• Source: List of people from Selma, Alabama

      • The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Selma, Alabama:


      Activism


      Patricia Swift Blalock – librarian and civil rights activist
      Joanne Bland – civil rights movement activist
      J.L. Chestnut – author, attorney, and a figure in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
      Annie Lee Cooper – long-time civil rights activist who was active in the 1965 Selma voting rights movement
      Willis Nathaniel Huggins – historian and social activist
      Frederick D. Reese – voting rights movement leader
      Amelia Boynton Robinson – voting rights movement leader and long-time civic activist in Selma


      Art


      Mary Morgan Keipp – noted figure in the art photography movement of the early 20th century
      Clara Weaver Parrish – artist
      Alison Elizabeth Taylor – artist


      Athletics


      Zinn Beck – former MLB infielder; managed the first Selma Cloverleafs from 1928 to 1930, winning the Southeastern League pennant in 1930
      Curtis Berry – former professional basketball player
      David Beverly – former Auburn University and NFL player
      Charles Davis – member of the Azerbaijan national basketball team
      Cid Edwards – former NFL player
      Mia Hamm – former professional soccer player
      Candy Harris – former MLB player for the Houston Astros
      Michael Johnson – professional football player, NFL, Cincinnati Bengals
      James Ralph "Shug" Jordan – former head football coach of Auburn University
      Terry Leach – former professional baseball player MLB, baseball field at Bloch Park named for him
      Larry Marks – professional boxer
      William Clarence Matthews – former baseball player, lawyer, first head football coach for Tuskegee University and civil rights activist
      Pat McHugh – former professional football player for the Philadelphia Eagles
      Ben Obomanu – professional football player, NFL, New York Jets
      L. Vann Pettaway – men's basketball head coach of Alabama A&M from 1986 to 2011
      Ken Pettway – American player of gridiron football
      Hosken Powell – former Major League Baseball right fielder
      Cal Ramsey – former NBA player
      Ed Steele – former professional baseball outfielder


      Business


      Olan Mills Sr. – photographer and founder of Olan Mills
      Richard Scrushy – founder of HealthSouth
      Craig Vetter – motorcycle designer
      Lulu White – brothel madam and procuress


      Education


      Bogart Leashore – social worker, sociologist, dean of Hunter College school of social work (1991–2003)
      Minnie Bruce Pratt – educator, activist, and essayist
      Frank Warner – American folk song collector and former YMCA executive


      Fashion


      Eunice W. Johnson – founder and director of the Ebony Fashion Fair


      Government


      David Abner – former member of the Texas Legislature
      Ann Bedsole – member of both houses of the Alabama State Legislature 1979–1995 from Mobile, born in 1930 in Selma
      Jo Bonner – U.S Representative from 2003 to 2013
      Janice Bowling – member of the Tennessee Senate
      Jim Clark – Selma sheriff during the 1965 Voting Rights campaign
      William Benjamin Craig – U.S. Representative from 1907 to 1911
      Suzan DelBene – U.S. Representative for Washington's 1st congressional district
      Jeremiah Haralson – U.S. Representative from 1875 to 1877
      Sam Hobbs – U.S. Representative from 1935 to 1951
      Truman McGill Hobbs – United States federal judge
      Michael W. Jackson – district attorney
      Thomas S. Kenan – U.S. Representative from 1805 to 1811
      William Rufus King – Vice President of the United States, U.S. Senator, Minister to France
      William Lehman U.S. Representative from 1973 to 1993
      John Tyler Morgan – U.S. Senator from 1877 to 1907, Major General CSA
      James Perkins, Jr. – first African American mayor of Selma
      Edmund Pettus – U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1907, Brigadier General CSA
      Jeff Sessions – United States Senator
      Terri Sewell – 2010 Democratic representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district
      Benjamin S. Turner – first African American elected to U.S. Congress from Alabama (1871– Republican)
      Hattie Hooker Wilkins – first woman elected to the Alabama Legislature


      Literature


      Katharine Hopkins Chapman (1870/72/73-1930) - author and historian
      Sarah Johnson Cocke – writer and civic leader
      W. C. Morrow – writer
      William O. Walker – former editor of the Call and Post
      Sheyann Webb – writer
      Kathryn Tucker Windham – storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist


      Military


      Howard W. Gilmore – World War II submarine commander who posthumously received the Medal of Honor
      William J. Hardee – Lieutenant General CSA, author of Hardee's Military Tactics used by both Union and Confederate troops
      Catesby ap Roger Jones – Naval Commander, Captain of the ironclad ship CSS Virginia in its battle with the USS Monitor during the first conflict between iron warships in world history
      John Melvin – first American naval officer to die in World War I


      Music


      Randall Atcheson – concert pianist
      Kenny Brown – blues slide guitarist
      Mattie Moss Clark – former gospel music singer, The Clark Sisters
      Jimmy Gresham – soul musician
      Johnny Moore – lead singer for The Drifters
      Bill Moss – gospel music singer
      Oscar Toney, Jr. – soul singer
      Asher HaVon - winner of NBC's The Voice


      Parapsychology


      Edgar Cayce – famed psychic


      Religion


      Moses Anderson – Roman Catholic bishop
      T. J. Jemison – president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1982 to 1994
      Lippman Mayer – rabbi
      Clarence Rufus J. Rivers – priest and composer of liturgical music
      Milton L. Wood – Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta from 1967 to 1974


      Science


      Shwetak Patel – computer scientist and entrepreneur


      Television and film


      Gregg Hale – film producer


      References

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