Notable People from Kentucky

Lucy Wilmot Smith

American teacher, journalist, suffragist and historian (1861-1889)

Albert Taylor Bledsoe

American priest, mathematician and army officer (1809-1877)

Anna J. Hamilton

American educator and journalist

Walter Noble Burns

American writer

Milton Sublette

American fur trader (1801–1837)

Lela E. Buis

American writer

Creed Burlingame

United States admiral (1905-1985)

Carey Spicer

American football and basketball player and coach (1909-1996)

Ray Baer

American gridiron football player (1905-1968)

Richard W. Thompson

American journalist

Lettice Bryan

American author (1805-1877)

David Walker

American jurist

Jesse D. Auton

American military personnel (1904-1952)

Alice Withrow

botanist for the National Museum of Natural History and co-author of "Generation, Control, and Measurement of Visible and Near-visible Radiant Energy" (1907–1998)

Russel Bowles

American musician (1907-1991)

Rachel Davis Harris

American librarian and activist

Edward C. O'Rear

American lawyer

Wally Taylor

American baseball player (1864-1922)

Albert D. Kirwan

American football coach, historian, and university administrator (1904-1971)

Jesse Edward Grinstead

writer, publisher and politician

Dick West

American baseball player (1915–1996)

William Withers

American golfer

B. F. Shelton

American musician

John Albert Whitaker

American politician (1901-1951)

William McMurtry

American politician

Will Coleman

American football player and coach (1869-1934)

Wickliffe Covington

American artist (1867-1938)

W. S. Peters

American baseball player, manager and executive

Samuel Henderson

American politician (1800-1883)

Bessie Boehm Moore

American librarian

Blanton Collier

American football coach

Buster Ross

American baseball player

Charles Kurtsinger

American jockey (1906-1946)

Cicero Price

United States Navy admiral

Eddie Hunter

American baseball player (1905-1967)

Lillian Trimble Bradley

American theatre director

Edward Slaughter

American football player, coach and professor of physical education

Ford Bond

American radio personality

Fred Koster

American baseball player (1905-1979)

William P. Bryant

American judge (1806–1860)

Henry Luesing Brooks

United States federal judge (1905-1971)

John R. Mosby

American military personnel

Florence Peebles

American biologist

Stephen T. Logan

American politician (1800–1880)

David Alexander

American writer

Ora F. Porter

American nurse (1879-1970)

Genevieve Rogers

American actress

Bill Beason

American musician (1908-1988)

Josiah T. Settle

American lawyer (1850-1915)

Clifford Gibson

American blues singer and guitarist (1901–1963)