List of people from Key West, Florida

Vic Albury (1947–2017), Major League Baseball pitcher
Bronson Arroyo (born 1977), MLB baseball player^[1]
John James Audubon (1785–1851), naturalist, painter, ornithologist^[2]
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), poet, short-story writer^[3]
Truman Capote (1924–1984), novelist, screenwriter, playwright, actor ^[4]
Eric Carle (1929–2021), children's book author and illustrator most famous for The Very Hungry Caterpillar^[5]
David Allan Coe (born 1939), musician^[6]
Tom Corcoran (1943–2023), author
Sandy Cornish (1793–1869), farmer, businessperson, civic leader, former slave^[7]
Mark Gormley (1957–2024), musician
Paul Cotton (1943–2021), musician
John Dewey (1859–1952), philosopher, educational reformer, psychologist^[8]
John Dos Passos (1896–1970), novelist^[9]
Stepin Fetchit (1902–1985), vaudevillian, comedian, film actor^[10]
Mel Fisher (1922–1998), treasure hunter, best known for finding the 1622 wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha^[11]
Robert Fuller (born 1933), actor^[12]
Khalil Greene (born 1979), MLB shortstop
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), novelist, short-story writer, journalist, sportsman^[13]^[14]^[15]
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), landscape painter, printmaker^[16]
Mike Leach (1961–2022), college football coach ^[17]
Alison Lurie (1926–2020), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, academic
Stephen Mallory (1812–1873), U.S. senator^[18]
James Merrill (1926–1995), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
George Mira (born 1942), football player^[19]
Diana Nyad (born 1949), author, journalist, motivational speaker, long-distance swimmer; famous for being the first person to swim from Cuba to Key West without the aid of a shark cage^[20]
Bettie Page (1923–2008), pin-up model^[21]
John Patterson (born 1967), MLB second baseman
Quincy Perkins (born 1980), filmmaker^[22]
Boog Powell (born 1941), baseball player^[23]^[24]
David Robinson (born 1965), basketball player^[25]
Thomas Sanchez (born 1943), author
Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), author, cartoonist and musician^[26]
Shane Spencer (born 1972), MLB outfielder
Randy Sterling (born 1951), MLB pitcher
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Keith Strickland (born 1953), musician, songwriter, founding member of The B-52s
Michel Tremblay (born 1942), Canadian playwright
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), U.S. president^[13]
Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), fifth president of Georgia Institute of Technology, colonel, inventor
Dick Vermeil (born 1936), former Super Bowl Champion NFL Coach^[27]
Tony White (born 1979), defensive coordinator for the Nebraska Cornhuskers
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), author^[14]
David Wolkowsky (1919–2018), real estate developer, preservationist^[28]
Stuart Woods (1938–2022), novelist^[29]

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