Notable People from Virginia

Harrison H. Riddleberger

American politician (1844-1890)

Robert Williams Daniel

American politician (1884–1940)

Matthew Talbot

American politician (1762-1827)

William Alexander Harris

American politician (1841-1909)

Walter Gresham

American lawyer and politician (1841-1920)

Armistead Thomson Mason

American politician (1787-1819)

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.

Richard Bland Lee

American politician

Thomas Lee

Virginia colonist (1690-1750)

Albert Rust

American politician (c. 1818-1870)

Eli H. Janney

American mechanical engineer (1831–1912)

Charlotte Zolotow

author (1915–2013)

Ruth Stone

American poet (1915–2011)

Thomas Brown

American politician who served as Florida's second Governor (1785-1867)

John R. Chambliss

Confederate Army general (1833-1864)

Don Bexley

American actor (1910-1997)

Robert Carter I

American politician (1663-1732)

John Parke Custis

American politician (1754-1781)

Tucker McGuire

British actress (1913–1988)

Thomas Rolfe

Son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe

Kevin Grubb

American racing driver (1978–2009)

Rudi Johnson

player of American football

Leanza Cornett

American beauty pageant contestant

James T. Jones

American politician (1832-1895)

Charles Milton Bell

American photographer (1848–1893)

Gladys Blake

American actress (1910-1983)

Heather Heyer

American paralegal, activist and murder victim

Nathaniel Claiborne

American politician (1777-1859)

Tuck Tucker

American animator, storyboard artist, and screenwriter

William Atkinson Jones

American politician (1849–1918)

Jethro Sumner

American Continental Army officer (c1733–c1785)

Benjamin Logan

American politician

Watkins Moorman Abbitt

American politician (1908-1998)

John Hartman

American drummer (1950–2021)

Alpheus P. Hodges

American politician

Nicholas Trist

American diplomat (1800-1874)

Catesby ap Roger Jones

United States Navy officer (1821–1877)

Joe Garland

American musician (1903-1977)

Charles S. Fairfax

American politician (1829-1869)

Henry Creamer

American popular song lyricist (1879–1930)

Marshall Carter

lieutenant general in the United States Army (1909-1993)

John Albert Broadus

American pastor and theologian (1827–1895)

John Wilson Campbell

Ohio congressman and U.S. federal judge (1782-1833)

Samuel Augustus Merritt

American politician in California, Utah and Idaho

Wendell Cushing Neville

United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient and 14th Commandant of the Marine Corps

C. Bascom Slemp

American politician (1870-1943)

Jimmy Archey

American musician (1902–1967)

Jim Moody

American politician (1935-2019)

Owen B. Pickett

American politician (1930-2010)

Richard Marshall

United States Army general (1895-1973)