| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Greg Abbott |
Government |
13-Nov-1957 |
|
Governor of Texas |
| Charles E. Adair |
Business |
26-Dec-1947 |
|
Partner, Cordova Ventures |
| Bill Alexander |
Politician |
16-Jan-1934 |
|
Congressman from Arkansas, 1969-93 |
| Lamar Alexander |
Politician |
3-Jul-1940 |
|
US Senator from Tennessee |
| John Amaechi |
Basketball |
26-Nov-1970 |
|
Only openly gay ex-NBA player |
| Paul S. Atkins |
Government |
1958 |
|
Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Ed Averett |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
Prolific Odyssey 2 game programmer |
| James Bacchus |
Politician |
21-Jun-1949 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 1991-95 |
| Edward Barnard |
Astronomer |
16-Dec-1857 |
16-Feb-1923 |
Self-taught scientist |
| Carin M. Barth |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
President of LB Capital, Inc. |
| Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr. |
Attorney |
6-Jul-1944 |
|
Partner, Adams and Reese |
| Robin Beard |
Politician |
21-Aug-1939 |
16-Jun-2007 |
Congressman from Tennessee, 1973-83 |
| Theodore Bilbo |
Government |
13-Oct-1877 |
21-Aug-1947 |
Archangel of white supremacy |
| Roy Blount, Jr. |
Author |
5-Oct-1941 |
|
Humorist |
| David Boaz |
Activist |
29-Aug-1953 |
|
Cato Institute |
| Richard W. Bolling |
Politician |
17-May-1916 |
21-Apr-1991 |
Congressman from Missouri, 1949-83 |
| Dennis C. Bottorff |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of First American, 1991-99 |
| Stuart Bowen |
Government |
1958 |
|
Iraq Inspector General |
| Joe Bob Briggs |
Critic |
27-Jan-1953 |
|
B-movie film reviewer |
| David Brinkley |
Journalist |
10-Jul-1920 |
11-Jun-2003 |
The Huntley-Brinkley Report |
| Cleanth Brooks |
Critic |
16-Oct-1906 |
10-May-1994 |
The Well Wrought Urn |
| Mack Brown |
Football |
27-Aug-1951 |
|
Head Coach, UT-Austin |
| Logan Browning |
Actor |
9-Jun-1989 |
|
Brianna on Meet the Browns |
| William J. Cabaniss |
Business |
11-Jul-1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Czechia, 2004-06 |
| Bill Campbell |
Politician |
25-May-1953 |
|
Mayor of Atlanta, 1994-2002 |
| Brian E. Carlson |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Latvia, 2001-04 |
| Rosanne Cash |
Country Musician |
24-May-1955 |
|
Rhythm and Romance |
| Charles Chatfield |
Historian |
11-Mar-1934 |
15-Jan-2015 |
Pacifism in America, 1914-1941 |
| Frank G. Clement |
Politician |
2-Jun-1920 |
4-Nov-1969 |
Twice Governor of Tennessee |
| Steve Cohen |
Politician |
24-May-1949 |
|
Congressman, Tennessee 9th |
| Prentice Cooper |
Government |
28-Sep-1895 |
18-May-1969 |
Governor of Tennessee, 1939-45 |
| Lee Cruce |
Politician |
8-Jul-1863 |
16-Jan-1933 |
Governor of Oklahoma, 1911-15 |
| Donald Davidson |
Poet |
8-Aug-1893 |
25-Apr-1968 |
Agrarian, Southern American poet |
| Karl Dean |
Politician |
20-Sep-1955 |
|
Mayor of Nashville |
| Kim Dickens |
Actor |
18-Jun-1965 |
|
Joanie Stubbs on Deadwood |
| James Dickey |
Poet |
2-Feb-1923 |
19-Jan-1997 |
Deliverance |
| Jimmie Dodd |
Talk Show Host |
28-Mar-1910 |
10-Nov-1964 |
Winsome Mickey Mouse Club host |
| K. Terry Dornbush |
Business |
1933 |
|
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1994-98 |
| David F. Dyer |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Tommy Hilfiger, 2003-06 |
| James O. Eastland |
Politician |
28-Nov-1904 |
19-Feb-1986 |
US Senator from Mississippi, 1943-78 |
| Linda Ellerbee |
Journalist |
15-Aug-1944 |
