List of Famous people born in Dothan, United States of America

Donna Jeanette D'Errico is an American actress and model. She posed for Playboy as its Playmate of the Month for September 1995 and had a starring role (1996-1998) on the television series Baywatch. She is of Italian descent. She continues to act in films and on television.

Matthew Thomas Cain, nicknamed The Horse, Big Daddy, and Big Sugar, is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the San Francisco Giants from 2005 to 2017. A two-time World Series champion and a three-time All-Star, he is widely regarded as a central figure of the Giants' success in the 2010s for his pitching and leadership.

James Hubert Farmer is a retired American professional basketball player who was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the 1987 NBA draft. Farmer, a 6'4" 190 lb small forward, played for the Mavericks, Utah Jazz, Seattle SuperSonics, Philadelphia 76ers, and Denver Nuggets in 5 NBA seasons. His best stint as an NBA player was during the 1990-91 season when he appeared in 25 games for the Nuggets and averaged 10.0 ppg. He was recently arrested in a TBI sting operation for soliciting sex from an underaged female officer working undercover. The crime is a felony human trafficking crime in Tennessee. Charges are still pending.

Kenneth Milton Grimwood was an American author, who also published work under the name of Alan Cochran. In his fantasy fiction, Grimwood combined themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concepts, themes found in his best-known novel, Replay (1986). It won the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

William Joseph Baxley II, is an American Democratic politician and attorney from Dothan, Alabama.

John Brown was an American college football player and film actor billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career. He was mostly in Western films.