Notable People from West Virginia

Alex Hawkins

American football player (1937–2017)

Anthony di Bonaventura

Music professor

Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

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

Walter Hough

American scientist (1859-1935)

Sam Barkley

19th century baseball player

Emarel Freshel

American designer and vegetarian activist

Charles Kenzie Steele

American civil rights activist (1914–1980)

Olivia A. Davidson

American educator (1854–1889)

Alice Mary Dowd

American educator, author, botanical collector (1855 - 1943)

Darrell McGraw

American politician (1936–2024)

Dick Brown

American baseball player

John B. Floyd

American lawyer and politician

Jack Glasscock

American baseball player (1857–1947)

Henry Bell Gilkeson

American politician, lawyer, school administrator, and banker (1850–1921)

Frank Coe

American outlaw (1851-1931)

Granville Stuart

American diplomat (1834-1918)

David Edward Jackson

American businessman

Andrew Delmar Hopkins

American entomologist (1857–1948)

Harrison C. Summers

American Army officer

Charley Harper

American Modernist artist (1922-2007)

Elliott Northcott

United States federal judge

Dick Justice

American musician

Joseph Duffey

American diplomat

Katherine Hoover

American flautist and composer (1937-2018)

John Moore

American politician and planter (1788-1867)

Edmund Burke Fairfield

American politician (1821–1904)

John Joseph Swint

American writer (1879-1962)

Larry Raines

American baseball player

E. T. Paull

American composer and publisher (1858-1924)

Louis L. Wilson Jr.

American general

Ralph E. Pomeroy

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

Lewis Lindsay Dyche

American naturalist, taxonomist and conservationist (1857-1915)

Robert DeProspero

US Secret Service agent (1938–2019)

Edwin Gray Lee

Confederate Army general (1836–1870)

Sam Wetzel

United States Army general

John O. Pendleton

American politician (1851–1916)

Willard Duncan Vandiver

American politician (1854-1932)

Thomas Larkin Thompson

American politician (1838–1898)

Clem L. Shaver

American politician

William B. Cornwell

American lawyer, businessperson, newspaper editor and publisher, and railroad and timber executive (1864-1926)

Harry Clay Smith

African American newspaper editor and politician (1863-1941)

Billy Scott

American R&B singer (1942–2012)

John Blackwell Hale

American politician (1831-1905)

Marshall Goldberg

American football player (1917-2006)

Andy Seminick

American baseball player and coach

Lawrence T. Neal

American politician (1844-1905)

Mack Yoho

American gridiron football player

Babe Barna

American baseball player

Bathsheba W. Smith

American Mormon leader (1822–1910)

Bernard P. Bell

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient