Notable People from South Carolina

Sam Aleckson

Slave

James Thomas Harrison

American politician (1811-1879)

Ella Abomah Williams

African American performer

Thomas Caute Reynolds

American politician (1821–1887)

Logan Drake

American baseball player

Martin L. Hampton

American architect

Modjeska Monteith Simkins

African-American civil rights and public health

Norm McMillan

American baseball player

John Wood Lewis, Sr.

American politician (1801-1865)

Henry Doctor, Jr.

United States general (1932–2007)

John Kershaw

American politician (1765-1829)

William Bull

American politician, 1683-1755

John Doby Kennedy

Confederate Army general

Henry M. Hyams

American politician

William Steffe

American bookkeeper and insurance agent; credited with collecting and editing the musical tune for a camp-meeting song with the traditional "Glory Hallelujah"

Aaron Robinson

American professional baseball player (1915-1966)

Urylee Leonardos

Concert singer and co-founder of the Rose McClendon Players. (1910-1986)

Thomas Neville Waul

American lawyer and politician (1813–1903)

William F. Colcock

American politician (1804–1889)

Robert Friend

American pilot (1920-2019)

Webster Anderson

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1933–2003)

Robert T. Ashmore

American politician (1904-1989)

John Jenrette

American politician (1936–2023)

William James Rivers

American classical philologist and historian

Robert O. Perrin

American physician (1823−1878)

William Haskell Coffin

American artist (1878–1941)

Adley H. Gladden

American general (1810-1862)

Frazelia Campbell

American classical scholar, daughter of Frederick and Julia Swartz Campbell

James Byeram Owens

American politician (1816-1889)

Jacob E. Smart

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

John Salmon Ford

Confederate Army officer

A. Viola Neblett

American temperance activist, suffragist (1842-1897)

Zachariah Cantey Deas

Confederate Army general (1819–1882)

Henry Augustus Middleton Smith

U. S. Federal judge (1853-1924)

Joseph Henderson

American harbor pilot (1826-1890)

Henry Lee Moon

American journalist (1901–1985)

Mabel Walker

American-Bahamian suffragist

Michael P. O'Connor

American politician (1831-1881)

Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell

American politician (1830-1917)

Newton A. McCully

United States admiral

Aubrey Newman

United States Army general (1903–1994)

Ben Robertson

American writer

Bernard L. Austin

United States Navy admiral

James Akin

American cartoonist

Bobo Newsom

American baseball player (1907-1962)

Henry Clay Goodwin

American musician (1910-1979)

Ed Durham

Major League Baseball pitcher

Harry Byrd

American baseball player (1925–1985)

Francis A. Cunningham

American politician (1804–1864)

Johnson Hagood

United States Army general (1873-1948)