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The following is a list of prominent people who were born in the U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
, live in Tennessee, or for whom Tennessee is a significant part of their identity:







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The following is a list of prominent people who were born in the U.S. state
U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
 of Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
, live in Tennessee, or for whom Tennessee is a significant part of their identity:

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  • Roy Acuff
    Roy Acuff

    Roy Claxton Acuff was an USA country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music," Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful....
     (1903–1992), musician; born in Maynardville
  • Charlie Adams
    Charlie Adams (drummer)

    Charlie Adams is an United States drummer, percussionist, drum engineer, composer, music producer, and film producer. He formed the rock band Chameleon in the 1980s, and was known for his revolving, upside-down drum set....
    ; drummer, percussionist, and drum engineer
  • James Agee
    James Agee

    James Rufus Agee was an United States author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S....
     (1909–1955); Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic; born in Knoxville
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
  • The Aldridge Sisters
    The Aldridge Sisters

    The Aldridge Sisters is an United States singing act that appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1977 to 1982. They are a duo made up of sisters Sheila and Sherry Aldridge....
    , singing duo that appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show
    The Lawrence Welk Show

    The Lawrence Welk Show is a musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. The original episodes were aired in either a local, network, or syndicated capacity for more than 30 years; rerun episodes are still being broadcast in the United States for the most part by PBS stations in the form of new programs each of which inc...
     from 1977 to 1982
  • Lamar Alexander
    Lamar Alexander

    Andrew Lamar Alexander is the senior United States Senate from Tennessee and Conference Chair of the Republican Party . He was previously the 45th Governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987, U.S....
     (b. 1940), lawyer and U.S. Senator from Tennessee; born and raised in Maryville
    Maryville, Tennessee

    Maryville is a city in and the county seat of Blount County, Tennessee, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States. The city is located 20 miles south of Knoxville, Tennessee....
  • Duane Allman
    Duane Allman

    Howard Duane Allman was an United States lead guitarist, co-founder of the Southern rock group the Allman Brothers Band, and respected session musician....
     (1946–1971); guitarist; born in Nashville
    Nashville, Tennessee

    Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
  • Gregg Allman
    Gregg Allman

    Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman , is a rock music and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band....
     (b. 1947); singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter; born in Nashville
    Nashville, Tennessee

    Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
  • William R. Anderson
    William Anderson (naval officer)

    William Robert Anderson was an officer in the United States Navy, and a United States House of Representatives from Tennessee from 1965 to 1973....
     (1921-2007); naval officer and member of Congress; born in Humphreys County
    Humphreys County, Tennessee

    Humphreys County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 17,929. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 18,212....
  • Lil Hardin Armstrong
    Lil Hardin Armstrong

    Lil Hardin Armstrong was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader, and the second wife of Louis Armstrong with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s....
  • Victor Ashe
    Victor Ashe

    Victor Henderson Ashe II is the current Ambassadors from the United States to Foreign relations of Poland. From 1988 to 2003, he was mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee....
  • Chet Atkins
    Chet Atkins

    Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
     (1924–2001); guitarist and record producer; born in Luttrell
    Luttrell, Tennessee

    Luttrell is a town in Union County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States, with a population of 915 as of the United States Census, 2000. It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area....


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  • DeFord Bailey
    DeFord Bailey

    DeFord Bailey was an early country music star and the first African American performer on the Grand Ole Opry. Bailey played several instruments but is best known for his harmonica tunes....
  • Howard Baker
    Howard Baker

    Howard Henry Baker, Jr. is a former Party leaders of the United States Senate, Republican Party United States Senate from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan....
  • George Franklin Barber
    George Franklin Barber

    George Franklin Barber was one of the most prolific American architects of the late Victorian architecture period. If success can be measured in number of buildings constructed per his designs, Barber must also be considered one of the most successful architects of the era....
  • William M. Bass
    William M. Bass

    William M. Bass is a U.S. forensic anthropology, renowned for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He has also assisted federal, local, and non-US authorities in the identification of human remains....
  • 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....
  • Kate Batts (a.k.a. The Bell Witch
    The Bell Witch

    The Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a ghost story from American folklore, involving the historical Bell family of Adams, Tennessee, Tennessee....
    )
  • Robin Beard
    Robin Beard

    Robin Leo Beard, Jr. was a Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee who served from 1973 to 1983....
  • John Bell
    John Bell (Tennessee politician)

    John Bell was a United States politician, attorney, and plantation owner. A wealthy slaveholder from Tennessee, Bell served in the United States Congress in both the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate....
  • Bill Belichick
    Bill Belichick

    William Stephen Belichick is the American football head coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. After spending his first 15 seasons in the league as an assistant coach, Belichick got his first head coaching job with the Cleveland Browns in 1991 Cleveland Browns season....
    , New England Patriots
    New England Patriots

    The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats" by sports writers and fans, are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
     Head Coach, born in Nashville
    Nashville, Tennessee

    Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
  • Aaron Benward
    Aaron Benward

    Aaron Benward is an United States Christian singer-songwriter who rose to fame when he formed a duo with his father, called Aaron Jeoffrey....
  • Polly Bergen
    Polly Bergen

    Polly Bergen is an United States Emmy Award-winning actress, singer, and entrepreneur....
  • William Blount
    William Blount

    William Blount, was a United States statesman. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention for North Carolina, the first and only governor of the Southwest Territory, and Democratic-Republican Party U.S....
  • Willie Blount
    Willie Blount

    Willie Blount served as List of Governors of Tennessee of Tennessee from 1809 to 1815. He was the younger half-brother of William Blount, representative of North Carolina to the Continental Congress and governor of the Southwest Territory....
  • Alexander Bonnyman, Jr.
    Alexander Bonnyman, Jr.

    Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman, Jr. was a United States Marine Corps officer who was killed in action at Betio, Tarawa Atoll during World War II. A combat engineer, he received the Medal of Honor, Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation , Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three Bronze Stars and the World War II Victory Medal posthumously for...
  • Arna W. Bontemps
    Arna Bontemps

    Arna Wendell Bontemps was a well-known United States poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance. As the librarian at Fisk University, he established important collections of African-American literature and culture, establishing it as an important goal of scholarly study....
  • Pat Boone
    Pat Boone

    Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  • Rachel Boston
    Rachel Boston

    Rachel Elizabeth Boston is an American actress....
  • Rod Brasfield
    Rod Brasfield

    Rodney Leon Brasfield, was an American comedian who was featured at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee between 1947 and 1958....
  • Clarence Brown
    Clarence Brown

    Clarence Brown was an United States film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven....
  • William Gannaway Brownlow
    William Gannaway Brownlow

    William Gannaway Brownlow was List of Governors of Tennessee of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and a List of United States Senators from Tennessee from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875....
  • James M. Buchanan
    James M. Buchanan

    James McGill Buchanan, Jr. is an United States economist renowned for his work on public choice theory, for which he won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics....
    , economist, Nobel laureate
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Frances Hodgson Burnett was an England?United States playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy....
  • Kenneth C. Burns
    Kenneth C. Burns

    Kenneth C. Burns was an United States of America country musician, comedian, and highly-influential mandolin player. He was better known by the nickname Jethro Burns, from his days as part of the comedy musical duo Homer and Jethro....
    , "Jethro" of Homer and Jethro
    Homer and Jethro

    Homer and Jethro were an United States country music team with a long career from the 1940s through the 1960s, sometimes known as "the thinking man's hillbilly," specializing in comedy Gramophone record and satire versions of popular songs....
  • Charles Burson
    Charles Burson

    Charles Wainman Burson was a legal counsel and Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States under Al Gore. He assumed the position of legal counsel from Kumiki Gibson in February 1997 after serving almost a decade as Tennessee Attorney General....
  • Jake Butcher
    Jake Butcher

    Jacob Franklin "Jake" Butcher was a United States banking and politician who built a financial empire in East Tennessee, was the United States Democratic Party nominee for governor of Tennessee in 1978 and the primary promoter of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, and who lost his business and his personal fortune after he was fo...
  • Joseph W. Byrns
    Jo Byrns

    Joseph Wellington "Jo" Byrns, Sr. was a United States politician. He served as a 14-term United States Democratic Party United States House of Representatives from Tennessee....


C

  • Archie Campbell
    Archie Campbell

    ----Archie Campbell, was a writer and star of Hee Haw, a popular long-running Country music-flavored television variety show. He was also a recording musician with several hits on the RCA label in the 1960s....
  • Guy Carawan
    Guy Carawan

    Guy Carawan is an American folk music musician, and Music Director and Song Leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee....
  • Hattie Caraway
    Hattie Caraway

    Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway was the first woman elected to serve as a United States Senate....
  • Dixie Carter
    Dixie Carter

    Dixie Virginia Carter is an United States Emmy Award-nominated actress....
  • 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....
  • 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....
  • June Carter Cash
  • Rosanne Cash
    Rosanne Cash

    Rosanne Cash is an United States singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto....
  • David Catching
    David Catching

    David Catching is an United States musician from Memphis, Tennessee....
  • John Catron
    John Catron

    John Catron was an United States of America jurist who served as a United States Supreme Court justice from 1837 to 1865.Little is known of Catron's early life, but he served in the War of 1812 under Andrew Jackson....
  • Tracy Caulkins
    Tracy Caulkins

    Tracy Caulkins Stockwell is a former three time gold medal Swimming from the United States.Caulkins is perhaps best remembered for her adeptness at all four major competitive swimming strokes; the Butterfly stroke, breaststroke, backstroke, and Freestyle swimming....
  • Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham
    Benjamin F. Cheatham

    Benjamin Franklin Cheatham , known also as Frank, was a Tennessee farmer, California gold miner, and a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, serving in many battles of the Western Theater of the American Civil War....
  • Doc Cheatham
    Doc Cheatham

    Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, much better known as Doc Cheatham was a jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. While a reliable player in some of the top jazz groups from the 1920s on, Cheatham's career enjoyed an unusual flowering of renewed creativity and acclaim in his later decades; Doc himself agreed with the critical assessment that...
  • Kitty Cheatham
    Kitty Cheatham

    Katherine "Kitty" Cheatham was an United States singer and actor. She was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father, Richard Boone Cheatham, was a Tennessee politician who was the List of mayors of Nashville, Tennessee from 1860 to 1862, and her mother was Frances Ann Cheatham ....
  • Richard Boone Cheatham
    Richard Boone Cheatham

    Richard Boone Cheatham was the List of mayors of Nashville, Tennessee of Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee during the opening years of the American Civil War....
  • Richard Cheatham
    Richard Cheatham

    Richard Cheatham was an American politician that represented Tennessee's United States House of Representatives, Tennessee District 11 in the United States House of Representatives....
  • Kenny Chesney
    Kenny Chesney

    Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney is an American country music artist. Since 1993, Chesney has recorded thirteen albums, eleven of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA....
  • Philander P. Claxton
    Philander Claxton

    Philander Priestly Claxton was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, Tennessee,He was educated at the University of Tennessee where he obtained both his Bachelor and Masters of Arts ....
  • Jim Clayton
    Jim Clayton (Clayton Homes)

