List of people from Charleston, South Carolina
The following people were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Charleston, South Carolina, United States (categorized by area in which each person is best known):
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Athletes
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- Luther Broughton (born 1974), NFL player
- Nehemiah Broughton (born 1982), NFL player
- Kwame Brown (born 1982), basketball player
- Garrett Chisolm (born 1988), NFL player
- Beth Daniel (born 1956), professional golfer
- Zola Davis (born 1975), NFL and XFL player
- Carlos Dunlap (born 1989), NFL player
- Oronde Gadsden (born 1971), NFL player
- AJ Green (born 1988), NFL player
- Harold Green (born 1968), NFL player
- Anthony Johnson (born 1974), NBA player
- Javon Kinlaw (born 1997), NFL player
- Katrina McClain Johnson (born 1965), Olympic gold medalist; retired WNBA player
- Byron Maxwell (born 1988), NFL player
- David Meggett (born 1966), NFL player
- Khris Middleton (born 1991), NBA player
- Bud Moore (born 1941), NASCAR driver
- Langston Moore (born 1981), former NFL player
- Ovie Mughelli (born 1980), NFL player
- Josh Powell (born 1983), NBA player
- Laron Profit (born 1977), NBA player
- Robert Quinn (born 1990), NFL player
- Edmond Robinson (born 1992), NFL player
- Art Shell (born 1946), NFL player and coach
- Brandon Shell (born 1992), NFL player
- Roddy White (born 1981), NFL player
- Dennis Williams (born 1965), basketball player
Entertainers
- Angry Grandpa (1950–2017), internet personality
- Stephen Colbert (born 1964), comedian
- Jonathan Mangum (born 1976), actor
- Joel Derfner (born 1973), musical theater composer
- Andy Dick (born 1965), comedian
- Thomas Gibson (born 1962), actor
- Shanola Hampton (born 1977), actress
- Lauren Hutton (born 1943), actress
- Mabel King (1932–1999), actress
- Logan Marshall-Green (born 1976), actor
- Will Patton (born 1954), actor
- Grace Peixotto (born 1817), madam[1]
- Darius Rucker (born 1966), lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish, and country star
- Elise Testone (born 1983), singer, American Idol contestant
- Melanie Thornton (1967–2001), singer, member of La Bouche
Military figures
- Mark Wayne Clark (1896–1984), United States Army general; Supreme commander of the United Nations Command
- Samuel Wragg Ferguson (1834–1917), Confederate States Army general
- Benjamin Huger (1805–1877), Confederate States Army general
- Stephen Dill Lee (1833–1908), Confederate States Army general; 1st president of Mississippi State University
- Robert Charlwood Richardson, Jr. (1882–1954), United States Army general
- William Childs Westmoreland (1914–2005), United States Army general; 25th chief of staff of the United States Army
Political figures
- William Aiken, Jr. (1806–1887), Governor of South Carolina[2]
- Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884), U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Confederate States Secretary of State and Attorney General
- James Francis Byrnes (1879–1972), U.S. Representative and Senator, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Secretary of State, and Governor of South Carolina
- Floride Calhoun (1792–1866), Second Lady of the United States; wife of John C. Calhoun
- John C. Calhoun (1782–1850), U.S. Representative and Senator, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of War
- Henry William de Saussure (1763–1839), second director of United States Mint; intendant (mayor) of Charleston
- William Drayton, Sr. (1733–1790), associate justice of South Carolina Supreme Court[2]
- Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), American Revolutionary War leader
- James Gadsden (1788–1858), U.S. minister to Mexico; president of the South Carolina Railroad Company
- Robert Young Hayne (1791–1839), Mayor of Charleston 1836–1837; United States Senator 1823–1833; Governor of South Carolina[3]
- Thomas Heyward, Jr. (1746–1809), signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Fritz Hollings (born 1922), United States Senator from South Carolina; Governor and Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
- James Ladson (1753–1812), American revolutionary and lieutenant governor of South Carolina
- Henry Laurens (1724–1792), American Revolutionary War leader
- Burnet Maybank (1899–1954), Charleston mayor 1931–1935; South Carolina governor 1939–1941; United States Senator from South Carolina[4]
- Christopher Memminger (1803–1888), signer of the Confederate States Constitution; Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury 1861–1864
- William Porcher Miles (1822–1899), lawyer; Mayor of Charleston 1855-1857; U.S. Representative from South Carolina; member of the Confederate Congress; designed the Confederate battle flag[5]
- Thomas Parker (1760–1820), U.S. District Attorney for S.C. 1792–1820; married daughter of William Henry Drayton, Mary Drayton[6]
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), American Revolutionary War leader; United States Ambassador to France; Federalist candidate for President in the 1804 and 1808 United States presidential elections
- Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851), botanist, politician, and diplomat; U.S. Representative; United States Ambassador to Mexico, Secretary of War; founded precursor to the Smithsonian Institution; namesake of the poinsettia
- Alonzo J. Ransier, state senator and U.S. congressman; first African-American Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
