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LIBERTY
Most Famous People Born in Liberty, United States
- Notable people
- 386
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1915
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 6.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Liberty during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1930s with 32 notable births.
What Liberty Is Known For
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Politician is Liberty's biggest profession — 16% of all notables (60).
Liberty over-indexes on baseball — 6.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Liberty's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Sports
- Film & TV
- Music
- Writing
- Military
- Other
Wallace Beery
1885 - 1949
Ambrose Burnside
1824 - 1881
Una Merkel
1903 - 1986
Tamara Tunie
Born 1959
Craig Stevens (actor)
1918 - 2000
Duane Michals
Born 1932
Aline MacMahon
1899 - 1991
Red Foley
1910 - 1968
Joaquin Miller
1837 - 1913
Byron Janis
Born 1928
Marc Connelly
1890 - 1980
Bill Shuster
Born 1961
Arthur Lake (actor)
1905 - 1987
Abby Brammell
Born 1979
Jack Lawrence (musician)
Born 1976
Owsley Stanley
1935 - 2011
Zoe Leonard
Born 1961
Matt Bevin
Born 1967
Joseph Nelson Rose
1862 - 1928
William Sublette
1799 - 1845
Traci Lind
Born 1968
Swin Cash
Born 1979
Earle Combs
1899 - 1976
Robert D. Webb
1903 - 1990
Benjamin M. Friedman
Born 1944
Bill Coleman
1904 - 1981
Paul Tanner
1917 - 2013
George McAfee
1918 - 2009
Carl Mays
1891 - 1971
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
1918 - 2015
Ken Boyer
1931 - 1982
Brian Haig
Born 1953
Sherie Rene Scott
Born 1967
J. Lawrence Smith
1818 - 1883
Karl Brown (cinematographer)
1896 - 1990
Charles H. Moore
Born 1938
Lance Fuller
1928 - 2001
Wallace Wilkinson
1941 - 2002
Knox Chandler
Born 1954
John Tanner (captive)
1780 - 1846
Richard Wilson (director)
1915 - 1991
Bill Carlisle
1908 - 2003
Bette Ford
Born 1937
Gy Waldron
Born 1950
John E. McLaughlin
Born 1942
Alex Saxon (actor)
Born 1987
Charles Floyd (explorer)
1782 - 1804
Stu Martin (drummer)
1938 - 1980
Jesse Stuart
1907 - 1984
John Ellis Martineau
1873 - 1937
Elizabeth Blair Lee
1818 - 1906
Sam Sneed
Born 1968
J. Paul Hogan
1919 - 2012
Freddie Fields
1923 - 2007
Robert J. Stevens
Born 1952
Richard Gruelle
1851 - 1914
Levi Boone
1808 - 1882
Leslie Mills
Born 1950
MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Born 1957
James D. Walker
1830 - 1906
Dorothy LaBostrie
1928 - 2007
Allan B. Magruder
1775 - 1822
James Doss
1939 - 2012
James Thompson (crime writer)
1964 - 2014
Buell Kazee
1900 - 1976
Jay Heimowitz
Born 1937
Pat Kirtley
Born 1952
Carlisle Towery
1920 - 2012
Jesse James (American football)
Born 1994
David S. Walker
1815 - 1891
Bill Dodd
1909 - 1991
Samuel Beakes
1861 - 1927
Fletcher Stockdale
1823 - 1890
Evett Dumas Nix
1861 - 1946
Bill Richmond (writer)
1921 - 2016
Rick Krivda
Born 1970
L. D. Williams
Born 1988
Matt Wertz
Born 1979
Frederick William Franz
1893 - 1992
David DiChiera
1935 - 2018
Robert Hayes Gore
1886 - 1972
Dan Altavilla
Born 1992
Maurice Martin
Born 1964
Tyree H. Bell
1815 - 1902
Shea Groom
Born 1993
Thomas W. Bennett (territorial governor)
1831 - 1893
Milton George Henschel
1920 - 2003
John C. Rice
1858 - 1915
Jim Baechtold
1927 - 2011
Jenks "Tex" Carman
1903 - 1968
Bobby Jones (saxophonist)
1928 - 1980
Ben Lucien Burman
1896 - 1984
Samuel Duvall
1836 - 1908
Bill Gaither (blues musician)
1910 - 1970
Gabe Jackson
Born 1991
Jean Chapel
1925 - 1995
Scott Seabol
Born 1975
Frank Buchanan (Pennsylvania politician)
1902 - 1951
Rosetta Sherwood Hall
1865 - 1951
Bob Atcher
1914 - 1993
Jerry Clower
1926 - 1998
Kelly Knight Craft
Born 1962
Paul J. Bradley
Born 1945
Helen Richey
1909 - 1947
Bill Robinson (outfielder)
1943 - 2007
Rex De Rosselli
1878 - 1941
Solomon King
1930 - 2005
William L. May
1793 - 1849
Camille Cooper
Born 1979
Roger Heman Sr.