    James L. "Jim" Clayton, Sr. is an American entrepreneur who founded Clayton Homes in 1966 and built it into the United States' largest producer and seller of manufactured housing, a publicly traded company that was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2003 for $1.7 billion....
  • Frank G. Clement
    Frank G. Clement

    Frank Goad Clement served as List of Governors of Tennessee of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959, and again from 1963 to 1967....
  • Fred Coe
    Fred Coe

    Fred Coe , nicknamed Pappy, was a television producer and director most famous for the The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse in 1948-1955 and Playhouse 90 from 1957 to 1959....
  • Lynnette Cole
    Lynnette Cole

    Lynnette Cole , won the title Miss Tennessee USA in 2000. She went on to become the first woman from that state to win the Miss USA pageant, which was held in Branson, Missouri on February 4, 2000....
     - Miss USA 2000
  • Mark Collie
    Mark Collie

    Mark Collie is an American country music artist and occasional actor. He has released six albums, and has charted sixteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
  • Darby Conley
    Darby Conley

    Darby Conley is an United States cartoonist best known for the popular comic strip Get Fuzzy.Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1970, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee....
  • David "Davy" Crockett
    Davy Crockett

    David Stern Crockett was a celebrated 19th-century United States folk hero, Frontier#American frontier, soldier and politician; referred to in popular culture as Davy Crockett and often by the popular title ?King of the Wild Frontier.? He represented Tennessee in the U.S....
  • Dixie Lee Crosby
    Dixie Lee

    Dixie Lee born Wilma Winifred Wyatt, was an United States actress, dancer, and singer. Reviews and publicity for Dixie's budding film work were favorable but, according to her son Gary, she couldn't sufficiently overcome her shyness and insecurity...
  • Edward Hull "Boss" Crump
    E. H. Crump

    Edward Hull "Boss" Crump was a Memphis, Tennessee insurance broker, businessman, and Politics figure in the early 20th century....
  • John Cullum
    John Cullum

    John Cullum is an American actor and singer....
  • Lowell Cunningham
    Lowell Cunningham

    Lowell Cunningham is the Comic book creator of the comic book series Men in Black . This comic series spawned the 1997 film Men in Black , as well as its 2002 sequel and the animated television program Men in Black: The Series....
  • Billy Ray Cyrus
    Billy Ray Cyrus

    Billy Ray Cyrus is a Grammy Award-nominated American country music singer, songwriter and actor from Flatwoods, Kentucky, best known for his Number One single "Achy Breaky Heart." Cyrus, a Music recording sales certification, has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the U.S....
  • Miley Cyrus
    Miley Cyrus

    Miley Ray Cyrus is a Golden Globe and Critic's Choice Award nominated United States singer, and Actor. Cyrus is better known for starring as Miley Stewart in the television series Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel....
    , star of Hannah Montana
    Hannah Montana

    Hannah Montana is an 59th Primetime Emmy Awards United States Television program, which debuted on March 24, 2006 on Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a alter ego as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night, concealing her real identity from the...


D

  • Beauford Delaney
    Beauford Delaney

    Beauford Delaney was an United States modernist Painting.[See photo of Delaney by Hardy Liston]Perhaps I should not say, flatly, what I believe ? that he is a great painter ? among the very greatest; but I do know that great art can only be created out of love, and that no greater lover has ever held a brush. ? James Baldwin ...
  • George Roby Dempster
    George Roby Dempster

    George Roby Dempster was an industrialist and inventor, and also served as mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee.He is principally remembered for the invention of the Dempster-Dumpster in the 1930s, which was the first garbage collection system where the waste container were mechanically emptied into the garbage truck....
  • Jamie Denton
  • Bobby Dodd
    Bobby Dodd

    Robert Lee Dodd was an United States college football coach at Georgia Institute of Technology. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player and coach....
  • 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....
  • Andrew Jackson Donelson
    Andrew Jackson Donelson

    Andrew Jackson Donelson was an American diplomat and a candidate for Vice President of the United States.One of the three sons of Samuel and Mary Donelson, Andrew Jackson Donelson was born in Nashville, Tennessee....
  • Aaron Douglas
    Aaron Douglas

    Aaron Douglas was an African American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance....


E

  • William Edmondson
    William Edmondson

    William Edmondson was an African-American folk art sculptor.Edmondson was the first African-American artist to be given a One-Person show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City ....
  • Ralph Emery
    Ralph Emery

    Walter Ralph Emery is a famous country music disc jockey and television host from Nashville, Tennessee. He gained national fame hosting the television syndication music series Pop! Goes the Country from 1974 to 1980, and Nashville Now - the cornerstone live nightly program of Spike TV - from 1983 to 1993....
  • Sleepy John Estes
    Sleepy John Estes

    John Adam Estes , best known as Sleepy John Estes or Sleepy John, was a United States blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, born in Ripley, Tennessee, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, Tennessee....


F

  • David Farragut
    David Farragut

    David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and Admiral of the Navy....
  • Lester Flatt
    Lester Flatt

    Lester Raymond Flatt was one of the pioneers of bluegrass music....
  • 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....
  • 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....
  • 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....
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford
    Tennessee Ernie Ford

    Tennessee Ernie Ford an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the Country music, Pop music and Gospel music musical genres....
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest
    Nathan Bedford Forrest

    Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Lieutenant General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self made and innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a figure in the postwar establishment of the first Ku Klux Klan organization opposing the Reconstruction era of the United States in the South....
  • 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....
  • Megan Fox
    Megan Fox

    Megan Denise Fox is an American actress and Model . She is known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith and in the 2007 in film live action Transformers ....
  • 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....
  • 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....
  • Bill Frist
    Bill Frist

    William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr., M.D. is an American physician, businessman, and politician. Frist served two terms as a United States Senate where he became the United States Republican Party Majority Leader from 2003 until his retirement in 2007....
  • Phillip Fulmer
    Phillip Fulmer

    Phillip Fulmer is the former head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers football college football team. He coached the team from 1992 until the end of the 2008 season....


