- Bear Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team, and is the namesake of the Paul W. Bryant Museum.
- Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama . He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago .
- Joe Namath
Joseph William "Joe Willie" Namath (born May 31, 1943), also known as Broadway Joe, was an American football Hall of Fame quarterback in the American Football League and National Football League during the 1960s and 1970's. Namath played for the New York Jets for most of his career. He finished out his career with the Los Angeles Rams. Namath retired with a record of 77 wins, 108 losses and 3 ties.
- Shaun Alexander
Shaun Alexander (born August 30, 1977 in Florence, Kentucky) is an American football player in the National Football League. He currently is the starting running back for the Seattle Seahawks.
- Hugo Black
Hugo LaFayette Black (February 27, 1886-September 25, 1971) was an American politician and jurist. A member of the Democratic Party, Black represented the state of Alabama in the United States Senate from 1926 to 1937, and served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971. Widely regarded as one of the most influential Supreme Court justices in the 20th century, …
- Mike Shula
Mike Shula (born June 3, 1965 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American football quarterback coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Most recently, he served as head coach of the University of Alabama football team.
- Bart Starr
Bryan Bartlett Starr (born January 9, 1934 in Montgomery, Alabama) is a former professional American football player and coach. Wearing #15, he was the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers (1956-1971) and the MVP of the first two Super Bowls. He earned four Pro Bowl selections and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977. The son of an Air Force NCO, Starr played High School football at Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama, …
- E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist (Myrmecology, a branch of entomology), researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), and naturalist (conservationism). Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his scientific humanist ideas concerned with religious, moral, and ethical matters.
- Ken Stabler
Kenny "The Snake" Stabler (born Kenneth Micheal Stabler on December 25 1945) is a former National Football League quarterback who played quarterback at the University of Alabama and for the Oakland Raiders (1970-1979); and for the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints (1980-1984). He is left-handed, and at the time of his pro career left-handed quarterbacks were looked on as being unsuitable for professional football, …
- Bibb Graves
David Bibb Graves (April 1, 1873-March 14 1942) was a Democratic politician and the Governor of Alabama 1927-1931 and 1935-1939, the first Alabama governor to serve two four-year terms. Graves was born in Hope Hull, Alabama, son of David and Mattie Bibb Graves and a descendant of Alabama's first governor William Wyatt Bibb. Graves' father died when he was one-year old, and he was reared first by his paternal grandfather on an Alabama farm and then by an uncle in Texas.
- Don Hutson
Donald Montgomery Hutson (January 31, 1913 - June 24, 1997) was the first star wide receiver in NFL history. Hutson is credited with creating many of the modern pass routes used in the NFL today. He was the dominant receiver of his day, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest wide receivers in NFL history. He joined the Green Bay Packers out of the University of Alabama in 1935 and retired in 1945 after 11 seasons.
- John Hannah
John Allen "Hog" Hannah is an American former football left guard who played for the New England Patriots (1973–1985). He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1991, and Sports Illustrated magazine dubbed him, on its Aug. 3, 1981, cover, "The Best Offensive Lineman of All Time."
- Ozzie Newsome
Ozzie Newsome Jr. (born March 16, 1956 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama) is a former Pro Football Hall of Fame American Football tight end who played for the Cleveland Browns, and is currently the general manager of the Baltimore Ravens.
- Don Siegelman
Donald Eugene "Don" Siegelman (born February 24, 1946, in Mobile, Alabama) is a former American Democratic politician. He was the governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003. Don Siegelman is the only person in the history of Alabama to be elected to serve in all four of the top statewide offices: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and Governor. He served in Alabama politics for 26 years, winning his first election for the governorship with 57% of the vote, …
- Dwight Stephenson
Dwight Stephenson (Born November 20, 1957, in Murfreesboro, North Carolina) is a former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of 1998. He played from 1980 until 1987, when his left knee sustained an injury in a play involving New York Jets Marty Lyons and Joe Klecko. Stephenson was an All-American at the University of Alabama, under coach Bear Bryant. Bryant called Stephenson the best player he ever coached, …
- Sela Ward
Sela Ann Ward (born July 11, 1956) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning television roles as free-spirited Teddy Reed on "Sisters" (1991-96) and single mother Lily Manning on "Once and Again" (1999-2002). She is also noted for her portrayal of Dr. Richard Kimble's murdered wife in the Oscar-nominated film version of "The Fugitive".
