* Stephen Ross , British politician.* Stephen Ross * Steve Ross , film director....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Lance Russell
    Lance Russell

    Lance Russell is a former professional wrestling announcer in the Memphis, Tennessee region from the 1970s through the early 1990s, particularly in Continental Wrestling Association....
     – pro wrestling announcer
  • Saliva
    Saliva (band)

    Saliva is an American hard rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee in September 1996 and currently under Island/Def Jam Records. Saliva released their self-titled debut album on August 26, 1997 under Rocking Chair Records/Red Urban Records...
     – musical group
  • Sam and Dave – Sam Moore
    Sam Moore

    Samuel David Moore is an United States Southern Soul and Rhythm & Blues singer who was the tenor vocalist for the soul vocal duo Sam & Dave from 1961 through 1981....
     and David Prater
    David Prater

    Dave Prater was an American Southern Soul and Rhythm & Blues singer who was one of two members, along with Sam Moore, of the soul vocal duo Sam & Dave from 1961 through 1981....
    , musicians
  • Sam the Sham
    Sam the Sham

    Sam the Sham is the stage name of Rock and roll singer Domingo ?Sam? Samudio from Dallas, Texas, USA. Sam the Sham was later known for camp robe and turban and hauling his equipment in a 1952 Packard hearse with maroon velvet curtains....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
    , leader of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
  • William Sanderson
    William Sanderson

    William Sanderson is an American character actor....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Clarence Saunders
    Clarence Saunders

    Clarence Saunders was a grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket....
     – inventor
    Inventor

    An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means. The word inventor comes form the latin verb invenire, invent-, to find....
     and businessman, founder of the world's first self-service supermarket, Piggly Wiggly
    Piggly Wiggly

    Piggly Wiggly is a supermarket chain operating in the Midwestern United States and Southern United States regions of the United States, run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers....
  • Josey Scott
    Josey Scott

    Josey Scott is the lead vocalist of post-grunge/hard rock band Saliva . In addition to Saliva, Scott co-worte and performed "Hero " with Chad Kroeger of Nickelback....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Dan Schneider
    Dan Schneider (TV producer)

    Daniel James Schneider is an actor, writer, and producer of movies and television. He is the president of his own production company called Schneider's Bakery, Inc....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Will Shade
    Will Shade

    Will Shade was an African-American Memphis blues musician best known for his membership in the Memphis Jug Band. Shade was commonly called Son Brimmer, a nickname from his grandmother Annie Brimmer, because "son" is short for "grandson"....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Paul Shanklin
    Paul Shanklin

    Paul Shanklin is an American conservative political Satire, Impressionist , comedian, and conservative speaker. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Shanklin writes most of, and voices the characters for, the songs and satirical comedy segments used by Conservatism radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Mike Fleming....
     – voiceover
    VoiceOver

    VoiceOver is a feature built into Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system since version Mac OS X v10.4. By using VoiceOver, the user can access his or her Apple Macintosh by using speech and the Computer keyboard....
     artist and creator of song parodies heard on the Rush Limbaugh
    Rush Limbaugh

    Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is an United States radio personality and Conservatism in the United States political commentator. His radio syndication talk radio, The Rush Limbaugh Show, airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks....
     radio program
  • Cybill Shepherd
    Cybill Shepherd

    Cybill Lynne Shepherd is a United States actress, singer and former fashion model .Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting , as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, as Betsy in Taxi Driver and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word....
     – actress & model
  • Fred Smith
    Frederick W. Smith

    Frederick Wallace Smith , or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United States....
     – Founder and Chairman FedEx
    FedEx

    FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States. The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express, which was used until 2000....
  • Lane Smith
    Lane Smith

    Walter Lane Smith III was an United States actor best known for his role as Perry White in the United States television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and as Richard Nixon in The Final Days, for which he received a Golden Globe award nomination....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Andrew Stevens
    Andrew Stevens

