List of people from Lexington, Kentucky
The 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
Chad Aull
American politician[1]
Henry Bidleman Bascom
Editor, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, university president
Dotsie Bausch
Cyclist, national champion, Pan American Champion, and Olympic silver medalist
Dominic Black
American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler [2]
Kent Blazy
Songwriter[3]
Joseph Bosworth
Lawyer, politician, and businessman
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 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
Meredith Clark
Academic[10] [11]
Thomas D. Clark
Historian and author[12]
Henry Clay
U.S. Representative and Senator, Secretary of State[13]
Tyler Clippard
Major League Baseball pitcher
George Clooney
Actor, producer, film director
Joyce Compton
Actress
Kelly Craft
United States Ambassador to the United Nations and United States Ambassador to Canada
Drew Curtis
Founder of Fark [14]
Guy Davenport
Author[15]
Jefferson Davis
Politician, President of the Confederate United States of America[16]
Dermontti Dawson
NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers [17]
Carl H. Dodd
Major, Medal of Honor recipient for his service during the Korean War
Josiah Dunham
Secretary of State of Vermont and founder of Lafayette Female Academy[18]
Charlotte Dupuy
Slave who sued Henry Clay for freedom in 1829[19]
Peter Durrett
Church founder[20]
Farah Fath
Actress
Henry Faulkner
Artist[21]
London Ferrill
Religious leader[20] [22]
Ralph Foody
Actor
Steve Gabbard
NFL player[23]
Gatewood Galbraith
Author, lawyer[24]
Marvin Gay Sr.
Pentecostal minister; father and murderer of R&B singer Marvin Gaye
Tyson Gay
Sprinter[25]
Rayna Gellert
Bluegrass fiddler
Troy Gentry
Musician, country-music duo Montgomery Gentry [26]
Arin Gilliland
National Women's Soccer League player for the Chicago Red Stars
Trevor Gott
Major League Baseball pitcher
Andy Green
Bench coach of the Chicago Cubs
James Baker Hall
Poet, photographer, novelist, teacher
Joe B. Hall
Hall of Fame basketball coach for University of Kentucky , 1972–1985[27]
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
Lewis Hayden
Abolitionist leader
Thomas E. Hayden
Mayor of Flower Mound, Texas [28]
Bradlee L. Heckmann
Neuroimmunologist
Richard Hell
Punk-rocker
Ben Hoffman
Actor and writer best known for his satirical country music persona, Wheeler Walker Jr.[29]
Josh Hopkins
Actor
Shayna Hubers
Criminal convicted of killing her boyfriend Ryan Poston ; compared with convicted killer Jodi Arias due to the similarity of their crimes
B. Wayne Hughes
Founder of Public Storage
Sarah Hutchings
Composer
Kevin Jarvis
Major League Baseball player[30]
Robert Kirkman
Comic-book writer and TV producer best known for The Walking Dead [31]
Laura Johnson Dandridge
19th century White House chef, Lexington restaurateur[32]
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, suffered from dissociative identity disorder
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
Atheist
Davey Moore
Boxer, featherweight champion
Jessica Moore
Journalist
John Morgan
Attorney, founder of personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan
John Hunt Morgan
C.S. Army general
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Geneticist
Gurney Norman
Author, professor
Natalie Novosel
Basketball player, WNBA's Washington Mystics
Grace Perreiah
Artist
John Peterman
Businessman
H. Foster Pettit
State representative, mayor of Lexington[33]
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
Rubi Rose
Rapper
Robbie Ross Jr.
Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox
Adolph Rupp
Hall of Fame basketball coach for the University of Kentucky , 1930–1972
Alfred Francis Russell
10th President of Liberia
Colton Ryan
Actor
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
Henry A. Tandy
Born enslaved, entrepreneur and building contractor
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 [34] [35]
Biddy Wood
Journalist and jazz promoter
Steve Zahn
Actor
See also
References
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^ Dominic Black (2004) - WVU Sports Hall of Fame . wvusports.com . Retrieved May 26, 2023.
^ Blazy, Kent (2010). "Welcome to KentBlazy.com" . Archived from the original on January 6, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ the United States Congress, Biographical Directory of. "BRECKINRIDGE, John - Biographical Information" . Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ the United States Congress, Biographical Directory of. "BRECKINRIDGE, John Bayne - Biographical Information" . Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ the United States Congress, Biographical Directory of. "BRECKINRIDGE, John Cabell - Biographical Information" . Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ Thompson, E.I. (September 27, 2007). "Belle Brezing" . Kentucky, University of. Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ "Laura Bell Bundy on TV.com" . TV.com (CBS Interactive). 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
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^ "About" . Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D . Retrieved April 24, 2021 .
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^ Moseley, Edward Strong (1878). A Genealogical Sketch of One Branch of the Moseley Family . Newburyport, MA: Newburyport Herald. p. 47 .
^ Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum (February 24, 2010). "Aaron and Charlotte Dupuy" . Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ a b H. E. Nutter, A Brief History of the First Baptist Church (Black) Lexington, Kentucky , 1940, accessed 22 August 2010
^ Cross Gate Gallery (2009). "Henry Lawrence Faulkner" . Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ "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
^ "Steve Gabbard" . Pro-Football-Reference.com . Retrieved November 5, 2010 .
^ Galbraith, Gatewood (April 5, 2010). "Gatewood for Governor - Dea Riley for Lt. Governor - Gatewood Galbraith" . Citizens to Elect Gatewood for Governor. Archived from the original on July 26, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ "The Official Website of Tyson Gay :: Biography" . Archived from the original on April 13, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ MTV Networks (2009). "CMT.com : Montgomery Gentry : Biography" . Inc., MTVN Direct. Archived from the original on February 3, 2004. Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ "Joe B. Hall Coaching Record" . College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010 .
^ "Thomas Edward Hayden" . intelius.com. Retrieved February 3, 2014 .
^ "Comedy Central® Sets Mid-Season Schedule Featuring New Series And Specials And The Return Of Network Favorites" (Press release). Comedy Central . Retrieved January 1, 2013 .
^ "Kevin Jarvis Stats" . Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 15, 2012 .
^ "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 .
^ Fling, Sarah. " "Kitchen Genius": Dolly Johnson at the White House" . WHHA (en-US) . Retrieved May 15, 2023 .
^ Karla Wood (November 22, 2014). "Former Lexington mayor H. Foster Pettit dies at 84" . Lexington Herald-Leader . Retrieved July 8, 2015 .
^ "Adalin Wichman, designer of the Eclipse Awards statuette, dies at 91" . Daily Racing Form . March 12, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2013 .
^ Copley, Rich (March 12, 2013). "Lexington artist Adalin Wichman, known for her work and wit, dies at 91" . Lexington Herald Leader . Retrieved April 5, 2013 .