List of people from Lexington, Kentucky

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
David Akers	National Football League kicker[1]
James L. Alcorn	Lexington deputy sheriff, United States Senator from Mississippi[2]
Dotsie Bausch	Cyclist, national champion, Pan American Champion and Olympic silver medalist
Henry Bidleman Bascom	Editor, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, university president
Asa Blanchard	Silversmith, clockmaker
Kent Blazy	Songwriter[3]
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 P. 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
Thomas D. Clark	Historian and author[10]
Henry Clay	U.S. Representative and Senator, Secretary of State[11]
Tyler Clippard	Major League Baseball pitcher
George Clooney	Actor, producer, film director
Joyce Compton	Actress
Drew Curtis	Founder of Fark[12]
Prairie King	Performance Artist
Guy Davenport	Author[13]
Jefferson Davis	Politician, President of the Confederate United States of America[14]
Dermontti Dawson	NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers[15]
Major Carl H. Dodd	Medal of Honor recipient for his service during the Korean War
Josiah Dunham	Secretary of State of Vermont and founder of Lafayette Female Academy.[16]
Charlotte Dupuy	Slave who sued Henry Clay for freedom in 1829[17]
Peter Durrett	Church founder[18]
Farah Fath	Actress
Henry Faulkner	Artist[19]
London Ferrill	Religious leader[18][20]
Ralph Foody	Actor
Steve Gabbard	NFL player[21]
Gatewood Galbraith	Author, lawyer[22]
Marvin Gay, Sr.	Pentecostal minister; father and murderer of R&B singer Marvin Gaye
Tyson Gay	Sprinter[23]
Rayna Gellert	Bluegrass fiddler
Troy Gentry	Musician, country-music duo Montgomery Gentry[24]
Arin Gilliland	National Women's Soccer League player for the Chicago Red Stars
Trevor Gott	Major League Baseball player for the Washington Nationals
Andy Green	Manager of the San Diego Padres
James Baker Hall	Poet, photographer, novelist, teacher
Joe B. Hall	Hall of Fame basketball coach for University of Kentucky from 1972 to 1985[25]
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
Thomas E. Hayden	Mayor of Flower Mound, Texas[26]
Lewis Hayden	Abolitionist leader
Bradlee Heckmann	Neuroimmunologist
Richard Hell	Punk-rocker
Josh Hopkins	Actor
B. Wayne Hughes	Founder of Public Storage
Sarah Hutchings	Contemporary American Composer
Kevin Jarvis	Major League Baseball player[27]
Robert Kirkman	Comic-book writer and TV producer best known for The Walking Dead[28]
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
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
Davey Moore	Boxer, featherweight champion
Jessica Moore	Journalist
John Hunt Morgan	C.S. Army general
Thomas Hunt Morgan	Geneticist
Gurney Norman	Author, professor
Natalie Novosel	Basketball player, WNBA's Washington Mystics
J. Peterman	Businessman
H. Foster Pettit	State representative, mayor of Lexington[29]
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
Robbie Ross, Jr.	Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox
Adolph Rupp	Hall of Fame basketball coach for the University of Kentucky from 1930 to 1972.
Alfred Francis Russell	10th President of Liberia
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
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[30][31]
Steve Zahn	Actor
Shayna Hubers	Criminal convicted of killing her boyfriend Ryan Poston. She is also compared with convicted killer Jodi Arias due to her similarity of her crimes.

See also

• List of University of Kentucky alumni
• List of people from Kentucky
• List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area

References

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19. Cross Gate Gallery (2009). "Henry Lawrence Faulkner". Retrieved 2010-04-05.
20. "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
21. "Steve Gabbard". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
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25. "Joe B. Hall Coaching Record". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
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27. "Kevin Jarvis Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
28. "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.
29. Karla Wood (November 22, 2014). "Former Lexington mayor H. Foster Pettit dies at 84". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
30. "Adalin Wichman, designer of the Eclipse Awards statuette, dies at 91". Daily Racing Form. 2013-03-12. Retrieved 2013-04-05.
31. Copley, Rich (2013-03-12). "Lexington artist Adalin Wichman, known for her work and wit, dies at 91". Lexington Herald Leader. Retrieved 2013-04-05.