Editing Chapel Hill, North Carolina (section)

==Notable people==
{{See also|List of alumni from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill}}
[[File:McCorkle-Place.jpg|thumb|upright|[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|UNC's]] wooded campus buffers the town center]]
* [[Alice Adams (writer)|Alice Adams]], author<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/28/arts/alice-adams-72-writer-of-deft-novels.html |title=The New York Times | access-date=January 11, 2013 | first=Peter | last=Applebome | date=May 28, 1999}}</ref>
* [[Emil Amos]], musician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pelagic-records.com/artist/emil-amos/|title=Emil Amos|website=Pelagic-records.com|access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Owen Astrachan]], Duke Professor of Computer Science<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109713&org=CISE | title=CISE Fellow Press Release | access-date=April 12, 2014}}</ref>
* [[John David Roy Atchison]] (1954–2007), Assistant US Attorney and children's sports coach, committed suicide in prison after being charged with soliciting sex from a five-year-old girl
* [[George A. Baer]] (1903–1994), [[bookbinder]]
* [[Stephen Barrett]], retired psychiatrist, webmaster of [[Quackwatch]]<ref>{{cite news |first=Ann |last=Wlazelek |title=Allentown critic of quacks moves to 'milder winters' |url=https://www.mcall.com/2007/06/13/allentown-critic-of-quacks-moves-to-milder-winters-stephen-barrett-73-says-hell-keep-exposing-false-medical-claims/ |newspaper=[[The Morning Call]] |date=June 13, 2007 |access-date=September 25, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Lewis Black]], stand-up comedian, author, actor<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lewisblack.com/bio.aspx | title=Lewis Black's Official Web Site | access-date=August 14, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100810223449/http://www.lewisblack.com/bio.aspx | archive-date=August 10, 2010 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* [[Ash Bowie]], musician<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/polvo/bio.jhtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040715232618/http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/polvo/bio.jhtml | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 15, 2004 | title=Polvo |website=Vh1.com| access-date=July 15, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Steve Breedlove]], clergyman, bishop in the [[Anglican Church in North America]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://apostles-raleigh.org/our-bishops/ |title=Our Bishops « Church of the Apostles – Raleigh, NC |website=apostles-raleigh.org |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120024948/http://apostles-raleigh.org/our-bishops/ |archive-date=20 January 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Sean Bridgers]], actor, screenwriter, director, producer
* [[Fred Brooks]], computer scientist<ref name = "unc">{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.unc.edu/People/Faculty/Bios/brooks.html |title=Our People - Computer Science |website=Cs.unc.edu |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Christopher Browning]], historian
* [[Cam Cameron]], football coach<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/CameCa0.htm |title=Cam Cameron Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Spencer Chamberlain]], musician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://underoath777.com/profile.php?id=spencer |title=Underoath Official Web Site |access-date=July 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219133908/http://www.underoath777.com/profile.php?id=spencer |archive-date=December 19, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts]], band.
* [[Fred C. Cole]], librarian and historian<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/08/obituaries/fred-cole-historian-led-library-council.html |title=Fred Cole, Historian; Led Library Council |date=May 8, 1986 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=December 27, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Elizabeth Cotten]], musician
* [[Floyd Council]], blues singer, the "Floyd" after which Pink Floyd is named<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://facstaff.unca.edu/sinclair/piedmontblues/council.html|title=East Coast Piedmont Blues - Floyd Council|date=April 1, 2009|access-date=August 6, 2023|archive-date=April 1, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401171027/http://facstaff.unca.edu/sinclair/piedmontblues/council.