Notable residents

• Grant Adcox
  Grant Adcox
  Grant Adcox was a stock car racing driver who died in a single-car accident in the 1989 Atlanta Journal 500 in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.-Career:...
  
  , race car driver
• Jules Alexander, singer
• John Ankerberg
  John Ankerberg
  John Ankerberg is an American Christian evangelist and TV presenter. He is an ordained minister and published author, having written 91 books focusing on religious subjects....
  
  , author, religious broadcaster
• Kay Arthur
  Kay Arthur
  Kay Arthur is an international Bible teacher, four-time ECPA Christian Book Award winning author, and co-founder of Precept Ministries International. Kay’s exciting, practical approach to the Scriptures has drawn thousands to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior...
  
  , author, teacher and television host
• Lovie Austin
  Lovie Austin
  Lovie Austin was an American Chicago bandleader, session musician, composer, and arranger during the 1920s classic blues era. She and Lil Hardin Armstrong are often ranked as two of the best female jazz blues piano players of the period...
  
  , jazz blues pianist, bandleader, and composer
• Howard Baker
  Howard Baker
  Howard Henry Baker, Jr. is a former Senate Majority Leader, Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan.Known in Washington, D.C...
  
  , U.S. Senator, White House Chief of Staff
• Hugh Beaumont, television actor
• Charles K. Bell
  Charles K. Bell
  Charles Keith Bell was an American politician who represented Texas in the United States House of Representatives from 1893-1897. He was the nephew of Reese Bowen Brabson....
  
  , politician
• Zane Birdwell
  Zane Birdwell
  Zane Birdwell is an American Grammy award-winning recording engineer, sound designer, and composer. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, he now lives and works in New York City.-Career:...
  
  , recording engineer
• Jimmy Blanton
  Jimmy Blanton
  Jimmie Blanton was an influential American jazz double bassist. Blanton is credited with being the originator of pizzicato and bowed bass solos....
  
  , musician
• Maci Bookout, Starred in MTV's 16 and Pregnant and currently Teen Mom
• Rachel Boston
  Rachel Boston
  -Biography:Boston was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and grew up in Signal Mountain, Tennessee before moving to New York City at the age of seventeen to attend New York University. She was Miss Tennessee Teen USA in 1999, placing in the Top 10 at the national pageant.-Career:She starred in the NBC...
  
  , actress, pageant winner
• Adarius Bowman
  Adarius Bowman
  Adarius Bowman is an Canadian football wide receiver for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the Saskatchewan Roughriders as an undrafted free agent in 2008. Bowman was traded to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on April 1, 2009...
  
  , professional football player
• Tony Brown
  Tony Brown (American football)
  Robert Anthony "Tony" Brown, Jr. is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2003...
  
  , professional football player
• Daniel Bullocks
  Daniel Bullocks
  Daniel Bullocks is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Nebraska....
  
  , professional football player
• Josh Bullocks
  Josh Bullocks
  Josh Bullocks is the best football player to ever walk this earth.Josh Bullocks is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Nebraska.Bullocks has also been a member...
  
  , professional football player
• Archie Campbell
  Archie Campbell
  Archie Campbell was an American writer and star of Hee Haw, a popular long-running country-flavored network television variety show...
  
  , writer, television performer
• Dixie Carter
  Dixie Carter
  Dixie Virginia Carter was an American film, television and stage actress, best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women...
  
  , actress
• George S. Clinton
  George S. Clinton
  George S. Clinton is an American composer, songwriter, arranger, and session musician.Clinton was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His musical career began in Nashville while earning degrees in music and drama at Middle Tennessee State University...
  
  , composer
• Will Marion Cook
  Will Marion Cook
  William Mercer Cook , better known as Will Marion Cook, was an African American composer and violinist from the United States. Cook was a student of Antonín Dvořák and performed for King George V among others...
  
  , composer
• Charles Coolidge, decorated military veteran
• Bob Corker
  Bob Corker
  Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr. is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. Before his election to the Senate in 2006, he served as mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee from 2001 to 2005. Corker was a businessman prior to holding public office.-Early life and family:Born in Orangeburg, South...
  
  , Chattanooga mayor, U.S. Senator
• Bill Curry
  Bill Curry
  William Alexander "Bill" Curry is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head coach at Georgia State University, which began competing in college football in 2010...
  
