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==Notable people== * [[Tony Adamle]], football player * [[Max Balchowsky]], prominent 1950s and 1960s American race car builder and driver. * [[Frank J. Breth]], [[United States Marine Corps]] brigadier general * [[David Carpenter (baseball, born 1985)|David Carpenter]], professional baseball player * [[Joe Cerisano]], singer, songwriter, musician ("Be All That You Can Be", "Hands Across America") * [[Augusta Clark]], librarian, politician and lawyer; second African-American woman on [[Philadelphia City Council]] (1980-2000)<ref name=nbc10>{{cite news|title=Former Philly Councilwoman Augusta Clark Dies at 81 |url=http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Former-Philly-Councilwoman-Dies-at-81--227596251.html |work=[[WCAU]] |date=October 14, 2013 |access-date=November 23, 2013}}</ref> * [[Ann K. Covington]], former chief justice of [[Supreme Court of Missouri]], first woman to hold that position * [[Mike DeVault]] (born 1958), state legislator<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wvlegislature.gov/House/lawmaker.cfm?member=Delegate%20DeVault |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=www.wvlegislature.gov |title=West Virginia House of Delegates }}</ref> * [[Frank Kendall Everest Jr.]], [[U.S. Air Force]] officer best remembered as aeroengineer and test pilot during 1950s; once known as "Fastest Man Alive" * [[Ron Everhart]], college basketball head coach * [[Art Finley]], North American television and radio personality, mostly in [[San Francisco]] and [[Vancouver]], remembered by many as "Mayor Art", host of children's show aired on [[KRON-TV]] in [[San Francisco]] from 1959 to 1966 * [[Aretas B. Fleming]], 8th [[Governor of West Virginia]] * [[Carrie Watson Fleming]], First Lady of West Virginia, 1890β1893 * [[Frank Cruise Haymond]], Judge of [[West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals]], 1945-1972 * [[Thomas Haymond]], 19th Century [[congressman]] and lawyer * [[Philip C. Jimeno]], member of [[Maryland State Legislature]] * [[Johnnie Johnson (musician)|Johnnie Johnson]], piano player and blues musician, member of [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] * [[Rashod Kent]], professional football player in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) * [[Fuzzy Knight]], film and television actor, appeared in over 180 films between 1929 and 1967, usually as a cowboy hero's sidekick * [[John Knowles]], author of ''[[A Separate Peace]]'' * [[Phil Mallow]], West Virginia state delegate * [[Alan Mollohan]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from West Virginia's 1st District * [[Stephen Montague]], classical composer, lived in Fairmont as a child from 1952 to 1957 * [[Luella Mundel]], professor and [[McCarthyism]] victim * [[Michael Oliverio II]], member of state senate, representing 13th District * [[Francis H. Pierpont]], Governor of union controlled parts of [[Virginia]] during [[American Civil War]], known as "father of West Virginia" * [[Doris Piserchia]], [[science fiction]] writer * [[Raphiael Putney]] (born 1990), basketball player * [[Mary Lou Retton]], gymnast, 1984 Olympic gold medalist, member of [[President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://marylouretton.com/ml_biography.html |title=Biography |access-date=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100515182825/http://marylouretton.com/ml_biography.html |archive-date=May 15, 2010 }}</ref> * [[George S. Roberts]], combat fighter pilot with the [[Tuskegee Airmen]] * [[Nick Saban]], [[college football]] head coach and assistant coach in the NFL, born in Fairmont * [[Dante Stills]], football player * [[Darius Stills]], football player<ref>{{Cite web|last=West Virginian|first=Matt Welch Times|title=Darius Stills garners national recognition|url=https://www.timeswv.com/sports/darius-stills-garners-national-recognition/article_81dbf3e4-b136-11e5-a513-afd4bb4f91d5.html|access-date=May 17, 2021|website=Times West Virginian|date=January 2, 2016 |language=en}}</ref> * [[Rosemary M. Thomas]], academic administrator * [[Robert Tinnell]], screenwriter, director, producer, author of [[comic books]] and [[graphic novels]] * [[Clarence Wayland Watson]], founded several companies that became Consolidation Coal and Mining Companies, was U.S. Senator from West Virginia from 1911 to 1913 * [[Hershel W. Williams]], awarded [[Medal of Honor]] during the battle of [[Battle of Iwo Jima]]
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