This is a list of people from Gadsden, Alabama, United States. Activism Patricia Swift Blalock, librarian and civil rights activist Sweet Alice Harris, community organizer based in Watts, Los Angeles, California James Hood, one of the first African-Americans to enroll at the University of Alabama Art Charles Clyde Ebbets, photographer John Solomon Sandridge, painter, sculptor, 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 La'Donte Harris, former wide receiver for the Clemson Tigers 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 for 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 Milton K. Cummings, former cotton broker and space-defense business executive Education Theodore J. Lowi, Cornell University professor, author, and past president of the American Political Science Association Michael G. Scales, president of Nyack College 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 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