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

Richard Speight Jr. is an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer who is known for a variety of roles including CBS TV series Jericho, The Agency, and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. Speight played a recurring role, the Archangel Gabriel, originally thought to be a "Trickster" or Loki, in the WB/CW series Supernatural.

William Vollie Alexander Jr. is a retired American politician who represented the U.S. state of Arkansas in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1993, rising to the post of Chief Deputy Majority Whip.

James Richard "Jim" Poole is a former American badminton player who won national and international championships between 1958 and 1979, and a former National Football League official.

Richard Mulrooney is an American former soccer player. He is the current men's soccer coach at the University of Memphis.

Kirk Whalum is an American jazz saxophonist and songwriter. He toured with Whitney Houston for more than seven years and soloed in her single "I Will Always Love You", the best-selling single by a female artist in music history. He was also featured on many Luther Vandross albums, most often playing on the singer's covers of older pop and R&B standards such as "Anyone Who Had a Heart", "I ", and "Love Won't Let Me Wait".

Gérard-Joseph Deschamps was a Canadian Roman Catholic prelate.

Lowell Cunningham is an American comic book author. He is best known for creating the comic book The Men in Black, which later became the basis for a media franchise.

Thomas Beverley Evans Jr. is an American lawyer and politician from Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served three terms as U.S. Representative from Delaware.

Bennie Wallace is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Carol Mayo Jenkins is an American actress who is most famous for playing Elizabeth Sherwood, a liberal and stern but fair-minded English teacher at New York City's High School for the Performing Arts on the T.V. series Fame. She left the show at the end of its fifth season in 1986 but made a return for the series finale a year later.