Notable People from Tennessee

John William Corrington

American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer (1932-1988)

Allen James Greer

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1878-1964)

Estella Louise Mann

American singer and record company executive (1871-1947)

Nellie Griswold Francis

suffragist, civic leader, and civil rights activist (1874-1969)

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

George Marion McClellan

American writer (1860–1934)

Eugene Christian

American naturopath

Virginia Meriwether Davies

American doctor of medicine (1862-1949)

Nannie C. Dunsmoor

American physician

Andree Layton Roaf

American judge

Ben Cauley

American musician

Bob Frank

American musician

Bob Minton

American banker

Ferdinand E. Kuhn

American businessman (1861–1930)

Newton H. White

American politician, Tennessee

David Thomas

Texas politician (19th century)

Chuck Taylor

American baseball player (1942–2018)

William Stone

American politician from Tennessee

Edward T. Seay

American politician (1868–1941)

William Mason Bennett

American politician (1869–1930)

Dale Farley

American football player

William Ruthven Smith

United States general (1868–1941)

David R. Ray

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1945-1969)

Dick Hudson

Player of American football (1940-2016)

Ron Campbell

American baseball player

George Reneau

American musician (1901–1933)

W. W. McDowell

Ambassadors of the United States to Ireland (1867-1934)

Sorrel Hays

American composer (1941–2020)

Steve Sloan

American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator (born 1944)

Ted Davis

American football player (1942–2019)

Teenie Hodges

American guitarist, songwriter (1946-2014)

Thelma Harper

American politician

Tommy Burks

American politician (1940–1998)

William B. Provine

American historian (1942–2015)

William L. Wainwright

American politician in North Carolina (1947-2012)

William M. Barker

American judge (1941–2023)

Margaret Hamerik

Danish musician

Joe Burke

American baseball player

Jake Wells

American baseball player

Dwight H. Perkins

American architect (1867–1941)

Emily Levine

American comedian

Charles Winter Wood

American educator and actor (1869-1953)

Mike Stratton

American football player (1941-2020)

Big Bill Smith

American baseball player

Larry Douglas

baseball player

Wilfred Middlebrooks

American bassist (1933-2008)

Mary Boyce Temple

American suffragist (1856-1929)

Odell Barry

American football player (1941–2022)