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Notable people, past and present, who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely
associated with Mobile, Alabama:
Literature[edit]
 Manda Collins, historical romance author
 Augusta Jane Evans, author
 Winston Groom, author, best known for Forrest Gump[1]
 Melinda Haynes, author
 Roy Hoffman, author
 Michael Knight, university professor and author
 William March, author and World War I veteran
 William P. McGivern, author
 Albert Murray, Author
 John Travis Nixon, newspaper publisher in Monroe and Crowley, Louisiana; formerly
worked as a journalist in Mobile; died in Mobile in 1909[2]
 Michelle Richmond, author
 Emma Langdon Roche, author and artist
 Stanley R. Tiner, journalist for Mobile Press-Register and The Sun Herald in Biloxi-
Gulfport, Mississippi; Tiner and staff won 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Hurricane Katrina
coverage.

Arts and entertainment[edit]

 Yolande Betbeze, Miss America 1951
 Bob Holly, professional wrestler known as "Hardcore Holly"
 Bill Moody, professional wrestling manager known as Percy Pringle and Paul Bearer
 Kathryn Morgan, ballet dancer
 Geoff Ramsey, co-founder of Rooster Teeth
 John Augustus Walker, artist known for his paintings and murals
 Eugene Walter, labeled "Mobile's Renaissance Man" for diverse activities the arts;
interred in 1998 in historic Church Street Graveyard by special resolution of the city[3]

Business[edit]
 Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc.
 James M. Fail, chairman of Bluebonnet Savings Bank
 Lonnie Johnson, inventor of the Super Soaker
 Geoffrey Sauer, web publisher, theorist, and author

Film and television[edit]

 Laverne Cox, actress and producer
 Phil Gordon, actor and dialect coach[4]
 Connie Bea Hope, television personality
 Orlando Jones, comedian and actor
 Danny Lipford, contractor and TV host
 Jonathan Mangum, host, Let's Make a Deal
  Fayard Nicholas, dancer of the Nicholas Brothers
 Dan Povenmire, television director, television writer, and producer
 James "JT" Thomas Jr., million-dollar winner of Survivor: Tocantins
 Richard Tyson, film actor

Historic[edit]
 Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr., largely credited with the rebirth of Mardi Gras celebrations
in Mobile after the Civil War; city celebrates Joe Cain Day on the Sunday before
Mardi Gras[5]
 Octavia Walton Le Vert, socialite and writer[6]
 Cudjoe Lewis, last adult survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade
 Eugenie Marx, first president of Mobile Equal Suffrage Association, lived
on Government Street 1910-1915[7]
 Florence Chandler Maybrick, born into a wealthy Mobile family, her mother remarried
after her father's death and became Baroness von Roques; Florence married a
British cotton factor, James Maybrick, and they lived at Battlecrease House
in Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool; both were known for their extramarital affairs;
Florence was later found guilty of murdering her husband
 Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt, born and raised in Mobile, wife of Cornelius
Vanderbilt's grandson William K. Vanderbilt and mother of Consuelo Spencer-
Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; known for building several of the most noted
houses of the Gilded Era[where?]; later a crusader for the women's suffrage movement
and the Equal Rights Amendment[8]
 Michael Donald, lynching victim
 Joseph Paul Franklin, serial killer

Military[edit]
 Lloyd Austin, 28th United States Secretary of Defense
 Jerome Gary Cooper, Major General, US Marines
 Keith L. Craig, Sergeant Major, US Army
 Jeremiah Denton, admiral, United States Navy
 William Crawford Gorgas, physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the United States
Army; known for his work in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria
 John D. New, United States Marine in World War II, only Mobile native to be
awarded the Medal of Honor; Cottage Hill Park was renamed Medal of Honor Park in
his honor, and Pixie Street was renamed PFC John D. New Drive
 Sidney Phillips, United States Marine, portrayed by Ashton Holmes in the HBO
miniseries The Pacific
 Admiral Raphael Semmes, captain of the CSS Alabama during the American Civil
War; resident of Mobile; the Mobile suburb of Semmes is named in his honor[9]
 Eugene Sledge, United States Marine Corps, author of New York Times bestselling
book With the Old Breed, portrayed by Joseph Mazzello in the HBO miniseries The
Pacific, university professor, and World War II veteran
 Leighton W. Smith, Jr., admiral, U.S. Navy; in 1994, became commander-in-chief of
U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Allied Forces Southern Europe
Music[edit]
 Backwater, late 1970s jazz fusion band
 The Band Perry, sibling country music trio
 Billy Bang, jazz violinist and composer
 Jimmy Buffett, vocalist, songwriter and entrepreneur[10][11]
 Vice Cooler, lead vocalist and songwriter for XBXRX
 Elley Duhé, singer and songwriter
 James Reese Europe, conductor and composer
 Flo Milli, hip hop artist, rapper
 Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green, professional jazz trombonist
 Jimmy Hall, lead vocalist and harmonica player for Wet Willie
 Walker Hayes, country singer
 Will Kimbrough, vocalist, songwriter, musician and producer
 Allison Moorer, Oscar-nominated songwriter
 NoCap, hip hop artist,singer rapper
 Bernard Odum, bass player, best known for performing in James Brown's band
 Terrance Quaites, aka TQ, R&B artist
 Rich Boy, rap and hip hop artist
 Ray Sawyer, lead vocalist of Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
 Beverly Jo Scott, singer and songwriter
 John "Jabo" Starks, funk and rhythm and blues drummer
 Ward Swingle, jazz vocalist
 Fred Wesley, jazz and funk trombonist
 Cootie Williams, jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter, performed with Duke
Ellington and Benny Goodman
 Linda Zoghby, soprano, Metropolitan Opera

