Notable People from West Virginia

John McKay

American football player and coach (1923-2001)

Ray Harm

American artist (1926-2015)

Andrew King

American politician, Democratic party member of the House of Representatives representing Missouri (1812-1895)

Lewis Steenrod

American politician (1810-1862)

Thomas Maley Harris

American general (1813–1906)

Doc Edwards

American baseball player and coach

Jesse Quinn Thornton

American politician (1810–1888)

Richard C. Meredith

Science Fiction Author (1937–1979)

Alex Hawkins

American football player (1937–2017)

M. Jeff Thompson

Missouri State Guard general (1826–1876)

Darrell McGraw

American politician (1936–2024)

Dick Brown

American baseball player

Edmund Burke Fairfield

American politician (1821–1904)

Joseph Duffey

American diplomat

Katherine Hoover

American flautist and composer (1937-2018)

Larry Raines

American baseball player

Charles Porterfield Krauth

American theologian

Ralph E. Pomeroy

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1930–1952)

Robert DeProspero

US Secret Service agent (1938–2019)

Sam Wetzel

United States Army general

Billy Scott

American R&B singer (1942–2012)

Walter Gwynn

Confederate Army general (1802–1882)

Mack Yoho

American gridiron football player

James Harper Godman

American politician in Ohio (1808-1891)

James M. Bobbitt

American chemist and professor

Benjamin Brice

United States Army Officer

Clyde See

American lawyer

Calvin Simon

American singer (1942–2022)

John F. Snodgrass

American politician (1804–1854)

Spike Maynard

American judge

Hugh Evans

American basketball referee and player

Jack Whittaker

American lottery winner (1947-2020)

Robert Dunnell

Evolutionary archaeologist and scientist (1942–2010)

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

James Pindall

American politician (1783-1825)

Carmel Bernon Harvey, Jr.

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

John Moore

American politician and planter (1788-1867)

Wylie Draper

American actor (1969-1993)

Emarel Freshel

American designer and vegetarian activist

Eric Moss

American football player (1974-2019)

Elliott Northcott

United States federal judge

Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

Farmer, amateur archaeologist and anthropologist, preserver of Native American culture, Native American Rights advocate (1860-1944)

Philander Chase Johnson

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

Clem L. Shaver

American politician

Lynn Hornor

American politician (1874-1933)

William Smith O'Brien

American politician, West Virginia (1862-1948)

Henry Swearingen

American politician (1792-1849)

Lenna Lowe Yost

American suffragist (1878-1972)

Fannie Smith Washington

American educator

Oscar Holmes

American pilot, chemist and lawyer (1916-2001)