Listing of famous people born in Alabama.
- Hank Aaron, Baseball (Mobile)
- Charles Barkley, Basketball (Leeds)
- George Washington Carver, Inventor, educator, agricultural chemist (Diamond Grove)
- Nat King Cole, Singer (Montgomery)
- Courteney Cox, Actress (Birmingham)
- Tom Joyner, Radio (Tuskegee)
- Helen Keller, Writer (Tuscumbria)
- Carl Lewis, Track and field (Birmingham)
- Joe Louis, Boxer (Lexington)
- Willie Mays, Baseball
- Jesse Owens, Track and field (Oakville)
- Satchel Paige, Baseball (Mobile)
- Lionel Richie, Singer (Tuskegee)
- Hank Williams, Musician (Georgiana)
- Ralph Abernathy civil rights activist (Linden)
- Tallulah Bankhead actress (Huntsville)
- Hugo L. Black jurist (Harlan)
- Marva Collins educator (Monroeville)
- William Crowford physician (Mobile)
- Fannie Flagg author of Fried Green Tomatoes (Birmingham)
- Kenneth Gibson first black mayor of major eastern city (Newark)
- Winston Groom author of Forrest Gump (Fairhope)
- Lionel Hampton jazz musician (Birmingham)
- W. C. Handy composer (Florence)
- Coretta Scott King civil rights leader
- Harper Lee writer (Monroeville)
- Truman Capote writer (Monroeville)
- Bryant H. McGill poet (Mobile)
- Jim Nabors actor (Sylacauga)
- Rosa Parks civil rights activist (Tuskegee)
- Wayne Rogers actor
- David Satcher surgeon general (Anniston)
- Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald writer (Montgomery)
- Tascaluza Choctaw chief
- George Wallace governor (Clio)
- William Weatherford (Red Eagle) Creek leader
- Heather Whitestone 1995 Miss America (Dothan)
- Condoleezza Rice National Security Advisor under President George W. Bush (Birmingham)
- Nell Carter Stage and screen actress and singer (Birmingham)
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