| Adelicia Hayes Acklen, 1817-1889 | Social leader, gracious hostess | |
| Adam Gillespie Adams, 1829-1895 | Merchant and banker | |
| Edward Emerson Barnard, 1857-1923 | Astronomy | |
| Washington Barrow, 1807-1866 | Editor and Congressman | |
| John Meredith Bass, 1804-1878 | Lawyer, banker, planter, twice mayor | |
| Jere Baxter, 1852-1904 | Builder, Tennessee Central Railroads | |
| John Bell, 1797-1869 | Lawyer, statesman, orator, political leader | |
| William T. Berry, 1813-1889 | Publisher and bookseller | |
| John Diell Blanton, 1859-1933 | President of Ward Belmont College | |
| William Kirkman Bowling, 1808-1885 | Physician, medical editor, Dean | |
| Richard Henry Boyd, 1843-1938 | Negro banker, publisher, editor, preacher | |
| William T. Briggs, 1829-1894 | Surgeon | |
| Michael Burns, 1813-1896 | Businessman, railroader, banker | |
| George Washington Campbell, 1769-1848 | Lawyer, judge, Congressman, Senator | |
| William Carroll, 1788-1844 | Merchant, soldier, Governor of Tennessee | |
| John Catron, 1786-1865 | Justice of Supreme Court/United States | |
| Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, 1820-1886 | Farmer, Confederate General | |
| Joel Owsley Cheek, 1852-1935 | Merchant, industrial pioneer | |
| Ann Robertson Cockrill, 1788-1872 | Pioneer, first school teacher in Mid-TN | |
| Mark Robertson Cockrill, 1788-1872 | Surveyor, agriculturalist | |
| Edmund Whitefoord Cole, 1827-1900 | Railroader, banker, Methodist layman | |
| Washington Cooper, 1802-1899 | Portrait artist | |
| Thomas Brown Craighead, 1750-1825 | Presbyterian preacher, teacher | |
| Nathaniel Cross, 1802-1866 | Educator, orator, classical scholar | |
| John Hibbett DeWitt, 1872-1937 | Lawyer, judge, historian | |
| Jacob McGavock Dickinson, 1851-1928 | Lawyer, Cabinet Member | |
| John Donelson, 1725-1785 | Surveyor, Brigadier General U.S. Army | |
| Mary C. Dorris, 1850-1924 | Hermitage preservation | |
| Will Allen Dromgoole, 1860-1934 | Journalist, poet | |
| William Lofland Dudley, 1859-1914 | Dean, chairman of Athletics at Vanderbilt | |
| George Dury, 1817-1893 | Artist | |
| John Todd Edgar, 1792-1860 | Presbyterian minister | |
| Collins D. Elliott, 1810-1899 | Educator, preacher, civil leader | |
| Joseph T. Elliston | Merchant, Methodist layman | |
| Paul Fitzsimmons Eve, 1806-1877 | Surgeon, teacher, editor | |
| Andrew Ewing, 1813-1864 | Lawyer, orator, statesman | |
| Edwin Hickman Ewing, 1809-1902 | Lawyer, Congressman, orator | |
| Francis Brinley Fogg, 1795-1880 | Attorney, public spirited citizen | |
| Mary Middleton Rutledge Fogg, 1800-1872 | Cultured and gracious lady, author | |
| Ephraim Hubbard Foster, 1794-1854 | Attorney, Whig politician, U.S. Senator | |
| Landon Cabell Garland, 1810-1895 | First Chancellor of Vanderbilt | |
| Augustin Gattinger, 1825-1903 | Physician, botanist | |
| Alexander Little Page Green, 1806-1874 | Methodist minister | |
| Anne Rodgers Grundy, 1779-1847 | Mother of 12, active in church/city | |
| Felix Grundy, 1777-1840 | Lawyer, statesman, orator | |
| William Giles Harding, 1808-1886 | Agriculturalist, stock-breeder | |
| Adolphus Heiman, 1809-1862 | Architect, soldier | |
| Edward Dickson Hicks, 1831-1894 | Businessman, farmer, civil leader | |
| John Melchior Hull, 1797-1870 | Merchant, businessman | |
| Robert Boyte Crawford Howell, 1801-1868 | Baptist minister, author, editor | |
| Alfred Hume, 1808-1854 | Educator, first superintendent schools | |
| William Hume, 1770-1833 | Clergyman, educator | |
| Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845 | Seventh President of United States | |
| Howell Edmunds Jackson, 1832-1895 | Lawyer, Assoc. Justice of Supreme Court | |
| Rachel Donelson Jackson, 1766-1828 | Wife of Andrew Jackson | |
| James Franklin Jarman, 1867-1937 | Businessman, philanthropist, General Shoe | |
