Notable People from Tennessee

John Palmer

American TV journalist, born 1935

John Rice Irwin

American historian

William Ernest Miller

United States federal judge

Evelyn G. Lowery

American activist (1925–2013)

Barbara Cooper

American politician

Ethelbert Barksdale

American politician (1824-1893)

Washington Barrow

American politician (1807–1866)

Stephen Tall

American writer (1908-1981)

Jacob Golladay

American politician (1819-1887)

John Thompson Whitaker

American journalist (1906–1946)

Sue K. Hicks

American judge (1895–1980)

Alice Underwood Fitch

American painter (1862-1936)

Joseph Knaffl

American photographer (1861-1938)

William L. Frierson

American lawyer (1868-1953)

John L. Head

American basketball coach (1915–1980)

Harold Earthman

American politician (1900-1987)

Joe Jenkins

American baseball player (1890-1974)

Mary Ware

American poet, writer (1828-1915)

John Overton Williams

American Swing Era clarinettist and alto saxophonist (1905-1996)

Robert Thomas Hill

United States geologist (1858–1941)

Kenny Parchman

American musician

Albert E. Hill

American politician (1870-1933)

Florence Reece

American singer

Cecil Grigg

American football player (1891-1968)

Hugh B. Lindsay

American attorney and candidate for governor (1856-1944)

George W. Haley

American lawyer and diplomat (1925-2015)

Bonnie Hollingsworth

American baseball player

Lorine Livingston Pruette

American psychologist

Tex Covington

Major League Baseball pitcher (1887-1931)

Rip King

American football player (1895-1950)

Louis Holmes

player of American football

Thomas C. Latimore

American naval officer

Commodore Perry Owens

American lawman

Turner Barber

American baseball player (1893–1968)

William Allen Montgomery

journalist and lawyer

Isaac Roberts Hawkins

American politician (1818-1880)

Bennie Tate

American baseball player (1901-1973)

William R. Peck

Confederate Army general

Jess Neely

American football player and coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator (1898-1983)

Betty Ann Carr

American actress

Bill Mallory

American football player (1901–1945)

Bill Spears

American football player (1906-1992)

Bob Baird

American baseball player (1940-1974)

Marv Throneberry

American baseball player

Carlos Moore

American baseball player

George S. Davis

American musician

Dale Alexander

baseball player

Bert Swor

American minstrel performer

Edith Mansford Fitzgerald

American deaf woman who invented a system for the hearing impaired to learn proper placement of words in constructing sentences

Alice Mitchell

Convicted murderer