Editing Princeton, Kentucky (section)

==Notable people==
*[[David Alexander (college president)|David Alexander]], president of [[Pomona College]] and [[Rhodes Scholarship]] administrator, grew up in Princeton<ref>{{cite news|last=Hevesi|first=Dennis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/education/31alexander.html|title=David Alexander, Overseer of Rhodes Selection, Is Dead at 77|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 30, 2010|access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref>
*[[James Ford (pirate)|James Ford]], [[civics|civic]] leader, businessman, and criminal gang leader in western Kentucky.
*[[J. D. Grey]], [[Southern Baptist]], clergyman.
*[[Charles Lisanby]], pioneer in color television, 2010 inductee in [[Television Academy Hall of Fame]].
*[[Rodney H. Mabry]], third president of The University of Texas at Tyler for 18 years (retired, 2016)
*[[Greg Smith (basketball, born 1947)|Greg Smith]], retired professional basketball player for the [[Milwaukee Bucks]] in the National Basketball Association, born in Princeton.
*[[Mabel Stark]], one of the first woman tiger tamers with Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus and with Al Barnes Circus in the early 1900s; spent her early life in Princeton as Mary Haynie.
*[[Emma Talley]], golfer who won the 2013 U.S. Women's Amateur and the 2015 NCAA Women's Golf title. She was born in nearby [[Paducah, Kentucky]], but raised in Princeton.
*[[Martha Nelson Thomas]], creator of "Doll Babies," later plagiarized as [[Cabbage Patch Kids]], born in Princeton.
*[[Malachi Thompson]], jazz trumpeter born in Princeton.
*[[Bross Townsend]], jazz and blues pianist born in Princeton.
*[[Ada Henry Van Pelt]], editor and inventor, born in Princeton.
*[[John D. Watkins]], Louisiana judge, state senator, district attorney, graduate of Cumberland College in Princeton <ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Judge John D. Watkins|encyclopedia=Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana|publisher=Southern Publishing Company|location=[[Chicago]] and [[Nashville, Tennessee]]|date=1890}}</ref>