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

Activism Patricia Swift Blalock – librarian and civil rights activist Joanne Bland – civil rights movement activist J.L. Chestnut – author, attorney, and a figure in the U.S. civil rights movement Annie Lee Cooper – long-time civil rights activist who was active in the 1965 Selma voting rights movement Willis Nathaniel Huggins – historian and social activist Frederick D. Reese – voting rights movement leader Amelia Boynton Robinson – voting rights movement leader and long-time civic activist in Selma

Art Mary Morgan Keipp – noted figure in the art photography movement of the early 20th century Clara Weaver Parrish – artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor – artist

Athletics Zinn Beck – former MLB infielder; managed the first Selma Cloverleafs from 1928 to 1930, winning the Southeastern League pennant in 1930 Curtis Berry – former professional basketball player David Beverly – former Auburn University and NFL player Charles Davis – member of the Azerbaijan national basketball team Cid Edwards – former NFL player Mia Hamm – former professional soccer player Candy Harris – former MLB player for the Houston Astros Gunnar Henderson – MLB player for the Baltimore Orioles Michael Johnson – professional football player, NFL, Cincinnati Bengals James Ralph "Shug" Jordan – former head football coach of Auburn University Terry Leach – former professional baseball player MLB, baseball field at Bloch Park named for him Larry Marks – professional boxer William Clarence Matthews – former baseball player, lawyer, first head football coach for Tuskegee University and civil rights activist Pat McHugh – former professional football player for the Philadelphia Eagles Ben Obomanu – professional football player, NFL, New York Jets L. Vann Pettaway – men's basketball head coach of Alabama A&M from 1986 to 2011 Ken Pettway – player of gridiron football Hosken Powell – former Major League Baseball right fielder Cal Ramsey – former NBA player Ed Steele – former professional baseball outfielder

Business Olan Mills Sr. – photographer and founder of Olan Mills Richard Scrushy – founder of HealthSouth Craig Vetter – motorcycle designer Lulu White – brothel madam and procuressRose, "Storyville, New Orleans" University of Alabama Press, pg. 40

Education Bogart Leashore – social worker, sociologist, dean of Hunter College school of social work (1991–2003) Minnie Bruce Pratt – educator, activist, and essayist Frank Warner – folk song collector and former YMCA executive Biography in Stambler and Landon, Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1969

Fashion Eunice W. Johnson – founder and director of the Ebony Fashion FairJensen, Trevor. "Eunice W. Johnson dies at 93; gave Ebony magazine its name", Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2010. Retrieved January 9, 2010.

Government David Abner – former member of the Texas Legislature Ann Bedsole – member of both houses of the Alabama State Legislature 1979–1995 from Mobile, born in 1930 in Selma Jo Bonner – U.S. representative from 2003 to 2013 Janice Bowling – member of the Tennessee Senate Jim Clark – Selma sheriff during the 1965 voting rights campaign George Henry Craig, former U.S. Congressman for the 4th District of Alabama William Benjamin Craig – U.S. representative from 1907 to 1911 Suzan DelBene – U.S. representative for Washington's 1st congressional district Jeremiah Haralson – U.S. representative from 1875 to 1877 Sam Hobbs – U.S. representative from 1935 to 1951 Truman McGill Hobbs – United States federal judge Michael W. Jackson – district attorney Thomas S. Kenan – U.S. representative from 1805 to 1811 William Rufus King – vice president of the United States, U.S. senator, minister to France William Lehman – U.S. representative from 1973 to 1993 John Tyler Morgan – U.S. senator from 1877 to 1907, major general, CSA James Perkins, Jr. – first African American mayor of Selma Edmund Pettus – U.S. senator from 1897 to 1907, brigadier general, CSA Gaston A. Robbins, former U.S. Congressman for the 4th District of Alabama Jeff Sessions – United States senator Terri Sewell – 2010 Democratic representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district Charles M. Shelley, officer in the Confederate military and former U.S. Congressman for the 4th District of Alabama Benjamin S. Turner – first African American elected to U.S. Congress from Alabama (1871– Republican) Hattie Hooker Wilkins – first woman elected to the Alabama Legislature

Literature Katharine Hopkins Chapman (1870/72/73-1930) – author and historian Sarah Johnson Cocke – writer and civic leader W. C. Morrow – writer William O. Walker – former editor of the Call and Post Sheyann Webb – writer Kathryn Tucker Windham – storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist

Military Howard W. Gilmore – World War II submarine commander who posthumously received the Medal of Honor William J. Hardee – lieutenant general, CSA, author of Hardee's Military Tactics used by both Union and Confederate troops Catesby ap Roger Jones – naval commander, captain of the ironclad ship CSS Virginia in its battle with the USS Monitor during the first conflict between iron warships in world history John Melvin – first American naval officer to die in World War I

Music Randall Atcheson – concert pianistAlabama Music Hall of Fame, "Alabama Music Hall of Fame Achiever – Randall Atcheson " Retrieved June 24, 2014 Kenny Brown – blues slide guitarist Mattie Moss Clark – former gospel music singer, The Clark Sisters Jimmy Gresham – soul musician Asher HaVon – winner of NBC's The Voice Johnny Moore – lead singer for The DriftersNew York Times Johnny Moore, 64, Lead Singer for the Drifters Bill Moss – gospel music singer Oscar Toney, Jr. – soul singer

Parapsychology Edgar Cayce – famed psychic

Religion Moses Anderson – Roman Catholic bishopDetroit Auxiliary Bishop Moses B. Anderson, SSE, has died, Archdiocese of Detroit, January 2, 2013 T. J. Jemison – president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1982 to 1994 Lippman Mayer – rabbi Clarence Rufus J. Rivers – priest and composer of liturgical music Milton L. Wood – Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta from 1967 to 1974

Science Shwetak Patel – computer scientist and entrepreneur

Television and film Gregg Hale – film producer

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