G

  • Nikki Giovanni
    Nikki Giovanni

    Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni is a Grammy Award-nominated United States poet, activist and author. Giovanni is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University....
  • Guilford Glazer
    Guilford Glazer

    Guilford Glazer is an United States real estate developer and philanthropist.Glazer was born in and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, one of eight children....
  • Dr. Ernest W. Goodpasture
    Ernest William Goodpasture

    Dr. Ernest William Goodpasture was an United States pathologist and physician. Goodpasture advanced the scientific understanding of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, parasitism, and a variety of rickettsial and virus infections....
  • Albert Gore, Jr.
    Al Gore

    Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. is an United States environmentalism activist who served as the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President of the United States Bill Clinton....
    , 45th Vice President of the United States
    Vice President of the United States

    The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office in the United States of America created by the Constitution of the United States....
    , 1993-2001
  • Albert Gore, Sr.
    Albert Gore, Sr.

    Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Sr. was an United States politician, serving as a United States House of Representatives and a United States Senate for the Democratic Party from Tennessee....
  • Yo Gotti
    Yo Gotti

    Yo Gotti is an United States rapper from Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
  • Lou Graham
    Lou Graham

    Louis Krebs "Lou" Graham is an United States professional golfer who has participated in and won numerous golf tournaments including the 1975 U.S....
  • Red Grooms
    Red Grooms

    Red Grooms is an United States multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life....


H

  • Alex Haley
    Alex Haley

    Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an United States writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and The Autobiography of Malcolm X ....
  • George Hamilton
    George Hamilton (actor)

    George Hamilton in Memphis, Tennessee is an United States film and television actor and occasional film director....
  • W.C. Handy
  • George "Two Ton" Harris
  • James Haslam Jr.
    James Haslam Jr.

    James Haslam Jr., better known as Jim Haslam, is the founder of Pilot Corp., a company based in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, that is famous for its Pilot Travel Centers....
  • 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....
  • Henry D. Haynes
    Henry D. Haynes

    Henry Doyle Haynes was an American entertainer who gained fame on radio and television as half of the Homer and Jethro country music comedy team....
    , "Homer" of Homer and Jethro
    Homer and Jethro

    Homer and Jethro were an United States country music team with a long career from the 1940s through the 1960s, sometimes known as "the thinking man's hillbilly," specializing in comedy Gramophone record and satire versions of popular songs....
  • Todd Helton
    Todd Helton

    Todd Lynn Helton is the starting first baseman for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball.Helton is a 5-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 4-time Silver Slugger Award, 4-time National League Player of the Month and 3-time Gold Glove winner....
  • Will Hoge
    Will Hoge

    Will Hoge is an American musician from Nashville, Tennessee....
  • Charles O. (Chad) Holliday
  • John Jay Hooker
    John Jay Hooker

    John Jay Hooker, Jr. is a Nashville, Tennessee Lawyer, entrepreneur, perennial candidate and political gadfly ....
  • Ed Hooper
    Ed Hooper

    William Edward Hooper is a nationally recognized author, news Presenter and writer from Knoxville, Tennessee. He is most widely known for his work in military affairs reporting and his advocacy for historic preservation and U.S....
  • Myles Horton
    Myles Horton

    Myles Horton was an American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement ....
  • Sam Houston
    Sam Houston

    Samuel Houston was a 19th century United States statesman, politician, and soldier. Born on Timber Ridge, just north of Lexington, Virginia in Rockbridge County, Virginia, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley, Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as President of the Republic of Texas, United States Senate for Te...
  • Thomas Hughes
    Thomas Hughes

    Thomas Hughes was an England lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days , a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended....
  • Cordell Hull
    Cordell Hull

    Cordell Hull was an Politics of the United States from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest-serving United States Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
  • Con Hunley
    Con Hunley

    'Con Hunley', , is a country music singer. Hunley was born into a family of six children. An early influence of his was Chet Atkins, and Hunley taught himself to play thumb-style guitar in the Atkins style while still a youth....
  • Alberta Hunter
    Alberta Hunter

    Alberta Hunter , was an United States blues singer, songwriter, and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith....
  • Dennis Hwang
    Dennis Hwang

    Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jeong-mok, is a graphic artist who designs the festive Google logo#Google holiday logos for Google on special days....


J

  • Andrew Jackson
    Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . He was List of governors of Florida of Florida , commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans , and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy....
    , Seventh President of the United States
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
    , 1829-1837
  • Howell Edmunds Jackson
    Howell Edmunds Jackson

    Howell Edmunds Jackson was an United States of America jurist and politics. He served on the United States Supreme Court, in the U.S. Senate, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Tennessee House of Representatives....
  • Quinton Jackson
    Quinton Jackson

    See also: Wanderlei Silva vs. Quinton JacksonQuinton "Rampage" Jackson is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter who rose to prominence with his fights in Japan Pride Fighting Championships....
    , The Current UFC
    Ultimate Fighting Championship

    Ultimate Fighting Championship is a United States-based mixed martial arts organization, currently recognized as the largest MMA promotion in the world....
     Light Heavyweight Champion, (Born in Memphis
    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 ....
    )
  • Samuel L. Jackson
    Samuel L. Jackson

    Samuel Leroy Jackson is an United States film and television actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having appeared in a large number of high-grossing films....
  • Claude Jarman Jr.
    Claude Jarman Jr.

