List of people from West Virginia This is a list of prominent people from the territory that now makes up the U.S. state of West Virginia. Contents Athletics Business Entertainment Frontiersmen Journalism Literature & Art Military Politics & Government Religion Science Other References AthleticsEdit George Brett Jesse Burkett Necro Butcher Mike DAntoni Jason Kincaid Randy Moss Mary Lou Retton Nick Swisher Randy Barnes (b. 1966), shotputter, born in Charleston Larry Barnett (b. 1945), professional baseball umpire, born in Nitro Clair Bee, college basketball coach Vern Bickford, professional baseball player Terry Bowden, college football analyst and commentator Tommy Bowden, college football coach Brian Bowles, UFC/MMA fighter Rich Braham, professional football coach George Brett, professional baseball player Vicky Bullett, professional womens basketball player Lew Burdette, professional baseball player Jesse Burkett, professional baseball player Necro Butcher, professional wrestler Eddie Cameron, college basketball coach Mark Canterbury, professional wrestler Bimbo Coles, professional basketball player Wilbur Cooper, professional baseball player Larry Coyer, professional football coach Dan DAntoni, college basketball coach Mike DAntoni, professional basketball player and coach Jack Dempsey, professional boxer Jimbo Fisher, college football coach Gene Freese, professional baseball player Bob Gain, professional football player Frank Gatski, professional football player Hal Greer, professional basketball player Cam Henderson, college football, basketball, and football coach Lou Holtz, college football coach Jeff Hostetler, professional football player J. R. House, professional baseball and football player Chuck Howley, professional football player Sam Huff, professional football player Bob Huggins, college basketball coach Hot Rod Hundley, professional basketball player and broadcaster Gary Jeter, professional football player Dwayne Jones, professional basketball player Jason Kincaid, professional wrestler[1] John Kruk, professional baseball player Doug Legursky, professional football player Gino Marchetti, professional football player Chris Massey, professional football player O.J. Mayo, professional basketball player Bill Mazeroski, professional baseball player Leo Mazzone, professional baseball player Seth McClung, professional baseball player John McKay, college and professional football coach Renee Montgomery, professional womens basketball player Randy Moss, professional football player Dustin Nippert, professional baseball player Jamie Noble, professional wrestler (WWE) Patrick Patterson, professional basketball player Joe Pettini, professional baseball coach Kevin Pittsnogle, college basketball player Paul Popovich, professional baseball player Mary Lou Retton, professional gymnast Nick Saban, professional and college football coach Ben Schwartzwalder, Hall of Fame college football coach Heath Slater, professional wrestler (WWE) Tamar Slay, professional basketball player Stephanie Sparks, professional golfer and commentator Emanuel Steward, boxing trainer Bill Stewart, ex. head football coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers Nick Swisher, professional baseball player Rick Tolley, college football coach Rod Thorn, professional basketball player Bill Walker, professional basketball player Curt Warner, professional football player Jerry West, professional basketball player Deron Williams, professional basketball player Jason Williams, professional basketball player Kayla Williams, world champion gymnast[2] Alex Wilson, professional baseball player Hack Wilson, professional baseball player Steve Yeager, professional baseball player Fielding H. Yost, college football coach BusinessEdit Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems William Luke, businessman and entrepreneur George Preston Marshall, owner and president of the Washington Redskins William N. Page, civil engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, businessman, and industrialist Milan Puskar, entrepreneur, philanthropist, co-founder of Mylan Inc. Alex Schoenbaum, founder of Shoneys restaurant chain Harry F. Sinclair, industrialist Ellsworth Milton Statler, hotel businessman Rod Thorn, president of the NBAs Philadelphia 76ers Clarence Wayland Watson, businessman Allen Harvey Woodward, industrialist EntertainmentEdit Hasil Adkins Brad Dourif SykoCutter Katie Lee Joel Brad Paisley Hasil Adkins, rockabilly musician Michael Ammar, magician SykoCutter , Rapper, Musician Samuel Ball, actor Charlie Barnett, actor and comedian Lina Basquette, actress Leon Chu Berry, jazz saxophonist Chris Booker, radio DJ and TV personality Byzantine, progressive extreme metal band Bobby Campo, actor Jean Carson, actress Bernie Casey, actor Ted Cassidy, actor Joe Cerisano, singer, songwriter Michael Cerveris, actor, singer, songwriter Larry Combs, clarinetist Wilma