Editing Gadsden, Alabama (section)

==Notable people==
{{further|List of Gadsden, Alabama people}}
* [[Clever (musician)|Clever]] (born 1985), singer, songwriter, musician
* [[Jean Cox]] (1922–2012), operatic tenor, noted for his Heldentenor roles at the [[Bayreuth Festival]]
* [[W. T. Ewing]] (1823–1891), politician, physician, postmaster<ref name=":0">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5e8xAQAAMAAJ&dq=whitley+thomas+ewing&pg=PA362 |title=Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical |date=1888 |publisher=Smith & De Land |location=Birmingham, AL |pages=362–363 |chapter=Whitley Thomas Ewing, M.D. |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
* [[DeWitt Sanford Dykes Sr.]] (1903–1991), architect, Methodist minister<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dykes, DeWitt Sanford, Sr. |url=https://www.americanbuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/882158 |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=American Architects and Buildings |publisher=[[Athenaeum of Philadelphia]]}}</ref><ref name="Wilson-2004">{{Cite book |last=Wilson |first=Dreck Spurlock |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8iTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT235 |title=African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 |date=2004-03-01 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-95628-8 |pages=235–250 |language=en |chapter=DeWitt Sanford Dykes Sr. (1903–1991)}}</ref>
* [[Beth Grant]] (born 1949), actress
* [[Bill Green (basketball)|Bill Green]] (1940–1994), basketball player, first-round pick in [[1963 NBA draft]]
* [[Steve Grissom]], former [[NASCAR]] driver
* [[James Hood]] (1942–2013), one of the first African Americans to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963
* [[Dre Kirkpatrick]] (born 1989), first-round draft pick of the NFL's [[Cincinnati Bengals]]
* [[Freddie Kitchens]] (born 1974), football coach
* [[Mathew Knowles]] (born 1952), music executive, businessman, record producer, and manager; father of [[Beyoncé]] and [[Solange Knowles]]
* [[Annie Lee (artist)|Annie Lee]] (1935–2014), artist
* [[Sunny Mabrey]], actress
* [[Jerry McCain]], blues musician noted for his harmonica playing and songwriting<ref>{{cite web |first= |last= |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p445/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Biography by Bill Dahl and Al Campbell |website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 3, 2021}}</ref>
* [[Darnell Mooney]] (born 1997), wide receiver for the Chicago Bears
* [[Roy Moore]] (born 1947), former [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of Alabama]]
* [[Aaron Pearson]], former football [[linebacker]] who played three seasons with the [[Kansas City Chiefs]]
* [[William L. Sibert]], US Army major general who commanded the U.S. [[1st Infantry Division (United States)|1st Infantry Division]] during [[World War I]]
* [[Hazel Brannon Smith]], notable newspaper publisher in Lexington, Mississippi, and first woman to receive a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for editorial writing. 
* [[Cadillac Williams]] (born 1982), former NFL first-round draft pick
* [[Yelawolf]] (born 1979), rapper signed to Interscope and Shady Records
* [[Jake Adam York]], award-winning poet
* [[Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones]], son of Curtis Loew