Famous People Born In Lexington

Doug Gilbert

Doug Gilbert is a professional wrestler from Lexington, Tennessee who wrestles on the independent circuit. He is the brother of the late Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert and the son of wrestlerrefereepromoter Tommy Gilbert.....
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Brian Aker

Brian Aker, born August 4, 1972 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA is an opensource hacker who has worked on various Apache modules, the Slash system, and numerous storage engines for the MySQL database. Aker was Director of Architecture at MySQL AB until it was acquired by Sun Microsystems. He led Suns web scaling research group, where he worked on the Drizzle database project. He later became a Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems. He left Sun Microsystems after Oracle acquired it. After leavi....
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Gene Robinson

Vicky Gene Robinson is an American retired bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as diocesan bishop in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary to the VIII Bishop of New Hampshire.....
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David Rice Atchison

David Rice Atchison was a mid19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. He is best known for the claim that for one day he may have been Acting President of the United States. This belief, however, is dismissed by nearly all historians, scholars, and biographers.....
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Henry Clay Jr

Henry Clay, Jr. was an American politician and soldier from Kentucky, the third son of US Senator and Congressman Henry Clay and Lucretia Hart Clay. He was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1835 and served one term. A graduate of West Point, he served in the MexicanAmerican War and was killed in 1847 at the Battle of Buena Vista.....
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Henry Clay Fry

Henry Clay Fry was an American entrepreneur in the glass industry in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.....
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Francis Preston Blair

Francis Preston Blair Jr. was an American jurist, politician and soldier. He represented Missouri in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was active in preventing the state of Missouri from being absorbed into the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War. Blair was instrumental in appointing Nathaniel Lyon as the new military commander of the Western Department of the U.S. Army. He assisted Lyon in securing help of the St. Louis Home Guard in moving over 20,000 rifles and ....
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Jr Jr

Rear Admiral James Edward Jouett , known as Fighting Jim Jouett of the American Navy, was an officer in the United States Navy during the MexicanAmerican War and the American Civil War. His father was Matthew Harris Jouett, a notable painter, and his grandfather was Revolutionary War hero Jack Jouett.....
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Pat Robertson

Marion Gordon Pat Robertson is an American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister, who generally supports conservative Christian ideals. He presently serves as chancellor and CEO of Regent University and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network.....
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Januarius MacGahan

Januarius Aloysius MacGahan was an American journalist and war correspondent working for the New York Herald and the London Daily News. His articles describing the massacre of Bulgarian civilians by Turkish soldiers and irregular volunteers in 1876 created public outrage in Europe, and were a major factor in preventing Britain from supporting Turkey in the RussoTurkish War of 187778, which led to Bulgaria gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire.....
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Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.....
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