Notable People from Virginia

Perry Moore

American author, screenwriter and film director (1971–2011)

Waller Taylor

American politician

Thomas Watkins Ligon

American politician (1810-1881)

David Meriwether

American politician and lawyer (1800-1893)

Edward James Gay

American politician (1816-1889)

Benjamin Prentiss

American lawyer and military officer (1819–1901)

Thomas ap Catesby Jones

naval officer from Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States (1790-1858)

Suzanne Whang

American actress (1962–2019)

Ben Chafin

American politician

James F. Trotter

American politician (1802-1866)

Dorothy B. Porter

American librarian (1905-1995)

Chris Ayres

American actor

William Terry

American politician, lawyer, teacher, and soldier (1824-1888)

Claudia Emerson

American academic, writer and poet

Frances Parkinson Keyes

American novelist, memoirist, biographer

Moses Jacob Ezekiel

American sculptor (1844-1917)

Kenny Easley

American football player (1959–2025)

Hamilton Rowan Gamble

American jurist and politician (1798–1864)

Charles Tait

American politician (1768-1835)

Elbert Lee Trinkle

American politician (1876-1939)

Albertis Harrison

American politician (1907-1995)

Philip W. McKinney

American politician (1832-1899)

Freeman Gosden

actor, comedian (1899-1982)

Ronald Jensen

American logician

Edith Taliaferro

American actress (1894–1958)

Moncure Daniel Conway

American abolitionist minister and radical writer. (1832–1907)

Crawford Howell Toy

American biblical and Hebrew scholar (1836–1919)

Alexander Campbell

American Republican politician

John E. Colhoun

American politician (1749-1802)

Alexander McNutt

Mississippi Governor (1802-1848)

Chris Drake

American actor (1923-2006)

John Catron

United States federal judge

John Nathaniel Couch

American mycologist (1896–1986)

Isham Talbot

American politician (1773–1837)

Wilford Leach

American film director (1929–1988)

Bayard Taylor Horton

American physician (1895-1980)

John Harvie

United States Founding Father. He signed the Articles of Confederation, served as mayor of Richmond, Virginia, and cast an electoral vote for George Washington.

Josiah T. Walls

American politician (1842-1905)

Thomas S. Bocock

American politician (1815-1891)

Tommy Edwards

American singer, songwriter (1922–1969)

Joseph Reid Anderson

American civil engineer, industrialist, and soldier (1813-1892)

William M. Bass

American forensic anthropologist

Douglas Evans

American actor (1904-1968)

Emmett Reid Dunn

American zoologist (1894–1956)

Peter Early

American politician (1773-1817)

John Graham

diplomat, born 1774

William Lewis Cabell

14th, 16th and 20th mayor of Dallas (1827–1911)

Armistead Thomson Mason

American politician (1787-1819)

Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.

American chemist (1929–1997)

Matthew Talbot

American politician (1762-1827)