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NASHVILLE
Most Famous People Born in Nashville, United States
- Notable people
- 804
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1941
- Most distinctive
- Songwriter 8.7×
Nashville's Songwriter bench is Music Row in one line of the file — the Bradley and RCA studios that built modern country and then absorbed Americana, gospel and contemporary Christian writing on top. The heavier-than-expected Baseball count is older, a holdover from the Nashville Vols of the Southern Association, while the Music and Singer lines run from the Grand Ole Opry's founding generation through the outlaw country and contemporary Americana eras.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Nashville during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 79 notable births.
What Nashville Is Known For
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Football is Nashville's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (80).
Nashville over-indexes on songwriter — 8.7× the global rate.
Nashville under-produces writer — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Nashville's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Music
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Writing
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- Other
Miley Cyrus
Born 1992
William Walker (filibuster)
1824 - 1860
Chord Overstreet
Born 1989
Duane Allman
1946 - 1971
Young Buck
Born 1981
Annie Potts
Born 1952
Bettie Page
1923 - 2008
Rita Coolidge
Born 1945
DJ Qualls
Born 1978
Colin Ford
Born 1996
James Denton
Born 1963
Harlow Shapley
1885 - 1972
Noah Cyrus
Born 2000
Carlene Carter
Born 1955
Bill Frist
Born 1952
Kitty Wells
1919 - 2012
Edwin Starr
1942 - 2003
Cynthia Rhodes
Born 1956
Hank Williams III
Born 1972
Andrea True
1943 - 2011
Julian Bond
1940 - 2015
Edward Emerson Barnard
1857 - 1923
Rachel Korine
Born 1986
Jeff Jarrett
Born 1967
Lark Voorhies
Born 1974
Sydney Penny
Born 1971
Randall Jarrell
1914 - 1965
Calpernia Addams
Born 1971
R.A. Dickey
Born 1974
Bill Belichick
Born 1952
Shooter Jennings
Born 1979
Lorrie Morgan
Born 1959
Margaret Keane
Born 1927
James Craig (actor)
1912 - 1985
Harry Blackmun
1908 - 1999
Lucille La Verne
1872 - 1945
Bobby Hebb
1938 - 2010
John Carter Cash
Born 1970
John Bell (Tennessee politician)
1796 - 1869
Richard Speight Jr.
Born 1970
Dawn Upshaw
Born 1960
Claude Jarman Jr.
Born 1934
Peter Hardeman Burnett
1807 - 1895
Jim Cooper
Born 1954
Robert Ryman
1930 - 2019
Willa Fitzgerald
Born 1991
Charles Randolph
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Park Overall
Born 1957
Dee Rees
Born 1976
Chuck Taylor (salesman)
1901 - 1969
Leroy Carr
1905 - 1935
Deana Carter
Born 1966
John Seigenthaler
1927 - 2014
Roy Cooper
Born 1957
ODB (wrestler)
Born 1978
Hermes Pan
1909 - 1990
Beth Littleford
Born 1968
Hillary Scott
Born 1986
Alex Renfroe
Born 1986
Tom Schulman
Born 1950
Nancy Roman
1925 - 2018
Bruce Henderson
1915 - 1992
Samuel Stritch
1887 - 1958
R. Stevie Moore
Born 1952
Colleen Brennan
Born 1949
Justin Townes Earle
1982 - 2020
Rod Daniel
1942 - 2016
Linda Schele
1942 - 1998
Dann Huff
Born 1960
Taylor York
Born 1989
Landon Pigg
Born 1983
Frank Maxwell Andrews
1884 - 1943
Brandon Heath
Born 1978
Max Charles
Born 2003
Natalia Dyer
Born 1997
Cornelia Fort
1919 - 1943
Andrew Jackson Donelson
1799 - 1871
Sonny Gray
Born 1989
Ellen McLain
Born 1952
Jodie Meeks
Born 1987
Lona Andre
1915 - 1992
Allen Steele
Born 1958
Bob Hoover
1922 - 2016
Waylon Payne
Born 1972
Brandan Wright
Born 1987
Michael Peterson (criminal)
Born 1943
Meg Myers
Born 1986
Jamont Gordon
Born 1987
Cary Brothers
Born 1974
Nat Love
1854 - 1921
Howard Caine
1926 - 1993
Madison Smartt Bell
Born 1957
Adair Tishler
Born 1996
Bobby Bare Jr.
