Adolph Ochs

Adolph Ochs

male, deceased (1935)
anti-defamation league, The Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga Times Free Press, fromChattanooga, Tennessee, American newspaper publisher, German-Jewish…Chattanooga Times, From Tennessee
Adolph Simon Ochs (b. March 12, 1858-April 8, 1935) was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of "The New York Times" and "The...

Ben Curtis

male, 29 years old
Eagle Scouts, television actor, Dell, Inc., Benjamin Bowmar Curtis, fromChattanooga, Tennessee, DELL COMPUTERS…From Tennessee
Benjamin Bowmar Curtis (born November 2, 1980 in Chattanooga, Tennessee), also known as the Dell Dude, is an American actor and former spokesman...
Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith

female, deceased (1937)
American road accident victim, Road accident victim, from the United States, Busker, Vaudeville performer, Blues singer…fromChattanooga, Tennessee
Bessie Smith (July, 1892 or April, 1894 - September 26, 1937) was the most popular and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and a...
Estes Kefauver

Estes Kefauver

male, deceased (1963)
death by myocardial infarction, University of Tennessee Alumni, Tennessee Democrat, Yale University alumni, Phi Delta Phi brother, organized crime…Tennessee politician, University of Tennessee, From Tennessee, fromChattanooga, Tennessee, graduated from the University of Tennessee
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee who opposed the concentration of U.S. economic and political power in few hands....
Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

male, 60 years old
actor, Star Wars actor, Pulp Fiction, film actor, Snakes on a Plane, mace windu…Tennessee actor, From Tennessee, from Washington, D.C., fromChattanooga, Tennessee
Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed...
Terrell Owens

Terrell Owens

male, 35 years old
NFL, San Francisco 49ers player, Dallas Cowboys player, Terrell Eldorado Owens, Dallas Cowboys, Wide Receiver…fromChattanooga, Tennessee, from Alabama, Chattanooga Mocs football player
Terrell Eldorado Owens, popularly known by his initials T.O., (born December 7, 1973), is an American football wide receiver for the Dallas...

Benjamin Thomas

male, deceased (1914)
Coca-Cola, American, heir, inheritance, dollar, coca-cola bottling company…fromChattanooga, Tennessee
Benjamin Franklin Thomas (1860 - 1914) was a Chattanooga, Tennessee businessman and industrialist who pioneered the development of the Coca-Cola...
Lee Roberson

Lee Roberson

male, deceased (2007)
Lee Edward Roberson, Chattanooga, writer, Educator, conservative, from Indiana…fromChattanooga, Tennessee, From Tennessee, Tennessee Temple University
Lee Edward Roberson (24 November 1909 - 29 April 2007), is world-renowned in religious circles. He is most known for founding the Tennessee Temple...
Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden

male, 53 years old
Columbia University, Mandarin Chinese, fromChattanooga, Tennessee, Beijing University, Baylor School, Memoirs of a Geisha…Chattanooga
Arthur Golden (born in 1956 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is the writer of the bestselling novel "Memoirs of a Geisha". A member of the...
Roland Hayes

Roland Hayes

male, deceased (1976)
Fisk University, Fisk University alumni, fromChattanooga, Tennessee, Philadelphia Concert Orchestra, Washington Conservatory, Amanda Ira Aldridge…Chattanooga
Roland Hayes (3 June 1887-1 January 1977), a lyric tenor, is considered the first African American male concert artist to receive wide...