List of people from Lexington, Kentucky

The following are notable people who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in the Lexington, Kentucky, metropolitan area:

Name	Description
Chad Aull	Politician [1]
Henry Bidleman Bascom	Editor, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, university president
Dotsie Bausch	Cyclist, national champion, Pan American Champion, and Olympic silver medalist
Dominic Black	Freestyle and folkstyle wrestler [2]
Kent Blazy	Songwriter [3]
Joseph Bosworth	Lawyer, politician, and businessman
John Breckinridge	U.S. Attorney General and Senator [4]
John B. Breckinridge	U.S. Representative [5]
John C. Breckinridge	U.S. vice president, U.S. Senator [6]
Sophonisba Breckinridge	Founder, School of Social Works Administration, University of Chicago
Belle Brezing	Brothel madam [7]
William Wells Brown	Abolitionist leader
Walker Buehler	Major League Baseball pitcher
Laura Bell Bundy	Actress [8]
LaVerne Butler	Clergyman and college president [9]
Mrs. Leslie Carter	Stage and silent-film actress
Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier	Silent-film director and screenwriter, author
Meredith Clark	Academic [10] [11]
Thomas D. Clark	Historian and author [12]
Henry Clay	U.S. Representative and Senator, Secretary of State [13]
Tyler Clippard	Major League Baseball pitcher
George Clooney	Actor, producer, film director
Joyce Compton	Actress
Kelly Craft	United States Ambassador to the United Nations and United States Ambassador to Canada
Drew Curtis	Founder of Fark [14]
Guy Davenport	Author [15]
Jefferson Davis	Politician, President of the Confederate United States of America [16]
Dermontti Dawson	NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers [17]
Carl H. Dodd	Major, Medal of Honor recipient for his service during the Korean War
Josiah Dunham	Secretary of State of Vermont and founder of Lafayette Female Academy [18]
Charlotte Dupuy	Slave who sued Henry Clay for freedom in 1829 [19]
Peter Durrett	Church founder [20]
Farah Fath	Actress
Henry Faulkner	Artist [21]
London Ferrill	Religious leader [20] [22]
Randy Fine	Politician and gambling industry executive
Ralph Foody	Actor
Steve Gabbard	NFL player [23]
Gatewood Galbraith	Author, lawyer [24]
Marvin Gay Sr.	Pentecostal minister; father and murderer of R&B singer Marvin Gaye
Tyson Gay	Sprinter [25]
Rayna Gellert	Bluegrass fiddler
Troy Gentry	Musician, country-music duo Montgomery Gentry [26]
Arin Gilliland	National Women's Soccer League player for the Chicago Red Stars
Trevor Gott	Major League Baseball pitcher
Andy Green	Bench coach of the Chicago Cubs
James Baker Hall	Poet, photographer, novelist, teacher
Joe B. Hall	Hall of Fame basketball coach for University of Kentucky, 1972–1985 [27]
Tom Hammond	NBC sportscaster
Han Kuo-Huang	Ethnomusicologist
Haydar Hatemi	Painter
Isaac Scott Hathaway	Artist, professor at the Tuskegee Institute, first African-American to design a US coin
Lewis Hayden	Abolitionist leader
Thomas E. Hayden	Mayor of Flower Mound, Texas [28]
Bradlee L. Heckmann	Neuroimmunologist
Richard Hell	Punk-rocker
Ben Hoffman	Actor and writer best known for his satirical country music persona, Wheeler Walker Jr. [29]
Josh Hopkins	Actor
Shayna Hubers	Criminal convicted of killing her boyfriend Ryan Poston; compared with convicted killer Jodi Arias due to the similarity of their crimes
B. Wayne Hughes	Founder of Public Storage
Sarah Hutchings	Composer
Kevin Jarvis	Major League Baseball player [30]
Robert Kirkman	Comic-book writer and TV producer best known for The Walking Dead [31]
Laura Johnson Dandridge	19th century White House chef, Lexington restaurateur [32]
Ashley Judd	Actress
Naomi Judd	Musician
Gregory Kaidanov	Chess grandmaster
Austin Kearns	Major League Baseball player
Paul Levy	Writer
Mary Todd Lincoln	First Lady, wife of Abraham Lincoln
William Lipscomb	Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Brian Littrell	Musician, Backstreet Boys
Shirley Ardell Mason	a.k.a. Sybil, suffered from dissociative identity disorder
Tucker Max	Author
Les McCann	Jazz musician and painter
Anne Hazen McFarland	physician and medical journal editor
Shug McGaughey	Thoroughbred trainer
Ralph Eugene Meatyard	Photographer
Akhdiyat Duta Modjo	Singer.
Irene Moon	Also known as Katja Chantre Seltmann, musician
Charles Chilton Moore	Atheist
Davey Moore	Boxer, featherweight champion
Jessica Moore	Journalist
John Morgan	Attorney, founder of personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan
John Hunt Morgan	C.S. Army general
Thomas Hunt Morgan	Geneticist
Gurney Norman	Author, professor
Natalie Novosel	Basketball player, WNBA's Washington Mystics
Grace Perreiah	Artist
John Peterman	Businessman
H. Foster Pettit	State representative, mayor of Lexington [33]
Ben Revere	Major League Baseball player, Washington Nationals; played high school baseball in Lexington
Sarah Rice	Singer, musician, actress and artist
Kevin Richardson	Musician, Backstreet Boys
Charles P. Roland	Historian
Rubi Rose	Rapper
Robbie Ross Jr.	Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox
Adolph Rupp	Hall of Fame basketball coach for the University of Kentucky, 1930–1972
Alfred Francis Russell	10th President of Liberia
Colton Ryan	Actor
Vincent Sanford	Basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Robert Schneider	Musician
Michael Shannon	Actor
Joseph O. Shelby	C.S. Army general
Eric Shelton	NFL running back
Tubby Smith	Basketball coach, University of Kentucky
Harry Dean Stanton	Actor
Chris Stapleton	Country musician
Henry A. Tandy	Born enslaved, entrepreneur and building contractor
Walter Tevis	Author of The Hustler and The Color of Money
Tinashe	Singer and actress
David Tolliver	Musician, Halfway to Hazard
John Tuska	Artist
Jim Varney	Actor and comedian
Adalin Wichman	Sculptor and artist, designer of Eclipse Award Trophy [34] [35]
Biddy Wood	Journalist and jazz promoter
Steve Zahn	Actor

See also

• List of University of Kentucky alumni
• List of people from Kentucky
• List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area

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