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 | [citation needed] |
Hank Williams, Sr. | Country singer | [22] |
Jett Williams | Country singer, daughter of Hank | [23] |
Name | Notability | References |
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Zelda Fitzgerald | Writer, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald | [39] |
Jim Fyffe | Auburn Tigers radio announcer | [40] |
Anne George | Writer, 1994 Alabama State Poet | [41] |
Mary Katharine Ham | Writer, columnist, Fox News contributor | |
Joseph Lewis | Freethinker | [42] |
Everette Maddox | Poet | [43] |
Harold E. Martin | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist | [44] |
Charles Moore | Photographer, chronicled the Civil Rights Movement | [45] |
Gin Phillips | Writer | [46] |
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 | [47] |
Samuel Cooper | First Full General of the Confederate States Army | [48] |
John G. Crommelin | United States Navy rear admiral, 1960 vice presidential candidate | [49] |
James T. Holtzclaw | General in the Confederate States Army | [50] |
Frank McIntyre | Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, 1912–1929 | [51] |
Danyell E. Wilson | First African American female tomb guard for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington) at Arlington National Cemetery | [52][53] |
Name | Notability | References |
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Percy Lavon Julian | Chemist | [79] |
J. Marion Sims | In the 1840s, Montgomery's leading physician and medical experimenter | |
Dorothy Tennov | Psychologist | [80] |
Kathryn C. Thornton | Astronaut, part of STS-61 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope | [81] |
Name | Notability | References |
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Adele Goodman Clark | Suffragist and artist | [107] |
Frances Scott Fitzgerald | Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald | [108] |
Bob Jones Jr. | Bob Jones University president and chancellor | [109] |
Lisa S. Jones | Businesswoman, founder of EyeMail Inc. | [110] |
Henry Lehman | Cotton broker and financier, company developed into the Lehman Brothers conglomerate | [111] |
Adolph S. Moses | Rabbi of Kahl Montgomery | [112] |
Jerry Parr | Secret Service agent, saved Ronald Reagan during his assassination attempt | |
Albert Parsons | Anarchist, labor activist, Haymarket Riot organizer | [113] |
Blake Percival | Whistleblower | [114] |
Priscilla Cooper Tyler | Daughter-in-law of president John Tyler | [115] |
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