From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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
Renaldo Kuhler , scientific illustrator for the
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Rachel Nabors , gURL.com graphic designer
Martha Nichols , choreographer and dance instructor
Hunter Schafer , model and actress.
Mel Tomlinson , ballet and modern dancer
Lea Ved , dancer and choreographer
Ariana DeBose , actor and dancer
Athletes
Chris Archer
Darrius Barnes
Pete Maravich
Webb Simpson
John Wall
Carson Wentz
Nazmi Albadawi , professional
soccer player
Loy Allen Jr. ,
NASCAR
Cup Series driver
Chris Archer ,
MLB pitcher for
Pittsburgh Pirates
Hannah Aspden , youngest swimmer on Team USA to medal at either the Olympics or Paralympics in 2016
[1]
John Baker Jr. (1935–2007),
National Football League athlete and longtime Wake County
sheriff
Scott Bankhead , MLB player and pitcher for
Team USA in the 1984 Olympic Games
Darrius Barnes ,
Major League Soccer (MLS) player for
New England Revolution
Bates Battaglia ,
NHL player, played for
Carolina Hurricanes 1997–2003
Braxton Berrios ,
NFL wide receiver
[2]
Rod Brind'Amour , NHL player, former Carolina Hurricanes player and current head coach
Bucky Brooks , former NFL athlete
Willie Burden , professional
Canadian football player with
Calgary Stampeders of
Canadian Football League
Everett Case (1900–1966),
NC State University men's basketball coach, member of N.C. Sports Hall of Fame and
College Basketball Hall of Fame
Isadora Cerullo , Olympic rugby player for Brazil; graduated from
Enloe High School
Bill Cowher , former professional
American football coach and player
Randy Denton , NBA player
Ike Delock , Major League Baseball player
James L. Dickey III (born 1996), basketball player for
Hapoel Haifa of the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Donald Evans , former NFL
defensive end
Ron Francis , NHL player (
Carolina Hurricanes ) 1998–2004, member of
Hockey Hall of Fame
David Fox ,
Olympic gold medalist in
swimming
Jeff Galloway , Olympic
long-distance runner and author
Justin Gatlin , Olympic
sprinter
Michael Gracz , professional poker player
T. J. Graham , NFL wide receiver with
New York Jets
Brian Gutekunst , NFL scout with
Green Bay Packers
Chesson Hadley , professional golfer
Josh Hamilton , Major League Baseball player
Hardy Boyz ,
Matt Hardy and
Jeff Hardy , professional wrestlers
[3]
Antwan Harris , NFL player for
New England Patriots '
Super Bowl team
Leroy Harris , NFL player for
Tennessee Titans
Bret Hedican ,
NHL player, played for Carolina Hurricanes 2001–2008
Gregory Helms ,
professional wrestler with
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
Anne Henning , Olympic
speed skater , 1972 gold and bronze medalist
Ryan Jeffers , MLB player
[4]
Curt Johnson , professional soccer player
Marion Jones , disgraced Olympic track athlete
Craig Keith , NFL player
Chad Larose ,
NHL player, played for Carolina Hurricanes 2005–2013
Roy Lassiter , professional soccer player for
D.C. United and
United States men's national soccer team
Pete Maravich (1947–1988), Hall of Fame basketball player; attended high school in Raleigh
[5]
Bruce Matthews , former NFL player for Tennessee Titans; 14-time
Pro Bowl participant,
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
Daniel McCullers , NFL defensive lineman
[6]
Nate McMillan , NBA player and head coach of
Atlanta Hawks
Richard Medlin , NFL player
Ben Youssef Meite , sprinter, 3-time African champion in 100m
Jackie Moreland (1938–1971), pro basketball player
Kevin "PPMD" Nanney , professional Super Smash Bros. player
Chuck Nevitt , NBA player
Caleb Norkus , professional soccer player
Bob Perryman , NFL player for New England Patriots and
Denver Broncos
Brandon Phillips , second baseman for
Atlanta Braves ,
Cincinnati Reds
Landon Powell , MLB player (
Oakland Athletics )
Shavlik Randolph , NBA player (
Philadelphia 76ers )
Greg Raymer , professional poker player
Shawan Robinson , professional basketball player with
Newcastle Eagles in the
British Basketball League
Randolph Ross , track athlete,
2020 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x400m relay
[7]
Anthony Rush , NFL player for the
Atlanta Falcons
Paul Shuey , MLB pitcher
Webb Simpson ,
PGA Tour golfer
Isaiah Todd , NBA G-League player
Leigh Torrence , NFL player with
Washington Redskins
P. J. Tucker (born 1985), NBA player and 2008
Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
[8]
Jim Valvano (1946–1993),
NC State University men's basketball coach, 1983
NCAA champion, TV commentator
John Wall , NBA player for
Houston Rockets
[9]
Pat Watkins , MLB outfielder
Carson Wentz , quarterback for NFL's
Indianapolis Colts
[10]
Chris Wilcox , NBA athlete
Kristi Yamaguchi , Olympic
figure skater , married to
Bret Hedican
Danny Young ,
NBA player
Kay Yow (1942–2009), NC State University women's basketball coach, member of
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Duane Underwood Jr. , Professional baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates
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 , 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
Evan Rachel Wood , actress,
Westworld
Ira David Wood III , actor and local theatre director
Reginald VelJohnson , actor,
Family Matters
Ariana DeBose , actor and dancer,
West Side Story ,
Hamilton (musical)
Military
Oscar F. Peatross
David W. Bagley (1883–1960),
admiral in the
United States Navy during
World War II
Worth Bagley (1874–1898), United States Navy officer during the
Spanish–American War
Josephus Daniels (1862–1948), newspaper editor and publisher, United States
Secretary of the Navy during
World War I
George A. Fisher Jr. (born 1942), former
United States Army officer
Vernon V. Haywood (1920–2003), former
U.S. Army Air Force officer, combat fighter pilot/jet pilot, and commanding officer of
Tuskegee Airmen 's
302nd Fighter Squadron
[16]
Oscar F. Peatross (1916–1993),
major general in the
United States Marine Corps and recipient of the
Navy Cross
Leonidas Polk (1806–1864),
lieutenant-general in the
Confederate States Army ,
killed at the
Battle of Marietta ,
Georgia
Millie Dunn Veasey (1918–2018), served in the
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and later
NAACP president of Wake County chapter
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
Cordae , hip-hop artist
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
Toosii , rapper and singer
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
Alesana , post-hardcore band
American Aquarium ,
alternative country band
Between the Buried and Me ,
progressive metal band
Bowerbirds ,
freak folk band
Chatham County Line ,
bluegrass band
Corrosion of Conformity ,
heavy metal band
Daylight Dies ,
doom metal band
Pivot , rock band
Selah Jubilee Singers , 1930s–40s
gospel quartet
The Connells , 1980s
indie rock band
The Rosebuds ,
indie rock band
Troop 41 , hip-hop ensemble
Whiskeytown , 1990s
alternative country band
Glass Moon , 1980's progressive rock band
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
Charles D. Walton (born 1948), first African American to serve in the
Rhode Island Senate
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
T. Adelaide Goodno , president, North Carolina
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Jacob Johnson , father of U.S. president
Andrew Johnson
Cornelia Alice Norris , socialite and genealogist
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
References
^
Hannah Aspden - Team USA . Retrieved December 2, 2020.
^
Braxton Berrios Stats . Pro-Football-Reference . Retrieved December 2, 2020.
^ Paltrowitz, Darren (July 8, 2020).
"AEW's Matt Hardy on living in North Carolina his whole life and whether he plans on writing a second book (Exclusive)" . Sportskeeda.com . Retrieved September 15, 2021 .
^
Ryan Jeffers Stats . Baseball-Reference . Retrieved December 2, 2020.
^ Stevens, Tim (March 28, 2010).
"Pistol on the court; shy boy a–courtin' " . The News & Observer. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
^
Daniel McCullers Stats . Pro-Football-Reference . Retrieved December 2, 2020.
^ Clark, Chris. (July 19, 2021).
Randolph Ross – Garner product, son of Olympic runner – off to Tokyo to compete in the 400m . cbs17.com . Retrieved August 15, 2021.
^ Jackson, Drew (August 14, 2021).
"Raleigh native and Enloe grad PJ Tucker gets hero welcome as NBA Champion" .
The News & Observer . Retrieved September 15, 2021 .
^ Wise, Mike (February 9, 2015).
"John Wall's long, uphill road from Raleigh" . ESPN.com . Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
^ McManus, Tim (November 18, 2016).
"The childhood connection that drew Carson Wentz to Russell Wilson" . ESPN.com . Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
^ Creswell, Julie. (November 3, 2016).
E. Lee Hennessee, a Leading Woman in Hedge Funds, Dies at 64 . The New York Times . Retrieved October 28, 2020.
^
Gifford Park History Book . Retrieved October 28, 2020.
^ Banker, Stephen. (December 1, 1999).
The Web Kid Anand Lal Shimpi is a typical high schooler--except for his megahot computer-review site . CNN Money . Retrieved October 28, 2020.
^
Bert van der Vaart . SEAF . Retrieved October 28, 2020.
^
"Brandi Love on Twitter: I Still live in Raleigh" . Twitter . Retrieved September 15, 2021 .
^
"Tuskegee Airmen Pilot Roster" . CAF Rise Above . CAF Rise Above. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
^
"NC based Composer Rajan revives ancient Tamil poetry with leading singers and musicians from India and USA" . www.wrde.com . Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
^
Mic Murphy|Biography|AllMusic Retrieved November 11, 2014.
^
"Biography | U.S. House of Representatives" . holding.house.gov . Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
^
"Raleigh Hall of Fame to Honor Calvin Jones" . Wake Forest Historical Museum: Open 9am-noon & 1:30–4:30pm Tues-Fri; Closed Sat, Sun, Mon . August 2, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .