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]
- Jimmy Buffett (1946–2023), singer-songwriter, musician, author, actor, businessman[4]
- Truman Capote (1924–1984), novelist, screenwriter, playwright, actor [5]
- Eric Carle (1929–2021), children's book author and illustrator most famous for The Very Hungry Caterpillar[6]
- David Allan Coe (born 1939), musician[7]
- Tom Corcoran (1943–2023), author
- Sandy Cornish (1793–1869), farmer, businessperson, civic leader, former slave[8]
- Paul Cotton (1943–2021), musician
- John Dewey (1859–1952), philosopher, educational reformer, psychologist[9]
- John Dos Passos (1896–1970), novelist[10]
- Stepin Fetchit (1902–1985), vaudevillian, comedian, film actor[11]
- Mel Fisher (1922–1998), treasure hunter, best known for finding the 1622 wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha[12]
- Robert Fuller (born 1933), actor[13]
- Khalil Greene (born 1979), MLB shortstop
- Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), novelist, short-story writer, journalist, sportsman[14][15][16]
- Winslow Homer (1836–1910), landscape painter, printmaker[17]
- Mike Leach (1961-2022), college football coach [18]
- Alison Lurie (1926–2020), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, academic
- Stephen Mallory (1812–1873), U.S. senator[19]
- James Merrill (1926–1995), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- George Mira (born 1942), football player[20]
- Diana Nyad (born 1949), author, journalist, motivational speaker, long-distance swimmer; famous for being the first person to swim from Cuba to Key West, FL without the aid of a shark cage[21]
- Bettie Page (1923–2008), pin-up model[22]
- John Patterson (born 1967), MLB second baseman
- Quincy Perkins (born 1980), filmmaker[23]
- Boog Powell (born 1941), baseball player[24][25]
- David Robinson (born 1965), basketball player[26]
- Thomas Sanchez (born 1943), author
- Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), author, cartoonist and musician[27]
- 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[14]
- Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), orphan who became the fifth president of Georgia Institute of Technology, colonel, inventor
- Dick Vermeil (born 1936), former Super Bowl Champion NFL Coach[28]
- Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), author[15]
- Tony White (born 1979), defensive coordinator for the Nebraska Cornhuskers
- David Wolkowsky (1919–2018), real estate developer, preservationist[29]
- Stuart Woods (1938–2022), novelist[30]
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- ^ de León, Concepción (November 13, 2019). "Literary Nonprofit Buys Elizabeth Bishop's Key West Home". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
- ^ Pooley, Eric. "Still Rockin' In Jimmy Buffett's Key West Margaritaville." TIME. August 17, 1998.
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- ^ Sandra Brennan (1997). All Music Guide to Country. Michael Erlewine. pp. 95–96. ISBN 978-0-87930-475-1.
- ^ "Freed Slave Sandy Cornish Gets a Marker in Cemetery". South Florida Times. February 19, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
- ^ Psycopaedìa. Psicopolis.com
- ^ Dos Passos, John (1966). The best times: an informal memoir. New American Library.
- ^ Strausbaugh, John. "Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry." International Herald Tribune. December 12, 2005.
- ^ Pace, Eric. "Mel Fisher, 76, a Treasure Hunter Who Got Rich Undersea." The New York Times. December 21, 1998.
- ^ Collura, Joe (September 1, 2017). "Robert Fuller". Quad-City Times. Davenport, Iowa. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
- ^ a b Nickell, Patti. "Key West: The fun begins where the road ends." Lexington Herald-Leader. September 21, 2008.
- ^ a b "Key West fest honors Tennessee Williams." CNN. February 23, 2003.
- ^ "Key West: The Last Resort." TIME. February 19, 1979.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1939). Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 159. ISBN 9781603540094. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ^ "Ex-Texas Tech coach Mike Leach expects return to coaching". ESPN. March 18, 2010. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
- ^ Crankshaw, Joe. "Water District Chanded S. Florida." Miami Herald. September 29, 1985. Page 2TC.
- ^ Effrat, Louis. "Mira, Heralded Quarterback, Also Sought as Big League Pitcher; Miami star here for festivities All-America Back Puts Off Thoughts of Turning Pro to Finish College." The New York Times. December 7, 1962.
- ^ Alvarez, Lizette (September 2, 2013). "Nyad Completes Cuba-to-Florida Swim". The New York Times.
- ^ "Miss Key West Bettie Page".
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- ^ Distel, Dave. "Baseball Bat, Fishing Pole Both Valuable to Boog." Los Angeles Times News Service (via St. Petersburg Times.) August 15, 1970.
- ^ Burke, J. Wills. The Streets of Key West. Pineapple Press. 200.
- ^ Whiteside, Larry. "Taking center stage David Robinson has wasted no time in winning star status." The Boston Globe. January 12, 1990.
- ^ Blinckmann, Hays. https://keysweekly.com/42/shel-silversteins-home-destroyed/ "Keys Weekly." 28 September 2017.
- ^ Chris Tomasson. "Dick Vermeil led Eagles to first Super Bowl, hoping for different outcome on Sunday." Pioneer Press. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ "Real-Estate-Entrepreneur.com". July 14, 2012. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
- ^ Stuart Woods Official Website. stuartwoods.com Archived June 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine