List of people from Danville, Kentucky

These noted people were born, raised or lived for a significant period of time in the city of Danville, Kentucky.

Name		Noted for
Michael F. Adams	b. 1948	President of the University of Georgia
Sophia Alcorn	1883-1967	Educator; invented the Tadoma method of communication with people who are deaf and blind
William Anderson	1826-1861	U.S. Representative from Kentucky
Joshua Fry Bell	1811-1870	U.S. Representative, Kentucky Secretary of State; namesake of Bell County, Kentucky
James G. Birney	1792-1857	Abolitionist, politician and jurist
James M. Birney	1817-1888	Publisher and U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands
William Birney	1819-1907	Professor, Union Army general during the American Civil War, attorney and author
Jeremiah Boyle	1818-1871	Lawyer, abolitionist, and brigadier general during the American Civil War
John Boyle	1774-1834	U.S. federal judge and U.S. Representative; namesake of Boyle County, Kentucky
John C. Breckinridge	1821-1875	U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States, U.S. presidential candidate, Confederate States Secretary of War
Robert Breckinridge	1800-1871	Kentucky politician and Presbyterian minister
Neal Brown	b. 1980	College football coach and former player
Samuel D. Burchard	1812-1891	Clergyman
Michael Burns	b. 1947	Historian and actor
Jewel Carmen	1897-1984	Silent film actress
James Clemens, Jr.	1791-1878	Businessman and banker
George B. Crittenden	1812-1880	Career Army officer who served in the Black Hawk War, the Army of the Republic of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War
Joseph Daveiss	1774-1811	Lawyer and soldier
Todd Duncan	1903-1998	Baritone opera singer and actor
Milton J. Durham	1824-1911	Representative from Kentucky
John Fetterman	1920-1975	Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
John Baptiste Ford	1811-1903	Industrialist and founder of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Harry Frankel	1888-1948	Minstrel performer and vaudevillian, "Singin' Sam, the Barbasol Man"
Speed S. Fry	1817-1892	Lawyer, judge, and U.S. Army officer during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War
William Arthur Ganfield	1873-1940	Educator
Hart Goodloe	1875-1954	Surgeon in the First World War
Ashley Gorley	b. 1969	Songwriter and producer
Christopher Greenup	1750-1818	U.S. Representative and Governor of Kentucky
Aaron Harding	1805-1875	U.S. Representative from Kentucky
John Marshall Harlan	1833-1911	U.S. Supreme Court Justice, "The Great Dissenter"
Larnelle Harris	b. 1947	Gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist
Harvey Helm	1865-1919	U.S. Representative from Kentucky
Robby Henson		Film director and screenwriter
William R. Higgins	1945-1990	U.S. Marine Corps colonel captured and killed in 1988 while on a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
Edward W. Hoch	1849-1925	Governor of Kansas
Dennis Johnson	b. 1979	Football player
Elizabeth Topham Kennan	b. 1938	Academic, president of Mount Holyoke College
James Kerr	1790-1850	Politician in Missouri and Texas who was active in establishing the Republic of Texas
John Kincaid	1791-1873	U.S. Representative from Kentucky
J. Proctor Knott	1830-1911	U.S. Representative from Kentucky and Governor of Kentucky
Travis Leffew	b. 1983	Football player
Robert P. Letcher	1788-1861	U.S. Representative, diplomat, and Governor of Kentucky
Pierce Lively	1921-2016	U.S. federal judge
Sara W. Mahan	1870-1966	Progressive era social reformer, early Democratic Party member
Maurice Manning	b. 1966	Poet
Jim Marshall	b. 1937	Football player
Claude Matthews	1845-1898	Governor of Indiana
Charles McDowell, Jr.	1926-2010	Political writer and television panelist
Ephraim McDowell	1771-1830	Physician, first to successfully remove an ovarian tumor
Samuel McDowell	1735-1817	Soldier and early political leader in Kentucky
John Gaines Miller	1812-1856	U.S. Representative from Missouri
Eddie Montgomery	b. 1963	Country music artist
John Michael Montgomery	b. 1965	Country music artist
Lottie Moon	1840-1912	Missionary to China
John Norvell	1789-1850	Newspaper editor and U.S. Senator from Michigan
Theodore O'Hara	1820-1867	Poet and soldier
William Owsley	1782-1862	Associate justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals; Governor of Kentucky
Stephen Rolfe Powell	b. 1951	Glass artist
Scott Pruitt	b. 1968	Oklahoma Attorney General
Willis Russell	1803-1852	Emancipated slave of Revolutionary War veteran Robert Craddock, founder of first school in Danville for African-American children
Alfred Ryors	1812-1858	President of Indiana University, Ohio University; professor at Centre College
Hugh L. Scott	1853-1934	Superintendent of West Point, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in World War I
Isaac Shelby	1750-1826	First and fifth Governor of Kentucky
Thomas A. Spragens	1917-2006	Educator, president of Centre College
King Swope	1893-1961	U.S. Representative from Kentucky
John G. Talbot	1844-1870	U.S. Navy officer
Albert G. Talbott	1808-1887	U.S. Representative from Kentucky
Jacob Tamme	b. 1985	Football player
Josh Teater	b. 1979	Professional golfer
Charles Stewart Todd	1791-1871	U.S. Army officer and U.S. Ambassador to Russia
Thomas Todd	1765-1826	U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Trey D.		Songwriter and composer, born Keith McGuffey
Frank X Walker	b. 1961	Kentucky's first African-American Poet Laureate
DeWitt Weaver	b. 1939	Professional golfer
Reed N. Weisiger	1838-1908	Texas State Senator, Confederate cavalry officer
Fess Williams	1894-1975	Jazz musician
Phil Woolpert	1915-1987	College basketball coach
Craig Yeast	b. 1976	American and Canadian football player

See also

• List of people from Kentucky