Notable People from Kentucky

Andrew McKee

United States Navy admiral

Wardell Fouse

Adelaide Day Rollston

American poet and author (1854–1941)

Johnny Marcum

American baseball player

Joseph C. Clifton

Rear Admiral, United States Navy (1905-1967)

William A. Paxton

American politician

Kent Greenfield

Major League Baseball pitcher (1902–1978)

Leane Zugsmith

American writer

Paul Twitchell

American writer (1909-1971)

James Henry Wright

American jurist

Effie Waller Smith

American poet

Andrew Heath

American baptist minister

Dan McGann

American baseball player

Red Roberts

American football player and coach (1900-1945)

Xantippe Saunders

American artist

Robley Rex

American centenarian (1901-2009)

Lemuel Ricketts Boulware

American businessman

Dixie Carroll

American baseball player (1891–1984)

Robert B. Warden

Ohio judge, author (1824–1888)

Ray Callahan

American football player and coach (1933–2017)

William Reinhart

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

William Lyne Crawford

(1839-1920)

Charles Harwood Moorman

United States federal judge (1876-1938)

Ray Sanders

American singer (1935-2019)

Benjamin Anderson

Confederate army officer who switched to the Union

Odon Guitar

Union Army general (1825-1908)

Robert Bingham

American writer

Reid Patterson

American swimmer, Olympic athlete, former world record-holder

Lela E. Buis

American writer

Given Campbell

Confederate Army officer and lawyer (1835–1906)

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)

James E. Cantrill

Confederate Army officer and politician (1839–1908)

John Lloyd Dorsey, Jr.

American politician (1891-1960)

Kate Mosher

American artist

Desha Breckinridge

American newspaper editor and publisher (1867-1935)

John Flournoy Henry

American politician (1793-1873)

Jesse D. Auton

American military personnel (1904-1952)

Roy L. Gilbert

American jockey

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)

Russ Mobley

American politician and educator (1933-2018)

Tom Emberton

Kentucky judge and politician

Russel Bowles

American musician (1907-1991)

Tom Vaughn

American pianist and priest (1936–2011)

Stephen G. Burbridge

Union Army general (1831-1894)

Lafayette F. Mosher

American politician

Lillian Trimble Bradley

American theatre director

Albert D. Kirwan

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

Charles Adams Blakely

United States admiral (1879-1950)