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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. Presley's energetic and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and initial controversy.
Al Gore
Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018. In a 2022 readers' poll by Empire, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.
Cordell Hull
American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944
William Sanderson
American actor
William Shepherd
American astronaut
Alvin York
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1887-1964)
Barry E. Wilmore
American astronaut
Christopher Jones
American actor (1941–2014)
Katherine Rawls
American swimmer, diver, Olympic silver medalist, aviator (1917-1982)
John Seigenthaler
American journalist, writer, and political figure (1927-2014)
Lillian Randolph
American actress (1898–1980)
John Eaton
American politician and diplomat (1790-1856)
Joseph Desha
American politician (1768-1842)
Clarice Phelps
African American nuclear chemist
Phil Roe
American politician
Clifton Bledsoe Cates
United States Marine Corps (1893–1970)
Thomas T. Handy
United States general (1892–1982)
Ed Westcott
American photographer (1922–2019)
Ross Bass
American politician (1918–1993)
Frank Sutton
American actor (1923-1974)
Hopkins L. Turney
American politician (1797-1857)
Ned McWherter
Governor of Tennessee & Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1930-2011)
Newton Cannon
American politician (1781-1841)
Gordon Browning
politician and United States Army officer (1889-1976)
William Eldridge Odom
United States Army general (1932-2008)
Luke Lea
American politician, born 1879 (1879–1945)
Frank G. Clement
American politician (1920–1969)
Prentice Cooper
American politician (1895-1969)
Grantland Rice
American sportswriter (1880-1954)
Ben W. Hooper
lawyer and Tennesssee politician (1870-1957)
William Harding Jackson
American spy (1901–1971)
Howard Caine
American actor (1926–1993)
Roddie Edmonds
American infantryman and POW honored as Righteous Among the Nations (1919–1985)
William Howard Arnold
United States general (1901–1976)
Charles H. Gerhardt
United States general
Richard Fulton
American politician (1927–2018)
Elbert Howard
American civil rights activist (1938-2018)
John Houston Savage
American politician
John Painter
American supercentenarian (1888–2001)
William Vollie Alexander, Jr.
American politician in Arkansas
William Anderson
United States naval officer (1921–2007)
Carl Stiner
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1936–2022)
Walter Chandler
American politician (1887–1967)
Howard Armstrong
American string band and country blues musician (1909–2003)
Riley Darnell
American politician (1940–2020)
Frank Barnett
Governor of American Samoa (1933–2016)
Bill Harris
American politician from Ohio (1934-2017)
Robert Desha
American politician (1791-1849)
Harold Bradley
American guitarist (1926–2019)
Samuel Escue Tillman
Career military educator
John P. McCown
Confederate general (1815-1879)
Thurman D. Rodgers
American Army general
George Lewis Gillespie, Jr.
United States Army Chief of Engineers, and Medal of Honor recipient
Douglas Henry
American politician (1926-2017)
John Willis
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1921–1945)
Thomas Jefferson Murray
American politician (1894–1971)
William Blount Carter
American politician, Tennessee (1792-1848)
John Hall Buchanan, Jr.
former U.S. representative from Alabama (1928-2018)
Thomas F. Frist, Jr.
American businessman