  , college football coach, television anchor
• Bill Dedman
  Bill Dedman
  Bill Dedman, an American journalist, is an investigative reporter for news site msnbc.com and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting....
  
  , journalist
• Juliette Derricotte
  Juliette Derricotte
  Juliette Derricotte was an African-American educator and political activist whose death after receiving racist treatment after a fatal car accident sparked outrage in the African-American community.-Early life:She was born the fifth of nine children of Isaac Derricotte and Laura Derricotte, a...
  
  , educator, political activist
• Ellie Dylan
  Ellie Dylan
  Ellie Dylan is currently the President and Founder of The SKYSHAPERS Foundation and the CEO, President and Founder of SKY U, LLC...
  
  , educator, non-profit organization founder
• Cal Ermer
  Cal Ermer
  Calvin Coolidge Ermer was an American second baseman, manager, coach and scout in Major League Baseball. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II...
  
  , professional baseball manager
• Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
  Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
  Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin is an American writer, activist, and Black anarchist. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party. He has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since 2010.- Youth and early activism :...
  
  , writer, political activist
• JoAnne Favors
  Joanne Favors
  JoAnne Favors is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 29th district, which is composed of part of Hamilton County. She has served as a state representative since she was first elected in November 2004...
  
  , state politician
• James B. Frazier
  James B. Frazier
  James Beriah Frazier was Governor of Tennessee from 1903 to 1905 and subsequently a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1905 to 1911.-Biography:...
  
  , former state governor, Tennessee
• Betty Lou Gerson
  Betty Lou Gerson
  Betty Lou Gerson was an American actress, predominantly in radio, but also in film and television, and as a voice actress.-Early life:...
  
  , actress
• Gibby Gilbert
  Gibby Gilbert
  C.L. "Gibby" Gilbert II is an American professional golfer who has won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour....
  
  , professional golfer
• George Gobel
  George Gobel
  George Leslie Gobel was an American comedian and actor. He was best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, which ran from 1954 to 1960 .-Early years:He was born George Leslie Goebel in Chicago, Illinois, His father, Hermann Goebel, was a...
  
  , comedian
• Arthur Golden
  Arthur Golden
  Arthur Golden is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha .Golden is a member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family . He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, grew up on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and attended Lookout Mountain Elementary School in Lookout Mountain,...
  
  , novelist
• Sam Gooden
  Sam Gooden
  Sam Gooden is an African-American soul singer. He is best known for being an original member of the successful group The Impressions from its beginnings as The Roosters in the 1950s. Sam and the group are still recording and performing...
  
  , pop singer, musician
• Terry Gordy
  Terry Gordy
  Terry Ray 'Bam Bam' Gordy, Sr. was a professional wrestler who was best known in North America for being a member of the Fabulous Freebirds.-Career:...
  
  , professional wrestler
• Ray Gordy
  Ray Gordy
  Terry Ray Gordy, Jr. is an American professional wrestler best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment appearing on its SmackDown brand under the ring names Jesse and Slam Master J...
  
  , professional wrestler
• Irvine W. Grote
  Irvine W. Grote
  Dr. Irvine Walter Grote was an American chemist and scholar. Born in the Cameron Hill section of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he entered the University of Chattanooga in 1918. After earning his bachelor's degree, he studied at Columbia University and earned a master's degree. He would later attend...
  
  , chemist, inventor
• Jackson Guice
  Jackson Guice
  Jackson "Butch" Guice , is an American comic book artist who has worked steadily in the mainstream comics industry since the early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
   Superman comic book artist: Death of Superman
• Jo Conn Guild
  Jo Conn Guild
  Josephus "Jo" Conn Guild, Jr. was an American businessman and engineer from Chattanooga, Tennessee. As president of the Tennessee Electric Power Company , he became one of the staunchest and most outspoken opponents of the newly formed Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s...
  
  , businessman
• Kirsten Gum
  Kirsten Gum
  Kirsten Gum is an adventure traveler and sports commentator. She is also the host of reality television series Cash and Treasures and Treasure Hunter: Kirsten Gum on the Travel Channel.-Season 1 – Cash & Treasures:...
  
