List of people from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
This is a list of notable past and present residents of the U.S. city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and its surrounding metropolitan area.
Athletics
- Dustin Ackley, outfielder for the New York Yankees
- Ray Agnew III, NFL player
- Hubbard Alexander, football coach
- Kathleen Baker, Olympic gold and silver medal swimmer
- Ed Berrier, NASCAR driver
- Don Cardwell, former pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Randolph Childress, former professional basketball player
- Richard Childress, NASCAR team owner
- Alvin Crowder, MLB All-Star pitcher
- Hubert Davis, basketball analyst for ESPN, former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBA player
- C.E. "Big House" Gaines, head basketball coach of Winston-Salem State University for 47 years; member of Basketball Hall of Fame
- Ed Gainey, gridiron football player
- Mark Grace, first baseman for Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks, broadcaster, coach
- Happy Hairston, NBA player for Los Angeles Lakers
- Ricky Hickman, professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv
- Josh Howard, professional basketball player
- Rusty LaRue, NBA player, NCAA record holder in football
- Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell, pitcher for Pirates and Cardinals, and US congressman from 1968–1974
- Earl Monroe, NBA player for New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets
- Chris Paul, NBA player for the Los Angeles Clippers
- Ernie Shore, pitcher in Major League Baseball and sheriff of Forsyth County, North Carolina
- Ramondo Stallings, NFL player
- Ryan Taylor, tight end, Green Bay Packers
Movies, television, and media
- Angela Bassett, actress
- Howard Cosell, sportscaster
- Jennifer Ehle, British-American actress
- Mary Garber, sports journalist
- 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
- Tom Kent, nationally syndicated radio personality
- Angus MacLachlan, screenwriter
- Rusty Mills, Emmy-winning animator and director[1]
- Harold Nicholas, dancer, entertainer
- Stuart Scott, sportscaster
- Rolonda Watts, television personality and actress
- Colleen Williams, NBC news anchor, Los Angeles
- Jill Wagner, TV host
Music and arts
- 9th Wonder, Grammy award-winning hip-hop producer
- B.o.B., hip-hop artist
- Eleanor Layfield Davis, artist
- Mitch Easter, musician (Let's Active) and record producer
- Ben Folds, singer-songwriter
- George Hamilton IV, country singer
- Byron Hill, songwriter
- Chris Murrell, singer and former lead vocalist of the Count Basie Orchestra
Literature
- Maya Angelou, poet
- Gary Chapman, author
- John Ehle, author
- T. R. Pearson, author of A Short History of a Small Place
Politics
- Jim Broyhill, Republican politician; served North Carolina in both US House of Representatives and Senate
- Richard Burr, United States Senator
- Gordon Gray, newspaper publisher, Secretary of the Army under President Truman, and President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor
- William Heaton, former chief of staff to Bob Ney
Miscellaneous
- Stuart Epperson, chairman of Salem Communications Corporation
- Peaches Golding, appointed by HM Queen Elizabeth II as High Sheriff of Bristol 2010-2011, the first black female and second only black High Sheriff in over 1,000 years; awarded the OBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II for services to minority ethnic people in the Southwest
- Samuel Gray, Bishop of the Moravian Church in North America
- R.J. Reynolds, founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (maker of Camel cigarettes)
References
- ↑ Hall, Melissa (December 8, 2012). "Rusty Mills, film animator dies at 49". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
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