Alabama Men's Hall of Fame

The Alabama Men's Hall of Fame exists to recognize those men native to or identified most closely with the State of Alabama who have made significant contributions on a state, national or international scale within their professional fields of activity and concern.

These role models are commemorated with bronze plaques at the main library of Samford University.

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Chronological Order

1988

• Braxton Bragg Comer
• Thomas Wesley Martin

1989

• William Crawford Gorgas
• Frank Park Samford
• Booker Taliaferro Washington

1990

• John Hollis Bankhead
• Lloyd Noland
• Oscar Wilder Underwood

1991

• Thomas McAdory Owen
• Lister Hill
• John Tyler Morgan

1992

• Donald Croom Beatty
• Charles Allen Cary
• Walker Reynolds

1993

• George Washington Carver
• Hugo Black

1994

• Harwell Goodwin Davis
• Joseph Wheeler

1995

• William Lowndes Yancey
• Lewis Martin Smith
• Richmond Pearson Hobson
• Roy Rachford Kracke

1997

• James Thomas Murfee
• Edward Chambers Betts

1998

• Henry Fairchild DeBardeleben
• Erskine Ramsay
• Wernher von Braun

1999

• Arthur George Gaston
• Leslie Stephen Wright

2000

• Sequoyah
• Russell McWhorter Cunningham

2001

• James Alexander Bryan
• Samuel Ullman

2002

• Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
• George Vernon Irons, Sr.

2003

• William Rufus DeVane King
• Joseph S. Bruno

2004

• Joseph F. Volker

2005

• John M. Harbert

2006

• John Jackson Sparkman

2007

• Wynton Malcom "Red" Blount
• John Joseph Eagan

2008

• John Webster Kirklin
• Josiah Morris

2009

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Herbert Clark Stockham

Alphabetical Order

ABC

• Bankhead, John Hollis
• Beatty, Donald Croom
• Betts, Edward Chambers
• Black, Hugo LaFayette
• Blount, Wynton Malcom "Red"
• von Braun, Wernher
• Bruno, Joseph S.
• Bryan, James Alexander
• Carver, George Washington
• Cary, Charles Allen
• Comer, Braxton Bragg
• Cunningham, Russell McWhorter
• Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe

DEF

• Davis, Harwell Goodwin
• DeBardeleben, Henry Fairchild
• Eagan, John Joseph

GHI

• Gaston, Arthur George
• Gist, George (Sequoyah)
• Gorgas, William Crawford
• Harbert, John M.
• Hill, Lister
• Hobson, Richmond Pearson
• Irons, George Vernon, Sr.

JKL

• King, Martin Luther, Jr.
• King, William Rufus DeVane
• Kirklin, John Webster
• Kracke, Roy Rachford

MNO

• Martin, Thomas Wesley
• Morgan, John Tyler
• Morris, Josiah
• Murfee, James Thomas
• Noland, Lloyd
• Owen, Thomas McAdory

PQR

• Ramsay, Erskine
• Reynolds, Walker

STU

• Samford, Frank Park, Sr.
• Sequoyah (George Gist)
• Smith, Lewis Martin
• Sparkman, John Jackson
• Stockham, Herbert Clark

VWXYZ

• Ullman, Samuel
• Underwood, Oscar Wilder
• Volker, Joseph F.
• Washington, Booker Taliaferro
• Wheeler, Joseph
• Wright, Leslie Stephen
• Yancey, William Lowndes