Editing McMinnville, Tennessee (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Charles Faulkner Bryan]], music composer, musician and [[musicologist]] of folk music was born on July 29, 1911, in McMinnville. He would eventually leave to attend the [[Nashville Conservatory of Music]].<ref name="Bryan">{{cite web | author=Robert Parkinson | year=2009 | title=Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911-1955) | work=Entries | publisher=[[Tennessee Historical Society]] | url=http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=151 | access-date=November 5, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Duke Droese]], wrestler, "Duke the Dumpster"
* [[Asa Faulkner]], owner of mills, member of the [[Tennessee House of Representatives]] from 1865 to 1866 and the [[Tennessee Senate]] from 1869 to 1871; built [[Falconhurst]].<ref name="npsformfalconhurst">{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Falconhurst|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/f359734a-3336-4c3b-b1a3-706aa0ba3ab7|website=National Park Service|publisher=United States Department of the Interior|access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin J. Hill]] was a [[Confederate States Army]] [[Brigadier General (CSA)|brigadier general]] during the [[American Civil War]].  Before the war, he was a merchant and served in the [[Tennessee Senate]]. After the war, he was a merchant, lawyer and president of the [[McMinnville and Manchester Railroad]].
* [[Uncle Dave Macon]], [[Country music]] legend born just outside McMinnville. Macon would go on to move to Nashville in 1884. A memorial at the Warren County Courthouse memorializes his birth and is built of brick from the home of his birth.<ref name="Macon">{{cite web | year=2011 | title=Warren County Historical Markers | publisher=USGen | url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/tn/county/warren/hm-a-histmarks.html | access-date=November 5, 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926212521/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/tn/county/warren/hm-a-histmarks.html | archive-date=September 26, 2011 }}</ref>
* [[David R. Ray]], Posthumous [[Medal of Honor]] recipient was born in McMinnville in 1945.
* [[Sophia Foster Richardson]] (1855–1916), mathematician at Vassar College.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v7-7fwMPtRAC&pg=PA147|chapter=Sophia Foster Richardson|page=147|title=Annual Report|publisher=Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching|year=1916}}</ref>
* [[Carl Rowan]], United States government official, journalist and author was raised in McMinnville. Born in [[Ravenscroft, Tennessee|Ravenscroft]] in 1925, he worked in the nurseries of McMinnville, hoeing bulbs as a teenager for $.10 per hour.<ref name="Rowan">{{cite web | year=2011 | title=Carl T. Rowan Biography | work=Biography | publisher=YourDictionary | url=http://biography.yourdictionary.com/carl-t-rowan | access-date=November 5, 2011}}</ref>
* Col. [[John Houston Savage]] of McMinnville TN served the United States Army in the War with Mexico and served as a member of the House of Representatives.  Col. Savage later commanded the Confederate 16th TN Infantry formed out of Warren County and helped to personally finance the Confederate memorial in downtown McMinnville to their memory for future generations.
* [[Dinah Shore]] grew up in McMinnville, where her family moved in 1924 and her father owned a department store.{{citation needed|date=November 2011}}
* [[Lester Strode]], [[Chicago Cubs]] bullpen coach was born and raised in McMinnville. Born in 1958, he was one of eight African Americans in a class of 500 at Warren County Senior High School. He credits his experience of being a minority and the relationship with his high school coach as shaping his decisions as a sports professional. In 2006, the high school retired his uniform number.<ref name="Strode">{{cite web | author=Carrie Muskat | year=2011 | title=Tough times made Cubs 'pen coach stronger | work=News | publisher=[[MLB.com]] | url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110216&content_id=16652654&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb | access-date=November 5, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Pamela Rogers Turner]], teacher and child rapist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4048393.html |title=Archived copy |website=www.chron.com |access-date=January 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719235511/http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4048393.html |archive-date=July 19, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Jamie Walker (baseball)|Jamie Walker]], pro baseball player was born in McMinnville in 1971.<ref name="BaseballAlm">{{cite web | author=Jamie Walker Stats | year=2011 | title=Jamie Walker Stats | publisher=Baseball Almanac | url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=walkeja01 | access-date=November 5, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Dottie West]], [[country music]] legend was born just outside McMinnville in 1932 in the Frog Pond community.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Goldsmith|first1=Thomas|title=Legendary Dottie West Dies|work=USAToday|date=September 4, 1991}}</ref>  Her mother owned the once noted "Park Grill" downtown where Dottie often helped out waitressing. West is buried in the town's Mt ViewCemetery.<ref name="West">{{cite web | author=Jason Ankeny | year=2011 | title=Biography | website=[[AllMusic]] | url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p1866/biography | access-date=November 5, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Randy Wood (record producer)|Randy Wood]], who was born in McMinnville on March 30, 1917, founded [[Dot Records]], one of the most successful [[independent record label]]s of the 1950s and 1960s.<ref name=bsn>[http://www.bsnpubs.com/dot/dotstory3.html  Mike Callahan and David Edwards, ''Randy Wood: The Dot Records Story'', May 6, 2003]. Retrieved June 29, 2013</ref>
* [[Drew Green]] is a [[country music]] singer-songwriter who was born and raised in McMinnville.