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Butch Davis]], former UNC football coach<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/6809612/butch-davis-fired-north-carolina-football-coach|title=Tar Heels fire Davis amid NCAA investigation|date=July 27, 2011|website=ESPN.com|language=en|access-date=October 24, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Hubert Davis]], UNC basketball coach, ESPN analyst, former NBA basketball player<ref>{{cite web|author=Gary Parrish |url=http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/19642357/hubert-davis-leaves-tv-for-north-carolina-assistant-coaching-gig |title=Hubert Davis leaves TV for North Carolina assistant coaching gig - NCAA Division I Mens Basketball |website=CBSSports.com |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Walter R. Davis|Walter Royal Davis]], North Carolina philanthropist and oil tycoon<ref>{{cite web| date=May 20, 2008| title=Walter Davis dies at 88| work=News & Observer| url=http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/walter_davis_dies_at_88#storylink=misearch| access-date=August 1, 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510092431/http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/walter_davis_dies_at_88#storylink=misearch| archive-date=May 10, 2011| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Anoop Desai]], finalist on ''[[American Idol]]'', singer <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/anoop-desai/bio/296848|title=Anoop Desai|date=2012|website=TV Guide Biographies|access-date=April 24, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Sarah Dessen]], author<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sarahdessen.com/?q=bio-press |title=Sarah Dessen |publisher=Sarah Dessen |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref>
* [[David Drake]], science fiction and fantasy novelist and small-press publisher
* [[Elizabeth Edwards]], late wife of former U.S. Senator of North Carolina [[John Edwards]]<ref>{{cite web| author=Rob Christensen| date=December 8, 2010| title=Elizabeth Edwards' death closes full, public life| work=News & Observer| url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/08/849966/elizabeth-edwards-death-closes.html| access-date=August 1, 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104174738/http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/08/849966/elizabeth-edwards-death-closes.html| archive-date=November 4, 2011| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[John Edwards]], former presidential candidate<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rielle-hunter-john-edwards-226025|title=Rielle Hunter says she's still 'very close friends' with John Edwards|work=POLITICO|access-date=February 7, 2018|author-last1=Spinelli|author-first1=Dan|date=22 July 2016}}</ref>
* [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]], Beat Generation poet and co-founder of ''City Lights Book Sellers & Publishers''. Earned a B.A. in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1941.
* [[Ben Folds]], musician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.benfolds.com/|title=Ben Folds|website=Benfolds.com|access-date=January 27, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Paul Green (playwright)|Paul Green]], playwright<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/06/obituaries/paul-green-pulitzer-playwright-and-drama-teacher-dies-at-87.html|title=Paul Green, Pulitzer Playwright and Drama Teacher, Dies at 87|last=Mitgang|first=Herbert|date=May 6, 1981|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 24, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[John Grisham]], author<ref>{{cite news |url = http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2008/07/07/tidbits1.html |title = John Grisham and wife buy home in Chapel Hill |access-date = September 16, 2009 |newspaper = Triangle Business Journal |first=Dale |last=Gibson |date=July 7, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Meredith Hagner]], actress, portrays [[Liberty Ciccone]] on ''[[As the World Turns]]''<ref>{{cite web | year=2011| title=Biography for Meredith Hagner| publisher=IMDB| url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2993517/bio| access-date= August 1, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Bernardo Harris]], former [[NFL]] linebacker<ref>[https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HarrBe20.htm Bernardo Harris Stats]. ''Pro-Football-Reference''. Retrieved November 4, 2020.</ref>
* [[Dave Haywood]], musician, member of the [[country music]] group [[Lady Antebellum]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.augustachronicle.com/article/20101114/ENTERTAINMENT/311149917|title=Lady Antebellum: Before they were famous|last=Zureick|first=Erin|website=The Augusta Chronicle|language=en|access-date=October 24, 2019|archive-date=October 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024172834/https://www.augustachronicle.com/article/20101114/ENTERTAINMENT/311149917|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Bunn Hearn]], [[Major League Baseball|MLB]] pitcher<ref>{{cite web | year=2011| title=Career Stats| publisher=Major League Baseball| url=http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=115667&c_id=stl| access-date= August 3, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Jack Hogan]], actor, noted for his role as Private William Kirby on ''[[Combat!]]'' television series, 1962–1967 <ref>{{cite web|title=Jack Hogan Biography|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0389537/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm|website=IMDB|access-date=September 6, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Laurel Holloman]], artist and actress. Known for The L Word television series.
