Notable People from Virginia

James Wood

governor (1741-1813)

Nell Blaine

American artist (1922-1996)

John Nathaniel Couch

American mycologist (1896–1986)

Charles A. Lockwood

United States admiral

William Lewis Cabell

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

Alexander Campbell

American Republican politician

Cliff Gallup

American guitarist (1930–1988)

Teresa Lewis

American murderer (1969–2010)

Isham Talbot

American politician (1773–1837)

Bayard Taylor Horton

American physician (1895-1980)

Wilford Leach

American film director (1929–1988)

Chris Drake

American actor (1923-2006)

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 Botts

American politician (1802-1869)

Meredith Miles Marmaduke

American politician (1791-1864)

Hilary Teague

Liberian politician (1802–1853)

Tommy Edwards

American singer, songwriter (1922–1969)

William M. Bass

American forensic anthropologist

John Catron

United States federal judge

Robert M. Patton

American politician (1809-1885)

Ward Hill Lamon

bodyguard of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln (1828–1893)

Virginia Minor

United States suffragist (1824-1894)

Douglas Evans

American actor (1904-1968)

Abner Lacock

American politician (1770–1837)

Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.

American chemist (1929–1997)

Hardy Cross

American engineer (1885–1959)

Frankie Muse Freeman

American lawyer

Diana Adams

American ballerina and ballet teacher (1926-1993)

Lewis R. Bradley

American politician (1805-1879)

Clara Brown

American formerly enslaved person, community leader, philanthropist (1800–1885)

Blair Niles

American writer, explorer and photographer (1880-1959)

Armistead Thomson Mason

American politician (1787-1819)

Harrison H. Riddleberger

American politician (1844-1890)

Peter Early

American politician (1773-1817)

Walter Gresham

American lawyer and politician (1841-1920)

William Alexander Harris

American politician (1841-1909)

Thomas Lincoln

father of Abraham Lincoln (1778–1851)

Robert Williams Daniel

American politician (1884–1940)

Leah Ray

singer (1915-1999)

John Graham

diplomat, born 1774

Joel Broyhill

Virginia politician (1919-2006)

Samuel Adams

Arkansas politician (1805-1850)

Richard Barnes Mason

United States general (1797–1850)

Mary Howe

American composer and pianist (1882–1964)

Noah Noble

American politician (1794-1844)

Thomas Jordan

Confederate Army general (1819–1895)

Noah Haynes Swayne

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

Freeman Walker

American politician (1780–1827)

Mary Johnston

American novelist and women's rights advocate (1870-1936)

William Short

1759–1849 Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789, later ambassador