List of people from Danville, Kentucky
These noted people were born, raised or lived for a significant period of time in the city of Danville, Kentucky.
| Name | Noted for | |
|---|---|---|
| Michael F. Adams | b. 1948 | President of the University of Georgia |
| Sophia Alcorn | 1883-1967 | Educator; invented the Tadoma method of communication with people who are deaf and blind |
| William Anderson | 1826-1861 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky |
| Joshua Fry Bell | 1811-1870 | U.S. Representative, Kentucky Secretary of State; namesake of Bell County, Kentucky |
| James G. Birney | 1792-1857 | Abolitionist, politician and jurist |
| James M. Birney | 1817-1888 | Publisher and U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands |
| William Birney | 1819-1907 | Professor, Union Army general during the American Civil War, attorney and author |
| Jeremiah Boyle | 1818-1871 | Lawyer, abolitionist, and brigadier general during the American Civil War |
| John Boyle | 1774-1834 | U.S. federal judge and U.S. Representative; namesake of Boyle County, Kentucky |
| John C. Breckinridge | 1821-1875 | U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States, U.S. presidential candidate, Confederate States Secretary of War |
| Robert Breckinridge | 1800-1871 | Kentucky politician and Presbyterian minister |
| Neal Brown | b. 1980 | College football coach and former player |
| Samuel D. Burchard | 1812-1891 | Clergyman |
| Michael Burns | b. 1947 | Historian and actor |
| Jewel Carmen | 1897-1984 | Silent film actress |
| James Clemens, Jr. | 1791-1878 | Businessman and banker |
| George B. Crittenden | 1812-1880 | Career Army officer who served in the Black Hawk War, the Army of the Republic of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War |
| Joseph Daveiss | 1774-1811 | Lawyer and soldier |
| Todd Duncan | 1903-1998 | Baritone opera singer and actor |
| Milton J. Durham | 1824-1911 | Representative from Kentucky |
| John Fetterman | 1920-1975 | Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter |
| John Baptiste Ford | 1811-1903 | Industrialist and founder of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company |
| Harry Frankel | 1888-1948 | Minstrel performer and vaudevillian, "Singin' Sam, the Barbasol Man" |
| Speed S. Fry | 1817-1892 | Lawyer, judge, and U.S. Army officer during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War |
| William Arthur Ganfield | 1873-1940 | Educator |
| Hart Goodloe | 1875-1954 | Surgeon in the First World War |
| Ashley Gorley | b. 1969 | Songwriter and producer |
| Christopher Greenup | 1750-1818 | U.S. Representative and Governor of Kentucky |
| Aaron Harding | 1805-1875 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky |
| John Marshall Harlan | 1833-1911 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice, "The Great Dissenter" |
| Larnelle Harris | b. 1947 | Gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist |
| Harvey Helm | 1865-1919 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky |
| Robby Henson | Film director and screenwriter | |
| William R. Higgins | 1945-1990 | U.S. Marine Corps colonel captured and killed in 1988 while on a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. |
| Edward W. Hoch | 1849-1925 | Governor of Kansas |
| Dennis Johnson | b. 1979 | Football player |
| Elizabeth Topham Kennan | b. 1938 | Academic, president of Mount Holyoke College |
| James Kerr | 1790-1850 | Politician in Missouri and Texas who was active in establishing the Republic of Texas |
| John Kincaid | 1791-1873 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky |
| J. Proctor Knott | 1830-1911 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky and Governor of Kentucky |
| Travis Leffew | b. 1983 | Football player |
| Robert P. Letcher | 1788-1861 | U.S. Representative, diplomat, and Governor of Kentucky |
| Pierce Lively | 1921-2016 | U.S. federal judge |
| Sara W. Mahan | 1870-1966 | Progressive era social reformer, early Democratic Party member |
| Maurice Manning | b. 1966 | Poet |
| Jim Marshall | b. 1937 | Football player |
| Claude Matthews | 1845-1898 | Governor of Indiana |
| Charles McDowell, Jr. | 1926-2010 | Political writer and television panelist |
| Ephraim McDowell | 1771-1830 | Physician, first to successfully remove an ovarian tumor |
| Samuel McDowell | 1735-1817 | Soldier and early political leader in Kentucky |
| John Gaines Miller | 1812-1856 | U.S. Representative from Missouri |
| Eddie Montgomery | b. 1963 | Country music artist |
| John Michael Montgomery | b. 1965 | Country music artist |
| Lottie Moon | 1840-1912 | Missionary to China |
| John Norvell | 1789-1850 | Newspaper editor and U.S. Senator from Michigan |
| Theodore O'Hara | 1820-1867 | Poet and soldier |
| William Owsley | 1782-1862 | Associate justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals; Governor of Kentucky |
| Stephen Rolfe Powell | b. 1951 | Glass artist |
| Scott Pruitt | b. 1968 | Oklahoma Attorney General |
| Willis Russell | 1803-1852 | Emancipated slave of Revolutionary War veteran Robert Craddock, founder of first school in Danville for African-American children[1] |
| Alfred Ryors | 1812-1858 | President of Indiana University, Ohio University; professor at Centre College |
| Hugh L. Scott | 1853-1934 | Superintendent of West Point, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in World War I |
| Isaac Shelby | 1750-1826 | First and fifth Governor of Kentucky |
| Thomas A. Spragens | 1917-2006 | Educator, president of Centre College |
| King Swope | 1893-1961 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky |
| John G. Talbot | 1844-1870 | U.S. Navy officer |
| Albert G. Talbott | 1808-1887 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky |
| Jacob Tamme | b. 1985 | Football player |
| Josh Teater | b. 1979 | Professional golfer |
| Charles Stewart Todd | 1791-1871 | U.S. Army officer and U.S. Ambassador to Russia |
| Thomas Todd | 1765-1826 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| Trey D. | Songwriter and composer, born Keith McGuffey | |
| Frank X Walker | b. 1961 | Kentucky's first African-American Poet Laureate |
| DeWitt Weaver | b. 1939 | Professional golfer |
| Reed N. Weisiger | 1838-1908 | Texas State Senator, Confederate cavalry officer |
| Fess Williams | 1894-1975 | Jazz musician |
| Phil Woolpert | 1915-1987 | College basketball coach |
| Craig Yeast | b. 1976 | American and Canadian football player |
See also
References
- ↑ "Notable Kentucky African Americans Database: Russell, Willis". University of Kentucky Libraries. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
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