• Source: List of people from Winston-Salem, North Carolina

This is an incomplete list of notable people associated with U.S. city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.




Academics


Stuart Bondurant, professor and dean emeritus at the UNC School of Medicine
Coy Cornelius Carpenter, dean of the School of Medicine of Wake Forest University
Adelaide Fries, foremost scholar of the history and genealogy of the Moravians
Robert Huntley, president of Washington and Lee University
Jacquelyne Jackson, sociologist and academic
Harold L. Martin, chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
William T. Miller, professor of organic chemistry at Cornell University
Virginia Newell, math professor at Winston-Salem State University and alderman of Winston-Salem
Len Preslar, business educator and Distinguished Professor of Practice at Wake Forest University
Florence Wells Slater, entomologist and schoolteacher
Norman Adrian Wiggins, president of Campbell University
Tanya Zanish-Belcher, director of Special Collections and Archives at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University




Art and architecture


Earline Heath King, sculptor who specialized in portraits and statues
Eleanor Layfield Davis, artist
Helen Copenhaver Hanes, significant figure in the founding of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Frank L. Horton, museum director and antiques dealer
Megan LeCrone, dancer and soloist with the New York City Ballet
Willard C. Northup, architect
Kathryn Reynolds, photographer
William Roy Wallace, architect




Business


Celeste Beatty, first Black woman to own a brewery in the United States
Jack O. Bovender Jr., former chairman and CEO of HCA Healthcare from 2002 to 2009
Stuart Epperson, chairman of Salem Communications Corporation
Bowman Gray Sr., president and chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Anne Cannon Forsyth, Cannon textiles and R.J. Reynolds tobacco families heiress and founder and president of the North Carolina Fund
Francis Henry Fries, textile businessman and industrialist
James A. Gray Jr., president and chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem and North Carolina Senate
John Wesley Hanes, founder of Hanes clothing brand
Phil Hanes, businessman, conservationist, and patron of the arts
Velma Hopkins, labour rights activist who organized a strike against R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Rufus L. Patterson Jr., founder of the American Machine and Foundry and a vice president of the American Tobacco Company.
R. J. Reynolds, founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
William Neal Reynolds, businessman with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Lewis Rudolph, co-founder of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
Vernon Rudolph, co-founder of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
Moranda Smith, labor organizer and unionist
Paul Trevithick, client partner and senior director at EPAM




Entertainment


John L. Adams, actor, comedian and director
Ramin Bahrani, film director and screenwriter
Elizabeth Campbell, public television executive
Jerrod Carmichael, stand-up comedian, actor, and writer
Howard Cosell, sportscaster
Carter Covington, television show creator, writer, story editor and producer
Bosley Crowther, film critic
Jennifer Ehle, actress
Nia Franklin, Miss America 2019
Emily V. Gordon, writer and producer
Charles Grant, actor
Kathryn Grayson, actress and operatic soprano singer
Pam Grier, actress
Julianna Guill, actress
Rosemary Harris, actress; Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winner
Jackée Harry, actress and comedian
Burgess Jenkins, actor
Darwin Joston, actor
Tom Kent, nationally syndicated radio personality
Allyn King, vaudeville actress and a Ziegfeld Follies performer
Kelly-Anne Lyons, actress
Angus MacLachlan, screenwriter
Rusty Mills, Emmy-winning animator and director
Cullen Moss, actor
Harold Nicholas, film dancer, entertainer
Jacqueline Novak, comedian and actress
Daniel Peddle, film director and screenwriter
Jeryl Prescott, actress
Stuart Scott, sportscaster
Stephen A. Smith, sports journalist, Winston-Salem State University alum, radio host, analyst for ESPN First Take
Meg Steedle, actress
Tasha Marbury, reality show personality and cast member of Basketball Wives
Jill Wagner, actress and TV host
Rolonda Watts, television personality and actress
Colleen Williams, news anchor with KNBC in Los Angeles
Danny McBride, actor, NCSA 94-96
Geno Segers, actor, graduated from East Forsyth
Jada Pinkett Smith, actress and wife of Will Smith, attended NCSA
George C. Stoney, documentary filmmaker
Kenneth Utt, film producer and unit production manager
Rolonda Watts, television and talkshow host
Michael Wilson, director




