Editing Kingsport, Tennessee (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Lisa Alther]], author, born and grew up in Kingsport
* [[Edward L. Ayers]], [[National Humanities Medal]] and [[Bancroft Prize]]-winning historian and ninth president of the [[University of Richmond]], raised in Kingsport
* [[Barry Bales]], Grammy Award-winning musician with [[Alison Krauss]] and Union Station
* [[James Frazier Barker|James F. Barker]], president of [[Clemson University]] (1999–2013)
* [[Nick Castle]], actor who played Michael Myers in the original [[Halloween]], was born in Kingsport and makes appearances at the local haunted houses.
* [[Jeff Chapman-Crane]], Appalachian artist
* [[Harry Coover]], inventor of [[Super Glue]]
* [[Denny Crawford]], professional football player
* [[Amy Dalley]], country music artist
* [[Bobby Dodd]], [[College Football Hall of Fame]] inductee as both a football player ([[University of Tennessee]]) and coach ([[Georgia Institute of Technology]])
* [[Bobby Eaton]], professional wrestler
* [[Elle and Blair Fowler]], online beauty retailers who spent part of their childhoods in Kingsport
* [[Daniel Kilgore (American football)|Daniel Kilgore]], professional football player, Kansas City Chiefs
* [[Cliff Kresge]], [[Nationwide Tour]] golfer who splits his time between homes in Kingsport and Florida
* [[Mark H. Landes]], U.S. Army major general<ref>{{cite news |date=May 16, 1986 |title=Graduates: Dobyns-Bennett High School |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/kingsport-times-news-graduates/129892438/ |work=[[Kingsport Times-News]] |location=Kingsport, TN |page=6A |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* [[Hal Lawton]], President & CEO of [[Tractor Supply]], graduate of [[Sullivan South High School]]
* [[Blake Leeper]], [[Paralympics|Paralympic]] silver medallist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wheaties.com/profile/blake-leeper/ |title=Blake Leeper &#124; |access-date=August 27, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912080804/http://www.wheaties.com/profile/blake-leeper/ |archive-date=September 12, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Cripple Clarence Lofton]], noted boogie-woogie pianist and singer, born in Kingsport
* [[Matt Mahaffey]], musician, frontman of pop/rock band [[Self (band)|Self]]
* [[Brownie McGhee|Brownie]] and [[Stick McGhee]], brothers and blues musicians, grew up in Kingsport and other East Tennessee towns
* [[Ken Mellons]], country music artist
* [[John Palmer (TV journalist)|John Palmer]], former [[NBC News]] correspondent, born in Kingsport and a graduate of [[Dobyns-Bennett High School]]
* [[Jimmy Quillen]], member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Tennessee's 1st congressional district]] (1963–1997)
* [[John Shelton Reed]], sociologist and essayist, author or editor of eighteen books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South
* [[Selwa Roosevelt|Selwa Showker "Lucky" Roosevelt]], [[Chief of Protocol of the United States]] from 1982 to 1989 and former journalist for the ''[[Washington Post]]'', married Archibald B. Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
* [[Coty Sensabaugh]], cornerback for the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]
* [[Gerald Sensabaugh]], retired NFL cornerback, played for the [[Jacksonville Jaguars]] and the [[Dallas Cowboys]]
* [[LeRoy Sprankle]], high school multi-sport coach, author, and general manager of the [[Canton Independents]]
* [[Adam Steffey]], bluegrass artist
* [[Bill Streever]], biologist and author
* [[Cyrus Thomas]], [[entomologist]] and [[ethnologist]]
* [[Steven Williams]], actor who starred in ''[[21 Jump Street]]'' and ''[[The Blues Brothers (film)|The Blues Brothers]]''