Editing Caroline County, Virginia (section)

==Notable people==
* [[George Armistead]], commander of [[Fort McHenry]] during the [[Battle of Baltimore]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | location = Chicago | year = 1963}}</ref>
* [[John Wilkes Booth]], well-known American actor and assassin of [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]].
* [[Reuben Chapman]], the thirteenth [[Governor of Alabama]] (1847–1849).
* [[Christopher Chenery]], one of the founders of the [[New York Racing Association]], and the owner/breeder of [[Thoroughbred]] [[horse racing|horse racing's]] [[United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing|U.S. Triple Crown]] champion [[Secretariat (horse)|Secretariat]].
* [[William Clark (explorer)|William Clark]] and his slave, York, and other members of the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]], were born in Caroline County. Clark's family, taking their slaves, moved to [[Louisville, Kentucky]], when William was 15.
* General [[George Rogers Clark]] (1752–1818), Revolutionary war hero, conqueror of the old Northwest Territory (modern day Midwest of the US), hero of the Battle of Fort Sackville (Vincennes, Indiana) February 1779, father and founder of the Midwest. George was basically already living in Kentucky in 1784 when the Clark family left Virginia and settled there. General Clark made his home in Southern Indiana on the Ohio River, at what is known as Clark's Point.
* [[Peter Durrett]] (c. 1733–1823), founder with his wife of the [[First African Baptist Church (Lexington, Kentucky)|First African Baptist Church]] of [[Lexington, Kentucky]], the oldest black Baptist church in the state and the third oldest in the US.
* [[George Fitzhugh]], lawyer and pro-slavery sociologist.
* [[Mildred and Richard Loving]], successful plaintiffs in ''[[Loving v. Virginia]]'', the U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling which determined [[miscegenation]] laws were unconstitutional and legalized [[interracial marriage]] in the [[United States]]. Subject of the 2016 Netflix movie "[[Loving (2016 film)|Loving]]".
* [[Lex Luger (record producer)|Lex Luger]], record producer, owns a home in [[Milford, Virginia]].
* [[Mi$tro (rapper)|Mi$tro]], rapper.
* [[Edmund Pendleton]] (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia politician, lawyer and judge, active in the American Revolutionary War.
* [[John Taylor of Caroline]] (December 19, 1753 – August 21, 1824) was a politician and writer. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1779–1781, 1783–1785, 1796–1800) and in the United States Senate (1792–1794, 1803, 1822–1824). He was the author of several books on politics and agriculture.
* [[Thomas P. Westendorf]] (1848–1923), a notable composer.<ref>{{cite web|title='I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen'|url=http://www.fredericksburg.com/featurestown_and_county/i-ll-take-you-home-again-kathleen/article_1a2fa25b-a710-516a-8f8a-525545f45296.html|website=Fredericksburg.com|date=February 9, 2002 |access-date=July 30, 2016}}</ref>
* [[William Woodford]], officer in the [[French and Indian War]] and [[American Revolutionary War]].