West Virginia, USA
1. Wilber Pan (1980)
Taiwanese Actor-singer
American Taiwanese singer, actor, and rapper who won a Golden Bell Award in the Best Leading Actor in a Television Series for the series Endless Love in 2011.
2. JT Leroy (1980)
Novelist
An American author known for fiction written under the pseudonym of JT LeRoy, she was born Laura Albert. Her best-known works include The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (a...
3. Leonard Barr (1903)
American Actor And Comedian
Standup comedian and supporting actor who appeared in the 1973 film, The Sting, and the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever. He made guest appearances in Almost Famous, The...
4. Charlie Manuel (1944)
American Baseball Player And Coa
MLB coach who led the Philadelphia Phillies to a World Series title in 2008.
5. Noor Tagouri (1993)
Journalist
A graduate of one of the top journalism schools at the age of 20, she has been an associate journalist for CBS Radio, a local news reporter for CTV News...
6. Seth McClung (1981)
American Baseball Player
Baseball player nicknamed "Big Red" who played as a starting pitcher and relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Milwaukee Brewers during his MLB career. After retiring from...
7. Brianne Siddall (1963)
American Actor
Voice actor who voiced Calumon/Tommy Himi in the TV show Digimon, and Jim Hawking in the anime series Outlaw Star.
8. Gustavus Simmons (Unknow)
American Cryptographer
Gustavus J. Simmons is a retired cryptographer and former manager of the applied mathematics Department and Senior Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. He has worked primarily with authentication theory developing...
9. Isaac Holstein (1987)
Basketball Player
Isaac Jackson Holstein V is a Filipino-American professional basketball player currently playing for San Mig Super Coffee Mixers in the Philippine Basketball Association. He is drafted 7th overall by the...
10. Frank Sampedro (1949)
American Musician
Poncho Sampedro is an American guitarist and member of the rock band Crazy Horse known mainly for its longtime collaboration with singer-songwriter Neil Young. Born in West Virginia and raised...
11. Robert J. Marks II (1950)
American Electrical Engineering
Robert Jackson Marks II is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University and proponent of intelligent design. From 1977 to 2003 he was on the faculty...
12. Michael Genevie (1959)
American Theatre Director
Michael Genevie is an American stage film and television actor who is the Executive and Artistic Director of the Abbeville Opera House the official drama state theatre of South Carolina....
13. R. J. Reynolds (baseball) (1959)
American Baseball Player
Robert James Reynolds is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1983 to 1990. He also played three...
14. Tom McBride (actor) (1952)
Actor
Tom McBride was an American photographer model and actor. He starred in the 1981 horror movie Friday the 13th Part 2 as Mark. He also starred in the 1985 movie...
15. Brad Hoylman (1965)
American Politician
Brad M. Hoylman is an American Democratic politician. He is a Democratic Senator for the New York State Senate in Manhattan's 27th district first elected in the 2012 state election.
16. Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick (1896)
Naval Officer
Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick was a United States Navy Commander and the 26th Governor of American Samoa for a brief time from January 15 1936 to January 20 1936. During World...
17. Molly Line (1977)
American Journalist
Molly Line is a news correspondent for Fox News Channel. Molly Line joined Fox News Channel as a Boston-based correspondent in January 2006.
18. Brian Siders (1978)
American Powerlifter
Brian Siders is a world champion powerlifter and regular participant in the Arnold Strongman Classic.
19. John Peale Bishop (1892)
American Writer
John Peale Bishop was an American poet and man of letters. Bishop was born in Charles Town West Virginia to a family from New England and attended school in Hagerstown...
20. Leo Mazzone (1948)
American Baseball Player And Coa
Leo David Mazzone is a former pitcher in minor league baseball and pitching coach in Major League Baseball. He worked with the Atlanta Braves' organization from 1979 to 2005 and...
21. Danny Heater (Unknow)
American Basketball Player
Danny Heater is an American record holder for the highest single game scoring performance by one player in high school basketball history worldwide. On January 26 1960 Heater a then-17...
22. Justin Rockefeller (1979)
Activist
Justin Aldrich Rockefeller is a venture capitalist and political activist. Rockefeller is the youngest son of West Virginia's senior U. S. senator Jay Rockefeller and his wife Sharon Percy Rockefeller....
23. Tim DeChristopher (1981)
American Environmentalist
Tim DeChristopher is an American climate activist and co-founder of the environmental group Peaceful Uprising. On December 19 2008 he protested a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease...