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Two of the biggest celebrity names that have ever called the Clarksville area home are both remembered for being trailblazing women in sports.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph and Patricia Susan (Head) Summitt pioneered and championed their respective sports of women s track and field and women s basketball. They became influential not only within the sporting arena, but throughout humanity.
They are joined on this group of famous people with ties to Clarksville by a U.S. Army sergeant who appeared on televisions across the country in the 1960s, a homesick soldier at then-Camp Campbell who drew images of fellow soldiers during World War II and a groovy former resident of Clarksville s east end.