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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