- Bo Bice
Harold Elwin "Bo" Bice, Jr. (born November 1, 1975 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American singer and musician who came in second in the fourth season of "American Idol". He is well known for his deep baritone style of singing, his control vibrato, and a unique style incorporating soul, country, blues and rock. - 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 . - Vassar Clements
Vassar Clements was an American fiddler. Clements taught himself to play the fiddle at age 7, and though he had no formal training was recognized as one of the world's most versatile fiddle players and was considered a virtuoso. The first song he learned was "There's an Old Spinning Wheel in the Parlor". He described his talent saying, "It was God's gift, something born in me. I was too dumb to learn it any other way. I listened to the [Grand Ole] Opry some. - Leroy Pope
LeRoy Pope was a prominent American planter, lawyer, and early settler of Madison County, Alabama. He purchased much of the land on which downtown Huntsville, Alabama now stands, and for his role in the establishment and early growth of that city, has been called the "Father of Huntsville." - Don Mincher
Donald Ray Mincher (born June 24, 1938, in Huntsville, Alabama) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball with a 13 year career from 1960 to 1972. He played for the Washington Senators (became Twins), Minnesota Twins, California Angels, Seattle Pilots, Oakland Athletics and Washington Senators (became Rangers), Texas Rangers and again the Oakland Athletics, all of the American League. In a thirteen year career, he batted .249 with 200 home runs and 643 RBI. - Shaka Sankofa
Shaka Sankofa (born Gary Lee Graham on September 5, 1963; died June 22, 2000), was convicted and sentenced to death at the age of seventeen for the brutal murder of fifty-three year-old husband and father Bobby Lambert in Houston, Texas on May 13, 1981. He was executed by lethal injection at 8:49pm on Thursday, June 22, 2000 in Huntsville, Texas, aged thirty-six. Lambert's murder occurred at night in the parking lot of a Safeway supermarket. - John Sparkman
John Jackson Sparkman was a conservative United States politician from Alabama. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, where he represented Alabama from 1946 until 1979. He was the Democratic Party Vice Presidential nominee in the 1952 U.S. presidential election. Sparkman was born on a farm near Hartselle, Alabama. He attended the rural schools and helped on the family farm. - Walter B. Jones
Walter Bryan Jones, Ph.D. (1895 - 1977) was an American geologist and archaeologist. Born in Alabama, Jones earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alabama and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. Jones, as well as his three brothers served in World War I and World War II. During World War II, Jones' oldest son, Nelson, was killed in Europe fighting the Germans. Jones excavated the Moundville Archaeological Site in Central Alabama, … - Robert Cramer
Robert E. "Bud" Cramer Jr. (b. August 22, 1947), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing, which includes the northernmost part of Alabama, centering on Huntsville. - Kim Dickens
Kimberly Jan Dickens (born 18 June 1965 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American actress and model. - Susanna Phillips
Susanna Phillips is a soprano opera singer at the Chicago Lyric Opera. Though born in Birmingham, Alabama she and her family moved two weeks after she was born, to Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama; where she grew up and attended school at Randolph School. While attending Randolph, she also began studying voice with Ginger Beazley at Ars Nova School of the Arts. There her talents flourished and she soon found herself accepted to the Juilliard School in New York. - Jonathan Wallace
Jonathan Lewis Wallace (born May 16, 1986, in Huntsville, Alabama) is a collegiate men's basketball player in the NCAA. The 6'1", 188 pound junior attends Georgetown University. Wallace plays primarily at the point guard position under coach John Thompson III. He wears number 2 and has started every game since coming to Georgetown. - Ethan Moreau
Ethan Moreau (born 22 September, 1975 in Huntsville, Ontario) is a professional ice hockey left wing. He was selected in the first round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, 14th overall, by the Chicago Blackhawks. Moreau and his wife Ornella have two children, Trey (b. 2001) and Mia (b. 2002). - Harry Watters
Harry Watters (born in Huntsville, Alabama, USA) is a noted jazz trombonist. He has performed across the United States with many jazz artists including Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Shirley Jones, and many others. He has performed as a featured trombone soloist with the United States Army Orchestra, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and the Syracuse Symphony, among others. He also appears annually at the Eastern Trombone Workshop. - Percy Walker
Percy Walker, a Representative from Alabama; born in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, in December 1812; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1835; commenced the practice of medicine in Mobile, … - Marion Dudley
