List of people from Birmingham, Alabama

This is a list of individuals who are natives of, or are notable in association with, the city of Birmingham, Alabama. == Academia == Monnie T. Cheves, Samford University professor; member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1952 to 1960; died in Birmingham in 1988 Frank Moore Cross, religious scholar Angela Davis, social activist and author Richard Nelson Frye, scholar of Iran and Central Asia Roland Frye, scholar Carol Garrison, ex-president of University of Alabama at Birmingham Zenkei Blanche Hartman, first abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center Freeman Hrabowski III, educator Herman H. Long, president of Talladega College and United Negro College Fund J. Gordon Melton, religious scholar Emil Wolfgang Menzel, Jr., emeritus professor in psychology Edward Taub, behavioral neuroscientist and professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Julia Tutwiler, educator and social reformer == Arts and literature == Allen Barra, journalist, sportswriter John Beecher, activist poet Edgar Peters Bowron, art historian Joe David Brown, journalist, novelist Mark Childress, author Jon Coffelt, artist Clayton Colvin, artist Dennis Covington, journalist, writer George R. Ellis, author, art historian and director of Honolulu Academy of Arts Fannie Flagg, author Charles Gaines, novelist, screenwriter Charles Ghigna, poet, children's author Christopher Gilbert, poet Gail Godwin, novelist John Green, author Joe Hilley, novelist Caitlín R. Kiernan, novelist and paleontologist Kerry James Marshall, artist Harold E. Martin, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Spider Martin, photojournalist Robert R. McCammon, novelist Kevin McGowin, novelist, reviewer Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walker Percy, author Howell Raines, New York Times editor James Redfield, novelist John Rhoden, sculptor Sonia Sanchez, poet Rowland Scherman, Grammy-award-winning photographer Melissa Springer, photographer Ann Waldron, author Margaret Walker, poet and author Daniel Wallace, novelist Mary Ware (1828–1915), poet, prose writer John Weld, newspaper reporter, writer, Hollywood stunt man Tobias Wolff, author == Business and economics == Cynthia Bathurst, animal rights activist, former mathematical analyst, founder/director of Safe Humane Chicago and Court Case Dog Program Ashton B. Collins, Sr., inventor, creator of Reddy Kilowatt Newton Collins, businessman and community builder Samuel DiPiazza, former chairman and chief executive officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers A. G. Gaston, prominent African-American businessman Franklin Potts Glass, Sr., newspaper editor Jay Grinney, president and chief executive officer of HealthSouth Corporation John M. Harbert, billionaire and founder of Harbert Corporation Elmer Harris, chief executive officer of Alabama Power Ron Holt, CEO and founder of Two Maids & A Mop Charles Linn, founder of First National Bank of Birmingham (AmSouth Bancorporation) Don Logan, chief executive officer of Time Inc.; chairman of Warner Media; chief executive officer of Southern Progress, owner of Birmingham Barons baseball team Michael K. Powell, Federal Communications Commission chairman Rufus N. Rhodes, founder of Birmingham News Richard M. Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth Corporation James Sloss, industrialist and founder of Sloss Furnaces Skippy Smith (1913–2003), founder of Pacific Parachute Company in San Diego, California, stunt skydiver Alvin Vogtle, chairman and CEO of Alabama Power and Southern Company Allen Harvey Woodward, industrialist and baseball team owner == Entertainment == Mary Anderson, actress R. G. Armstrong, actor (Pleasant Grove, Alabama) Mary Badham, juvenile actress Candace Bailey, actress Amber Benson, actress Anna Lee Carroll, actress Lynne Carver, actress Nell Carter, actress and singer Courteney Cox, actress (Mountain Brook, Alabama) Paul Finebaum, radio/TV personality Jordan Fisher, actor, singer, and dancer Fannie Flagg, author, actress Louise Fletcher, actress David F. Friedman, director and producer Lili Gentle, actress Betty Lou Gerson, actress Gladys Gillem, wrestler Walton Goggins, actor Hank Green, Internet personality, podcaster Paula Hill, actress