Listing of famous people born in Alabama.

• Hank Aaron, Baseball player (Mobile)
• Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist (Linden)
• Mel Allen, sportscaster (Birmingham)
• Tallulah Bankhead, actress (Huntsville)
• Charles Barkley, Basketball player (Leeds)
• Bill Baxley, Lieutenant Governor (Dothan)
• Lucy Baxley, Lieutenant Governor (Dothan)
• Michael Biehn, actor (Anniston)
• Hugo Black, jurist (Harlan )
• Winton Blount, businessman Union Springs
• Bobby Bowden, football coach (Birmingham)
• David G Bronner investment manager & executive (Montgomery)
• Johnny Mack Brown, western film star (Dothan)
• Edward A. Burkhalter, Admiral (Roanoke)
• Pat Buttram, actor ("Smiley" sidekick of Gene Autry) Gadsden
• Nell Carter, actress and singer (Birmingham)
• Truman Capote, writer (Monroeville)
• George Washington Carver, inventor, educator, agricultural chemist (born Diamond Grove, Missouri )
• Nat King Cole, singer (Montgomery)
• Marva Collins, educator (Monroeville)
• L E Cooper , investment banker, attorney, author Roanoke,Alabama
• Courteney Cox, actress (Birmingham)
• William Crowford , physician (Mobile)
• Angela Davis, activist (Birmingham)
• Sam Dees , soul music singer (Birmingham)
• Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes (Birmingham)
• Kenneth Gibson , first black mayor of major eastern city (in Newark, New Jersey)
• Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump (Fairhope)
• Mia Hamm, U.S. Soccer star (Selma)
• Lionel Hampton, jazz musician (Birmingham)
• Erskine Hawkins, jazz composer (Birmingham)
• John M. Harbert, businessman Hoover
• Emmylou Harris, singer (Birmingham)
• W. C. Handy, jazz composer (Florence)
• Howell Heflin, judge, senator (born Poulan, Georgia)
• Alexis Herman, former [{Secretary of Labor]], (Mobile)
• Frank House, Baseball player and Legislator (Bessemer)
• Bo Jackson, multi-sport athlete (Bessemer)
• Kate Jackson, actress (Birmingham)
• Lee Roy Jordan, pro football linebacker Excel
• Tom Joyner, radio personality (Tuskegee)
• Helen Keller, writer (Tuscumbia)
• Harper Lee, writer (Monroeville)
• Carl Lewis, track and field athlete (Birmingham)
• Joe Louis, boxer (Lexington)
• F. David Mathews, educator Grove HIll
• Willie Mays, Baseball player (Birmingham)
• Bryant H. McGill, poet (Mobile)
• Alexander McGillivray, Creek Chief, Little Tallassee, (Montgomery)
• Lachlan McGillivray, Scots-Indian Trader, Little Tallassee, (Montgomery)
• Joe McInnes, corporate executive, state exec (Wetumpka,Alabama )
• Thomas Hinman Moorer, Admiral( Mount Willing )
• Jim Nabors, actor (Sylacauga)
• Jesse Owens, track and field athlete (Oakville )
• Rosa Parks, civil rights activist (Tuskegee)
• Satchel Paige, Baseball player (Mobile)
• Walker Percy, author (Birmingham)
• Charles Redding Pitt, US & State Attorney, Politician Decatur
• Howell Raines, former New York Times editor (Birmingham)
• Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor (Birmingham)
• Lionel Richie, singer (Tuskegee)
• Wayne Rogers, actor (Birmingham)
• Sonia Sanchez, poet (Birmingham)
• David Satcher, surgeon general (Anniston)
• Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, writer (Montgomery)
• Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader (Marion)
• Glenn Shadix, actor (Bessemer)
• Don Siegelman, former Governor of Alabama (Mobile)
• Ella Gaunt Smith, doll manufacturer (Roanoke)
• Ozzie Smith, Baseball player (Mobile)
• Ken Stabler all pro quarterback (Fairhope)
• Bart Starr all pro quarterback , hall of fame Montgomery
• Sun Ra, musician (Birmingham)
• Bobby Tanory , pioneering music video jockey (Birmingham)
• Tascaluza , Choctaw chief
• Margaret D. Tutwiler, diplomat (Birmingham)
• Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, (Huntsville)
• George Wallace, politician (Clio)
• William Weatherford, (Red Eagle) Creek leader
• William Edgar Weldon, real estate exec, politician Wetumpka,Alabama
• Heather Whitestone, 1995 Miss America (Dothan)
• Hank Williams, musician (Georgiana)
• Tobias Wolff, author (Birmingham)

• The Temptations - four members: Eddie Kendricks (Union Springs), Paul Williams (Birmingham), Melvin Franklin (Montgomery), and Dennis Edwards (Birmingham)

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