    Claude Jarman, Jr. is an Academy Award-winning United States former child film actor.Jarman was discovered in a nationwide talent search by MGM Studios, and was cast as the lead actor in the film The Yearling ....
  • William L. Jenkins
    William L. Jenkins

    William Lewis "Bill" Jenkins is a politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He has represented the state's Tennessee's 1st congressional district, centered around the Tri-Cities, Tennessee , from 1997 until his successor was sworn in on January 3, 2007....
    , U.S. House of Representatives (R-TN-01), 1997-2007
  • Michael Jeter
    Michael Jeter

    Michael Jeter was an United States actor...
  • Andrew Johnson
    Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , succeeding to the Presidency upon Abraham Lincoln assassination of Abraham Lincoln....
    , Seventeenth President of the United States
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
    , 1865-1869
  • Cave Johnson
    Cave Johnson

    Cave Johnson was for fourteen years a Democratic Party United States House of Representatives from Tennessee. He was also the United States Postmaster General under James K....
  • Cherry Jones
    Cherry Jones

    Cherry Jones is an American Tony Award-winning actor....
  • Jesse Holman Jones
    Jesse Holman Jones

    Jesse Holman Jones was a Houston, Texas politician and entrepreneur. He served as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1940 to 1945. His most important role was to head the Reconstruction Finance Corporation , , a federal agency originally created by Herbert Hoover that played a major role in combating the Great Depression and financin...


K

  • Estes Kefauver
    Estes Kefauver

    Carey Estes Kefauver was an United States politician from Tennessee who opposed the concentration of economic and political power under the control of a wealthy, exclusive elite and favored racial equality....
  • David Keith
    David Keith

    David Lemuel Keith is an United States actor and Film director.CareerKeith had an early supporting role in the prison film Brubaker....
  • Adm. Frank B. Kelso
    Frank B. Kelso II

    Frank Benton Kelso II is a former admiral of the United States Navy, who served as Chief of Naval Operations in the early 1990s.Kelso, a native of Fayetteville, Tennessee, attended public school and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, prior to entering the United States Naval Academy in 1952....
  • Johnny Knoxville
    Johnny Knoxville

    Philip John Clapp known by his stage name Johnny Knoxville, is an United States actor, comedian and Stunt performer. He has been featured in a number of films, but is best known as the co-creator and principal star of the MTV series Jackass and its subsequent films....
  • Joseph Wood Krutch
    Joseph Wood Krutch

    Joseph Wood Krutch was an United States writer, critic, and naturalist.Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he initially studied at the University of Tennessee and received a masters degree and Ph.D....


L

  • Dan Landrum
    Dan Landrum

    Dan Landrum, , is an United States hammered dulcimer player residing in Chattanooga, Tennessee.He was discovered busking in front of the Tennessee Aquarium and is a featured member of Yanni's touring orchestra....
     - Hammer dulcimer player
  • Jerry "The King" 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....
  • Arthur Lee
    Arthur Lee (musician)

    Arthur Lee was the frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles rock band Love , best known for the critically acclaimed 1967 album, Forever Changes....
  • Michael Levine
  • Sondra Locke
    Sondra Locke

    Sondra Locke is an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe-nominated United States actress, singer and film director, best known for frequently starring in films with Clint Eastwood....
  • Z. Alexander Looby
    Z. Alexander Looby

    Zephaniah Alexander Looby was a lawyer active in the American Civil Rights Movement . He was born in Antigua, and moved to the United States in 1914....
  • Horace Lurton
    Horace Harmon Lurton

    Horace Harmon Lurton was an United States of America jurist who served for four years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed at the age of 65, Lurton was the oldest justice appointed to the Court....
  • Andrew Lytle
    Andrew Nelson Lytle

    Andrew Nelson Lytle was an American novelist, dramatist, essayist and professor of literature. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and early in his life planned to be an actor and playwright....


M

  • Jean (Faircloth) MacArthur
    Jean MacArthur

    Jean Marie Faircloth MacArthur was the second wife of U.S. Army General of the Army Douglas MacArthur....
  • "Uncle Dave" Macon
    Uncle Dave Macon

    Uncle Dave Macon —also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an United States banjo, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar, he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before going on to become the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the lat...
  • Johnny Majors
    Johnny Majors

    Johnny Majors , was a longtime College Football Head Coach and alumnus of the University of Tennessee. Majors was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987....
  • Delbert Mann
    Delbert Mann

    Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning United States television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Directing for the film Marty....
  • Sterling Marlin
    Sterling Marlin

    Sterling Marlin is a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver who drives the #09 Finch Racing car on a part time basis. He is the son of former NASCAR driver Coo Coo Marlin....
     - Two-time Daytona 500
    Daytona 500

    The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, -long NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida....
     winner
  • Wink Martindale
    Wink Martindale

    Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale is a disc jockey and television game show host....
  • Matthew Fontaine Maury
    Matthew Fontaine Maury

    Matthew Fontaine Maury , USN was an United States astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator....
  • Cormac McCarthy
    Cormac McCarthy

    Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy , is an United States novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, Western fiction, and Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction genres, and has also written plays and screenplays....
  • Tim McCarver
    Tim McCarver

    James Timothy McCarver is an United States former Major League Baseball baseball catcher, and a current Presenter for FOX Sports....
  • Michael McDonald
    Michael McDonald (singer)

