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| Name | Dates | Famous for | From |
| William P. Alexander | 1805-1884 | Early missionary to Hawaii | Bourbon County |
| Louis Arnold | 1914-2015 | “The Flying Evangelist” | Garrard County |
| Bill Arnsparger | 1926-2015 | NFL Defensive Line Coach | Bourbon County |
| Francis Asbury | 1745-1816 | Methodist Circuit Rider | Travelled and preached throughout Kentucky |
| Stephen Badin | 1768-1853 | First Catholic priest ordained in the US. | Nelson County |
| Issachar Bates | 1758-1837 | Shaker song-writer | Walked across Kentucky |
| Mary Wilson Betts | 1824-1854 | Poet | Mason County |
| Carl Brashear | 1931-2006 | The Navy’s first African American Master Diver | LaRue County |
| Mary E. Britton | 1855-1925 | First woman licensed to practice medicine in Lexington | Fayette County |
| Joseph J. Bullock | 1812-1892 | Chaplain of the US Senate | Fayette County |
| Nannie Helen Burroughs | 1879-1961 | Educator, Civil Rights Activist | Jefferson County |
| Chief Jesse Bushyhead | 1804-1844 | Cherokee Chief and pastor who led Cherokee contingent on the Trail of Tears through Kentucky | Christian County |
| Potilla Calvert | | Founder of Calvert City | Marshall County |
| Alexander Campbell, Sr. | 1818-1870 | Formerly enslaved founder and pastor of the Colored Christian Church Movement | Woodford County |
| Peter Cartwright | 1785-1872 | Methodist Circuit Riding Preacher | Logan County |
| Susannah Baskett Cash | 1762-1842 | Baptist Pastor’s wife, Mrs. Warren Cash | Madison County |
| Thomas Chilton | 1798-1854 | US Representative from Kentucky, Baptist pastor and ghost writer for Davy Crockett | Garrard County |
| Thomas O. Chisholm | 1866-1960 | Editor of The Pentecostal Herald, Methodist minister, Hymn writer | Simpson County |
| Emma C. Clement | 1874-1952 | 1946 American Mother of the Year, pastor’s wife | Jefferson County |
| Louis Coleman | 1943-2008 | Civil Rights Activist and Methodist pastor | Jefferson County |
| Thurmond Coleman, Sr. | 1926-2019 | Baptist pastor, school bus driver, J.C. Penney Store Detective | Jefferson County |
| Lewis Craig | 1737-1825 | Baptist pastor, distiller, founder of the Bracken Baptist Church, leader of the Traveling Church | Mason County |
| William L. Crittendon | 1823-1851 | Mexican American War hero executed in Havana, Cuba | Shelby County |
| Martha Cross | | Widow of Alexander Cross, early missionary to Liberia | Henderson County |
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