Notable People from Virginia

Peter Hansborough Bell

American military officer and politician who served as the third Governor of Texas (1810-1898)

Eppa Hunton

U.S. Representative and Senator from Virginia and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War

William Meade Fishback

American politician (1831-1903)

George Washington Custis Lee

Confederate Army general (1832-1913)

Frederick Benteen

Union United States Army officer (1834–1898)

Joseph W. Fifer

American politician (1840-1938)

J. Hamilton Lewis

American politician (1863–1939)

Thomas Armat

American cinematographer (1866–1948)

John Stone Stone

American electrical engineer (1869–1943)

Edward Almond

United States Army general (1892–1979)

Albert Cabell Ritchie

American politician (1876-1936)

Joseph Harvey Riley

American ornithologist (1873-1941)

E. Alyn Warren

actor (1874-1940)

Phyllis Gordon

actress (1889-1964)

Douglas Southall Freeman

American journalist (1886–1953)

Patrick Henry Bruce

American artist (1881-1936)

Leonard T. Gerow

United States Army general (1888-1972)

Thomas Bahnson Stanley

American politician (1890-1970)

Vera Reynolds

American actress (1899-1962)

Martha Dodd

American journalist, novelist and spy for the Soviet Union (1908–1990)

Clarice Taylor

actress (1917–2011)

Camilla Williams

American operatic soprano (1919-2012)

John Kirby

American lawyer (1939-2019)

Anita Carter

American singer (1933–1999)

Walter Davis

American pianist (1932-1990)

Wilson Lumpkin

American politician (1783-1870)

George Madison

American politician (1763-1816)

Christopher Greenup

American politician (1750-1818)

James Clark

American politician (1779-1839)

Gabriel Slaughter

American politician (1767-1830)

William Cabell Rives

American politician (1793–1868)

Edward Coles

2nd governor of Illinois (1786-1868)

Gabriel

American enslaved person

Henry Tazewell

American politician (1753-1799)

William Branch Giles

American politician (1762-1830)

John Mitchell

colonial American doctor and botanist (1711-1768)

Robert C. Nicholas

American politician (1757-1856)

Francis Lightfoot Lee

American politician (1734-1797)

Thomas Walker Gilmer

American politician (1802-1844)

Louisa Ann Swain

American voter

Henry S. Foote

American politician (1804-1880)

Richard W. Thompson

American politician (1809-1900)

J. W. Flanagan

American politician (1805-1887)

Thomas Swann

American politician (1809-1883)

Isaac R. Trimble

Confederate Army general (1802–1888)

James W. Denver

American politician and Union Army General (1817–1892)

John S. Carlile

American politician (1817-1878)

Wilmer McLean

American businessman, involved in the American Civil War (1814-1882)

Robert E. Rodes

Confederate Army general (1829-1864)

Turner Ashby

Confederate Army general (1828–1862)