    Michael McDonald is a Music recording sales certification and Music recording sales certification United States R&B/soul music singer and songwriter....
  • Brownie McGhee
    Brownie McGhee

    Walter Brown McGhee was a folk music-blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry....
  • Stick McGhee
    Stick McGhee

    Granville "Stick" Henely McGhee was an United States guitarist best known for his blues song "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee", one of the first rock and roll song, and which was cover version by Jerry Lee Lewis and Mike Bloomfield's The Electric Flag ....
  • Kenneth McKellar
    Kenneth McKellar

    Kenneth Douglas McKellar was an United States politician from Tennessee who served as a United States House of Representatives from 1911 until 1917 and as a United States Senate from 1917 until 1953....
  • Jon Meacham
    Jon Meacham

    Jon Meacham is the Editing of Newsweek, a bestselling author and a Pundit on politics, history, and faith in United States....
  • Helen Monday (aka Munday) (c. 1910 - 1987) - silent film
    Silent film

    A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
     actress ("Stark Love" 1927), Knoxville
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
  • Chris Moneymaker
    Chris Moneymaker

    Christopher Bryan Moneymaker is an United States poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker . His victory is generally credited for being one of the main catalysts for the poker boom in the years following his win....
     - poker player from Knoxville
  • Grace Moore
    Grace Moore

    Grace Moore was an United States operatic soprano and Academy Award-nominated actress in musical theatre and film, nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience....
  • Shelly Moore
    Shelly Moore

    Shelly Moore is a beauty queen from Knoxville, Tennessee who won the Miss Teen USA 1997 title.In 1996, Moore won the Miss Northern Tennessee local title before competing for and winning the Miss Tennessee Teen USA 1997 contest....
     - Miss Teen USA
    Miss Teen USA

    Miss Teen USA is a beauty pageant run by the Miss Universe Organization for girls aged 15?19. The reigning titleholder is Stevi Perry of Miss Arkansas Teen USA....
     1997
  • Mary Noailles Murfree
    Mary Noailles Murfree

    Mary Noailles Murfree was an United States fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock....


N

  • Patricia Neal
    Patricia Neal

    Patricia Neal is an Academy Award-, BAFTA-, Golden Globe- and Tony Award-winning United States actress of theatre and film....
  • Lindsey Nelson
    Lindsey Nelson

    Lindsey Nelson was an United States of America sportscaster best known for his Broadcastings of college football and New York Mets baseball....
  • Robert Neyland
    Robert Neyland

    Robert Reese Neyland was an American football Coach and also served the U.S. Army, reaching the rank of Brigadier General. He is one of the few college football head coaches to have List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure at the same school....
    , UT Vols football coach and namesake for Neyland Stadium
    Neyland Stadium

    Neyland Stadium is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several NFL exhibition games with the last between the Washington Redskins and Houston Oilers during the Oilers transition to Nash...
  • Alfred O. P. Nicholson
    Alfred O. P. Nicholson

    Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson , a Tennessee United States Democratic Party politician and lawyer, was twice a United States Senate from that state....
  • Bishop James Daniel Niedergeses
    James Daniel Niedergeses

    James Daniel Niedergeses was an United States Roman Catholic bishop. He was the ninth bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville serving from 1975 to 1992....


O

  • Oconostota
    Oconostota

    Oconostota was the Warrior of Chota and the war chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1775 to 1781....
  • Joe O'Donnell
    Joe O'Donnell

    Joseph Roger O'Donnell was an American documentarian, photojournalist and a photographer for the United States Information Agency. Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, his most famous work was documenting photographically the immediate aftermath of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Nagasaki, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945...


P

  • Bettie Page
    Bettie Page

    Bettie Page was an United States model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up girl photos. Her look, including her jet black hair and trademark Fringe , has influenced many artists....
  • John Palmer
    John Palmer (TV journalist)

    John Spencer Palmer is a former news correspondent for NBC News. He worked for the network over the course of 40 years, first from 1962 to 1990; and again from 1994 until his retirement in 2002....
    , former NBC News
    NBC News

    NBC News is the news division of United States television network NBC, a part of NBC Universal, which is majority-owned by General Electric. Its current president is Steve Capus....
     correspondent
  • Hermes Pan
    Hermes Pan (choreographer)

    Hermes Pan was an American dancer and choreographer, principally celebrated as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on the famous 1930s musical film starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers....
  • 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....
  • Hope Partlow
    Hope Partlow

    Hope Partlow is an United States pop singer from Drummonds, Tennessee....
  • Dolly Parton
    Dolly Parton

    Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
  • Minnie Pearl
    Minnie Pearl

    Minnie Pearl was the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon , a country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991....
  • Carl Perkins
    Carl Perkins

    Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
  • James K. Polk
    James K. Polk

    James Knox Polk was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1849. He was 49 years old at the time of his inauguration, making him the youngest President up to that time....
    , Eleventh President of the United States
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
    , 1845-1849
  • Bishop Leonidas Polk
    Leonidas Polk

    Leonidas Polk was a Confederate States Army general who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a second cousin of President of the United States James K....
  • Sarah Childress Polk
    Sarah Childress Polk

    Sarah Childress Polk was the wife of List of United States Presidents President of the United States, James Polk, and List of First Ladies of the United States woman to serve as First Lady of the United States....
    , First Lady of the United States
    First Lady of the United States

    First Lady of the United States is the unofficial title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the wife of the President of the United States, the title is sometimes taken to apply only to the wife of a sitting President....
    , wife of President James K. Polk
  • Annie Potts
    Annie Potts

    Annie Potts is an American television and film actress....
  • 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"....


