List of people from Selma, Alabama

The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Selma, Alabama:

Activism

• Patricia Swift Blalock – librarian and civil rights activist^[1]
• Joanne Bland – civil rights movement activist^[2]
• J.L. Chestnut – author, attorney, and a figure in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement^[3]
• Annie Lee Cooper – long-time civil rights activist who was active in the 1965 Selma voting rights movement^[4]
• Willis Nathaniel Huggins – historian and social activist^[5]
• Frederick D. Reese – voting rights movement leader
• Amelia Boynton Robinson – voting rights movement leader and long-time civic activist in Selma^[6]

Art

• Mary Morgan Keipp – noted figure in the art photography movement of the early 20th century^[7]
• Clara Weaver Parrish – artist^[8]
• Alison Elizabeth Taylor – artist^[9]

Athletics

• Zinn Beck – former MLB infielder; managed the first Selma Cloverleafs from 1928 to 1930, winning the Southeastern League pennant in 1930^{[citation needed]}
• Curtis Berry – former professional basketball player^[10]
• David Beverly – former Auburn University and NFL player^[11]
• Charles Davis – member of the Azerbaijan national basketball team^[12]
• Cid Edwards – former NFL player^[13]
• Mia Hamm – former professional soccer player^[14]
• Candy Harris – former MLB player for the Houston Astros^[15]
• Michael Johnson – professional football player, NFL, Cincinnati Bengals^[16]
• James Ralph "Shug" Jordan – former head football coach of Auburn University^[17]
• Terry Leach – former professional baseball player MLB, baseball field at Bloch Park named for him^[18]
• Larry Marks – professional boxer^[19]
• William Clarence Matthews – former baseball player, lawyer, first head football coach for Tuskegee University and civil rights activist^[20]
• Pat McHugh – former professional football player for the Philadelphia Eagles^[21]
• Ben Obomanu – professional football player, NFL, New York Jets^[22]
• L. Vann Pettaway – men's basketball head coach of Alabama A&M from 1986 to 2011^[23]
• Ken Pettway – American player of gridiron football^[24]
• Hosken Powell – former Major League Baseball right fielder^[25]
• Cal Ramsey – former NBA player^[26]
• Ed Steele – former professional baseball outfielder^[27]

Business

• Olan Mills Sr. – photographer and founder of Olan Mills^[28]
• Richard Scrushy – founder of HealthSouth^[29]
• Craig Vetter – motorcycle designer^[30]
• Lulu White – brothel madam and procuress^[31]

Education

• Minnie Bruce Pratt – educator, activist, and essayist^[32]
• Frank Warner – American folk song collector and former YMCA executive^[33]

Fashion

• Eunice W. Johnson – founder and director of the Ebony Fashion Fair^[34]

Government

• David Abner – former member of the Texas Legislature^[35]
• Ann Bedsole – member of both houses of the Alabama State Legislature 1979–1995 from Mobile, born in 1930 in Selma^[36]
• Jo Bonner – U.S Representative from 2003 to 2013^[37]
• Janice Bowling – member of the Tennessee Senate^[38]
• Jim Clark – Selma sheriff during the 1965 Voting Rights campaign^[39]
• William Benjamin Craig – U.S. Representative from 1907 to 1911^[40]
• Suzan DelBene – U.S. Representative for Washington's 1st congressional district^[41]
• Jeremiah Haralson – U.S. Representative from 1875 to 1877^[42]
• Sam Hobbs – U.S. Representative from 1935 to 1951^[43]
• Truman McGill Hobbs – United States federal judge^[44]
• Michael W. Jackson – district attorney^[45]
• Thomas S. Kenan – U.S. Representative from 1805 to 1811^[46]
• William Rufus King – Vice President of the United States, U.S. Senator, Minister to France^[47]
• William Lehman U.S. Representative from 1973 to 1993^[48]
• John Tyler Morgan – U.S. Senator from 1877 to 1907, Major General CSA^[49]
• James Perkins, Jr. – first African American mayor of Selma^[50]
• Edmund Pettus – U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1907, Brigadier General CSA^[51]
• Jeff Sessions – United States Senator^[52]
• Terri Sewell – 2010 Democratic representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district^[53]
• Benjamin S. Turner – first African American elected to U.S. Congress from Alabama (1871– Republican)^[54]
• Hattie Hooker Wilkins – first woman elected to the Alabama Legislature^[55]

Literature

• Sarah Johnson Cocke – writer and civic leader^[56]
• W. C. Morrow – writer^[57]
• William O. Walker – former editor of the Call and Post^[58]
• Sheyann Webb – writer^[59]
• Kathryn Tucker Windham – storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist^[60]

Military

• Howard W. Gilmore – World War II submarine commander who posthumously received the Medal of Honor^[61]
• William J. Hardee – Lieutenant General CSA, author of Hardee's Military Tactics used by both Union and Confederate troops^[62]
• Catesby ap Roger Jones – Naval Commander, Captain of the ironclad ship CSS Virginia in its battle with the USS Monitor during the first conflict between iron warships in world history^[63]
• John Melvin – first American naval officer to die in World War I^[64]

Music

• Randall Atcheson – concert pianist^[65]
• Kenny Brown – blues slide guitarist^[66]
• Mattie Moss Clark – former gospel music singer, The Clark Sisters^[67]
• Jimmy Gresham – soul musician^[68]
• Johnny Moore – lead singer for The Drifters^[69]
• Bill Moss – gospel music singer^[70]
• Oscar Toney, Jr. – soul singer^[71]

Parapsychology

• Edgar Cayce – famed psychic^[72]

Religion

• Moses Anderson – Roman Catholic bishop^[73]
• T. J. Jemison – president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1982 to 1994^[74]
• Clarence Rufus J. Rivers – priest and composer of liturgical music^[75]
• Milton L. Wood – Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta from 1967 to 1974^[76]

Science

• Shwetak Patel – computer scientist and entrepreneur^[77]

Television and film

• Gregg Hale – film producer^[78]

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