Notable Residents
- Kris & Dale Ballinger of the musical group the Cluster Pluckers.
- Mack Brown, former head football coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels; current head coach of the Texas Longhorns football team.
- Watson Brown, older brother of Texas Longhorns head coach Mack Brown, former head football coach of the Rice Owls, Vanderbilt Commodores, and UAB Blazers; current head coach of the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles.
- Jim Carlen, former head football coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers, Texas Tech Red Raiders, and South Carolina Gamecocks
- Donald Farmer, film producer and director.
- Robert Ben Garant, "Deput Junior" from the TV show Reno 911!
- Bobby Greenwood, former PGA Tour Player, professional golfer
- Harold E. Martin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman, was the former co-owner of the Herald Citizen.
- Jack Norton, children's musician and host of The Zinghoppers children's TV show that has been broadcast on Fox, NBC and PBS stations.
- J. J. Redick, basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the NBA was born in Cookeville, but grew up in Roanoke, Virginia
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“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.”
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