- Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used postmodern nonlinear storylines, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references. His films include "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), " Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997), "Kill Bill" (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. - Brad Renfro
Brad Barron Renfro (born 25 July, 1982) was an American actor, born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised by his grandmother. He has a sister named Haley Rose and his cousin is Jesse Hasek, lead singer of the band 10 Years. Brad performed in a number of films beginning at the age of 10 as a child actor and continuing as a young adult. Despite his performing talent, he has also developed a reputation for "bad-boy" antics. - John Sevier
John Sevier served four years (1785–1789) as the only governor of the State of Franklin and twelve years (1796–1801 and 1803–1809) as Governor of Tennessee, and as a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1811 until his death. He also served as the commander of the Washington County, Tennessee contingent of the Overmountain Men in the Battle of Kings Mountain. - Johnny Knoxville
Johnny Knoxville (born Philip John Clapp on March 11, 1971 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American comic actor and daredevil. Knoxville has been featured in a number of films, but is best known as the co-creator and principal star of the MTV series "Jackass" and its subsequent films. - James Agee
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 - May 16, 1955) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, "A Death in the Family" (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. - Pat Summitt
Pat Summitt (born Patricia Sue Head on June 14, 1952 in Clarksville, Tennessee) is the coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team. She finished her 33rd year of coaching at the end of the 2006-07. All seasons have been with the Lady Vols. Her career coaching record as of (April 3rd, 2007) is 947-180. As a player at the University of Tennessee-Martin, Summitt was an All American and co-captain of the 1976 Olympic basketball team. - Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney (born Kenneth Arnold Chesney, March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer. - James White
James White (August 8, 1747 - August 14, 1821) was an American pioneer and soldier who founded White's Fort, which later became Knoxville, Tennessee. White was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, although the site became part of Iredell County when it was organized. During the American Revolutionary War, he was a captain in the North Carolina militia. During the Creek War, he served as a brigadier general in the Tennessee militia with Andrew Jackson. - Victor Ashe
Victor Henderson Ashe II (born January 1, 1945) is the current United States Ambassador to Poland. From 1988 to 2003, he was mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee. Ashe is a Republican. - Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. - William Blount
William Blount, (March 26, 1749 (O.S.)/April 6, 1749 (N.S.) – March 21, 1800) was a United States statesman. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention for North Carolina, the first and only governor of the Southwest Territory, and Democratic-Republican Senator from Tennessee (1796-1797). He played a major role in establishing the state of Tennessee. He was the first U.S. Senator to be expelled from the Senate. - Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal (born January 20 1926, Packard, Kentucky) is an Academy Award winning American actress. - Jake Butcher
Jacob Franklin "Jake" Butcher (born 1936 in Union County, Tennessee) was an American banker and politician. Butcher's father, Cecil H. Butcher, Sr., was a general store manager and bank president in Union County. After attending the University of Tennessee and Hiwassee College, Jake Butcher served in the United States Marine Corps. He married the former Sonya Wilde in 1962. - Robert H. Adams
Robert Huntington Adams (1792-July 2 1830) was a Mississippi lawyer and politician who, in the final months of his life, briefly served as United States senator from Mississippi. The year of Adams' birth in Rockbridge County, Virginia is known to history but, as was common in the 18th century, the day and month went unrecorded. As a young boy he became a cooper's apprentice, but by the age of 13 or 14, in 1806, … - Hugh Lawson White
Hugh Lawson White (October 30, 1773-April 10, 1840) was a prominent American politician during the first third of the 19th century. He succeeded General Jackson and served in the United States Senate, representing Tennessee, from 1825 until his resignation in 1840, and was a Whig candidate for President in 1836. - Tina Wesson
Tina Wesson (born December 26, 1960 in Knoxville, Tennessee) won $1,000,000 as the winner of "Survivor: The Australian Outback". A married personal nurse from Knoxville, Tennessee, Tina outlasted 15 other players to become the first woman to win the $1 million prize in 2001. She had no votes against her the entire season. She also returned in 2004 for "Survivor: All-Stars" but this time, she did get votes against her, … - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English–American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular "The Secret Garden", "A Little Princess", and "Little Lord Fauntleroy". - Randy Orton
Randal "Randy" Keith Orton (born on April 1 1980), nicknamed The Legend Killer, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its "RAW" brand. Orton is a third-generation professional wrestler; his grandfather, Bob Orton, Sr., father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, and uncle, Barry O, were all professional wrestlers. - David Farragut
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 - August 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and full admiral of the Navy. He is remembered in popular culture for his possibly apocryphal order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually paraphrased: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!". - Ava Barber
Ava Barber (born June 28, 1954, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American Country Music Singer and perfomer. She is best remembered for performing on "The Lawrence Welk Show" throughout much of the 1970s and early '80s, along with performers like Ralna English and Gail Farrell. She is also known for being a Country singer, her best-known hit was the song, "Bucket to the South", which peaked at #13 on the Hot Country Songs list in 1978. - Glen Jacobs
Glen Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967) is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name, Kane. He is performing on the "SmackDown!" brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). - Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer. He is best known for "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", which he co-wrote in collaboration with Malcolm X, and for his book "Roots: The Saga of an American Family". - Phillip Fulmer
