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The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Tuskegee, Alabama:

Activism

• Rosa Parks, African American civil rights activist
• Thomas Reed, African American Alabama NAACP President, state politician and civil rights activist
• Sammy Younge Jr., Civil Rights Movement activist and voting rights activist

Art

• Frederick Arthur Bridgman, artist known for his paintings of "Orientalist" subjects

Athletics

• Cleveland "Cleve" Abbott, coach
• Alice Coachman, first African American female Olympic gold medalist, high jump
• Herman Hill, former Major League Baseball player
• Stanley Jackson, former NBA player
• Ken Johnson, former forward for the Portland Trail Blazers
• Rimp Lanier, former Major League Baseball player
• Chad Lucas, professional football wide receiver
• Zeke Moore, former cornerback for the Houston Oilers
• Chukie Nwokorie, former NFL player
• James Patrick, Canadian football safety
• Gilbert Renfroe, former professional football quarterback
• Gerald Robinson, former Auburn University and NFL defensive end
• Andre Thornton, major league baseball player
• Tony Tolbert, former defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys
• Frank Walker, NFL cornerback
• Rory White, NBA player for the Phoenix Suns, San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers, and the Milwaukee Bucks
• Willie Whitehead, former Auburn University and NFL defensive end

Education

• Howard R. Lamar, historian of the American West and a former president of Yale University
• Booker T. Washington, educator, author, orator, and leader in the African-American community

Government

• Eric Motley, former U.S. State Department official and director of the Aspen Institute
• Frank Park, U.S. Representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district from 1913 to 1925
• Edward W. Pou, U.S. Representative from North Carolina's 4th District from 1901 to 1934
• Charles Winston Thompson, U.S. Representative from 1901 to 1904
• Myron Herbert Thompson, Senior Judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
• Michael L. Vaughn, politician who represents District 24 in the Maryland House of Delegates
• Otis D. Wright II, U.S. District Judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California

Literature

• Clarissa Scott Delany, poet, essayist, educator and social worker associated with the Harlem Renaissance
• Sadie Peterson Delaney, chief librarian of the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center for 34 years and a pioneer in bibliotherapy
• Angela Johnson, poet and writer of children's books
• Nella Larsen, author of the Harlem Renaissance
• Phyllis Alesia Perry, novelist and journalist

Military

• Theodore W. Brevard, Jr., officer in the Confederate States Army
• William A. Campbell, member of the Tuskegee Airmen
• Lt Gen Russell C. Davis, former Commanding General of the District of Columbia National Guard
• Evander McIvor Law, American Civil War general
• The Tuskegee Airmen

Music

• Dave Edwards, multireedist and lead alto saxophonist for the Lawrence Welk Show
• Tom Joyner, nationally syndicated radio DJ
• Lionel Richie, graduated from Tuskegee University, rhythm & blues singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and occasional actor
• Caughey Roberts, jazz alto sax player best known for his time in the Count Basie Orchestra in the 1930s

Science

• Keith Black, neurosurgeon
• George Washington Carver, botanist
• Adriel Johnson, biologist and faculty member at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who was killed in a mass shooting

Television

• Robin Roberts, anchor of Good Morning America
• Keenen Ivory Wayans, actor, comedian, writer, director

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3. Bourlin, Olga (30 September 2014). "Younge, Samuel ("Sammy") Leamon, Jr. (1944-1966)". BlackPast.org. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
4. "Frederick Arthur Bridgman / American Art". Americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
5. "Alice Coachman". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Archived from the original on 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
6. "Herman Hill Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac". Baseball-almanac.com. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
7. "Stanley Jackson NBA & ABA Stats". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
8. "Ken Johnson NBA & ABA Stats". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
9. "Rimp Lanier Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
10. "Chad Lucas NFL Football Statistics". Pro-Football-Reference.com. 1981-11-07. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
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13. "James Patrick | Roster | CFL.ca | Official Site of the Canadian Football League". CFL.ca. 1982-06-04. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
14. "Gilbert Renfroe College & Pro Football Statistics". Totalfootballstats.com. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
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21. "Elms and Magnolias: Yale and the American South :: Curator: Garry Lacy Reeder II". Library.yale.edu. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
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29. Henry Louis Gates; Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham (2009). Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography. Oxford University Press. pp. 154–6. ISBN 978-0-19-538795-7. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
30. Gubert, B. K. (1993). Sadie Peterson Delaney: Pioneer Bibliotherapist. American Libraries, 24(2), 124-125.
31. "WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors | Angela Johnson". Ohioana-authors.org. 1961-06-18. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
32. Hutchinson, George. (2006) In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line, Harvard University Press
33. Moore, Shirley Walker (2006). "Perry, Phyllis Alesia (1962-)". In Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu (ed.). Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 705–6. ISBN 0-313-33197-9.
34. "Theodore Washington Brevard". Civilwarreference.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
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45. Hal Erickson (2014). "Keenen Ivory Wayans". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2014-05-21.

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