List of people from Demopolis, Alabama

The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Demopolis, Alabama:

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Paul Phillips, major league baseball player who played for the Kansas City Royals.
Andy Phillips, major league baseball player for the New York Yankees.
Theo Ratliff, NBA star, currently of the Detroit Pistons.
Jason Smith, major league baseball player for the Kansas City Royals graduated from Demopolis High School.

John C. Calhoun II (1843-1918), Wall Street financier who supported the building of the New South, Grandson of John C. Calhoun.
Arthur G. Gaston, (1892-1996) business titan and civil rights activist who was an important advisor to presidents such as John F. Kennedy.
Jim Rogers, a Columbia University financier who co-founded the Quantum Fund, called "The Indiana Jones of Finance" by Time Magazine.
Marshall Davis Miles, (1905-1997) a businessman who helped manage the boxing career of Joe Louis.

Dr. George Vernon Irons, champion athlete at the University of Alabama (1920-1924) and long-time Samford University professor.
Arthur Mayer, born in Demopolis in 1886, he started his work in the film industry with MGM (no relation to Louis B. Mayer). He later worked as a studio publicist, film distributor, film scholar, and university professor at Dartmouth, Stanford, and the University of Southern California.^[1]

Jack Ballas, author of several books, including Maverick Guns, Tomahawk Canyon, and Durango Gunfight.
Wyatt Blassingame, author of many books, including: The Navy's Fliers in WWII; Great Trains of the World; Frontier Doctors; For Better or for Worse; A World Explorer, Ponce de Leon; Eleanor Roosevelt, French Foreign Legion; Live From the Devil; Golden Geyser, Halo of Spears. He also wrote over 500 short stories.
James Haskins (1941-2005), public school teacher and prize-winning author (See Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, The Cotton Club, Black Music in America, Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions. For younger readers, The March on Washington, Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation).
Michelle Richmond (November 12, 1970), Award-winning fiction writer and essayist (see The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, Dream of the Blue Room).
Hudson Strode (1892-1976) an influential teacher of creative writing at the University of Alabama from 1924-1964, who was honored in 1961 by King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in recognition of his contributions toward strengthening the cultural relations between the United States and Sweden.[1]

Samuel Ginn, A pioneer in the wireless communications industry who served as chairman of Vodafone and now serves as a member of the Auburn University Board of Trustees and is the namesake for AU’s Ginn College of Engineering.
Waldo Semon, an inductee of the Inventor Hall of Fame and the inventor of vinyl and holder of over a hundred patents, was born in Demopolis.
Selwyn Vickers, M.D., a gastrointestinal surgeon and national leader in the research and treatment of pancreatic cancer. He is senior scientist and principal investigator for the Pancreatic Cancer SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence) Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical School.
Margaret Wright Jenkins, semiconductor chemist & inventor of the Wright Etch.