Born 1966
Emanuel Pastreich
Born 1964
Trevor Bardette
1902 - 1977
Brian Baker (tennis)
Born 1985
Benjamin F. Cheatham
1820 - 1886
Joe Blanton
Born 1980
Red Grooms
Born 1937
Mary Engle Pennington
1872 - 1952
Alan Roscoe
1886 - 1933
Bob Moore
Born 1932
Kem (singer)
Born 1969
Mickey Kantor
Born 1939
Matraca Berg
Born 1964
Virgil (wrestler)
Born 1962
Kenny Buttrey
1945 - 2004
Doc Cheatham
1905 - 1997
Bobby Russell
1940 - 1992
Lee MacPhail
1917 - 2012
Charles O. Holliday
Born 1948
Tommy Seymour
Born 1988
Laura Cantrell
Born 1967
James C. Jones
1809 - 1859
Cullen Landis
1895 - 1975
Cecil Gant
1913 - 1951
Jim Gilliam
1928 - 1978
Ellen Woglom
Born 1987
Justin Prentice
Born 1994
Linn Boyd
1800 - 1859
Henry Johnson (Louisiana politician)
1783 - 1864
Chuck Wagner
Born 1958
Ron Mercer
Born 1976
Brandt Snedeker
Born 1980
Jemina Pearl
Born 1987
Gerald Robinson (basketball, born 1989)
Born 1989
Steve Southerland (Florida politician)
Born 1965
Ben Chapman (baseball)
1908 - 1993
Ben Tucker
1930 - 2013
Dontae' Jones
Born 1975
Tish Cyrus
Born 1967
Bobby Hamilton
1957 - 2007
Emily Addison
Born 1984
Charles Sawyers
Born 1959
William Harding Jackson
1901 - 1971
Joseph Prueher
Born 1942
Jacob Gentry
Born 1977
Harry P. Cain
1906 - 1979
Paula Robison
Born 1941
Ryan Stack
Born 1975
Caleb Joseph
Born 1986
Jim Bacchus
Born 1949
Jerry Jarrett
Born 1942
Bob Clement
Born 1943
Starlito
Born 1984
Allen Woody
1955 - 2000
James B. Pearson
1920 - 2009
Hill McAlister
1875 - 1959
David Harrison (basketball)
Born 1982
Adrienne C. Moore
Born 1980
Kenny Earl
Born 1964
Josef Newgarden
Born 1990
Katherine Rawls
1917 - 1982
Jenny Boucek
Born 1973
Ken Coomer
Born 1960
Will Hoge
Born 1972
Jean MacArthur
1898 - 2000
Evan Brewer
Born 1981
Barry Cook
Born 1958
Alexander Barrow
1801 - 1846
Clyde Lee
Born 1944
Dick Griffey
1938 - 2010
Brandi Cyrus
Born 1987
John Adams (Confederate Army officer)
1825 - 1864
Albert Gleaves
1858 - 1937
William Edmondson
1882 - 1951
Richard Fulton
1927 - 2018
Robert T. Hill
1858 - 1941
Andrew Triggs
Born 1989
Kaye Gibbons
Born 1960
Bill Boner
Born 1945
Les Hunter
1942 - 2020
Ellen McIlwaine
Born 1945
Kendall Houk
Born 1943
Paul Satterfield
Born 1960
Newman Haynes Clanton
1816 - 1881
George Childress
1804 - 1841
Bart Sibrel
Born 1964
St. Louis Jimmy Oden
1903 - 1977
Albert Hodges
1861 - 1944
Charles Davis (basketball, born 1958)
Born 1958
Buzz Cason
Born 1939
Demonte Harper
Born 1989
Samuel Pickering
Born 1941
Jim McCann (writer)
Born 1974
Sara Cahier
1875 - 1951
Kirk Rueter
Born 1970
Isabelle Harrison
Born 1993
Ed Allen (musician)
1897 - 1974
Ryan Lorthridge
Born 1972
Rickey Woodard
Born 1950
Fred Hynes
1908 - 1992
Walter Sorrells
Born 1962
Logan Darnell
Born 1989
Arthur Gunter
1926 - 1976
Susie Isaacs
Born 1946
JellyRoll
Born 1986
Noodles Hahn
1879 - 1960
Stephanie Smith
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Casey Bond
