List of people from Raleigh, North Carolina

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This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with Raleigh, North Carolina.

Academia[]

Daniel McFadden
James E. Shepard
  • Carrie Lougee Broughton (1879–1957), librarian and first woman State Librarian
  • John Chavis (1763–1838), African-American educator and theologian; early integrationist (Raleigh's Chavis Park is named for him)
  • Anna J. Cooper (1858–1964), author, educator and scholar; fourth African-American woman to earn doctoral degree (in 1924)
  • Phillip Griffiths, mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry
  • John E. Ivey, Jr., educator and founder of Southern Regional Education Board; co-creator of Peace Corps
  • Daniel McFadden, economist
  • Michael Munger, economist, Duke University political science professor
  • Mary Jane Patterson, first African-American women to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree
  • Tom Regan, philosopher and animal-rights advocate
  • Vermont C. Royster (1914–1996), managing editor of Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer Prize winner, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • James E. Shepard, pharmacist, civil servant and educator, the founder of what would become North Carolina Central University
  • Blake R Van Leer, university president, dean of NC State University, inventor and civil rights advocate
  • James W. York, mathematical physicist; recipient of Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics from American Physical Society

Arts[]

  • Juliana Royster Busbee (died 1962) and Jaques Busbee (died 1947), artists and founders of Jugtown Pottery
  • Paul Friedrich, visual artist and cartoonist
  • Herb Jackson, painter
  • Rachel Nabors, gURL.com graphic designer
  • Martha Nichols, choreographer and dance instructor
  • Mel Tomlinson, ballet and modern dancer
  • Lea Ved, dancer and choreographer

Athletes[]

Chris Archer
Darrius Barnes
Pete Maravich
Webb Simpson
John Wall
Carson Wentz

Business[]

Louis Bacon
  • Louis Bacon, hedge fund manager
  • Jim Baen (1943–2006), science fiction writer; founded his own publishing house, Baen Books, in 1983
  • Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer of the popular Xbox 360 game Gears of War and co-founder of Boss Key Productions
  • Anderson Boyd, filmmaker
  • Needham B. Broughton, printer, temperance activist, and state senator
  • E. Lee Hennessee, pioneer hedge fund manager[11]
  • Richard Jenrette, chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and international philanthropist, awarded French Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honor) in 1996
  • Jesse Lowe, first mayor of Omaha, Nebraska; an important real estate agent in the early city, Lowe is credited with naming the city after the Omaha Tribe[12]
  • Anand Lal Shimpi, employee of Apple Inc. and former CEO of AnandTech[13]
  • Hubertus van der Vaart, co-founder/chairman of SEAF (Small Enterprise Assistance Funds)[14]

Entertainment[]

Michael C. Hall
Emily Procter
Evan Rachel Wood
  • Tyler Barnhardt, actor
  • Priscilla Block, singer
  • David J. Burke, screenwriter, film and television director
  • Godfrey Cheshire III, film writer, director and critic, former chairman of New York Film Critics Circle Awards
  • Grady Cooper, director, producer, and Emmy nominated film editor
  • Aubrey Dollar, actress
  • Caroline Dollar, actress
  • Rhoda Griffis, actress
  • Michael C. Hall, actor, Dexter, Six Feet Under
  • MrBeast, famous YouTuber
  • Lauren Kennedy, Broadway actress and singer
  • Sharon Lawrence, actress, NYPD Blue
  • Beth Leavel, Tony award-winning Broadway actress
  • Brandi Love, pornography actress[15]
  • Robert Duncan McNeill, actor, movie and TV director
  • Daniella Monet, actress, singer and dancer
  • Karin Muller, writer, filmmaker and photographer for National Geographic Society and National Public Radio
  • Emily Procter, actress, CSI: Miami
  • Peyton Reed, film director, Ant-Man, The Break-Up, Bring It On
  • Hunter Schafer, model, actress, activist, Euphoria
  • Amy Sedaris, actress, writer and satirist
  • Liz Vassey, actress, CSI
  • Reginald VelJohnson, actor (part-time resident)
  • Evan Rachel Wood, actress, Westworld
  • Ira David Wood III, actor and local theatre director
  • Reginald VelJohnson, actor, Family Matters

Military[]

Oscar F. Peatross

Musicians[]

