List of people from Lexington, Kentucky
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The following are notable people who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in the Lexington, Kentucky, metropolitan area:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Chad Aull | Politician[1] |
| Henry Bidleman Bascom | Editor, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, university president |
| Dotsie Bausch | Cyclist, national champion, Pan American Champion, and Olympic silver medalist |
| Dominic Black | Freestyle and folkstyle wrestler[2] |
| Kent Blazy | Songwriter[3] |
| Joseph Bosworth | Lawyer, politician, and businessman |
| John Breckinridge | U.S. Attorney General and Senator[4] |
| John B. Breckinridge | U.S. Representative[5] |
| John C. Breckinridge | U.S. vice president, U.S. Senator[6] |
| Sophonisba Breckinridge | Founder, School of Social Works Administration, University of Chicago |
| Belle Brezing | Brothel madam[7] |
| William Wells Brown | Abolitionist leader |
| Walker Buehler | Major League Baseball pitcher |
| Laura Bell Bundy | Actress[8] |
| LaVerne Butler | Clergyman and college president[9] |
| Mrs. Leslie Carter | Stage and silent-film actress |
| Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier | Silent-film director and screenwriter, author |
| Meredith Clark | Academic[10][11] |
| Thomas D. Clark | Historian and author[12] |
| Henry Clay | U.S. Representative and Senator, Secretary of State[13] |
| Tyler Clippard | Major League Baseball pitcher |
| George Clooney | Actor, producer, film director |
| Joyce Compton | Actress |
| Kelly Craft | United States Ambassador to the United Nations and United States Ambassador to Canada |
| Drew Curtis | Founder of Fark[14] |
| Guy Davenport | Author[15] |
| Jefferson Davis | Politician, President of the Confederate United States of America[16] |
| Dermontti Dawson | NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers[17] |
| Carl H. Dodd | Major, Medal of Honor recipient for his service during the Korean War |
| Josiah Dunham | Secretary of State of Vermont and founder of Lafayette Female Academy[18] |
| Charlotte Dupuy | Slave who sued Henry Clay for freedom in 1829[19] |
| Peter Durrett | Church founder[20] |
| Farah Fath | Actress |
| Henry Faulkner | Artist[21] |
| London Ferrill | Religious leader[20][22] |
| Ralph Foody | Actor |
| Steve Gabbard | NFL player[23] |
| Gatewood Galbraith | Author, lawyer[24] |
| Marvin Gay Sr. | Pentecostal minister; father and murderer of R&B singer Marvin Gaye |
| Tyson Gay | Sprinter[25] |
| Rayna Gellert | Bluegrass fiddler |
| Troy Gentry | Musician, country-music duo Montgomery Gentry[26] |
| Arin Gilliland | National Women's Soccer League player for the Chicago Red Stars |
| Trevor Gott | Major League Baseball pitcher |
| Andy Green | Bench coach of the Chicago Cubs |
| James Baker Hall | Poet, photographer, novelist, teacher |
| Joe B. Hall | Hall of Fame basketball coach for University of Kentucky, 1972–1985[27] |
| Tom Hammond | NBC sportscaster |
| Han Kuo-Huang | Ethnomusicologist |
| Haydar Hatemi | Painter |
| Isaac Scott Hathaway | Artist, professor at the Tuskegee Institute, first African-American to design a US coin |
| Lewis Hayden | Abolitionist leader |
| Thomas E. Hayden | Mayor of Flower Mound, Texas[28] |
| Bradlee L. Heckmann | Neuroimmunologist |
| Richard Hell | Punk-rocker |
| Ben Hoffman | Actor and writer best known for his satirical country music persona, Wheeler Walker Jr.[29] |
| Josh Hopkins | Actor |
| Shayna Hubers | Criminal convicted of killing her boyfriend Ryan Poston; compared with convicted killer Jodi Arias due to the similarity of their crimes |
| B. Wayne Hughes | Founder of Public Storage |
| Sarah Hutchings | Composer |
| Kevin Jarvis | Major League Baseball player[30] |
| Robert Kirkman | Comic-book writer and TV producer best known for The Walking Dead[31] |
| Laura Johnson Dandridge | 19th century White House chef, Lexington restaurateur[32] |
| Ashley Judd | Actress |
| Naomi Judd | Musician |
| Gregory Kaidanov | Chess grandmaster |
| Austin Kearns | Major League Baseball player |
| Paul Levy | Writer |
| Mary Todd Lincoln | First Lady, wife of Abraham Lincoln |
| William Lipscomb | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Brian Littrell | Musician, Backstreet Boys |
| Shirley Ardell Mason | a.k.a. Sybil, suffered from dissociative identity disorder |
| Tucker Max | Author |
| Les McCann | Jazz musician and painter |
| Anne Hazen McFarland | physician and medical journal editor |
| Shug McGaughey | Thoroughbred trainer |
| Ralph Eugene Meatyard | Photographer |
| Irene Moon | Also known as Katja Chantre Seltmann, musician |
| Charles Chilton Moore | Atheist |
| Davey Moore | Boxer, featherweight champion |
| Jessica Moore | Journalist |
| John Morgan | Attorney, founder of personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan |
| John Hunt Morgan | C.S. Army general |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan | Geneticist |
| Gurney Norman | Author, professor |
| Natalie Novosel | Basketball player, WNBA's Washington Mystics |
| Grace Perreiah | Artist |
| John Peterman | Businessman |
| H. Foster Pettit | State representative, mayor of Lexington[33] |
| Ben Revere | Major League Baseball player, Washington Nationals; played high school baseball in Lexington |