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9th Wonder, Grammy award-winning hip-hop producer
Sunshine Anderson, singer-songwriter
B.o.B., hip-hop artist
Obadiah Carter, member of the "5" Royales
Mitch Easter, musician and record producer, founder of Drive-In Studio
Ben Folds, singer-songwriter
Guitar Gabriel, blues musician
Curtis Hairston, soul/funk vocalist
George Hamilton IV, country singer
Byron Hill, songwriter
Peter Holsapple, singer-songwriter
Greg Humphreys, singer-songwriter and member of Dillon Fence and Hobex
Kimberly Marshall, organist and organ scholar
Chris Murrell, singer and former lead vocalist of the Count Basie Orchestra
Ben Neill, classical composer
Clarence Paul, songwriter and record producer
Dusty Redmon, guitarist
Louise Siddall, composer
Sluice, indie rock musician
Chris Stamey, musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer
Becca Stevens, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Ernest Thompson, blind street musician
TiaCorine, rapper
Tichina Vaughn, operatic mezzo-soprano




Literature and journalism


Bonnie Angelo, journalist and author
Maya Angelou, poet
Bekah Brunstetter, playwright
John Carroll, journalist and newspaper editor
Gary Chapman, author
Clement Eaton, historian and writer
John Ehle, author
Mary Garber, sports journalist
Emily V. Gordon, writer, producer, and podcast host
Karen L. Parker, journalist and first Black female graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Melissa Harris-Perry, journalist, political commentator, author
Charlie Lovett, New York Times best-selling novelist and expert on both the works and life of Lewis Carroll
T. R. Pearson, author of A Short History of a Small Place
James Norwood Pratt, author on topics of tea and tea lore
Riley Redgate, author of young adult fiction




Military


Lincoln Broyhill, record-setting tail gunner in World War II
Daryl Caudle, Admiral and Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command
Walter J. Davis Jr., vice admiral in the United States Navy
Gordon Gray, Secretary of the Army under President Truman and President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor
Lawrence Joel, United States Army soldier; received Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War
Henry Johnson, United States Army soldier; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War I
Togo West, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, United States Secretary of the Army, General Counsel of the Navy
Earl P. Yates, rear admiral in the United States Navy




Politics and government


Hannah Atkins, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1968 to 1980, and the first African-American woman elected to it
Frank Ballance, United States House of Representatives
Stan Bingham, North Carolina General Assembly
Burr Brock Sr., North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina Senate
Jim Broyhill, a Republican politician; served North Carolina in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate
Ted Budd, former United States Representative and United States Senator from North Carolina
Richard Burr, United States Senator
Irving E. Carlyle, North Carolina lawyer and state leader
R. Thurmond Chatham, U.S. House of Representatives
Linda Combs, Controller of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President
H. R. Crawford, Assistant Secretary for Housing Management of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Member of the Council of the District of Columbia
Cal Cunningham, North Carolina Senate
Elisabeth Epps, Colorado House of Representatives
Dale Folwell, North Carolina State Treasurer and North Carolina House of Representatives,
Linda Garrou, North Carolina Senate
Voit Gilmore, director of the United States Travel Service and North Carolina Senate
Peaches Golding, appointed by HM Queen Elizabeth II as High Sheriff of Bristol 2010–2011, awarded the OBE
John Stephens Graham, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service and Atomic Energy Commission
James A. Gray Jr., president and chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem and North Carolina Senate
Lyons Gray, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Revenue and North Carolina House of Representatives
Kyle Hall, North Carolina House of Representatives
Mabel Hampton, lesbian activist and contributor to the Lesbian Herstory Archives
Ed Hanes, North Carolina House of Representatives
John Wesley Hanes II, investment banker, corporate turnaround specialist, and Under Secretary of the United States Treasury
John W. Hardwicke, Maryland House of Delegates
William Heaton, former chief of staff to Bob Ney
Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education
Mark Johnson, North Carolina's Superintendent of Public Instruction
Walter E. Johnston III, United States House of Representatives
Allen Joines, mayor of Winston-Salem
Annie Brown Kennedy, politician and lawyer; first Black woman to serve in the North Carolina House of Representatives
Jules Gilmer Korner Jr., judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
Donny Lambeth, North Carolina House of Representatives
Norman M. Miller, United States Navy officer; one of the most decorated Naval Aviators during World War II
Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell, MLB pitcher for Pirates and Cardinals, and US congressman from 1968 to 1967
Derwin Montgomery, North Carolina House of Representatives
Lorraine H. Morton, mayor of Evanston, Illinois
Roxie Nicholson, career staffer at the United States Department of Labor
Ray C. Osborne, served as the first Lieutenant Governor of Florida under the state constitution of 1968
Earline Parmon, North Carolina Senate
Rufus Lenoir Patterson, Mayor of Salem, North Carolina
R. J. Reynolds Jr., treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and mayor of Winston-Salem
Grace Rohrer, Secretary of Administration of North Carolina and Secretary of Cultural Resources of North Carolina
Evelyn Terry, North Carolina House of Representatives
Bennetta Bullock Washington, "first first lady" of Washington, D.C., director of Job Corps for Women at the Department of Labor
Larry W. Womble, North Carolina General Assembly
Madie Hall Xuma, president of the African National Congress Women's League