|
"And so it goes." |
| Hiram Wesley Evans |
Activist |
26-Sep-1881 |
Sep-1966 |
KKK Imperial Wizard, 1922-39 |
| David N. Farr |
Business |
1955 |
|
CEO of Emerson Electric |
| Mark L. Feidler |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
COO of Bellsouth, 2005-07 |
| Sam Feist |
Journalist |
21-Jan-1969 |
|
CNN Washington Bureau Chief |
| Russell M. Flaum |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
EVP at Illinois Tool Works |
| Duncan U. Fletcher |
Politician |
6-Jan-1859 |
17-Jun-1936 |
Congressman from Florida, 1909-36 |
| Joseph W. Folk |
Politician |
29-Oct-1869 |
29-May-1923 |
Governor of Missouri, 1905-09 |
| Charles M. La Follette |
Politician |
27-Feb-1898 |
27-Jun-1974 |
Congressman from Indiana, 1943-47 |
| Vince Foster |
Attorney |
15-Jan-1945 |
20-Jul-1993 |
Deputy White House Counsel for Clinton |
| Thomas Frist, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Co-Founder of HCA |
| John Nance Garner |
Politician |
22-Nov-1868 |
7-Nov-1967 |
US Vice President, 1933-41 |
| Willie Geist |
TV Personality |
3-May-1975 |
|
Way Too Early with Willie Geist |
| Julia S. Gibbons |
Judge |
23-Dec-1950 |
|
6th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Ellen Gilchrist |
Author |
20-Feb-1935 |
|
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams |
| Mitch Glazier |
Lobbyist |
1966 |
|
EVP at RIAA |
| Al Gore |
Politician |
31-Mar-1948 |
|
US Vice President under Clinton |
| Tipper Gore |
First Lady |
19-Aug-1948 |
|
Estranged wife of Al Gore |
| Amy Grant |
Singer/Songwriter |
25-Nov-1960 |
|
Christian rocker |
| John R. Hall |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
CEO of Ashland, 1981-96 |
| Matthew J. Hart |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Hilton Hotels |
| Charles O. Holliday, Jr. |
Business |
1948 |
|
CEO of DuPont, 1998-2008 |
| Allan Hubbard |
Economist |
8-Sep-1947 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
| Robert P. Hunter |
Activist |
23-Aug-1940 |
|
Mackinac Center for Public Policy |
| Orrin H. Ingram II |
Business |
5-Jul-1960 |
|
CEO of Ingram Industries |
| Victoria B. Jackson |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of Victoria Belle, Inc. |
| Claude Jarman, Jr. |
Actor |
27-Sep-1934 |
|
The Yearling |
| Randall Jarrell |
Poet |
6-May-1914 |
14-Oct-1965 |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| Duncan Jones |
Film Director |
30-May-1971 |
|
Moon |
| Mickey Kantor |
Government |
7-Aug-1939 |
|
US Secretary of Commerce, 1996-97 |
| Ric Keller |
Politician |
5-Sep-1964 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 2001-09 |
| Richard Kelly |
Politician |
31-Jul-1924 |
22-Aug-2005 |
Congressman snagged in ABSCAM sting |
| Jim Kever |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Voyent Partners LLC |
| Peter D. Kinnear |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of FMC Technologies |
| Lawrence N. Kugelman |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Health Plan of America, 1986-92 |
| Leonard Lance |
Politician |
25-Jun-1952 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 7th |
| Fritz G. Lanham |
Politician |
3-Jan-1880 |
31-Jul-1965 |
Congressman from Texas, 1919-47 |
| J. Hicks Lanier |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Oxford Industries |
| Ted Lazenby |
Business |
c. 1931 |
|
LNC Corporation |
| Jeff B. Love |
Attorney |
c. 1949 |
|
Locke Liddell & Sapp |
| J. Bernard Machen |
Educator |
26-Mar-1944 |
|
President, University of Florida |
