Famous People from Birmingham, Alabama

• Clement, Edith Brown

  Rumored Supreme Court nominee from 2005

• Cox, Courteney

  Monica on the TV sitcom Friends

• Davis, Angela

  The black feminist/communist on the Most Wanted list in 1970

• Fletcher, Louise

  Nurse Ratched in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• Hicks, Taylor

  The "Soul Patrol" winner of American Idol 2006

• Odetta

   The fierce black folk singer known for "Oh, Freedom"

• Rice, Condoleezza

  U.S. Secretary of State, 2005-09

• Studdard, Ruben

  2003 winner of TV's American Idol program

• Wilson, E.O.

  The ant expert who wrote 1978's On Human Nature

• Wolff, Tobias

  Author of the memoir This Boy's Life

See also: Born in Alabama