Religion


J. Neil Alexander, 9th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
Stuart Epperson, evangelical who was the co-founder and chairman of Salem Media Group
J. D. Greear, 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention
Herbert Spaugh, Bishop of the Moravian Church




Science and technology


Roy F. Brissenden, NASA physicist
Burton C. Gray, co-founder of Scientific Time Sharing Corporation
Lisa Hensley, microbiologist, associate director of science at the Office of the Chief Scientist of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Joseph Gaither Pratt, psychologist who specialized in parapsychology.




Sports






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Dustin Ackley, outfielder for the New York Yankees
Koke Alexander, Negro leagues outfielder
Fred Anderson, former Major League Baseball player
Don Cardwell, former Major League Baseball pitcher; World Series champion
Alvin Crowder, Major League Baseball pitcher; World Series champion
Alex Crumbley, baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues
Spencer Davis, baseball infielder in the Negro leagues
Ryan Dull, Major League Baseball pitcher
Harvey Gentry, former Major League Baseball player
Rufe Gentry, former Major League Baseball player for the Detroit Tigers
Mark Grace, first baseman for Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks, World Series champion, broadcaster and coach
Tommy Gregg, former Major League Baseball player
Napoleon Hairston, Negro league outfielder
Ed Lyons, Major League Baseball second baseman
D. J. Mitchell, Major League Baseball pitcher
Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell, MLB pitcher for Pirates and Cardinals, and US congressman from 1968 to 1967
Howie Nunn, former Major League Baseball player
Ernie Shore, former Major League Baseball pitcher, two-time World Series champion and sheriff of Forsyth County, North Carolina
Seth Simmons, professional baseball player
Bill Slack, professional baseball player, coach, and manager
Robert Woodard, baseball player and collegiate coach




= Basketball

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Cy Alexander, college basketball coach
Norton Barnhill, professional basketball player
Randolph Childress, former professional basketball player
Hubert Davis, head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, basketball analyst for ESPN, former NBA player
Rick Duckett, college basketball coach
Lindsay Edmonds, college basketball coach
C.E. "Big House" Gaines, head basketball coach of Winston-Salem State University for 47 years; member of Basketball Hall of Fame
Danny Gathings, retired basketball player
Harry Giles III, professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers
Herm Gilliam, professional basketball player
Happy Hairston, professional basketball player for Los Angeles Lakers; NBA Champion
C. J. Harris, basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ricky Hickman, professional basketball player
Josh Howard, professional basketball player
Whit Holcomb-Faye, professional basketball player
Brian Howard, professional basketball player
Josh Howard, professional basketball player and coach
Othello Hunter, professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Reggie Johnson, professional basketball player
Rusty LaRue, professional basketball player; NBA champion
Camille Little, WNBA player
Caleb Martin, twin brother of Cody Martin, professional basketball player for the Miami Heat
Cody Martin, twin brother of Caleb Martin, professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets
Earl Monroe, professional basketball player for New York Knicks and Baltimore Bullets
Benny Moss, college basketball coach
Ryan Odom, college basketball coach
Tyson Patterson, professional basketball player
Chris Paul, professional basketball player, 12x NBA All-Star and two-time Olympic champion
Josh Pittman, professional basketball player
Willie Porter, professional basketball player
Skip Prosser, professional basketball player.
Juvonte Reddic, professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Brian Robinson, college basketball coach
Reyshawn Terry, professional basketball player and 2005 NCAA champion with North Carolina
Kevin Thompson, professional basketball player




