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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
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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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- Filtered to 1950s Clear ×
Annie Potts
Born 1952
Carlene Carter
Born 1955
Bill Frist
Born 1952
Cynthia Rhodes
Born 1956
Bill Belichick
Born 1952
Lorrie Morgan
Born 1959
Jim Cooper
Born 1954
Park Overall
Born 1957
Roy Cooper
Born 1957
Tom Schulman
Born 1950
R. Stevie Moore
Born 1952
Ellen McLain
Born 1952
Allen Steele
Born 1958
Madison Smartt Bell
Born 1957
Chuck Wagner
Born 1958
Bobby Hamilton
1957 - 2007
Charles Sawyers
Born 1959
Allen Woody
1955 - 2000
Barry Cook
Born 1958
Charles Davis (basketball, born 1958)
Born 1958
Rickey Woodard
Born 1950
William F. Hagerty
Born 1959
John Seigenthaler (anchorman)
Born 1955
Clinton Jackson
Born 1954
Randy Rose
Born 1956
Kurt Wagner (musician)
Born 1958
Randy Scruggs
1953 - 2018
Paul Worley
Born 1950
John Wolfe Jr.
Born 1954
James Wilkes
Born 1958
Phil Valentine
Born 1959
Tom Cross (politician)
Born 1958
Peter Kurland
Born 1958
John D. Liu
Born 1953
Roy Huskey Jr.
1956 - 1997
Bill Ligon
Born 1952
David H. Simmons
Born 1952
David P. Sartor
Born 1956
David Vaughn Jr.
Born 1952
Dave Cloud
1956 - 2015
Jane Branstetter Stranch
Born 1953
Carol S. Batey
Born 1955
Ricky Morton
Born 1956
Dave Reavis
Born 1950
Christopher Dickey
1951 - 2020
Jim Ellis (computing)
1956 - 2001
Lee Summers
Born 1958
R. Milton Johnson
Born 1957
Steve Goldstein (diplomat)
Born 1951
Ronald Kelly
Born 1959
Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr.
Born 1956
Wayne Garland
Born 1950
Missy Kane
Born 1955
Jerome Coffee
Born 1958
Larry Teague
Born 1958
Connie Eaton
1950 - 1999
Kenneth Pettiford
Born 1950
Charlie Wade (American football)
Born 1950
Larry Jent
Born 1951
Ken Johnson (defensive end, born 1955)
Born 1955
Bruce McLarty
Born 1957
Debbie Combs
Born 1959
Kay George Roberts
Born 1950
David Hennings
Born 1957
Steven Womack
Born 1952
Alan LeQuire
Born 1955
Nate Simpson
Born 1954
Chuck Meriwether
1956 - 2019
Steve Liddle
Born 1959
Tommy Haynes
Born 1952
Billy Crain
Born 1954
Ann McCrary
Born 1950
Barbara Tsakirgis
1950 - 2019
Emily J. Reynolds
Born 1956
Preston Brown (wide receiver)
Born 1958
Mark Thomas Ketterson
Born 1955