List of Famous people born in Kentucky, United States of America
Jack Womack
Jack Womack is an American author of fiction and speculative fiction.
Chris Harris
Christopher Eric Harris is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Robert William Muench
Robert William Muench is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was former fifth Bishop of Baton Rouge, having previously served as Bishop of Covington from 1996 to 2002.
Beegie Adair
Bobbe Gorin (BG) "Beegie" Adair, née Long, is an American jazz pianist. Beginning piano lessons at age five, she continued to study piano and received her B.S. in music at Western Kentucky University. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she did graduate work at Peabody College and became a session musician working at WSM-TV and on "The Johnny Cash Show" (1969-71), where she accompanied such legendary performers as Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton, Lucille Ball, Steve Allen, Dinah Shore, Mama Cass Elliott, and Peggy Lee. She formed the Beegie Adair Trio, which has sold over 1.5 million albums.
Owen Hale
Owen Hale is an American musician best known for playing drums with Lynyrd Skynyrd, on their album Twenty and the Lyve from Steel Town DVD concert. Hale left the group in 1998. He was also a busy studio drummer in Nashville, TN appearing on many records by Patty Loveless, Doug Stone and Toby Keith among others.
Charles Gibbons
Charles Gibbons was a U.S. politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1953 to 1955 as a Republican. As of 2021, he is the last Republican to serve as Speaker of the Massachusetts House.
Telma Hopkins
Telma Louise Hopkins is an American actress and singer. Hopkins rose to prominence as a member of the 1970s pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn, which had several number-one songs. She also performed on the CBS variety show Tony Orlando and Dawn from 1974 until 1976 along with Tony Orlando and Joyce Vincent Wilson. In the late 1970s, Hopkins began working as an actress, playing roles on various sitcoms, including Isabelle Hammond on Bosom Buddies (1980–82), Adelaide "Addy" Wilson on Gimme a Break! (1983–87) and Family Matters (1989–1997) as Rachel Baines–Crawford. As lead actress, Hopkins starred on Getting By from 1993 to 1994. In recent years, Hopkins was a regular cast member on Half & Half (2002–06) portraying Phyllis Thorne, Are We There Yet? (2010–13), and short-lived Partners (2014). In film, Hopkins co-starred in 1984 science fiction film Trancers and in its sequels Trancers II (1991) and Trancers III (1992) and Trancers IV (2019), as well as appearing in The Wood (1999) and The Love Guru (2008).
Bryan Clark
Shane Woodson
Dotsie Bausch
Dorothy Lee "Dotsie" Bausch is an American cyclist, advocate, speaker, and the executive director of the nonprofit, Switch4Good. She is the founder of two nonprofits.