    Andrew Stevens is an United States film film producer and film director and a former actor. He is the only child of actress Stella Stevens and her former husband Noble Herman Stephens, both natives of Mississippi....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Stella Stevens
    Stella Stevens

    Stella Stevens is an United States actor, who began her acting career in 1959. She has also been a film producer, film director and pin-up model...
     – actress
  • Jim Stewart
    Jim Stewart

    Jim Stewart may refer to:*Jim Stewart , co-founder of Stax Records*Jim Stewart , Scottish footballer*Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400, a NASCAR Nextel Cup event named after an unrelated Jim Stewart...
     – record producer
    Record producer

    In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
     and co-founder of Stax Records
    Stax Records

    Stax Records is an USA record label founded in 1957, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing Gospel music, funk, jazz, and blues recordings....
  • Bobby Sowell
    Bobby Sowell

    Bobby Sowell is an United States musician, pianist and composer. He spent much of his early years playing rockabilly piano in the late 1950s, playing electric organ in rock and roll band in the 1960s and playing piano in numerous country music bands in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Carla Thomas
    Carla Thomas

    Carla Thomas is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis soul....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
     and daughter of Rufus Thomas
    Rufus Thomas

    Rufus Thomas, Jr. was a rhythm and blues, funk and soul music singer and comedian fromMemphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the...
  • Danny Thomas
    Danny Thomas

    Danny Thomas was an United States nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy....
     – entertainer and founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded in 1962, is a leading pediatric treatment and research facility focused on children's catastrophic diseases....
  • Drew Thomas - musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
     songwriter and founder of band Retrospect
  • Rufus Thomas
    Rufus Thomas

    Rufus Thomas, Jr. was a rhythm and blues, funk and soul music singer and comedian fromMemphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the...
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Fred D. Thompson – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
     and former U.S. Senator (alumnus of the University of Memphis
    University of Memphis

    The University of Memphis is an American public university research university located in the Normal Station, Memphis neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States, and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
    )
  • Justin Timberlake
    Justin Timberlake

    Justin Randall Timberlake is an United Statesn pop music singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
     and actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Drumma Boy
    Drumma Boy

    Christopher Gholson, better known by his stage name Drumma Boy, is an American Grammy Award nominated music producer from Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
     – hip hop
    Hip hop

    Hip hop is a cultural movement built largely around the music genre of hip hop music, which developed in New York City during the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latino Americans....
     music producer
  • Ike Turner
    Ike Turner

    Ike Wister Turner was an United States musician, bandleader, talent scout, and record producer. His first recording, "Rocket 88" by "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats," in 1951, is considered by some to be the "First rock and roll record" ever....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Andrew VanWyngarden
    MGMT

    MGMT is an United States musical duo based in Brooklyn, New York consisting of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. Originally with Cantora Records, they signed with Columbia Records/Red Ink/Sony in 2006....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
     lead singer and songwriter of Brooklyn-based indie rock duo MGMT
  • Anita Ward
    Anita Ward

    Anita Ward is an United States singer. She is best known for her 1979 million selling chart-topper, "Ring My Bell"....
     – Disco/Dance
    Dance music

    Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dance. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement....
     singer and school teacher; Became famous in 1979
    1979 in music

    See also:* :Category:Musical groups established in 1979* :Category:Record labels established in 1979* 1979 in music ...
     for her number one Billboard Hot 100
    Billboard Hot 100

    The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
     single "Ring My Bell
    Ring My Bell

    "Ring My Bell" is a pop music disco music song by Anita Ward. Released in 1979, the song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100, Ward's only major hit....
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  • Thomas Waterson
    Thomas Waterson

    Thomas Waterson, born Seth Thomas Waterson in 1895 was an American police officer and member of the Memphis Police Department in Memphis, Tennessee....
     – Memphis police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly
    Machine Gun Kelly