1898 - 1969
Mathew Caldwell
1798 - 1842
Brian Holton
Born 1959
Bob Long
Born 1942
Chet Brandenburg
1897 - 1974
Jimmy Coe
1921 - 2004
Mary B. Anderson
Born 1939
James Kerr (Texas)
1790 - 1850
Bernard Coy
1900 - 1946
Gale H. Stalker
1889 - 1985
Joe B. Bates
1893 - 1965
Akhdiyat Duta Modjo
Born 1980
Robert Michael Morris
1940 - 2017
Sheila Johnson
Born 1949
Bill Roberts
1899 - 1974
Murray Raney
1885 - 1966
William O. Barnard
1852 - 1939
Julia Hirschberg
-
Kiami Davael
Born 1986
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Born 1965
Bill Galvano
Born 1966
Billie West
1891 - 1967
Richard E. Bush
1924 - 2004
James A. Bellamy
1925 - 2015
Thomas Terry Davis
1758 - 1807
Ben Holladay
1819 - 1887
Allen Young (writer)
Born 1941
Lewis Hayden
1811 - 1889
Jacob Call
1824 - 1826
J. McKenzie Moss
1868 - 1929
Maurice Leggett
Born 1986
Harry Pulliam
1869 - 1909
Silas Bent
1882 - 1945
Mason S. Peters
1844 - 1914
Gatewood Lincoln
1875 - 1957
Branden Jackson
Born 1992
William N. Sweeney
1832 - 1895
W. Frank Blair
1912 - 1984
Herbert Spiegel
1914 - 2009
Ed Brandenburg
1893 - 1968
Charles M. Hudson
1932 - 2013
Jay Hall Connaway
1893 - 1970
Douglas H. Cooper
1815 - 1879
James M. Priest
1816 - 1883
George M. Hinkle
1801 - 1861
Bob Carroll Jr.
1918 - 2007
Frank A. McLain
1852 - 1920
Lindsay Applegate
1808 - 1892
Thomas F. Terrell
1866 - 1939
Michael Joseph Smith
Born 1938
Dean Fearing
Born 1955
Andy Douglas
Born 1978
Ernesto Scorsone
Born 1952
Abbe Mowshowitz
Born 1939
Patrick W. Tompkins
1804 - 1853
Brandon Short
Born 1977
Thomas K. Donaldson
1945 - 2006
William Howard Durham
1873 - 1912
John Christian Bullitt
1824 - 1902
Albery Allson Whitman
1851 - 1901
David Dean Bottrell
Born 1959
Fenton Johnson
Born 1953
Jerry A. Shields
Born 1937
Marcus Lucas
Born 1992
Gary Mullen (American football)
Born 1963
John W. Lane
1835 - 1888
Forest Sale
1911 - 1985
Larry Cordle
Born 1949
John Willis Hurst
1920 - 2011
Chris LaCivita
Born 1966
Boyd Crumrine Patterson
1902 - 1988
Joe Frazier (baseball)
1922 - 2011
John Stillwell Stark
1841 - 1927
Robert Qualters
Born 1934
Robert M. Coleman (Texan politician)
1799 - 1837
Robby Henson
-
Hubert L. Eaton
1881 - 1966
Robert M. McBride
1879 - 1970
Benjamin F. Randolph
1820 - 1868
Ross Fichtner
Born 1938
Noy Castillo
Born 1974
George Rice (American football)
1944 - 2010
Alfred Matthew Hubbard
1901 - 1982
Mary Meachum
1801 - 1869
Adolph W. Schmidt
1904 - 2000
David Kalstone
1933 - 1986
John M. Bacon
1844 - 1913
Jim Kelly (tight end, born 1942)
Born 1942
Addia Wuchner
Born 1955
Keith Ackerman
Born 1946
Lawrence Michael De Falco
1915 - 1979
Greg Paterra
Born 1967
Francis Ridgley Cotton
1895 - 1960
Klesie Kelly
-
