List of people from Lexington, Kentucky
The following are notable people who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in the Lexington, Kentucky, metropolitan area:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| David Akers | National Football League kicker[1] |
| James L. Alcorn | Lexington deputy sheriff, United States Senator from Mississippi[2] |
| Dotsie Bausch | Cyclist, national champion, Pan American Champion and Olympic silver medalist |
| Henry Bidleman Bascom | Editor, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, university president |
| Asa Blanchard | Silversmith, clockmaker |
| Kent Blazy | Songwriter[3] |
| John Breckinridge | U.S. Attorney General and Senator[4] |
| John B. Breckinridge | U.S. Representative[5] |
| John C. Breckinridge | U.S. Vice President, U.S. Senator[6] |
| Sophonisba P. Breckinridge | Founder, School of Social Works Administration, University of Chicago |
| Belle Brezing | Brothel madam[7] |
| William Wells Brown | Abolitionist leader |
| Walker Buehler | Major League Baseball pitcher |
| Laura Bell Bundy | Actress[8] |
| LaVerne Butler | Clergyman and college president[9] |
| Mrs. Leslie Carter | Stage and silent-film actress |
| Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier | Silent-film director and screenwriter, author |
| Thomas D. Clark | Historian and author[10] |
| Henry Clay | U.S. Representative and Senator, Secretary of State[11] |
| Tyler Clippard | Major League Baseball pitcher |
| George Clooney | Actor, producer, film director |
| Joyce Compton | Actress |
| Drew Curtis | Founder of Fark[12] |
| Guy Davenport | Author[13] |
| Jefferson Davis | Politician, President of the Confederate United States of America[14] |
| Dermontti Dawson | NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers[15] |
| Major Carl H. Dodd | Medal of Honor recipient for his service during the Korean War |
| Josiah Dunham | Secretary of State of Vermont and founder of Lafayette Female Academy.[16] |
| Charlotte Dupuy | Slave who sued Henry Clay for freedom in 1829[17] |
| Peter Durrett | Church founder[18] |
| Farah Fath | Actress |
| Henry Faulkner | Artist[19] |
| London Ferrill | Religious leader[18][20] |
| Ralph Foody | Actor |
| Steve Gabbard | NFL player[21] |
| Gatewood Galbraith | Author, lawyer[22] |
| Marvin Gay, Sr. | Pentecostal minister; father and murderer of R&B singer Marvin Gaye |
| Tyson Gay | Sprinter[23] |
| Rayna Gellert | Bluegrass fiddler |
| Troy Gentry | Musician, country-music duo Montgomery Gentry[24] |
| Arin Gilliland | National Women's Soccer League player for the Chicago Red Stars |
| Trevor Gott | Major League Baseball player for the Washington Nationals |
| Andy Green | Manager of the San Diego Padres |
| James Baker Hall | Poet, photographer, novelist, teacher |
| Joe B. Hall | Hall of Fame basketball coach for University of Kentucky from 1972 to 1985[25] |
| Tom Hammond | NBC sportscaster |
| Han Kuo-Huang | Ethnomusicologist |
| Haydar Hatemi | Painter |
| Isaac Scott Hathaway | Artist, Professor at the Tuskegee Institute, First African-American to design a US Coin |
| Thomas E. Hayden | Mayor of Flower Mound, Texas[26] |
| Lewis Hayden | Abolitionist leader |
| Bradlee Heckmann | Neuroimmunologist |
| Richard Hell | Punk-rocker |
| Josh Hopkins | Actor |
| B. Wayne Hughes | Founder of Public Storage |
| Sarah Hutchings | Contemporary American Composer |
| Kevin Jarvis | Major League Baseball player[27] |
| Robert Kirkman | Comic-book writer and TV producer best known for The Walking Dead[28] |
| Ashley Judd | Actress |
| Naomi Judd | Musician |
| Gregory Kaidanov | Chess grandmaster |
| Austin Kearns | Major League Baseball player |
| Paul Levy | Writer |
| Mary Todd Lincoln | First Lady, wife of Abraham Lincoln |
| William Lipscomb | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Brian Littrell | Musician, Backstreet Boys |
| Shirley Ardell Mason | a.k.a. Sybil |
| Tucker Max | Author |
| Les McCann | Jazz musician and painter |
| Anne Hazen McFarland | physician and medical journal editor |
| Shug McGaughey | Thoroughbred trainer |
| Ralph Eugene Meatyard | Photographer |
| Irene Moon | Also known as Katja Chantre Seltmann, musician |
| Charles Chilton Moore | |
| Davey Moore | Boxer, featherweight champion |
| Jessica Moore | Journalist |
| John Hunt Morgan | C.S. Army general |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan | Geneticist |
| Gurney Norman | Author, professor |
| Natalie Novosel | Basketball player, WNBA's Washington Mystics |
| J. Peterman | Businessman |
| H. Foster Pettit | State representative, mayor of Lexington[29] |
| Ben Revere | Major League Baseball player, Washington Nationals; played high school baseball in Lexington |
| Sarah Rice | Singer, musician, actress and artist |
| Kevin Richardson | Musician, Backstreet Boys |
| Charles P. Roland | Historian |
| Robbie Ross, Jr. | Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox |
| Adolph Rupp | Hall of Fame basketball coach for the University of Kentucky from 1930 to 1972. |
