List of people from Charleston, South Carolina

List of people from Charleston, South Carolina

This is a list of famous people who were either born in, or have lived in, Charleston, South Carolina.

* William Abbott, manager of the New Charleston Theater during the 19th century cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | location = Chicago | date = 1963]
* William Aiken, governor of South Carolina
* Judah P. Benjamin, U.S. Senator, treasurer of the Confederate States of America
* James Francis Byrnes, U.S. Senator, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Secretary of State
* John C. Calhoun, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War,
*Mark Wayne Clark, U.S. Army general of World War II and the Korean War
* Septima Poinsette Clark, educator, civil rights activist; "grandmother of the American civil rights movement"
* Stephen Colbert, comedian
* Beth Daniel, professional golfer
* Andy Dick, comedian
* William Drayton, born near the Ashley River, associate justice of South Carolina Supreme Court
* Arthur Freed – Hollywood producer, composer, writer
* Robert Furchgott – chemist
* Christopher Gadsden – American Revolutionary War leader
* James Gadsden – diplomat
* Thomas Gibson – actor
* Dubose Heyward – writer and lyricist, most famous for Porgy and Bess.
* Thomas Heyward, Jr. – signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
* Fritz Hollings – United States Senator
* Benjamin Huger – army general of the Confederate States of America
* Lauren Hutton – model
* Robert Jordan – novelist, author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time Fantasy series.
* Ernest Everett Just – biologist
* Mabel King, actress
* Sallie Krawcheck, Citigroup chief financial officer
* Henry Laurens, American Revolutionary War leader
* Francis Marion, Continental Army general, nicknamed the "Swamp Fox"
* Samuel Maverick, firebrand rancher from whom the term "maverick" was coined.
* Burnet Maybank, lawyer, Charleston mayor, South Carolina governor, and United States Senator
* Burnet Maybank II, lawyer and lieutenant governor of South Carolina; made unsuccessful bid for governor; later served in Charleston County Council
* Christopher Memminger, Confederate Minister if the Treasury, proponent of public schools
* William Porcher Miles, lawyer, U.S. Representatives member of the Confederate Congress, designed Confederate battle flag
* Robert Mills, architect
* Vanessa Minnillo, Miss USA 1998, MTV VJ, "Entertainment Tonight" correspondent.
* Bud Moore, NASCAR driver
* William McGillivray Morrison, Depression-era mayor of Charleston
* Will Patton, actor
* Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Revolutionary War leader, Minister to France, Federalist candidate for President in the 1804 and 1808 elections
* Joel Roberts Poinsett, botanist, politician, and diplomat; U.S. Representative, Minister to Mexico, Secretary of War, founded precursor to the Smithsonian Institution; namesake of the poinsettia
* Stephanie Rennane – 18th-century New England footwear enthusiast
* Carew Rice – silhouettist, "America's greatest silhouettist" per Carl Sandburg
* Robert C. Richardson, Jr., United States Army general of World War II.
* Joseph P. Riley, Jr. – mayor of Charleston since 1975
* Alexandra Ripley, author
* Robert N. Rosen – lawyer, historian, author
* Darius Rucker – singer - Hootie & the Blowfish.
* Henry William de Saussure – second director of United States Mint, intendant (mayor) of Charleston
* Philip Simmons – blacksmith, designer, folk artist
* William Gilmore Simms – poet, novelist, historian
* James Skivring Smith, president of Liberia from 1871-1872
* Thomas Sully, painter
* Melanie Thornton, R&B/pop singer, former member of La Bouche
* George Alfred Trenholm, Confederate politician
* Denmark Vesey, freedman tried and executed for allegedly plotting a slave revolt
* J. Waites Waring, United States District Court for the District of South Carolina judge; was part of three-judge panel that heard the school desegregation case "Briggs v. Elliott"
* William Charles Wells, physician
* Jack "The Southern Avenger" Hunter, political commentator, essayist, radio personality

References

2. [http://www.imdb.com/BornWhere?Charleston,%20South%20Carolina,%20USA imdb's List of People from Charleston, SC]

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