Editing Caswell County, North Carolina (section)

==Notable people==
===Academia===
* [[A. Oveta Fuller]] (1955–2022), associate professor of microbiology at [[University of Michigan Medical School]]<ref>{{cite news| title=A. Oveta Fuller, Ph.D.| newspaper=Microbiology & Immunology|date=September 23, 2015|url=https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/microbiology-immunology/oveta-fuller-phd|access-date=March 31, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Henry Lee Graves]] (1813–1881), president of [[Baylor University]]
* [[William Louis Poteat]] (1856–1938), professor of biology and president of [[Wake Forest University]], public intellectual, early advocate of Darwinian [[evolution]]
* [[Henry Roland Totten]] (1892–1974), [[botanist]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Totten, Henry Roland|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/totten-henry-roland|access-date=June 17, 2022|website=www.ncpedia.org}}</ref>
*[[Vanessa Siddle Walker]] (born 1958), professor of African American Educational Studies at [[Emory University]]

===Art, literature, and music===
* [[The Badgett Sisters]], [[Folk music|folk]] and [[Gospel music|gospel]] group composed of sisters Celester, Connie, and Cleonia Badgett
* [[Max Drake]] (born 1952), musician
* [[Maud Gatewood]] (1934–2004), artist
* [[Mel Melton]], musician<ref>{{Cite web |last=Floyd |first=Mike |title=CM columnist Mel Melton leads a Zydeco band as well as cooks cajun |url=https://www.caswellmessenger.com/news/article_aee1e79e-d9c7-11eb-b93a-0b0f6b646e02.html |access-date=June 17, 2022 |website=The Caswell Messenger |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Ida Isabella Poteat]] (1858–1940), artist and instructor
* [[Moses Roper]] (1815–1891), African American [[abolitionist]], author, and orator
* [[Ray Scott (singer)|Ray Scott]] (born 1969), [[country music]] artist
* [[Carolina Slim]] (1923–1953), [[Piedmont blues]] guitarist and singer
* [[Hazel Smith]] (1934–2018), country music journalist, publicist, singer-songwriter, television and radio show host, and cookbook author

===Athletes===
* [[Mic'hael Brooks]] (born 1991), former [[NFL]] player who attended high school in Yanceyville
* [[John Oliver Gunn Jr.|John Gunn]] (1939–2010), race car driver<ref>{{cite web |title=John Gunn |url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/john-gunn/ |accessdate=May 20, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Lee Pulliam]] (born 1988), [[stock car racing]] driver and team owner
* [[Neal Watlington]] (1922–2019), [[MLB]] player for the [[Philadelphia Athletics]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Neal Watlington|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/watline01.shtml|accessdate=May 20, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Carl Willis]] (born 1960), former MLB player and current pitching coach for the [[Cleveland Guardians]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Carl Willis |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/carl-willis/ |accessdate=May 20, 2022}}</ref>

===Business===
* [[Thomas Day (cabinetmaker)|Thomas Day]] (1801–1861), [[free Negro|free Black]] furniture craftsman and cabinetmaker
* [[Edmund Richardson]] (1818–1886), entrepreneur who produced and marketed cotton
* [[Samuel Simeon Fels]] (1860–1950), businessman and philanthropist

===Government and law===
* [[Bedford Brown]] (1795–1870), [[U.S. senator]] 
* [[Richard Caswell]] (1729–1789), first and fifth [[governor of North Carolina]]
* [[Archibald Dixon]] (1802–1876), U.S. senator
* [[Donna Edwards]] (born 1958), former [[U.S. representative]] 
* [[Azariah Graves]] (1768–1850), general in the North Carolina militia during the [[War of 1812]] and a state senator 
* [[Calvin Graves]] (1804–1877), house member of the [[North Carolina General Assembly]] and member of the [[North Carolina Senate]] 
* [[John Kerr Hendrick]] (1849–1921), U.S. representative
* [[Louisa Moore Holt]] (1833–1899), First Lady of North Carolina
* [[John Kerr (Virginia Congressman)|John Kerr]] (1782–1842), member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* [[John Kerr Jr. (congress)|John Kerr Jr.]] (1811–1879), congressional representative and jurist
* [[John H. Kerr]] (1873–1958), jurist and politician
* [[Benjamin J. Lea]] (1833–1894), lawyer and politician who served as a justice on the [[Tennessee Supreme Court]] 
* [[Jacob E. Long]] (1880–1955), 15th [[lieutenant governor of North Carolina]] from 1925 to 1929 serving under Governor [[Angus Wilton McLean|Angus W. McLean]]
* [[Giles Mebane]] (1809–1899), speaker of the North Carolina Senate during most of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rsf |date=October 11, 2009 |title=Caswell County North Carolina: Giles Mebane (1809–1899) |url=https://ncccha.blogspot.com/2009/10/giles-mebane-1809-1899.html |access-date=June 17, 2022 |website=Caswell County North Carolina}}</ref>
* [[Anderson Mitchell]] (1800–1876), U.S. representative<ref>{{Cite web |title=Caswell County North Carolina Ancestral Trackers |url=http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/nc/caswell/caswell.htm |access-date=June 17, 2022 |website=www.ancestraltrackers.net}}</ref>
* [[Archibald Murphey|Archibald Debow Murphey]] (1777–1832), attorney, jurist, and politician who was known as the "Father of Education" in North Carolina
* [[Romulus Mitchell Saunders]] (1791–1867), U.S. representative
* [[John W. Stephens]] (1834–1870), North Carolina state senator, agent for the [[Freedmen's Bureau]]
* [[Jacob Thompson]] (1810–1885), [[U.S. Secretary of the Interior|U.S. secretary of the interior]]
* [[Hugh Webster (politician)|Hugh Webster]] (1943–2022), [[register of deeds]] for [[Alamance County]] and North Carolina state senator<ref>{{cite web |title=Hugh B. Webster |url=https://www.caswellmessenger.com/obituaries/article_0d3c1052-9e3b-11ec-a617-af1359631f39.html |accessdate=March 8, 2022}}</ref> 
* [[Marmaduke Williams]] (1774–1850), Democratic-Republican U.S. congressman
* [[George “Royal George” Williamson]] (1788–1856), member of the North Carolina Senate
* [[Bartlett Yancey, Jr.]] (1785–1828), [[Democrat-Republican]] U.S. congressman

===Miscellaneous===
* [[Oscar Penn Fitzgerald]] (1829–1911), [[Methodist]] clergyman, journalist, and educator
* [[Henrietta Phelps Jeffries]] (1857–1926), African American midwife and a founding member of Macedonia [[AME Church]] in [[Milton, North Carolina|Milton]]
* [[Peter U. Murphey]] (1810–1876), naval officer and captain of the {{Ship|CSS|Selma}} during the Civil War