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
Music
Civil rights
Name |
Notability |
References
|
Ralph Abernathy |
Baptist minister, Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader |
[25]
|
Inez Baskin |
Journalist and activist |
[26]
|
Johnnie Carr |
Montgomery Improvement Association president, Montgomery bus boycott co-organizer |
[27]
|
Claudette Colvin |
Pioneer of the civil rights movement |
[28]
|
Morris Dees |
Southern Poverty Law Center founder |
[29]
|
Mahala Ashley Dickerson |
First black female attorney in Alabama |
[30]
|
Hazel Nell Dukes
|
Activist and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
|
[31]
|
Fred Gray |
Attorney, founding member of the Montgomery Improvement Association |
[32]
|
Richard H. Harris Jr. |
Prominent civil rights leader, pharmacist and Tuskegee Airmen |
[33][34]
|
Vernon Johns |
Minister, mentor to early civil rights leaders |
[35]
|
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 |
[36]
|
Martin Luther King III |
Advocate, SCLC president |
[37]
|
Yolanda King |
Advocate and actress |
[38]
|
E. D. Nixon |
Attorney (Browder v. Gayle), local NAACP president, Montgomery Improvement Association founder |
[39]
|
Rosa Parks |
Sparked the Montgomery bus boycott |
[40]
|
Literature and journalism
Military
Politics
Name |
Notability |
References
|
John Abercrombie |
U.S. Representative (1912–1917), president of the University of Alabama (1902–1911) |
[56]
|
Winton M. Blount |
United States Postmaster General (1969–1972) and philanthropist |
[57]
|
Bobby Bright |
Mayor (1999–2009), U.S. Representative (2009–2011) |
[58]
|
Katie Britt
|
U.S. Senator (2023–present)
|
[59]
|
Charles Waldron Buckley |
U.S. Representative (1868–1873) |
[60]
|
Artur Davis |
U.S. Representative (2003–2011) |
[61]
|
William Louis Dickinson |
U.S. Representative (1965–1993) |
[62]
|
Edward C. Elmore |
Confederate States of America treasurer |
[63]
|
Benjamin Fitzpatrick |
11th Governor of Alabama (1841–1845); United States Senator (1848–9, 1953-5, 1855–61) and President pro tempore (1857–60) |
[64]
|
Emory Folmar |
Mayor (1977–1999) |
[65]
|
Jim Folsom Jr. |
50th Governor of Alabama (1993–1995), Lieutenant Governor (1987–1993, 2007–2011) |
[66]
|
MacDonald Gallion |
Attorney General of Alabama (1953–63, 1967–71) |
[67]
|
Bibb Graves |
38th Governor of Alabama (1927–1931, 1935–1939) |
[68]
|
Dixie Bibb Graves |
First female United States Senator from Alabama (1937–1938) |
[69]
|
J. Lister Hill |
U.S. Representative (1923–38), U.S. Senator (1938–69), Senate Majority Whip (1941–47), known for the Hill-Burton Act |
[70]
|
Perry O. Hooper Jr. |
Member of Alabama House of Representatives (1984–2003) |
[71]
|
Perry O. Hooper Sr. |
Alabama Supreme Court 27th chief justice (1995–2001) |
[72]
|
Thomas G. Jones |
28th Governor of Alabama (1890–1894) |
[73]
|
Claude R. Kirk Jr. |
Governor of Florida (1967–1971) |
[74]
|
Ann McCrory |
First Lady of North Carolina
|
Gordon Persons |
46th Governor of Alabama (1951–1955) |
[75]
|
Martha Roby |
Congresswoman from Alabama's 2nd congressional district (2011-2021) |
[76]
|
Joe M. Rodgers |
Construction executive, United States Ambassador to France |
[77]
|
Sylvia Swayne |
First openly transgender woman to run for public office in Alabama |
[78]
|
Dorothy Tillman |
Former Chicago Alderman |
[79]
|
Steve Windom |
28th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama (1999–2003) |
[80]
|
William Lowndes Yancey |
U.S. Representative (1844–46), Fire-Eater secession advocate, Confederate diplomat and Senator |
[81]
|
Science and medicine
Sports
Others
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