Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax, (1916–1994), African-American hard gospel quartet singer
Robert Broadnax Glenn (1854–1920), the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1905 to 1909
Horace Broadnax, the head men's basketball coach at Savannah State University
Walter Broadnax, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Broadnax became a member of the Florida Bar in 1993 after obtaining his law degree from Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, Florida in 1991 and was a law partner at an Orlando law firm.
Born October 21, 1944, in Star City, Arkansas, to a railroad man named Walter Broadnax and mother Mary Lee Broadnax, Broadnax attended Roosevelt Elementary School in Hoisington, Kansas.