List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area

This is a list of people from the Louisville metropolitan area which consists of the Kentucky county of Jefferson and the Indiana counties of Clark and Floyd in the United States. Included are notable people who were either born or raised there, or have maintained residency for a significant period.

Actors and entertainment

Artists and designers

Business

Educators

Abraham Flexner, educator, best known for his role in the 20th-century reform of medical and higher education in the US and Canada
Susan B. Merwin, educator, publisher, and superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Blind
William H. Perry Sr. (1860–1946) educator, principal, and physician
Frank Lunsford Williams (1864–1953), head teacher and educator in St. Louis, Missouri, born in Louisville

Health care

Horace Signor Brannon (1884–1970), physician
William DeVries, cardiothoracic surgeon, mainly known for artificial heart transplantation; spent key period of career in Louisville
Simon Flexner (1863–1946), physician
Linda Peeno, physician and health insurance whistleblower

Musicians

Politicians, military, civil service, activists

Religion

LaVerne Butler, pastor of 9th & O Baptist Church in Louisville, 1969–1988; president of Mid-Continent University, 1988–1997
Edward Porter Humphrey, Presbyterian minister, gave dedicatory address for Cave Hill Cemetery
Edward William Cornelius Humphrey, lawyer, Presbyterian leader, author, trustee of Centre College and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Adolph S. Moses, rabbi of Adath Israel Temple, 1881–1902
Eugene Ulrich, theologist and chief editor for interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Science

Sports

Writers, publishers, journalists

Other

William Burke Belknap, philanthropist, breeder of American saddlebred horses, owner of Land O' Goshen Farms
Squire Boone, frontiersman and brother of Daniel Boone
Kathy Cary, chef and seven-time James Beard Award nominee
Jennie Casseday, philanthropist
Laura Miller Derry, attorney, first woman to defend a court-martial case brought by the United States Army
Bob Edwards, broadcaster for National Public Radio
Lillian Haydon Childress Hall, first professionally trained African American librarian in Indiana
Increase A. Lapham, surveyor, naturalist, helped found the U.S. Weather Bureau
Frank Neuhauser, winner of the first National Spelling Bee, held in 1925
Jeffrey Wigand, 60 Minutes tobacco industry whistleblower
York, William Clark's manservant and participant in Lewis and Clark Expedition
John Ziegler, radio talk show host