The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Demopolis, Alabama:
Art
Geneva Mercer, sculptor and painter
Athletics
Richard Basil, former head football coach at Savannah State University
Tommy Brooker, professional football player
Robbie Jones, football player, NY Giants, Alabama Crimson Tide
Andy Phillips, major league baseball player
Paul Phillips, major league baseball player
Theo Ratliff, professional basketball player
Spencer Turnbull, professional baseball player for The Detroit Tigers
Emanuel Zanders, football player, New Orleans Saints, Jackson State
Business
Arthur George Gaston, businessman, real estate tycoon, civil rights leader
Jim Rogers, financier and co-founder of the Quantum Fund
Literature
Wyatt Rainey Blassingame, author of more than 600 short stories and articles for national magazines, four adult novels and dozens of juvenile nonfiction books James Haskins (1941-2005), author (Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher, The Cotton Club, Black Music in America, Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions, The March on Washington, Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation) Michelle Richmond (born 1970), fiction writer and essayist (The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, Dream of the Blue Room) Hudson Strode (1892-1976), teacher of creative writing at the University of Alabama from 1924-1964, honored by King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden for contributions strengthening cultural relations between the United States and Sweden
Politics
Richard Henry Clarke, U.S. Representative from 1889 to 1897
Lacey A. Collier, lawyer and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida James T. Jones, U.S. Representative from 1877 to 1879 and 1883 to 1889 Francis Strother Lyon, member of United States Congress and Confederate States Congress Bill Owens, Massachusetts businessman and politician, born in Demopolis Benjamin Glover Shields, U.S Representative, 1841-1943, and United States Ambassador to Venezuela, 1845-1850
Science
Waldo Semon, inductee of the Inventor Hall of Fame, inventor of vinyl, holder of over a hundred patents, born in Demopolis