List of people from Memphis, Tennessee

This is a list of notable people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan statistical area, including Crittenden County, Arkansas; DeSoto County, Mississippi; Marshall County, Mississippi; Tate County, Mississippi; Tunica County, Mississippi; Fayette County, Tennessee; Shelby County, Tennessee; and Tipton County, Tennessee.

This list is in alphabetical order by last name.

A

Johnny Ace (1929–1954) — rhythm and blues singer
Heather Armstrong (born 1975) — author and blogger, Dooce.com
Kristin Armstrong (born 1973) — professional road bicycle racer and three-time Olympic gold medalist
George Awsumb (1880–1959) — Norwegian-American architect
Gwen Robinson Awsumb (1915–2003) — first woman elected to Memphis City Council
Estelle Axton (1918–2004) — co-founder of Stax Records

B

Kathy Bates

Bobby "Blue" Bland

Ben Browder

Archbishop LeRoy Bailey — Senior Pastor of The First Cathedral, a megachurch in Bloomfield, Connecticut; clergy
Julien Baker (born 1995) — singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Michael A. Baker (born 1953) — astronaut
Adrian Banks (born 1986) — American-Israeli basketball player, 2011-12 top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League
The Bar-Kays (formed in 1966) — musicians
Lloyd Barbee (1925–2002) — Wisconsin legislator and civil rights activist
Marion Barry (1936–2014) — mayor of Washington, D.C.
Charles Bartliff (1886–1962) — soccer player
Kathy Bates (born 1948) — Academy Award-winning actress
Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin (1913–1995) — poet
Michael Beck (born 1949) — actor, best known for The Warriors and Xanadu
Reginald Becton (born 1991) — basketball player who currently plays for Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
William Bedford (born 1963) — basketball player
Diane Meredith Belcher (born 1960) — concert organist, teacher, and church musician
Chris Bell (1951–1978) — musician
William Bell (born 1939) — singer
Charles T. Bernard (1927–2015) — businessman and Arkansas politician, died in Memphis in 2015
Big Star (formed in 1971) — rock band
Blac Youngsta (born 1990) — rapper; born Samuel Marquez Benson
Greg Bird — Major League Baseball first baseman
Tarik Black (born 1991) — basketball player
James Blackwood (1919–2002) — gospel singer, founding member of quartet The Blackwood Brothers
BlocBoy JB — rapper
Bobby "Blue" Bland (1930–2013) — musician
Elizabeth Bolden (1890–2006) — oldest person in the world during most of 2006
Charles Boyce (born 1949) — syndicated cartoonist
Cory Branan (born 1974) — singer/songwriter
Craig Brewer (born 1971) — film director
Ben Browder (born 1962) — actor, best known for Farscape and Stargate SG-1
Dave Brown (born 1946) — TV meteorologist, professional wrestling announcer
Joe Brown (born 1947) — politician
Isaac Bruce (born 1972) — former NFL player
Antonio Burks (born 1980) — former basketball player
Dorsey Burnette (1932–1979) — rockabilly pioneer, singer-songwriter
Johnny Burnette (1934–1964) — rockabilly pioneer, singer-songwriter
Leonard Burton (born 1964) — NFL player
Mike Butler (born 1946) — basketball player
Derrick Byars (born 1984) — basketball player
Latasha Byears (born 1973) — basketball player

C

Alex Chilton

Edward H. Crump

Herman Cain (1945–2020) — businessman, talk show host, and candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination
Tyrone Calico (born 1980) — NFL player for the Tennessee Titans
Dixie Carter (1939–2010) — actress known for Designing Women and Desperate Housewives
Bob Caruthers (1864–1911) — Major League Baseball player[1]
Kellye Cash (born 1965) — Miss America 1987
Cy Casper (1912–1968) — NFL player for the Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Gunners, and Pittsburgh Pirates
Dave Catching (born 1961) — musician
Alex Chilton (1950–2010) — musician
NLE Choppa — rapper
Robert Reed Church, Sr. (1839–1912) — entrepreneur and philanthropist
Ian Clark (born 1991) — basketball player
Philip Claypool — musician
Lashundra Trenyce Cobbin (born 1980) — American Idol contestant
Steve Cohen (born 1949) — politician
Richard Colbert — rapper known as iLoveMemphis or iHeartMemphis
Olivia Cole (1942–2018) — actress
George Coleman (born 1935) — musician
Barron Collier (1873–1939) — businessman
John Cooper (born 1975) — musician, Skillet
Zack Cozart — baseball shortstop and third baseman for the San Francisco Giants
Hank Crawford (1934–2009) — musician
Steve Cropper (born 1941) — musician, Booker T. and the M.G.'s and The Blues Brothers
Edward H. Crump (1874–1954) — political boss and U.S. Representative
Randy Culpepper (born 1989) — basketball player