Political[edit]
 Bidwell Adam, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1928 to 1932, born in Mobile
in 1894; raised in Pass Christian, Mississippi[12]
 Ann Bedsole, member of Alabama House of Representatives 1979–1983
and Alabama State Senate 1983–1995; candidate for governor 1995 and for mayor
of Mobile, 2005
 Jo Bonner, former U.S. Representative from Alabama's 1st congressional district
 Frank Boykin, represented Mobile in Congress for 28 years
 Sanford Bishop, Democratic Party, member of the United States House of
Representatives
 Mark E. Clayton, Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Tennessee in 2012;
born in Mobile
 Margaret Conditt, Ohio State Representative, a Republican member; born in Mobile
 Mike Dow, four-term mayor of Mobile
 Vivian Davis Figures, Democratic member of the Alabama State Senate
 Alexis Herman, Democratic Party, served as the 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor under
President Bill Clinton
  Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S. minister to Russia under President William
McKinley, U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Theodore Roosevelt
 Samuel L. Jones, Democratic Party, elected as in 2005 as Mobile's first African
American mayor
 Sybil I. McLaughlin, first Clerk and Speaker in the Cayman Islands government
 Joseph C. Mitchell, Democrat member of Alabama House of Representatives from
District 103
 Bert Nettles, Republican former member of the Alabama House of
Representatives from Mobile; subsequently a lawyer in Birmingham
 William Holcombe "Bill" Pryor, Jr., Republican Party, former Attorney General of
Alabama; federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh
Circuit
 Jeff Sessions, Republican Party, formerly Attorney General of Alabama; United
States Senator
 Donald Eugene Siegelman, Democratic Party, only person in Alabama history
elected to serve in all four top statewide offices: Secretary of State, Attorney
General, Lieutenant Governor and Governor
 Tom Turnipseed, executive director of George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign
who became a liberal activist in South Carolina, born in Mobile

Religious[edit]
 Oscar Hugh Lipscomb, first Archbishop of Mobile (Roman Catholic) and its eighth
bishop
 Dominic Manucy, third Bishop of Mobile
 Michael Portier, first Bishop of Mobile
 Abram Joseph Ryan, poet, Roman Catholic priest at St. Mary's parish; known as
"Poet-priest of the South"
 Thomas Joseph Toolen, sixth Bishop of Mobile

Athletics[edit]
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Mobile is the birthplace of five members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Only New York
City and Chicago can claim to be the birthplace of more members of the Hall.

 Hank Aaron, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and 2nd on the all-time home

