List of Famous people born in Alabama, United States of America
Rebecca Luker
Rebecca Luker was an American actress, singer, and recording artist noted for her "crystal clear operatic soprano" and for maintaining long runs in Broadway musicals over the course of her three decade long career. The New York Times compared her to actresses such as Barbara Cook and Julie Andrews. She was nominated for three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Award, and two Drama Desk Awards.
Brett Butler
Brett Butler is an American actress, writer, and stand-up comedian. She is best known for playing the title role in the ABC comedy series Grace Under Fire (1993–98), for which she received two Golden Globe Awards nominations.
M Lamar
M Lamar is a New York City-based composer, musician, performer, multimedia artist, and counter tenor. The New York Times describes his exhibit titled 'Negrogothic' as "a bracing alternative to the dispiriting traffic in blandly competent art clogging the New York gallery system these days, M. Lamar plumbs the depths of all-American trauma with visionary verve." Hilton Als wrote in The New Yorker of M. Lamar: "he deconstructs the persona of the diva even as he wraps himself in divalike hauteur."
Lurleen Brigham Burns Wallace
Lurleen Burns Wallace was the 46th Governor of Alabama for fifteen months from January 1967 until her death in May 1968. She was the first wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace, whom she succeeded as governor because the Alabama constitution forbade consecutive terms. She was Alabama's first female Governor and was the only female governor to hold the position until Kay Ivey became the second woman to succeed to the office in 2017. She is also the only female governor in U.S. history to have died in office. In 1973, she was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
Tony Nathan
Tony Curtis Nathan is a former American football running back. Nathan played college football at the University of Alabama and was selected in the third round of the 1979 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins, with whom he played from 1979 to 1987.
Beth Chapman
Beth Killough Chapman is an American politician from Alabama. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the state's 51st secretary of state from 2007 until she resigned on July 31, 2013 in order to accept a position with the Alabama Farmers Federation.
Ray Sawyer
Ray Sawyer was an American singer and vocalist with the 1970s rock band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. Though primarily a backing vocalist and occasional percussionist on congas or maracas, he sang lead on their hit song "The Cover of Rolling Stone" and was a recognizable presence in the band owing to the eyepatch and cowboy hat he wore. He was also the uncle of the vocalist of Wild Fire, Zack Sawyer.
Za'Darius Smith
Za'Darius Smith is an American football outside linebacker for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Kentucky, and was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL Draft.
Virginia Hill
Virginia Hill was an American organized crime figure. An Alabama native, Hill became a Chicago outfit courier during the mid-1930s. Hill was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel.
Tee Martin
Tamaurice Nigel "Tee" Martin is an assistant football coach for the Tennessee Volunteers football team. He was the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach for the USC Trojans from 2016 to 2018 and was the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers during their 1998 national championship season, and also played in the National Football League and Canadian Football League. He was selected in the 2000 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 5th round.