# List of people from Montgomery, Alabama

The city of Montgomery, the capital and second-largest city of the U.S. state of Alabama, has been the birthplace and home of these notable individuals.

## Arts and entertainment

| Name | Notability |
| Jensen Buchanan | Soap opera actress |
| Brett Butler | Actress and comedy performer |
| Ji-Tu Cumbuka | Television and film actor |
| Glenn Howerton | Actor/writer, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| Rusty Joiner | Model/actor |
| Amy O'Neill | Actress, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids |
| Michael O'Neill | Actor, The West Wing |
| Octavia Spencer | Academy Award-winning actress |
| Bill Traylor | Self-taught artist, painter |
| Michael Young | Emmy-winning actor |

### Music

| Name | Notability |
| Gloria D. Brown | R&B, soul, funk, pop singer |
| Clarence Carter | Blind soul singer and guitarist |
| Nat King Cole | Jazz singer and pianist |
| John Collins | Jazz guitarist |
| Dirty | Rap duo |
| Doe B | Rapper |
| Eddie Floyd | Soul singer/songwriter |
| Frankie Jaxon | Jazz and vaudeville singer |
| Claude Jeter | Gospel singer |
| Howard Johnson | Jazz musician |
| Jamey Johnson | Country singer-songwriter |
| Joe Morris | Jazz trumpeter |
| Nell Rankin | Opera singer |
| Tommy Shaw | Guitarist of Styx |
| Robert Shimp | Recording engineer and producer |
| Toni Tennille | Singer, Captain & Tennille |
| Big Mama Thornton | Blues singer |
| Hank Williams, Sr. | Country singer |
| Jett Williams | Country singer, daughter of Hank |

## Civil rights

| Name | Notability |
| Ralph Abernathy | Baptist minister, Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader |
| Inez Baskin | Journalist and activist |
| Johnnie Carr | Montgomery Improvement Association president, Montgomery bus boycott co-organizer |
| Claudette Colvin | Pioneer of the civil rights movement |
| Morris Dees | Southern Poverty Law Center founder |
| Mahala Ashley Dickerson | First black female attorney in Alabama |
| Hazel Nell Dukes | Activist and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
| Fred Gray | Attorney, founding member of the Montgomery Improvement Association |
| Richard H. Harris Jr. | Prominent civil rights leader, pharmacist and Tuskegee Airmen |
| Vernon Johns | Minister, mentor to early civil rights leaders |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Minister, founded the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference while in Montgomery, led the Montgomery bus boycott and Selma to Montgomery march |
| Martin Luther King III | Advocate, SCLC president |
| Yolanda King | Advocate and actress |
| E. D. Nixon | Attorney (Browder v. Gayle), local NAACP president, Montgomery Improvement Association founder |
| Rosa Parks | Sparked the Montgomery bus boycott |

## Literature and journalism

| Name | Notability |
| Zelda Fitzgerald | Writer, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Jim Fyffe | Auburn Tigers radio announcer |
| Anne George | Writer, 1994 Alabama State Poet |
| Mary Katharine Ham | Writer, columnist, Fox News contributor |
| Joseph Lewis | Freethinker |
| Everette Maddox | Poet |
| Harold E. Martin | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist |
| Charles Moore | Photographer, chronicled the Civil Rights Movement |
| Gin Phillips | Writer |
| T.K. Thorne | Writer; books, poetry, short stories and screenplays |
| Barbara Wiedemann | Poet, English professor at Auburn Montgomery |

## Military

| Name | Notability |
| William W. Allen | Major General in the Confederate States Army |
| Samuel Cooper | First Full General of the Confederate States Army |
| John G. Crommelin | United States Navy rear admiral, 1960 vice presidential candidate |
| James T. Holtzclaw | General in the Confederate States Army |
| Frank McIntyre | Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, 1912–1929 |
| Danyell E. Wilson | First African American female tomb guard for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington) at Arlington National Cemetery |

