Meadowlark Lemon

Meadow George Lemon III, known professionally as Meadowlark Lemon, was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister, born April 25, 1932, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and died December 27, 2015. He attended Williston Industrial School in Wilmington, graduating in 1952, and afterward matriculated at Florida A&M University. He was soon drafted into the United States Army and served two years in Austria and West Germany.

For 22 years Lemon was the featured performer of the touring Harlem Globetrotters, where he was known as the team's "Clown Prince." He legally changed his name to Meadowlark Lemon in 1969. He also worked as an actor.

Lemon was ordained in 1986. In 1994 he founded Meadowlark Lemon Ministries in Scottsdale, Arizona.

In 2003 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.