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
File:BrettButler.jpg Brett Butler
Music
File:TommyShaw.JPG Tommy Shaw
Civil rights
File:Martin-Luther-King-1964-leaning-on-a-lectern.jpg Martin Luther King Jr.
File:Rosaparks.jpg Rosa Parks
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]
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
File:Zelda Fitzgerald portrait.jpg Zelda Fitzgerald
Military
File:S Cooper US Army.jpg Samuel Cooper
Politics
File:BenFitz.jpg Benjamin Fitzpatrick
File:BibbGraves.jpg Bibb Graves
File:Listerhill.jpg J. Lister Hill
Science and medicine File:KathrynThornton.jpg Kathryn Thornton
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]
Sports
File:Public Domain 4 x 400 Relay at the Summer Olympics by Ken Hackman, August 1984 (DOD DD-SC-85-09738) (514592022).jpg Alonzo Babers
Others
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