Candas Dorsey -- Canadian poet and science fiction novelist

Thomas A. Dorsey -- gospel music musician

Jimmy Dorsey -- jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and big band leader

Tommy Dorsey -- jazz trombonist in the Big Band era

Decatur Dorsey -- American Civil War hero

Lee Dorsey -- African-American pop singer of the 1960's

Hugh Manson Dorsey -- Democrat; Governor of Georgia

Dorsey, Maryland

Stephen Wallace Dorsey -- Republican; U.S. Senator from Arkansas

George Washington Emery Dorsey -- Republican; U.S. Representative from Nebraska

John Lloyd Dorsey, Jr. -- Democrat; Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Kentucky

Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey -- Democrat; Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania

Don Dorsey -- American musician, engineer, and show designer

Clement Dorsey -- Maryland state house of delegates; Maryland state senate; U.S. Representative from Maryland

Dean Dorsey -- Mayor of Corvallis, Oregon

Ken Dorsey -- quarterback on the NFL's Cleveland Browns

Michael K. Dorsey -- American public intellectual, writer and scholar; Former Sierra Club Board member

Sherry Dorsey -- Atlanta City Councilwoman representing District 5, defeated 2001, wife of former DeKalb County, Georgia sheriff Sidney Dorsey.

Sidney Dorsey -- Served as sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia from 1996 to 2000, convicted of the 2000 murder of his successor, sheriff-elect Derwin Brown

Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, CA