* [[George Moses Horton]], a slave poet, called "the black bard of Chapel Hill"<ref>{{cite news
|newspaper=[[National Era]]
|date=April 20, 1848
|title=Horton, the black bard of Chapel Hill
|url= https://accessible.com/accessible/emailedURL?AADoc=THENATIONALERA.FR1848042022.10161
|via=Accessible Archives}}</ref>
* [[Paul Jones (computer technologist)|Paul Jones]], computer technologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sils.unc.edu/people/faculty/profiles/Paul-Jones|title=Paul Jones {{!}} sils.unc.edu|website=sils.unc.edu|access-date=October 24, 2019|archive-date=August 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802182724/https://sils.unc.edu/people/faculty/profiles/Paul-Jones|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Alexander Julian]], fashion designer<ref>{{cite web| year=2007| title=30 Years of Uncommon Threads| publisher=The Chapel Hill Museum| url=http://www.chapelhillmuseum.org/About/Archives/PastExhibits/AlexanderJulian/| access-date=August 1, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912053742/http://www.chapelhillmuseum.org/About/Archives/PastExhibits/AlexanderJulian/| archive-date=September 12, 2011| url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Michelle Kasold]], Olympic [[field hockey]] player<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.teamusa.org/usa-field-hockey/athletes/michelle-kasold |title=Archived copy |access-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111033837/https://www.teamusa.org/usa-field-hockey/athletes/michelle-kasold |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Jackson Koivun]], golfer<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Fort Worth Inc |date=2024-05-21 |title=Auburn Freshman Wins Ben Hogan Award |url=https://fortworthinc.com/news/auburn-freshman-wins-ben-hogan-award/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Fort Worth Inc. |language=en-us}}</ref>
* [[Charles Kuralt]], journalist<ref>{{cite web|year=2011 |title=Charles Kuralt biography |publisher=UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication |url=http://jomc.unc.edu/charles-kuralt-biography |access-date=August 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722141754/http://www.jomc.unc.edu/charles-kuralt-biography |archive-date=July 22, 2011  }}</ref>
* [[Kay Kyser]], big band leader, entertainer
* [[Howard Nathaniel Lee|Howard Lee]], first black mayor of a predominantly white municipality in the South<ref>{{cite web|author=Howard N. Lee|date=2017|title=In ''Contemporary Black Biography''|volume=136|location=Detroit, Michigan|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1606007774/BIC?u=lom_waynesu&sid=BIC&xid=54eb01bb|website=Link.galegroup.com|access-date=September 15, 2019}}</ref>
* [[William Carter Love]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from North Carolina during the 1800s<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?williamlove|title=WILLIAM CARTER LOVE|website=C-span.org|language=en-us|access-date=October 12, 2018|archive-date=October 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012134711/https://www.c-span.org/person/?williamlove|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Mandolin Orange]], Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, a folk/Americana duo
* [[Mac McCaughan]], musician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mac-mccaughan-mn0000225050/biography|title=Mac McCaughan|last=Deming|first=Mark|website=All Music|access-date=April 24, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Nick McCrory]], Olympic bronze medalist in [[Diving (sport)|diving]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.teamusa.org/usa-diving/athletes/nick-mccrory |title=Archived copy |access-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-date=November 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110072140/https://www.teamusa.org/usa-diving/athletes/nick-mccrory |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Richard McKenna]], novelist, ''[[The Sand Pebbles (novel)|The Sand Pebbles]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesandpebbles.com/mckenna/richard_mckenna.html|title=The Sand Pebbles - Richard McKenna (1913-1964)|date=April 8, 1999|publisher=Boise Weekly|access-date=February 23, 2018|volume=7|issue=39}}</ref>
* [[Mark Newhouse]], professional [[poker]] player<ref>Wilcox, Ryan. (September 27, 2020). [https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/09/mark-newhouse-poker-chapel-hill Mark Newhouse: The Chapel Hill poker pro who won and lost millions, then found himself]. ''The Daily Tar Heel''. Retrieved January 27, 2021.</ref>
* [[Mojo Nixon]], singer
* [[Marty Ravellette]], armless hero<ref>{{cite AV media| people = Marty Ravellette; Reporter: Scott Mason, Photographer: Robert Meikle| title = No arms needed for Marty Ravellette| medium = Television| publisher = WRAL News| location = Chapel Hill, North Carolina| date = September 11, 2007| url = http://www.wral.com/lifestyles/travel/video/1803727/?version=display_ad&iframe=1}}</ref>
* [[David Rees (cartoonist)|David Rees]], political satirist, cartoonist of ''[[Get Your War On]]''
* [[Porter Robinson]], electronic music producer<ref>{{Cite news|title=Porter robinson: High school producer hits the fox.|last=Kale|first=W.|date=April 21, 2011|work=Colorado Daily|via=ProQuest}}</ref>
* [[Brian Roberts (baseball)|Brian Roberts]], former MLB second baseman, two-time All-Star<ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roberbr01.shtml Brian Roberts Stats]. ''Baseball-Reference''. Retrieved May 15, 2021.</ref>
