Editing Talladega, Alabama (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Steadham Acker]], pioneer aviator
* [[Tom Bleick]], former NFL player, who played college football at [[Georgia Tech]]
* The original members of the gospel group [[The Blind Boys of Alabama]] met in Talladega at the Alabama School for the Blind
* [[Sydney J. Bowie]], former U.S. Representative and nephew of [[Franklin Welsh Bowdon]]
* [[Taul Bradford]], former U.S Representative
* [[Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise|Robert Bradley]] attended school in Talladega at the [[Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind|Alabama School for the Blind]].
* [[William W. Brandon]], Governor of Alabama from 1923 to 1927<ref>{{cite web|title=Alabama Governor William Woodward Brandon|publisher=National Governors Association|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_alabama/col2-content/main-content-list/title_brandon_william.html| access-date = August 29, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Charles Brown (actor)|Charles Brown]], actor and member of the [[Negro Ensemble Company]]
* [[Ethlyne Clair]], actress
* [[George Cruikshank (editor)|George Cruikshank]], educator, newspaper editor, and historian
* [[Marcus Henderson Cruikshank]], former member of the [[Confederate States Congress]] and Mayor of Talladega
* [[Lee de Forest]] spent most of his early life in Talladega. 
* [[Scottie McKenzie Frasier]], teacher, author, newspaper editor, lecturer, socialite, and suffragist
* [[Ahmad Gooden]], NFL football player
* [[Tinsley R. Harrison]], founding editor of ''[[Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine]]''
* [[Bob Jenkins (American football)|Bob Jenkins]], football halfback
* [[Eddie King (musician)|Eddie King]], [[blues]] musician
* [[Herman H. Long]], former president of [[Talladega College]] and former president of the [[United Negro College Fund]]
* [[Lamar Looney]], Oklahoma state senator
* [[Lena B. Mathes]], educator, social reformer, ordained minister
* [[Felix Grundy McConnell]], former U.S. Representative
* [[Gertrude Michael]], film, stage and television actress.
* [[Jack Nelson (journalist)|Jack Nelson]], Washington correspondent and bureau chief for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', was born in Talladega
* [[Dixie Parsons]], former Major League Baseball player
* [[Lewis E. Parsons]], Governor of Alabama from June to December 1865
* [[Thomas S. Plowman]], former U.S. Representative and Mayor of Talladega
* [[Dave Pope]], former [[Major League Baseball]] [[outfielder]]
* [[Tom Ragland]], former Major League Baseball [[second baseman]]
* [[George Scales]], [[Negro league baseball]] player
* [[Frank Sillmon]], former basketball player
* [[Charles Lynwood Smith, Jr.]], senior [[United States federal judge]]
* [[Bennie Swain]], former basketball player for the [[Boston Celtics]]
* [[W. Aubrey Thomas]], [[U.S. Representative]] from [[Ohio]]
* [[Robert Smith Vance]] was born in Talladega in 1931. Federal judge on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit]]