Editing Sumter, South Carolina (section)

==Notable people==
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;Artists
* [[Jasper Johns]], painter, sculptor, and printmaker.
* [[Grainger McKoy]], artist in wood and metal sculpture.
;Athletics/Competition
* [[Ray Allen]], professional basketball player, 10-time NBA All-Star.
* [[Art Baker (coach)|Art Baker]], collegiate football coach.
* [[Justin Bethel]], NFL defensive back.
* [[Ronnie Burgess]], NFL defensive back.
* [[Pete Chilcutt]], played basketball for University of North Carolina and [[NBA]] from 1991 to 2000.
* [[Buck Flowers]] (Allen Ralph Flowers Jr., football player.<ref>Sumter Item, 15 Oct 1969.</ref>
* [[Nicole Gamble]], track and field triple jump champion.<ref>Sumter Item, 30 Nov. 2019, https://www.theitem.com/stories/the-sumter-items-top-125-sports-figures-16-20,336900</ref>
* [[Terry Kinard]], NFL player, first-round draft pick of [[New York Giants]], played in 1986 Super Bowl.
* [[Wayne Mass]], Edmunds High School player, All American at Clemson & then played in the NFL.
* [[Bob Montgomery (boxer)|Bob Montgomery]], former lightweight boxing champion.
* [[Jordan Montgomery]], Major League Baseball pitcher for the [[St. Louis Cardinals]].
* [[JP Sears (baseball)]], Major League Baseball pitcher for the [[Oakland Athletics]].
* [[Ja Morant]], professional basketball player, was the 2nd overall pick in the [[2019 NBA draft]] by the [[Memphis Grizzlies]].
* [[Cleveland Pinkney]], professional football player, [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]], [[Carolina Panthers]] and [[Detroit Lions]].  
* [[Jason Ratcliff]], [[NASCAR]] crew chief for [[Matt Kenseth]] at [[Joe Gibbs Racing]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://circletrack.automotive.com/49057/14780/index.html |title=Crew Chief Jason Ratcliff Bio &#124; Stock Car Racing Magazine Article at Automotive.com |publisher=Circletrack.automotive.com |date=1967-12-08 |access-date=2010-12-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707191454/http://circletrack.automotive.com/49057/14780/index.html |archive-date=2011-07-07 }}</ref>
* [[Bobby Richardson]], second baseman, three-time World Series champion with [[New York Yankees]], baseball coach at [[University of South Carolina|South Carolina]].
* [[Wally Richardson]], former starting [[quarterback]] for [[Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]].
* [[Freddie Solomon]], NFL wide receiver, [[Miami Dolphins]] and [[San Francisco 49ers]].
* [[John Stefero]], former catcher for the [[Baltimore Orioles]].
* [[Derrick Witherspoon]]. NFL, running back & return specialist. 
;Aviation & Space
* [[David A. King (engineer)|David A. King]], former director of [[NASA]] [[Marshall Space Flight Center]], Huntsville, Alabama
;Beauty Pageant Winners
* [[Shawn Weatherly]], Miss South Carolina USA, Miss USA, and Miss Universe (1980).
;Business
* [[Samuel R. Allen]], chairman and CEO of [[John Deere]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Board of Director Biographies| url=https://www.deere.com/en_US/corporate/our_company/about_us/leadership/executives/sam_allen_biography.page| website=John Deere| access-date=March 5, 2017| quote=He is a native of Sumter, South Carolina.}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Wilson (Industrialist)]], born in Scotland & becoming a prominent businessman, he was the wealthiest man in S. C. when he died.<ref>3 July 1921 issue of The Columbia Record, front page article about his death</ref>
*[[O.L. Williams]], president of [[Williams Furniture Company]].
;Criminal Accusations
* Mark Orrin Barton, perpetrator of the [[1999 Atlanta day trading firm shootings]]; a Sumter High School class of 1973 graduate.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.edmundshigh.com/rip73.html |title=Edmunds High School, Sumter, S.C. |access-date=2021-06-11 |archive-date=2021-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611170411/http://www.edmundshigh.com/rip73.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Robert Henry Best]], Nazi broadcaster convicted of treason in 1948 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
* [[William Pierce (serial killer)|William Pierce]] confessed (and was convicted) to the 1970 murder of the daughter ("Peg" Cuttino) of state senator, James Cuttino Jr.; but "Pee Wee" Gaskins ([[Donald Henry Gaskins]]) also claimed that he killed her.
