List of people from Selma, Alabama
The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Selma, Alabama:
Activism[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Zinn Beck – former MLB infielder; managed the first Selma Cloverleafs from 1928 to 1930, winning the Southeastern League pennant in 1930[citation needed]
- Curtis Berry – former professional basketball player[10]
- David Beverly – former Auburn University and NFL player[11]
- Charles Davis – member of the Azerbaijan national basketball team[12]
- Cid Edwards – former NFL player[13]
- Mia Hamm – former professional soccer player[14]
- Candy Harris – former MLB player for the Houston Astros[15]
- Michael Johnson – professional football player, NFL, Cincinnati Bengals[16]
- James Ralph "Shug" Jordan – former head football coach of Auburn University[17]
- Terry Leach – former professional baseball player MLB, baseball field at Bloch Park named for him[18]
- Larry Marks – professional boxer[19]
- William Clarence Matthews – former baseball player, lawyer, first head football coach for Tuskegee University and civil rights activist[20]
- Pat McHugh – former professional football player for the Philadelphia Eagles[21]
- Ben Obomanu – professional football player, NFL, New York Jets[22]
- L. Vann Pettaway – men's basketball head coach of Alabama A&M from 1986 to 2011[23]
- Ken Pettway – American player of gridiron football[24]
- Hosken Powell – former Major League Baseball right fielder[25]
- Cal Ramsey – former NBA player[26]
- Ed Steele – former professional baseball outfielder[27]
Business[edit]
- Olan Mills Sr. – photographer and founder of Olan Mills[28]
- Richard Scrushy – founder of HealthSouth[29]
- Craig Vetter – motorcycle designer[30]
- Lulu White – brothel madam and procuress[31]
Education[edit]
- Bogart Leashore – social worker, sociologist, dean of Hunter College school of social work (1991–2003)[32]
- Minnie Bruce Pratt – educator, activist, and essayist[33]
- Frank Warner – American folk song collector and former YMCA executive[34]
Fashion[edit]
- Eunice W. Johnson – founder and director of the Ebony Fashion Fair[35]
Government[edit]
- 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 in 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[edit]
- Katharine Hopkins Chapman (1870/72/73-1930) - author and historian[57]
- Sarah Johnson Cocke – writer and civic leader[58]
- W. C. Morrow – writer[59]
- William O. Walker – former editor of the Call and Post[60]
- Sheyann Webb – writer[61]
- Kathryn Tucker Windham – storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist[62]
Military[edit]
- Howard W. Gilmore – World War II submarine commander who posthumously received the Medal of Honor[63]
- William J. Hardee – Lieutenant General CSA, author of Hardee's Military Tactics used by both Union and Confederate troops[64]
- 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[65]
- John Melvin – first American naval officer to die in World War I[66]
Music[edit]
- Randall Atcheson – concert pianist[67]
- Kenny Brown – blues slide guitarist[68]
- Mattie Moss Clark – former gospel music singer, The Clark Sisters[69]
- Jimmy Gresham – soul musician[70]
- Johnny Moore – lead singer for The Drifters[71]
- Bill Moss – gospel music singer[72]
- Oscar Toney, Jr. – soul singer[73]
Parapsychology[edit]
- Edgar Cayce – famed psychic[74]
Religion[edit]
- Moses Anderson – Roman Catholic bishop[75]
- T. J. Jemison – president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1982 to 1994[76]
- Clarence Rufus J. Rivers – priest and composer of liturgical music[77]
- Milton L. Wood – Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta from 1967 to 1974[78]
Science[edit]
- Shwetak Patel – computer scientist and entrepreneur[79]
Television and film[edit]
- Gregg Hale – film producer[80]
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