- List of people from Tallahassee, Florida
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This is a list of notable people who were either born or raised, or have lived for a significant period of time in the Tallahassee, Florida metropolitan area:
Contents
Academics, education, and research
- Konrad E. Bloch — Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, who helped learn about the functioning of cholesterol
- James M. Buchanan — winner of Nobel Prize in economics
- Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte — attorney, civil-rights activist, former Dean of the Florida State University Law School, former President of Florida State University, President of the American Bar Association and the American Judicature Society
- Fred Gainous - Former President of Florida A & M University from 2002 - 2004. Former Chancellor of the Alabama College System's Department of Postsecondary Education. Associate vice president of St. Petersburg College.
- Paul Dirac — Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose theories predicted antimatter
- Sylvia Earle — former chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Neil Frank — former Director of the National Hurricane Center
- Sir Harold Kroto — Nobel Prize-winning chemist who helped discover fullerenes
- Max Mayfield — former Director of the National Hurricane Center
- Robert S. Mulliken — physicist and chemist who won both the Priestley Medal and the Nobel Prize
- X. William Proenza — former Director of the National Hurricane Center
- Robert Schrieffer — Nobel Laureate, BCS Theory of Superconductivity
Space exploration
- Carolyn S. Griner — former Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
- Winston Scott — NASA astronaut
- Norman Thagard — NASA astronaut, flying on three different U.S. Space Shuttles, and on one Russian mission to the Mir space station.
Authors
- Robert Olen Butler — Pulitzer Prize-winning author for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (fiction)
- Doug Marlette — Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
- Jeff Shaara — author (Gods and Generals and many others)
- Michael Shaara — Pulitzer prize-winning author (for The Killer Angels)
- Jeff VanderMeer — World Fantasy Award-winning author (for the novella The Transformation of Martin Lake)
Aviation
- Jerrie Mock — aviator and first woman to fly around the world solo
Business
- Wally Amos — founder of the "Famous Amos" chocolate chip cookie brand; actor
- Eugene Figg — engineer for such bridges as Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Linn Cove Viaduct, and Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge
- Robert B. Hilton — Tallahassee newspaper owner and Confederate congressman during the American Civil War
- Tor J. Friedman — Tallahassee attorney selected by fellow State of Florida attorneys for the distinction of Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite 2008.[1][2]
- John Parkhill — Irish immigrant; banker of Tallahassee, Florida.[3]
Film, television, and radio
- Red Barber — sportscaster, Radio Hall of Fame member
- Jim Cramer — host of CNBC's Mad Money
- Ashlee Register — Duel (US game show) winner of $1,795,000. Ranked sixth in American game show winnings records.
- Charles Trippy - youtuber
Acting
- Matt Battaglia — actor and former NFL player
- Cathy Jenéen Doe — actress
- Kyan Douglas — the "grooming expert" from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"
- Faye Dunaway — Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winning actress
- Tony Hale — actor playing Byron "Buster" Bluth on Arrested Development
- Cheryl Hines — actress, 2006 Emmy-nominee on Curb your Enthusiasm
- Polly Holliday — actress, Golden Globe winner (for television series Alice).
- Will Kirby — Big Brother 2 (2001) winner
- Christine Lahti — film actress and director, winner of Academy Award for Leiberman in Love, and well as two Golden Globes and an Emmy for her role in Chicago Hope
- Burt Reynolds — Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor
- Anika Noni Rose — Tony Award-winning actress, as Emmie Thibodeaux in Caroline, or Change
- Sonny Shroyer - actor that played the deputy sheriff on 'The Dukes of Hazzard"
Writing and Production
- Jim Butterworth — documentary filmmaker, winner of DuPont-Columbia Award for "Seoul Train"
- Ron J. Friedman — writer of Disney's Academy Award nominated film Brother Bear
Government and politics
- Art Agnos — former Mayor of San Francisco, California
- Reubin Askew — politician, former Governor of Florida
- Lawton Chiles — politician and FSU research fellow; former US Senator and Governor of Florida.
- Leroy Collins — politician and Governor of Florida (Leroy Collins was the only Tallahassee native to serve as Florida's Governor.)
