United States – Kentucky
Stephen Bishop (1821-1857)
Stephen Bishop was an American cave explorer and geologist who became one of the first people to explored Mammoth Cave...
Elbert Frank Cox (1895-1969)
Elbert Frank Cox, who perhaps most famous for exploring and expanding the Boole summation formula based on the work of...
Herbert T. Miller (1900-1976)
Herbert T. Miller, a distinguished social services and religious leader, organizer, and fundraiser, was born Herbert Tise Miller on July...
Lawrence Chenault (1877-1943)
Lawrence Chenault was an actor of stage and screen who was one of the most familiar figures of the race...
George F. Bowles (1844-1899)
George F. Bowles, born enslaved in 1844 in Charleston, South Carolina, was one of the most prominent figures in Reconstruction...
Robert Charles O’Hara Benjamin (1855-1900)
Robert Charles O’Hara Benjamin, also known as R.C.O. Benjamin, was a Caribbean-born political activist, newspaper editor, minister, poet, teacher, author,...
Thomas Fountain Blue (1866-1935)
Thomas Fountain Blue, the first African American to head a public library in the United States, was also a civic,...
Walter Franklin Anderson (1915-2003)
The grandson of formerly enslaved people, Walter Franklin Anderson, classical pianist, organist, composer, jazz musician, community activist, and academician, was...
Lisa D. Cook (1964- )
Dr. Lisa DeNell Cook is an economist and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is the...
