• Source: List of people from Demopolis, Alabama

The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Demopolis, Alabama:




Art


Geneva Mercer, sculptor and painter




Athletics


Richard Basil, former head football coach at Savannah State University
Tommy Brooker, professional football player
Robbie Jones, football player, NY Giants, Alabama Crimson Tide
Andy Phillips, major league baseball player
Paul Phillips, major league baseball player
Theo Ratliff, professional basketball player
Spencer Turnbull, professional baseball player for the Detroit Tigers
Emanuel Zanders, football player, New Orleans Saints, Jackson State




Business


Arthur George Gaston, businessman, real estate tycoon, civil rights leader
Jim Rogers, financier and co-founder of the Quantum Fund




Literature


Wyatt Rainey Blassingame, author of more than 600 short stories and articles for national magazines, four adult novels and dozens of juvenile nonfiction books
James Haskins (1941-2005), author (Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, The Cotton Club, Black Music in America, Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions, The March on Washington, Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation)
Michelle Richmond (born 1970), fiction writer and essayist (The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, Dream of the Blue Room)
Hudson Strode (1892–1976), teacher of creative writing at the University of Alabama 1924–1964, honored by King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden for contributions strengthening cultural relations between the United States and Sweden




Politics


Richard Henry Clarke, U.S. Representative 1889–1897
Lacey A. Collier, lawyer and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
James T. Jones, U.S. Representative 1877–1879 and 1883–1889
Francis Strother Lyon, member of United States Congress and Confederate States Congress
Bill Owens, Massachusetts businessman and politician, born in Demopolis
Benjamin Glover Shields, U.S Representative 1841–1943, United States Ambassador to Venezuela 1845–1850




Science


Waldo Semon, inductee of the Inventor Hall of Fame, inventor of vinyl, holder of over a hundred patents, born in Demopolis




References

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