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==Notable people== <!---β¦β¦β¦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME β¦β¦β¦---> * [[Armstead M. Alexander]] (1834β1892), [[United States House of Representatives|congressman]] from [[Missouri]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | year = 1967}}</ref> * [[Chilton Allan]] (1786β1858), congressman from Kentucky * [[Yeremiah Bell]], safety for the [[New York Jets]] NFL team * [[Rex Burkhead]], running back for the [[Houston Texans]] NFL Team * [[George French Ecton]], second African-American state legislator in Illinois<ref>Smith, Gerald L., Karen Cotton McDaniel, and John A. Hardin, eds. The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky, 2015. p161</ref> * [[John E. Fryer]], psychiatrist whose speech in 1972 as "Dr. Henry Anonymous" helped to get homosexuality removed as a mental disease from the [[American Psychiatric Association]]'s ''[[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual]]'' * [[Matt Ginter]], Professional Baseball 1999β2010 (11 years) * [[William Harrow]] (1822β1871), [[Union Army|Union]] general in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] * [[Joel Tanner Hart]] (1810β1877), sculptor * [[Joseph Jackson (screenwriter)]], screenwriter and publicist.<ref>The Courier-Journal Louisville, Kentucky Friday, May 27, 1932 - Page 22</ref> * [[Preston Knowles]], basketball player for the [[University of Louisville]] * [[Homer Ledford]] (1927β2006), instrument maker and bluegrass musician * [[Matt Long]], TV's "Jack & Bobby", "Mad Men", "Helix". * [[Nettie George Speedy]] (1878β1957), journalist of [[The Chicago Defender|Chicago Defender]], founder of Chicago Women's Golf Club, the first woman to sit on the trustee board of [[Lane College]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Parsons weekly blade (newspaper) Β· Notable Kentucky African Americans Database |url=https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/300002418 |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=nkaa.uky.edu}}</ref> and the Pioneer of African American golf.<ref>Past, Present, and Future: The Direction of African American Golf</ref> * [[Claude Sullivan]], sports broadcaster * [[Allen Tate]] (1899β1979), poet associated with the [[Agrarianism|Agrarians]], a group of Southern poets, and most noted for "[[Ode to the Confederate Dead]]" * [[Helen Thomas]], White House press correspondent * [[Frank L. Winn]], U.S. Army major general<ref name=tribute>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/22240/rec/2 |chapter=Frank Long Winn |title=Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York |first=Edward M. |last=Lewis |author-link=Edward Mann Lewis |date=10 June 1941 |pages=155β159 |publisher=The Moore Printing Company, Inc. |location=Newburgh, New York |access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref> * [[John S. Winn]], U.S. Army brigadier general<ref>{{cite magazine |author=E.M.L. |date=June 10, 1940 |title=Obituary, John Sheridan Winn |url=https://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/18359/rec/9 |magazine= Seventy-first Annual Report of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy |location=Newburgh, New York |publisher=Moore Printing Company |page=165 |via=West Point Digital Library |ref={{sfnRef|"Obituary, John Sheridan Winn"}}}}</ref>
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