Biographical Records
Notable People from West Virginia
795 notable figures born in West Virginia, showing page 5 of 16, ranked by historical prominence.
Robert Drasnin
1927 – 2015
film score composerconductorcomposer
Marshall Hawkins
1924 – 2010
basketball player
John Kee
1874 – 1951
politicianlawyer
Harlan James Smith
1924 – 1991
astronomer
Leon Sullivan
1922 – 2001
religious leadersocial activisthuman rights defender
Samuel Lewis Hays
1794 – 1871
politician
Gray Barker
1925 – 1984
ufologist
Reuben Lindsay Walker
1827 – 1890
civil engineerfarmermilitary personnel
Bob Mollohan
1909 – 1999
politician
Art Simmons
1926 – 2018
jazz musicianmusicianpianist
Alberta Gallatin
1861 – 1948
stage actorfilm actoractor
Bernard William Schmitt
1928 – 2011
Catholic bishopCatholic priest
Thomas F. Mulledy
1794 – 1860
academic administratorCatholic priest
Bob Wilson
1926 – 2014
basketball player
Homer A. Holt
1898 – 1975
politicianlawyer
Okey L. Patteson
1898 – 1989
politician
Herman G. Kump
1877 – 1962
bankerpoliticianlawyer
Israel C. White
1848 – 1927
botanistuniversity teachergeologist
Ray Wetzel
1924 – 1951
trumpeterjazz musicianmusician
Red Sovine
1917 – 1980
country musiciansongwritersinger
Francis Wheeler Loomis
1889 – 1976
physicist
Stephen Ailes
1912 – 2001
lawyer
Thomas W. Bennett
1947 – 1969
military personnel
J. Roy Hunt
1884 – 1972
cinematographer
Anna Fitziu
1887 – 1967
opera singermusic educatorvoice teacher
John Weakland
1919 – 1995
anthropologistpsychotherapist
Hugh Aynesworth
1931 – 2023
journalistwriter
Hazel Dickens
1935 – 2011
musiciansinger
Enoch J. Rector
1863 – 1957
film directorinventorcinematographer
Pattie Ruffner Jacobs
1875 – 1935
suffragist
John J. Davis
1835 – 1916
politicianlawyer
Eugene McLanahan Wilson
1833 – 1890
politicianlawyer
James Brackenridge Clemens
1825 – 1867
lepidopteristzoologist
John P. Lucas
1890 – 1949
military officer
William Thomas Bland
1861 – 1928
politicianlawyerjudge
Walter Dean Myers
1937 – 2014
young adult authornovelistchildren's writer
John G. Hutchinson
1935 – 2024
military officerpolitician
Stuart F. Reed
1866 – 1935
editorpoliticianlawyer
Jerome Cady
1903 – 1948
screenwriter
Garland Wilson
1909 – 1954
jazz musicianpianistmusician
Guy Edgar Campbell
1871 – 1940
politician
William Hoffman
1925 – 2009
novelistjournalistwriter
Thomas Jesup
1788 – 1860
military personnel
John P. C. Shanks
1829 – 1901
military officerpoliticianlawyer
Robert Graetz
1928 – 2020
activist
Willard Preble Hall
1820 – 1882
juristgovernorpolitician
Dick Mehen
1922 – 1986
basketball player
Hunter Holmes Moss, Jr.
1874 – 1916
politicianlawyerjudge
William W. Chapman
1808 – 1892
journalistpoliticianlawyer
Bernard H. Hyman
1897 – 1942
producerfilm producerfilm director