D

Shannen Doherty

Donald "Duck" Dunn

Chastity Daniels (born 1978) — musician
Janette Davis (1916–2005) — singer
Rick Dees (born 1950) — radio personality
Nancy Denson — mayor of Athens, Georgia
Eric Jerome Dickey (born 1961) — author
Jim Dickinson (1941–2009) — musician; producer
Peter C. Doherty (born 1940) — Nobel laureate; scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Shannen Doherty (born 1971) — actress known for Beverly Hills, 90210
Young Dolph (born 1985) — rapper (grew up in Memphis)
Vol Dooley (1927–2014) — Louisiana sheriff
Johnny Dowd (born 1948) — musician
Marcia Van Dresser (1877–1937) — operatic soprano, recitalist and actress
Drumma Boy (born 1983) — hip hop music producer
William B. Dunavant (born 1932) — businessman, CEO of Dunavant Enterprises
Donald "Duck" Dunn (1941–2012) — musician in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

E

Johanna Edwards (born 1978) — author
William Eggleston (born 1939) — photographer
Egypt Central (2002–2014) — band
Eightball & MJG (established in 1991) — musicians

F

Aretha Franklin

Ben Ferguson — nationally syndicated talk radio host
Paul Finebaum — television and radio sports-talk host
Veronica Finn — pop singer of now-disbanded group Innosense
Ric Flair — professional wrestler (adopted at six weeks; raised in Minnesota)
Rey Flemings — music commissioner
"Trae Flocka" — internet personality, rapper
Avron Fogelman — former owner of Kansas City Royals and various Memphis-based sports teams; namesake of southeastern leg of Interstate 240
Shelby Foote — author
George L. Forbes — Cleveland City Council President, President of the Cleveland NAACP
Clementine Ford — actress
Harold Ford, Jr. — politician
Jacob Ford — NFL player, Tennessee Titans
Abe Fortas — politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice
Cary Fowler — agriculturalist, established the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Morgan Jon Fox — film director
Aretha Franklin (1942–2018) — singer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Frayser Boy — Academy Award-winning rapper
Nelson Frazier, Jr. — wrestler
Morgan Freeman — Academy Award-winning actor
Judy Freudberg — writer
John Fry — music producer, engineer, founder of Ardent Studios

G

Al Green

Logan Guleff

David Galloway (writer) — novelist, international art curator, journalist and academic
Gangsta Boo — rapper
TM Garret — author, producer, filmmaker, radio personality, activist
The Gentrys — 1960s rock band with Larry Raspberry and Larry Wall
Cassietta George — gospel singer and composer
David Gest — event and concert producer
Lee Giles — academic and computer scientist
Key Glock — rapper
Ginnifer Goodwin — actress
Robert Gordon — filmmaker and writer
Al Green — singer, musician in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Larkin Grimm — folk singer
Logan Guleff — MasterChef Junior Season 2 winner
Gyft — rapper signed to E1 Music, known for his single "They Just Don't Know"

H

W.C. Handy

Chris Hardwick

Lucy Hale — singer and actress
Richard Halliburton — explorer and author
George Hamilton — Golden Globe Award-winning actor
W.C. Handy — musician
Rebecca Hanover — (B.A. English/creative writing 2001), television writer, winner of Daytime Emmy Award for her work on Guiding Light
Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway — former NBA player, NCAA Basketball coach

E. Hunter Harrison — CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway
Jimmy Hart — singer, pro wrestling personality
Jon Hassell — musician
Isaac Hayes — actor and Academy Award-winning musician
Olivia Holt — singer and actress
John Lee Hooker — blues musician
Howlin' Wolf — blues musician in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Lewis C. Hudson — brigadier general in the Marine Corps, Navy Cross recipient
John Hulse — college professor
Andy Hummel — musician
Alberta Hunter — singer

I

Ingram Hill — band

J

Mother Jones

Al Jackson, Jr. — musician
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson — mixed martial arts fighter
Raji Jallepalli — Indian-born chef and restaurateur
Antonio D. James (born 1985) — filmmaker; producer
Jimi Jamison — singer, songwriter
Roland Janes — musician; producer
Josh Jasper — All-American college football placekicker
John Wayles Jefferson — mixed-race grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, colonel in the Union Army, cotton broker in Memphis after the Civil War
Michael Jeter — actor
Ashley Jones — actress
Booker T. Jones — musician
Leslie Jones — actress known for Saturday Night Live and Ghostbusters
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones — prominent labor and community organizer
Rich Jones (born 1946) — basketball player
Juicy J — rapper
Rob Jungklas — musician

