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People listed are almost always native to the state. We do (on occasion) include those that have either lived within a state for most of their adult life, or have made a significant contribution to the state in their personal endeavors.

John Adair leadership developer, author

David Akers football player

Shaun Alexander football player

Muhammad Ali boxer

James Lane Allen author

Derek Anderson basketball player

Sherman Armstrong jockey, trainer

Harriette Simpson Arnow author

Alben William Barkley u.s. vice president

Roy Bean judge, "law west of the pecos", "hangin' judge"

Ned Beatty actor

Adrian Belew musician

Wendell Berry author, poet

James Best actor

Stephen Bishop slave, mammoth cave explorer, guide

Stephanie Bond author

James Bowie pioneer, soldier

Louis D. Brandeis u.s. supreme court justice

John C. Breckinridge u.s. vice president

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge leader women's suffrage

Foster Brooks actor

John Mason Brown drama critic, author

John Y. Brown, Jr. politician

W. Earl Brown actor

William Wells Brown author

Tod Browning actor, director, screenwriter

Laura Bell Bundy actress

Jim Bunning baseball player, politician

Chris Burke baseball player

Lance Burton magician

Kit Carson guide, soldier, frontiersman

Edgar Cayce psychic

Henry M. Caudill author

Steve Cauthen jockey

Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler politician, baseball commissioner

Ray Chapman baseball player

Rex Chapman basketball player

Steven Curtis Chapman musician

Jerry Claiborne college football coach

Champ Clark politician

Anna Mac Clarke WAC, first black officer in command of white unit

Cassius Marcellus Clay abolitionist, editor

Henry Clay statesman (born in VA)

George Clooney actor

Nicholas Clooney television journalist

Rosemary Clooney singer

Irvin S. Cobb author, humorist, columnist

Floyd Collins cave explorer (entrapment and death widely reported)

Martha Layne Collins first female governor of kentucky

Earle Combs baseball player

John Conlee singer

William Conrad actor

John Sherman Cooper politician, ambassador

Tim Couch football player

Dave Cowens basketball player, coach

Joe Creason journalist

J. D. Crowe singer, banjo player

William J. Crowe, Jr. u.s. navy admiral, diplomat

Billy Ray Cyrus singer, songwriter

Jefferson Davis president confederate states of america during civil war

Skeeter Davis singer

Kassie DePaiva actress, singer

Johnny Depp actor

Mary Desha co-founder daughters of american revolution

Jackie DeShannon singer

E. A. Diddle college basketball coach

Irene Dunne actress

Frank Duveneck artist

Bob Edwards radio host

Don Everly musician

Farah Fath actress

John Fetterman journalist, pulitzer prize winner

Larry Flynt publisher

Fontaine Fox cartoonist, illustrator

John Fox, Jr. author

Heather French miss america 2000

Joe Fulks basketball player

Tyson Gay sprinting medalist

Rebecca Gayheart actress

Crystal Gayle singer

Troy Lee Gentry singer

James Lamont "Haven" Gillespie composer, lyricist

Joey Goebel author

Darrell Griffith basketball player

David "D. W." Griffith film producer

Robert H. Grubbs chemist, nobel laureate

Tom T. Hall singer, songwriter

Mordecai Ham evangelist

Lionel Hampton musician

Elizabeth Hardwick author

John Marshall Harlan supreme court justice

Larnelle Harris singer, songwriter

Nicky Hayden motorcycle racer

Duncan Hines founder, duncan hines company

J. B. Holmes golfer

Joseph Holt u.s. postmaster, judge advocate general

Telma Hopkins singer

Paul Hornung football player

Silas House author

Allan Houston basektball player

Joshua Ryan Hutcherson actor

Richard Mentor Johnson u.s. vice president

John "Casey" Jones railroad engineer (born in MO)

Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones singer, banjo player

Matthew Harris Jouett artist

Ashley Judd actress (born in CA)

