Notable Residents
- Horace Allen, baseball player
- Michael E. Arth, artist, author, urban designer and filmmaker
- Byllye Avery, health care activist
- Bill Booth, skydiving engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur
- Terence Trent D'Arby, singer-songwriter
- Paul Dicken, baseball player
- R. Buckminster Fuller, world-renowned 20th century inventor, mathematician and futurist, inventor of the geodesic dome, coined the phrase "Spaceship Earth"
- Lue Gim Gong, horticulturalist
- Bridgette Gordon, basketball player
- Stephen Guarino, actor and comedian
- Ed Hickox, umpire
- Carolyn J. B. Howard, politician
- Craig T. James, congressman
- Arthur Jones, inventor
- Chipper Jones, baseball player
- Vincent Martella, actor
- Jack Ness, baseball player
- Medwin Peek, Mediterranean Revival architect
- Luke Scott, baseball player
- Frances Shimer, founder of Shimer College in Illinois
- John Batterson Stetson, hat manufacturer
- Tra Thomas, football player
- Noble "Thin Man" Watts, musician
- Verner Moore White, artist
- Earl Ziebarth, state representative
- Johnny J. Jones, prominent showman in the American carnival industry
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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)