Biographical Records
Notable People from Kentucky
1,902 notable figures born in Kentucky, showing page 20 of 39, ranked by historical prominence.
Bob Young
1923 – 2011
journalist
James M. Birney
1817 – 1888
diplomatpoliticianlawyer
Russell E. Dougherty
1920 – 2007
military officer
Bob Naber
1929 – 1998
basketball player
John Edwards
1815 – 1894
army officerpoliticianlawyer
William Harding Mayes
1861 – 1939
politicianlawyer
John G. Davis
1810 – 1866
politicianbusinessperson
John L. Robinson
1813 – 1860
politician
Anthony Thornton
1814 – 1904
military officerpoliticianlawyer
Ruby Winters
1942 – 2016
singer
Frances Fowler
1864 – 1943
painter
Mitchell Cary Alford
1855 – 1914
politicianlawyerjudge
Adele Brandeis
1885 – 1975
art historianhistorianartist
Gus Weyhing
1866 – 1955
baseball player
Thomas Terry Davis
1758 – 1807
politicianlawyerjudge
Clarence "Big House" Gaines
1923 – 2005
American football playerbasketball coachbasketball player
Charles Wilkins Webber
1819 – 1856
journalist
Christopher Tompkins
1780 – 1858
politicianlawyer
Odie Spears
1925 – 1985
basketball player
William Singleton Young
1790 – 1827
politicianlawyer
Porter Grainger
1891 – 1955
jazz musicianpianistsongwriter
Brent Yonts
1949 – 2021
politicianlawyer
Bryan Young
1800 – 1882
politician
Benjamin Howard
1760 – 1814
Brigadegeneraljuristgovernor
Homer Neal
1942 – 2018
physicist
Jack Tingle
1924 – 1958
basketball coachbasketball player
Charles Kinney
1850 – 1918
printerpolitician
Gene Rhodes
1927 – 2018
basketball coachbasketball player
Charles I. Dawson
1881 – 1969
politicianlawyerjudge
Leee Black Childers
1945 – 2014
talent managerwriterphotographer
Pati Hill
1921 – 2014
artistwriter
Steve Wright
1942 – 2025
American football player
Bernard A. Byrne
1853 – 1910
military personnel
James M. Priest
1816 – 1883
politicianjudge
Otho R. Singleton
1814 – 1889
politicianlawyer
William Parish Chilton
1810 – 1871
politicianlawyerjudge
Arthur B. Rouse
1874 – 1956
politicianlawyer
Joseph Rodes Buchanan
1814 – 1899
physiologistphysician
Benjamin T. Cable
1853 – 1923
rancherpolitician
David Miller
1883 – 1953
guitaristsongwritermusician
Orie Solomon Ware
1882 – 1974
politicianlawyerjudge
Sam Smith
1944 – 2022
basketball player
Alexander Pope Field
1800 – 1876
politicianlawyer
Bobby Rascoe
1940 – 2024
basketball player
Fletcher S. Bassett
1847 – 1893
children's writer
Abraham Owen Smoot
1815 – 1895
missionarypolitician
Leon Bibb
1922 – 2015
film actorfilm score composermusician
Theodore O'Hara
1820 – 1867
poet
Bill Miner
1847 – 1913
John D. Craddock
1881 – 1942
politician