Famous South Carolinians
These are just a few of the famous people who were either born in South Carolina or spent some important time in South Carolina.
Kimberly Clarice Aiken, Miss America and founder of HERO
Marjorie Amos-Frazier, first female South Carolina public service commissioner
Washington Allston, painter
James Mark Baldwin, founder of American Psychological Association
Charlotta Spears Bass, civil rights leader, first African-American woman to run for U.S. vice president
Paul Benjamin, actor
Mary McLeod Bethune, educator
Charles Bolden, astronaut
James Butler Bonham, defender of the Alamo
Peter Boulware, football player
James Brown, soul singer, the Godfather of Soul
Pierce Butler, U.S. senator
James F. Byrnes, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of state, South Carolina governor
John C. Calhoun, U.S. vice president, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of war, U.S. secretary of state
W. H. Carney, first black awarded the Medal of Honor
Chubby Checker, singer
Mark Clark, general
Beth Daniel, golfer
James Davis, singer with the Dixie Hummingbirds
James Dickey, poet
Larry Doby, baseball player
William Henry Drayton, patriot
Alex English, basketball player
William Price Fox, novelist
Jeff Foxworthy, comedian
Joe Frazier, boxer
Robert F. Fuchgott, pharmacologist and Nobel prize winner
Leeza Gibbons, TV host
Althea Gibson, tennis player
William Gibson, science fiction novelist
Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpet player
Joseph Leonard Goldstein, medical research and Nobel prize winner
Lindsay Graham, U.S. senator
Wade Hampton, Confederate general
Andrew Jackson, U.S. president
Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader
Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player
Jasper Johns, painter
Sue Monk Kidd, novelist
Eartha Kitt, singer and actress
Henry Laurens, president of Continental Congress
James Longstreet, Confederate general
Francis Marion, aka “Swamp Fox,” patriot
Edwin McCain, recording artist
Andie McDowell, actress
Ronald McNair, astronaut
Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
Henry Middleton, president of the first Continental Congress
Henry Middleton, South Carolina governor and minister to Russia
Williams Middleton, signer of the Ordinance of Secession
Robert Mills, architect, designer of the Washington Monument
William Moultrie, builder of Fort Moultrie
James M. Perry, first woman lawyer in South Carolina
William “Refrigerator” Perry, football player
Julia Peterkin, novelist
Charles Pinckney, a framer of the U.S. Constitution
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, ambassador to France
Bill Pickney, singer, The Drifters
Joseph Rainey, U.S. congressman, first African-American to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and take his seat.
Bobby Richardson, baseball player
Velma Richardson, general
Darius Rucker, rock singer, Hootie and the Blowfish
Edward Rutledge, member of Continental Congress
Robert Smalls, U.S. congressman
Dalton Stevens, world record-breaking
button collector
Thomas Sumter, patriot
Strom Thurmond, U.S. senator
Benjamin Tillman, founder of Clemson University
Aaron Tippin, country singer
Charles Hard Townes, physicist and Nobel prize winner
William Travis, commander of the Alamo
Abraham Turner, general
Vanna White, Wheel of Fortune letter turner
Armstrong Williams, journalist
Woodrow Wilson, U.S. president
J. J. Wright, first black associate justice of a state supreme court
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