List of Sons and Daughters of the City of Lexington, Kentucky

This is a list of public figures that American US in the town of Lexington ( Kentucky ) were born. The list does not claim to be complete.

18th century

Lilburn Boggs
(1796-1860)

Joseph H. Hawkins († 1823), politician
Benjamin Howard (1760-1814), politician
Thomas Buck Reed (1787–1829), politician
Lilburn Boggs (1796-1860), politician
Richard M. Young (1798–1861), lawyer and politician
Mark Whitaker Izard (1799–1866), politician

19th century

George W. Dunlap
(1813-1880)

Francis Preston Blair junior
(1821-1875)

George B. Duncan
(1861-1950)

John W. Tibbatts (1802-1852), politician
John T. Stuart (1807-1885), politician
Levi Boone (1808-1882), politician
William Alexander Richardson (1811–1875), politician
George W. Dunlap (1813–1880), politician
John Blair Smith Todd (1814–1872), politician
William Wells Brown (1814–1884), abolitionist and author
Mary Lincoln (1818–1882), wife of US President Abraham Lincoln
John C. Breckinridge (1821–1875), general and statesman
Francis Preston Blair junior (1821–1875), politician and major general in the Union Army in the Civil War
Jehu Baker (1822-1903), politician
James Morrison Hawes (1824–1889), Confederate General in the American Civil War
Carter Harrison, Sr. (1825-1893), politician
B. Gratz Brown (1826-1885), politician
Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835-1907), painter
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919), poet
Charles Chilton Moore (1837–1906), civil rights activist and editor
Charles H. Parrish Sr. (1841–1931), African American civil rights activist, theologian, and President of Simmons University
Clifton R. Breckinridge (1846-1932), politician
James Lane Allen (1849-1925), writer
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921), evangelical theologian
Lucien Young (1852-1912), Admiral
George B. Duncan (1861–1950), Major General
Mrs. Leslie Carter (1862–1937), actress
William Withers (1864-1933), golfer
Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866-1948), social scientist
Allan Lard (1866-1946), golfer
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945), zoologist and geneticist and Nobel Prize winner
Robert W. Woolley (1871-1958), politician
Preston Brown (1872-1948), General
James Graves Scrugham (1880-1945), politician
Spencer Bell (1887–1935), actor

20th century

1901-1950

Joseph R. Pitts
(* 1939)

Scotty Baesler
(born 1941)

Edgar Hayes (1904–1979), jazz pianist
Bill Johnson (1905–1955), musician
Dan Burley (1907–1962), jazz pianist
Joyce Compton (1907–1997), actress
Edmund Asbury Gullion (1913-1998), diplomat
Lloyd Smith (1914-1999), jazz musician
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007), literary critic and writer
Frank Van Deren Coke (1921-2004), photographer
William Ray (1925–2019), opera singer and actor
Robert K. Massie (1929–2019), historian
Edward Faulkner (* 1932), film and television actor
John Y. Brown junior (1933), politician, governor of Kentucky
Davey Moore (1933-1963), boxer
Seabiscuit (1933–1947), racehorse
Gil Rogers (born 1934), actor
Les McCann (* 1935), jazz pianist, singer and composer
JD Crowe (born 1937), bluegrass musician
Joseph R. Pitts (born 1939), politician
Scotty Baesler (* 1941), politician
Jane Gentry Vance (1941–2014), poet and professor
John Raymond Henry (* 1943), visual artist and university professor
Jonathan A. Campbell (* 1947), herpetologist
Gene Robinson (* 1947), Anglican Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA in New Hampshire
Brett De Palma (born 1949), painter
Richard Hell (* 1949), musician and writer
Jim Varney (1949-2000), actor
Beth Anderson (born 1950), composer