These noted people were born, raised or lived for a significant period of time in the city of Danville, Kentucky.
| Name | Noted for | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b. 1948 | President of the University of Georgia | |||||
| 1847–1932 | American agrarian poet from Texas and a Confederate advocate | |||||
| style=white-space:nowrap | 1883–1967 | Educator; invented the Tadoma method of communication with people who are deaf and blind | ||||
| 1826–1861 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky | |||||
| 1811–1870 | U.S. Representative, Kentucky Secretary of State; namesake of Bell County, Kentucky | |||||
| 1792–1857 | Abolitionist, politician and jurist | |||||
| 1817–1888 | Publisher and U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands | |||||
| 1819–1907 | Professor, Union Army general during the American Civil War, attorney and author | |||||
| 1818–1871 | Lawyer, abolitionist, and brigadier general during the American Civil War | |||||
| 1774–1834 | U.S. federal judge and U.S. Representative; namesake of Boyle County, Kentucky | |||||
| 1821–1875 | U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States, U.S. presidential candidate, Confederate States Secretary of War | |||||
| 1800–1871 | Kentucky politician and Presbyterian minister | |||||
| b. 1980 | College football coach and former player | |||||
| 1812–1891 | Clergyman | |||||
| b. 1947 | Historian and actor | |||||
| 1897–1984 | Silent film actress | |||||
| 1822–1897 | Businessman and banker | |||||
| 1791–1878 | Businessman and banker | |||||
| 1812–1880 | Career Army officer who served in the Black Hawk War, the Army of the Republic of Texas, the Mexican–American War, and the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War | |||||
| 1774–1811 | Lawyer and soldier | |||||
| 1903–1998 | Baritone opera singer and actor | |||||
| 1824–1911 | Representative from Kentucky | |||||
| 1808–1847 | Slave trader, forger, swindler | |||||
| 1920–1975 | Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter | |||||
| 1811–1903 | Industrialist and founder of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company | |||||
| 1888–1948 | Minstrel performer and vaudevillian, "Singin' Sam, the Barbasol Man" | |||||
| 1918–2014 | Educator and civil rights activist | |||||
| 1817–1892 | Lawyer, judge, and U.S. Army officer during the Mexican–American War and American Civil War | |||||
| 1873–1940 | Educator | |||||
| 1875–1944 | Pentecostal Evangelist | |||||
| b. 1990 | American football player | |||||
| 1875–1954 | Surgeon in the First World War | |||||
| b. 1969 | Songwriter and producer | |||||
| 1806–1863 | Presbyterian minister and educator | |||||
| 1818–1893 | U.s. Representative | |||||
| 1750–1818 | U.S. Representative and Governor of Kentucky | |||||
| 1921–2012 | Teacher, businesswoman, clubwoman, and author | |||||
| 1805–1875 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky | |||||
| 1833–1911 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice, "The Great Dissenter" | |||||
| b. 1947 | Gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist | |||||
| 1865–1919 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky | |||||
| b. 1958 | Film director and screenwriter | |||||
| 1945–1990 | U.S. Marine Corps colonel captured and killed in 1988 while on a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. | |||||
| 1849–1925 | Governor of Kansas | |||||
| 1784–1842 | Indiana lawyer, politician, jurist, novelist, poet, city planner, and preacher | |||||
| b. 1979 | Football player | |||||
| b. 1938 | Academic, president of Mount Holyoke College | |||||
| 1790–1850 | Politician in Missouri and Texas who was active in establishing the Republic of Texas | |||||
| 1791–1873 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky | |||||
| 1830–1911 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky and Governor of Kentucky | |||||
| b. 1983 | Football player | |||||
| 1788–1861 | U.S. Representative, diplomat, and Governor of Kentucky | |||||
| 1921–2016 | U.S. federal judge | |||||
| 1791–1859 | Arkansas pioneer | |||||
| 1827–1855 | Diarist | |||||
| 1870–1966 | Progressive era social reformer, early Democratic Party member | |||||
| b. 1966 | Poet | |||||
| b. 1937 | Football player | |||||
| 1845–1898 | Governor of Indiana | |||||
| 1926–2010 | Political writer and television panelist | |||||
| 1771–1830 | Physician, first to successfully remove an ovarian tumor | |||||
| 1735–1817 | Soldier and early political leader in Kentucky | |||||
| 1812–1856 | U.S. Representative from Missouri | |||||
| 1848–1942 | Educator and abolitionist | |||||
| b. 1963 | Country music artist | |||||
| b. 1965 | Country music artist | |||||
| 1840–1912 | Missionary to China | |||||
| ??-?? | Winner of the cross-country Race | 1789–1850 | Newspaper editor and U.S. Senator from Michigan | |||
| 1820–1867 | Poet and soldier | |||||
| 1782–1862 | Associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals; Governor of Kentucky | |||||
| 1924–1982 | Professional American football player | |||||
| 1951–2019 | Glass artist | |||||
| b. 1968 | Oklahoma Attorney General | |||||
| 1947–2018 | President and CEO of Duke Energy | |||||
| 1898–1984 | Major League Baseball umpire | |||||
| Willis Russell | 1803–1852 | Emancipated slave of Revolutionary War veteran Robert Craddock, founder of first school in Danville for African-American children[1] | ||||
| 1812–1858 | President of Indiana University, Ohio University; professor at Centre College | |||||
| 1853–1934 | Superintendent of West Point, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in World War I | |||||
| 1839–1923 | philanthropist, socialite, and businesswoman who served as President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution | |||||
| 1750–1826 | First and fifth Governor of Kentucky | |||||
| b. 1987 | Kentucky politician | |||||
| 1917–2006 | Educator, president of Centre College | |||||
| 1893–1961 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky | |||||
| 1808–1887 | Kentucky politician | |||||
| 1844–1870 | U.S. Navy officer | |||||
| 1808–1887 | U.S. Representative from Kentucky | |||||
| b. 1985 | Football player | |||||
| b. 1979 | Professional golfer | |||||
| 1791–1871 | U.S. Army officer and U.S. Ambassador to Russia | |||||
| 1765–1826 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice | |||||
| Songwriter and composer, born Keith McGuffey | ||||||
| b. 1961 | Kentucky's first African-American Poet Laureate | |||||
| 1832–1905 | first Kentucky woman who wrote and advocated the equal rights of woman before the law | |||||
| 1939–2021 | Professional golfer | |||||
| 1838–1908 | Texas State Senator, Confederate cavalry officer | |||||
| 1894–1975 | Jazz musician | |||||
| 1898–1992 | author, presidential advisor, activist, organizer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the YWCA | |||||
| 1915–1987 | College basketball coach | |||||
| b. 1976 | American and Canadian football player | |||||
| 1803–1857 | Fourth president of Centre College | |||||