• Source: List of people from Charlottesville, Virginia

This is a list of people from Charlottesville, Virginia, or from areas nearby to Charlottesville, who were either born, lived or presently live in the city.
Since the city's early formation, it has been the home of numerous notable individuals, including US presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe and author William Faulkner. In the present day, Charlottesville has been the home of movie star Sam Shepard and musician Dave Matthews.




Actors


Kathleen Clifford – silent film, vaudeville and Broadway stage actress; born in Charlottesville
Miriam Cooper – silent film actress; known for her role in The Birth of a Nation; spent her last years here
Kate Higgins – voice actress, Naruto
Rob Lowe – Hollywood actor; born in Charlottesville
Camila Mendes – actress; born in Charlottesville to Brazilian parents




Authors and academics


Rita Dove – poet and essayist
William Faulkner – writer-in-residence at the university, to which he bequeathed all of his original manuscripts
Elmer L. Gaden – biochemical engineer
Steven M. Greer – ex-physician best known for founding the Disclosure Project
Henry Hoke – author of hybrid books
Wythe Leigh Kinsolving – Episcopal priest, writer, poet, political advocate; lived here in the 1940s through 1964
Julia Magruder – novelist
William McDonough – environmental architect, planner, author; former dean of architecture at the university
William McGuffey – lived in Charlottesville while serving as a professor at the university; buried nearby
Arthur T. Prescott – educator and founding president of Louisiana Tech University, 1894–1899; lived in Charlottesville 1887–1893, as commandant of cadets at the University of Virginia
Monica Richardson – editor
Rob Sheffield – author of Love is a Mix Tape, a memoir that takes place in Charlottesville
Hawes Spencer – editor, founded The Hook




Businesspeople


Coran Capshaw – manager for the Dave Matthews Band; real estate developer
Nannie Cox Jackson – prominent African American educator, wealthy property owner and businesswoman; likely African American descendant of Thomas Jefferson
John Kluge – businessman and philanthropist; lived in Charlottesville for a number of years and built the Albemarle House
Halsey Minor – entrepreneur, founded CNET




Government figures



Richard Burr - U.S. Senator from North Carolina
Thomas Jefferson – third President of the United States (1801–1809); principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776); one of the most influential Founding Fathers
Meriwether Lewis – explorer, soldier, and public administrator; best known for his role as the leader of the Corps of Discovery, whose mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase
James Madison – fourth president of the United States
James Monroe – founding father of the United States; fifth president of the United States; lived at Ash Lawn-Highland, adjacent to Jefferson's Monticello
Nicholas Philip Trist – author of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War




Musicians



7th Grade Girl Fight
Terri Allard
Hush Arbors – folk and experimental guitarist
Don Barnes – member of 38 Special
Carter Beauford – percussionist (drummer) and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band
Eli Cook
Bella Morte
David Berman – member of Silver Jews
Paul Curreri
John D'earth
Schuyler Fisk
Brennan Gilmore
The Hackensaw Boys
Happy Flowers
Corey Harris – blues and reggae musician and teacher; winner of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007
Greg Howard – Chapman Stick player
Maxine Jones – an original member of the R&B singing group En Vogue
The Landlords
Stephen Malkmus – member of Pavement
Dave Matthews – musician
James McNew – member of Yo La Tengo
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor – singer, one of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta sorority
LeRoi Moore – saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band
Tom Peloso – member of Modest Mouse
Wendy Repass
Sparky's Flaw
Devon Sproule
Boyd Tinsley – violinist and backup singer for the Dave Matthews Band
Sarah White




Sportspeople



Ashby Dunbar – baseball player in the Negro leagues
Charlie Ferguson – former MLB pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
Larry Haney – former Major League Baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Pilots/Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals
Ralph Horween – Harvard Crimson and NFL football player
Chris Long – graduate of St. Anne's-Belfield School; award-winning football defensive end on the 2007 Virginia Cavaliers football team; drafted 2nd overall by the St. Louis Rams in the 2008 NFL draft
Howie Long – father of Chris Long; TV sports personality; former football defensive end for the Oakland Raiders
Tommy Toms – former Major League Baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, 1975–1977; born in Charlottesville
Eric Wilson – former NFL football player for the Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins




Others


Anna Anderson – claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia; lived out her final years in Charlottesville
Eva Roberta Coles Boone – African-American educator and missionary to Congo
William D. Gibbons – Baptist minister
Fountain Hughes – former slave interviewed by the Works Progress Administration to record slave narratives
Abby Kasonik – artist
Khizr and Ghazala Khan – political activists and speaker at 2016 Democratic National Convention
Robert Llewellyn – Earlysville photographer
Eduardo Montes-Bradley – writer and filmmaker
John Mosby – known as the "Gray Ghost", a Confederate partisan ranger in the American Civil War
Alexander Vandegrift – Medal of Honor recipient, first active-duty four-star general in the U.S. Marine Corps




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