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![]() by Daniel Huntington
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![]() the sixteenth President of the United States born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809
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Famous Natives
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 ![]() Submit your famous Kentuckian
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