Lee Cooper, country/bluegrass singer Stoney Cooper, country/bluegrass singer John Corbett, actor Billy Cox, bassist George Crumb, composer Joyce DeWitt, actress, Threes Company Little Jimmy Dickens, country singer, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Hazel Dickens, bluegrass singer Brad Divens, vocalist and bassist for Wrathchild America, guitarist for Kix Paul Dooley, actor, writer and comedian Brad Dourif, actor Joanne Dru, actress Greg Dulli, Afghan Whigs singer Virginia Egnor, aka Dagmar, actress, pin-up model, TV personality Conchata Ferrell, actress Virginia Fox, silent film actress, frequent co-star of Buster Keaton Jennifer Garner, actress Randy Gilkey, singer, songwriter Kristen Ruhlin, actress Larry Groce, musician, radio personality Ed Haley, blind professional fiddler Joshua Harto, actor Steve Harvey, actor, standup comedian, TV personality Katie Lee Joel, TV host Johnnie Johnson, blues musician Daniel Johnston, musician, artist, subject of Sundance-winning documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston Lawrence Kasdan, movie director, producer, screenwriter Fuzzy Knight, actor Don Knotts, actor Jake E. Lee, rock guitarist, formerly with Ozzy Osbourne, Badlands Kristi Lee, TV personality, director, The Bob and Tom Show Karma to Burn, instrumental alt-metal band Lesli Kay, actress, played Molly Conlan on As The World Turns and Felicia Forrester on The Bold And The Beautiful Don Knotts, actor Shannon Larkin, drummer for Godsmack, former Amen, Wrathchild America Russ McCubbin, actor, stuntman, comedian Ann Magnuson, actress Peter Marshall, musician and TV personality, host of Hollywood Squares 1966-1981 Kathy Mattea, country and bluegrass performer Charlie McCoy, musician Garnet Mimms, soul singer Tim OBrien, bluegrass musician Devon Odessa, film producer, actress, My So-Called Life Brad Paisley, country singer and songwriter Wilber Pan, singer, rapper and actor Sam Pancake, actor Squire Parsons, gospel singer Johnny Paycheck, country musician Rachel Proctor, country singer and songwriter Walter E. Jack Rollins, songwriter Soupy Sales, actor and comedian Frank Poncho Sampedro, musician, guitarist for Neil Youngs band Crazy Horse Chris Sarandon, actor, activist Scenes from a Movie, a Charleston-based pop-punk band David Selby, actor Robert R. Shafer, actor Bill Slater, radio personality, sportscaster, host of game show Twenty Questions Fred Sonic Smith, guitarist for the MC5 Connie Smith, country singer, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Michael W. Smith, Contemporary Christian singer, songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist Red Sovine, country singer Morgan Spurlock, independent film director and screenwriter Blaze Starr, stripper and burlesque star Aaron Staton, actor, Mad Men Sam Trammell, actor, True Blood Teddy Weatherford, jazz pianist Patty Weaver, actress Donald Ray White, mountain dancer Jesse Jesco White, mountain dancer Steve Whiteman, former Kix singer Garland Wilson, jazz pianist Melvin Wine, fiddler Bill Withers, singer and songwriter J. T. Woodruff, Hawthorne Heights singer, songwriter, guitarist Wrathchild America, a power/thrash metal band Bobby Wright, country singer, son of Kitty Wells and Johnny Wright Frankie Yankovic, polka musician Josh Stewart, actor FrontiersmenEdit Patrick Gass, frontiersman Morgan Morgan, frontiersman Lewis Wetzel, frontiersman JournalismEdit J. R. Clifford, journalist, first African American lawyer in West Virginia, founder of The Pioneer Press George Esper. newspaper reporter, known for his coverage of the Vietnam War for the Associated Press John S. Knight, newspaper publisher and editor Hoda Kotb, television reporter, host of Today. Molly Line, news correspondent for Fox News Channel Herbert Morrison, radio reporter, known for his dramatic coverage of the Hindenburg disaster Asra Nomani, Indian-American journalist, author, and feminist Mike Patrick, sportscaster Michael Tomasky, newspaper writer and editor Carter G. Woodson, historian, author, and journalist Literature & ArtEdit Stonewall Jackson Booker T. Washington Allen Appel, novelist John Peale Bishop, poet and man of letters Pearl S. Buck, writer and Nobel prize winner Bob Carroll, historian, author Stephen Coonts, novelist Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author, educator, and scholar Denise Giardina, author Linda Goodman, poet, novelist, best-selling astrology writer Davis Grubb, novelist Homer Hickam, writer John Knowles, novelist Brooke McEldowney, cartoonist, creator of 9 Chickweed Lane comic strip. Ehrman Syme Nadal, author Breece DJ Pancake, acclaimed short fiction writer, author of Trilobites Roger Price, author, cartoonist, and humorist. Creator of Mad Libs and Droodles. Jedediah Purdy, author and professor Mary Lee Settle, author Beau Smith, comic book writer Jean Edward Smith, biographer David Hunter Strother (aka Porte Crayon), artist