Notable People from Virginia

James William Marshall

American politician (1822-1910)

Bernadotte Everly Schmitt

American historian (1886–1969)

David Meriwether

American politician and lawyer (1800-1893)

Thomas Watkins Ligon

American politician (1810-1881)

Edward James Gay

American politician (1816-1889)

James F. Trotter

American politician (1802-1866)

Waller Taylor

American politician

Benjamin Prentiss

American lawyer and military officer (1819–1901)

Suzanne Whang

American actress (1962–2019)

William Terry

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

Chris Ayres

American actor

Ben Chafin

American politician

Frances Parkinson Keyes

American novelist, memoirist, biographer

Claudia Emerson

American academic, writer and poet

Moses Jacob Ezekiel

American sculptor (1844-1917)

Dorothy B. Porter

American librarian (1905-1995)

Thomas ap Catesby Jones

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

Hamilton Rowan Gamble

American jurist and politician (1798–1864)

Charles Tait

American politician (1768-1835)

Albertis Harrison

American politician (1907-1995)

Kenny Easley

American football player (1959–2025)

Elbert Lee Trinkle

American politician (1876-1939)

Philip W. McKinney

American politician (1832-1899)

Ronald Jensen

American logician

Perry Moore

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

Cliff Gallup

American guitarist (1930–1988)

Charles A. Lockwood

United States admiral

James Wood

governor (1741-1813)

Nell Blaine

American artist (1922-1996)

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)

John Catron

United States federal judge

Alexander McNutt

Mississippi Governor (1802-1848)

Isham Talbot

American politician (1773–1837)

Wilford Leach

American film director (1929–1988)

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.

John Nathaniel Couch

American mycologist (1896–1986)

Ora Washington

American tennis player (1898–1971)

Chris Drake

American actor (1923-2006)

Bayard Taylor Horton

American physician (1895-1980)

Josiah T. Walls

American politician (1842-1905)

Meredith Miles Marmaduke

American politician (1791-1864)

Thomas S. Bocock

American politician (1815-1891)

Joseph Reid Anderson

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

Tommy Edwards

American singer, songwriter (1922–1969)

William M. Bass

American forensic anthropologist

Douglas Evans

American actor (1904-1968)

Abner Lacock

American politician (1770–1837)