page_title: List of people from Alabama
section_title: B
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Alabama / B
caption_attribution_description: English: Supreme Court Justice Hugo La Fayette Black
context_page_description: This is a listing of notable people born in, or notable for their association with, Alabama.
context_section_description: Spencer Bachus, representative from Alabama's 6th congressional district 1993–2015 (Vestavia Hills)
  Mary Badham, actress (Birmingham)
  Hank Ballard, singer (Bessemer)
  Tallulah Bankhead, actress (Jasper)
  Charles Barkley, Hall of Fame basketball player, television commentator (Leeds)
  Reggie Barlow, NFL wide receiver, college football coach (Montgomery)
  Mark Barron, NFL player, St. Louis Rams (Mobile)
  Inez Baskin, African American journalist and civil rights activist (Florala)
  Cynthia Bathurst, animal activist, founder of Safe Humane Chicago and the Court Case Dog Program
  Bill Baxley, lieutenant governor (Dothan)
  Lucy Baxley, lieutenant governor (2003–2007) (Vestavia Hills)
  Paul Bearer, WWE manager and wrestling promoter (Mobile)
  Jere Beasley, born in Tyler, Texas, lieutenant governor (1971–1979) (Clayton)
  Scott Beason, Alabama state senator since 2006 (Hartselle)
  Barry Beckett, keyboardist, composer, record producer, original member of Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (Muscle Shoals)
  Ann Bedsole, member of both houses, consecutively, of the Alabama State Legislature 1979 to 1995 (Mobile)
  Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States (Mobile)
  Earl Bennett, NFL wide receiver (Birmingham)
  Amber Benson, actress (Birmingham)
  Bo Bice, singer, American Idol runner-up (Huntsville)
  Michael Biehn, actor (Anniston)
  James Gillespie Birney (1792–1857), planter, attorney, abolitionist (Huntsville)
  Sanford Bishop, U.S. representative from Georgia's 2nd congressional district (Mobile)
  Hugo Black, U.S. senator, United States Supreme Court justice (Harlan)
  Lucas Black, actor (Speake)
  Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr., white supremacist and co-conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (Birmingham)
  Eric Bledsoe, NBA player, Milwaukee Bucks (Birmingham)
  Winton Blount, businessman, U.S. postmaster general (1969–1972) (Union Springs)
  Michael Boley, NFL linebacker (Gadsden)
  Jo Bonner, representative from Alabama's 1st congressional district since 2003 (Mobile)
  Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (Hueytown)
  Young Boozer, state treasurer (Montgomery)
  tWitch (real name Stephen Boss), freestyle hip-hop dancer, entertainer, and actor (Montgomery)
  Th-resa Bostick, IFBB professional bodybuilder (Birmingham)
  Albert Boutwell, lieutenant governor (1959–1963), mayor of Birmingham (1963–1967) (Birmingham)
  Bobby Bowden, college football coach, Florida State (Birmingham)
  Frank W. Boykin, former U.S. representative (Bladon Springs)
  Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, music group (Evergreen)
  Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Possum Trot)
  Debbie Bramwell-Washington, IFBB professional bodybuilder (Birmingham)
  Jeff Brantley, MLB player, ESPN sportscaster
  Albert P. Brewer, governor (1968–1971) (Birmingham)
  Jeff Briggs, businessman, video game pioneer (Florence)
  Bobby Bright, mayor of Montgomery (1999–2009), representative from Alabama's 2nd congressional district (2009–2011) (Montgomery)
  David G. Bronner, CEO for Retirement Systems of Alabama (Montgomery), born in Cresco, Iowa
  Mo Brooks, representative from Alabama's 5th congressional district since 2011 (Huntsville)
  Janice Rogers Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals judge (Luverne)
  Jerry Dolyn Brown, folk artist, traditional potter (Hamilton)
  Johnny Mack Brown, football player for Alabama, actor (Dothan)
  Michael Brown, astronomer (Huntsville)
  Roger Brown, artist, member of the Chicago Imagists (Hamilton)
  Paul "Bear" Bryant, iconic coach of Alabama football, born in Camden, Arkansas (Tuscaloosa)
  John Hall Buchanan, Jr., representative from Alabama's 6th congressional district (1965–1981) (Birmingham and thereafter Bethesda, Maryland)
  Jimmy Buffett, singer-songwriter (Mobile), born in Pascagoula, Mississippi
  Edward M. Burgess, chemist (Birmingham), inventor of the Burgess reagent
  Edward A. Burkhalter, admiral, United States Navy, Chief of Naval Intelligence, Chief of Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency (Roanoke)
  Brett Butler, actress (Montgomery)
  Keith Butler, NFL coach, Pittsburgh Steelers (Anniston)
  Pat Buttram, actor (Addison)
  Larry Byrom, rock music guitarist, Steppenwolf (Huntsville)
caption: Hugo Black
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