    George Kelly Barnes aka George R. Kelly aka George "pop Gun" Kelly was a notorious USA criminal during the Prohibition in the United States era....
     in Memphis raid in 1933
  • Ida B. Wells
    Ida B. Wells

    Ida B Wells was an African American sociologist, civil rights leader and a women's rights leader active in the History of women's suffrage in the United States|Woman Suffrage Movement....
     – civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
  • Junior Wells
    Junior Wells

    Junior Wells , born Amos Blakemore, was a Blues music vocalist and harmonica player based in Chicago who was famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison among others....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • David West
    David West

    David West is the name of:*David West , NBA power forward*David West, RSW, watercolourist*David West , Major League Baseball player...
     – former baseball player
  • Red West
    Red West

    Red West is an United States actor, Stunt performer and songwriter.West was born Robert Gene West in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Lois and Newton Thomas West....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Kirk Whalum
    Kirk Whalum

    Kirk Whalum is an United States smooth jazz saxophonist and songwriter. He toured as Whitney Houston's opening act for several years. Whalum has also recorded a series of well received solo albums and film soundtracks, with music ranging from pop music to R&B to smooth jazz....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Reggie White
    Reggie White

    Reginald Howard "Reggie" White was a professional American football player who played defensive end for 17 seasons in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers becoming one of the most decorated players in NFL history....
     – NFL
    National Football League

    The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
     player; began his career with the Memphis Showboats
    Memphis Showboats

    The Memphis Showboats was a franchise in the United States Football League. They entered the league in its expansion in 1984 and made the 1985 playoffs, losing in the semifinal round to the Oakland Invaders....
     of the USFL
  • Maurice White
    Maurice White

    Maurice White is an Grammy Award Winning United States soul music, funk music, and R&B singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and bandleader....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Bobby Whitlock
    Bobby Whitlock

    Bobby Whitlock is a session musician, best known for being a member of Derek and the Dominos....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
    , keyboardist in Derek and the Dominoes
  • Tennessee Williams
    Tennessee Williams

    Tennessee Williams was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth....
     – playwright
  • Kemmons Wilson
    Kemmons Wilson

    Kemmons Wilson was the founder of the Holiday Inn chain of hotels.He was born Charles Kemmons Wilson in Osceola, Arkansas, a son of Kemmons and Ruby "Doll" Wilson....
     – businessman, founder of Holiday Inn
    Holiday Inn

    Holiday Inn is a brand name applied to hotels within the InterContinental Hotels Group ....
  • Roy Yeager
    Roy Yeager

    Roy Yeager is an American musician.His musical career started off when he moved to Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 14. Roy met Bobby Sowell in high school in 1964 and soon they were playing gigs, as a duo and with bands....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Shawn Lane
    Shawn Lane

    Shawn Lane was an United States musician. He quickly became a noted player in underground guitar circles and joined Black Oak Arkansas when he was just fourteen years old....
     – musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
  • Three 6 Mafia
    Three 6 Mafia

    Three 6 Mafia is an Academy Awards winning United States Rap music group originating from Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee. Formed in 1991 by DJ Paul, Lord Infamous, and Juicy J, they shortly thereafter recruited fellow Memphian rappers Koopsta Knicca, Gangsta Boo, and Crunchy Black....
     – Academy Award-winning rap musicians
  • Garrett Wang
    Garrett Wang

    Garrett Richard Wang is a Chinese American actor. Wang is best known for his role in Star Trek: Voyager as Harry Kim ....
     – actor
    Actor

    An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  • Louis Williams
    Louis Williams

    Louis Tyrone Williams is an United States professional basketball player with the Philadelphia 76ers, who selected him with the 45th pick of the 2005 NBA Draft....
     – NBA
    National Basketball Association

    The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
     player
  • Kings Of Leon
    Kings of Leon

    Kings of Leon are a Grammy Award-winning, NME Award winning and Brit Award-winning United States alternative rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, USA....
     – Musicians