= Football

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Ray Agnew, professional football player and executive
Ray Agnew III, professional football player
Hubbard Alexander, professional football coach
Bracy Bonham, Canadian Football League player
Hal Bradley, professional football player
Kidd Brewer, college football player and administrator
Alan Caldwell, professional football player
Tony Covington, professional football player
Angelo Crowell, professional football player
Germane Crowell, professional football player
Donnie Davis, professional football player
Divine Deablo, professional football player
Kenny Duckett, professional football player
Carl Eller, professional football player; member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Clement M. Eyler, college football coach
Ed Gainey, Canadian Football League player
Paul Gibson, professional football player
George Godsey, professional football player
Chris Hairston, professional football player
Josh Hawkins, professional football player
Madison Hedgecock, professional football player
KJ Henry, professional football player
Dwayne Ijames, professional football player
Bill Jackson, professional football player
Anthony Levine, professional football player and two-time Super Bowl champion
Alex McCalister, professional football player
Bill McKoy, professional football player
Ja'Quan McMillian, professional football player
Doug Middleton, professional football player
Paul Miles, professional football player
Jackie Mitchell, Canadian Football League player
Aric Morris, professional football player
A. J. Nicholson, professional football player
Darrell Nicholson, professional football player
Derek Nicholson, professional football player and college football coach
Artimus Parker, professional football player
Denzel Rice, professional football player
Sherman Simmons, college football coach
Darryl Sims, professional football player
Speedy Speer, football player and coach
Ramondo Stallings, professional football player
Ryan Taylor, professional football player
Steve Videtich, professional football player
Blake Whiteheart, professional football player
Bryce Williams, professional football player
Tory Woodbury, professional football player
Tom Young, college football coach




= Golf

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Cydney Clanton, professional golfer
Jim Ferree, professional golfer
Jerry Haas, professional golfer
Walter Hall, professional golfer
David Mathis, professional golfer
Arnold Palmer, professional golfer; attended Wake Forest University




= Hockey

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Patrick O'Sullivan, National Hockey League player
Ben Smith, National Hockey League player and 2013 Stanley Cup champion




= Racing

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Dillon Bassett, NASCAR driver
Ronnie Bassett Jr., NASCAR driver
Ed Berrier, NASCAR driver
Richard Childress, NASCAR team owner
Barry Dodson, NASCAR crew chief
Bobby Myers, NASCAR racing driver
Chocolate Myers, NASCAR team principal
Leon Sales, stock car racing driver




= Soccer

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Tanner Beason, Major League Soccer player
John Bradford, professional soccer coach
Sam Cronin, former Major League Soccer player
Austin da Luz, professional soccer player
Luciano Delbono, professional soccer player
Matt Spear, soccer coach and player
David Testo, professional soccer player
Wells Thompson, former Major League Soccer player




= Track and field

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Blake Russell, Olympic long-distance runner, competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics
J-Mee Samuels, track and field sprinter




= Other

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Kathleen Baker, Olympic swimmer, won gold and silver medal at 2016 Summer Olympics
Michael Blomquist, rower and a former World Champion
Ric Converse, professional wrestler
Kimani Griffin, Olympic speed skater, competed at 2018 Winter Olympics
Marc Johnson, professional skateboarder
Randy Jones, Olympic bobsledder, won silver medal in the four-man event at 2002 Winter Olympics
Brian McDonough, Olympic cyclist, competed at 1996 Summer Olympics
Tab Thacker, NCAA wrestling national champion at NC State and actor
Matthew Thomson, tennis player
Chris Young, gymnast, won silver medal at 1999 Pan American Games




Other


Zachary Smith Reynolds, murder victim
Hattie M. Strong, philanthropist




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