List of people from Memphis, Tennessee

This is a list of famous 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.

* Johnny Ace – musician
* Stephen Adams – United States Congressman and United States Senatorcite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | date = 1967]
* Traci Adell – Playboy centerfold
*Richard "Pistol" Allen, drummer who was one of the Funk Brothers that played on the Motown hits in the 1960s
* Estelle Axton – co-founder of Stax Records
* Archbishop LeRoy Bailey; Senior Pastor of The First Cathedral, A Megachurch in Bloomfield, Connecticut; Clergy
* The Bar-Kays – musicians
* Kathy Bates – actress
* Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin – poet
* Big Daddy V; Wrestler
* Chris Bell – musician
* Bobby "Blue" Bland – musician
* Elizabeth Bolden – oldest person in the world during most of 2006
* Charles Boyce – syndicated cartoonist
* Craig Brewer – film director
* Judge Joe Brown – politician
* Isaac Bruce – NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers
* Charles Bulfinch, architecht and designer of Massachusetts General Hospital
* John Calipari – coach of the University of Memphis men's basketball team
* Dixie Carter – actress
* Bob Caruthers – major league baseball playercite book |editor=Reichler, Joseph L.| title=The Baseball Encyclopedia |origyear=1969 |edition= 4th edition |year= 1979|publisher= Macmillan Publishing |location= New York|language= |id= ISBN 0-02-578970-8 ]
* Johnny Cash – musician
* Kellye Cash – Miss America 1987
* David Catching – musician
* Egypt Central – musicians
* Alex Chilton – musician
* [http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/churchrs.htm Robert Reed Church, Sr.] – entrepreneur and philanthropist.
*Philip Claypool – musician
* Lashundra Trenyce Cobbin – American Idol Contestant
* Steve Cohen, politician
* George Coleman – musician
* Barron Collier – businessman
* Hank Crawford – musician
* Steve Cropper – musician
* Edward H. Crump – political boss and U.S. Representative
* John Daly – professional golfer
* Rick Dees – former disc jockey
* Shannen Doherty – actress
* Michael Douglas Air Force member
* Josh Driver – Singer/Songwriter/Actor and founder/host (event) of The Josh Driver Show
* Donald "Duck" Dunn – musician
* Johnny Dowd – musician
* Johanna Edwards – author
* William Eggleston – photographer
* Eightball & MJG – musicians
* Ben Ferguson – nationally- syndicated talk radio host
* Veronica Finn - former pop singer of the now disbanded group innosense
* Ric Flair – professional wrestler (adopted at six weeks; raised in Minnesota)
* Rey Flemings – music commissioner
* Shelby Foote – author
* Harold Ford, Jr. – politician
* Abe Fortas – politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice
* Aretha Franklin – singer
* Morgan Freeman – actor
* David Gest – event and concert producer
* Ginnifer Goodwin; actress
* Al Green – musician
* The Gentrys – 1960's Rock band with Larry Raspberry and Larry Wall
* Larkin Grimm – folk singer
* Richard Halliburton – explorer and author
* Lucy Hale – singer and actress
* George Hamilton – actor
* W.C. Handy – musician
* Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway – professional basketball player
* E. Hunter Harrison (CEO)
* Jimmy Hart – singer, pro wrestling personality
* Jon Hassell – musician
* Isaac Hayes – Academy Award-winning musician
* John Lee Hooker – blues musician
* John Hulse – Porn Star
* Howlin' Wolf – blues musician
* Al Jackson, Jr. – musician
* Quinton "Rampage" Jackson – Mixed martial arts fighter
* Michael Jeter – actor
* Ashley Jones – actress
* Booker T. Jones – musician
* George "Machine Gun" Kelly – Great Depression-era bank robber and kidnapper
* Carlton W. Kent – Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
* B.B. King – musician
* Brian Lawler – professional wrestler
* Jerry Lawler – professional wrestler
* Jerry Lee Lewis – musician
* Alan Lightman – novelist and physicist
* Booker Little – musician
* Charles Lloyd – musician
* Jim Mabry – Arkansas Razorbacks football All-American
* The Mar-Keys – musicians
* Wink Martindale – disc jockey and television personality
* Tim McCarver – professional baseball player and broadcaster
* Hilton McConnico – designer & artist
* Kenneth D. McKellar – long-serving U.S. Senator
* The Memphis Horns – an American horn section
* Shaun Micheel – professional golfer
* Memphis Slim – musician
* Dr. Cary Middlecoff – professional golfer
* Willie Mitchell – musician
* Chips Moman – music producer
* Sputnik Monroe – professional wrestler
* Charlie Musselwhite – blues musician
* Phineas Newborn, Jr. – jazz musician
* Nights Like These – Victory Records metalcore band
* Woody Paige- sports writer and guest on ESPN's Around the Horn
* Cindy Parlow – athlete
* Chris Parnell – actor
* Gilbert E. Patterson – bishop of the Church of God in Christ
* Luther Perkins – musician
* Elliot Perry – professional basketball player
* Dewey Phillips – early rock 'n' roll disc jockey
* Sam Phillips – founder of Sun Records
* [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=P033 Abe Plough] – businessman
* David Porter – musician
* Elvis Presley – musician and actor
* Project Pat – gangsta rapper
* Tommy Prothro – former football coach at UCLA
* Missi Pyle – actress
* Lisa Quinn – actress, author, designer
* Michael Ramirez – Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
* Otis Redding – musician
* Charlie Rich – musician
* Loren Roberts Professional Golfer
* Adrian Rogers – former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church and president of the Southern Baptist Convention
* Steve Ross – actor
* Lance Russell – pro wrestling announcer
* Saliva – musical group
* Sam and Dave – Sam Moore and David Prater, musicians
* Sam the Sham – musician, leader of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
* William Sanderson – actor
* Clarence Saunders – inventor and businessman, founder of the world's first self-service supermarket, Piggly Wiggly
* Josey Scott – musician
* Dan Schneider – actor
* Will Shade – musician
* Paul Shanklin – voiceover artist and creator of song parodies heard on the Rush Limbaugh radio program
* Cybill Shepherd – actress & model
* Fred Smith – Founder and Chairman FedEx
* Lane Smith – actor
* Andrew Stevens – actor
* Stella Stevens – actress
* Jim Stewart – record producer and co-founder of Stax Records
* Bobby Sowell – musician
* Carla Thomas – musician and daughter of Rufus Thomas
* Danny Thomas – entertainer and founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
* Rufus Thomas – musician
* Fred D. Thompson – actor and former U.S. Senator (alumnus of the University of Memphis)
* Justin Timberlake – musician and actor
* Ike Turner – musician
* Andrew VanWyngarden – musician lead singer and songwriter of Brooklyn-based indie rock duo MGMT
* Anita Ward – Disco/Dance singer and school teacher; Became famous in 1979 for her number one Billboard Hot 100 single "Ring My Bell."
* Thomas Waterson – Memphis police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in Memphis raid in 1933
* Ida B. Wells – civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
* Junior Wells – musician
* David West – former baseball player
* Red West – actor
* Kirk Whalum – musician
* Reggie White – NFL player; began his career with the Memphis Showboats of the USFL
* Maurice White – musician
* Bobby Whitlock – musician, keyboardist in Derek and the Dominoes
* Tennessee Williams – playwright
* Kemmons Wilson – businessman, founder of Holiday Inn
* Roy Yeager – musician
* Shawn Lane – musician
* Three 6 Mafia – Academy Award-winning rap musicians
* Garrett Wang – actor
* Louis Williams – NBA player

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