- Cincinnati
Cincinnati (ca. 1860 - 1878) was General Ulysses S. Grant's most famous horse during the American Civil War. He was the son of Lexington, the fastest four-mile thoroughbred in the United States (time 7:19.75 minutes) and of the greatest sires. Cincinnati was also the grandson of the great Boston, who sired Lexington. At an early age, Grant emotionally bonded to horses. A shy, quiet child, he found joy in working with and riding them.
- John Brown
John Brown (September 12, 1757 - August 29, 1837) was an American lawyer and statesman heavily involved with creating the State of Kentucky. Brown represented Virginia in the Continental Congress (1777-1778) and the U.S. Congress (1789-1791). While in Congress, he introduced the bill granting Statehood to Kentucky. Once that was accomplished, he was elected a U.S. Senator for Kentucky.
- Hal Rogers
Harold Dallas "Hal" Rogers (born December 31 1937), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing the. His office is currently located in Somerset. Rogers was born in Monticello, Kentucky, was educated at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and the University of Kentucky at Lexington, having received a law degree. Rogers served in the Kentucky and North Carolina Army National Guard.
- Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow, best known as Joe Louis and nicknamed The Brown Bomber, a native of Lexington, Alabama, is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxing champions of all time. He held the title for over 11 years, recording 25 successful defenses of the title. In 2003, "Ring Magazine" rated Joe Louis No. 1 on the list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
- Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller (b July 24, 1967) is a politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky and is the 36th and current State Treasurer of Kentucky, elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2003.
- Mike Smith
Mike Smith (born March 22, 1982 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian hockey goaltender playing in his rookie season for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. In his first-ever regulation NHL game on October 21, 2006, Smith stopped 22 shots to post a shutout against the Phoenix Coyotes. Smith began his hockey career in 1999 playing for his hometown Kingston Frontenacs of the OHL.
- John Parker
John Parker (July 13, 1729 - September 17, 1775) was an American farmer, mechanic, and soldier who commanded the Massachusetts militia near Lexington during the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Parker was born in Lexington and his experience as a soldier in the French and Indian War (Seven Years War) at the Siege of Louisbourg and conquest of Quebec most likely led to his election as militia captain by the men of the town.
- William Dawes
William Dawes, Jr. (April 5, 1745 - February 25, 1799) was one of the three men who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution.
- John Barry
John Barry was an officer in the Continental Navy and later in the United States Navy. Barry was born in Tacumshane, County Wexford, Ireland and appointed a Captain in the Continental Navy 7 December 1775. He commanded "Lexington" and "Alliance". He and his crew of the Alliance fought and won the final naval battle of the American Revolution off the coast of Cape Canaveral on March 10, 1783.
- Samuel Prescott
Dr. Samuel Prescott was a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War. Prescott was on the road at 1 A.M. on April 19 1775 after an evening with his fiancée, Lydia Mulliken, when he met Paul Revere and William Dawes on their ride from Lexington to Concord and joined them to warn of the British attempt to seize the store of arms. Although he joined the ride late, he was the only one of the three men to reach Concord and warn the town.
- Darrell Anderson
US Army Specialist Darrell Anderson (b. Lexington, Kentucky, 1982) is a United States Army deserter and anti-Iraq war activist. Anderson joined the U.S. Army in January 2003 to get money for college and to serve his country. He later served in Iraq with the US Army's 1st Armored Division. He was awarded a Purple Heart after being injured by shrapnel in a roadside bombing in April 2004.
- Brandon Webb
Brandon Tyler Webb (born May 9, 1979 in Ashland, Kentucky), is an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He is the 2006 winner of the National League Cy Young Award. Webb was a 1997 graduate of Paul G. Blazer High School in Ashland. Brandon and his wife, Alicia, make their home in Ashland as well. He decided to stick close to home for college, attending the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
- Ike Skelton
Isaac Newton "Ike" Skelton IV (born December 20 1931) has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1977. A Democrat, he represents. The district includes most of the west-central part of the state, including the state capital, Jefferson City. Skelton is currently the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, being selected at the start of the 110th Congress. He had previously served as has the ranking Democrat on the Committee since 1998.