| Sarah Rice | Singer, musician, actress and artist |
| Kevin Richardson | Musician, Backstreet Boys |
| Charles P. Roland | Historian |
| Rubi Rose | Rapper |
| Robbie Ross Jr. | Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox |
| Adolph Rupp | Hall of Fame basketball coach for the University of Kentucky, 1930–1972 |
| Alfred Francis Russell | 10th President of Liberia |
| Colton Ryan | Actor |
| Vincent Sanford | Basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League |
| Robert Schneider | Musician |
| Michael Shannon | Actor |
| Joseph O. Shelby | C.S. Army general |
| Eric Shelton | NFL running back |
| Tubby Smith | Basketball coach, University of Kentucky |
| Harry Dean Stanton | Actor |
| Chris Stapleton | Country musician |
| Henry A. Tandy | Born enslaved, entrepreneur and building contractor |
| Walter Tevis | Author of The Hustler and The Color of Money |
| Tinashe | Singer and actress |
| David Tolliver | Musician, Halfway to Hazard |
| John Tuska | Artist |
| Jim Varney | Actor and comedian |
| Adalin Wichman | Sculptor and artist, designer of Eclipse Award Trophy[34][35] |
| Biddy Wood | Journalist and jazz promoter |
| Steve Zahn | Actor |
See also
[edit]- List of University of Kentucky alumni
- List of people from Kentucky
- List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area
References
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- ^ Dominic Black (2004) - WVU Sports Hall of Fame. wvusports.com. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
- ^ Blazy, Kent (2010). "Welcome to KentBlazy.com". Archived from the original on January 6, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ the United States Congress, Biographical Directory of. "BRECKINRIDGE, John - Biographical Information". Retrieved April 5, 2010.
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- ^ "Laura Bell Bundy on TV.com". TV.com (CBS Interactive). 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ Michael Foust, Obituary of LaVerne Butler, Baptist Press, December 21, 2010
- ^ "About". Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
- ^ "Department of Media Studies". mediastudies.as.virginia.edu. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
- ^ Libraries and Archives, Kentucky Department for (April 17, 2007). "Kentucky's Historian Laureate: Thomas D. Clark - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives". Kentucky, Commonwealth of. Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
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- ^ Wellner, Anita A. (March 19, 2009). "University of Delaware: GUY DAVENPORT LETTERS". Delaware Library, University of. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
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- ^ Moseley, Edward Strong (1878). A Genealogical Sketch of One Branch of the Moseley Family. Newburyport, MA: Newburyport Herald. p. 47.
- ^ Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum (February 24, 2010). "Aaron and Charlotte Dupuy". Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ a b H. E. Nutter, A Brief History of the First Baptist Church (Black) Lexington, Kentucky, 1940, accessed 22 August 2010
- ^ Cross Gate Gallery (2009). "Henry Lawrence Faulkner". Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ "Biography of London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons, Lexington, KY.": A.W. Elder, printer, 1854, 12 pgs, online edition, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina, accessed 6 May 2011
- ^ "Steve Gabbard". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
- ^ Galbraith, Gatewood (April 5, 2010). "Gatewood for Governor - Dea Riley for Lt. Governor - Gatewood Galbraith". Citizens to Elect Gatewood for Governor. Archived from the original on July 26, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ "The Official Website of Tyson Gay :: Biography". Archived from the original on April 13, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ MTV Networks (2009). "CMT.com : Montgomery Gentry : Biography". Inc., MTVN Direct. Archived from the original on February 3, 2004. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ "Joe B. Hall Coaching Record". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ "Thomas Edward Hayden". intelius.com. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
- ^ "Comedy Central® Sets Mid-Season Schedule Featuring New Series And Specials And The Return Of Network Favorites" (Press release). Comedy Central. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
- ^ "Kevin Jarvis Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
- ^ "Kentuckian who created 'Walking Dead' comes home for a chat". Lexington Herald-Leader. Kentucky. October 26, 2012. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ Fling, Sarah. ""Kitchen Genius": Dolly Johnson at the White House". WHHA (en-US). Retrieved May 15, 2023.
- ^ Karla Wood (November 22, 2014). "Former Lexington mayor H. Foster Pettit dies at 84". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
- ^ "Adalin Wichman, designer of the Eclipse Awards statuette, dies at 91". Daily Racing Form. March 12, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ Copley, Rich (March 12, 2013). "Lexington artist Adalin Wichman, known for her work and wit, dies at 91". Lexington Herald Leader. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
