Notable Residents
- Dan Allen, comedian
- Duane Allman and Gregg Allman, musicians
- Fulgencio Batista, 19th Cuban President
- Vince Carter, basketball player
- Ed Charles, former Major League Baseball player
- Bill France, Sr., founder of NASCAR
- Danielle Harris, actress
- Zora Neale Hurston, writer, anthropologist
- E. J. Kuale, gridiron football defensive end
- Ryan Lochte, 2004 Olympic medalist in swimming
- Mark Martin, NASCAR driver
- Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights activist
- Walter M. Miller, Jr. - Author of A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Ransom Eli Olds, automobile pioneer
- Josef Papp, engineer
- Glen "Fireball" Roberts, NASCAR driver
- Bob Ross, artist and television host
- David Sholtz, 26th governor of Florida
- Mike Skinner, NASCAR driver
- Howard Thurman, author and theologian
- T. K. Wetherell, president of Florida State University
- Robert Wright, musical theater writer
- Aileen Wuornos, serial killer executed in 2002.
- Smokey Yunick, mechanic and motor racing innovator
- Eric Weems, NFL Wide Receiver
- Kevin Nash, professional wrestler, WWE
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“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)