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==Notable people== * [[Dave Behrman]] β Michigan State and Buffalo Bills football player, AFL and NFL first-round draft pick in 1963 * [[Philo D. Beckwith]] β Founder of [[Round Oak Stove Company]] and Mayor of Dowagiac * [[Dickinson Bishop]] β Businessman and ''Titanic'' sinking survivor * [[David Cargo]] β Governor of New Mexico 1967β71 * [[Wally Fromhart]]βNotre Dame football player * [[Billi Gordon]] β Model, actor, author, screenwriter, Doctor of Functional Human Brain Research * [[James Heddon]] β Inventor of the artificial fishing lure * [[Sean Hill (American football)|Sean Hill]] β NFL player * [[Judith Ivey]] β Tony Award-winning actress * [[Franz Jackson]] β Saxophonist and clarinet player * [[John P. Metras]] β inducted into the [[Canadian Football Hall of Fame]] as a coach<ref>{{cite news|title=Dowagiac product Metras dies at 73|date=April 19, 1982|newspaper=[[South Bend Tribune]]|page=26|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-south-bend-tribune-metras-1982/169965032/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=John Metras: Former college coach dies|agency=[[The Canadian Press]]|date=April 14, 1982|newspaper=[[The Sun Times (Owen Sound)|The Sun Times]]|location=Owen Sound, Ontario|page=15|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-times-metras-1982/169392058/}}</ref> * [[Webb Miller (journalist)]] β Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and author * [[Caleb Murphy]] β Ferris State Football player and NFL Tennessee Titans Football Player * [[Adolph Otto Niedner]] β Custom gunsmith and wildcat cartridge inventor and Mayor of Dowagiac * [[Carrie Newcomer]] β Singer-songwriter * [[Kenneth Porter (aviator)|Kenneth Porter]] β World War I pilot, credited with 5 enemy aircraft destroyed * [[Donavon F. Smith]] β World War II pilot and [[USAF]] lieutenant general, credited with 5.5 enemy aircraft destroyed * [[William Alden Smith]] β US Senator * [[Chris Taylor (wrestler)|Chris Taylor]] β wrestler, Olympic medalist * [[Emery Valentine]] β Alaskan statesman and businessman
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