List of people from Demopolis, Alabama

The people listed below were all 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 from 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 from 1889 to 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 from 1877 to 1879 and 1883 to 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, and 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