* [[Dexter Romweber]], rockabilly roots-rocker<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/dex-romweber|title=Dex Romweber|date=2017|website=Bloodshot Records|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Aziz Sancar]], winner of the 2015 [[Nobel Prize]] in Chemistry<ref>{{cite news | url= http://uncnews.unc.edu/2015/10/07/unc-chapel-hill-scientist-aziz-sancar-wins-nobel-prize-for-chemistry/ | title= UNC Chapel Hill Scientist Aziz Sancar Wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry. | access-date= March 1, 2017 | archive-date= June 9, 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160609231913/http://uncnews.unc.edu/2015/10/07/unc-chapel-hill-scientist-aziz-sancar-wins-nobel-prize-for-chemistry/ | url-status= dead }}</ref>
* [[Betty Smith]], novelist, ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]''<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=12&id=19364 | title=The Borough of Writers: Betty Smith: 'Francie or Sophina?'|website=Brooklyneagle.com | access-date=November 10, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Dean Smith]], former basketball coach<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/10545949/precious-memories-dean-smith-story |title=Precious Memories - The Dean Smith story |website=Espn.go.com |date=March 5, 2014 |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Oliver Smithies]], physical biochemist and genericist, Nobel prizewinner<ref name=Nobel_bio>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/smithies-bio.html |title=Oliver Smithies - Biographical |work=Nobelprize.org |publisher=Nobel Media |year=2014 |access-date= 18 March 2023}}</ref>
* [[Elizabeth Spencer (writer)|Elizabeth Spencer]], author of ''[[The Light in the Piazza (novel)|The Light in the Piazza]]''
* [[Silda Wall Spitzer]], wife of former New York governor [[Eliot Spitzer]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.syracuse.com/indepth/2008/03/magazine_profile_of_silda_wall.html|title=Magazine profile of Silda Wall Spitzer|last=Cubbison|first=Brian|date=March 10, 2008|website=syracuse|language=en|access-date=October 24, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Chris Stamey]], musician<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wunc.org/term/chris-stamey#stream/0|title=Chris Stamey {{!}} WUNC|website=Eunc.org|language=en|access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Josh Stein]], governor and former attorney general of North Carolina
* [[Brook Steppe]], former NBA player
* [[Leo Sternbach]], chemist and discoverer of [[benzodiazepines]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Leo Henryk Sternbach|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Henryk-Sternbach|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, inc.|access-date=June 10, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Matt Stevens (safety)|Matt Stevens]], former NFL safety<ref>[https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/StevMa22.htm Matt Stevens Stats]. ''Pro-Football-Reference''. Retrieved January 27, 2021.</ref>
* [[James Taylor]], musician<ref>{{cite web|author=RoAnn Bishop |year=2005 |title=Who Did That Sign Say? |publisher=North Carolina Museum of History |url=http://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/collateral/articles/s05.who.did.that.sign.say.pdf |access-date=August 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727114434/http://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/collateral/articles/s05.who.did.that.sign.say.pdf |archive-date=July 27, 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Paul B. Thompson (novelist)]], author and UNC alumnus
* [[Blair Tindall]], author and musician
* [[Richard Trice]], blues guitarist, singer and songwriter<ref name="bare">{{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues - A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger Publishers| location= Santa Barbara| pages=279–280 | isbn= 978-0313344237}}</ref>
* [[Willie Trice]], blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer. Elder brother of above<ref name="bare"/>
* [[Karl Edward Wagner]], horror writer, editor, and small-press publisher
* [[Daniel Wallace (author)|Daniel Wallace]], writer, author of ''[[Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/people/wallaced |title=Daniel Wallace &#124; English & Comparative Literature |website=Englishcomplit.unc.edu |date=August 24, 2015 |access-date=January 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207172858/http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/people/wallaced |archive-date=February 7, 2016 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>
* [[Manly Wade Wellman]], novelist<ref>''Dictionary of North Carolina Biography'', Vol. 6, William S. Powell, Ed. (1996) at 160–161 (article by William S. Powell)</ref>
* [[Roy Williams (coach)|Roy Williams]], men's basketball coach<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fanmail.biz/80887.html |title=★ Roy Williams Address |website=Fanmail.biz |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Wolfe]], author. UNC alumnus. Chapel Hill appears as "Pulpit Hill" in his posthumous novel ''[[You Can't Go Home Again]]''.
* [[Bayard Wootten]] (1875–1959), photographer and suffragette<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0011/|title=Bayard Morgan Wootten Photographic Collection, circa 1870–1988 (bulk 1904–1954)|website=finding-aids.lib.unc.edu|access-date=March 11, 2017}}</ref>