•
Adelicia Acklen, plantation and slave owner. •
Emma Louise Ashford, American
organist,
composer, and music editor •
Oswald Avery, acclaimed scientist whose experiments proved that DNA is the substance that carried genes. •
John Meredith Bass, Mayor of Nashville from 1833–34, and in 1869. •
John Bell, United States
Senator and
presidential candidate •
Aaron V. Brown,
Governor of Tennessee (1845–47),
United States Postmaster General from 1857–59 •
James Stephens Brown, Mayor of Nashville from 1908–09 •
Lytle Brown, major general in the U.S. Army •
Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham (1831–1911), missionary and church worker •
George A. Dickel (1818–1894), liquor dealer and wholesaler •
Anne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955), women's suffrage activist. •
Cornelia Keeble Ewing (1898–1973), American clubwoman •
Sarah Polk Fall (1847–1924) Nashville socialite and unofficially adopted daughter of former first Lady
Sarah Polk •
Jesse Babcock Ferguson, onetime minister of the Nashville
Church of Christ, later associated with
Spiritualism and
Universalism •
Thomas Frist, co-founder of
Hospital Corporation of America and father of the former
majority leader of the
U.S. Senate,
Bill Frist •
Francis Furman (1816–1899), Nashville businessman during the
Reconstruction era. His tomb, designed by sculptor
Johannes Gelert (1852–1923), is the largest one in Mount Olivet Cemetery. •
Meredith Poindexter Gentry, United States
Congressman •
Carl Giers, early photographer •
Alvan Cullem Gillem, Civil War Union general and post-bellum Indian fighter •
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett, co-founder of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy •
Vern Gosdin 1934–2009 country music legend •
William Crane Gray, (1835–1919), First Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary Jurisdiction of Southern Florida •
Felix Grundy (1775–1840),
U.S. Senator from Tennessee and 13th
Attorney General of the United States. •
Howell Edmunds Jackson, United States
Senator and
Supreme Court Justice •
William Hicks Jackson, Confederate general during the American Civil War •
Thomas A. Kercheval,
Tennessee State Senator and
Mayor of Nashville •
Eugene C. Lewis, engineer, chairman of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, civic leader. •
Hill McAlister,
Governor of Tennessee from 1933–37 •
Randal William McGavock (1826–1863), Mayor of Nashville, 1858–59 and Confederate Lt. Colonel who was killed in the
Battle of Raymond. •
Charles Nelson (1835–1891), businessman and distiller •
William Nichol (1800–1878), Mayor of Nashville, 1835–37. • Colonel
Buckner H. Payne (1799–1889), clergyman, publisher, merchant and racist pamphleteer. •
Fountain E. Pitts (1808–1874), Methodist minister, Confederate chaplain and colonel, first pastor of the West End United Methodist Church in Nashville. •
James E. Rains, American Civil War general killed in the 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro •
Oliver P. Rood, American Civil War soldier, Medal of Honor recipient •
Fred Rose, music publishing executive •
Edward Bushrod Stahlman (1843–1930), German-born railroad executive, publisher of the
Nashville Banner and builder of
The Stahlman. •
Ernest Stoneman (1893-1968), country music performer •
Roni Stoneman (1939-2024), American Musician •
Wilbur Fisk Tillett (1854–1936), Methodist clergyman and educator; dean of Vanderbilt's theology school •
Anthony Wayne Van Leer (1783–1864), ironmaster •
George D. Waller (1883–1969), architect. •
David K. Wilson (1919–2007), businessman and philanthropist; major donor to
Vanderbilt University and the
Republican Party •
Del Wood (1920–1989), country musician, member of the
Grand Ole Opry ==See also==