Editing Virginia City, Montana (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Sarah Bickford]], African American businesswoman, former slave<ref>{{cite web |url=http://montanawomenshistory.org/celebrating-sarah-gammon-bickford/ |title=Celebrating Sarah Gammon Bickford |website=montanawomenshistory.org |date=August 14, 2014 |access-date=August 31, 2020}}</ref>
* [[John Bozeman]], prospector, merchant, founder of [[Bozeman, Montana]]
* [[Calamity Jane]], resident for some time
* [[Helen M. Duncan]], geologist and paleontologist; grew up in Virginia City
* [[Boone Helm]], notorious gunfighter, serial killer
* [[Hezekiah Lord Hosmer (judge)|Hezekiah L. Hosmer]], first Chief Justice of Montana Territory Supreme Court
* [[Nathaniel P. Langford]], prospector, vigilante and first superintendent of [[Yellowstone National Park]]
* [[Thomas Francis Meagher]], Irish nationalist, Civil War general, Secretary of State
* [[Joseph Millard]], later a U.S. senator from Nebraska; lived and opened a bank here
* [[Wilbur F. Sanders]], founding member of the Vigilance Committee and U.S. senator from Montana<ref>{{cite book |author=Dillon, Mark C. |title=Montana Vigilantes 1863-1870 Gold, Guns and Gallows  |publisher=Utah State University Press |location=Logan, UT |year=2013 |isbn=9780874219197 |chapter=Formation of the Vigilance Committee |pages=119–134}}</ref>
* [[George Laird Shoup]], [[governor of Idaho]]; moved here after the Civil War
* [[Jack Slade]], Pony Express co-founder and gunfighter; lynched here
* [[Sam V. Stewart]], governor and Supreme Court justice of Montana; practiced law here
* [[Nelson Story]], prospector, merchant and cattleman
* [[Granville Stuart]], prospector, vigilante, merchant
* [[William Boyce Thompson]], founder of [[Newmont Mining]]; born here
* [[A. A. Townsend]], captain of the Townsend Wagon Train