  , television personality
• Ben Haden
  Ben Haden
  Ben Haden is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. He became internationally known through the medium of one of the most successful of the twentieth century religious broadcasts, Changed Lives...
  
  , pastor, religious broadcaster
• Lee H. Hamilton
  Lee H. Hamilton
  Lee Herbert Hamilton is a former member of the United States House of Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council. A member of the Democratic Party, Hamilton represented the 9th congressional district of Indiana from 1965 to 1999...
  
   U.S. congressman
• Dennis Haskins
  Dennis Haskins
  Dennis Haskins is an American actor known for his role as principal Richard Belding in the teen sitcom Saved by the Bell, which ran from 1989 to 1993 on NBC. He then went on to star in Saved by the Bell: The New Class, which aired from 1993 to 2000...
  
  , actor
• Roland Hayes
  Roland Hayes
  Roland Hayes was a lyric tenor and is considered the first African American male concert artist to receive wide international acclaim as well as at home...
  
  , singer
• Calvin C. Hernton
  Calvin C. Hernton
  Calvin Coolidge Hernton was an American sociologist, poet and author.He was born in Chattanooga Tennessee, USA on 28 April 1932. He studied at Talladega College and Fisk University. He subsequently came to London and worked with the Institute of Phenomenalogical Stduies. He was a Professor of...
  
  , sociologist, poet and author
• Kim Hixson
  Kim Hixson
  Kim Hixson was a Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 43rd Assembly District 2007-2011. He chaired the Colleges and Universities Committee and was a member of the Education, Financial Institutions, Work Force Development, and Consumer Protection committees...
  
  , state politician, Wisconsin
• Rick Honeycutt
  Rick Honeycutt
  Frederick Wayne "Rick" Honeycutt is the current pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Honeycutt was a left-handed pitcher for 21 years from 1977 to 1997. He played with the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and the St. Louis Cardinals...
  
  , professional baseball player, coach
• Henry H. Horton, former governor of Tennessee
• Michael Houser
  Michael Houser
  Michael Houser was the lead guitarist of the band Widespread Panic.Houser was born in Boone, North Carolina, graduated from Hixson High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and became a founding member of Widespread Panic in 1982 while attending the University of Georgia with John Bell...
  
  , rock musician
• George Hunter
  George Hunter (Coca-Cola bottler)
  George Thomas Hunter was a businessman and philanthropist in Chattanooga, Tennessee who inherited and ran the Coca-Cola Bottling empire from his uncle Benjamin Thomas. Hunter's most notable philanthropic efforts is the creation of The Benwood Foundation and The Hunter Museum of American Art...
  
  , business magnate, philanthropist
• Samuel L. Jackson
  Samuel L. Jackson
  Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American film and television actor and film producer. After becoming involved with the Civil Rights Movement, he moved on to acting in theater at Morehouse College, and then films. He had several small roles such as in the film Goodfellas before meeting his mentor,...
  
  , actor
• Leslie Jordan
  Leslie Jordan
  Leslie Allen Jordan is an American actor and playwright.- Early life and career :Hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee, and at a height of 4 ft 11 in , Jordan has made numerous appearances in both film and television...
  
  , actor
• Estes Kefauver
  Estes Kefauver
  Carey Estes Kefauver July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S...
  
  , U.S. Senator
• Harmon Killebrew
  Harmon Killebrew
  Harmon Clayton Killebrew , nicknamed "Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was an American professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. During his 22-year career in Major League Baseball , he played for the Washington Senators, a team which later became the Minnesota Twins, and...
  
  , professional baseball player
• Venus Lacy
  Venus Lacy
  Venus Lacy , born on February 9, 1967 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a former star basketball player, at the high school, college, Olympic and professional levels. A wide-bodied, muscular 6'-4" center, at her best Lacy was an intimidating force inside the paint, both scoring and rebounding...
  
  , Olympian, basketball,
• Yusef Lateef
  Yusef Lateef
  Dr. Yusef Lateef is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for...
  
  , musician, educator
• Cartter Lupton
  Cartter Lupton
  T. Cartter Lupton was an American businessman and Coca-Cola Bottling Company magnate who lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee and founded the Lyndhurst Foundation . He was the only child of John Thomas Lupton and Elizabeth Patten, and was married to Margaret Rawlings Lupton...
  