## Politics

| Name | Notability |
| John Abercrombie | U.S. Representative (1912–1917), president of the University of Alabama (1902–1911) |
| Winton M. Blount | United States Postmaster General (1969–1972) and philanthropist |
| Bobby Bright | Mayor (1999–2009), U.S. Representative (2009–2011) |
| Katie Britt | U.S. Senator (2023-present) |
| Charles Waldron Buckley | U.S. Representative (1868–1873) |
| Artur Davis | U.S. Representative (2003–2011) |
| William Louis Dickinson | U.S. Representative (1965–1993) |
| Edward C. Elmore | Confederate States of America treasurer |
| Benjamin Fitzpatrick | 11th Governor of Alabama (1841–1845); United States Senator (1848–9, 1953-5, 1855–61) and President pro tempore (1857–60) |
| Emory Folmar | Mayor (1977–1999) |
| Jim Folsom Jr. | 50th Governor of Alabama (1993–1995), Lieutenant Governor (1987–1993, 2007–2011) |
| MacDonald Gallion | Attorney General of Alabama (1953–63, 1967–71) |
| Bibb Graves | 38th Governor of Alabama (1927–1931, 1935–1939) |
| Dixie Bibb Graves | First female United States Senator from Alabama (1937–1938) |
| J. Lister Hill | U.S. Representative (1923–38), U.S. Senator (1938–69), Senate Majority Whip (1941–47), known for the Hill-Burton Act |
| Perry O. Hooper Jr. | Member of Alabama House of Representatives (1984–2003) |
| Perry O. Hooper Sr. | Alabama Supreme Court 27th chief justice (1995–2001) |
| Thomas G. Jones | 28th Governor of Alabama (1890–1894) |
| Claude R. Kirk Jr. | Governor of Florida (1967–1971) |
| Ann McCrory | First Lady of North Carolina |
| Gordon Persons | 46th Governor of Alabama (1951–1955) |
| Martha Roby | Congresswoman from Alabama's 2nd congressional district (2011-2021) |
| Joe M. Rodgers | Construction executive, United States Ambassador to France |
| Sylvia Swayne | First openly transgender woman to run for public office in Alabama |
| Dorothy Tillman | Former Chicago Alderman |
| Steve Windom | 28th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama (1999–2003) |
| William Lowndes Yancey | U.S. Representative (1844–46), Fire-Eater secession advocate, Confederate diplomat and Senator |

## Science and medicine

| Name | Notability |
| Percy Lavon Julian | Chemist |
| J. Marion Sims | In the 1840s, Montgomery's leading physician and medical experimenter |
| Dorothy Tennov | Psychologist |
| Kathryn C. Thornton | Astronaut, part of STS-61 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope |

## Sports

| Name | Notability |
| Austin Adams | Atlantic League of Professional Baseball pitcher for the Lexington Legends |
| Marlon Anderson | Major League Baseball player for seven teams |
| Alonzo Babers | Gold medal-winning sprinter at 1984 Summer Olympics (400m and 4 × 400 m relay) |
| Reggie Barlow | NFL wide receiver, Super Bowl XXXVII champion, Alabama State head coach |
| Fred Beasley | Pro Bowl fullback with San Francisco 49ers |
| Terry Beasley | Auburn Tigers wide receiver, member of College Football Hall of Fame |
| Caesar Belser | American Football League and NFL defensive back, Super Bowl IV champion |
| Ray Black Jr. | NASCAR driver |
| Tom Boswell | National Basketball Association player, 1976 champion with Boston Celtics |
| Aundray Bruce | National Football League player, 1988 NFL draft first overall selection |
| Antoine Caldwell | Houston Texans and former Alabama Crimson Tide offensive lineman |
| Monreko Crittenden | American Indoor Football Association and Auburn Tigers player |
| Johnny Davis | NFL running back, Super Bowl XVI champion with San Francisco 49ers |
| Chris Dickerson | Bodybuilder, 1982 Mr. Olympia |
| Richmond Flowers | NFL safety |
| Oscar Gamble | Major League Baseball outfielder |
| Leslie Gaston | Professional soccer player |
| Orlando Graham | NBA forward |
| Carlos Hendricks | Football defensive back |
| Tarvaris Jackson | NFL quarterback for Minnesota Vikings |
| Terrence Long | Major League Baseball outfielder |
| Tom Neville | American Football League tackle |
| Tom Oliver | Major League Baseball outfielder and manager |
| Quentin Riggins | Professional football player |
| Kirby Smart | Head football coach of the Georgia Bulldogs |
| Bart Starr | Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback for Green Bay Packers, 5-time NFL champion |
| Allen Trammel | Professional football player |
| Freeman White | Consensus All-American and professional football player |
| Willie Wilson | Major League Baseball outfielder and 1985 World Series champion |
| Delmon Young | Major League Baseball outfielder |

## Others

| Name | Notability |
| Adele Goodman Clark | Suffragist and artist |
| Herbert Baumer | Architect |
| Frances Scott Fitzgerald | Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Bob Jones Jr. | Bob Jones University president and chancellor |
| Lisa S. Jones | Businesswoman, founder of EyeMail Inc. |
| Henry Lehman | Cotton broker and financier, company developed into the Lehman Brothers conglomerate |
| Adolph S. Moses | Rabbi of Kahl Montgomery |
| Jerry Parr | Secret Service agent, saved Ronald Reagan during his assassination attempt |
| Albert Parsons | Anarchist, labor activist, Haymarket Riot organizer |
| Blake Percival | Whistleblower |
| Priscilla Cooper Tyler | Daughter-in-law of president John Tyler |