run list;[13] Hank Aaron Stadium and the Hank Aaron Loop in Mobile are named in his
honor[14]
 Tommie Aaron, Major League Baseball player[13]
 Bill Adair, Major League Baseball and manager[13]
 Terry Adams, Major League Baseball player
 Willie Anderson, offensive lineman for Cincinnati Bengals[15]
 Frank Bolling, Major League Baseball player[13]
 Scott Bolton, wide receiver, Green Bay Packers
 Robert Brazile, NFL player[16]
 Jason Caffey, Chicago Bulls, NBA
 DeMarcus Cousins, NBA player for Sacramento Kings[17]
 Dameyune Craig, quarterback for Auburn University and Carolina Panthers;
assistant coach for Auburn
 Fennis Dembo, forward, played for the NBA world champion Detroit Pistons in
1989[18]
 Nick Fairley, defensive tackle for Detroit Lions
 Cale Gale, NASCAR driver for KHI
 Paul Harris, player for Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Minnesota Vikings
 Margaret Holgerson, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
 Destin Hood, MLB player for the Miami Marlins
 Pat Howell, MLB player[19]
 Scott Hunter, NFL player[20]
 Chevis Jackson, NFL defensive back, Atlanta Falcons, alumnus of LSU
 Aron Jóhannsson, American footballer, SV Werder Bremen and United States men's
national soccer team
 Cleon Jones, MLB outfielder, New York Mets
 Antonio Lang, Duke and NBA player[21]
 Tamaurice "Tee" Martin, University of Tennessee, NFL and CFL quarterback; led
Tennessee to undefeated season (13–0) and 1998 National Championship[22]
 Keith McCants, NFL, defensive lineman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
 A. J. McCarron, quarterback for Alabama
 Willie McCovey, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame[13]
 Henry Monroe, NFL defensive back, Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles
 Sterling Moore, NFL cornerback
 Amos Otis, MLB player[13]
 Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame; Satchel Paige
Drive in Mobile is named in his honor[13][23]
 Jake Peavy, baseball pitcher, winner of Cy Young Award
 Juan Pierre, MLB player
 Donald Reese, NFL player, Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints[24]
 JaMarcus Russell, quarterback for LSU and Oakland Raiders
 Chris Samuels, NFL lineman, Washington Redskins
 Ozzie Smith, MLB shortstop, member of Baseball Hall of Fame[13]
 Dewarick Spencer, basketball player for European professional teams
 Jaquiski Tartt, NFL safety for the San Francisco 49ers
 Erick Walder, track-and-field long jumper
 Jimmie Ward, NFL cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers
 Turner Ward, MLB baseball player
 Billy Williams, MLB left fielder, coach, member of Baseball Hall of Fame
 Sherman Williams, NFL
 T. J. Yeldon, Jacksonville, Jaguars, NFL
 Bubba Wallace, NASCAR driver for 23XI Racing
Science[edit]
 Gregory Benford, physicist, science fiction author
 Regina Benjamin, physician, medical director, former Surgeon General of the United
States
 Kathryn P. Hire, captain, United States Naval Reserve, NASA astronaut
 George Bigelow Rogers, architect
 Alfreda Johnson Webb, professor of biology and doctor of veterinary medicine
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References[edit]

 Alabama portal

1. ^ "Winston Groom".  Alabamiana, A Guide to Alabama. Archived from  the original on

November 2, 2007. Retrieved  October 16,  2007.
2. ^ "Nixon, John Travis". Louisiana Historical Association. Archived from  the original on May
12, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
3. ^ "Eugene Walter". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved  October 16,  2007.
4. ^ "Phil Gulley obituary". Press-Register. June 17, 2010. Retrieved  July 3,  2010.[clarification needed][dead link]
5. ^ Joe Danborn; Cammie East (February 25, 2001). "Joe Cain: Mobile's King for
Today". Mobile Register. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.
Retrieved October 16, 2007 – via Cain's Merry Widows.
6. ^ Satterfield, Frances Gibson (1987). Madame Le Vert: A Biography of Octavia Walton Le
Vert. Edisto Island, S.C.: Edisto Press.  ISBN  978-0-9618589-1-9.
7. ^ "Eugenie Marx".  William G. Pomeroy Foundation. Retrieved  November 4, 2022.
8. ^ Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a
Mother in the Gilded Age. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0-06-621418-1
9. ^ "Raphael Semmes".  Alabama Hall of Fame. Retrieved  October 16,  2007.
10. ^ Buffett, J: A Pirate Looks at Fifty, page 402. Random House, 1998. ISBN 0-679-43527-1
11. ^ "Jimmy Buffett". Alabamiana, A Guide to Alabama. Archived from the original  on October
30, 2007. Retrieved October 16, 2007.
12. ^ John H. Lang, History of Harrison County, Mississippi Dixie Press, 1935, p. 135
13. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h Reichler, Joseph L. The Baseball Encyclopedia, New York: Macmillan
Publishing, 1979. ISBN 0-02-578970-8
14. ^ "Baseball Page Bio". thebaseballpage.com. Retrieved October 16, 2007.
15. ^ "Willie Aaron Anderson". databaseFootball.com. Archived from  the original on October 24,
2012. Retrieved  November 10, 2012.
16. ^ "Robert Lorenzo Brazile". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original  on October 19,
2012. Retrieved  November 10, 2012.
17. ^ "DeMarcus Amir Cousins". Basketball-Reference.Com. Retrieved  November 10, 2012.
18. ^ "Fennis Dembo". Basketball-Reference.Com. Retrieved  June 24,  2013.
19. ^ "Pat Howell Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved  November 10, 2012.
20. ^ "Scott Hunter". databaseFootball.com. Archived from  the original on October 17, 2012.
Retrieved November 10,  2012.
21. ^ "Antonio Maurice Lang". datbaseBasketball.com. Archived from  the original on October 8,
2012. Retrieved  November 10, 2012.
22. ^ "Tee Martin". Pro-Football-Reference.Com. Retrieved November 10,  2012.
23. ^ "Satchel Paige".  Satchel Paige Biography. Retrieved October 16, 2007.
 24. ^ "Donald Francis Reese". databaseFootball.com. Archived from  the original on November 2,
2012. Retrieved  November 10, 2012.

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