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==Notable people==<!--consensus reached to standardize this heading per WP:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline --> {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Tony Anthony (actor)|Tony Anthony]]: actor, producer, director, and screenwriter * [[Hugh Aynesworth]]: author and journalist * [[Babe Barna]]: Major League Baseball Player 1937–1943 * [[W. Robert Blair]]: Illinois politician * [[Rex Bumgardner]]: professional football player, [[Buffalo Bills]] (1948–1949) and [[Cleveland Browns]] (1950–1952) * [[John S. Carlile]]: American merchant, lawyer, and politician, including a United States Senator, one of West Virginia's founders. * [[William W. Chapman]]: United States politician [[Iowa]] and [[Oregon]] * [[Harry Courtney]]: professional baseball pitcher and Professional Football Player 1919–1922 * [[Phyllis Curtin]]: opera soprano * [[John J. Davis (congressman)|John J. Davis]]: U.S. Congressman, helped found West Virginia * [[John W. Davis]]: [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] nominee for [[President of the United States]] in 1924 * [[Martha Gandy Fales]]: American art historian and curator; recipient of the Charles F. Montgomery Prize (1995) from the Decorative Arts Society * [[Jimbo Fisher]]: former [[head coach]] of the [[Texas A&M Aggies football]] team. * [[Nathan Goff Jr.]]: congressman and [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] * [[Guy D. Goff]]: son of Nathan Goff Jr., Served as a US senator and the US DA for the eastern district of Wisconsin * [[Howard Mason Gore]]: [[United States Secretary of Agriculture]] under president Calvin Coolidge * [[Mabel Grouitch]]: American surgical nurse who worked with the Red Cross during World War I * [[Robert Graetz]]: Lutheran clergyman who, as the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights Activist * [[Bert Hamric]] Major League Baseball Player * [[William S. Haymond]] US House of Representative, representing Indiana. Civil War surgeon in the Union Army. * [[D. Rolland Jennings]], state delegate<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wvlegislature.gov/house/lawmaker.cfm?member=Delegate%20Jennings |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=www.wvlegislature.gov |title=West Virginia House of Delegates }}</ref> * [[Samuel Lewis Hays]] 19th Century United States Senator * [[Lynn Hornor]]: represented West Virginia in the [[United States House of Representatives]] * [[William Lowther Jackson]]: [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] General during the [[American Civil War]] * [[Stonewall Jackson|Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson]]: [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] lieutenant-general during the [[American Civil War]] * [[Edward B. Jackson]]: Member of the 16th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[James Pindall]] and reelected to the 17th Congress, served from October 23, 1820, to March 3, 1823 * [[Porter Jarvis]], President of Swift & Company, Chicago. * [[Dave Jamerson|John David Jamerson]]: Standout NCAA basketball player for Ohio University and NBA player selected by the Miami Heat in the 1st round (15th overall) of the 1990 NBA Draft. * [[Louis A. Johnson]]: [[United States Secretary of Defense]] * [[Tuffy Knight]]: former coach in Canadian university football, and a member of the [[Canadian Football Hall of Fame]] * [[Charles S. Lewis]]: member of the 33rd Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of [[John F. Snodgrass]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000275 |title=LEWIS, Charles Swearinger, (1821 - 1878) |publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=December 21, 2012 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025032749/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000275 |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Pare Lorentz]]: film director * [[Frank Loria]]: [[Virginia Tech Hokies football]] All American player. He later died in the [[Southern Airlines Flight 932]] airplane crash, that killed most of [[Marshall University]]'s football team, on November 14, 1970 * [[Lloyd Lowndes Jr.]]: [[Governor of Maryland]] <!-- * [[Dave Mader]], Jr.; Race Car Driver, Darlington Hall of Fame, 100 mile-per-hour club<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1419 |title=e-WV - Auto Racing}}</ref> --> * [[Bruce Marks]] (born 1957), American politician * [[Peter Marshall (entertainer)|Peter Marshall]]: host of game show ''[[Hollywood Squares]]'' * [[Joseph M. Minard]]: Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate * [[Ken Moore (American football)|Ken Moore]]: Professional Football player for the [[New York Giants]] * [[Frederick Mosteller]]: founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department * [[Elliott Northcott]]: Federal Judge appointed by President Calvin Coolidge on April 6, 1927 * [[Dave Nutter]]: Virginia House of Delegates * [[Roy Earl Parrish]]: American politician<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 2, 1912 |title=Roy E. Parrish |pages=5 |work=[[The Clarksburg Telegram]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-clarksburg-telegram-roy-e-parrish/128304156/ |access-date=July 21, 2023}}</ref> * [[Mike Patrick]]: [[ESPN]] sportscaster * [[Melville Davisson Post]]: author of the [[Uncle Abner]] detective fiction series from 1911 to 1928 * [[Jay Randolph]]: sportscaster, son of senator [[Jennings Randolph]] * [[Stuart F. Reed]]: politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives * [[Emily Shaffer]]: Actress<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3404764/ |title=Emily Shaffer |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-date=March 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326221822/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3404764/ |url-status=live }}</ref> <!-- * [[Agnes Smith (writer)|Agnes Smith]]: writer, sculptor, potter, and wood carver<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/465 |title=e-WV - Agnes Smith}}</ref> --> * [[Thomas Thomas (boxer)]]: heavyweight boxer, Once rated #6 in the world * [[Cyrus Vance]]: [[United States Secretary of State]] * [[Patty Weaver]]: actress, ''[[The Young and the Restless]]'' (1982–present), ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' (1974–1982) * [[Sam Wetzel]] US Army General * [[Sherilyn Wolter]]: actress who has appeared television soap operas. * [[Kirsten Wyatt]]: Broadway actress, ''[[Grease (musical)|Grease]]'' (2007–present). * [[Jean Yancey]]: women's small business consultant, motivational speaker. {{div col end}}
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