The city of Montgomery , the capital and second-largest city of the U.S. state of Alabama , has been the birthplace and home of these notable individuals.
Arts and entertainment
Brett Butler
Music
Tommy Shaw
Civil rights
Martin Luther King Jr.
Name
Notability
References
Ralph Abernathy
Baptist minister, Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader
[ 24]
Inez Baskin
Journalist and activist
[ 25]
Johnnie Carr
Montgomery Improvement Association president, Montgomery bus boycott co-organizer
[ 26]
Claudette Colvin
Pioneer of the civil rights movement
[ 27]
Morris Dees
Southern Poverty Law Center founder
[ 28]
Mahala Ashley Dickerson
First black female attorney in Alabama
[ 29]
Hazel Nell Dukes
Activist and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People .
[ 30]
Fred Gray
Attorney, founding member of the Montgomery Improvement Association
[ 31]
Richard H. Harris Jr.
Prominent civil rights leader, pharmacist and Tuskegee Airmen
[ 32] [ 33]
Vernon Johns
Minister, mentor to early civil rights leaders
[ 34]
Martin Luther King Jr.
Minister, founded the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference while in Montgomery, led the Montgomery bus boycott and Selma to Montgomery march
[ 35]
Martin Luther King III
Advocate, SCLC president
[ 36]
Yolanda King
Advocate and actress
[ 37]
E. D. Nixon
Attorney (Browder v. Gayle ), local NAACP president, Montgomery Improvement Association founder
[ 38]
Rosa Parks
Sparked the Montgomery bus boycott
[ 39]
Literature and journalism
Zelda Fitzgerald
Military
Samuel Cooper
Politics
Benjamin Fitzpatrick
Bibb Graves
J. Lister Hill
Name
Notability
References
John Abercrombie
U.S. Representative (1912–1917), president of the University of Alabama (1902–1911)
[ 55]
Winton M. Blount
United States Postmaster General (1969–1972) and philanthropist
[ 56]
Bobby Bright
Mayor (1999–2009), U.S. Representative (2009–2011)
[ 57]
Katie Britt
U.S. Senator (2023–present)
[ 58]
Charles Waldron Buckley
U.S. Representative (1868–1873)
[ 59]
Artur Davis
U.S. Representative (2003–2011)
[ 60]
William Louis Dickinson
U.S. Representative (1965–1993)
[ 61]
Edward C. Elmore
Confederate States of America treasurer
[ 62]
Benjamin Fitzpatrick
11th Governor of Alabama (1841–1845); United States Senator (1848–9, 1953-5, 1855–61) and President pro tempore (1857–60)
[ 63]
Emory Folmar
Mayor (1977–1999)
[ 64]
Jim Folsom Jr.
50th Governor of Alabama (1993–1995), Lieutenant Governor (1987–1993, 2007–2011)
[ 65]
MacDonald Gallion
Attorney General of Alabama (1953–63, 1967–71)
[ 66]
Bibb Graves
38th Governor of Alabama (1927–1931, 1935–1939)
[ 67]
Dixie Bibb Graves
First female United States Senator from Alabama (1937–1938)
[ 68]
J. Lister Hill
U.S. Representative (1923–38), U.S. Senator (1938–69), Senate Majority Whip (1941–47), known for the Hill-Burton Act
[ 69]
Perry O. Hooper Jr.
Member of Alabama House of Representatives (1984–2003)
[ 70]
Perry O. Hooper Sr.
Alabama Supreme Court 27th chief justice (1995–2001)
[ 71]
Thomas G. Jones
28th Governor of Alabama (1890–1894)
[ 72]
Claude R. Kirk Jr.
Governor of Florida (1967–1971)
[ 73]
Ann McCrory
First Lady of North Carolina
Gordon Persons
46th Governor of Alabama (1951–1955)
[ 74]
Martha Roby
Congresswoman from Alabama's 2nd congressional district (2011-2021)
[ 75]
Joe M. Rodgers
Construction executive, United States Ambassador to France
[ 76]
Sylvia Swayne
First openly transgender woman to run for public office in Alabama
[ 77]
Dorothy Tillman
Former Chicago Alderman
[ 78]
Steve Windom
28th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama (1999–2003)
[ 79]
William Lowndes Yancey
U.S. Representative (1844–46), Fire-Eater secession advocate, Confederate diplomat and Senator
[ 80]
Science and medicine
Kathryn Thornton
Sports
Alonzo Babers
Others
See also
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