Natives and Residents
Main article: List of people from Louisville, Kentucky- Raymond Abbott, writer
- Muhammad Ali, boxing legend.
- Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Foster Brooks, comedian, comic actor
- Lance Burton, illusionist
- Jennifer Carpenter, actress
- Jim Cornette, professional wrestling manager
- Denny Crum, former University of Louisville men's basketball coach
- Irene Dunne, actress
- Thomas Edison, inventor
- Jimmy Ellis, boxer
- Dian Fossey, primatologist
- Stephen Gaghan, screenwriter and film director, Academy Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay (Traffic, 2000)
- Gertrude Ganote, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player from 1944 through 1945
- Stephen "Static Major" Garrett, Grammy Award-Winning American singer and songwriter
- Sue Grafton, writer
- John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), physician and land developer, Los Angeles, California
- Darrell Griffith, University of Louisville, Utah Jazz, basketball Player
- James Guthrie, industrialist and politician
- Ed Hamilton, a nationally recognized sculptor. Works include: Booker T. Washington at Hampton University; The Amistad in Hartford, Connecticut;York and Abraham Lincoln in Louisville; Joe Louis in Detroit; and a Black Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- Lionel Hampton, jazz musician
- Scott Harrington, former racing driver, Indy 500 Veteran and Indycar Rookie of the Year
- Charles T. Hinde, a successful businessman and original investor of the Hotel del Coronado
- Paul Hornung, former NFL Quarterback
- Anna Mae Hutchison, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player from 1944 through 1948
- Jim James, musician (My Morning Jacket)
- Julie Kagawa, writer
- James Kottak, drummer of Rock band #Scorpions
- Paul Laird, Kansas University musicology professor and author
- Jennifer Lawrence, actress
- William Mapother, actor (Lost, In the Bedroom, Another Earth)
- Victor Mature, actor
- Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senate Minority Leader
- Tori Murden, first female to row across the Atlantic
- ZZ Packer, writer
- Greg Page, boxer
- Rick Pitino, University of Louisville men's basketball coach
- Rajon Rondo, Boston Celtics basketball player
- Don Rosa, Eisner Award winning writer/artist of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comic books.
- Diane Sawyer, newscaster
- Phil Simms, former NFL quarterback, broadcaster
- Nicole Scherzinger, singer
- John Schnatter, Papa John's Pizza founder
- James Speed, U.S. Attorney General
- Joshua Fry Speed, Abraham Lincoln's close friend
- President Zachary Taylor and his wife Margaret rest in the mausoleum at what is now the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
- Hunter S. Thompson, writer
- Ron Thompson, actor
- Johnny Unitas, former NFL Quarterback
- John Yarmuth, United States Representative, former editor of the Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO)
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Famous quotes containing the words natives and/or residents:
“As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared that the shadows of some Irishmen before him had no halo about them, that it was only natives that were so distinguished.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)