List of Famous people born in Alabama, United States of America

Edward O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson
First Name Edward
Last Name Wilson
Born on June 10, 1929
Died on December 26, 2021 (aged 92)

Edward Osborne Wilson, usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. Wilson is considered the most important and outstanding living biologist in the world and on numerous occasions he has been nicknamed "The New Darwin", "Darwin's natural heir" or "The Darwin of the 21st century". His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert.

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Tobias Wolff

First Name Tobias
Last Name Wolff
Born on June 19, 1945 (age 80)

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.

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Richard Shelby

First Name Richard
Last Name Shelby
Born on May 6, 1934 (age 92)

Richard Craig Shelby is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, he was the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, succeeding Thad Cochran. He previously served as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. He is the longest-serving U.S. Senator from Alabama, having surpassed John Sparkman's previous record in March 2019.

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Kayla Moore

First Name Kayla
Born on April 26, 1961 (age 65)

Kayla Moore is an American political activist. She is the president of the Foundation for Moral Law, a socially conservative legal advocacy group. She is the wife of Roy Moore and campaigned for him in the 2017 Senate special election in Alabama.

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Holly Williams

First Name Holly
Last Name Williams
Born on March 12, 1981 (age 45)

Holly Audrey Williams is an American singer-songwriter. She is the granddaughter of Hank Williams, the niece of Jett Williams, daughter of Hank Williams Jr. and half-sister of Hank Williams III. Williams has released three studio albums: The Ones We Never Knew in 2004, Here with Me in 2009 and The Highway in 2013. The Highway was released on Williams' own label, Georgiana Records, and reached No. 146 on the Billboard 200.

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Kwon Alexander

Kwon Alexander is an American football linebacker for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Louisiana State University. Alexander has also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Francisco 49ers. He was drafted by Tampa Bay in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL Draft.

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Martha Roby

First Name Martha
Born on July 26, 1976 (age 49)

Martha Kehres Roby is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Alabama's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she defeated the incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative Bobby Bright in 2010. That year, Roby and Terri Sewell became the first women elected to Congress from Alabama in regular elections. On July 26, 2019, Roby announced she would retire from Congress at the end of her fifth term, which ended in 2021.

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Trey Flowers

Robert Lee "Trey" Flowers III is an American football defensive end for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arkansas.

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Rush Propst

First Name Rush
Last Name Propst
Born on January 1, 1957 (age 69)

Thomas Rush Propst is the football head coach of Valdosta High School in Valdosta, Georgia. He is the former head coach at Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Georgia and Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama. Propst gained national notoriety through the MTV series Two-A-Days, which chronicled the 2005 and 2006 seasons of his Hoover team.

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Paul Bearer

William Alvin Moody/ Percy Pringle
First Name Paul
Last Name Bearer
Born on April 10, 1954
Died on March 5, 2013 (aged 58)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

William Alvin "Bill" Moody was an American professional wrestling manager and licensed funeral director. He is best known for his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation where he performed under the ring name Paul Bearer as the manager of The Undertaker. He later managed wrestlers such as Mankind and Undertaker's storyline brother, Kane. Outside WWE, he was known by the name Percival "Percy" Pringle III and performed in various regional territories and promotions, as well as World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW).

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