Born 1984
Will Provine
1942 - 2015
Bob Montgomery (baseball)
Born 1944
Harold D. Cooley
1897 - 1974
Andrew Glaze
1920 - 2016
Kelen Coleman
Born 1984
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
1809 - 1892
Dawson Mathis
1940 - 2017
Brett Manning
Born 1966
Bill Byrge
Born 1932
John Henderson (defensive tackle)
Born 1979
Kathy Liebert
Born 1967
Joseph H. Acklen
1850 - 1938
Jacqueline Mazarella
Born 1968
John Early (comedian)
Born 1988
Luke Lea (American politician, born 1879)
1879 - 1945
William Henry Sneed
1812 - 1869
Joseph W. Frazer
1892 - 1971
Jackie Shane
1940 - 2019
Cortney Tidwell
Born 1972
William F. Hagerty
Born 1959
Alice Nielsen
1872 - 1943
Sylvia Stahlman
1929 - 1998
Mary R. Calvert
1884 - 1974
John Seigenthaler (anchorman)
Born 1955
Warner Mack
Born 1938
John Wesley Work Jr.
1871 - 1925
Douglas Henry
1926 - 2017
John Edgar Browning
Born 1980
Lou Graham
Born 1938
Christine Kittrell
1929 - 2001
Margit L. McCorkle
Born 1942
Buddy Harman
1928 - 2008
Billy Collins Jr.
1961 - 1984
Clark Beckham
Born 1992
James Richard Poole
Born 1932
Clinton Jackson
Born 1954
Hunter Hillenmeyer
Born 1980
Annie Thurman
Born 1996
Ted McClain
Born 1946
Sempronius H. Boyd
1828 - 1894
Adelicia Acklen
1817 - 1887
Randy Rose
Born 1956
Benny Cunningham
Born 1990
Art Burris
1924 - 1993
Edwin Hickman Ewing
1809 - 1902
Frank Omiyale
Born 1982
Shelby Blackstock
Born 1990
Kurt Wagner (musician)
Born 1958
Jimmy Lewis (bassist)
1918 - 2000
Evie Shockley
Born 1965
Jet Jurgensmeyer
Born 2004
Taylor Rhodes
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Erin Davie
Born 1977
Edward H. East
1830 - 1904
Mary Frances Berry
Born 1938
Thomas F. Frist Jr.
Born 1938
Catherine Raney-Norman
Born 1980
Randy Scruggs
1953 - 2018
Paul Worley
Born 1950
Marynell Meadors
Born 1943
Horace Mann Bond
1904 - 1972
Tim Wise
Born 1968
Andrew Ewing
1813 - 1864
Shelton Quarles
Born 1971
Alfred Steele
1901 - 1959
Andrew Boone
1831 - 1886
Edward White Robertson
1823 - 1887
Texas Presley
Born 1981
Turkey Stearnes
1901 - 1979
Emmi Peltonen
Born 1999
Archibald Hunter Arrington
1809 - 1872
Ernest Schmidt
1911 - 1986
Titilayo Adedokun
Born 1973
Karenna Gore
Born 1973
Victoria Dunlap
Born 1989
Jack Stapp
1912 - 1980
Jesse E. James
1875 - 1951
King Dunlap
Born 1985
Bill Wade
1930 - 2016
John W. Gaines
1860 - 1926
John H. DeWitt Jr.
1906 - 1999
Cory Fleming
Born 1971
Quinton Patton
Born 1990
John Wolfe Jr.
Born 1954
William Hayes Ackland
1855 - 1940
Derek Barnett
Born 1996
David Briley
Born 1964
Jermain Wesley Loguen
1813 - 1872
Ryan Bittle
Born 1976
William Tyler (musician)
Born 1979
James Wilkes
Born 1958
Lloyd A. Karmeier
Born 1940
Phil Valentine
Born 1959
Harold Bradley
1926 - 2019
John Oxendine
Born 1962
Tom Cross (politician)
Born 1958
Peter Kurland
Born 1958
Thomas B. Evans Jr.
Born 1931
Ephraim Graham
1888 - 1962