Notable People from Virginia

Richard K. Call

Floridan politician (1792-1862)

Nell Blaine

American artist (1922-1996)

John Nathaniel Couch

American mycologist (1896–1986)

James Wood

governor (1741-1813)

Bayard Taylor Horton

American physician (1895-1980)

William Lewis Cabell

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

Chris Drake

American actor (1923-2006)

Alexander Campbell

American Republican politician

John E. Colhoun

American politician (1749-1802)

Isham Talbot

American politician (1773–1837)

John Botts

American politician (1802-1869)

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.

Emmett Reid Dunn

American zoologist (1894–1956)

Douglas Evans

American actor (1904-1968)

William M. Bass

American forensic anthropologist

Hilary Teague

Liberian politician (1802–1853)

Meredith Miles Marmaduke

American politician (1791-1864)

Tommy Edwards

American singer, songwriter (1922–1969)

Diana Adams

American ballerina and ballet teacher (1926-1993)

Ward Hill Lamon

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

Robert M. Patton

American politician (1809-1885)

Virginia Minor

United States suffragist (1824-1894)

Wilford Leach

American film director (1929–1988)

Blair Niles

American writer, explorer and photographer (1880-1959)

Abner Lacock

American politician (1770–1837)

Frankie Muse Freeman

American lawyer

Hardy Cross

American engineer (1885–1959)

Lewis R. Bradley

American politician (1805-1879)

Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.

American chemist (1929–1997)

Armistead Thomson Mason

American politician (1787-1819)

Clara Brown

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

Matthew Talbot

American politician (1762-1827)

John Graham

diplomat, born 1774

William Alexander Harris

American politician (1841-1909)

Leah Ray

singer (1915-1999)

Robert Williams Daniel

American politician (1884–1940)

Walter Gresham

American lawyer and politician (1841-1920)

Thomas Lincoln

father of Abraham Lincoln (1778–1851)

Noah Noble

American politician (1794-1844)

Freeman Walker

American politician (1780–1827)

Joel Broyhill

Virginia politician (1919-2006)

Samuel Adams

Arkansas politician (1805-1850)

Texas Jack Omohundro

American army scout, cowboy and actor (1846–1880)

Mary Howe

American composer and pianist (1882–1964)

Thomas Jordan

Confederate Army general (1819–1895)

Richard Barnes Mason

United States general (1797–1850)

William Short

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

Mary Johnston

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

Walter T. Colquitt

American politician

Rosser Reeves

American advertising executive (1910-1984)