K

K. Michelle

K. Michelle — musician
Florence Kahn — early Ibsen actress and wife of Max Beerbohm
Francis M. Kneeland — early African American physician who located her practice on Beale Street.[2]
Tay Keith — record producer
Key Glock — rapper, cousin to Young Dolph
George "Machine Gun" Kelly — Great Depression-era bank robber and kidnapper
Larry Kenon — basketball player, led Memphis State to 1973 NCAA title game
Carlton W. Kent — Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
Albert King — blues musician
B.B. King — blues musician, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

L

Jerry Lee Lewis

Linda Thompson — singer, lyricist
Snooky Lanson — singer and television personality
Chuck Lanza — NFL player
Brian Lawler — professional wrestler
Jerry Lawler — professional wrestler
Arthur Lee (1945–2006) — singer-songwriter
Fannie Lewis — Cleveland Ohio's longest serving councilwoman
Furry Lewis — blues musician
Jerry Lee Lewis — musician in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Alan Lightman — novelist and physicist
Lil Wyte — rapper
Booker Little — musician
Charles Lloyd — musician
Andre Lott — football player
Matt Lucas — singer, drummer, songwriter
Jimmie Lunceford — musician

M

Wink Martindale

Willie Mitchell

Jim Mabry — Arkansas Razorbacks football All-American
Bill Madlock (born 1951) — Major League Baseball player
Terry Manning — music producer, photographer
Nick Marable — freestyle wrestler who competed for USA's national team[3]
The Mar-Keys — musicians
Wink Martindale — radio and television personality
Tim McCarver — professional baseball player and broadcaster
Hilton McConnico — designer and artist
Kenneth D. McKellar — long-serving U.S. Senator
Edward J. Meeman — journalist with the former Memphis Press-Scimitar
The Memphis Horns — musicians
Memphis Minnie — blues singer
Memphis Slim — musician
Shaun Micheel — professional golfer
Cary Middlecoff — professional golfer, Masters and U.S. Open champion
Ryan Miller — professional hockey player
Lola Mitchell — musician
Willie Mitchell — musician and music producer
Chips Moman — music producer
Sputnik Monroe — professional wrestler
Lecrae Moore — musician and music executive
Scotty Moore — guitarist
Allen B. Morgan, Jr. — businessman, founded Morgan Keegan
Haley Morris-Cafiero — photographer[4]
Wendy Moten — singer
Steven J. Mulroy — singer
David W. Mullins, Jr. — former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Charlie Musselwhite — blues musician
Zach Myers — lead guitarist for rock band Shinedown

N

Elise Neal

Hal Needham (1931–2013) – stuntman, film director, actor and writer
Elise Neal (born 1966) — actress
Pat and Gina Neely — celebrity chefs on Food Network
Latrivia S. Nelson (born 1980) — author
Johnny Neumann (born 1951) — basketball player and coach
Phineas Newborn Jr. (1931–1989) — jazz musician
Nights Like These — Victory Records metalcore band

O

Michael Oher — NFL player, subject of The Blind Side
Roy Orbison — singer

P

Woody Paige (born 1946) — sportswriter, panelist on ESPN's Around the Horn
Hermes Pan (1909–1990) — dancer and choreographer
Cindy Parlow Cone (born 1978) — athlete
Chris Parnell (born 1967) — actor, known for Saturday Night Live
Gilbert E. Patterson (1939–2007) — bishop of Church of God in Christ
Ernest Pendegrast Patton (born 1941) — iconic portrait artist, former Memphis State football player
DJ Paul — rapper
Ann Peebles (born 1947) — singer
Paul Penczner (1916–2010) — Hungarian-born artist
Carl Perkins (1932–1998) — musician
Luther Perkins (1928–1968) — musician
Elliot Perry (born 1969) — professional basketball player
Dewey Phillips (1926–1968) — early rock 'n' roll disc jockey
Sam Phillips (1923–2003) — founder of Sun Records
Marguerite Piazza (1920–2012) — opera singer
Danny Pittman (born 1958) — athlete
David Porter (born 1941) — musician
Lisa Marie Presley (born 1968) — singer-songwriter; child of singer and actor Elvis Presley
Project Pat (born 1973) — rapper
Tommy Prothro (1920–1995) — football coach, UCLA and Los Angeles Rams
Missi Pyle (born 1972) — actress and singer

Q

Lisa Quinn (born 1967) — actress, author, designer

R

Otis Redding

Michael Ramirez (born 1961) — Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
Jay Reatard (1980–2010) — musician
Otis Redding — musician in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Charlie Rich — Grammy Award-winning musician
Loren Roberts — professional golfer
Russell Roberts — economist
Claire Robinson — television host, author and cook
Kali Rocha (born 1971) — actress
Adrian Rogers — former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church and president of the Southern Baptist Convention
Joe Russell — former world backgammon champion
Lance Russell — pro wrestling announcer

