Notable People from Virginia

Bill Dudley

American football player (1921-2010)

Archibald Henderson

United States Marine Corps Commandant (1783-1859)

Edward Lamar Johnstone

American actor (1884-1919)

Thomas Watkins Ligon

American politician (1810-1881)

Frances Parkinson Keyes

American novelist, memoirist, biographer

David Meriwether

American politician and lawyer (1800-1893)

Edward James Gay

American politician (1816-1889)

John Page

American politician (1743-1808)

Benjamin Prentiss

American lawyer and military officer (1819–1901)

James F. Trotter

American politician (1802-1866)

William Terry

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

Suzanne Whang

American actress (1962–2019)

Moses Jacob Ezekiel

American sculptor (1844-1917)

Perry Moore

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

Dorothy B. Porter

American librarian (1905-1995)

Ben Chafin

American politician

Waller Taylor

American politician

Charles Tait

American politician (1768-1835)

Claudia Emerson

American academic, writer and poet

Chris Ayres

American actor

Albertis Harrison

American politician (1907-1995)

Elbert Lee Trinkle

American politician (1876-1939)

Kenny Easley

American football player (1959–2025)

Thomas ap Catesby Jones

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

Hamilton Rowan Gamble

American jurist and politician (1798–1864)

John A. Bennett

American soldier and rapist (1935-1961)

Ora Washington

American tennis player (1898–1971)

William Frank Newton

American musician (1906–1954)

John Motley Morehead

American politician (1796-1866)

Cliff Gallup

American guitarist (1930–1988)

Hugh Ike Shott

newspaper editor, radio and TV broadcaster, politician (1866–1953)

Charles A. Lockwood

United States admiral

Richard K. Call

Floridan politician (1792-1862)

Moncure Daniel Conway

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

Crawford Howell Toy

American biblical and Hebrew scholar (1836–1919)

Nell Blaine

American artist (1922-1996)

Noah Haynes Swayne

American jurist (1804–1884); US Supreme Court justice from 1862 to 1881

James Wood

governor (1741-1813)

Alexander Campbell

American Republican politician

John Nathaniel Couch

American mycologist (1896–1986)

Chris Drake

American actor (1923-2006)

Alexander McNutt

Mississippi Governor (1802-1848)

John Catron

United States federal judge

Wilford Leach

American film director (1929–1988)

John E. Colhoun

American politician (1749-1802)

Isham Talbot

American politician (1773–1837)

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)

Meredith Miles Marmaduke

American politician (1791-1864)