List of people from Mobile, Alabama

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Notable people, past and present, who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Mobile, Alabama:

Arts and literature[]

  • Gregory Benford, science fiction author and physicist
  • Manda Collins, historical romance author
  • Augusta Jane Evans, author
  • Winston Groom, author, best known for Forrest Gump[1]
  • Melinda Haynes, author
  • Roy Hoffman, author
  • Michael Knight, university professor and author
  • William March, author and World War I veteran
  • William P. McGivern, author
  • Kathryn Morgan, ballet dancer
  • Albert Murray, author
  • , newspaper publisher in Monroe and Crowley, Louisiana; formerly worked as a journalist in Mobile; died in Mobile in 1909[2]
  • Michelle Richmond, author
  • Geoffrey Sauer, theorist and author
  • Eugene Sledge, university professor, author, and World War II veteran
  • , journalist for Mobile Press-Register and The Sun Herald in Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi; Tiner and staff won 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Hurricane Katrina coverage
  • John Augustus Walker, artist known for his paintings and murals
  • Eugene Walter, labeled "Mobile's Renaissance Man" for diverse activities the arts; interred in 1998 in historic Church Street Graveyard by special resolution of the city[3]

Business[]

Film and television[]

Historic[]

  • Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr., largely credited with the rebirth of Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile after the Civil War; city celebrates Joe Cain Day on the Sunday before Mardi Gras[5]
  • Octavia Walton Le Vert, socialite and writer[6]
  • Florence Chandler Maybrick, born into a wealthy Mobile family, her mother remarried after her father's death and became Baroness von Roques; Florence married a British cotton factor, James Maybrick, and they lived at Battlecrease House in Aigburth; she and her husband both were known for their extramarital affairs; Florence was later found guilty of murdering her husband.
  • Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt, born and raised in Mobile, wife of William K. Vanderbilt and mother of Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; known for building several of the most noted houses of the Gilded Era; later a crusader for the women's suffrage movement and the Equal Rights Amendment.[7]

Military[]

  • Keith L. Craig, Sergeant Major, US Army
  • Jeremiah Denton, admiral, United States Navy
  • William Crawford Gorgas, physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the United States Army; known for his work in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria
  • Kathryn P. Hire, captain, United States Naval Reserve, NASA astronaut
  • John D. New, United States Marine in World War II, only Mobile native to be awarded the Medal of Honor; Cottage Hill Park was renamed Medal of Honor Park in his honor, and Pixie Street was renamed PFC John D. New Drive
  • Sidney Phillips, United States Marine, portrayed by Ashton Holmes in the HBO miniseries The Pacific
  • Admiral Raphael Semmes, captain of the CSS Alabama during the American Civil War; resident of Mobile; the Mobile suburb of Semmes is named in his honor[8]
  • Eugene Sledge, United States Marine Corps, author of New York Times bestselling book With the Old Breed, portrayed by Joseph Mazzello in the HBO miniseries The Pacific
  • Leighton W. Smith, Jr., admiral, U.S. Navy; in 1994, became commander-in-chief of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Allied Forces Southern Europe
  • , US Army Sergeant Major - 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado

Music[]

  • Backwater, a late 1970s jazz fusion band
  • The Band Perry, sibling country music trio
  • Billy Bang, jazz violinist and composer
  • Jimmy Buffett, vocalist, songwriter and entrepreneur[9][10]
  • Vice Cooler, lead vocalist and songwriter for XBXRX
  • James Reese Europe, conductor and composer
  • Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green, professional jazz trombonist
  • Jimmy Hall, lead vocalist and harmonica player for Wet Willie
  • Will Kimbrough, vocalist, songwriter, musician and producer
  • Allison Moorer, Oscar-nominated songwriter
  • Bernard Odum, bass player, best known for performing in James Brown's band
  • Rich Boy, rap and hip hop artist
  • Terrance Quaites, aka TQ, R&B artist
  • Ray Sawyer, lead vocalist of Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
  • Beverly Jo Scott, singer and songwriter
  • Ward Swingle, jazz vocalist
  • Claude and Clifford Trenier, twins, jazz/R&B-style singers during 1940s and 1950s
  • Fred Wesley, jazz and funk trombonist
  • Cootie Williams, jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter, performed with Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman
  • Linda Zoghby, soprano, Metropolitan Opera

Political[]

Religious[]

Athletics[]

Mobile is the birthplace of five members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Only New York City and Chicago can claim to be the birthplace of more members of the Hall.

Others[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Winston Groom". Alabamiana, A Guide to Alabama. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  2. ^ "Nixon, John Travis". . Retrieved April 21, 2015.
  3. ^ "Eugene Walter". "The Internet Movie Database". Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  4. ^ "Phil Gulley obituary". Press-Register. 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2010-07-03.[clarification needed][dead link]
  5. ^ Joe Danborn; Cammie East (25 February 2001). "Joe Cain: Mobile's King for Today". Mobile Register. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-10-16 – via Cain's Merry Widows.
  6. ^ Satterfield, Frances Gibson (1987). Madame Le Vert: A Biography of Octavia Walton Le Vert. Edisto Island, S.C.: Edisto Press. ISBN 978-0-9618589-1-9.
  7. ^ Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0-06-621418-1
  8. ^ "Raphael Semmes". "Alabama Hall of Fame". Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  9. ^ Buffett, J: A Pirate Looks at Fifty, page 402. Random House, 1998. ISBN 0-679-43527-1
  10. ^ "Jimmy Buffett". "Alabamiana, A Guide to Alabama". Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  11. ^ John H. Lang, History of Harrison County, Mississippi Dixie Press, 1935, p. 135
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h Reichler, Joseph L. The Baseball Encyclopedia, New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1979. ISBN 0-02-578970-8
  13. ^ "Baseball Page Bio". thebaseballpage.com. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  14. ^ "Willie Aaron Anderson". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  15. ^ "Robert Lorenzo Brazile". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  16. ^ "DeMarcus Amir Cousins". Basketball-Reference.Com. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  17. ^ "Fennis Dembo". Basketball-Reference.Com. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  18. ^ "Pat Howell Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  19. ^ "Scott Hunter". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  20. ^ "Antonio Maurice Lang". datbaseBasketball.com. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  21. ^ "Tee Martin". Pro-Footbal-Reference.Com. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
  22. ^ "Satchel Paige". "Satchel Paige Biography". Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  23. ^ "Donald Francis Reese". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
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