Editing Lunenburg County, Virginia (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Lewis Archer Boswell]], experimented with flying aircraft. Local legends claim he achieved heavier-than-air flight before the [[Wright Brothers]], though there is no historical evidence.
*[[Paul Carrington (judge)|Justice Paul Carrington]] (1733–1818), second member appointed of the Virginia Supreme Court.  
*[[Roy Clark]], born in Meherrin, he became a highly acclaimed country musician and a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.
*[[Henry W. Collier]], born in the county, was elected fourteenth [[Governor of Alabama]], from 1849 to 1853.
*[[Alfred L. Cralle]], born in the county, became an inventor and businessman in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania. He is best remembered for inventing the lever-operated ice cream scoop in 1897.
*[[Anthony Davis (offensive tackle b. 1980)|Anthony Davis]], an NFL football player, currently for the [[New Orleans Saints]] (beginning 2009). From Lunenburg County, he attended Central High School in Victoria, Virginia.
*[[Richard Ellis (Texas politician)|Richard Ellis]], born and raised in Lunenburg County, settled in Alabama where he was a member of Alabama's Constitutional Convention in 1818 and an associate justice of the [[Alabama Supreme Court]] (1819–1826).
*[[James Greene Hardy]], a county native, was elected Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, serving from 1855 to 1856.
*[[John Murrell (bandit)|John A. Murrell]] (1806?–1844), born in the county, bandit, known for the Mystic Clan or Mystic Confederacy and Murrell Insurrection Conspiracy
*[[John Hampden Randolph]] (1813-1883) Louisiana planter
*[[Verner Moore White]] (1863–1923), born in the county, was a noted landscape and portrait artist.