Jack English Hightower
1926–2013 American politician and lawyer
Larry Combest
born 1945 American politician
Scott M. Grundy
1933–2025 American cardiologist
FS Frank Sachse
1917–1989 American basketball and football player
George Edward Stanley
1942–2011 American writer of children's fiction and academic (Middle Eastern and African languages)
Benjy Dial
1943–2001 American football player
Blues Boy Willie
1946–2024 African American electric blues singer and harmonica player
Lou Wills Hildreth
1928–2019 American Southern gospel performer
Foster Watkins
1917–2002 American football player
C. Morton Hawkins
1938–2023 Biostatistician
Jane Roberts Wood
1929–2022 American author
Also called Memphis home
JF John Richard Fowler
1927–2007 Texas pharmacist and gubernatorial appointee