| Delbert Mann |
Film Director |
30-Jan-1920 |
11-Nov-2007 |
That Touch of Mink |
| Harlan Mathews |
Politician |
17-Jan-1927 |
9-May-2014 |
US Senator from Tennessee, 1993-94 |
| Mark P. Mays |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
CEO of Clear Channel |
| James C. McReynolds |
Judge |
3-Feb-1862 |
24-Aug-1946 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1914-41 |
| Ann S. Moore |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Time Inc. |
| Stanford Moore |
Chemist |
4-Sep-1913 |
23-Aug-1982 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| James H. Morgan |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Krispy Kreme |
| Roy Neel |
Government |
c. 1948 |
|
Al Gore's Chief of Staff, 1993-94 |
| Mark Noll |
Historian |
1946 |
|
Christian historian |
| Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr. |
Historian |
13-Jun-1928 |
13-Jan-2013 |
The Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands |
| Doug Parker |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
CEO of US Airways |
| Tom Parker |
Judge |
19-Aug-1951 |
|
Justice, Alabama Supreme Court |
| James Patterson |
Author |
22-Mar-1947 |
|
Along Came a Spider |
| W. Robert Pearson |
Diplomat |
1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Turkey, 2000-03 |
| Alice M. Peterson |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Syrus Global |
| Charles Plosser |
Economist |
19-Sep-1948 |
|
President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed |
| Bill Purcell |
Politician |
25-Oct-1953 |
|
Mayor of Nashville, 1999-2007 |
| Benjamin Quayle |
Politician |
5-Nov-1976 |
|
Congressman from Arizona, 2011-13 |
| John Crowe Ransom |
Poet |
30-Apr-1888 |
4-Jul-1974 |
God Without Thunder |
| Arthur F. Raper |
Sociologist |
8-Nov-1899 |
10-Aug-1979 |
The Tragedy of Lynching |
| Amy Ray |
Singer/Songwriter |
12-Apr-1964 |
|
The Indigo Girls |
| Catherine B. Reynolds |
Philanthropist |
c. 1957 |
|
Prominent benefactor |
| William Bradford Reynolds |
Government |
21-Jun-1942 |
|
Reagan administration |
| Grantland Rice |
Sports Journalist |
1-Nov-1880 |
13-Jul-1954 |
Sportswriter, Idolmaker |
| Phyllis B. Riggins |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Managing Director, Bluffview Capital |
| J. Fred Rippy |
Historian |
27-Oct-1892 |
10-Feb-1977 |
Historical Evolution of Hispanic America |
| Jim Sasser |
Politician |
30-Sep-1936 |
|
US Senator from Tennessee, 1977-95 |
| Andrea Saul |
Government |
1981 |
|
Romney press secretary |
| Dinah Shore |
Singer |
29-Feb-1916 |
24-Feb-1994 |
See the U-S-A in a Chev-ro-let |
| Molly Sims |
Model |
25-May-1973 |
|
Delinda Deline on Las Vegas |
| Richard H. Sinkfield |
Attorney |
27-Aug-1942 |
|
Partner, Rogers & Hardin |
| John W. Snyder |
Government |
21-Jun-1895 |
8-Oct-1985 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1946-53 |
| David B. Speer |
Business |
6-Apr-1951 |
17-Nov-2012 |
CEO of Illinois Tool Works, 2005-12 |
| William T. Spitz |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Investment Manager for Vanderbilt, 1985-2007 |
| John R. Steelman |
Government |
23-Jun-1900 |
14-Jul-1999 |
Truman's Chief of Staff |
| David A. Stonecipher |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Jefferson-Pilot, 1993-2004 |
| David M. Szymanski |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Retailing Studies Professor |
| George W. Tamke |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice |
| Allen Tate |
Poet |
19-Nov-1899 |
9-Feb-1979 |