| Alfred Francis Russell | 10th President of Liberia |
| Robert Schneider | Musician |
| Michael Shannon | Actor |
| Joseph O. Shelby | C.S. Army general |
| Eric Shelton | NFL running back |
| Tubby Smith | Basketball coach, University of Kentucky |
| Harry Dean Stanton | Actor |
| Chris Stapleton | Country musician |
| Walter Tevis | Author of The Hustler and The Color of Money |
| Tinashe | Singer and actress |
| David Tolliver | Musician, Halfway to Hazard |
| John Tuska | Artist |
| Jim Varney | Actor and comedian |
| Adalin Wichman | Sculptor and artist, designer of Eclipse Award Trophy[30][31] |
| Steve Zahn | Actor |
| Shayna Hubers | Criminal convicted of killing her boyfriend Ryan Poston. She is also compared with convicted killer Jodi Arias due to her similarity of her crimes. |
See also
References
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- Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who. 1967.
- Blazy, Kent (2010). "Welcome to KentBlazy.com". Archived from the original on 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- the United States Congress, Biographical Directory of. "BRECKINRIDGE, John - Biographical Information". Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- the United States Congress, Biographical Directory of. "BRECKINRIDGE, John Bayne - Biographical Information". Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- the United States Congress, Biographical Directory of. "BRECKINRIDGE, John Cabell - Biographical Information". Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- Thompson, E.I. (2007-09-27). "Belle Brezing". Kentucky, University of. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- "Laura Bell Bundy on TV.com". TV.com (CBS Interactive). 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- Michael Foust, Obituary of LaVerne Butler, Baptist Press, December 21, 2010
- Libraries and Archives, Kentucky Department for (2007-04-17). "Kentucky's Historian Laureate: Thomas D. Clark - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives". Kentucky, Commonwealth of. Archived from the original on 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- the United States Congress, Biographical Directory of. "CLAY, Henry - Biographical Information". Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- Curtis, Drew (2010). "Vator.tv - Drew Curtis". Inc., Vator. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- Wellner, Anita A. (2009-03-19). "University of Delaware: GUY DAVENPORT LETTERS". Delaware Library, University of. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- the United States Congress, Biographical Directory of. "DAVIS, Jefferson - Biographical Information". Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- "Dermontti Dawson NFL & AFL Statistics". Pro-Football-Reference.com. 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- Moseley, Edward Strong (1878). A Genealogical Sketch of One Branch of the Moseley Family. Newburyport, MA: Newburyport Herald. p. 47.
- Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum (2010-02-24). "Aaron and Charlotte Dupuy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- H. E. Nutter, A Brief History of the First Baptist Church (Black) Lexington, Kentucky, 1940, accessed 22 August 2010
- Cross Gate Gallery (2009). "Henry Lawrence Faulkner". Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- "Biography of London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons, Lexington, KY.": A.W. Elder, printer, 1854, 12 pgs, online edition, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina, accessed 6 May 2011
- "Steve Gabbard". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
- Galbraith, Gatewood (2010-04-05). "Gatewood for Governor - Dea Riley for Lt. Governor - Gatewood Galbraith". Citizens to Elect Gatewood for Governor. Archived from the original on 2009-07-26. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- "The Official Website of Tyson Gay :: Biography". Archived from the original on 2010-04-13. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- MTV Networks (2009). "CMT.com : Montgomery Gentry : Biography". Inc., MTVN Direct. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- "Joe B. Hall Coaching Record". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- "Thomas Edward Hayden". intelius.com. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
- "Kevin Jarvis Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
- "Kentuckian who created 'Walking Dead' comes home for a chat". Lexington Herald-Leader. Kentucky. October 26, 2012. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- Karla Wood (November 22, 2014). "Former Lexington mayor H. Foster Pettit dies at 84". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
- "Adalin Wichman, designer of the Eclipse Awards statuette, dies at 91". Daily Racing Form. 2013-03-12. Retrieved 2013-04-05.
- Copley, Rich (2013-03-12). "Lexington artist Adalin Wichman, known for her work and wit, dies at 91". Lexington Herald Leader. Retrieved 2013-04-05.
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