Alan Hunter, MTV VJ Tamisha Iman, drag queen Kate Jackson, actress David Jaffe, video game designer (God of War and Twisted Metal) Jasika Nicole, actress, illustrator Gail Patrick, actress, television producer Ibrehem Rahman, Survivor: Palau contestant Rick and Bubba, radio/TV personalities Wayne Rogers, actor Dorothy Sebastian, film actress Daniel Scheinert, music video and film director Glenn Shadix, actor (Bessemer, Alabama) Rickey Smiley, radio personality Trinity the Tuck, drag queen Roy Wood, Jr., comedian Byron York, conservative author and journalist Tom York, television personality === Music === Inez Andrews, gospel singer Barry Beckett, pianist and record producer Adolphus Bell, electric blues musician, best known as a one-man band Benny Benjamin, drummer Bo Bice, singer, American Idol runner-up (Helena, Alabama) Helvetia Boswell, singer with The Boswell Sisters Piney Brown, R&B and blues singer-songwriter Oteil Burbridge, bassist Dorothy Love Coates, gospel singer J.R. Cobb, songwriter and guitarist Sam Dees, soul music singer Diana DeGarmo, American Idol 3rd season runner-up Big Joe Duskin, blues pianist Dennis Edwards, soul music singer Erra, progressive metalcore band Al Gallodoro, jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Gucci Mane, rapper Hardrock Gunter, rockabilly pioneer Lionel Hampton, vibraphonist and bandleader Emmylou Harris, singer Erskine Hawkins, composer, trumpeter and bandleader Haywood Henry, jazz saxophonist / clarinetist Taylor Hicks, soul music singer, American Idol winner Odetta Holmes, folk singer Jo Jones, jazz drummer Bill Justis, musician Eddie Kendricks, soul music singer William King, singer, founding member of The Commodores Baker Knight, songwriter and bandleader Sammy Lowe, jazz trumpeter and arranger Rebecca Luker, Broadway singer, actress Hugh Martin, songwriter and film composer Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Southern rock/metalcore band Johnny O'Neal, jazz pianist Avery Parrish, composer and jazz pianist Hank Penny, Western swing musician Ray Reach, jazz vocalist and pianist St.

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List of people from Birmingham, Alabama

This is a list of individuals who are natives of, or are notable in association with, the city of Birmingham, Alabama. == Academia == Monnie T. Cheves, Samford University professor; member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1952 to 1960; died in Birmingham in 1988 Frank Moore Cross, religious scholar Angela Davis, social activist and author Richard Nelson Frye, scholar of Iran and Central Asia Roland Frye, scholar Carol Garrison, ex-president of University of Alabama at Birmingham Zenkei Blanche Hartman, first abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center Freeman Hrabowski III, educator Herman H. Long, president of Talladega College and United Negro College Fund J. Gordon Melton, religious scholar Emil Wolfgang Menzel, Jr., emeritus professor in psychology Edward Taub, behavioral neuroscientist and professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Julia Tutwiler, educator and social reformer == Arts and literature == Allen Barra, journalist, sportswriter John Beecher, activist poet Edgar Peters Bowron, art historian Joe David Brown, journalist, novelist Mark Childress, author Jon Coffelt, artist Clayton Colvin, artist Dennis Covington, journalist, writer George R. Ellis, author, art historian and director of Honolulu Academy of Arts Fannie Flagg, author Charles Gaines, novelist, screenwriter Charles Ghigna, poet, children's author Christopher Gilbert, poet Gail Godwin, novelist John Green, author Joe Hilley, novelist Caitlín R. Kiernan, novelist and paleontologist Kerry James Marshall, artist Harold E. Martin, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Spider Martin, photojournalist Robert R. McCammon, novelist Kevin McGowin, novelist, reviewer Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walker Percy, author Howell Raines, New York Times editor James Redfield, novelist John Rhoden, sculptor Sonia Sanchez, poet Rowland Scherman, Grammy-award-winning photographer Melissa Springer, photographer Ann Waldron, author Margaret Walker, poet and author Daniel Wallace, novelist Mary Ware (1828–1915), poet, prose writer John