Editing Hopkinsville, Kentucky (section)

==Notable residents==

*[[George L. Atkins]], former mayor of Hopkinsville (1972–1975)<ref name=hc>{{cite news |first=Jennifer P.|last=Brown |title=George L. Atkins Jr., former Hopkinsville mayor, dies at age 82 |url=https://hoptownchronicle.org/george-l-atkins-jr-former-hopkinsville-mayor-dies-at-age-82/ |work=[[Hoptown Chronicle]] |publisher= |date=2014-04-15 |access-date=2024-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417202454/https://hoptownchronicle.org/george-l-atkins-jr-former-hopkinsville-mayor-dies-at-age-82/ |archive-date=2024-04-17}}</ref>
*[[Bird Averitt]], former NBA and ABA guard
*[[Ned Breathitt]], former governor of [[Kentucky]]
*[[John Brim]], musician and composer.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://hoptownchronicle.org/hopkinsville-native-john-brim/ | title=Hopkinsville native John Brim regarded as one of Chicago's most talented blues musicians | date=June 18, 2020 }}</ref>
*[[Greg Buckner]], [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] [[shooting guard]]
*[[Harry Buckner]], baseball pitcher and outfielder in the [[Negro league baseball|Negro leagues]]
*[[Edgar Cayce]] (1877–1945), an American Christian mystic and [[psychic]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12606|title=Grave of Edgar Cayce, Famous Prophet, Hopkinsville, Kentucky|website=RoadsideAmerica.com|language=en|access-date=2018-02-20}}</ref>
*[[Jerry Claiborne]], former college football coach for the [[Kentucky Wildcats football|Kentucky Wildcats]]
*[[Edward M. Coffman]], military historian
*[[John Miller Cooper]], pioneer of [[kinesiology]]
*[[Tony Crunk]], children's book author and poet<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kentucky |first=University Press of |date=2011-02-07 |title=Kentucky poet Tony Crunk sounds a voice for the uprooted |url=https://kentuckypress.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/kentucky-poet-tony-crunk-sounds-a-voice-for-the-uprooted/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=The University Press of Kentucky |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Logan Feland]], [[United States Marine Corps]] [[Major general (United States)|Major General]]
*[[Bettiola Heloise Fortson]] (1890–1917), poet, civil rights activist, suffragist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2316|title=Fortson, Bettiola Heloise · Notable Kentucky African Americans Database|website=nkaa.uky.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-20}}</ref>
*[[Steve Gorman]], drummer for [[The Black Crowes]]
*[[Asbury Harpending]], financier and adventurer
*[[bell hooks]] (1952–2021), feminist author and social activist<ref>{{Cite news |last=Risen |first=Clay |date=2021-12-15 |title=bell hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, Dies at 69 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/bell-hooks-dead.html |access-date=2022-11-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[J. Larry Jones|Larry Jones]], thoroughbred racing trainer since 1982, former commercial farmer
*[[Mac King]], comedic magician
*[[Margaret Rose Sanford|Margaret Rose Knight]] (1918–2010), First Lady of North Carolina, 1961–1965
*[[Brice Long]], country music artist
*[[Riccardo Martin]], operatic tenor
*[[Lane McCray]], International recording artist, La Bouche
*[[Teresa Medeiros]], award-winning romance novelist
*[[Doug Moseley]], former member of the [[Kentucky State Senate]]
*[[Artose Pinner]], [[National Football League|NFL]] [[running back]]
*[[Christine Johnson Smith]], opera singer and [[Tony Award]]-nominated Broadway actress
*[[Lynn Starling]], screenwriter and playwright
*[[Adlai Stevenson I|Adlai Stevenson]] (1835–1914), politician, 23rd vice-president of the United States<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-10-29 |title=Adlai Ewing Stevenson |url=https://www.visithopkinsville.com/about/famous-people/adlai-ewing-stevenson/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Visit Hopkinsville – Christian County |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Humphreys |first=George G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wUgjEAAAQBAJ |title=The Fall of Kentucky's Rock: Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal |date=2022-01-18 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-8235-3 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Keith Tandy]], NFL safety
*[[Cory Trice]], [[National Football League|NFL]] [[Cornerback]] for the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]
*[[Thomas R. Underwood]], former congressman and U.S. senator
*[[Ed Whitfield]], former congressman
*[[Chris Whitney]], former [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] [[point guard]]
*[[Moe Williams]], [[NFL]] running back, thoroughbred owner and trainer