This is a list of people from Gadsden, Alabama, United States.
Activism
Art
Artist
Athletics
- Lou Allen, former NFL offensive lineman
- Ron Billingsley, retired football player
- Michael Boley, professional football linebacker
- Dave Bustion, former professional basketball player
- Chris Davis, mixed martial arts fighter
- Alan Dunn, former professional baseball player
- Jim Dunn, former professional baseball pitcher
- Danny Ford, former college football coach for the Clemson University Tigers
- Hersh Freeman, former Major League Baseball player and minor league manager
- Jenks Gillem, former football player and coach
- Bill Green, former basketball player for Colorado State University
- Steve Grissom, NASCAR driver
- Jim Guthrie, former driver in the Indy Racing League
- Brick Haley, collegiate defensive line coach
- Jerrell Harris, NFL linebacker
- George Herring, former professional football quarterback and punter
- Stacy Jones, former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Dre Kirkpatrick, defensive back for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team
- Freddie Kitchens, head coach of the Cleveland Browns
- Aaron Pearson, football player
- Willie Scott, former professional basketball player
- Steve Shields, retired baseball player
- Ted Sizemore, former major league baseball player
- Warren Smith, former professional golfer
- Jason Smoots, sprinter
- Jerry Watford, football player
- Carnell Williams, running back for Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Business
Education
Food
Government and law
- James B. Allen, former United States senator
- Marion Blakey, former United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator
- H. Dean Buttram Jr., former United States federal judge
- W. T. Ewing, politician, physician, postmaster
- Craig Ford, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
- Ira Roe Foster, quartermaster general of Georgia, member of the Alabama Senate
- George C. Hawkins, member of both houses of the Alabama legislature; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1964
- James D. Martin, former United States representative, pioneer Republican political figure in Alabama
- Roy Moore, controversial "Ten Commandments" judge
- John Perkins Ralls, physician who served in the First Confederate Congress
- Emma Sansom, aided the Southern Confederacy during the Civil War
- Pat Swindall, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 4th congressional district from 1985 to 1989
Literature
Military
Modeling
Music
- Clever, singer, songwriter, musician
- Jean Cox, former tenor and opera singer
- Bradley Gaskin, country music singer
- Gold City, Southern gospel group
- Rex Griffin, country music singer and songwriter
- Mathew Knowles, manager of Destiny's Child and father of Beyoncé Knowles
- Grant Langston, singer-songwriter
- Eric Martin, lead singer for rock group Mr. Big
- Aimee Mayo, songwriter
- Danny Mayo, songwriter
- Jerry McCain, blues artist
- Tommy Stewart, trumpeter and 1988 inductee into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
- Yelawolf, rapper, signed to Shady Records
Science
Television and film
References