- John Todd
John Todd (March 27, 1750-August 18, 1782) was a frontier military officer during the American Revolutionary War and the first administrator of the Illinois County of the U.S. state of Virginia before that state ceded the territory to the federal government. Todd was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the son of David Todd and the brother of Levi Todd, the grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln. He was educated in Virginia at a school run by his uncle, the Rev. John Todd.
- Francis Smith
Major-General Francis Smith (1723-1791), was the British commander during most of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775.The battle ignited the Revolutionary War that would see America become a separate nation. Smith was a member of His Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot (its descendant is the Royal Anglian Regiment in the modern British Army). Smith ordered light infantry to move forward while he stayed with the main body of the expedition, …
- Sally Mann
Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer. Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She attended The Putney School, Bennington College and Friends World College, and earned a B.A., "summa cum laude", from Hollins College (now Hollins University) and an M.A. in writing.
- Austin Kearns
Austin Ryan Kearns (born May 20, 1980 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a Major League Baseball player. He currently plays right field for the Washington Nationals. After a stellar career at Lafayette Senior High School, he was offered a scholarship to play baseball at the University of Florida. However, he decided to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected seventh overall in the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft.
- John Harper
John R. Harper (died June 15, 2001) was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Bullitt County and was the 1987 Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky. Harper stepped in to run after the first choice of party leaders, Lexington attorney Larry Forgy, surprisingly dropped out of the race because of fundraising problems. Harper lost to Democrat Wallace G. Wilkinson in a record landslide.
- John McKee
John McKee (1771 - August 12, 1832) was an American politician who served as the first Representative of Alabama's 2nd District from 1823 to 1829. McKee was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia (then part of Augusta County), and attended Liberty Hall Academy in Lexington. After leaving the House of Representatives in 1829, McKee was one of the men who negotiated the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830. He died at his home in Boligee, Alabama in 1832.
- Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is a writer and activist on global warming, alternative energy, and the need to reshape our economy and our communities. His first book, The End of Nature , was the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. In late summer 2006, Bill helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to demand action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change.
- John Pitcairn
Major John Pitcairn (December 28,1722 - June 17, 1775) was a British Marine who was stationed in Boston, Massachusetts at the start of the American Revolutionary War. John was born in late 1722 in Dysart, a port town in Fife, Scotland. His parents were the Reverend David and Katherine (Hamilton) Pitcairn. He entered the Marines and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1746. He served in Canada during the French and Indian War as a Captain, and was promoted to Major in 1771.
- Andy Green
Andrew Mulligan Green (born July 7, 1977 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a second baseman who plays for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters franchise in Japan. He is a versatile fielder, who has the ability to play in almost all of the positions in baseball. Since he made his debut, he has played at 2nd base, 3rd base, shortstop and in the outfield. Green was named the 2005 Pacific Coast League MVP for the Diamondbacks Triple-A affiliate Tucson Sidewinders.
- Edward Winslow
Edward Winslow (February 20 1746 or 1747 - May 13 1815) was a loyalist officer and New Brunswick judge and official. Edward Winslow was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1746 or 1747, a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim Edward Winslow. He studied at Harvard College, graduating in 1765 with an MA. After graduation, as the political tension escalated between Great Britain and its North American colonies over issues such as trade, taxation, and governance, …
- Richard Dale
Richard Dale (6 November 1756 - 26 February 1826) was an officer in the United States Navy. Dale was born 6 November 1756 in Norfolk, Virginia, was appointed a midshipman in the Continental Navy in 1776. Captured by the enemy in 1777, while serving in the Continental brig "Lexington", he was imprisoned in Mill Prison, England, but escaped to France to join John Paul Jones.
- Forrest Sherman
Forrest Percival Sherman (30 October 1896 - 22 July 1951) was an admiral in the United States Navy and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations until Admiral Elmo Zumwalt became Chief of Naval Operations in 1949. Born in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Sherman was a member of the Naval Academy class of 1918, graduating in June, …
- Ethan Zohn
Ethan Zohn (born on November 12, 1973 in Lexington, Massachusetts) won $1,000,000 on Survivor: Africa, the third season of "Survivor". Zohn also appeared on the All-Stars edition of the show.
- Jill Stein
Jill Stein (J-Lexington) is a physician and Green-Rainbow Party activist residing in Lexington, Massachusetts. She serves on the boards of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and MassVoters for Fair Elections, and has been active recently with the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities.
