Johnny Ace - musician
John Adair, anthropologist, pioneer of Navajo & Zuni cultural studies. [1]
Stephen Adams - United States Congressman and United States Senator[2]
Traci Adell - Playboy centerfold
Lily Afshar - classical guitarist, University of Memphis music professor
Richard "Pistol" Allen - drummer who was one of the Funk Brothers that played on the Motown hits in the 1960s
Estelle Axton - co-founder of Stax Records
Archbishop LeRoy Bailey - Senior Pastor of The First Cathedral, A Megachurch in Bloomfield, Connecticut; Clergy
David Knowles - musician
The Bar-Kays - musicians
Kathy Bates - actress
Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin - poet
Big Daddy V - Wrestler
Michael Beck - actor, best known for The Warriors
Chris Bell - musician
Bobby "Blue" Bland - musician
Elizabeth Bolden - oldest person in the world during most of 2006
Charles Boyce - syndicated cartoonist
Craig Brewer - film director
Judge Joe Brown - politician
Isaac Bruce - NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers
Charles Bulfinch, architect and designer of Massachusetts General Hospital
Dixie Carter - actress
Bob Caruthers - major league baseball player[3]
Johnny Cash - musician
Kellye Cash - Miss America 1987
David Catching - musician
Egypt Central - musicians
Alex Chilton - musician
Robert Reed Church, Sr. - entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Philip Claypool - musician
Lashundra Trenyce Cobbin - American Idol Contestant
Steve Cohen, politician
George Coleman - musician
Barron Collier - businessman
Hank Crawford - musician
Steve Cropper - musician
Edward H. Crump - political boss and U.S. Representative
Rick Dees - former disc jockey
Shannen Doherty - actress
Peter C. Doherty - Nobel laureate and scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Michael Douglas Air Force member
Donald "Duck" Dunn - musician
Johnny Dowd - musician
Johanna Edwards - author
William Eggleston - photographer
Eightball & MJG - musicians
Ben Ferguson - nationally- syndicated talk radio host
Veronica Finn - former pop singer of the now disbanded group innosense
Ric Flair - professional wrestler (adopted at six weeks; raised in Minnesota)
Rey Flemings - music commissioner
George L. Forbes - Cleveland City Council President, President of the Cleveland NAACP
Shelby Foote - author
Harold Ford, Jr. - politician
Jacob A. T. Ford - National Football League (NFL) player, Tennessee Titans (Son of Fred "Sweet Daddy Goodlow" Ford)
Abe Fortas - politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice
Aretha Franklin - singer
Morgan Freeman - actor
David Gest - event and concert producer
Ginnifer Goodwin - actress
Al Green - musician
The Gentrys - 1960's Rock band with Larry Raspberry and Larry Wall
Larkin Grimm - folk singer
Gyft - Rapper signed to E1 Music, known for his single They Just Don't Know.
