Notable People from Kentucky

Pee Wee Reese

American baseball player and coach

James Clark McReynolds

United States federal judge and Supreme Court Justice (1862-1946)

John Stuart Williams

Confederate Army general

John L. Helm

Governor of Kentucky (1802-1867)

Mike Silliman

basketball player (1944-2000)

Bertha Palmer

American art collector (1849-1918)

Allen Lard

Amateur golfer (1866–1946)

Lazarus Powell

American politician (1812–1867)

Julian Carroll

American politician (1931–2023)

Bert T. Combs

American federal judge; governor of Kentucky (1911–1991)

Rogers Morton

American politician (1914-1979)

Julie Parrish

American actress (1940-2003)

Marshall Allen

American jazz saxophonist, flutist and oboist (born 1924)

Eugene Oberst

American football player and coach, track and field athlete and coach, basketball coach, college athletics administrator (1901-1991)

Edward Faulkner

American actor

Shelby Moore Cullom

American politician (1829-1914)

Mildred J. Hill

American composer (1859–1916)

Maurine Dallas Watkins

American journalist (1896–1969)

Harvey Fuqua

American musician, record producer (1929–2010)

Richard Yates

13th Governor of Illinois, U.S. Senator; father of Richard Yates (1815-1873)

Edwin P. Morrow

American politician (1877–1935)

William English

American computer engineer (1929–2020)

B. Gratz Brown

American politician, Missouri (1826-1885)

Champ Clark

American politician (1850–1921)

Joseph Duncan

American politician (1794-1844)

John Floyd

American politician and military officer (1783–1837)

Greg Page

American boxer (1958-2009)

Joe Nickell

American skeptical investigator

Preston Leslie

Governor of Kentucky (1819-1907)

Keith Whitley

American country singer (1954–1989)

Richard P. Bland

American politician (1835-1899)

Orville Hickman Browning

American politician (1806-1881)

Forest Able

American basketball player

James D. Black

Governor of Kentucky in 1919

Oscar Underwood

American politician (1862–1929)

Joseph Winlock

American astronomer (1826–1875)

Joseph O. Shelby

Confederate States Army general (1830–1897)

Benjamin F. Jonas

United States Senator from Georgia (1834-1911)

Mary E. Britton

African-American physician

David Boaz

American libertarian author and editor (1953-2024)

Davey Moore

American boxer (1933–1963)

William J. Fields

American politician (1874-1954)

Hunt Stromberg

American film producer (1894-1968)

Betty Arlen

American actress (1909-1966)

Percy Beard

American track and field athlete, hurdler, track and field coach, Olympic silver medalist (1908-1990)

Jimmy Raney

American musician (1927–1995)

Charles A. Wickliffe

American politician from Kentucky (1788-1869)

Joshua Baker

American politician (1799-1885)

Lilburn Boggs

American politician (1796-1860)

Mrs. Leslie Carter

American actress (1857–1937)