Y Yelawolf
born 1979 American rapper
Beth Grant
born 1949 American actress
Roy Moore
born 1947 American jurist and politician
Sunny Mabrey
born 1975 American actress, model and comedian
Mathew Knowles
born 1952 American music executive, businessman, record producer, and manager
Charles Clyde Ebbets
1905–1978 American photographer
Phillip Alford
born 1948 American actor
Bassett Maguire
1904–1991 U.S. botanist
James Allen
1912–1978 Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama
Theodore J. Lowi
1931–2017 American political scientist
Jerry McCain
1930–2012 American electric blues musician
Lainey Reid
born 1998 American professional wrestler
Aimee Mayo
born 1971 American songwriter
Derrick Allen
born 1980 American basketball player
Pat Swindall
1950–2018 American politician
Jean Cox
1922–2012 American operatic tenor
Jim Guthrie
born 1961 American racing driver
Rex Griffin
1912–1959 American singer-songwriter, musician, singer and songwriter
Britt Leach
born 1938 American actor
Bill Green
1940–1994 American basketball player
Dave Bustion
born 1949 American basketball player
George Herring
1933–1994 American gridiron football player
Jennie Patrick
born 1949 Chemical engineer and educator
John Solomon Sandridge
born 1950 American painter
Lou Allen
1924–2008 American football player
Patricia Swift Blalock
1914–2011 American librarian and human rights activist
Willie Scott
1947–2026 American professional basketball player
Aaron Pearson
born 1964 American football player
Benny Nelson
born 1941 American football player
Christopher Cox
1949–1990 American writer
Craig Ford
born 1968 American politician
Hannah Gladden
born 1996 American wrestler
James Anthony Carmichael
1941–2026 American musician and record producer
Jason Smoots
born 1980 American sprinter
Rickey Brown
born 1955 American basketball player
Stacy Jones
born 1967 American baseball player
Tommy Stewart
born 1939 American trumpeter
Alan Dunn
born 1961 American baseball player and coach
Becky Nordgren
born 1961 American politician
Bradley Gaskin
American singer-songwriter
Brick Haley
born 1966 American football coach
Chris Davis
born 1982 American mixed martial arts fighter
Danny Ford
born 1947 American football player and coach
Danny Mayo
1950–1999 American musician
Evelyn Lawler
1929–2023 American hurdler and sprinter
H. Dean Buttram Jr.
born 1950 United States federal judge
Kelvin Belcher
1961–2017 American tennis player
Marsha Jordan
born 2000 American sexploitation film actress and model
Milton K. Cummings
1911–1973 Businessperson
Steve Shields
born 1958 American baseball player
Dave Rosser
1967–2017 Musical artist
John D. Johns
born 1952 American businessman and civic leader
Joyce A. Hughes
1940–2025 American law professor
Joyce M. Chellis
American stenographer and activist
Lynne C. Wright
born 1954 Ph.D. University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa 1978
Pickens W. Black Sr.
1861–1955 Agriculturalist
Also called Gadsden home
JS Jana Sanderson
born 1979 Miss Alabama 2000
Shannon Camper
born 1979 Miss Alabama 2004