Weld, newspaper reporter, writer, Hollywood stunt man Tobias Wolff, author == Business and economics == Cynthia Bathurst, animal rights activist, former mathematical analyst, founder/director of Safe Humane Chicago and Court Case Dog Program Ashton B. Collins, Sr., inventor, creator of Reddy Kilowatt Newton Collins, businessman and community builder Samuel DiPiazza, former chairman and chief executive officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers A. G. Gaston, prominent African-American businessman Franklin Potts Glass, Sr., newspaper editor Jay Grinney, president and chief executive officer of HealthSouth Corporation John M. Harbert, billionaire and founder of Harbert Corporation Elmer Harris, chief executive officer of Alabama Power Ron Holt, CEO and founder of Two Maids & A Mop Charles Linn, founder of First National Bank of Birmingham (AmSouth Bancorporation) Don Logan, chief executive officer of Time Inc.; chairman of Warner Media; chief executive officer of Southern Progress, owner of Birmingham Barons baseball team Michael K. Powell, Federal Communications Commission chairman Rufus N. Rhodes, founder of Birmingham News Richard M. Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth Corporation James Sloss, industrialist and founder of Sloss Furnaces Skippy Smith (1913–2003), founder of Pacific Parachute Company in San Diego, California, stunt skydiver Alvin Vogtle, chairman and CEO of Alabama Power and Southern Company Allen Harvey Woodward, industrialist and baseball team owner == Entertainment == Mary Anderson, actress R. G. Armstrong, actor (Pleasant Grove, Alabama) Mary Badham, juvenile actress Candace Bailey, actress Amber Benson, actress Anna Lee Carroll, actress Lynne Carver, actress Nell Carter, actress and singer Courteney Cox, actress (Mountain Brook, Alabama) Paul Finebaum, radio/TV personality Jordan Fisher, actor, singer, and dancer Fannie Flagg, author, actress Louise Fletcher, actress David F. Friedman, director and producer Lili Gentle, actress Betty Lou Gerson, actress Gladys Gillem, wrestler Walton Goggins, actor Hank Green, Internet personality, podcaster Paula Hill, actress Alan Hunter, MTV VJ Tamisha Iman, drag queen Kate Jackson, actress David Jaffe, video game designer (God of War and Twisted Metal) Jasika Nicole, actress, illustrator Gail Patrick, actress, television producer Ibrehem Rahman, Survivor: Palau contestant Rick and Bubba, radio/TV personalities Wayne Rogers, actor Dorothy Sebastian, film actress Daniel Scheinert, music video and film director Glenn Shadix, actor (Bessemer, Alabama) Rickey Smiley, radio personality Trinity the Tuck, drag queen Roy Wood, Jr., comedian Byron York, conservative author and journalist Tom York, television personality === Music === Inez Andrews, gospel singer Barry Beckett, pianist and record producer Adolphus Bell, electric blues musician, best known as a one-man band Benny Benjamin, drummer Bo Bice, singer, American Idol runner-up (Helena, Alabama) Helvetia Boswell, singer with The Boswell Sisters Piney Brown, R&B and blues singer-songwriter Oteil Burbridge, bassist Dorothy Love Coates, gospel singer J.R. Cobb, songwriter and guitarist Sam Dees, soul music singer Diana DeGarmo, American Idol 3rd season runner-up Big Joe Duskin, blues pianist Dennis Edwards, soul music singer Erra, progressive metalcore band Al Gallodoro, jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Gucci Mane, rapper Hardrock Gunter, rockabilly pioneer Lionel Hampton, vibraphonist and bandleader Emmylou Harris, singer Erskine Hawkins, composer, trumpeter and bandleader Haywood Henry, jazz saxophonist / clarinetist Taylor Hicks, soul music singer, American Idol winner Odetta Holmes, folk singer Jo Jones, jazz drummer Bill Justis, musician Eddie Kendricks, soul music singer William King, singer, founding member of The Commodores Baker Knight, songwriter and bandleader Sammy Lowe, jazz trumpeter and arranger Rebecca Luker, Broadway singer, actress Hugh Martin, songwriter and film composer Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Southern rock/metalcore band Johnny O'Neal, jazz pianist Avery Parrish, composer and jazz pianist Hank Penny, Western swing musician Ray Reach, jazz vocalist and pianist St.

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