Clay Aiken
Tift Merritt
  • Ryan Adams, singer-songwriter
  • Clay Aiken, singer/actor
  • Jeb Bishop, jazz musician
  • Dan Briggs, bassist for metal band Between the Buried and Me
  • Andrew Cadima, composer
  • Jason Michael Carroll, country musician
  • Caitlin Cary, alternative country singer
  • Travis Cherry, Grammy-nominated music producer
  • John Custer, record producer
  • Steve Dobrogosz, pianist and composer
  • Robbie Fulks, alt country singer
  • Rajan Somasundaram, Composer, Songwriter whose album made in collaboration with Durham Symphony and Academy nominated singer Bombay Jayashri became an Amazon Top#10 International Best seller [17]
  • Rufus Harley (1936–2006), jazz musician
  • D. Kern Holoman, musicologist and conductor
  • Randy Jones (born 1952), original Village People cowboy, singer/actor
  • Jon Lindsay, recording artist, producer, activist
  • Little Brother, rap group
  • Tift Merritt, singer-songwriter
  • Pee Wee Moore, jazz musician
  • Mic Murphy, frontman for funk/soul group The System, moved to New York before career took off[18]
  • Tyler Marenyi, aka NGHTMRE, DJ and trap producer
  • Anne-Claire Niver, singer-songwriter
  • Petey Pablo, hip-hop artist
  • Kate Rhudy, folk-pop and country singer-songwriter and musician
  • Blake Richardson, drummer for metal band Between the Buried and Me
  • Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr., lead vocalist for heavy metal band Between the Buried and Me
  • Paul Waggoner, guitarist for metal band Between the Buried and Me
  • Dustie Waring, guitarist for metal band Between the Buried and Me
  • Woody Weatherman, musician

Bands and music groups[]

Politics and law[]

Andrew Johnson
  • William H. Bobbitt (1900–1992), former Chief Justice of North Carolina Supreme Court
  • Alice Willson Broughton (1889–1980), former First Lady of North Carolina
  • J. Melville Broughton (1888–1949), former Governor of North Carolina
  • Bill Campbell, two-term mayor of Atlanta
  • Ralph Campbell, three-term State auditor and first African-American to hold statewide elected office in North Carolina
  • Paul Coble, 36th Mayor of Raleigh (2006–2014)
  • Cate Edwards, attorney
  • Stormie Forte, lawyer, politician, radio host, and first African-American woman and first openly LGBTQ woman to serve on the Raleigh City Council
  • Jim Fulghum (1944–2014), physician and state legislator
  • James H. Harris (1832–1891), African-American politician, former slave, co-founder of North Carolina Republican Party
  • Winder R. Harris (1888–1973), Democratic United States Congressman
  • John Haywood, statesman and the longest-serving North Carolina State Treasurer (40 years)
  • William Henry Haywood, Jr. (1801–1852), early Democratic U.S. Senator
  • Jesse Helms (1921–2008), five-term Republican U.S. Senator
  • George Holding, Republican United States Congressman[19]
  • Andrew Johnson (1808–1875), 17th President of the United States
  • Calvin Jones (1775–1846), Mayor of Raleigh, Adjutant General of North Carolina, and founder of Wake Forest College[20]
  • I. Beverly Lake, former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
  • Clarence Lightner (1921–2002), mayor (1973–1975); Raleigh's first popularly elected African-American mayor and first of any major Southern city
  • Greg Murphy, physician and politician
  • Fred Smith, politician
  • Avery C. Upchurch (1928–1994), city's longest-serving mayor of 20th Century
  • George Smedes York, 33rd Mayor of Raleigh (1979–1983)
  • James H. Young, African-American politician; founder and editor of Raleigh Gazette, North Carolina's first black-owned newspaper

Writers[]

  • Edward A. Batchelor, sportswriter
  • Andrew Britton (1981–2008), novelist
  • Jonathan W. Daniels (1902–1981), author, editor; White House Press Secretary under presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
  • Thomas Dixon, Jr. (1864–1946), novelist, playwright, minister and statesman
  • Charles Frazier, novelist, author of Cold Mountain
  • Kaye Gibbons, writer
  • Katherine Indermaur, writer, poet, editor
  • Mary Robinette Kowal, author
  • Eleanor Frances Lattimore, children's writer and illustrator
  • Dorianne Laux, poet
  • Armistead Maupin, writer
  • Frances Gray Patton (1906–2000), writer, first woman to enroll at University of North Carolina
  • David Sedaris, author, humorist and satirist
  • Lawson A. Scruggs, early African-American physician in North Carolina and noted publisher of biographies on African-American women
  • Lee Smith, writer
  • Jan Cox Speas, author and novelist
  • Julia Montgomery Street (1898–1993), children's author and playwright

Other[]

  • Jennifer Berry, Miss America 2006 from Oklahoma
  • Bob Caudle, longtime WRAL news personality and host of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, later headed the Raleigh constituent office of U.S. Senator Jesse Helms
  • John Anthony Copeland, Jr. (1834–1859), freed slave, abolitionist and political activist
  • James A. Forbes, evangelist preacher, radio host
  • Jacob Johnson, father of U.S. president Andrew Johnson
  • Betsy Newmark, conservative columnist, political blogger and commentator
  • Ray Price, motorcyclist
  • Olivia Raney, church organist
  • Jacob Tobia, LGBTQ activist
  • Max Yergan, African-American activist, first black college faculty member hired in state of New York

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  14. ^ Bert van der Vaart. SEAF. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
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