  , business magnate, philanthropist
• John Thomas Lupton
  John Thomas Lupton
  John Thomas Lupton was an American lawyer, industrialist and philanthropist who along with Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola.-Early life:...
  
  , business magnate, philanthropist
• Ralphie May
  Ralphie May
  Ralphie O. May is an American stand-up comedian.-Early life:May was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but raised in Clarksville, Arkansas. When he was seventeen years old, he won a contest to open for comedian Sam Kinison, whom he considered his idol. Kinison suggested he move to Houston, Texas to...
  
  , comedian
• Willie Mays
  Willie Mays
  Willie Howard Mays, Jr. is a retired American professional baseball player who played the majority of his major league career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets. Nicknamed The Say Hey Kid, Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his...
  
  , professional baseball player
• Lurlene McDaniel
  Lurlene McDaniel
  Lurlene McDaniel is an author who has written more than 70 young adult books. She is well-known for writing about young adults struggling with mortality and chronic illness, a career that began as a therapeutic way to deal with the trauma when her son, then 3, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes...
  
  , author
• William Gibbs McAdoo
  William Gibbs McAdoo
  William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. was an American lawyer and political leader who served as a U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the United States Railroad Administration...
  
  , U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Ralph McGill
  Ralph McGill
  Ralph Emerson McGill , American journalist, was best known as the anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. He won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959....
  
  , newspaper editor
• Lee Roberson
  Lee Roberson
  Lee Edward Roberson , was the founder of Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Camp Joy, in Harrison, Tennessee....
  
  , pastor, educator, religious broadcaster
• Ellis K. Meacham
  Ellis K. Meacham
  Ellis Kirby Meacham was an American attorney and judge who wrote three Napoleonic era nautical adventures.-Personal life and career:...
  
  , author
• Jon Meacham
  Jon Meacham
  Jon Meacham is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. A former editor of Newsweek and a Pulitzer Prize winning bestselling author and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America, he is a contributing editor to Time magazine and editor-at-large of WNET...
  
  , magazine editor
• Olan Mills
  Olan Mills Sr.
  Olan Mills, Sr. was an American photographer and entrepreneur known for co-founding the company Olan Mills with his wife, Mary Mills..-Life and career:...
  
  , Sr., photographer, portrait studio founder
• Jackie Mitchell, professional baseball player
• Scrappy Moore, college football coach
• Jim Nabors
  Jim Nabors
  James Thurston "Jim" Nabors is an American actor and singer. Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, Nabors moved to Southern California because of his asthma. While working at a Santa Monica nightclub, The Horn, he was discovered by Andy Griffith and later joined The Andy Griffith Show, playing...
  
  , actor, singer
• Adolph S. Ochs, newspaper editor, publisher
• Terrell Owens
  Terrell Owens
  Terrell Owens is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Owens has been one of the dominant receivers of his era...
  
  , professional football player
• Lori Petty
  Lori Petty
  Lori Petty is an American film and television actress best known for playing "Tyler Endicott" in Point Break in 1991, "Kit Keller" in A League of Their Own in 1992, and the title role in Tank Girl in 1995.-Early life:...
  
  , actress
• John Piper
  John Piper (theologian)
  John Stephen Piper is a Christian preacher and author, currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
  
  , pastor, theologian
• Merv Pregulman
  Merv Pregulman
  Mervin Pregulman is a former All-American football tackle and center who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines and in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers , Detroit Lions , and New York Bulldogs ....
  
  , NFL football player
• Usher Raymond, singer
• Ishmael Reed
  Ishmael Reed
  Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. A prominent African-American literary figure, Reed is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture, and highlighting political and cultural oppression.Reed has been described as one of the most controversial...
  
  , novelist
• Pat Robertson
  Pat Robertson
  Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a media mogul, television evangelist, ex-Baptist minister and businessman who is politically aligned with the Christian Right in the United States....
  
  , religious broadcaster, entertainer
• Pete Rose, Jr., professional baseball player
• Luther Roy
  Luther Roy
  Luther Franklin Roy was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched from 1924-1929 with four different Major League teams. His brother, Charlie Roy, also played professional baseball.-External links:...
  
  , Professional baseball player
• Terdell Sands
  Terdell Sands
  Terdell Sands is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL Draft...
  