S

Sam and Dave

Cybill Shepherd

Stella Stevens

Samantha Saint (born 1987) — pornographic actress, model and Penthouse Pet of the Month for October 2012
Saliva — musical group
Sam and Dave (Sam Moore and David Prater) — musicians in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Sam the Sham — musician, leader of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
William Sanderson — actor known for Newhart and Blade Runner
J. Peter Sartain — Archbishop of Seattle
Clarence Saunders — founder of the world's first self-service supermarket, Piggly Wiggly
Jerry Schilling — associate of Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys
Dan Schneider — actor
Josey Scott — musician
Will Shade — musician
Gwen Shamblin — author and founder of the Weigh Down Workshop and Remnant Fellowship Church
Paul Shanklin — personality on Rush Limbaugh's radio program
Cybill Shepherd — actress known for Moonlighting and Cybill
George Sherrill — MLB player
Lee Shippey — journalist
Hampton Sides — author
McKinley Singleton — NBA player, New York Knicks
Bingo Smith (born 1946) — basketball player
Fred Smith — founder and chairman of FedEx
Lane Smith — actor known for My Cousin Vinny and The Final Days
George W. Snedecor (1881–1974) — mathematician and statistician
Bobby Sowell — musician
Ben Spies (born 1984) — motorcycle road racer
Marvin Stamm — musician
Kay Starr — singer
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. — NASCAR driver
Jody Stephens — musician
Andrew Stevens — actor and producer
Stella Stevens — Golden Globe Award-winning actress
Jim Stewart — record producer and co-founder of Stax Records
Frank Stokes — blues musician
Jarnell Stokes (born 1994) — basketball player
Lewis Ossie Swingler — editor of Memphis World, editor and publisher of Tri-State Defender

T

Gary Talley — musician and singer of The Box Tops

Carla Thomas

Cliff Taylor — football player
Raymond Taylor — catcher in Negro league baseball
Lloyd Thaxton — television personality
Carla Thomas — musician and daughter of Rufus Thomas
Danny Thomas — entertainer, actor and founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Rufus Thomas — musician
Fred D. Thompson — actor and U.S. Senator (alumnus of the University of Memphis)
Harry Thompson — football player
Three 6 Mafia — Academy Award-winning rap musicians
Justin Timberlake — Grammy Award-winning musician, actor and record producer
George Touliatos (1929–2017) — actor; he co-founded the Front Street Theater in Memphis with Barbara Cason
London on da Track — record producer
Don Trip — rapper
Ike Turner — Grammy Award-winning musician

V

Guillaume de Van (1906–1949) – Franco–American musicologist
Andrew VanWyngarden — musician of psychedelic rock group MGMT
Alexey Vermeulen (born 1994) — cyclist

W

Ida B. Wells

Junior Wells

Sam Walton — football player
Teddy Walton — composer, producer, writer and DJ
Garrett Wang — actor
Anita Ward — singer and schoolteacher; 1979 number one Billboard Hot 100 single "Ring My Bell"
Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933
Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
Junior Wells — musician
David West — baseball player
Red West — actor
Kirk Whalum — musician
Maurice White — musician, lead singer of Earth, Wind & Fire
Reggie White — NFL player; began his career with the Memphis Showboats of the USFL
Bobby Whitlock — musician, keyboardist in Derek and the Dominos
John Shelton Wilder — politician
Elliot Williams — NBA player
Louis Williams — NBA player
Tennessee Williams — playwright
Kemmons Wilson — businessman, founder of Holiday Inn
Mike Wilson — NBA player
Jesse Winchester — singer/songwriter
Francis Winkler — NFL player
Ernest Withers - photojournalist
Lorenzen Wright — NBA player

Y

Roy Yeager — musician
Yo Gotti — rapper; born Mario Mims
Young Dolph — rapper; born Adolph Thorton
Thaddeus Young — NBA player (grew up in Memphis)
Moneybagg Yo — rapper

References

Reichler, Joseph L., ed. (1979) [1969]. The Baseball Encyclopedia (4th ed.). New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.
Lowry, Joe (September 26, 2018). "Dr. Francis Kneeland – Forgotten Hero". Our Memphis History. Archived from the original on February 23, 2020. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
Nick Marable - Team USA. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
Clark, Kym (April 26, 2013). "Photographer's social experiment gains exposure". WXIX-TV. Retrieved November 20, 2014.

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[The_Baseball_Encyclopedia-1] Reichler, Joseph L., ed. (1979) [1969]. The Baseball Encyclopedia (4th ed.). New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.

[:2-2] Lowry, Joe (September 26, 2018). "Dr. Francis Kneeland – Forgotten Hero". Our Memphis History. Archived from the original on February 23, 2020. Retrieved February 23, 2020.

[3] Nick Marable - Team USA. Retrieved November 9, 2020.

[4] Clark, Kym (April 26, 2013). "Photographer's social experiment gains exposure". WXIX-TV. Retrieved November 20, 2014.