Editing Orange County, North Carolina (section)

==Notable people==
{{See also|List of alumni from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill}}
[[File:McCorkle-Place.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|UNC's]] wooded campus buffers the town center of Chapel Hill]]
* [[Alice Adams (writer)|Alice Adams]], author, who grew up in Chapel Hill<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/28/arts/alice-adams-72-writer-of-deft-novels.html |title=Alice Adams, 72, writer of deft novels |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 11, 2013}}</ref>
* [[K.A. Applegate]], author
* [[Thomas Samuel Ashe]], [[United States Congressman]] from North Carolina<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>
* [[Lewis Black]], comedian
* [[David Brinkley]], newscaster
* [[Fred Brooks]], computer science pioneer
* [[Larry Brown (basketball)|Larry Brown]], basketball coach
* [[Cam Cameron]], football coach
* [[William Carter Love]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from North Carolina
* [[Spencer Chamberlain]], musician
* [[Elizabeth Cotten]], blues singer who grew up in Carrboro
* [[Floyd Council]], blues singer, the "Floyd" in Pink Floyd
* [[Butch Davis]], football coach
* [[Sarah Dessen]], author
* [[Elizabeth Edwards]], an attorney and activist for liberal causes, Chapel Hill
* [[John Edwards]], former North Carolina Senator, 2008 Presidential candidate, Chapel Hill
* [[Sam Ervin]], former North Carolina senator, chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee
* [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]], beat poet, co-founder of City Lights Booksellers
* [[Ben Folds]], musician
* [[Paul Green (playwright)|Paul Green]], playwright
* [[Andy Griffith]], actor
* [[Mia Hamm]], soccer player
* [[Harpe Brothers]], Micajah and Wiley, America's first [[serial killers]]
* [[Bunn Hearn|Bunny Hearn]], major league baseball pitcher
* [[Jack Hogan]], actor, noted for his role as Private William Kirby on [[Combat!]] television series, 1962–1967
* [[Laurel Holloman]], actress
* [[Herman Husband]], a leader of the North Carolina [[Regulator Movement]]
* [[Marion Jones]], former [[track and field]] athlete
* [[Michael Jordan]], basketball player
* [[Elizabeth Keckley]], former slave and servant of [[Mary Todd Lincoln]]
* [[Charles Kuralt]], longtime journalist with [[CBS]]
* [[Jim Lampley]], sportscaster
* [[Howard Nathaniel Lee|Howard Lee]], pioneering politician
* [[Doug Marlette]], cartoonist and writer
* [[Alexander Mebane|Alexander Mebane Jr.]] (1744–1795), Revolutionary War militia general and U. S. Congressman
* [[Benjamin Merrill]], leader in the [[Regulator movement]] and at the [[Battle of Alamance]]
* [[Elisha Mitchell]], geologist
* [[Archibald Murphey]], North Carolina politician
* [[Beverly Perdue]], 73rd Governor of North Carolina
* [[Nick Perumov]], author
* [[Mary Pope Osborne]], author
* [[Frank Porter Graham]], [[United States senator]] and president of the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]
* [[David Price (American politician)|David Price]], U.S. congressman
* [[Connie Ray]], actress and playwright
* [[David Rees (cartoonist)|David Rees]], satirist
* [[Dexter Romweber]], rockabilly roots-rocker
* [[Terry Sanford]], [[United States senator]] and [[governor of North Carolina]]
* [[Stuart Scott]], sportscaster
* [[Dean Smith]], former basketball coach
* [[Lee Smith (author)|Lee Smith]], author, lives in Hillsborough
* [[Oliver Smithies]], 2007 recipient of the [[Nobel Prize]]
* [[Silda Wall Spitzer]], wife of former New York governor [[Eliot Spitzer]]
* [[Chris Stamey]], musician
* [[James Taylor]], popular musician
* [[Lawrence Taylor]], football player
* [[Manly Wade Wellman]], novelist
* [[Daniel Wallace (author)|Daniel Wallace]], author, lives in Carrboro
* [[Kent Williams (artist)|Kent Williams]], painter, illustrator and comics artist
* [[Roy Williams (coach)|Roy Williams]], basketball coach
* [[Thomas Wolfe]], novelist
* [[James Worthy]], basketball player