List of Famous People From West Virginia

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Below is a list of famous people from West Virginia.

Famous Athletes from West Virginia

Clair Bee, college basketball coach
Vern Bickford, baseball player
Terry Bowden, college football analyst and commentator
Tommy Bowden, college football coach
Rich Braham, football coach
George Brett, baseball player
Lew Burdette, baseball player
Jesse Burkett, baseball player
Necro Butcher, wrestler
Eddie Cameron, college basketball coach
Mark Canterbury, wrestler
Bimbo Coles, basketball player
Wilbur Cooper, baseball player
Larry Coyer, football coach
Mike D’Antoni, basketball player and coach
Jimbo Fisher, college football coach
Gene Freese, baseball player
O.J. Mayo, basketball player
Bill Mazeroski, baseball player
Leo Mazzone, baseball player
Seth McClung, baseball player
Renee Montgomery, women’s basketball player
Randy Moss, football player
Dustin Nippert, baseball player
Jamie Noble, wrestler
Kevin Pittsnogle, college basketball player
Mary Lou Retton, gymnast
Nick Saban, and college football coach
Tamar Slay, basketball player
Stephanie Sparks, golfer and commentator
Emanuel Steward, boxing trainer
Bill Stewart, current head football coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers
Nick Swisher, baseball player
Rick Tolley, college football coach
Rod Thorn, basketball player
Bill Walker , basketball player
Curt Warner, football player
Jerry West, basketball player
Deron Williams, basketball player
Jason Williams, basketball player
Steve Yeager, baseball player
Fielding H. Yost, college football coach

List of Famous Celebrities from West Virginia

Hasil Adkins, rockabilly musician
Michael Ammar, magician
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
Jean Carson, actress
Bernie Casey, actor
Ted Cassidy, actor
Larry Combs, clarinetist
Greg Dulli, Afghan Whigs singer
Conchata Ferrell, actress
Virginia Fox, silent film actress, frequent co-star of Buster Keaton
Jennifer Garner, actress
Larry Groce, musician, radio personality
Ed Haley, blind fiddler
Joshua Harto, actor
Steve Harvey, actor, stand-up comedian
Bruce Hornsby, singer/songwriter
Katie Lee Joel, TV host
Johnnie Johnson, blues musician
Daniel Johnston, musician, artist, subject of 2006 Sundance winning documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”
Lawrence Kasdan, movie director, producer, screenwriter
Jake E. Lee, rock guitarist; formerly w/ Ozzy Osbourne, Badlands
Kristi Lee, air personality/news director, The Bob and Tom Show
Karma to Burn, instrumental alt-metal band
Lesli Kay, soap actress who played Molly Conlan on As The World Turns, and now plays Felicia Forrester on The Bold And The Beautiful
Don Knotts, actor
Shannon Larkin, drummer for Godsmack, former Amen, Wrathchild America
Fred “Sonic” Smith, guitarist for the MC5
Connie Smith, country singer
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
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
Melvin Wine, fiddler
Bill Withers, singer and songwriter
J. T. Woodruff, Hawthorne Heights singer, songwriter, guitarist
Wrathchild America, a power/thrash metal band
Frankie Yankovic, polka musician

Famous Writers and Artists from West Virginia

Allen Appel, novelist
John Peale Bishop, poet and man of letters
Pearl S. Buck, writer and Nobel prize winner
Willa Cather, novelist
Stephen Coonts, novelist
Che Elias, author and poet
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
Ehrman Syme Nadal, author
Breece D’J Pancake, author
Roger Price, author, cartoonist, and humorist
Jedediah Purdy, author and professor
Mary Lee Settle, author
Beau Smith, comic book writer
Jean Edward Smith, biographer
David Hunter Strother
Timothy Truman, writer, artist, and musician
Jeannette Walls, author and columnist
Booker T. Washington, political leader, educator, and author

Famous Politicians from 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
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
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
Hulett C. Smith, politician
William E. Stevenson, politician
John Swan, politician
Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State
Charles Washington, statesman
Erik Wells, politician and news anchor
Bob Wise, politician

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