List of people from Charleston, South Carolina
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This is a list of notable people who were either born in, or have lived in, Charleston, South Carolina.
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[edit] Athletes
- Beth Daniel (born 1956), professional golfer
- Bud Moore (born 1941), NASCAR driver
[edit] Entertainers
- Stephen Colbert (born 1964), comedian
- Andy Dick (born 1965), comedian
- Thomas Gibson (born 1962), actor
- Mabel King (1932–1999), actress
- Will Patton (born 1954), actor
- Flavor Flav, rapper
- Darius Rucker (born 1966), lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish
- Melanie Thornton (1967–2001), singer and former member of La Bouche
[edit] Military figures
- Mark Wayne Clark (1896–1984), United States Army general of World War II and the Korean War
- Benjamin Huger (1805–1877), Continental Army general
- Francis Marion (1732–1795), Continental Army general, nicknamed "The Swamp Fox"
- Robert C. Richardson, Jr. (1882–1954), United States Army general of World War II
[edit] Political figures
- William Aiken, Jr. (1806–1887), Governor of South Carolina[1]
- Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884), U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Confederate States Secretary of State and Attorney General
- James Francis Byrnes (1879–1972), U.S. Representative and Senator, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Secretary of State, and Governor of South Carolina
- John C. Calhoun (1782–1850), U.S. Representative and Senator, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of War
- William Drayton, Sr. (1733–1790), associate justice of South Carolina Supreme Court[1]
- Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), American Revolutionary War leader
- James Gadsden (1788–1858), U.S. minister to Mexico, president of the South Carolina Railroad Company
- Thomas Heyward, Jr. (1746–1809), signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
- Fritz Hollings (born 1922), United States Senator from South Carolina, Governor and Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
- Henry Laurens (1724–1792), American Revolutionary War leader
- Burnet Maybank (1899–1954), Charleston mayor, South Carolina governor, and United States Senator from South Carolina
- Burnet Maybank II, lawyer and Lieutenant governor of South Carolina[citation needed]
- Christopher Memminger (1803–1888), Confederate Minister of the Treasury, proponent of public schools
- William Porcher Miles (1822–1899), lawyer, U.S. Representative from South Carolina, member of the Confederate Congress, designed the Confederate battle flag
- William McGillivray Morrison, Depression-era mayor of Charleston[citation needed]
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), American Revolutionary War leader, United States Ambassador to France, Federalist candidate for President in the 1804 and 1808 United States presidential elections
- Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851), botanist, politician, and diplomat; U.S. Representative, United States Ambassador to Mexico, Secretary of War, founded precursor to the Smithsonian Institution; namesake of the poinsettia
- Joseph P. Riley, Jr. (born 1943), Mayor of Charleston since 1975
- Henry William de Saussure (1763–1839) second director of United States Mint, intendant (mayor) of Charleston
- James Skivring Smith (1825–1884), President of Liberia 1871–1872
- George Alfred Trenholm (1807–1876), Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury
[edit] Scientists
- Robert Furchgott (born 1916), biochemist and Nobel Laureate
- Ernest Everett Just (1883–1941), biologist
- William Charles Wells (1757–1817), physician
[edit] Writers and artists
- Arthur Freed (1894–1973) Hollywood producer, composer, and writer
- Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. (1911–2001), author, noted for Cheaper by the Dozen
- Dubose Heyward (1885–1940) writer and lyricist, noted for Porgy and Bess
- Robert Jordan (1948–2007) novelist, author of the The Wheel of Time series
- Carew Rice (1899–1971), silhouettist
- Alexandra Ripley (1934–2004), author, noted for Scarlett
- Philip Simmons (1912–2009), ironworker
- William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) poet, novelist, and historian
- Thomas Sully (1783–1872), painter
- David Carson (Born 1956), Graphic Designer
[edit] Other
- William Abbott, manager of the New Charleston Theater[1]
- Septima Poinsette Clark (1898–1987), educator, civil rights activist; "grandmother of the American civil rights movement"
- Lauren Hutton (born 1943), model
- Sallie Krawcheck (born 1964), Citigroup chief financial officer
- Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), firebrand rancher from whom the term "maverick" was coined.
- Burnet Maybank III, lawyer and two time head of the South Carolina Department of Revenue
- Robert Mills (1781–1855), architect
- Vanessa Minnillo (born 1980), Miss USA 1998, MTV VJ, and Entertainment Tonight correspondent
- Robert N. Rosen, lawyer, historian, and author[citation needed]
- Denmark Vesey (1767–1822), freedman tried and executed for allegedly plotting a slave revolt
- J. Waites Waring (1880–1968), United States District Court for the District of South Carolina judge; was part of three-judge panel that heard the school desegregation case Briggs v. Elliott