* [[George Stinney]], youngest American at 14 to be executed. He was African-American, and wrongfully convicted of murdering two white girls.
;Education/Scholarship
* [[Glen Browder]], history professor, former Alabama Congressman, and co-author of the 2018 book, South Carolina's Turkish People.
* [[Gloria Conyers Hewitt]], mathematician.
* [[William Ephraim Mikell]] (1868–1944), dean of the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]].
;Heroism
* [[Clarke Bynum]] (and Gifford M. Shaw) saved 300+ lives thwarting a passenger attempt to crash [[British Airways Flight 2069]] 12/29/2000.
* Robert F. Morel, II, recipient of [[Carnegie Hero Fund|Carnegie Medal for heroism]] award in 1990 for rescuing a police officer.<ref>http://mychfc.org/hero.aspx?hero=65483 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
;Military
* [[Charles J. Girard]], [[Brigadier General (United States)|brigadier general]], one of highest ranking American officers to die in battle during the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news | date=January 17, 1970 |title=Sumter General Dies |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1979&dat=19700117&id=PYQiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4akFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5930,1483019&hl=en |newspaper=Sumter Daily Item |location=Sumter, SC}}</ref>
* [[The Citadel]] Cadet George Edward "Tuck" Haynsworth, who fired the first shot of the [[American Civil War]], was born and raised in Sumter and is buried there.
* [[George L. Mabry Jr.|Major General George L. Mabry Jr.]], [[Medal of Honor]] recipient, second-most decorated soldier of World War II.
* [[Emile P. Moses]], major general in the Marine Corps.
* [[Shaw Air Force Base#Lt. Ervin David Shaw|Lt. Ervin David Shaw]], WWI pilot and namesake of [[Shaw Air Force Base]].<ref name="Shaw">[http://www.shaw.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=20983 ''USAF Factsheet – 1st Lt. Ervin David Shaw''] {{webarchive | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924101141/http://www.shaw.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=20983 |date=24 September 2015 }}</ref><ref name="mul2">Mueller, Robert (1989). Volume 1: Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982. USAF Reference Series, Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. {{ISBN|0-912799-53-6}}, {{ISBN|0-16-002261-4}}</ref>
;Motion Picture, Acting & TV
* [[Ryan Buell]], founder of Penn State Paranormal Research Society; has a reality series on [[A&E Network|A&E]], ''[[Paranormal State]]''.
* [[Virginia Capers]], [[Tony Award]]-winning actress.
* [[O'Neal Compton]], actor, writer, photographer, commercial filmmaker.
* [[Nancy O'Dell]], television personality, anchor of ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]''.
* [[Jay Ellis]], actor, [[Top Gun: Maverick]].
;Music
* [[Lee Brice]], country music singer-songwriter.
* [[Rob Crosby]], country music artist, singer, and songwriter.
* [[Ray Davis (musician)|Ray "Stingray" Davis]], founding member of [[The Parliaments]], [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] and [[Funkadelic]].
* [[Clara Louise Kellogg]], [[opera]] singer.
;Law and Politicians
* [[Charlotta Bass]], first black female to run for VP with the [[Progressive Party (United States, 1948)|Progressive Party]] in 1952 & born in Sumter.
* [[Frank Bradford]], politician and lawyer
* [[Jim Clyburn]], politician, U.S. Representative [[House Majority Whip]] for [[110th Congress]].
* [[Marcia G. Cooke]], U.S. District Court judge
* [[James Felder]], state legislator and civil rights activist
* [[Charles Alexander Harvin]], state legislator.
* [[Bubba McElveen]], Sumter mayor and the first civilian to be named honorary chief master sergeant of the U.S. Air Force.
* [[Joe McElveen]], Sumter's longest-serving mayor (2000–2020).
* [[Thomas McElveen]], South Carolina State Senator (2012–2024)
* [[Lou-Ann Preble]], congresswoman from Tucson, Arizona (1993–2002).
* [[Ramon Schwartz Jr.]], member of [[South Carolina Legislature]] and some years as [[Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives]].
* [[Martha Priscilla Shaw]], mayor of Sumter (1952–1956), first female mayor in South Carolina.
* [[Angelica Singleton Van Buren]], acting [[First Lady of the United States]] during the presidency of [[Martin Van Buren]].
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