Richard Halliburton - explorer and author
Lucy Hale - singer and actress
George Hamilton - actor
W.C. Handy - musician
Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway - professional basketball player
E. Hunter Harrison - CEO
Jimmy Hart - singer, pro wrestling personality
Jon Hassell - musician
Isaac Hayes - Academy Award-winning musician
Ingram Hill - band
John Lee Hooker - blues musician
John Hulse - Porn Star
Howlin' Wolf - blues musician
Al Jackson, Jr. - musician
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson - Mixed martial arts fighter
Michael Jeter - actor
Ashley Jones - actress
Booker T. Jones - musician
Florence Kahn early Ibsen actress and wife of Max Beerbohm
George "Machine Gun" Kelly - Great Depression-era bank robber and kidnapper
Carlton W. Kent - Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
B.B. King - musician
Brian Lawler - professional wrestler
Jerry Lawler - professional wrestler
Jerry Lee Lewis - musician
Alan Lightman - novelist and physicist
Booker Little - musician
Charles Lloyd - musician
Jim Mabry - Arkansas Razorbacks football All-American
Terry Manning - music producer
The Mar-Keys - musicians
Wink Martindale - disc jockey and television personality
Tim McCarver - professional baseball player and broadcaster
Hilton McConnico - designer & artist
Kenneth D. McKellar - long-serving U.S. Senator
The Memphis Horns - an American horn section
Shaun Micheel - professional golfer
Memphis Slim - musician
Dr. Cary Middlecoff - professional golfer
Willie Mitchell - musician
Allen B. Morgan, Jr. - business man, founded Morgan Keegan
Chips Moman - music producer
Sputnik Monroe - professional wrestler
David W. Mullins, Jr. - former Vice Chairman of theFederal Reserve
Charlie Musselwhite - blues musician
Zach Myers - lead guitarist for rock band Shinedown
Elise Neal - actress
Pat and Gina Neely - celebrity chefs on Food Network
Hailey Anne Nelson - actress
Phineas Newborn, Jr. - jazz musician
Nights Like These - Victory Records metalcore band
Michael Oher - NFL player, Baltimore Ravens
Woody Paige- sports writer and guest on ESPN's Around the Horn
Cindy Parlow - athlete
Chris Parnell - actor
Gilbert E. Patterson - bishop of the Church of God in Christ
Luther Perkins - musician
Elliot Perry - professional basketball player
Todd Perry- Artist
Dewey Phillips - early rock 'n' roll disc jockey
Sam Phillips - founder of Sun Records
David Porter - musician
Elvis Presley - musician and actor
Project Pat - gangsta rapper
Tommy Prothro - former football coach at UCLA
Missi Pyle - actress
Lisa Quinn - actress, author, designer
Michael Ramirez - Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
Otis Redding - musician
Charlie Rich - musician
Loren Roberts - Professional Golfer
Russell Roberts (economist) - Economist
Adrian Rogers - former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church and president of the Southern Baptist Convention
Steve Ross - actor
Lance Russell - pro wrestling announcer
Saliva - musical group
Sam and Dave - Sam Moore and David Prater, musicians
Sam the Sham - musician, leader of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
William Sanderson - actor
Clarence Saunders - inventor and businessman, founder of the world's first self-service supermarket, Piggly Wiggly
Josey Scott - musician
Dan Schneider - actor
Will Shade - musician
Paul Shanklin - voiceover artist and creator of song parodies heard on the Rush Limbaugh radio program
Cybill Shepherd - actress & model
Fred Smith - Founder and Chairman FedEx
Lane Smith - actor
Andrew Stevens - actor
Stella Stevens - actress
Jim Stewart - record producer and co-founder of Stax Records
Bobby Sowell - musician
Carla Thomas - musician and daughter of Rufus Thomas
Danny Thomas - entertainer and founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Drew Thomas - musician songwriter and founder of band Retrospect
Rufus Thomas - musician
Fred D. Thompson - actor and former U.S. Senator (alumnus of the University of Memphis)
Justin Timberlake - musician and actor
Drumma Boy - hip hop music producer
Ike Turner - musician
Andrew VanWyngarden - musician lead singer and songwriter of Brooklyn-based indie rock duo MGMT
Anita Ward - Disco/Dance singer and school teacher; Became famous in 1979 for her number one Billboard Hot 100 single "Ring My Bell."
Thomas Waterson - Memphis police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in Memphis raid in 1933
Ida B. Wells - civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
Junior Wells - musician
David West - former baseball player
Red West - actor
Kirk Whalum - musician
Reggie White - NFL player; began his career with the Memphis Showboats of the USFL
Maurice White - musician
Bobby Whitlock - musician, keyboardist in Derek and the Dominoes
John Shelton Wilder - Tennessee politician
Tennessee Williams - playwright
Kemmons Wilson - businessman, founder of Holiday Inn
Roy Yeager - musician
Shawn Lane - musician
Three 6 Mafia - Academy Award-winning rap musicians
Garrett Wang - actor
Louis Williams - NBA player, Philadelphia 76ers
Kings Of Leon - Musicians
Lil Wyte - Rapper
Abhishek - Recruiter

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