Mr. Pope and Other Poems |
| Peter Taylor |
Author |
8-Jan-1917 |
2-Nov-1994 |
A Summons to Memphis |
| Fred Thompson |
Actor |
19-Aug-1942 |
1-Nov-2015 |
Actor turned Senator from Tennessee |
| Jack Thompson |
Attorney |
25-Jul-1951 |
|
Video game decency barrator |
| Park Trammell |
Politician |
9-Apr-1876 |
8-May-1936 |
Governor and Senator from Florida |
| Hans von Spakovsky |
Government |
11-Mar-1959 |
|
FEC Commissioner |
| Richard F. Wallman |
Business |
1951 |
|
CFO of Honeywell, 1999-2003 |
| Robert Penn Warren |
Poet |
24-Apr-1905 |
15-Sep-1989 |
First US Poet Laureate |
| Jack Watson |
Government |
? |
|
Carter's Chief of Staff |
| Linda E. Watt |
Diplomat |
c. 1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Panama, 2002-05 |
| Curtis R. Welling |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of AmeriCares |
| David M. Wilds |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Managing Partner, 1st Avenue Partners |
| J. Lawrence Wilson |
Business |
2-Mar-1936 |
|
CEO of Rohm and Haas, 1988-99 |
| Spence L. Wilson |
Business |
10-Nov-1942 |
|
President, Kemmons Wilson, Inc. |
| Muhammad Yunus |
Business |
28-Jun-1940 |
|
Banker to the Poor |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Sidney Altman |
Chemist |
7-May-1939 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr. |
Attorney |
6-Jul-1944 |
|
Partner, Adams and Reese |
| David Blackbourn |
Historian |
1-Nov-1949 |
|
Populists and Patricians |
| Alfred Blalock |
Doctor |
5-Apr-1899 |
15-Sep-1964 |
"Blue baby" operation |
| Jack Bogle |
Business |
8-May-1929 |
|
Founder, The Vanguard Group |
| Stanley Cohen |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1922 |
|
Nerve and skin cell growth factors |
| Jim Cooper |
Politician |
19-Jun-1954 |
|
Congressman, Tennessee 5th |
| Donald Davidson |
Poet |
8-Aug-1893 |
25-Apr-1968 |
Agrarian, Southern American poet |
| Karl Dean |
Politician |
20-Sep-1955 |
|
Mayor of Nashville |
| Max Delbrück |
Scientist |
4-Sep-1906 |
10-Mar-1981 |
Molecular structure of viral genes (phages) |
| Larry Diamond |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Foreign policy expert |
| Lesley Gill |
Anthropologist |
1955 |
|
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change |
| Albert Gore, Sr. |
Politician |
26-Dec-1907 |
5-Dec-1998 |
US Senator from Tennessee, 1953-71 |
| Paul Greengard |
Scientist |
11-Dec-1925 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Holger H. Herwig |
Historian |
25-Sep-1941 |
|
Germany's Vision of Empire in Venezuela |
| Harry R. Jacobson |
Doctor |
c. 1947 |
|
Vice Chancellor for Health at Vanderbilt |
| Kent A. Jordan |
Judge |
24-Oct-1957 |
|
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| James T. Laney |
Educator |
24-Dec-1927 |
|
President of Emory University, 1977-93 |
| Horace Harmon Lurton |
Judge |
26-Feb-1844 |
12-Jul-1914 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1910-14 |
| James C. McReynolds |
Judge |
3-Feb-1862 |
24-Aug-1946 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1914-41 |
| Roy Neel |
Government |
c. 1948 |
|
Al Gore's Chief of Staff, 1993-94 |
| Frank Lawrence Owsley |
Historian |
20-Jan-1890 |
21-Oct-1956 |
King Cotton Diplomacy |
| Richard H. Sinkfield |
Attorney |
27-Aug-1942 |
|
Partner, Rogers & Hardin |
| Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1915 |
9-Mar-1974 |
Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP) |
| Robert Penn Warren |
Poet |
24-Apr-1905 |
15-Sep-1989 |
First US Poet Laureate |
