Who was born in Memphis TN that is famous?

Answer 1

• 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