- Parris N. Glendening — former Governor of Maryland
- Scott Maddox — Former Mayor
- Kenneth Minihan — former director of the National Security Agency
- Orson Swindle — Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
- Craig Waters — spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court
Historical people
- Catherine Willis Gray Murat — great-grandniece of George Washington
- Prince Achille Murat — nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte
- Ernest I. Thomas — raiser of the original flag at Iwo Jima[4]
- Charles Kenzie Steele — clergyman and civil rights activist
Infamy
- Ted Bundy — serial killer (resident for approximately 2 weeks)
- Marshall Ledbetter — Protester who took over the Florida Capitol Building
Music
- Cannonball Adderley — Jazz alto saxophone player, Grammy Award winner
- Nat Adderley — Jazz cornet and trumpet player
- Ray Charles (1940–1945) — pianist and entertainer
- George Clinton — musician, founder of Funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic
- Rita Coolidge — Grammy Award-winning singer for From the Bottle to the Bottom and Lover Please
- Janice Harsanyi — vocalist and professor
- Kenny Howes — rock musician
- Jim Morrison — lead singer and lyricist of The Doors
- T-Pain — hip hop and R&B singer (born Faheem Najm)
- Butch Trucks (Claude Hudson Trucks) — Drummer, member of the Allman Brothers band
Composition
- Ernst von Dohnányi — composer and pianist
- Carlisle Floyd — opera composer - Susannah (1955) and others
- Marcus Roberts — jazz pianist, composer and music professor at Florida State University
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich — Pulitzer prize-winning composer (for Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1))
Sports
- Robert "Bobby" C. Bowden — college football coach, winner of two national championships
- Brett Blizzard — collegiate and professional basketball player
- Ricky Carmichael — Motocross/Supercross Champion
- Kevin Carter- NFL defensive end
- Bradley Cooper — member of 1984 and 1988 Bahamas Summer Olympics team
- Gene Cox — State of Florida Sports Hall of Fame member (Leon High School football coach) [5]
- Antonio Cromartie- NFL player credited with the longest play in NFL history
- Kim Crosby — NASCAR driver, with a best race finish of 20th, in 2004
- Dwight F. Davis — founder of the international tennis Davis Cup
- Walter Dix — U.S. track team member and medalist at 2008 Beijing Olympics
- Warrick Dunn — Former FSU football star and current player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- Carrie Englert (Zimmerman) — member of 1976 U.S. Summer Olympics team [6]
- Michael Gaines — Swift TE for the Detroit Lions
- DaVanche (Ron) Galimore — member of 1980 U.S. Summer Olympics team [6]
- Willie Galimore — member of College Football Hall of Fame, and NFL football player
- Althea Gibson — winner of several Wimbledon and US Open tennis championships
- Frances C. Griscom - U.S. Women's Amateur golf champion
- Ken Harnden — hurdler and sprinter who represented Zimbabwe in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games
- Tahesia Harrigan — professional sprinter (BVI)
- Bob Hayes — gold-medal winner on 1964 U.S. Summer Olympics team; NFL football player
- Taylor Jacobs — professional football player - wide receiver with Washington Redskins, San Francisco 49ers, and Denver Broncos
- Marty Jannetty — A Retired professional wrestler , best known for his work with WWE
- Reggie Jefferson — former MLB player
- Brad Johnson — NFL quarterback
- Brandy Johnson — member of 1988 U.S. Summer Olympics team
- Desmond Koh — amateur swimmer who represented Singapore in the 1988, 1992, and 1996 Olympic Games
- Nevin McCaskill — NFL player for the Green Bay Packers
- Michelle McCool — World Wrestling Entertainment Diva (Formally Diva Champion)
- Brian Olson — member of 1996, 2000 and 2004 U.S. Summer Olympics teams [7]
- Burgess Owens — professional football player, member of Oakland Raider team that won Super Bowl XV
- Bill Peterson — college and NFL head football coach
- Zach Piller- NFL guard for the Tennessee Titans
- Elise Ray — gymnast, represented United States in 2000 Olympic Games
- Gabrielle Reece — professional volleyball player, model
- Deion Sanders — FSU football star, former National Football League cornerback, Major League Baseball outfielder, and is currently an NFL Network commentator
- Ernie Sims- current NFL linebacker
- Craphonso Thorpe- NFL wide reciver
- Marion Tinsley — World Checkers Champion 1955-58, 1975-91.
- Charlie Ward — 1993 Heisman Trophy winner
- Pat Watkins- NFL safety for the Dallas Cowboys
- Chris Weinke — 2000 Heisman Trophy winner
- Boo Williams- NFL tight end for the New Orleans Saints
References
- ^ Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite 2008
- ^ About Tor J. Friedman
- ^ John Parker
- ^ van der Vat, Dan (1991). The Pacific Campaign. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-73899-2.
- ^ Tallahassee Treasure Uncovered!
- ^ a b http://tallahasseetumblingtots.org/TTT-8.htm Tallahassee Tumbling Tots' Olympians
- ^ http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880611021 "Olson vies for fourth straight Olympics in Judo" (Tallahassee Democrat, 11 June 2008)
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