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Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Memphis
3 notable people grew up or lived in and around Memphis. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
Elvis Presley1957–1977
📍 Graceland, 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Graceland was never just a house — it was a statement, a dream made solid, the impossible thing I had promised myself when I was a poor boy from Tupelo who had nothing. I bought it in 1957…
Koko Taylor1928–1952
📍 Memphis, TN, USA
I was born Cora Walton in September 1928 on a sharecropper's farm near Memphis, Tennessee, in Bartlett, just outside the city, the youngest of six children. My parents called me Koko…
Memphis Minnie1910–1929
📍 Beale Street, Memphis, TN 38103, USA
I was born Lizzie Douglas in Algiers, Louisiana, in June 1897, the eldest of thirteen children, and when I was a little girl my family moved to Walls, Mississippi, just south of Memphis…