Marion Butler Dudley was an American prison inmate who was executed by lethal injection on January 25, 2006 in Huntsville, Texas for the murders of three people. He was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. - Scott Oden
Scott Oden (born June 24,1967 in Columbus, Indiana) is an American historical novelist writing books about Ancient Persia and Egypt. His first book is the critically-acclaimed "Men of Bronze" (2005). His lifelong fascination with ancient history began in 1976, when his third-grade teacher showed his class slides from the traveling Tutankhamun exhibit. Now a full-time writer, Oden lives in rural North Alabama, near Huntsville. - Howard Cross
Howard Cross (born August 8, 1967 in Huntsville, Alabama) is a former professional American football tight end in the NFL. Cross was drafted out of the University of Alabama in 1989 by the New York Giants in the 6th round with the 158th pick of the draft. Cross played in 207 games for the Giants, which is a franchise record and although he was known more for his blocking expertise, he finished his 14 year career in 2001 with 201 receptions for 2,194 yards and 17 touchdowns. - John Williams Walker
John Williams Walker (August 12 1783 - April 23 1823) was an American politician, who served as the Democratic-Republican United States senator from the state of Alabama, the first senator elected by that state. Walker was born April 23 1783 in Amelia County, Virginia, of Scots-Irish heritage, the son of Rev. Jeremiah Walker and Mary Jane Graves. He was educated at the prestigious Willington Academy of Dr. Moses Waddel near Petersburg, Georgia, … - Henry Hitchcock
Henry Hitchcock (September 11, 1792-August 11, 1839) was the first Attorney General of the State of Alabama, having been elected by the Alabama General Assembly in December 1819 in its initial session. - Matt Perrault
Matt Perrault (born April 4, 1977) is a sports talk show host currently working on Big Sports 590 in Omaha, Nebraska. He has previously worked in Huntsville, Alabama and Charlottesville, Virginia. Perrault was born in Methuem, Massachusetts on April 4, 1977 to Donna Norris and Mark Perrault. He was raised in Andover, where he graduated from Andover High School in 1995. He went on to get his BA in Communications from UMass Amherst in 1999. - Michael Ritch
Michael Ritch (born April 26, 1981 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American soccer striker, who last played for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. Ritch played college soccer at Auburn University-Montgomery in the NAIA from 1999 to 2002. He was named a second-team All-American in 2001, and as a senior, scored 29 goals and 15 assists in 23 games, and was named a first team All-American. He finished his career at the school with 64 goals and 48 assists. - Virginia Clay-Clopton
Virginia Clay-Clopton (1825-1915), was an American memoirist and political hostess. She was also known as "Virginia Tunstall", "Virginia Clay", and "Mrs. Clement Claiborne Clay". Born Virginia Tunstall in Nash County, North Carolina, she grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and was schooled in Nashville, Tennessee. She married Clement Claiborne Clay in 1843 and moved with him to Huntsville, Alabama. When her husband was elected a U.S. Senator in 1853, … - Ryan Arnold
Ryan Arnold (born September 18, 1984 in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pair skater. He competed with Carla Montgomery and Meagan Duhamel. In both partnerships, he was coached by Lee Barkell. He had a lot of success as a junior with Montgomery, qualifying twice for the Junior Grand Prix Final and twice placing in the top ten at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships. - Richard Wilde Walker
Richard Wilde Walker (February 16, 1823 - June 16, 1874) was a prominent Confederate States of America politician. Walker was born and died in Huntsville, Alabama. He was the son of John Williams Walker,the brother of Percy Walker and LeRoy Pope Walker, and father of Richard Wilde Walker, Jr. Richard Walker, Sr. served in the Alabama state legislature in 1851 and 1855 and served as an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 1859. - Thomas Turpin Crittenden
Thomas Turpin Crittenden (October 16, 1825 - September 5, 1905) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Crittenden was born in Huntsville, Alabama, but his family moved to Texas shortly thereafter. He was a nephew of Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, and a first cousin of Confederate general George B. Crittenden and Union general Thomas L. Crittenden. He grew up in Texas and attended Transylvania College at Lexington, Kentucky. - Addison White
Addison White was an American politician who served the state of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives between 1851 and 1853. He was a cousin of Kentucky Congressman John White. Addison White was born in Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia on May 1 1824. He graduated from Princeton College in 1844. In 1850, he was elected as a Whig to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving one term. During the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army. - Krafft Arnold Ehricke
