Editing Wilmington, North Carolina (section)

===Military===
* [[Edwin Anderson Jr.]], [[Medal of Honor]] recipient
* [[Eugene Ashley Jr.]], Medal of Honor recipient
* [[Arthur Bluethenthal]], football player and [[World War I]] pilot
* [[William D. Halyburton Jr.]], Medal of Honor recipient<ref>Steelman, Ben. (October 10, 2003). [https://www.starnewsonline.com/article/NC/20031010/News/605092711/WM Medal of Honor winners remembered] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020053311/https://www.starnewsonline.com/article/NC/20031010/News/605092711/WM |date=October 20, 2020 }}. ''StarNews Online''. Retrieved October 19, 2020.</ref>
* [[Joseph McNeil]], member of the [[Greensboro sit-ins|Greensboro Four]] during [[Civil rights movement]], and former major general in the [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]]
* [[Charles P. Murray Jr.]], Medal of Honor recipient
* [[Ilario Pantano]], [[United States Marine Corps|United States Marine]]
* [[William Gordon Rutherfurd]], commanded {{HMS|Swiftsure|1804|6}} during the [[Battle of Trafalgar]]
* [[Ted Sampley]], Vietnam veteran and POW-MIA activist
* [[John Steele (paratrooper)|John Steele]], paratrooper; subject of the film ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]''
* [[John Ancrum Winslow]], officer in the [[United States Navy]] during the [[Mexican–American War]] and [[American Civil War]]