Tom Qualters
Born 1935
Jo Whittemore
Born 1977
Gary Ross (baseball)
Born 1947
John C. C. Mayo
1864 - 1914
Jim Beirne
Born 1946
Rudy Ricci
1940 - 2012
Rick Dalzell
Born 1957
Ted Greene (American football)
1932 - 1982
John Hoerr
1930 - 2015
Joe Zewe
Born 1983
Art Adams (Musiker)
Born 1935
Jon Cowherd
-
Fred Fields
Born 1954
Greg Miller (poet)
Born 1957
Tim Conroy
Born 1960
Bill Miller (wide receiver)
Born 1940
Yvonne Hughes
1900 - 1950
Marc Gergely
Born 1969
Joan Logue
Born 1942
Cynthia Baldwin
-
Thomas Marshall (Illinois politician)
1817 - 1873
Ron Crosby
Born 1955
David Logan (Oregon politician)
1824 - 1874
Russell Stuvaints
Born 1980
David G. Friehling
Born 1959
Nathaniel Semple
1876 - 1913
Raymond J. Lane
Born 1946
James Elliott (musician)
Born 1976
Morris Johnson
Born 1937
Donald Moran
Born 1945
Lattie Moore
1924 - 2010
Shannon Ocork
Born 1944
Wood Hite
1850 - 1881
Nick Robinson (basketball)
Born 1979
L. C. Bates
1904 - 1980
Toni-Leslie James
Born 1957
Ike Martin
1887 - 1979
Denton Koon
Born 1992
Harry Taylor (1930s first baseman)
1907 - 1969
Ray Callahan
1933 - 2017
William McHenry
1771 - 1835
Jamie Callender
Born 1965
Ralph Kercheval
1911 - 2010
Mary Inman
1894 - 1985
Don Durham
Born 1949
Louis Allen
1919 - 1964
John Reid Wolfskill
1804 - 1897
Art Ball
1876 - 1915
David Donnelly
-
Benjamin Purnell
1861 - 1927
Kaysie Clark
Born 1993
Henry Kean
1894 - 1955
William B. Houchens
1884 - 1949
Will Coleman (American football)
1869 - 1934
Jim Trimble
1918 - 2006
Dennis Franks
Born 1953
Richard A. Kidd
Born 1943
Robert G. Lawson
Born 1938
Abram Irvin McDowell
1793 - 1844
Frances Jones Mills
1920 - 1996
Stan Cooper
Born 1940
Alan Gerry
Born 1929
William A. McWhorter
1918 - 1944
George Mrkonic
1929 - 2011
Allen B. Reed
1884 - 1965
Charles T. Wethington Jr.
Born 1936
Frank M. Proctor
1827 - 1892
Molly Harper
-
Brenda Sue Fulton
-
Hazel Farris
1880 - 1906
Florence Lacey
Born 1949
Edward H. Ahrens
1919 - 1942
Jane Green (singer)
1897 - 1931
E. H. Hurst
1908 - 1990
Ted Berry
1905 - 2000
Gary Leitzell
Born 1961
Khaleke Hudson
Born 1997
Fred Chapman (baseball)
1916 - 1997
Sanford Christie Barnum
1838 - 1885
Art Thomason
1889 - 1944
Tommy Gale (racing driver)
1934 - 1999
Clyde V. Ratcliff
1879 - 1952
Martha Wilkinson
1941 - 2014
Jeff Wayne (comedian)
-
Sylvanus Lowry
1824 - 1865
Sharon Marko
Born 1953
Edward Hill (Medal of Honor)
1835 - 1900
Harrison Peppers
1866 - 1903
John Bell (Virginia politician)
Born 1963
Lemuel Carpenter
1808 - 1859
Tim Murchison
1896 - 1962
Thomas E. Ayres
Born 1962
M. K. Guertin
1891 - 1970
John W. Moore (Missouri)
1840 - 1917
Victor Togunde
Born 1975
William Owen Bush
1832 - 1907
Joan McCall
Born 1957