Editing Orange County, Virginia (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[James Barbour]], the 18th [[Governor of Virginia]], US Senator, and [[United States Secretary of War]]
* [[Lewis R. Bradley]], [[List of Governors of Nevada|second Governor]] of [[Nevada]] in the United States from 1871 to 1879; born in Orange County.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_nevada/col2-content/main-content-list/title_bradley_lewis.html|title= Nevada Governor Lewis Rice Bradley|publisher= National Governors Association|access-date=September 26, 2012|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120119132303/http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_nevada/col2-content/main-content-list/title_bradley_lewis.html|archive-date=January 19, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Nannie Helen Burroughs]], black American educator, orator, religious leader and businesswoman
* [[Elijah Craig]], Baptist minister who was arrested in Fredericksburg in the cause of religious freedom before the Revolution; later followed after brother Rev. Lewis Craig, leader of "[[The Travelling Church]]" to Kentucky in 1781
* [[Chris Haney]], Major League Baseball pitcher
* [[Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]], actor and professional wrestler; maintains an estate in the county<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tax.orangecountyva.gov/applications/txapps/index.htm |title=Orange County property tax records |access-date=August 16, 2013|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817062434/https://tax.orangecountyva.gov/applications/txapps/index.htm |archive-date=August 17, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[Patrick Kilpatrick]], actor
* [[Edna Lewis]], black American cookbook author and chef, "whose cookbooks revived the nearly forgotten genre of refined Southern cooking"<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/us/edna-lewis-89-dies-wrote-cookbooks-that-revived-refined-southern-cuisine.html |title=Edna Lewis, 89, Dies; Wrote Cookbooks That Revived Refined Southern Cuisine |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date= February 14, 2006|access-date=March 23, 2022|last1=Asimov |first1=Eric |last2=Severson |first2=Kim }}</ref>
* [[James Madison]], the 4th President of the United States and "Father of the Constitution"
* [[Randolph Scott]], [[Western (genre)|western]] film [[actor]]
* [[James Taliaferro]], former [[United States Senate|U.S. senator]] for [[Florida]]
* [[Zachary Taylor]], 12th [[President of the United States]]
* [[Eugene Williams Sr.]] (born 1942), author, educator, and inventor