William Christian

male, deceased (1786)
William Christian was a soldier and politician from Virginia who served in the era of the American Revolution. Christian was born in Staunton,...
John Howard Payne

John Howard Payne

male, deceased (1852)
John Howard Payne (9 June, 1791 - 10 April, 1852) was an American actor and playwright. He is today most remembered as the author of "Home Sweet...

Samuel Worcester

male, deceased (1859)
Samuel Austin Worcester (January 19 1798 - April 20 1859), was a missionary to the Cherokees, translator of the Bible, printer and defender of the...
Marilou Awiakta

Marilou Awiakta

female, 73 years old
Marilou Awiakta is a Native American author of the Cherokee tribe. She was born on January 24, 1936 in Knoxville, Tennessee. She is renowned for...
Lois Gladys Leppard

Lois Gladys Leppard

female
Lois Gladys Leppard is the author of "The Mandie Series" of children's novels. Leppard wrote her first "Mandie" story when she was only eleven...
Douglas Blue Feather

Douglas Blue Feather

male
Douglas Bonnell is a Native American flutist who records under the pseudonym of Douglas Blue Feather. He has won four Native American Music Awards,...

Ostenaco

male
Ostenaco, also known as Outasette and Austenaco, (c. 1703 - 1780, born near present day Polk County, Tennessee) was a Cherokee Keowee chief who...
Christopher Judge

Christopher Judge

male, 45 years old
Douglas Christopher Judge (born October 13 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor of African American and Cherokee Indian descent....
Sonny Landham

Sonny Landham

male, 68 years old
William M. "Sonny" Landham (born February 11, 1941) is an American movie actor and political candidate.
James G. Blunt

James G. Blunt

male, deceased (1881)
James Gillpatrick Blunt (July 21, 1826 - July 27, 1881) was a sailor, physician and Union general during the American Civil War. Blunt was born in...