Notable People from Tennessee

Malcolm Yelvington

American musician (1918-2001)

Paul Fitts

American psychologist

Red Saunders

American musician (1912–1981)

Russ Craft

American football player (1919-2009)

Keyes Beech

American journalist (1913-1990)

Marion Keisker

First person to record Elvis Presley

Carl Fallberg

American cartoonist and artist

Ernest Schmidt

American basketball player (1911–1986)

William O. Steele

American children's writer

Archie Campbell

American actor, singer and writer (1914-1987)

Joe Hill Louis

American singer, guitarist, harmonica player and one-man band

Benjamin Hooks

American civil rights leader (1925-2010)

Charles Clark

American federal judge

Del Wood

County music pianist (1920-1989)

Douglas Henry

American politician (1926-2017)

Ernest Withers

American photographer (1922-2007)

Harold von Braunhut

American inventor (1926–2003)

Johnny Maddox

American musician (1927–2018)

William R. Lucas

NASA director

James A. Sanders

American biblical scholar and translator (1927-2020)

Agnes Baldwin

American basketball player

Walter Fuller

American singer (1910–2003)

Willie Nix

American Chicago blues singer and drummer (1922-1991)

Paul Averitt

US soldier during WWII; serving as a member of the US Army 92nd Signal Corps Battalion; one the first photographers taking pictures at Dachau concentration camp during its liberation on April 29, 1945

Lucy Knoch

American actress (1923-1990)

John Compton

actor (1923-2015)

John Hall Buchanan, Jr.

former U.S. representative from Alabama (1928-2018)

Barbara Jo Walker

American model (1926-2000)

George Touliatos

American film actor

Lewie Steinberg

American musician

Paul Craft

American musician (1938-2014)

Robert Ginnaven

American actor (1937-2008)

William P. Lawrence

recipient of the Purple Heart medal

Vada Pinson

American baseball player and coach

John Jay Hooker

American businessman and lawyer

Chet Raymo

American writer

Aleshia Brevard

American author (1937–2017)

Thurman D. Rodgers

American Army general

Evans Bradshaw

Jazz pianist

Jimmy Van Eaton

American drummer (1937–2024)

Leon Wagner

American baseball player (1934-2004)

Willie Ackerman

American drummer (1939-2012)

William Armstrong Percy III

Historian, Gay Activist (1933–2022)

Charles Alexander Shaw

United States federal judge (1944-2020)

Claude Humphrey

American football player and coach

Don Bryant

American musician

Russell Smith

American singer-songwriter

Lois Johnson

American country music singer, vocalist (1942-2014)

Dwight Waller

American professional basketball player (1945–2021)

Bob Hogsett

Professional basketball player (1941-1984)