The city of Montgomery, the capital and second-largest city of the U.S. state of Alabama, has been the birthplace and home of these notable individuals.
Name | Notability | References |
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Jensen Buchanan | Soap opera actress | [1] |
Brett Butler | Actress and comedy performer | [2] |
Ji-Tu Cumbuka | Television and film actor | [3] |
Glenn Howerton | Actor/writer, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | [4] |
Rusty Joiner | Model/actor | [5] |
Amy O'Neill | Actress, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | |
Michael O'Neill | Actor, The West Wing | |
Octavia Spencer | Academy Award-winning actress | |
Bill Traylor | Self-taught artist, painter | [6] |
Michael Young | Emmy-winning actor | [7] |
Name | Notability | References |
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Gloria D. Brown | R&B, soul, funk, pop singer | [8] |
Clarence Carter | Blind soul singer and guitarist | [9] |
Nat King Cole | Jazz singer and pianist | [10] |
John Collins | Jazz guitarist | [11] |
Dirty | Rap duo | [12] |
Doe B | Rapper | |
Eddie Floyd | Soul singer/songwriter | [13] |
Frankie Jaxon | Jazz and vaudeville singer | |
Claude Jeter | Gospel singer | [14] |
Howard Johnson | Jazz musician | [15] |
Jamey Johnson | Country singer-songwriter | [16] |
Joe Morris | Jazz trumpeter | [17] |
Nell Rankin | Opera singer | [18] |
Tommy Shaw | Guitarist of Styx | [19] |
Robert Shimp | Recording engineer and producer | [20] |
Toni Tennille | Singer, Captain & Tennille | [21] |
Big Mama Thornton | Blues singer | [22] |
Hank Williams, Sr. | Country singer | [23] |
Jett Williams | Country singer, daughter of Hank | [24] |
Name | Notability | References |
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Zelda Fitzgerald | Writer, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald | [40] |
Jim Fyffe | Auburn Tigers radio announcer | [41] |
Anne George | Writer, 1994 Alabama State Poet | [42] |
Mary Katharine Ham | Writer, columnist, Fox News contributor | |
Joseph Lewis | Freethinker | [43] |
Everette Maddox | Poet | [44] |
Harold E. Martin | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist | [45] |
Charles Moore | Photographer, chronicled the Civil Rights Movement | [46] |
Gin Phillips | Writer | [47] |
T.K. Thorne | Writer; books, poetry, short stories and screenplays | |
Barbara Wiedemann | Poet, English professor at Auburn Montgomery |
Name | Notability | References |
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William W. Allen | Major General in the Confederate States Army | [48] |
Samuel Cooper | First Full General of the Confederate States Army | [49] |
John G. Crommelin | United States Navy rear admiral, 1960 vice presidential candidate | [50] |
James T. Holtzclaw | General in the Confederate States Army | [51] |
Frank McIntyre | Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, 1912–1929 | [52] |
Danyell E. Wilson | First African American female tomb guard for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington) at Arlington National Cemetery | [53] [54] |
Name | Notability | References |
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Percy Lavon Julian | Chemist | [81] |
J. Marion Sims | In the 1840s, Montgomery's leading physician and medical experimenter | |
Dorothy Tennov | Psychologist | [82] |
Kathryn C. Thornton | Astronaut, part of STS-61 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope | [83] |
Name | Notability | References |
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Adele Goodman Clark | Suffragist and artist | [109] |
Frances Scott Fitzgerald | Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald | [110] |
Bob Jones Jr. | Bob Jones University president and chancellor | [111] |
Lisa S. Jones | Businesswoman, founder of EyeMail Inc. | [112] |
Henry Lehman | Cotton broker and financier, company developed into the Lehman Brothers conglomerate | [113] |
Adolph S. Moses | Rabbi of Kahl Montgomery | [114] |
Jerry Parr | Secret Service agent, saved Ronald Reagan during his assassination attempt | |
Albert Parsons | Anarchist, labor activist, Haymarket Riot organizer | [115] |
Blake Percival | Whistleblower | [116] |
Priscilla Cooper Tyler | Daughter-in-law of president John Tyler | [117] |
Benjamin Fitzpatrick was an American politician who served as the 11th Governor of Alabama and as a United States Senator from that state. He was a Democrat.
Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. was a United States representative from Alabama and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Robert Fulwood Ligon was the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. A Democrat, Ligon served Governor George S. Houston of the same political party from 1874 to 1876. Ligon also served in the United States House of Representatives.
Ariosto Appling Wiley was an American lawyer, Spanish-American War veteran, and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Alabama from 1901 until his death in office in 1908.
Armistead Inge Selden Jr. was a segregationist U.S. Representative from Alabama. Originally a Democrat, he switched parties in 1979 to become a Republican.
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