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Other famous historic figures from Virginians

  • Patrick Henry (“Give me liberty or give me death!”)
  • Pocahontas
  • John Marshall (Chief Justice of Supreme Court)
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
  • Booker T. Washington
  • The Carter Family (pioneers of country music)
  • Patsy Cline
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
  • George C. Scott
  • Arthur Ashe
  • Sam Sneed

Famous people you might be surprised are from Virginia

  • Sam Houston
  • Henry Clay
  • Nancy Langhorne – Lady Astor (first female member of British Parliament)
  • Cyrus McCormick
  • Russell Baker (Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist)
  • Warren Beatty
  • Shirley MacLaine
  • Wayne Newton
  • Katie Couric
  • Tim Reid
  • Joseph Jenkins Roberts (first president of Liberia)
  • Earl Hamner, Jr. (creator of “The Waltons”)
  • Tom Wolfe (novelist – “The Right Stuff,” “Bonfire of the Vanities”)


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