- Joe Scarborough
Charles Joseph "Joe" Scarborough (born April 9 1963) is the host of the program "Morning Joe" and former host of "Scarborough Country" on MSNBC and served in the United States House of Representatives, from 1995 to 2001, as a Republican from Florida.
- Derrick Thomas
Derrick Vincent Thomas (January 1 1967 - February 8 2000) was an NFL linebacker who played his entire professional career for the Kansas City Chiefs.
- Charles J. Cooper
Charles J. Cooper is an appellate attorney and litigator in Washington, D.C. and a founding member and chairman of the law firm Cooper & Kirk, PLLC. He was named by The National Law Journal as one of the 10 best civil litigators in Washington, he has over 25 years of legal experience in government and private practice, with numerous cases in trial and appellate court as well as several appearances before the United States Supreme Court.
- Frank Minis Johnson
Frank Minis Johnson, Jr. United States Federal judge, made a number of landmark civil rights rulings that helped end segregation in the South. In the words of Bill Moyers, he "altered forever the face of the South,". An alumnus of The University of Alabama and the University of Alabama School of Law (one of Johnson's classmates was future George C. Wallace, who would be Johnson's "bête noire" in the civil rights litigation of the 1960s), …
- Vivian Malone Jones
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones (July 15, 1942, in Mobile, Alabama - October 13, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia) was an African-American woman, one of the first two African Americans to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963 and was made famous when Alabama Governor George Wallace tried to block them from entering, triggering a showdown with federal troops. She became the first African American to graduate from the University of Alabama.
- Pat Lindsey
W. H. "Pat" Lindsey (born March 17, 1936, Meridian, Mississippi) is a Democratic State Senator from southwest Alabama (District 22). Lindsey's family has been prominent in the area for generations. After earning a degree in geology at the University of Alabama, Lindsey attended law achool there and became a practicing attorney. Lindsey has been married twice with both marriages ending in divorce. He is the father of two children.
- Billy Neighbors
William Wesley "Billy" Neighbors is an American former football offensive guard who played in the American Football League from (1962–1969). Neighbors was selected by a Patrios fan vote in 1971, to the teams All-1960s (AFL) Team. He was an All-American offensive linemen for the University of Alabama and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.
- Charley Hannah
Charley Hannah is an American former football offensive guard and defensive end who played in the NFL from (1977–1988). He is the son of an NFL player, Herbert (Herb) Hannah, an offensive lineman for the University of Alabama who played a year at tackle for the New York Giants in 1951. His brothers John and David were also All-Conference offensive linemen for the University of Alabama.
- John A. Caddell
John A. Caddell (Tuscumbia, Alabama, April 23, 1910 - February 7, 2006) was an American lawyer from Alabama. He served on the Alabama Democratic Executive Committee from 1938 to 1950. In 1915 his family moved to Decatur, Alabama and he attended Decatur High School (graduating in 1927). He attended the University of Alabama, earning his A.B. degree in 1931 and his LL.B. in 1933.
- Donald W. Stewart
Donald Wilbur Stewart (born February 8 1940) was a short-term Democratic United States Senator from the state of Alabama. Stewart was born in Anniston, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama both in undergraduate and in law school. During his years in law school, he ran a successful campaign for SGA president, one of the few to have beaten the Machine. He was elected as a Democrat to fill the unexpired U.S. Senate term of James B. Allen, who died in office, …
- Bobby E. Denton
Senator Bobby E. Denton (born August 13, 1938 in Colbert County, Alabama) is the Dean of the Alabama Senate. Affiliated with the Democratic Party, he is serving his eighth term and representing the first district. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alabama and is a previous Director of Development at Northwest Shoals Community College in Muscle Shoals.
