List of people from Selma, Alabama
The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Selma, Alabama:
Activism
- Patricia Swift Blalock - librarian and civil rights activist[1]
- Joanne Bland - civil rights movement activist[2]
- J.L. Chestnut - author, attorney, and a figure in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.[3]
- Annie Lee Cooper - long-time civil rights activist who was active in the 1965 Selma voting rights movement[4]
- Willis Nathaniel Huggins - historian and social activist[5]
- Frederick D. Reese - voting rights movement leader
- Amelia Boynton Robinson - voting rights movement leader and long-time civic activist in Selma[6]
Art
- Mary Morgan Keipp - noted figure in the art photography movement of the early 20th century[7]
- Clara Weaver Parrish - artist[8]
- Alison Elizabeth Taylor - artist[9]
Athletics
- Zinn Beck - former MLB infielder; managed the first Selma Cloverleafs from 1928 - 1930, winning the Southeastern League pennant in 1930[10]
- Curtis Berry - former professional basketball player[11]
- David Beverly - former Auburn University and NFL player[12]
- Charles Davis - member of the Azerbaijan national basketball team[13]
- Cid Edwards - former NFL player[14]
- Mia Hamm - former professional soccer player[15]
- Candy Harris - former Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros[16]
- Michael Johnson - professional football player, NFL, Cincinnati Bengals[17]
- James Ralph "Shug" Jordan - former head football coach of Auburn University[18]
- Terry Leach - former professional baseball player MLB, baseball field at Bloch Park named for him.[19]
- Larry Marks - professional boxer[20]
- William Clarence Matthews - former baseball player, lawyer, first head football coach for Tuskegee University and civil rights activist[21]
- Pat McHugh - former professional football player for the Philadelphia Eagles[22]
- Ben Obomanu - professional football player, NFL, New York Jets[23]
- L. Vann Pettaway - head men's basketball coach of Alabama A&M from 1986 to 2011[24]
- Ken Pettway - American player of gridiron football[25]
- Hosken Powell - former Major League Baseball right fielder[26]
- Cal Ramsey - former NBA player[27]
- Ed Steele - former professional baseball outfielder[28]
Business
- Olan Mills Sr. - photographer and founder of Olan Mills[29]
- Richard Scrushy - founder of HealthSouth[30]
- Craig Vetter - motorcycle designer[31]
- Lulu White - brothel madam and procuress[32]
Education
- Minnie Bruce Pratt - educator, activist, and essayist[33]
- Frank Warner - American folk song collector and former YMCA executive[34]
Fashion
- Eunice W. Johnson - founder and director of the Ebony Fashion Fair[35]
Government
- David Abner - former member of the Texas Legislature[36]
- Ann Bedsole - member of both houses of the Alabama State Legislature 1979-1995 from Mobile, born 1930 in Selma[37]
- Jo Bonner - U.S Representative from 2003 to 2013[38]
- Janice Bowling - member of the Tennessee Senate[39]
- Jim Clark - Selma sheriff during the 1965 Voting Rights campaign[40]
- William Benjamin Craig - U.S. Representative from 1907 to 1911[41]
- Suzan DelBene - U.S. Representative for Washington's 1st congressional district[42]
- Jeremiah Haralson - U.S. Representative from 1875 to 1877[43]
- Sam Hobbs - U.S. Representative from 1935 to 1951[44]
- Truman McGill Hobbs - United States federal judge[45]
- Michael W. Jackson - district attorney[46]
- Thomas S. Kenan - U.S. Representative from 1805 to 1811[47]
- William Rufus King - Vice President of the United States, U.S. Senator, Minister to France[48]
- William Lehman, U.S. Representative from 1973 to 1993[49]
- John Tyler Morgan - U.S. Senator from 1877 to 1907, Major General CSA[50]
- James Perkins, Jr. - first African American mayor of Selma[51]
- Edmund Pettus - U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1907, Brigadier General CSA[52]
- Jeff Sessions - United States Senator[53]
- Terri Sewell - 2010 Democratic representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district[54]
- Benjamin S. Turner - first African American elected to U.S. Congress from Alabama (1871- Republican)[55]
- Hattie Hooker Wilkins - first woman elected to the Alabama Legislature[56]
Literature
- W. C. Morrow - writer[57]
- William O. Walker - former editor of the Call and Post[58]
- Sheyann Webb - writer[59]
- Kathryn Tucker Windham - storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist[60]
Military
- Howard W. Gilmore - World War II submarine commander who posthumously received the Medal of Honor[61]
- William J. Hardee - Lieutenant General CSA, author of Hardee's Military Tactics used by both Union and Confederate troops.[62]
- Catesby ap Roger Jones - Naval Commander, Captain of the ironclad ship CSS Virginia in its battle with the USS Monitor during the first conflict between iron warships in world history[63]
- John Melvin - first American naval officer to die in World War I[64]
Music
- Randall Atcheson - concert pianist[65]
- Kenny Brown - blues slide guitarist[66]
- Mattie Moss Clark - former gospel music singer, The Clark Sisters[67]
- Jimmy Gresham - soul musician[68]
- Johnny Moore - lead singer for The Drifters[69]
- Bill Moss - gospel music singer[70]
- Oscar Toney, Jr. - soul singer[71]
Parapsychology
- Edgar Cayce - famed psychic[72]
Religion
- Moses Anderson - Roman Catholic bishop[73]
- T. J. Jemison - president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1982 to 1994[74]
- Clarence Rufus J. Rivers - priest and composer of liturgical music[75]
- Milton L. Wood - Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta from 1967 to 1974[76]
Science
Television and film
- Gregg Hale - film producer[78]
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