• George T. Tucker, Sr.—Pioneer in local telephone business, who built his system into one of this region’s largest enterprises
   
• Washington A. Huggins—early postmaster and rock-ribbed Republican orator of the old school
   
• Burwell L. Wilson—extensive landowner of Salem and one of the South’s most astute businessmen
   
• William N. O’Neal—Innkeeper, whose fabulous food at the Hotel Dixie won acclaim of guests from the far corners and who served the nation’s press on a 24-hour basis during the Floyd Collins tragedy
   
• Miss Mary Piatt-- Scion of the gently aristocratic French Huguenot Piatts of Woodland
   
• Rev. W. J. Puckett—Baptist theologian of great depth who pastored the local Baptist Church and many other charges in this area
   
• Laura Love Cornelius—Artistic millinery creations made her the Sally Victor of her day
   
• Edwin T. Ford—Merchant and politician whose alliances brought Cave City its concrete streets and other advances
   
• Ed and Dan S. Curd—Dry goods merchants and forerunners of the modern department store and other well known figures in the mercantile business, J. Cope Walton, Henry and Will Reynolds, C. M. and J. D. Reynolds, W. R. Handy
   
• Preston Leslie Terry, Sr.—Long time police judge and able counselor
   
• William Yancey Handy—US Commissioner and lawyer
   
• James Schuyler “Barney” Hawkins opened the first bakery in 1926
   
• Samuel Davis Caldwell, Sr. was the first person to be made a Mason in Cave City Lodge #790
   
• Ray Scott, a Cave City Resident and noted photographer for Mammoth Cave National Park and the National Park Concessions, was director of the state of Kentucky Travel Division and later Executive Assistant to the Commissioner when the Travel Division became the Department of Tourism
   
• Frank Hickey, world champion wrestler, spent his last years living in Cave City
   
• President Ronald Reagan visited Mammoth Cave National Park, and the Cave City Volunteer Fire Department was honored to be selected as the fire and rescue on the scene during his visit
   
• Actress Lily Tomlin is a cousin to Cave City resident, Mary Lou Ford and visited Cave City often
   
• Don Lafferty was a five time world checker champion
   
• Lloyd M. Greene was state senator and Grand Master of the Kentucky Masonic Lodge
   
• Bobbe Gorin “Beegie” Long Adair was a noted jazz pianist
   
• Lee Carroll was a member of the Exile Band and the Judd’s Band
   
• Cave City has had four major league baseball players: Robert Dennis “Denny” Doyle, Brian Doyle, Blake Doyle, and Joe Earl Campbell
   
• Kenny Sidwell was an All American Basketball Player
   
• Oscar Sullivan of Lonzo and Oscar fame retired in Cave City and opened Singing Hills Campground
   
• Jolly’s Restaurant was a popular dining establishment where the following dined: Minnie Pearl, Carl Smith and his wife June Carter, Ken Griffin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hank Williams, Patsy cline, Fred Waring and his band, Actress Joan Caulfield
   
• Other celebrity visitors to Cave City: Vice President Alben Barkley, known as one of the best hog callers in KY; Robert Penn Warren, Poet and novelist “All the King’s Men”; Fran Tarkenton, NFL Football Hall of Fame and author; Texas John Slaughter, Sheriff of Cochise County, in 1886; Ralph Waldo Emberson, American Author, poet and philosopher; entertainers Flatt and Scruggs; Emperor of Brazil, Don Pedro; Singer and actress Bette Midler and the famous opera singer Jenny Lind
   
• Grand Ole Opry performers The Carter Family performed on top of Twin City Drive-in
   
• The Davieses, Caldwells, Dickeys, Dukes, Jollys and others

Excerpts taken from articles by Joe Lafferty, Adrian Gossett, Seaborn Elzey and The Glasgow Times

Revised August 2004 by Linda Jolly Hunt