Q

  • Jimmy Quillen


R

  • John Crow Ransom
  • Sam Rayburn
    Sam Rayburn

    Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was a Democratic Party politician from Bonham, Texas. "Mr. Sam", as he was widely known, served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives for seventeen years, and is regarded by some historians as the most effective Speaker in history....
  • J.J. Redick
    J.J. Redick

    Jonathan Clay "J. J." Redick is an American professional basketball player at the shooting guard position. He was selected 11th overall by the Orlando Magic in the 2006 NBA Draft....
  • B. Carroll Reece
    B. Carroll Reece

    Brazilla Carroll Reece was a United States House of Representatives from Tennessee....
  • Florence Patton Reece (folk singer)
  • Brad Renfro
    Brad Renfro

    Bradley Barron Renfro , billed as Brad Renfro, was an American actor. He made his film debut in 1994 in the title role of The Client ....
  • Grantland Rice
    Grantland Rice

    Grantland Rice was an early 20th century United States sportswriting....
  • Lee Roberson
    Lee Roberson

    Lee Edward Roberson , was the founder of Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Camp Joy, in Harrison, Tennessee.Dr. Roberson was born in a two-room log cabin and spent his first two years on a farm near English, Indiana, a small town in the southern part of the state....
  • James Robertson
    James Robertson (early American)

    James Robertson was a North Carolina farmer and explorer of the 18th century. He was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, Virginia, of Scottish-Irish descent....
  • Oscar Robertson
    Oscar Robertson

    Oscar Palmer Robertson , nicknamed "The Big O" or O-Train, is a former American National Basketball Association player with the Cincinnati Royals and the Milwaukee Bucks....
  • John Ross
    John Ross (Cherokee chief)

    John Ross , also known as Guwisguwi , was Principal Chief of the Cherokee Native Americans in the United States Nation from 1828-1860. Described as the Moses of his people, Ross led the Nation through tumultuous years of development, relocation to Oklahoma, and the American Civil War....
  • Mason Rudolph
    Mason Rudolph

    Edgar Mason Rudolph is an United States golfer who won five times on the PGA Tour.Rudolph was born in Clarksville, Tennessee. He won the U.S....
  • Wilma Rudolph
    Wilma Rudolph

    Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an United States athlete, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in athletics during a single Olympic Games, despite running on a sprained ankle at the time....


S

  • Christine Sadler
    Christine Sadler

    Christine Sadler , born in Silver Point, Putnam County, Tennessee, was an United Statesauthor, journalism, and magazine editing.Christine Sadler received her undergraduate degree from Peabody College, now an affiliate of Vanderbilt University, and her masters degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1937....
  • 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....
  • John T. Scopes
    John T. Scopes

    John Thomas Scopes , a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was charged on May 25, 1925 with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools....
  • 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....
     (lead singer of Saliva
    Saliva

    Saliva is the watery and usually frothy substance produced in the mouths of humans and most other animals. Saliva is produced in and secreted from the salivary glands....
    )
  • Rhea Seddon
  • Sequoyah
    Sequoyah

    Sequoyah , known in English as George Guess or Gist, was a Cherokee craftsman who in 1821 completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible....
  • John Sevier
    John Sevier

    John Sevier served four years as the only governor of the State of Franklin and twelve years as List of Governors of Tennessee, and as a United States House of Representatives from Tennessee from 1811 until his death....
  • Vicellous Reon Shannon
    Vicellous Reon Shannon

    Vicellous Reon Shannon is an American actor.Shannon is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. He has played Lesra Martin in the 1999 in film film The Hurricane , and Minor characters in 24#Keith Palmer, the son of presidential candidate David Palmer in the television series 24 ....
    , actor, The Hurricane
    The Hurricane (1999 film)

    The Hurricane is a Cinema of the United States biographical film directed by Norman Jewison, and starring Denzel Washington. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from the books Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton and The 16th Round by Rubin Carter....
    , 24: Season 1
    24 (season 1)

    Season One of the television series 24 was first broadcast from November 6, 2001 to May 21, 2002.The season's storyline starts at 12:00 a.m....
  • 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....
  • William Shepherd
    William Shepherd

    William McMichael Shepherd is a former American astronaut who served as commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the International Space Station....
  • Dinah Shore
    Dinah Shore

    Dinah Shore was an United States singer, actress, and Celebrity. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo succe...
  • John Seigenthaler
  • John Michael Seigenthaler
  • Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
  • Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith

    Bessie Smith was an United States blues singer.The most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists....
  • Daniel Smith
    Daniel Smith (surveyor)

    Daniel Smith was a Surveyor , an American Revolutionary War Patriot , and twice a United States Senate from Tennessee....
  • Rachel Smith
    Rachel Smith

    Rachel Renee Smith is an American beauty queen and television personality from Clarksville, Tennessee, who won the Miss USA pageant in 2007 and who previously had competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant....
     - Miss USA
    Miss USA

    The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA....
     2007
  • 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....
  • Steve Spurrier
    Steve Spurrier

    Stephen Orr Spurrier is a former American football player and currently the head coach of the University of South Carolina college football team....
  • John M. Stone
  • Thomas S. Stribling
    Thomas Sigismund Stribling

    Thomas Sigismund Stribling was an United States writer and lawyer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933 in literature for his novel The Store....
  • Pat Summitt
    Pat Summitt

    Pat Head Summitt is the Coach of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team. She has been coaching since 1974, all with the Lady Vols, winning 8 national championships....
  • Frank Sutton
    Frank Sutton

    Frank Spencer Sutton was an United States actor best remembered for his role as the loud, hard-nosed drill instructor Sergeant Vincent Carter on the CBS television series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C....


T

  • Roscoe Tanner
    Roscoe Tanner

    Roscoe Tanner is a former professional American male tennis player, who reached a career high world singles ranking of No. 4 on July 30, 1979. Tanner was famous for his big left-handed serve, which hit a peak speed of an incredible 153mph during his 1978 Indian Wells Masters victory over Ra?l Ram?rez....
  • Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, Film producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent film filmmaker whose films used nonlinear and aestheticization of violence....
    ; movie 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....
    , and screenwriter; born in Knoxville.
  • Allen Tate
    Allen Tate

    John Orley Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944....
  • Peter Taylor
    Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor

    For other people named Peter Taylor, see Peter Taylor.Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a United States of America author and writer.Born in Trenton, Tennessee to a wealthy Nashville, Tennessee family, Taylor spent his early childhood between in Nashville and St....
  • 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....
  • Fred Dalton Thompson
    Fred Dalton Thompson

    Fred Dalton Thompson , is an American politician, actor, Lawyer, lobbyist and radio host. He represented Tennessee as a Republican Party in the United States Senate from 1994 through 2003....
  • 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....
  • Mageina Tovah
    Mageina Tovah

    Mageina Tovah is an United States actress. She is best known for her roles as Glynis Figliola in the television series Joan of Arcadia and as Ursula Ditkovich in the Spider-Man ....
    ; actress; Joan of Arcadia
    Joan of Arcadia

    Joan of Arcadia is an Emmy-nominated American television fantasy/family drama, which originally aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS from September 26, 2003 until April 22, 2005....
    , the Spider-Man
    Spider-Man (film series)

    The Spider-Man film series consists of three superhero films based on the fictional character Marvel Comics Spider-Man, portrayed by Tobey Maguire....
     films
  • Tina Turner
    Tina Turner

    Tina Turner is an United States singer and actress whose career has spanned over 50 years and who has won numerous awards. Her achievements in the Rock genre have led to her being referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll"....


U

  • Usher
    Usher (entertainer)

    Usher Raymond IV , known simply as Usher, is an American contemporary R&B-pop music singer-songwriter and actor. He rose to fame in the 1990s, releasing the multi-platinum album My Way and 8701 ....


V

  • Lark Voorhies
    Lark Voorhies

    Lark Voorhies is an American actor who rose to fame playing Saved by the Bell#Lisa Turtle in Saved by the Bell, for which she twice won the Young Artist Award, in 1990 and 1993, and was twice nominated for the same award in 1991 and 1992....


W

  • Barbara Walker
    Barbara Walker

    Barbara Walker is the name of:* Barbara G. Walker , American author and feminist* Barbara Jo Walker , American beauty pageant contestant, Miss America in 1947...
    - 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....
     1947
  • William Walker
    William Walker (soldier)

    William Walker worked closely with various forces associated with the Texas Rangers.William Walker was an United States filibuster and adventurer who attempted to conquer several Latin American countries in the mid-19th century....
  • Darrell Waltrip
    Darrell Waltrip

    Darrell Lee Waltrip is a three-time former NASCAR Championship champion, the 1989 Daytona 500 winner, current television race commentator with Fox Broadcasting Company and columnist at Foxsports.com....
  • Taylor Ware
    Taylor Ware

    Taylor Marie Ware is an United States singer and yodeler from Franklin, Tennessee, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.Before Ware knew how to yodel, she performed at a county fair at age four....
  • Cameron Watson
    Cameron Watson

    Cameron Watson is an United States actor, screenwriter, and Film director, best known for playing Bart Fallmont in the TV miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion....
    , actor and director
  • Robert Penn Warren
    Robert Penn Warren

    Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers....
  • 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....
  • Tina Wesson
    Tina Wesson

    Tina Wesson won United States dollar1,000,000 as the winner of Survivor: The Australian Outback. A married personal nurse from Knoxville, Tennessee, Tina outlasted 15 other players to become the first woman to win the $1 million prize in 2001....
  • Hugh Lawson White
    Hugh Lawson White

    Hugh Lawson White was a prominent United States politician during the first third of the 19th century. He succeeded General Jackson and served in the United States Senate, representing Tennessee, from 1825 until his resignation in 1840, and was a United States Whig Party candidate for President of the United States in 1836....
  • 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....
  • John S. Wilder
    John S. Wilder

    John Shelton Wilder is an United States politician who was a Tennessee Senate and who was Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 2007. ...
  • Hayley Williams
    Hayley Williams

    Hayley Nichole Williams is an American Rock music singer and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist of the rock band Paramore....
    , (singer) lead vocals for Paramore
    Paramore

    Paramore is an American Rock music band that formed in Franklin, Tennessee, Tennessee in 2004 consisting of Hayley Williams , Josh Farro , Taylor York , Jeremy Davis , and Zac Farro ....
     (originally from Meridian, MS)
  • Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Gail Winfrey is an United Statesn television presenter, Media proprietor and philanthropist. Her television syndication talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television....
     (originally from Mississippi
    Mississippi

    Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
    )
  • Reese Witherspoon
    Reese Witherspoon

    Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer, who has established herself as a one of Hollywood top actresses in recent years....


Y

  • Alvin York
    Alvin York

    Alvin Cullum York was a United States soldier, famous as a World War I hero. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a Germany machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others....
    , World War I
    World War I

    World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
     soldier who captured 132 Germans almost single-handedly


Z

  • Gen. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer
    Felix Zollicoffer

    Felix Kirk Zollicoffer was a newspaperman, three-term United States Congressman from Tennessee, officer in the United States Army, and a Confederate States Army Brigadier General during the American Civil War....