List of Famous people born in Tennessee, United States of America
Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain is an American voice actress. She is best known for providing the voice of GLaDOS, the primary antagonist of the Portal video game series, the Combine Overwatch in Half-Life 2, and the Administrator, the announcer in Team Fortress 2. Her voice roles also include the Jaeger A.I. in Pacific Rim and The Witch in Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2.
Robin Farina
Robin Farina is a road cyclist from the United States. She made her road racing debut in 2006, transitioning from a mountain biking background. She won in 2011 the United States National Road Race Championships. She represented her country at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships and 2011 Pan American Games. With her team BMW p/b Happy Tooth Dental she participated in the team time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.
Wakeema Hollis
Willie Hall
Willie Clarence Hall is an American drummer best known for his work with Isaac Hayes and as a member of the Blues Brothers band.
Chris Ellis
Christopher Ellis is an American character actor.
Cleavant Derricks
Cleavant Derricks Jr. is an American actor and Tony Award winning singer-songwriter, who is best known for his role of Rembrandt Brown on Sliders.
Marshall R. Teague
Marshall Reece Teague is an American film and television actor known for his role in the 1989 cult movie Road House and for his recurring role on the 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5 as Ta'Lon, a Narn soldier. Teague has also appeared in The Rock (1996) and Armageddon (1998), both of which were directed by Michael Bay.
Booker T. Jones
Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.
David Steen
David Steen is an American actor and writer. He has one sibling, a sister, Susan Ford. Until early adulthood he lived in Memphis, graduating from Whitestation High School in 1972. He attended Lindenwood Christian Church.