player in the National Football League (NFL) Bette Greene - CHS ’52; author “Summer of My German Soldier” Kemmons Wilson - founder of Holiday Inn Charles W. Burson - CHS '62; legal counsel and chief of staff to Vice-President Al Gore George Barnes alias Machine Gun Kelly Terry Manning - music producer, photographer William Sanderson - CHS ’62; "Larry" on the Newhart show John Farris - CHS ’55; author “Harrison High”, a fictional account of Central High John S. Bull - CHS '52, NASA Astronaut Group 5 selected in 1966. William G. Leftwich, Jr. - Marine killed in Vietnam William F. Barnes - football coach at UCLA Peter Taylor - short-story writer and novelist Lester Hudson - professional basketball player William Poduska - CHS '55; electrical engineer, businessman, and professor Edward L. Stanton III - United States Attorney & federal judicial nominee Margaret Valiant - musician, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and activist Jon Wells - CHS '76; alias "Thunder Paws", former drummer for Black Oak Arkansas (recorded on Ready As Hell) Key Glock- CHS '15; music artist and rapper signed to Paper Route Empire Pooh Shiesty - CHS '18; rapper and music artist Natalie Jackson - CHS '78; (a.k.a. Kudisan Kai) background vocalist for Elton John, Natalie Cole, and others References External links CHS History Public high schools in Tennessee School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Schools in Memphis, Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Memphis, Tennessee 1909 establishments in Tennessee