chief executive officer of Time Inc.; chairman of Warner Media; chief executive officer of Southern Progress, owner of Birmingham Barons baseball team Michael K. Powell, Federal Communications Commission chairman Rufus N. Rhodes, founder of Birmingham News Richard M. Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth Corporation James Sloss, industrialist and founder of Sloss Furnaces Alvin Vogtle, chairman and CEO of Alabama Power and Southern Company Allen Harvey Woodward, industrialist and baseball team owner Entertainment Mary Anderson, actress R. G. Armstrong, actor (Pleasant Grove, Alabama) Mary Badham, juvenile actress Candace Bailey, actress Amber Benson, actress Anna Lee Carroll, actress Lynne Carver, actress Nell Carter, actress and singer Courteney Cox, actress (Mountain Brook, Alabama) Paul Finebaum, radio/TV personality Jordan Fisher, actor, singer, and dancer Fannie Flagg, author, actress Louise Fletcher, actress David F. Friedman, director and producer Lili Gentle, actress Betty Lou Gerson, actress Gladys Gillem, wrestler Walton Goggins, actor Hank Green, Internet personality, podcaster Alan Hunter, MTV VJ Tamisha Iman, drag queen Kate Jackson, actress Jasika Nicole, actress, illustrator Gail Patrick, actress, television producer Ibrehem Rahman, Survivor: Palau contestant Rick and Bubba, radio/TV personalities Wayne Rogers, actor Dorothy Sebastian, film actress Daniel Scheinert, music video and film director Glenn Shadix, actor (Bessemer, Alabama) Rickey Smiley, radio personality Trinity the Tuck, drag queen Roy Wood, Jr., comedian Byron York, conservative author and journalist Tom York, television personality David Jaffe, video game designer (God of War (franchise) and Twisted Metal) Music Inez Andrews, gospel singer Barry Beckett, pianist and record producer Adolphus Bell, electric blues musician, best known as a one-man band Benny Benjamin, drummer Samm Bennett, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Bo Bice, singer, American Idol runner-up (Helena, Alabama) Helvetia Boswell, singer with The Boswell Sisters Piney Brown, R&B and blues singer-songwriter Oteil Burbridge, bassist Dorothy Love Coates, gospel singer J.R. Cobb, songwriter and guitarist Sam Dees, soul music singer Diana DeGarmo, American Idol 3rd season runner-up Big Joe Duskin, blues pianist Dennis Edwards, soul music singer Erra, progressive metalcore band Al Gallodoro, jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Gucci Mane, rapper Hardrock Gunter, rockabilly pioneer Lionel Hampton, vibraphonist and bandleader Emmylou Harris, singer Erskine Hawkins, composer, trumpeter and bandleader Haywood Henry, jazz saxophonist / clarinetist Taylor Hicks, soul music singer, American Idol winner Odetta Holmes, folk singer Jo Jones, jazz drummer Bill Justis, musician Eddie Kendricks, soul music singer William King, singer, founding member of The Commodores Baker Knight, songwriter and bandleader Sammy Lowe, jazz trumpeter