Editing Tryon, North Carolina (section)

==Notable people==
* [[George Charles Aid]] (1872–1938), painter<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashevilleart.org/collection/|title=Collection|website=Asheville Art Museum}}</ref>
* [[Katharine Alexander]] (1898–1981), actress, died in Tryon
* [[Margaret Culkin Banning]] (1891–1982), whose home "[[Friendly Hills (Tryon, North Carolina)|Friendly Hills]]", was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1998<ref name=HPFNC/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natregadvancedsearch.do?searchtype=natregadvanced |title=National Register of Historic Places |year=2011 |publisher=National Park Service |postscript=" Advanced search: "Friendly Hills" in Polk County, North Carolina |access-date=January 1, 2011 |archive-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215115910/http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natregadvancedsearch.do?searchtype=natregadvanced |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[William Behrends]] (born 1946), sculptor<ref>{{cite news |title=From Willie Mays to Juan Montoya: The sculptor of sporting history |url=https://www.foxsports.com/stories/motor/from-willie-mays-to-juan-montoya-the-sculptor-of-sporting-history |access-date=August 6, 2024 |work=[[Fox Sports]] |date=October 23, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Cathy Smith Bowers]] (born 1949), poet and professor; [[North Carolina Poet Laureate]], 2010–2012
* [[Ligon Flynn]] (1931–2010), architect
* [[Crystal R. Fox]] (born 1964), actress
* [[Henry Jacques Garrigues]] (1831–1913), Danish-born doctor considered to have introduced [[antiseptic|antiseptic obstetrics]] to the United States
* [[William Gillette]] (1853–1937), Sherlock Holmes actor who built a home in Tryon; this was adapted as the Thousand Pine Inn<ref>{{cite book | title=Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains | volume=2  | author=Eubanks, G | publisher=Accessible Reading Publications | year=2008 | page=111 | isbn=9781458715913 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftNwsGkq6AgC&pg=PA111 }}</ref>
* [[Mary Alice Monroe]], author
* [[Richard Christian Nelson]] (born 1961), artist
* [[Mark Schweizer]] (1956–2019), singer, composer, conductor, author, and publisher, founder of St. James Music Press <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sjmp.com/|title=SJMP - Church Choral Music You'll Love|website=www.sjmp.com}}</ref>
* [[Nina Simone]] (1933–2003), singer, pianist, composer, and activist<ref name=TDDA/>
* [[Amelia Van Buren]] (1856–1942), photographer