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The list Writers from Alabama includes Robin Roberts, Helen Keller, Tallulah Bankhead, Fannie Flagg and Angela Davis. The list consists of 201 members and 14 sublists.

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Alabama
State in the southeastern United States
  • 1.

    Lionel Richie
    American singer (born 1949)
    Lionel Richie
    Overview: Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor. His recordings with the Commodores and in his solo career ...
    Date of birth: 20 June 1949
    Age: 75
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Musician
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    21st-century American singer-songwriters 2,716T
    20th-century American singer-songwriters 1,297T
    21st-century American saxophonists 541T
  • 2.

    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902–1968)
    Tallulah Bankhead
    Overview: Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Bankhead was a member of the Brockman Bankhead family, a prominent Alabama political ...
    Date of birth: 31 January 1902
    Date of death: 12 December 1968
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    American women autobiographers 29T
    20th-century American LGBT people 1,654T
    Deaths from pneumonia in New York City 280T
  • 3.

    Robin Roberts
    American television broadcaster (born 1960)
    Robin Roberts
    Overview: Robin René Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster. Roberts is the anchor of ABC's Good Morning America.
    Date of birth: 23 November 1960
    Age: 63
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: TV News
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
    Partner: Amber Laign (Married)
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    American lesbian writers 452T
    American women memoirists 670T
    LGBT broadcasters from the United States 115T
  • 4.

    Helen Keller
    American author and activist
    Helen Keller
    Overview: Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and hearing after ...
    Date of birth: 27 June 1880
    Date of death: 1 June 1968
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    20th-century memoirists 804T
    American women memoirists 620T
    Connecticut socialists 3T
  • 5.

    Fannie Flagg
    American actress, comedian and author
    Fannie Flagg
    Overview: Fannie Flagg (born Patricia Neal; September 21, 1944) is an American actress, comedian and author. She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–82 versions of the game show Match Game and for ...
    Date of birth: 21 September 1944
    Age: 79
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    LGBT actors from the United States 279T
    American LGBT novelists 407T
    Ramsay High School alumni 16T
  • 6.

    John Lewis
    American politician and civil rights leader (1940–2020)
    John Lewis
    Overview: John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American statesman and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional ...
    Date of birth: 21 February 1940
    Date of death: 17 July 2020
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    American anti-poverty advocates 78T
    Nashville Student Movement 13T
    Burials at South-View Cemetery 39T
  • 7.

    Jason Aaron Baca
    American comic book writer
    Jason Aaron Baca
    Overview: Jason Aaron (born January 28, 1973) is an American comic book writer, known for his work on titles such as Thor, The Other Side, Scalped, Ghost Rider, Wolverine and PunisherMAX.
    Date of birth: 22 October 1973
    Age: 50
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    Marvel Comics writers 65T
    20th-century atheists 281T
    21st-century atheists 208T
  • 8.

    Angela Davis
    American academic and political activist (born 1944)
    Angela Davis
    Overview: Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a Marxist ...
    Date of birth: 26 January 1944
    Age: 80
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
    Partner: Gina Dent (Dating)
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    American anti-poverty advocates 79T
    Time 100 250T
    American Marxist writers 49T
  • 9.

    George Lindsey
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1928–2012)
    George Lindsey
    Overview: George Smith Lindsey (December 17, 1928 – May 6, 2012) was an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his role as Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D. and his subsequent ...
    Date of birth: 17 December 1928
    Date of death: 6 May 2012
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    Male actors from Alabama 50T
    American male television actors 10,587T
    American male film actors 12,685T
  • 10.

    Zora Neale Hurston
    American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (1891–1960)
    Zora Neale Hurston
    Overview: Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on ...
    Date of birth: 7 January 1891
    Date of death: 28 January 1960
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    American Folklorists of Color 15T
    20th-century American women scientists 967T
    Zora Neale Hurston 4T
  • 11.

    Mother Angelica
    American Catholic nun, founder of EWTN
    Mother Angelica
    Overview: Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo; April 20, 1923 – March 27, 2016), also known as Mother Angelica, was a Catholic American Poor Clare nun best known for her t ...
    Date of birth: 20 April 1923
    Date of death: 27 March 2016
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Religion
    Gender: Female
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    American women television presenters 141T
    Women television presenters 1,277T
    Catholics from Ohio 131T
  • 12.

    Harper Lee
    Novelist
    Harper Lee
    Overview: Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern ...
    Date of birth: 28 April 1926
    Date of death: 19 February 2016
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Novelists from Alabama 89T
    American United Methodists 469T
    20th-century American women writers 5,363T
  • 13.

    Annabelle Gurwitch
    American actress
    Annabelle Gurwitch
    Overview: Annabelle Gurwitch (born November 4, 1961) is an American author, comedic actress, television host most recognizable from her stint as hostess on Dinner and a Movie on TBS, and activist associated with ...
    Date of birth: 4 November 1961
    Age: 62
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    21st-century American Jews 7,940T
    American women memoirists 747T
    American women non-fiction writers 2,673T
  • 14.

    Zelda Fitzgerald
    American writer (1900–1948)
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    Overview: Zelda Fitzgerald (née Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, socialite, and painter.
    Date of birth: 24 July 1900
    Date of death: 10 March 1948
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
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    Writers with disabilities 57T
    Novelists from Alabama 93T
    Writers from Asheville, North Carolina 32T
  • 15.

    Shelby Foote
    American writer, historian and journalist (1916–2005)
    Shelby Foote
    Overview: Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he viewed himself primarily as a novelist, he is now best known for his The Civil War: ...
    Date of birth: 17 November 1916
    Date of death: 27 June 2005
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    Pro-Confederate writers 7T
    Lost Cause of the Confederacy 51T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
  • 16.

    Suzanne Collins
    American television writer and author
    Suzanne Collins
    Overview: Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American author and television writer. She is best known as the author of the young adult dystopian book series The Hunger Games. She is also the author of ...
    Date of birth: 10 August 1962
    Age: 62
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Writers of young adult science fiction 40T
    People from Sandy Hook, Connecticut 12T
    Novelists from Connecticut 181T
  • 17.

    Mae C. Jemison
    Asmerican astronaut
    Mae C. Jemison
    Overview: Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard ...
    Date of birth: 17 October 1956
    Age: 67
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Astronaut
    Gender: Female
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    African-American women physicians 78T
    Space Shuttle program astronauts 353T
    African-American female aviators 25T
  • 18.

    W.C. Handy
    American musician
    W.C. Handy
    Overview: William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. Handy was one of the most influential songwriters in the United ...
    Date of birth: 16 November 1873
    Date of death: 29 March 1958
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Jazz Musician
    Gender: Male
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    American male jazz musicians 3,118T
    Musicians from Florence, Alabama 16T
    American male pianists 2,053T
  • 19.

    Hank Green
    American vlogger and entrepreneur (born 1980)
    Hank Green
    Overview: William Henry "Hank" Green II (born May 5, 1980) is an American video blogger, internet producer, musician, author, entrepreneur, and CEO. He is known for producing the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers ...
    Date of birth: 5 May 1980
    Age: 44
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Personality
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    Educational and science YouTubers 27T
    YouTube podcasters 18T
    American men podcasters 368T
  • 20.
    Booker T. Washington
    Overview: Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 18, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was ...
    Date of birth: 5 April 1856
    Date of death: 14 November 1915
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Male
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    People from Malden, West Virginia 5T
    Schoolteachers from Alabama 14T
    19th-century American slaves 304T
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