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Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring magazine heavyweight title from 1964 to 1970, was the undisputed champion from 1974 to 1978, and was the WBA and Ring heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1979. In 1999, he was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC.

Colonel Sanders

American entrepreneur (1890-1980) who founded KFC

Ellen Churchill Semple

American geographer (1863–1932)

George Rogers Clark

American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer (1752–1818)

American singer (1965–1993)

Junior Bridgeman

American basketball player and businessman

Abraham Flexner

American educator

American politician and businessman (1792–1869)

American football player (1935–2020)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1780-1852)

American lawyer and politician (1812–1887)

Mildred J. Hill

American composer (1859–1916)

James B. Eustis

Confederate Army officer and American politician (1834-1899)

Yvonne Young Clark

mechanical engineer (1929-2019)

Josiah S. Johnston

American politician (1784-1833)

American sculptor

American former heavyweight boxer

Augustus E. Willson

American politician (1846-1931)

American basketball player and coach

J. Lawrence Smith

American chemist, mineralogist, and student of meteorites (1818-1883)

Frederic M. Sackett

American politician (1868–1941)

United States educator and songwriter (1868–1946)

Thomas E. Bramlette

Governor of Kentucky (1817-1875)

Nicola Marschall

German-American artist (1829-1917)

David Meriwether

American politician and lawyer (1800-1893)

Thruston Ballard Morton

American politician (1907–1982)

William Preston

Confederate Army general (1816–1887)

Joseph Alexander Altsheler

American novelist (1862-1919)

John Albert Broadus

American pastor and theologian (1827–1895)

Wilson W. Wyatt

American politician and lawyer

Robert Worth Bingham

American judge (1871–1937)

William Lowther Jackson

American lawyer, politician, slaveholder and jurist (1825–1890)

Boyd Winchester

American politician (1836-1923)

Confederate Army general (1828–1891)

William Thomas Ward

Union Army General (1808-1878)

William Girdler

American film director (1947–1978)

Alice Hegan Rice

American writer

American basketball player, born 1961 (1961–1996)

Elisha Standiford

American politician (1831-1887)

Albert S. Willis

American politician (1843–1897)

Archibald Thomas Robertson

Baptist New Testament scholar (1863 – 1934)

George D. Prentice

American newspaper editor (1802-1870)

Charles R. Farnsley

American politician (1907-1990)

Joshua Fry Speed

American politician and farmer (1814–1882)

American politician and lawyer (1825-1896)

Henry Watterson

American journalist and politician (1840-1921)

Robert Charles Wickliffe

American politician (1874-1912)

Edward Y. Parsons

American politician (1842-1876)

Asher G. Caruth

American politician (1844-1907)

Patty Prather Thum

painter and art critic (1853-1926)

Horatio Washington Bruce

American politician (1830–1903)

Union United States Army officer, lawyer, politician, United States federal judge (1842–1923)

George G. Gilbert

American politician (1849-1909)

William Shakespeare Hays

American writer (1837-1907)

American civil engineer (1827-1897)

Harvey Samuel Irwin

American politician (1844-1916)

American baseball player (1861–1905)

American Methodist missionary in Brazil

Charles Champion Gilbert

Union Army General

Charles Caldwell

American physician (1772-1853)