List of people from Selma, Alabama
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The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Selma, Alabama:
- 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 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]
- Gunnar Henderson – MLB player for the Baltimore Orioles[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 – men's basketball head coach of Alabama A&M from 1986 to 2011[24]
- Ken Pettway – 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
- Bogart Leashore – social worker, sociologist, dean of Hunter College school of social work (1991–2003)[33]
- Minnie Bruce Pratt – educator, activist, and essayist[34]
- Frank Warner – folk song collector and former YMCA executive[35]
Fashion
- Eunice W. Johnson – founder and director of the Ebony Fashion Fair[36]
Government
- David Abner – former member of the Texas Legislature[37]
- Ann Bedsole – member of both houses of the Alabama State Legislature 1979–1995 from Mobile, born in 1930 in Selma[38]
- Jo Bonner – U.S. representative from 2003 to 2013[39]
- Janice Bowling – member of the Tennessee Senate[40]
- Jim Clark – Selma sheriff during the 1965 voting rights campaign[41]
- George Henry Craig, former U.S. Congressman for the 4th District of Alabama [42]
- William Benjamin Craig – U.S. representative from 1907 to 1911[43]
- Suzan DelBene – U.S. representative for Washington's 1st congressional district[44]
- Jeremiah Haralson – U.S. representative from 1875 to 1877[45]
- Sam Hobbs – U.S. representative from 1935 to 1951[46]
- Truman McGill Hobbs – United States federal judge[47]
- Michael W. Jackson – district attorney[48]
- Thomas S. Kenan – U.S. representative from 1805 to 1811[49]
- William Rufus King – vice president of the United States, U.S. senator, minister to France[50]
- William Lehman – U.S. representative from 1973 to 1993[51]
- John Tyler Morgan – U.S. senator from 1877 to 1907, major general, CSA[52]
- James Perkins, Jr. – first African American mayor of Selma[53]
- Edmund Pettus – U.S. senator from 1897 to 1907, brigadier general, CSA[54]
- Gaston A. Robbins, former U.S. Congressman for the 4th District of Alabama [55]
- Jeff Sessions – United States senator[56]
- Terri Sewell – 2010 Democratic representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district[57]
- Charles M. Shelley, officer in the Confederate military and former U.S. Congressman for the 4th District of Alabama [58]
- Benjamin S. Turner – first African American elected to U.S. Congress from Alabama (1871– Republican)[59]
- Hattie Hooker Wilkins – first woman elected to the Alabama Legislature[60]
Literature
- Katharine Hopkins Chapman (1870/72/73-1930) – author and historian[61]
- Sarah Johnson Cocke – writer and civic leader[62]
- W. C. Morrow – writer[63]
- William O. Walker – former editor of the Call and Post[64]
- Sheyann Webb – writer[65]
- Kathryn Tucker Windham – storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist[66]
Military
- Howard W. Gilmore – World War II submarine commander who posthumously received the Medal of Honor[67]
- William J. Hardee – lieutenant general, CSA, author of Hardee's Military Tactics used by both Union and Confederate troops[68]
- 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[69]
- John Melvin – first American naval officer to die in World War I[70]
Music
- Randall Atcheson – concert pianist[71]
- Kenny Brown – blues slide guitarist[72]
- Mattie Moss Clark – former gospel music singer, The Clark Sisters[73]
- Jimmy Gresham – soul musician[74]
- Asher HaVon – winner of NBC's The Voice
- Johnny Moore – lead singer for The Drifters[75]
- Bill Moss – gospel music singer[76]
- Oscar Toney, Jr. – soul singer[77]
Parapsychology
- Edgar Cayce – famed psychic[78]
Religion
- Moses Anderson – Roman Catholic bishop[79]
- T. J. Jemison – president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1982 to 1994[80]
- Lippman Mayer – rabbi[81]
- Clarence Rufus J. Rivers – priest and composer of liturgical music[82]
- Milton L. Wood – Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta from 1967 to 1974[83]