| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Roy Acuff |
Country Musician |
15-Sep-1903 |
23-Nov-1992 |
Country music pioneer |
| Bill Anderson |
Country Musician |
1-Nov-1937 |
|
Po' Folks |
| Eddy Arnold |
Country Musician |
15-May-1918 |
8-May-2008 |
The Tennessee Plowboy |
| Chet Atkins |
Country Musician |
20-Jun-1924 |
30-Jun-2001 |
Prominent country picker |
| Gene Autry |
Country Musician |
27-Sep-1907 |
2-Oct-1998 |
Singing cowboy |
| Johnny Bond |
Country Musician |
1-Jun-1915 |
12-Jun-1978 |
Ten Little Bottles |
| Johnny Cash |
Country Musician |
26-Feb-1932 |
12-Sep-2003 |
The Man in Black |
| Patsy Cline |
Country Musician |
8-Sep-1932 |
5-Mar-1963 |
I Fall To Pieces |
| Floyd Cramer |
Country Musician |
27-Oct-1933 |
31-Dec-1997 |
Country music pianist |
| Jimmie Davis |
Singer/Songwriter |
11-Sep-1899 |
5-Nov-2000 |
You Are My Sunshine |
| Little Jimmie Dickens |
Country Musician |
19-Dec-1925 |
|
May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose |
| Don Everly |
Musician |
1-Feb-1937 |
|
The Everly Brothers |
| Phil Everly |
Musician |
19-Jan-1939 |
|
The Everly Brothers |
| Tennessee Ernie Ford |
Country Musician |
13-Feb-1919 |
17-Oct-1991 |
Sixteen Tons |
| Don Gibson |
Country Musician |
3-Apr-1928 |
17-Nov-2003 |
Heartbroken country crooner |
| Merle Haggard |
Country Musician |
6-Apr-1937 |
|
Okie From Muskogee |
| Waylon Jennings |
Country Musician |
15-Jun-1937 |
13-Feb-2002 |
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys |
| George Jones |
Country Musician |
12-Sep-1931 |
|
Country singer, White Lightning |
| Grandpa Jones |
Country Musician |
30-Jan-1914 |
19-Feb-1998 |
Old-time banjo picker and Hee-Haw comic |
| Brenda Lee |
Country Musician |
11-Dec-1944 |
|
Little Miss Dynamite, I'm Sorry |
| Loretta Lynn |
Country Musician |
14-Apr-1932 |
|
Coal Miner's Daughter |
| Roger Miller |
Country Musician |
2-Jan-1936 |
25-Oct-1992 |
King of the Road |
| Patsy Montana |
Country Musician |
30-Oct-1908 |
3-May-1996 |
A Cowboy's Sweetheart |
| Willie Nelson |
Country Musician |
30-Apr-1933 |
|
The red-headed stranger |
| Minnie Pearl |
Musician |
25-Oct-1912 |
4-Mar-1996 |
Her hat cost $1.98 |
| Elvis Presley |
Singer |
8-Jan-1935 |
16-Aug-1977 |
Rock and roll icon |
| Ray Price |
Country Musician |
12-Jan-1926 |
|
The Cherokee Cowboy |
| Jim Reeves |
Country Musician |
20-Aug-1923 |
31-Jul-1964 |
He'll Have to Go |
| Tex Ritter |
Musician |
12-Jan-1905 |
2-Jan-1974 |
You Two-Timed Me Once Too Often |
| Marty Robbins |
Country Musician |
26-Sep-1925 |
8-Dec-1982 |
El Paso |
| Jimmie Rodgers |
Country Musician |
8-Sep-1897 |
26-May-1933 |
Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeller |
| Roy Rogers |
Actor |
5-Nov-1911 |
6-Jul-1998 |
Cowboy movie actor rode Trigger |
| Hank Thompson |
Country Musician |
3-Sep-1925 |
6-Nov-2007 |
Honky Tonk Swing musician |
| Floyd Tillman |
Country Musician |
8-Dec-1914 |
22-Aug-2003 |
Honky-tonk drawler and guitarist |
| Merle Travis |
Country Musician |
29-Nov-1917 |
20-Oct-1983 |
Influential fingerpicking country guitarist |
| Ernest Tubb |
Musician |
9-Feb-1914 |
6-Sep-1984 |
The Texas Troubador |
| Conway Twitty |
Country Musician |
1-Sep-1933 |
5-Jun-1993 |
It's Only Make Believe |
| Porter Wagoner |
Country Musician |
12-Aug-1927 |
28-Oct-2007 |
The Thin Man from West Plains |
| Kitty Wells |
Country Musician |
30-Aug-1919 |
|
First Queen of Country Music |
| Hank Williams, Sr. |
Country Musician |
17-Sep-1923 |
1-Jan-1953 |
Take These Chains From My Heart |
| Tammy Wynette |
Country Musician |
5-May-1942 |
6-Apr-1998 |
Stand By Your Man |
| Faron Young |
Musician |
25-Feb-1932 |
10-Dec-1996 |
The Hillbilly Heartthrob |
