Notable residents of Lexington, Kentucky

Following are famous people and celebrities who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in the Lexington, Kentucky metropolitan area:

{| class="wikitable"
-! Name !! Description
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David Akers || "National Football League kicker."
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James L. Alcorn || "Deputy sheriff of Lexington, later United States Senator from Mississippi cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | date = 1967] ."
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John Breckinridge || "U.S. Senator"
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John C. Breckinridge || "U.S. Vice President, U.S. Senator"
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Belle Brezing || "Brothel madame."
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Laura Bell Bundy || "Actress."
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Philip Cash || "Music producer.
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Thomas D. Clark || "Historian & author."
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Henry Clay || "Politician."
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George Clooney || "Actor."
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Drew Curtis || "Businessman & founder of Fark."
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Chase Daniels || "National radio personality."
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Guy Davenport || "Author."
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Jefferson Davis || "Politician."
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Dermontti Dawson || "Former NFL player."
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Henry Earl || "Local street personality" and AI multi
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Farah Fath || "Actor."
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Henry Faulkner || "Artist."
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Ralph Foody || "Actor."
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Gatewood Galbraith || "Author, lawyer, hemp advocate, and personal rights defender."
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Tyson Gay || "Sprinter; 2007 World Champion at 100 and 200 meters."
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Rayna Gellert || "Bluegrass fiddler"
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Troy Gentry || "Musician."
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Vince Gill || "Musician."
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Joe B. Hall || "Basketball coach."
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Tom Hammond || "NBC sportscaster."
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Han Kuo-Huang || "Ethnomusicologist."
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Michael Hartman || "Computer Game developer and founder of Frogdice, Inc."
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Richard Hell || "Punk-rock Godfather."
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Josh Hopkins || "Actor."
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Ashley Judd || "Actor."
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Naomi Judd || "Musician."
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Gregory Kaidanov || "Chess grandmaster"
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Austin Kearns || "Major League Baseball player with the Washington Nationals."
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Mary Todd Lincoln || "Wife of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States."
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William Lipscomb || "Nobel Prize in Chemistry"
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Brian Littrell || "Musician."
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Shirley Ardell Mason || "a.k.a. Sybil"
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Les McCann || "Jazz musician & painter."
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard || "Photographer."
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Irene Moon || "Also known as Katja Chantre Seltmann, musician."
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Charles Chilton Moore ||
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John Hunt Morgan || Civil War General."
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Thomas Hunt Morgan || "Geneticist."
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Gurney Norman || "Author, University of Kentucky professor."
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J. Peterman || "Businessman."
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Rick Pitino || "Basketball coach."
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Kevin Richardson || "Musician."
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Gil Rogers || "Actor."
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Adolph Rupp || "Basketball coach."
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Robert Schneider || "Musician."
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Eric Shelton || "National Football League runningback."
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Tubby Smith || "Basketball coach."
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Harry Dean Stanton || "Actor."
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Walter Tevis || "Author of Mockingbird, The Hustler, and The Color of Money."
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William L. Todd || "Creator of first California Flag"
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John Tuska || "Artist."
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Jim Varney || "Actor & comedian."
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Steve Zahn || "Actor."
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References

ee also

*List of people from Kentucky

Brandon Webb, All-Star Arizona Diamondback starting pitcher.
*He is from Ashland KY, but played college baseball for the University of Kentucky.