Notable People from West Virginia

Jesse Quinn Thornton

American politician (1810–1888)

Lenna Lowe Yost

American suffragist (1878-1972)

Edward Lucas

American politician (1780-1858)

M. Jeff Thompson

Missouri State Guard general (1826–1876)

John McKay

American football player and coach (1923-2001)

Robert Edward Cox

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1876–1937)

Earl Lemley Core

American botanist (1902–1984)

William Smith O'Brien

American politician, West Virginia (1862-1948)

Alexander W. Monroe

American schoolteacher, farmer, lawyer, surveyor, military officer, politician, newspaper editor and newspaper publisher, Confederate States Army officer, and Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates

J. R. Clifford

American lawyer (1848-1933)

James Edward Young

American physicist

Herbert Stephenson Boreman

United States federal judge

Ray Harm

American artist (1926-2015)

Don McKay

American actor (1925-2018)

A. C. Schiffler

American politician (1889-1970)

Charles Porterfield Krauth

American theologian

Walter C. Sweeney Jr.

United States general (1909–1965)

Walter Gwynn

Confederate Army general (1802–1882)

Oscar Lambert

American football and baseball player (1890-1970)

James Pindall

American politician (1783-1825)

Lee King

American baseball player

Robert Dunnell

Evolutionary archaeologist and scientist (1942–2010)

Andrew Edmiston, Jr.

American politician (1892-1966)

Jim Aiken

American football player and coach, basketball coach (1899-1961)

Charlie Brown

(1922-2008) United States Air Force pilot

Titus Pankey

American physicist (1925–2003)

Kenneth Keller Hall

United States federal judge (1918-1999)

Granville D. Hall

American writer; 2nd Secretary of State of West Virginia

Lynn Hornor

American politician (1874-1933)

John Jay Jackson Jr.

United States federal judge (1824–1907)

Harry J. Capehart

American lawyer, politician, and businessperson

Fannie Smith Washington

American educator

Paul Peck

American aviator (1889-1912)

James Harper Godman

American politician in Ohio (1808-1891)

Ellen Aline Fenner

American botanist (1889-)

Jeanne Hines

American writer (1922–2014)

Roy Harvey

American old time guitar player, singer, and songwriter (1892–1958)

William L. Goggin

Confederate Army officer (1807-1870)

May H. Gilruth

20th century artist (1885-1962)

Eugenia Washington

American historian and civil servant (1838-1900)

Benjamin Brice

United States Army Officer

Annie E. Hoyle

American artist and botanical illustrator

John F. Snodgrass

American politician (1804–1854)

Russ Bailey

American football player (1897-1949)

Doc Edwards

American baseball player and coach

Henry Clay Caldwell

United States federal judge

Clarence Garrett

American baseball player

Nicholas E. Worthington

American politician

Philander Chase Johnson

American journalist, poet, and lyricist (1866–1939)

Billy Edd Wheeler

American songwriter, performer, writer, and visual artist