Editing Westmoreland County, Virginia (section)

== Notable people ==
[[Image:Geo Washington birthplace.jpg|thumb|[[George Washington Birthplace National Monument]]]]
[[File:Stratford Hall .entrance Westmoreland Virginia.jpg|thumb|View of the main facade of [[Stratford Hall (plantation)|Stratford Hall]], the ancestral home of the [[Lee family]] of Westmoreland County]]
* [[Eliza Allen (Virginia)|Eliza Allen]], African American activist, clubwoman, and banker
* [[Walter Balderson]] (1926–2023), [[Emmy Award]]-winning video engineer
* [[Thomas Brown (Florida politician)|Thomas Brown]], second [[governor of Florida]]
* [[Francis Lightfoot Lee]], [[Founding Fathers of the United States|U.S. Founding Father]] and signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|U.S. Declaration of Independence]]
* [[Laetitia Corbin Lee]] (1657–1706), American colonist
* [[Richard Henry Lee]], a signatory of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]], U.S. Senator, and sixth president of the United States in Congress Assembled under the [[Articles of Confederation]]
* [[Richard "Squire" Lee]], prominent Virginian colonist and American politician
* [[Robert E. Lee]] (1807-1870), [[Confederate States Army|Confederate Army]] general in the [[American Civil War]]
* [[Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)|Thomas Lee]], leading political figure in [[Colony of Virginia|colonial Virginia]]
* [[Thomas Marshall (U.S. politician)|Thomas Marshall]], grandfather of former [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] chief justice [[John Marshall]]
* [[James Monroe]] (1758-1831), fifth president of the United States
* [[John Dos Passos|John dos Passos]], author of the [[U.S.A. trilogy]] and other works
* [[Nicholas Spencer]], acting governor of Virginia, co-patentee of [[Mount Vernon]] estate
* [[Nathaniel Rochester]], founder of [[Rochester, New York]]
* [[Thomas Sandford]], [[American Revolutionary War]] soldier, Kentucky [[State legislature (United States)|legislator]], Member of the [[8th United States Congress|Eighth]] and [[9th United States Congress|Ninth]] U.S. Congress
* [[Bushrod Washington]] (1762-1829), [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court]], founder and first president of the [[American Colonization Society]], nephew of George Washington and inheritor of [[Mount Vernon]]
* [[George Washington]] (1732-1799), the first [[president of the United States]]
* [[John Washington]] (1631-1677), great-grandfather of [[George Washington]]
* [[Sloan Wilson]], author of ''[[The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (novel)|The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit]]''
* [[Rob Wittman]], U.S. Congressman