Dr. Krafft Arnold Ehricke (March 24, 1917 - December 11, 1984), was a rocket-propulsion engineer. Born in Berlin, Ehricke believed in space travel from a very young age, influenced by his viewing of the Fritz Lang film "Woman in the Moon". At the age of 12, he formed his own rocket society. He attended Berlin Technical University and studied celestial mechanics and nuclear physics under such luminaries as Hans Geiger and Werner Heisenberg, … - Easter Posey
Easter Posey was the first American woman killed in the line of duty during World War II. She died in an accidental explosion on an incendiary bomb manufacturing line at Huntsville Arsenal. - Ned Vaughn
Ned Vaughn (born November 20, 1964 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American actor known for his television work. - Ralph Knowles
24.131.37.75 12:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)Ralph Knowles (b. 1945, Huntsville, Alabama) is a major class action attorney, best known for winning the Dow Corning breast implant case with damages of $4+ billion. He earned a BA at University of Alabama in 1966 and JD at the University of Alabama Law School in 1969. He has worked as an attorney with the Atlanta law firm of Doffermyre Shields Canfield Knowles & Devine since 1991. - Christie Lee Woods
Christie Lee Woods (born October 21, 1977 in Huntsville, Texas) is an American model, actress and beauty queen. Woods first came to prominence as a beauty queen, winning the Miss Texas Teen USA and Miss Teen USA 1996 titles. She later appeared as an actress and as a participant on reality television show the "Amazing Race". - Richard Clauselle Puryear
Richard Clauselle Puryear (9 February 1801 - 30 July 1867) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between the years of 1853 and 1857. Puryear, born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, moved to Surry County, North Carolina as a child. He became a planter near Huntsville, and served as a militia colonel and the magistrate of Surry County before being elected to the North Carolina House of Commons. Puryear served terms in the North Carolina House in 1838, 1844, 1846, … - Willard Preble Hall
William Willard Preble Hall (May 9, 1820-November 2, 1882) was the second unelected "provisional governor" of Missouri from 1864 to 1865 during American Civil War. - Bennett M. Stewart
Bennett McVey Stewart (August 12 1912 - April 26 1988) was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Illinois. Stewart was born in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. He attended the public schools in Huntsville and Birmingham. He received as B.A. from Miles College in Birmingham in 1936. He worked as the assistant principal of Irondale High School in 1936. He was an associate professor of sociology at Miles College in 1938. He worked as an insurance executive in 1940, … - Lowndes Henry Davis
Lowndes Henry Davis was an American politician who served the state of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1879 and 1885. He was born on December 13 1836 in Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. He graduated from Yale College in 1860 and from Louisville University Law School in 1863. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Jackson, Missouri. Between 1868 and 1872, Davis served as state attorney for the tenth judicial district of Missouri. - Gilbert M. L. Johnson
Gilbert Marquis LaFayette Johnson (November 4, 1837 - January 9, 1871) was an officer in the Union Army from Indiana during the American Civil War, reaching the rank of brevet brigadier general. In October 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the 2nd Indiana Cavalry Regiment, the first complete cavalry regiment raised in Indiana. The regiment served in Kentucky in the winter of 1861 and 1862, and Johnson was promoted to captain in April 1862, … - Royal Dixon
Royal Dixon (1885-1962) was an American author, born at Huntsville, Texas, and educated at the Sam Houston Normal Institute and as a special student at the University of Chicago. After spending five years with the department of botany at the Field Museum of Chicago, he entered the literary field as a member of the Houston "Chronicle" staff. He made special contributions to the newspapers of New York, where he lectured for the Board of Education. - Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb
Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb was an American politician who served the state of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1847 and 1861. He was born in Rhea County, Tennessee on June 8 1807. He moved with his father in 1809 to Bellefontaine, Madison County, Alabama. Cobb received a limited education and worked as a clock peddler and merchant in Bellefontaine before being elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1844. - William M. Treloar
William Mitchellson Treloar was an American music professor, composer, music publisher, and U.S. Representative from Missouri. Treloar was born near Linden, Wisconsin, and attended the local common schools. He moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa in 1864 and attended its high school and then Iowa Wesleyan College. He moved to Missouri in 1872, where he began a career teaching music at Mount Pleasant College in Huntsville from 1872 to 1875.
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