Timothy Truman, writer, artist, and musician Jeannette Walls, author and columnist Booker T. Washington, political leader, educator, and author MilitaryEdit Chuck Yeager John James Abert, explorer and soldier Earl E. Anderson, United States Marine Corps general John Ashby, frontiersman and soldier Woodrow Wilson Barr, United States Marine Ruby Bradley, most decorated woman in United States military history Frank Buckles, last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I French Ensor Chadwick, naval officer and educator Lynndie England, U.S. Army reservist involved in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal Stonewall Jackson, soldier and teacher Albert G. Jenkins, general and politician Jonah Edward Kelley, US Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient Edwin Gray Lee, Confederate general Carwood Lipton, US Army soldier John P. Lucas, American general, commander at Anzio Jessica Lynch, prisoner of war Basil L. Plumley, Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army William E. Shuck, Jr., U.S. Marine, Medal of Honor recipient Hershel W. Williams, U.S. Marine, Medal of Honor recipient John Yarnall, U.S. Navy officer Chuck Yeager, aviation legend Politics & GovernmentEdit Robert C. Byrd Jay Rockefeller Cyrus Vance Further information: List of Governors of West Virginia Newton D. Baker, politician William Wallace Barron, politician John J. Beckley, frontiersman and Librarian of Congress Ephraim Bee, frontiersman and politician Charles Bent, frontiersman and politician Arthur I. Boreman, politician Sylvia Mathews Burwell, politician Harry F. Byrd, politician Robert Byrd, U.S. Senate majority leader, longest-serving member in history of the United States Congress. Gaston Caperton, politician Shelley Moore Capito, politician Thomas R. Carper, economist and politician John J. Cornwell, politician Henry G. Davis, politician John W. Davis, politician and attorney, Democratic Party nominee for U.S. President - 1924 Stephen Benton Elkins, politician Walter Lowrie Fisher, United States Secretary of the Interior Mark Funkhouser, politician, Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri William E. Glasscock, politician Nathan Goff, Jr., politician Howard Mason Gore, politician Henry D. Hatfield, politician Ken Hechler, politician and author John J. Jacob, politician Elizabeth Kee, politician John E. Kenna, politician Chief Logan, Native American leader William A. MacCorkle, politician Joe Manchin, politician William C. Marland, politician Arch A. Moore, Jr., politician Dwight Morrow, businessman, politician, diplomat; father-in-law of Charles Lindbergh Matthew M. Neely, politician Bob Ney, politician Okey L. Patteson, politician Francis Harrison Pierpont, politician and Father of West Virginia Nick Rahall, politician Jennings Randolph, politician Absalom Willis Robertson, politician Jay Rockefeller, politician Rick Santorum, politician Hulett C. Smith, politician William E. Stevenson, politician Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State Charles Washington, statesman Erik Wells, politician and news anchor Bob Wise, politician ReligionEdit Alexander Campbell, Restoration Movement leader Matthew W. Clair, Methodist Episcopal Church bishop T. D. Jakes, televangelist B. R. Lakin, evangelist ScienceEdit Eugene Aserinsky, discovered REM sleep Maurice Brooks, ornithologist Homer Hickam, former NASA engineer Mahlon Loomis, inventor of the wireless telegraph Jon McBride, NASA astronaut, pilot of Challenger mission STS 41-G Adrian Melott, physicist and cosmologist George A. Miller, psychologist and cognitive scientist John Forbes Nash, mathematician James Rumsey, inventor and mechanical engineer Charles Marstiller Vest, educator and mechanical engineer OtherEdit Belle Boyd James J. Andrews, espionage agent Bill Blizzard, labor leader Julia Bonds, environmental activist, winner of Goldman Prize Belle Boyd, espionage agent Larry Gibson, environmental activist, founder of Keeper of the Mountains Foundation Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln and relative of actor Tom Hanks Devil Anse Hatfield, Hatfield-McCoy feud Sid Hatfield, Matewan police chief, prominent figure in labor history Jacob and Samuel Hawken, designers of the Hawken rifle Glen and Bessie Hyde, disappeared raftsmen John Henry, the steel driving man of folklore Julia Neale Jackson, mother of Stonewall Jackson Anna Jarvis, founder of Mothers Day Mary Harris Mother Jones, labor and community organizer Randal McCloy, lone survivor of the 2006 Sago Mine disaster Patsy Paugh Ramsey, former Miss West Virginia and mother of slain beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey Walter Reuther, labor leader Cecil Roberts, United Mine Workers president Harry Randall Truman, volcano victim, owner of Spirit Lake Lodge at Mount St. Helens Jack Whittaker, lottery winner
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