List of people from Demopolis, Alabama
- List of people from Demopolis, Alabama
The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Demopolis, Alabama:
Athletics
* Paul Phillips, major league baseball player who played for the Kansas City Royals.
* Andy Phillips, major league baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds.
* Theo Ratliff, NBA star, currently of the Detroit Pistons.
* Jason Smith, major league baseball player for the Kansas City Royals graduated from Demopolis High School.
Business
* Jim Rogers, a Columbia University financier who co-founded the Quantum Fund, called "The Indiana Jones of Finance" by Time Magazine.
Literature
* James Haskins (1941-2005), public school teacher and prize-winning author (See Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, The Cotton Club, Black Music in America, Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions. For younger readers, The March on Washington, Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation).
* Michelle Richmond (November 12, 1970), Award-winning fiction writer and essayist (see The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, Dream of the Blue Room).
* Hudson Strode (1892-1976) an influential teacher of creative writing at the University of Alabama from 1924-1964, who was honored in 1961 by King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in recognition of his contributions toward strengthening the cultural relations between the United States and Sweden. [http://www.archives.state.al.us/famous/academy/h_strode.html]
cience
* Samuel Ginn, A pioneer in the wireless communications industry who served as chairman of Vodafone and now serves as a member of the Auburn University Board of Trustees and is the namesake for AU’s Ginn College of Engineering.
* Waldo Semon, an inductee of the Inventor Hall of Fame and the inventor of vinyl and holder of over a hundred patents, was born in Demopolis.
Entertainment
* Man Rock Ski, rapper
* Benjie Spence, member of the eclectic post-rock band Garage Sale Warrior.
References
Further reading
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