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Many Montgomery Countians have influenced the fields of music, literature, dramatic arts, sports, medicine and business.
SPORTS
Track Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph
- Golfer Mason Rudolph
- Basketball Coach Pat Head Summitt
- NBA Basketball Player Shawn Marion
- NBA Basketball Player Trenton Hassel
- MLB Player Horace Lisenbee
MUSICIANS
- Composer and Concert Violinist Clarence Cameron White
- Concert Artist Roland Hayes
- Musician Ferdinand Lust
20th CENTURY WRITERS
- Caroline Gordon
- Evelyn Scott
- Allen Tate
- Robert Penn Warren
DRAMA
- Dorothy Jordan
- Frank Sutton
- Charles Bollin Watts
- Helen Wood
VISUAL ARTS
MEDICINE & BUSINESS
- Dr. Robert Burt, well known African-American surgeon who founded Clarksville's first hospital
- Clarence Sanders, founder of the present day supermarket
- A.H. Patch, inventor of the corn sheller
MISS USA
- Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007
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