- Matt Long
Matt Long (born May 18, 1980) is an American actor. Long was born in Winchester, Kentucky. He played the teenaged Jack McCallister on "Jack & Bobby" and the younger Johnny Blaze in "Ghost Rider". Long attended Western Kentucky University where he met his wife. He was also a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. After graduation, Matt moved to New York City where he worked as an actor throughout various theatres. He now resides in Hollywood, California
- Allison Miller
Allison Miller is a actress, born in Rome, Italy, who grew up in Lexington, Kentucky; State College, Pennsylvania and Tallahassee, Florida where she attended Leon High School and graduated from The Maclay School and attended the University of Florida in Gainesville. Miller got her acting start at Tallahassee's Young Actors Theatre.
- Frank Dancevic
Frank Dancevic (born 26 September 1984 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a professional touring and Canadian Davis Cup tennis player. He is currently the country's top singles player at 107 in the ATP Rankings and 101 in the 2007 ATP Race.
- Jeff Cook
Jeff Cook is the former National Field Representative for the Log Cabin Republicans. On September 27, 2005, he announced an exploratory committee to evaluate the possibility of challenging incumbent Republican Sue Kelly in the primary for New York's 19th district. Cook cited alleged betrayals by Kelly of her promises to support GLBT rights in Congress as his primary motivating factor. However, on March 28, 2006, Cook announced that he would not enter the race, …
- Jack Givens
Jack "Goose" Givens (born September 21, 1956 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American former collegiate and professional basketball player. Givens led the University of Kentucky to the 1978 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and was named that year's Final Four Most Outstanding Player due in most part to his 41-point performance in Kentucky's 94-88 victory over Duke University in the championship game.
- Paul Gardner
Paul Gardner is a Minnesota DFL state representative from District 53A in Minnesota. He was first elected in 2006 in a huge upset, defeating 16 year incumbent, Phil Krinkie. His district covers the northern suburbs of Lino Lakes, Circle Pines, Lexington and Shoreview. He has earned a Master's in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. degree in History from Grinnell College.
- Linda Foley
Linda Foley is president of the Newspaper Guild and vice-president of the Communications Workers of America. She was a reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Kentucky before turning to full time work at the "Guild" in 1984. She was elected its secretary-treasurer in 1993 and its president in 1995. She received a bachelor of science in journalism degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in 1977.
- Tony Moore
Michael Anthony "Tony" Moore (1978 -) is an American comic book artist, whose work consists mainly of genre pieces, most notably in horror and science fiction, with titles such as The Walking Dead, Fear Agent, and The Exterminators
- Kelly Richey
Kelly Richey (born November 30, 1962 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a blues rock guitarist, singer and composer based out of Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Frederick C. Sherman
Frederick Carl Sherman (1888 - 27 July 1957) was an admiral of the United States Navy during World War II. Sherman was born in Michigan in 1888. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1910. Sherman served as commanding officer of submarines "H-2" and "O-2" during World War I. After becoming a naval aviator, Sherman served as executive officer of "Saratoga" (CV-3) in 1937, and of NAS San Diego to 1938.
- Silas Duncan
Silas M. Duncan (1788 - 14 September 1834) was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. Born in Rockaway, New Jersey, Duncan was appointed midshipman 15 November 1809. While third lieutenant of "Saratoga" during the Battle of Lake Champlain, 11 September 1814, he was sent in a gig to order the gunboats to retire. He succeeded in delivering the orders despite concentrated enemy fire which severely wounded him and caused the loss of his right arm.
- James Sherwood
James B. Sherwood (born circa 1933 in Pennsylvania) is an American born British based businessman. Sherwood grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and earned a degree in economics from Yale University. Sherwood learned about shipping first in the U.S. Navy, spending three years as a cargo officer, and then working for U.S. Lines and CTI for six years. In 1965, Sherwood founded Bermuda based, New York Stock Exchange listed, …
- Jeremy Lister
Ensign Jeremy Lister (1752 - 1836) was a British officer in the 10th Regiment of Foot during the early days of the American Revolution. His journal was later published as "Concord fight: Being so much of the narrative of Ensign Jeremy Lister of the 10th Regiment of Foot as pertains to his services on the 19th of April, 1775". Lister was born at Shibden Hall, England in 1752.