Phillip Fulmer (born September 1, 1950 in Winchester, Tennessee), is the head football coach at the University of Tennessee, where he has been since 1992. Fulmer is the 20th head football coach in the history of the school. - William Gannaway Brownlow
William Gannaway Brownlow (August 29, 1805 - April 29, 1877) was Governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and a Senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875. Serving during Reconstruction following the American Civil War, Brownlow was strongly pro-Union. He was admired by many Tennesseans and despised by still more. He was most highly respected in the North for his devotion to the Union. Brownlow was born in Wythe County, Virginia, was orphaned at the age of ten, … - Darby Conley
Darby Conley is an American cartoonist best known for the popular comic strip "Get Fuzzy". Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1970, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. While in high school in 1986, he won a student cartooning competition. During his Senior Year at Doyle High School (now South-Doyle High School) in Knoxville, Conley was voted 'Most Talented' by his graduating class. He attended Amherst College, where he studied Fine Arts, … - Mary Costa
Mary Costa (born April 5, 1930 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American singer, best known for playing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney film "Sleeping Beauty". Costa showed her musical ability at an early age, singing Sunday School solos at the age of six. At 14, she moved to Hollywood with her parents and soon won a Music Sorority Award as the outstanding voice among Southern California High School seniors. - George Franklin Barber
George Franklin Barber (1854-1915) was an American architect of the late Victorian period. Unlike other most architects, Barber only rarely accepted commissions from individual clients. The bulk of his business followed the "catalog architecture" model popularized by earlier architects such as Palliser, Palliser & Co. Barber's great innovation was his willingness to personalize his designs for individual clients at moderate cost. As he wrote in his "Cottage Souvenir No. - Nikki Giovanni
Yolanda Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni (b. June 7 1943, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American poet and author. - John Cullum
John Cullum is an American actor and singer. He was born on March 2, 1930 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, playing on the school's Southeastern Conference championship tennis team, and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He made his Broadway debut as Sir Dinadan in Alan Jay Lerner's and Frederick Loewe's "Camelot" in 1960. He also understudied Richard Burton (King Arthur) and Roddy McDowell (Arthur's son Mordred), … - Polly Bergen
Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin on July 14, 1930) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, singer, and entrepreneur. - Henry Cho
Henry Cho (Born December 30, 1962 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American stand-up comedian. His work can be heard nationwide several times weekly on XM Radio's Channel 151, Laugh USA. - Lowell Cunningham
Lowell Cunningham is the creator and writer of the comic book series "The Men in Black". This comic series spawned the 1997 film "Men in Black", as well as its 2002 sequel ("Men in Black II") and the animated television program "Men in Black: The Series". Cunningham has also worked with John Hudgens on several popular and award-winning "Star Wars" parodies, including "Crazy Watto", "Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline", … - Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney African-American artist / modernist painter. [See photo of Delaney by Hardy Liston] "Perhaps I should not say, flatly, what I believe – that he is a great painter – among the very greatest; but I do know that great art can only be created out of love, and that no greater lover has ever held a brush." – James Baldwin (writer) - William M. Bass
William M. Bass is a U.S. forensic anthropologist, renowned for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He has also assisted federal, local, and non-US authorities in the identification of human remains. He taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and though currently retired from teaching, still plays an active research role at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, which he founded. The Facility is more popularly known as the "Body Farm", … - Guilford Glazer
Guilford Glazer (born in 1921) is an American real estate developer and philanthropist. Glazer was born in and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, one of eight children. After the United States entered World War II, he left college to join the Navy. After the war ended, he returned to East Tennessee and took over a family-owned steel business. Glazer's entry into the real estate business occurred in 1951, … - David Keith
David Keith (born May 8, 1954) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor and director. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. - Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch (pronounced "krootch") (November 25, 1893 - May 22, 1970) was an American writer, critic, and naturalist. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he initially studied at the University of Tennessee and received a masters degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University. After serving in the army in 1918, he then travelled in Europe for a year with friend Mark Van Doren. Afterwards, he worked as teacher at Brooklyn Polytechnic. - Jeff Jarrett
Jeffrey "Jeff" Leonard Jarrett (born April 14, 1967) is an American professional wrestler. A 12 time world heavyweight champion, Jarrett wrestled for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) throughout the 1990s. In 2002, Jarrett co-founded the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). In addition to wrestling for TNA, Jarrett is the Vice President of TNA Entertainment. - Todd Helton
Todd Lynn Helton (born August 20, 1973 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a Major League Baseball first baseman who has played for the Colorado Rockies since the 1997 season. He bats and throws left-handed. - Chris Woodruff
Chris Woodruff (born January 3, 1973) is a former American professional male tennis player. He hails from Knoxville, Tennessee and was trained at the Knoxville Racquet Club. Woodruff attended the hometown University of Tennessee where in 1993 he won the NCAA single's title. He remains the only individual champion the school has ever had. He was also an All-American in 1992. After winning the collegiate crown, Woodruff began his professional career.
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