Editing Albemarle County, Virginia (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Monticellofromgardens.jpg|thumb|United States President and Governor of Virginia [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s home, [[Monticello]], is located in Albemarle County.]]
[[File:AshLawnHighland.jpg|thumb|United States President and Governor of Virginia [[James Monroe]]'s home, [[Ash Lawn-Highland]], is located in Albemarle County.]]

*[[Chilton Allan]] (1786–1858), born in Albemarle County, [[United States Congressman]] from [[Kentucky]]<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>
*[[Rev Samuel Black]], Albemarle County's first Presbyterian minister. Built [[Mirador (Greenwood, Virginia)#Sam Black's Tavern|Sam Black's Tavern]]<ref>{{cite report |date= April 7, 2003 |title= National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mirador (Boundary Increase) |publisher=Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources }}</ref>
*[[Dabney Smith Carr]] (1802–1854), born in Albemarle County, founder of [[newspaper]] ''Baltimore Republican and Commercial Advertiser'', United States minister to [[Turkey]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Christopher Henderson Clark]] (1767–1828), [[United States Congressman]] from Virginia<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[George Rogers Clark]] (1752–1818), surveyor, soldier, and Revolutionary War hero and older brother of [[William Clark]] born in Albemarle County<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[William Coleman (equestrian)|William Coleman]], Olympic equestrian team member 2012
*[[Edward Coles]] (1786–1868), born in Albemarle County, second [[Governor of Illinois]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Rita Dove]] (born 1952), former [[United States Poet Laureate]] and winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]], living in Albemarle County since 1989
*Greensville Dowell (1822–1876), born in Albemarle County, noted physician, professor, and author<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Kathryn Erskine]], National Book Award-winning novelist
*[[James T. Farley]] (1829–1886), born in Albemarle County, [[United States Senator]] from [[California]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[William D. Gibbons]] ({{Circa|1825}}–1886), [[Baptists|Baptist]] minister, born in Albemarle County<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dunnavant |first=Kellen |title=Behind Her Eyes: The Story of Isabella Gibbons |url=https://vpdiversity.virginia.edu/isabella-gibbons |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122153354/https://vpdiversity.virginia.edu/isabella-gibbons |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=[[University of Virginia]]}}</ref>
*James Walker Gons (1812–1870), born in Albemarle County, Baptist church [[clergyman]], later converting to [[Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)]], editor and publisher of church's ''Christian Intelligencer'', educator<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896" />
*[[John Grisham]], author of ''The Whistler''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/books/review/inside-the-new-york-times-book-review-john-grisham-on-the-whistler.html|title=Inside The New York Times Book Review: John Grisham on 'The Whistler'|date=November 4, 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 7, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and ''A Time to Kill''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/grishams-time-to-kill-coming-to-broadway/?rref=collection/timestopic/Grisham,%20John&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=collection|title=Grisham's 'Time to Kill' Coming to Broadway|last=Healy|first=Patrick|work=ArtsBeat|date=June 25, 2013 |access-date=November 7, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Claude Hall]], historian who wrote definitive biography of [[Abel P. Upshur|Abel Parker Upshur]]<ref name=obit>[[Obituary]] of Claude Hampton Hall (1922-2001), ''Bryan-College Station, Texas, Eagle'', April 4, 2001</ref>
*[[John Harvie]] (1742–1807), born in Albemarle County, member of the [[Continental Congress]] and [[List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia|mayor]] of [[Richmond, Virginia]] from 1785 to 1786<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Samuel Hopkins (congressman)|Samuel Hopkins]] (1753–1819), born in Albemarle County, [[United States Army]] officer and United States Congressman from [[Kentucky]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Thomas Jefferson]], third President of the United States and former Governor of Virginia
*[[Sarah Garland Boyd Jones]] (1866–1905), physician
*[[Jack Jouett]] (1754–1822), born in Albemarle County, known as the "[[Paul Revere]] of the South", influential in organizing Kentucky as a separate state, Virginia and Kentucky state legislator<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Fiske Kimball]] (1888–1955), [[architectural historian]], founder of the [[University of Virginia School of Architecture]]
*[[Ben King (cyclist)]], professional cyclist
*[[Walter Leake]] (1762–1825), born in Albemarle County, [[United States Senator]] from Mississippi and later governor of that state<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Meriwether Lewis]] (1774–1809), born in Albemarle County, [[explorer]], governor of [[Louisiana]], and one of the leaders of the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Howie Long]], former [[NFL]] player with the [[Oakland Raiders]]
*[[Joseph Martin (general)|Joseph Martin]] (1740–1808), [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] general and explorer; namesake of [[Martinsville, Virginia]]
*[[Dave Matthews]] of the [[Dave Matthews Band]]
*[[David Meriwether (Georgia politician)|David Meriwether]], born in Albemarle County, [[Continental Army]] officer, member [[United States Congress]], [[Georgia House of Representatives|Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives]], Major General - [[Georgia Militia]]
*[[John Milbank]], English philosopher and theologian
*[[James Monroe]], fifth President of the United States and former Governor of Virginia
*[[James Monroe (1799 - 1870)|James Monroe]] (1799–1870), born in Albemarle County, [[United States Congressman]] from New York<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Lottie Moon]] (1840–1912), Southern Baptist missionary to China; Southern Baptists worldwide take up a Christmas offering every year for international missions in her name
*[[Sissy Spacek]], actress
*[[Peter Threewits]] (1725–1770), born in Sussex County, Virginia state legislator<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
*[[Bebe Williams]], [[Xeric Award]] cartoonist/artist [[Art Comics Daily]]