Quilting is in her family, the Tennessee native said.

Sir John, a Tennessee native who graduated from Yale and was a Rhodes Scholar, has remained an innovator.

Reel Tight was an American R&B group composed of Chattanooga, Tennessee natives Bobby Kane, Bobby Rice, Danny Johnson and Reggie Long.

Memphis was chosen at the suggestion of Roman Catholic Cardinal Samuel Stritch, a Tennessee native who had been a spiritual advisor to Thomas since he presided at Thomas's confirmation in Thomas's boyhood home of Toledo, Ohio.

After singing in a number of local gospel groups, the two of them joined a doo-wop group called "The Roosters" in 1957, whose members included Chattanooga, Tennessee natives Sam Gooden, Richard Brooks, and his brother Arthur Brooks.

Of humble origin, Randle Moore was born to John Milton Moore and the former Jennie E. Jones, both Tennessee natives.

"Museums are in competition for people's leisure time," said Mr. Mosena, a Tennessee native who became the museum's president in 1997 after running the Chicago Planning Department, the staff of Mayor Richard M. Daley, the Aviation Department and the Chicago Transit Authority.

He was the second of the three children of Danish corrections officer Claus Andersen and Linda Holubec, a Tennessee native who worked as a waitress at the Port Hueneme, and played basketball in high school.

Her father, John Day, was a Tennessee native of Scots-Irish heritage, while her mother, Grace Satterlee, a native of upstate New York, was of English ancestry.

Slonem's grandmother was a Tennessee native who married a Minnesota-born amateur artist and educator who became the Superintendent of Public Schools in Duluth, Minnesota.