List of Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year winners from every year the award has been given out. All Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year winners are listed below in order of popularity, but can be sorted by any column. People who won the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award are listed along with photos for every Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year winner that has a picture associated with their name online. You can click on the name of the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award recipients to get more information about each. People who won the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year are usually listed by year, but on this list you've got a complete list of Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year winners from all years. If this proves to not be a full list of Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year winners, you can help make it so by adding to this one. This list includes the most memorable and well-known Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year winners of all time. Anybody who won the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year usually has a picture associated with their name, so all the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year-winning people are listed here with photos when available. This list spans the history of the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year, so most of the famous Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year winners are here and can be a good starting point for making a list of your favorites. This list answers the question "who are all the people who have ever won Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year?" If you're looking for all the nominees, you can click the links above the title of this page to the Listopedia page where you'll find a directory of award nominees, as well as the rest of the award winners lists we have. You may copy this factual list to build your own just like it, re-rank it to fit your views, then publish it to share with your Twitter followers, Facebook friends or with any other social networks you use on a regular basis. This list features items like Kenny Chesney and Brooks & Dunn. (23 items)
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Alabama Alabama is an American country, Southern rock and bluegrass band formed in Fort Payne, Alabama in 1969. The band was founded by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry, soon joined by their other ...more
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Barbara Mandrell Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer and actress. She is known for a series of Top 10 hits and TV shows in the 1970s and 1980s that helped her become one of country's most ...more
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Brooks & Dunn Brooks & Dunn is an American country music duo consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, both vocalists and songwriters. The duo was founded in 1990 through the suggestion of Tim DuBois. ...more
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Carrie Underwood Carrie Marie Underwood is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol in 2005. Underwood has set and broke several records ...more
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Dixie Chicks Dixie Chicks is an American country music band which has also crossed over into other genres, including alternative country. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and ...more
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Dolly Parton Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, actress, author, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music. Her career began as a child performer ...more
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Freddie Hart Frederick Segrest, known professionally as Freddie Hart, is an American country musician and songwriter best known for his No. 1 hit "Easy Loving," which won the Country Music ...more
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Garth Brooks Troyal Garth Brooks is an American singer-songwriter. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the ...more
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George Strait George Harvey Strait is an American singer, actor, and music producer known as the "King of Country" and one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He is ...more
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Hank Williams, Jr. Randall Hank Williams, better known as Hank Williams Jr. and Bocephus, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and ...more
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Kenny Chesney Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney is an American singer and songwriter. He has recorded eleven albums, nine of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced ...more
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Kenny Rogers Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, entrepreneur and author, and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Though he ...more
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Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn, is a multiple gold album American country music singer-songwriter whose work spans more than 50 years. She has received numerous awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking ...more
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Luke Bryan Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan is an American country singer-songwriter. Luke Bryan began his musical career in the mid-2000s, writing songs for Travis Tritt and Billy Currington. After ...more
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Mac Davis Morris Mac Davis, known as Mac Davis, is a country music singer, songwriter and actor, originally from Lubbock, Texas, who has enjoyed much crossover success. His early work writing for Elvis ...more
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Merle Haggard Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country and Western song writer, singer, guitarist, fiddler, and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the ...more
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Mickey Gilley Mickey Leroy Gilley is an American country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop-friendly ...more
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Reba McEntire Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music singer, songwriter and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band, on ...more
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Roy Clark Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 November 15, 2018) was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to ...more
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Shania Twain Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Twain is one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 75 million albums worldwide. She is also the best selling ...more
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Taylor Swift Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed ...more
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Willie Nelson Willie Hugh Nelson is an American singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie, combined with the critical and ...more
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Toby Keith Toby Keith Covel, best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums—1993's Toby Keith, 1994's ...more
