Notable People from West Virginia

A. C. Schiffler

American politician (1889-1970)

Roy Harvey

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

James Harper Godman

American politician in Ohio (1808-1891)

Russ Bailey

American football player (1897-1949)

Clarence Garrett

American baseball player

John A. Field Jr.

United States federal judge (1910-1995)

Carmel Bernon Harvey, Jr.

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

Earl Lemley Core

American botanist (1902–1984)

Jean Lee Latham

American children's writer (1902–1995)

Leonard D. Heaton

United States general (1902-1983)

Quinn McNemar

American statistician (1901–1986)

Edward Earle Purinton

American businessman

Walter C. Sweeney Jr.

United States general (1909–1965)

William Flanagan

American football player (1901-1975)

Tommy Benford

American jazz drummer (1905–1994)

William Gordon Mathews

American politician, judge, lawyer

William Eli Baker

United States federal judge (1873-1954)

Robert Edward Cox

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

Benjamin Brice

United States Army Officer

David Lynn

American architect

Dick Justice

American musician

Hugh S. Jenkins

American attorney general (1903-1976)

James Dixon Williams

American film producer

Julia Davis Adams

American author (1900-1993)

Lenna Lowe Yost

American suffragist (1878-1972)

Kenneth Keller Hall

United States federal judge (1918-1999)

Louis L. Wilson Jr.

American general

Marshall Goldberg

American football player (1917-2006)

Lynn Hornor

American politician (1874-1933)

Philander Chase Johnson

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

Billy Moore

American musician and pianist

William A. Ryan

American politician in Michigan (1919-2001)

Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

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

Emarel Freshel

American designer and vegetarian activist

Elliott Northcott

United States federal judge

Clem L. Shaver

American politician

William Smith O'Brien

American politician, West Virginia (1862-1948)

Fannie Smith Washington

American educator

Lloyd Hartman Elliott

former President of George Washington University (1918–2013)

Annie E. Hoyle

American artist and botanical illustrator

Charles Kenzie Steele

American civil rights activist (1914–1980)

Wylie Draper

American actor (1969-1993)

Harrison C. Summers

American Army officer

Walter Hough

American scientist (1859-1935)

Sam Barkley

19th century baseball player

Babe Barna

American baseball player

Bernard P. Bell

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

Bob Adkins

American football back, defensive lineman, linebacker, offensive lineman (1917-1997)

Bob Hoffman

American football player (1917-2005)

Eugenia Price

American writer (1916-1996)