List of famous Richmonders

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This is a list of famous people and celebrities that were either born in or have lived in Richmond, Virginia.

Contents 1 A - H 2 I - R 3 S - Z 4 Fictional Richmonders

[edit] A - H

• Alden Aaroe – WRVA talk show host
• John Aboud III – a writer and comedian. and regular commentator on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows
• Arthur Ashe – tennis star and social activist who is remembered with a memorial on Monument Avenue
• Kevin Aviance – dancer
• Joey Baron – musician
• Warren Beatty – actor
• Pat Benatar – 1980s singer
• Leslie Bibb – actress, plays Carley Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
• Adam Birch – professional wrestler
• Randy Blythe – singer of metal band Lamb of God (band)
• Dave Brockie – founder of GWAR
• Maria Boren – contestant on the Television show The Apprentice
• Wes Borland – guitarist for Limp Bizkit and other rock bands
• James Branch Cabell – author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres
• Lott Cary – early African-American colonist and missionary to Liberia
• Patricia Cornwell – novelist
• Henry Creamer – an American Vaudeville song lyricist of the early 20th century
• Chris Daniel – President of Torrid
• D'Angelo – R&B musician
• Jimmy Dean – singer and, "sausage king"
• Junie Donlavey – owner and namesake of the NASCAR "Donlavey" racing team
• James Farrior – NFL linebacker
• Jim Gilmore, former governor of Virginia, (graduate of John Randolph Tucker High School)
• Ellen Glasgow – an early 20th century novelist who was born and lived there
• Samuel Gravely – an African-American Officer who broke many racial barriers while serving in the U.S. Navy
• Wayne Grubb – NASCAR crew chief and former driver
• Kevin Grubb – NASCAR driver
• Bryan Harvey – musician, noted for his fronting role in House of Freaks, who was brutally murdered with his family in 2006
• Earl Hebner – professional wrestling referee
• William Henderson – NFL fullback
• Ray Hendrick – NASCAR driver

[edit] I - R

• Mickie James – WWE female professional wrestler
• Jim Jinkins – cartoonist
• Orlando Jordan – professional wrestler
• Tim Kaine – Virginia Governor and former Richmond Mayor
• Shaquan Lewis – aka "Skillz" from the Supafriendz, African-American rapper
• Tim Legler, ESPN NBA Analyst (graduate of John Randolph Tucker High School)
• David Lowery – lead singer of Cracker and co-founder of Sound of Music Studios
• Aimee Mann – a popular American rock guitarist, bass player, singer, and songwriter
• John Marshall – lawyer, statesman, and third Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Shirley MacLaine – Academy Award-winning actress
• Debbie Matenopoulos – television co-host
• Philip B. Meggs – internationally recognized scholar and design historian, author of the seminal work on graphic design history, Meggs' History of Graphic Design
• Jason Mraz – musician
• Diandra Newlin – singer, actor, and model
• James Spriggs Payne – fourth and eighth president of Liberia
• Edgar Allan Poe – mid-nineteenth century author and poet
• Lewis F. Powell – Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• J. Sargeant Reynolds – businessman, statesman, and Virginia Lieutenant Governor
• Tom Robbins – author, studied art at Richmond Professional Institute (now VCU) and worked for the Richmond Times Dispatch
• Bill "Bojangles" Robinson – African-American performer
• Bobby Ross – American football coach

[edit] S - Z

• Darren Sharper – safety for the Minnesota Vikings
• John W. Snow – current United States Secretary of the Treasury and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CSX Corporation
• David Terrell – football player
• Fran Tarkenton – former NFL quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants
• Lewis Temple – escaped African American slave who invented a new kind of harpoon known as "Temple's Toggle"
• Justin Verlander – Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers
• Richard Wagoner, President of General Motors, (graduate of John Randolph Tucker High School)
• Bobby Wadkins – professional golfer
• Lanny Wadkins – professional golfer
• Amina Wadud – controversial Islamic VCU professor who led over 100 muslims in prayer in New York on March 18, 2005
• Maggie L. Walker – first woman to found a bank in the United States
• Lawrence Douglas Wilder – the first African-American governor to be elected in the United States
• Ben Wallace – NBA basketball player
• Mac Watson – WRVA talk show host
• Jason White – NASCAR driver
• Tom Wolfe – novelist and father of the "New Journalism," attended St. Christopher's School
• Elliott Yamin – an American Idol contestant

[edit] Fictional Richmonders

• Jake Featherston – President of the Confederate States of America during an alternate World War II set in Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts fictional book series