Famous people born in Marianna
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Jeff Milton
Jeff Milton was an Old West lawman and the son of the Confederate Governor of Florida, John Milton.....
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Danny Lipford
Danny Lipford is an American contractor and television personality known to audiences as Host and Executive Producer of the nationally syndicated home improvement television and radio shows, Todays Homeowner with Danny Lipford, and for his appearances on The Weather Channel, and CBSs The Early Show.....
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Bobby Pierce
Bobby Pierce is the head baseball coach at Troy University. He started his coaching career at Chipola Junior College, where he coached from 1982 to 1989. He posted a 25992 record there with five berths in the state tournament. He was later hired as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Alabama. As an assistant, he went 158122. In 1996, he was the head baseball coach at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, where he went 276108.....
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James W Kynes
James Walter Kynes, Jr. , nicknamed Jimmy Kynes, was an American college and professional football player, lawyer, political appointee and corporate executive. Kynes also served as the Florida Attorney General.....
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Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet. He is known mainly on alto saxophone but also performs on soprano saxophone and flute.....
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Norman Thagard
Norman Earl Thagard , , is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first American cosmonaut. He did this on March 14, 1995 in the Soyuz TM21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir18 mission.....
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Oscar Polk
Oscar Polk was an American actor, best known for his portrayal as the servant Pork in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. His most memorable scene in that film comes when Pork discloses to Scarlett OHara, portrayed by Vivian Leigh, the back property taxes on Tara, are 300. On January 4, 1949, he was fatally struck by a taxi cab as he stepped off a curb in Times Square ten days after his 49th birthday. At the time of his death he was scheduled to have a major role in the play Leading Lady, and he ....
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Bill Montford
William Jonas Bill Montford III is a Democratic politician who serves as a member of the Florida State Senate, representing the 3rd District, which includes Calhoun County, Franklin County, Gadsden County, Gulf County, Hamilton County, Jefferson County, Leon County, Liberty County, Madison County, Taylor County, Wakulla County, since 2012, previously representing the 6th District from 2010 to 2012.....
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Charlie Flowers
Charlie Flowers was an American football player. He played for the Ole Miss Rebels of the University of Mississippi, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997. In December 1959, he was signed by the National Football Leagues New York Giants. However, in order to retain his eligibility to play in the Sugar Bowl, he requested to keep the contract a secret until January 2, 1960. Wellington Mara accepted this request and the team did not submit the contract to Pete Rozelle for ap....
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Ed Summerlin
Edgar Eugene Summerlin was an American composer, jazz saxophonist, and music educator, known for pioneering liturgical jazz, avantgarde jazz, and free jazz.....
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David Hart actor
David Hart is an American actor and singer best known for his portrayal of Sgt. Parker Williams on the smashhit television series In the Heat of the Night. He also appeared in numerous commercials including IHop Restaurants, Maxwell House Coffee, Coors Light Silver Bullets, John Deere, and GE. In addition, David has appeared in numerous films and continues to perform in theater around the country, most recently performing as Charlemagne in Pippin and Oscar in The Odd Couple.....
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Cliff Ellis
Robert Clifford Ellis is an American college basketball coach, currently the head coach at Coastal Carolina University. Going into the 20152016 season, Coach Elliss 692 NCAA Division I victories rank him 20th on the list of alltime career coaching victories in Division I basketball. With a victory over UNC Asheville on Feb. 3, 2015, Eliis became the only coach in NCAA Division I history to tally 150plus wins at four institutions. He was national coach of the year in 1999 at Auburn, when his Tig....
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Floyd Jones
Floyd Jones was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, who is significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after World War II. A number of his recordings are regarded as classics of the Chicago blues idiom, and his song On the Road Again was a top 10 hit for Canned Heat in 1968. Notably for a blues artist of his era, several of his songs have economic or social themes, such as Stockyard Blues , Hard Times and Schooldays.....
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Janis Owens
Janis Owens is an American author. She has written three novels and one cookbook. Her fourth novel is due in October, 2012, American Ghost.....
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