Naomi Judd singer

Wynona Judd singer

Mae Street Kidd politician, civil rights activist

Roy Kidd college football coach

Husband E. Kimmel commander u.s. pacific fleet, pearl harbor

Mac King magician

Juanita M. Kreps u.s. secretary of commerce

Nick Lachey singer, actor

Lily May Ledford musician, songwriter

Abraham Lincoln sixteenth president of the united states of america

Mary Todd Lincoln u.s. first lady

William Lipscomb chemist, nobel laureate (born in OH)

Brian Littrell singer

Matt Long actor

Patty Loveless singer

Loretta Lynn singer

Joe Maggard actor

Lee Majors actor (born in MI)

Terrence Mann actor

Bobbie Ann Mason author

Victor Mature actor

Jeremy Mayfield automobile racer

Ed McClanahan author

Mitch McConnell politician

Tamara McKinney world champion ski racer

Mary Meagher olympic medalist swimmer

Dwain Messer singer

Samuel Freeman Miller u.s. supreme court justice

Trever Miller baseball player

Bill Monroe singer, composer, "father of bluegrass"

Eddie Montgomery singer

John Michael Montgomery singer

Garrett A. Morgan inventor tri-color traffic signal

Thomas Hunt Morgan geneticist, embryologist, nobel laureate

Isaac Burns Murphy jockey

Carry Amelia Nation social reformer

Patricia Neal actress

J. T. Cotton Noe first kentucky poet laureate

Marsha Norman playwright

Warren Oates actor

Chris Offutt author

Theodore O'Hara mexican-american army officer, civil war confederate colonel, poet

Will Oldham singer, songwriter

Joan Osborne singer, songwriter

Kenny Perry golfer

David Pitts author

Annie Potts actress

Dottie Rambo singer, songwriter

Venus Ramey miss america 1944

Frank Ramsey basketball player

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph musician

Jeffrey Reddick screenwriter, producer

Stanley Forman Reed u.s. supreme court justice

Harold "Pee Wee" Reese baseball player

Alice Hegan Rice author

Kevin Richardson singer

Jean Ritchie singer, songwriter

Elizabeth Madox Roberts author, poet

Don Rosa comic book writer, illustrator

Jack Roush founder, co-owner nascar race team

Wiley B. Rutledge, Jr. jurist

Harland David "Colonel" Sanders founder kentucky fried chicken (born in IN)

Diane Sawyer television journalist

John T. Scopes educator, defendant in "monkey trial" for teaching evolution

Phillip A. Sharp geneticist, molecular biologist, nobel laureate

Gideon Shryock architect

Phil Simms football player

Ricky Skaggs singer, musician

Moneta Sleet, Jr. photographer, pulitzer prize winner

Effie Waller Smith poet

Tony Snow broadcaster, columnist, commentator

Franklin Sousley u.s. marine corps, flagraiser iwo jima photo, ww II

James Speed politician

Harry Dean Stanton actor

Chrishell Stause actress

Woody Stephens thoroughbred horse trainer

Aldai E. Stevenson I u.s. vice president

Cora Wilson Stewart educator, developed adult education program

Jesse Stuart author, poet

Nathan Stubblefield inventor wireless voice transmission (radio)

Danny Sullivan automobile racer

Madame Sul-Te-Wan actress

Allen Tate poet

Helen Thomas reporter

Hunter Thompson author

John T. Thompson inventor thompson machine gun

Edgar Tolson woodcarver, folk artist

Mary Travers singer

Merle Travis singer, songwriter

Dan Uggla baseball player

Westley "Wes" Unseld basketball player

Gus Van Sant director

Jim Varney actor, comedian

Frederick M. Vinson former u.s. chief justice

Darrell Waltrip automobile racer, race commentator

Michael Waltrip automobile racer, nascar team owner

Robert P. Warren author

Brandon Webb baseball player

Keith Whitley singer

Terrence W. Wilcutt astronaut

Chuck Woolery television show host

Enid Yandell sculptor

Dwight Yoakam singer, songwriter

Whitney Young civil rights leader

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