page_title: List of people from Memphis, Tennessee
section_title: B
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Memphis, Tennessee / B
caption_attribution_description: English: Actress Kathy Bates at the Giffoni Film Festival
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan statistical area, including Crittenden County, Arkansas; DeSoto County, Mississippi; Marshall County, Mississippi; Tate County, Mississippi; Tunica County, Mississippi; Fayette County, Tennessee; Shelby County, Tennessee; and Tipton County, Tennessee.
  This list is in alphabetical order by last name.
context_section_description: Archbishop LeRoy Bailey — Senior Pastor of The First Cathedral, a megachurch in Bloomfield, Connecticut; clergy
  Julien Baker (born 1995) — singer, songwriter, and guitarist
  Michael A. Baker (born 1953) — astronaut
  The Bar-Kays (formed in 1966) — musicians
  Lloyd Barbee (1925–2002) — Wisconsin legislator and civil rights activist
  Marion Barry (1936–2014) — mayor of Washington, D.C.
  Charles Bartliff (1886–1962) — soccer player
  Kathy Bates (born 1948) — Academy Award-winning actress
  Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin (1913–1995) — poet
  Michael Beck (born 1949) — actor, best known for The Warriors and Xanadu
  Reginald Becton (born 1991) — basketball player who currently plays for Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
  William Bedford (born 1963) — basketball player
  Diane Meredith Belcher (born 1960) — concert organist, teacher, and church musician
  Chris Bell (1951–1978) — musician
  William Bell (born 1939) — singer
  Charles T. Bernard (1927–2015) — businessman and Arkansas politician, died in Memphis in 2015
  Big Star (formed in 1971) — rock band
  Blac Youngsta (born 1990) — rapper; born Samuel Marquez Benson
  Greg Bird — Major League Baseball first baseman
  Tarik Black (born 1991) — basketball player
  James Blackwood (1919–2002) — gospel singer, founding member of quartet The Blackwood Brothers
  BlocBoy JB — rapper
  Bobby "Blue" Bland (1930–2013) — musician
  Elizabeth Bolden (1890–2006) — oldest person in the world during most of 2006
  Charles Boyce (born 1949) — syndicated cartoonist
  Cory Branan (born 1974) — singer/songwriter
  Craig Brewer (born 1971) — film director
  Ben Browder (born 1962) — actor, best known for Farscape and Stargate SG-1
  Dave Brown (born 1946) — TV meteorologist, professional wrestling announcer
  Joe Brown (born 1947) — politician
  Isaac Bruce (born 1972) — former NFL player
  Antonio Burks (born 1980) — former basketball player
  Dorsey Burnette (1932–1979) — rockabilly pioneer, singer-songwriter
  Johnny Burnette (1934–1964) — rockabilly pioneer, singer-songwriter
  Leonard Burton (born 1964) — NFL player
  Mike Butler (born 1946) — basketball player
  Derrick Byars (born 1984) — basketball player
  Latasha Byears (born 1973) — basketball player
caption: Kathy Bates
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