- Rece Davis
Rece Davis (born December 14, 1965 as Laurece Davis in Chicago, IL), grew up in Muscle Shoals, AL and has been a journalist for ESPN since 1995. Currently, Rece works as an anchor on "SportsCenter", and host of various other programs on the network. Rece is married, and has two children, a son and a daughter.
- Jan Crawford Greenburg
Jan Crawford Greenburg, a University of Chicago Law School alumna, is a legal correspondent for ABC News. She previously was legal affairs editor for the "Chicago Tribune" and provided legal analysis on the Supreme Court of the United States for the PBS program "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer". "Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court", her book on the modern Supreme Court and its Justices, …
- Robert J. van de Graaff
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff was an American physicist and instrument maker, and professor of physics at Princeton University.
- Hudson Strode
Hudson Strode was an author and professor of creative writing at the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Alabama from 1916 until his retirement in 1963. His creative writing classes gained international fame for the literary successes achieved by his students. Strode’s students published over 55 novels and 101 short stories. One of Strode's students was the author Borden Deal.
- Bob Cryder
Robert Cryder is an American former football offensive guard who played in the NFL from (1978–1986). He played college football for the University of Alabama.
- John Abercrombie
John William Abercrombie (May 17, 1866 - July 2, 1940) was a President of the University of Alabama and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama. He was born in St. Clair County, Alabama, near Kellys Creek Post Office, in 1866. He attended rural schools, and ultimately graduated from Oxford College in Alabama in 1866. He went on to receive a degree in law from the University of Alabama in 1888.
- Jeremiah Clemens
Jeremiah Clemens (December 28, 1814 - May 21, 1865) was a U.S. senator and novelist from the state of Alabama. He was elected to fill the vacancy left by the death of Dixon Hall Lewis, and served from November 30, 1849 to March 3, 1853. Clemens was the author of "Tobias Wilson", one of the first American Civil War novels, and he was also one of the earliest writers of Western novels.
- Borden Deal
Borden Deal, was an American novelist and short story writer. Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Deal attended Macedonia Consolidated High School, after which he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and fought forest fires in the Pacific Northwest. Before he began writing, his checkered career included work on a showboat, hauling sawdust for a lumber mill, harvesting wheat, a position as auditor for the United States Department of Labor, a telephone solicitor, copywriter, …
- Jonty Skinner
John "Jonty" Alexander Skinner (born in Cape Town, South Africa) is a former South African swimmer turned national American swim coach.
- Charles Redding Pitt
Charles (Redding) Pitt (born March 29, 1944) is an American attorney and former chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party. Pitt was born in Decatur, Alabama. He attended the University of Alabama and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967. He was active in campaign for Robert F. Kennedy in the 1968 presidential election. After graduating from college Pitt entered the officer corps of the United States Army, serving from 1969 to 1972 in Vietnam, …
- Winston Groom
is an American novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for his book Forrest Gump, which was adapted into a film in 1994. Groom was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Mobile, Alabama where he attended University Military School (now known as UMS-Wright Preparatory School). He attended the University of Alabama, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta and the Army ROTC, and graduated in 1965. He served in the Army from 1965 to 1969, including a tour in Vietnam.
- Clifford Durr
Clifford Durr (1899 - 1975) was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and others accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras and who represented Rosa Parks in her challenge to the constitutionality of the ordinance requiring the segregation of passengers on buses in Montgomery that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Durr was born into a patrician Alabama family.
- Mark Childress
Mark Childress (born 1957, Monroeville, Alabama) is an American novelist. He has written "Crazy in Alabama", "Gone for Good", "V for Victor", "Tender", "A World Made of Fire" and "One Mississippi". Born in Alabama, Childress also grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, and Louisiana. After graduation from The University of Alabama in 1978, Childress was a reporter for "The Birmingham News", …