Notable People from Kentucky

Hallie Erminie Rives

American writer (1874-1956)

Robert Bingham

American writer

George Boone

American baseball player (1871-1910)

Fred Frank

American baseball player

Effie Waller Smith

American poet

Dan McGann

American baseball player

Charles Harwood Moorman

United States federal judge (1876-1938)

Charles Adams Blakely

United States admiral (1879-1950)

George Mitchell

American jazz musician (1899-1972)

Shackelford Miller, Jr.

United States federal judge

Ted Turner

American baseball player (1892-1958)

Frank Browning

American baseball player

Billy Taylor

baseball third baseman for the Louisville Colonels in 1898

Bill Coyle

American baseball player

John Ellsworth Weis

American painter (1892–1962)

Avery Robinson

American classical composer

Margaret Ingels

mechanical engineer (1892-1971)

Fred Blackwell

American baseball player

Jim Jeffries

Baseball pitcher and outfielder

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.

African-American poet and playwright

John Tanner

American football player (1897–1976)

Samuel D. Maxwell

American politician (1803-1873)

Arthur A. Will

American politician (1871-1940)

Everett Kelly

American football player (1898-1983)

Mentor Graham

Teacher best known for tutoring Abraham Lincoln

Art Herman

American baseball player

Joseph W. Morris

American politician (1879-1937)

Patsy Terrell

American politician

Anna Youngman

American economist

Troy Gentry

American country music singer (1967-2017)

Louise O. Charlton

American judge, federal commissioner, and activist

John Lloyd Dorsey, Jr.

American politician (1891-1960)

Thomas Clay McDowell

American horse trainer (1866-1935)

Theodore Conover

American baseball player (1868–1910)

Scott Stratton

American baseball player

Rex Smith

American baseball player

Ollie Beard

Major League Baseball player, burgoo (1862-1887)

Olive Tilford Dargan

author and poet of Asheville, N.C. (1869–1968)

Wardell Fouse

Lev Shreve

American baseball player

George Washington Triplett

Confederate Army officer and American politician

William Reinhart

American football player and coach, basketball player and coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator (1896–1971)

Dixie Carroll

American baseball player (1891–1984)

Lemuel Ricketts Boulware

American businessman

John C. C. Mayo

American politician and businessman

Jimmy Wolf

Major League Baseball player

Jim Long

American baseball player

Clifford Hayes

American musician and bandleader (1893–1941)

Jack Keenan

American baseball player

Andrew McKee

United States Navy admiral