Notable People from Tennessee

Dorothy Jordan

American actress (1906-1988)

Richard Halliburton

American writer (1900–1939)

Lucile Browne

American actress (1907-1976)

Dixie Lee

American actress, dancer, and singer (1909–1952)

Abe Fortas

United States Supreme Court Justice (1910-1982)

Lara Parker

American actress

Melba Montgomery

American musician

Mike Monty

American actor (1936-2006)

Bingo Smith

American basketball player (1946–2023)

Nancy Ward

Cherokee Ghighau, or Beloved Woman, and warrior, introduced dairying to the Cherokee and advocating for the return of matriarchy

Joshua L. Martin

American politician (1799-1856)

William B. Bate

Confederate Army general (1826-1905)

Linn Boyd

American politician (1800-1859)

Isham G. Harris

American politician (1818–1897)

David M. Key

American judge and politician (1824-1900)

Mary Fields

first African-American female Star Route stagecoach delivery driver the United States

Charles Clapper

Olympic wrestler (1875–1937)

Ella Harper

American circus performer

Samuel Stritch

Catholic cardinal (1887–1958)

Ernest William Goodpasture

American pathologist and physician (1886–1960)

Jack Nelson

American actor, film director (1882-1948)

Cullen Landis

American actor, director (1896–1975)

Marjorie Weaver

American actress (1913-1994)

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor

American writer (1917–1994)

Jimmy Cleveland

American jazz trombonist (1926-2008)

Leigh Snowden

American actress (1929-1982)

Anita Kerr

American singer, arranger, composer, conductor, pianist, and music producer

Frank Kelso

American Navy admiral (1933–2013)

Des Koch

American discus thrower

Linda Carlson

actress

Johnny Neumann

American basketball player-coach

Tommy Lynn Sells

American serial killer

James C. Jones

American politician (1809-1859)

Cave Johnson

United States Representative (1793-1866)

Thomas C. Hindman

American politician and Confederate States Army general in the Civil War (1828–1868)

Howell Edmunds Jackson

American jurist and politician (1832-1895)

Benjamin McCulloch

Confederate Army general (1811–1862)

William Barksdale

Confederate Army general (1821-1863)

John Chisum

American businessman, rancher (1824–1884)

Cyrus Thomas

American Mesoamericanist and entomologist (1825-1910)

Robert Love Taylor

American politician from Tennessee

James B. Frazier

American politician (1856-1937)

Frank Maxwell Andrews

United States Army general (1884–1943)

Robert Taylor Jones

American politician (1884-1958)

Joseph Wood Krutch

American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893–1970)

John Ridley Stroop

American psychologist known for creating the Stroop effect test. (1897–1973)

Hermes Pan

American dancer, choreographer (1909-1990)

Johnny Shines

American blues singer and guitarist (1915-1992)

James Westerfield

American actor (1913-1971)

Bruce Henderson

founder of the Boston Consulting Group (1914–1992)