List of People From Alabama

Spencer Bachus, representative from Alabama's 6th congressional district since 1993 (Vestavia Hills)
Mary Badham, actress (Birmingham)
Hank Ballard, singer (Bessemer)
Tallulah Bankhead, actress (Jasper)
Charles Barkley, basketball player (Leeds)
Reggie Barlow, NFL wide receiver, college football coach (Montgomery)
Mark Barron, NFL player- Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Mobile)
Cynthia Bathurst, animal activist, founder of Safe Humane Chicago and the Court Case Dog Program
Bill Baxley, former Lieutenant Governor of Alabama (Dothan)
Lucy Baxley, lieutenant governor (2003-2007) (Vestavia Hills)
Paul Bearer, WWE manager and wrestling promoter (Mobile)
Jere Beasley, born Tyler, Texas, lieutenant governor (1971-1979) (Clayton)
Scott Beason, Alabama state senator since 2006 (Hartselle)
Barry Beckett, studio musician, guitarist, composer, record producer, original member of Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (Muscle Shoals)
Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States (Mobile)
Earl Bennett, NFL wide receiver (Birmingham)
Amber Benson, actress (Birmingham)
Eric Bledsoe, basketball player (Birmingham)
Bo Bice, "American Idol" contestant (Helena)
Michael Biehn, actor (Anniston)
James Gillespie Birney (1792–1857), planter, attorney, abolitionist (Huntsville)
Sanford Bishop, U.S. representative from Georgia's 2nd congressional district (Mobile)
Hugo Black; U.S. senator, United States Supreme Court justice (Harlan)
Lucas Black, actor (Speake)
Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr., white supremacist and co-conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (Birmingham)
Eric Bledsoe, NBA player- Los Angeles Clippers (Birmingham)
Winton Blount, businessman, U.S. postmaster general from 1969-1972 (Union Springs)
Michael Boley, NFL linebacker (Gadsden)
Jo Bonner, representative from Alabama's 1st congressional district since 2003 (Mobile)
Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (Hueytown)
Young Boozer, current state treasurer (Montgomery)
Albert Boutwell, lieutenant governor (1959-1963), mayor of Birmingham (1963-1967) (Birmingham)
Bobby Bowden, college footbal coach (Birmingham)
Rich Boy, rap artist (Mobile)
Frank W. Boykin, former U.S. representative (Bladon Springs)
Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, music group (Evergreen)
Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Possum Trot)
Jeff Briggs, businessman, video game pioneer (Florence)
Wernher von Braun; engineer, physicist (Huntsville) born Wirsitz, Province of Posen, Poland (then part of German Empire)
Albert P. Brewer, governor 1968 to 1971 (Birmingham)
Bobby Bright, mayor of Montgomery (1999-2009), representative from Alabama's 2nd congressional district (2009-2011) (Montgomery)

David G. Bronner, CEO for Retirement Systems of Alabama (Montgomery) born Cresco, Iowa
Mo Brooks, representative from Alabama's 5th congressional district since 2011 (Huntsville)
Janice Rogers Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals judge (Luverne)
Jerry Dolyn Brown; folk artist, traditional potter (Hamilton)
Johnny Mack Brown; college football star- University of Alabama football, actor (Dothan)
Matthew Brown; comedian -YouTube
Roger Brown (artist), American artist who was a member of the Chicago Imagists,(Hamilton)
Paul "Bear" Bryant, former head football coach - University of Alabama football, born in Camden, Arkansas (Tuscaloosa)
John Hall Buchanan, Jr., representative from Alabama's 6th congressional district (1965-1981) (Birmingham and thereafter Bethesda, Maryland)
Jimmy Buffett, singer/songwriter (Mobile), born Pascagoula, Mississippi
Edward M. Burgess, American Chemist (Birmingham), Inventor of the Burgess reagent
Edward A. Burkhalter; Admiral-United States Navy; Chief of Naval Intelligence; Chief of Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency; (Roanoke)
Brett Butler, actress (Montgomery)
Keith Butler, NFL coach- Pittsburgh Steelers (Anniston)
Pat Buttram, actor (Addison)
Larry Byrom, rock music guitarist- Steppenwolf (Huntsville)