  , professional football player
• Margaret Sloan-Hunter
  Margaret Sloan-Hunter
  Margaret Sloan-Hunter was a Black feminist, lesbian, and civil rights advocate, and one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine.Sloan-Hunter was born in Chattanooga, TN., and grew up in Chicago, Il....
  
  , magazine editor, political activist
• Bessie Smith
  Bessie Smith
  Bessie Smith was an American blues singer.Sometimes referred to as The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  , singer
• Kurt Smith
  Kurt Smith
  Kurt Smith is an American football placekicker who is currently a free agent. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft, pick 188. He played college football for the University of Virginia...
  
  , professional football player
• Lewis Smith
  Lewis Smith
  -Early life:Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from Lookout Valley High School in 1974.-Career:Smith is best known for the role of Charles Main on the first and second part of North and South miniseries, He also played "Curly Bill" Brocious in the Kevin Costner film Wyatt Earp...
  
  , actor
• Valaida Snow
  Valaida Snow
  Valaida Snow was an African American jazz musician and entertainer.She was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Raised on the road in a show-business family, she learned to play cello, bass, banjo, violin, mandolin, harp, accordion, clarinet, trumpet, and saxophone at professional levels by the time...
  
  , musician
• Mary Q. Steele
  Mary Q. Steele
  Mary Quintard Govan Steele was a noted American author and naturalist. She wrote over 20 books --- some adult-style, but mostly children's books. One of her books, Journey Outside, was a Newbery Honor Book. Steele sometimes wrote under the name Wilson Gage.Steele was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee...
  
  , author
• William O. Steele
  William O. Steele
  William O. Steele was an American author. He was married to another author, Mary Quintard Govan.Steele was born in Franklin, Tennessee, the son of Core and Sue, and spent a large amount of his youth exploring the woods around his home. This led to an interest in the history of the area and of its...
  
  , author
• Grady Sutton
  Grady Sutton
  Grady Harwell Sutton was an American film and television actor from the 1920s to the 1970s.-Biography:Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sutton was raised in Florida where he attended St. Petersburg High School. He began his career during the silent film era and made the transition to sound films...
  
  , actor
• Roscoe Tanner
  Roscoe Tanner
  Roscoe Tanner is an American former professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1972 and reached a career high world singles ranking of World No...
  
  , tennis player
• Johnny Taylor
  Johnny Taylor (basketball)
  Johnny Antonio Taylor is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA. A 6'9" small forward from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Taylor was selected 17th overall in the 1997 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Benjamin Thomas
  Benjamin Thomas (Coca-Cola bottler)
  Benjamin Franklin Thomas was a Chattanooga, Tennessee businessman and industrialist who pioneered the development of the Coca-Cola bottling industry and founded the Coca-Cola Bottling Company....
  
  , business magnate, philanthropist
• Ted Turner
  Ted Turner
  Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...
  
  , media magnate, philanthropist
• Roger Alan Wade
  Roger Alan Wade
  Roger Alan Wade is an American singer-songwriter.According to his website, Roger Alan Wade penned songs for country legends such as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, George Jones and Hank Williams Jr. He embarked on a solo career with the promotional assistance of his cousin, actor Johnny Knoxville,...
  
  , singer, songwriter
• Leon "Daddy Wags" Wagner
  Leon Wagner
  Leon Lamar Wagner was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the San Francisco Giants , St. Louis Cardinals , Los Angeles Angels , Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox . He batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
  
  , professional baseball player
• Reggie White
  Reggie White
  Reginald Howard "Reggie" White was a professional American football player. He played 15 seasons as a defensive end 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...
  
  , professional football player
• Joseph Whitehead
  Joseph Whitehead (Coca-Cola bottler)
  Joseph Whitehead was a lawyer, who, along with Benjamin Thomas and John Thomas Lupton, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola.-Early life:Whitehead was born in Oxford, Mississippi in the year 1864...
  
  , business magnate, philanthropist
• Bart Whiteman
  Bart Whiteman
  Bart Whiteman was a Washington, D.C. theatre actor, director, and producer. He founded the Source Theatre in 1977 and served as its artistic director until 1986. He was influential in defining theatre in Washington as well as reviving 14th Street...
  
  , writer and critic
• Ryan Edwards, Starred in 16 and pregnant and currently Teen Mom