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]
Henry Bidleman Bascom	editor, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, Methodist Bishop, President of Transylvania University 1842-1849
Kent Blazy	songwriter[3]
John Breckinridge	U.S. Senator[4]
John B. Breckinridge	U.S. Representative[5]
John C. Breckinridge	U.S. Vice President, U.S. Senator[6]
Belle Brezing	brothel madam[7]
Laura Bell Bundy	actress[8]
LaVerne Butler	clergyman and college president[9]
Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier	silent film director, screenwriter, and best-selling author
Thomas D. Clark	historian and author[10]
Henry Clay	statesman, US Representative and Senator, Secretary of State[11]
George Clooney	actor, producer, film director
Joyce Compton	actress
Drew Curtis	businessman and founder of Fark[12]
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
Charlotte Dupuy	slave who sued Henry Clay for freedom in 1829[16]
Peter Durrett	slave; with his wife formed First African Baptist Church of Lexington by 1790, the first black congregation west of Allegheny Mountains and third oldest black Baptist church in United States[17]
Farah Fath	soap opera actress, known for roles Mimi Lockhart on Days of Our Lives and Gig Morasco Balsom on One Life to Live
Henry Faulkner	artist[18]
London Ferrill	second preacher of First African Baptist Church, served city during 1833 cholera epidemic; by 1850 he had attracted 1,820 members to the church, the largest in Kentucky; his funeral procession in 1854 was the second largest, after Henry Clay's[17][19]
Ralph Foody	actor
Steve Gabbard	NFL player[20]
Gatewood Galbraith	author, lawyer, hemp advocate, and personal rights defender[21]
Marvin Gay, Sr.	Pentecostal minister; father and murderer of R&B singer Marvin Gaye
Tyson Gay	sprinter, 2007 World Champion at 100 and 200 meters[22]
Rayna Gellert	bluegrass fiddler
Troy Gentry	musician in the Country music duo Montgomery Gentry[23]
Vince Gill	musician
Trevor Gott	Major League Baseball player for the Washington Nationals
James Baker Hall	Poet, photographer, novelist, teacher
Joe B. Hall	Hall of Fame basketball coach for the University of Kentucky from 1972-1985.[24]
Tom Hammond	NBC sportscaster
Han Kuo-Huang	ethnomusicologist
Haydar Hatemi	painter
Thomas E. Hayden	mayor of Flower Mound, Texas; reared in and graduate of the Sayre School in Lexington[25]
Richard Hell	punk-rock godfather
Josh Hopkins	actor
B. Wayne Hughes	billionaire founder of Public Storage
Martin Huston	actor
Kevin Jarvis	Major League Baseball player[26]
Michael Kennedy	actor
Ashley Judd	actress
Naomi Judd	musician
Gregory Kaidanov	chess grandmaster
Austin Kearns	Major League Baseball player with Cleveland Indians
Paul Levy	writer
Abraham Lincoln	16th President of the United States
Mary Todd Lincoln	First Lady, wife of Abraham Lincoln
William Lipscomb	Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Brian Littrell	musician for the Backstreet Boys
Shirley Ardell Mason	a.k.a. Sybil
Tucker Max	author
Les McCann	jazz musician and painter
Shug McGaughey	Thoroughbred trainer
Ralph Eugene Meatyard	photographer
Irene Moon	also known as Katja Chantre Seltmann, musician
Charles Chilton Moore
Jessica Moore	journalist
John Hunt Morgan	Civil War General
Thomas Hunt Morgan	geneticist
Gurney Norman	author, University of Kentucky professor
Natalie Novosel	basketball player; 2012 first-round draft pick of WNBA's Washington Mystics
J. Peterman	businessman
H. Foster Pettit	state representative, 1965-1970; mayor of Lexington, 1972-1978, lawyer in Lexington[27]
Scarlett Pinson	Professional sleeper and bat enthusiast.
Rick Pitino	Hall of Fame basketball coach for the University of Kentucky from 1989-1997.
Ben Revere	Major League Baseball player for the Washington Nationals, played High School baseball in Lexington.
Sarah Rice	singer, musician, actress and artist
Kevin Richardson	musician
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 1930-1972.
Alfred Francis Russell	10th President of Liberia
Robert Schneider	musician
Michael Shannon	actor
Eric Shelton	NFL running back
Tubby Smith	basketball coach for the University of Kentucky from 1997-2007.
Harry Dean Stanton	actor
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 the Eclipse Award Trophy[28][29]
Steve Zahn	actor

See also

• List of people from Kentucky

References

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