| James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938 | Negro writer of plays and operas | |
| Joseph Buckner Killebrew, 1831-1906 | Scientist, author, editor, agriculturalist | |
| James Hampton Kirkland, 1859-1939 | Second Chancellor of Vanderbilt | |
| John McCormick Lea, 1818-1903 | Lawyer, jurist, scholar | |
| Rabbi Isadore Lewinthal, 1849-1923 | Rabbi, community leader | |
| Eugene Castner Lewis, 1845-1917 | Engineer, architect, railroad executive | |
| John Berrien Lindsley, 1822-1897 | Educator, physician, clergyman | |
| Philip Lindsley, 1786-1855 | Educator, clergyman, scholar | |
| David Lipscomb, 1832-1918 | Farmer, teacher, preacher, editor | |
| Lee Fefferson Loventhal, 1875-1940 | Businessman, philanthropist | |
| John Berry McFerrin, 1807-1887 | Methodist preacher, editor | |
| Randall William McGavock, 1826-1863 | Politician, diarist, author, soldier | |
| William McKendree, 1757-1835 | Methodist Circuit Rider, Bishop | |
| Boyd McNairy, 1785-1856 | Physician, prominent citizen | |
| Holland Nimmons McTyeire, 1824-1889 | Methodist Bishop, Vanderbilt Founder | |
| Thomas Lafayette Maddin, 1826-1908 | Physician, surgeon, professor | |
| Return Jonathan Meigs, 1801-1891 | Lawyer, jurist, scholar, author | |
| Richard Pius Miles, 1791-1860 | Priest/Bishop Roman Catholic Church | |
| William Nichol, 1800-1878 | Businessman, banker, broker | |
| John Overton, 1766-1833 | Pioneer, legal authority, jurist | |
| Bruce Ryburn Payne | Educator | |
| William Harold Payne, 1836-1907 | Scholar, administrator, education | |
| James Dace Plunkett, 1839-1919 | Physician, public health, sanitation | |
| James Knox Polk, 1795-1849 | Eleventh President of United States | |
| Sara Childress Polk, 1803-1891 | Wife of James Knox Polk | |
| George Washington Price, 1830-1892 | Minister, educator | |
| James Priestly, 1740-1821 | Classical scholar, educator | |
| Charles Todd Quintard, 1824-1898 | Physician, Episcopal Bishop | |
| Charlotte Reeves Robertson, 1751-1843 | Wife of James Robertson | |
| Duncan Robertson, 1770-1833 | Businessman, philanthropist | |
| Felix Robertson, 1781-1865 | Physician, community leader | |
| James Robertson, 1742-1814 | Nashville founder, frontiersman | |
| Henry Middleton Rutledge, 1775-1844 | Lawyer, planter | |
| Samuel Seay, 1784-1864 | Merchant, Presbyterian elder | |
| John Shelby, 1786-1859 | Physician | |
| Baxter Smith, 1832- | Attorney | |
| Edward Bushrod Stahlman, 1843-1936 | Newspaper publisher, railroad executive | |
| Vernon K. Stevenson | Pioneer in railroad building | |
| William Stockell, 1815-1888 | Merchant, originator of Nashville Fire Dept. | |
| William Strickland, 1787-1854 | Architect, engineer, painter | |
| Wilkins Tannehill, 1787-1858 | Businessman, scholar, historian | |
| Henry Teitlebaun, 1871-1940 | Merchant, community servant | |
| Gates Phillips Thurston, 1835-1914 | Soldier, lawyer, banker, author | |
| Herbert Cushing Tolman, 1865-1937 | Classical scholar, archeologist, author | |
| John Trimbel, 1812-1884 | Lawyer, scholar | |
| Gerard Troost, 1776-1850 | Scientist | |
| James Isaac Vance, 1862-1939 | Presbyterian minister | |
| William E. Ward, 1829-1887 | Minister, Founder of Ward's Seminary | |
| James Carthwright Warner, 1829-1887 | Businessman, manufacturer, philanthropist | |
| Samuel Watkins, 1794-1882 | Contractor, manufacturer, philanthropist | |
| Robert Weakley, 1764-1845 | Farmer, surveyor, land owner | |
| James Whitsitt, 1771-1849 | Missionary | |
| Dempsey Weaver, 1815-1880 | Financier, philanthropist | |
| George Leonard White, 1838-1895 | Educator, creator of Fisk Jubilee Singers | |
| Charles K. Winston | Physician, professor | |
| John Wesley Work Sr., 1871-1925 | Composer, educator | |
| Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, 1812-1862 | Editor, Congressman, soldier |
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