- Joseph P. Riley, Jr. (born 1943), Mayor of Charleston 1975-2015
- Joseph O. Rogers, Jr. (1921–1999), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Clarendon County 1955–1966; Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1966; reared in Charleston; spent adult years in Manning
- Edward Rutledge, signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence; Governor of South Carolina, 1798-1800
- John Rutledge, President of South Carolina, 1776-1778; Commander and Chief of South Carolina forces during Revolutionary War; Governor of South Carolina, 1779-1782; second Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; signed the U.S. Constitution
- Benjamin Smith (1717–1770), slave trader, plantation owner, merchant banker, and politician
- James Skivring Smith (1825–1884), President of Liberia, 1871-1872
- George Alfred Trenholm (1807–1876), Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury
- Bill Workman (born 1940), Charleston native; mayor of Greenville, 1983-1995; economic development specialist
- Joseph Wragg (1698–1751), pioneer of the large-scale slave trade and politician
Scientists
- Robert Furchgott (1916–2009), biochemist and Nobel Laureate
- Ernest Everett Just (1883–1941), biologist
- William Charles Wells (1757–1817), physician
Writers and artists
- Alexander Aikman (1755–1836), publisher, King's Printer, and House of Assembly member
- Louisa Wells Aikman (1755–1831), 18th century author
- Frank Birnbaum (1922–2005), 20th century Jewish cantor
- David Carson (born 1956), graphic designer
- Essie B. Cheesborough (1826-1905), writer
- Joel Derfner (born 1973), writer
- Nikki DuBose (born 1985), former model turned author and activist
- Shepard Fairey (born 1970), artist known for Andre the Giant "Obey" and Barack Obama "Hope" stencil pieces
- Arthur Freed (1894–1973), Hollywood producer, composer, and writer
- Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. (1911–2001), author, Cheaper by the Dozen
- Dubose Heyward (1885–1940), writer and lyricist, Porgy and Bess
- Jessica Hische (born 1984), illustrator
- Caroline Howard Jervey (1823–1877), author, poet
- Robert Jordan (1948–2007), novelist, author of The Wheel of Time series
- Alexandra Ripley (1934–2004), author, Scarlett
- Eden Royce, gothic horror writer
- Stella F Simon (1878–1973), photographer
- Philip Simmons (1912–2009), ironworker
- William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870), poet, novelist, and historian
- Merton Simpson, (born 1928), abstract expressionist artist, African art collector, musician
- Frank Lebby Stanton (1857–1927), lyricist; columnist for the Atlanta Constitution; author of the lyrics of "Just Awearyin' for You"
- Norb Vonnegut (born 1958), author
- Lily C. Whitaker (1850–1932), educator, writer
Other
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- William Abbott (1790–1843), manager of the New Charleston Theatre [2]
- Rick Brewer (born 1956), former administrator at Charleston Southern University; current president of Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana[7]
- Septima Poinsette Clark (1898–1987), educator, civil rights activist; "grandmother" of the Civil Rights Movement"
- Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (1905–1968), well-known African American mob boss
- Sallie Krawcheck (born 1964), Citigroup chief financial officer
- Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), firebrand rancher from whom the term "maverick" was coined
- William Ephraim Mikell (1868–1944), Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a summer home in Charleston
- Robert Mills (1781–1855), architect
- Vanessa Joy Lachey (née Minnillo) (born 1980), Miss USA 1998, MTV VJ, and Entertainment Tonight correspondent
- George B. Rabb (1930–2017), zoologist
- David Stahl (1949–2010), conductor
- Elizabeth Timothy (1702–1757), the first female newspaper publisher in America
- Lewis Timothy (1699–1738), first American librarian
- Denmark Vesey (1767–1822), freedman tried and executed for allegedly plotting a slave revolt
- J. Waites Waring (1880–1968), United States District Court for District of South Carolina judge; part of a three-judge panel that heard school desegregation case Briggs v. Elliott
- Reuben Greenberg (1943–2014), first black police chief of Charleston
- Camille Bowser (2???-Present), First person to single-handly complete the successful upgrade and deployment of a new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents.
References
- Jones, Mark R (2006). Wicked Charleston: Prostitutes, Politics and Prohibition (illustrated ed.). The History Press. pp. 19–23. ISBN 9781596291348. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
- Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
- "Robert Young Hayne" http://www.HalseyMap.com/Flash/mayors-detail.asp?polID=28
- "Burnet Rhett Maybank" http://www.HalseyMap.com/Flash/mayors-detail.asp?polID=44 Archived 2010-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
- "William Porcher Miles" http://www.HalseyMap.com/Flash/mayors-detail.asp?polID=32
- O'Neall, John Belton (1859). "Thomas Parker". Biographical sketches of the bench and bar of South Carolina. 2. Charleston, S.C.: S.G. Courtenay & Co. pp. 47–50. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
- Leigh Guidry (March 25, 2015). "LC board names South Carolina VP as ninth president". The Alexandria Town Talk. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
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