List of people from Morgantown, West Virginia

This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Morgantown, West Virginia.

Athletics

• Jeff Bowden, NCAA football coach
• Terry Bowden, NCAA football coach
• Tommy Bowden, NCAA football coach
• Rich Braham, professional football player
• Necro Butcher, professional wrestler
• Lowell Cowell, NASCAR Cup Series driver
• Albert Gwynne, former United States national basketball team and West Virginia Mountaineers athletic trainer
• Jedd Gyorko, baseball player
• Alan Henderson, professional basketball player
• Charlie Hickman, baseball player, made Morgantown his home
• Bob Huggins, West Virginia University head basketball coach
• Dwayne Jones, professional basketball player
• Josh Judy, professional baseball player
• Paul Mainieri, LSU baseball coach
• Lee Patton, WVU basketball coach
• Xavier Proctor, football player
• Dale Ramsburg, NCAA baseball coach
• Zach Spiker, college basketball coach
• Michael Wardian, marathoner and ultra-marathoner
• Kim Weaver, astrophysicist

Arts and entertainment

• Emily Calandrelli, TV host, actor, author, and engineer
• Jack Fleming, sports announcer
• Charles Wesley Godwin, musician
• Linda Goodman, astrologer and poet
• Alicia Holloway, ballerina and television personality
• Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter/director
• Don Knotts, actor (city unveiled statue in 2016)
• Hoda Kotb, broadcast journalist
• Blanche Lazzell, modern artist, printmaker, and painter
• Frank Lovece, journalist and author
• Ellie Mannette, father of the modern steel drum, musician
• William Matheny, singer-songwriter
• Herbert Morrison, journalist
• Asra Nomani, journalist, political activist
• Freddy Quinn, German film star and singer
• David Selby, actor
• Kimberley Starr, novelist
• Michael Tomasky, journalist and author
• Franklin White, British ballet dancer
• Allison Williams, Miss West Virginia (2003)

Education

• Earl Lemley Core, botanist and local historian
• John Douglas, conductor and educator
• Walter Hough, curator of United States National Museum
• John Laidley, a founder of Marshall University
• Duncan Lorimer, astrophysicist noted for discovering the first fast radio burst
• Alexander Wade, educational reformer
• Israel C. White, geologist and professor

Politics

• John O. Bennett, New Jersey state senator
• Marion Cannon, U.S. representative from California
• Edgar F. Heiskell III, West Virginia secretary of state and lawyer
• Moses Kinkaid, congressman, sponsor of Kinkaid Land Act
• Riley Moore, U.S. representative for West Virginia
• Francis Harrison Pierpont, 19th-century governor
• Waitman T. Willey, U.S. senator

Other

• Earl E. Anderson, ret. general, youngest active-duty Marine to become general
• Thomas Bennett, U.S. Army medic and conscientious objector, awarded Medal of Honor
• William Easterly, economist
• Shelia Eddy, convicted of murdering Skylar Neese
• Robert C. Frasure, first U.S. ambassador to Estonia following its independence from Soviet Union
• Robert P. George, founder of American Principles Project
• Elliott Portnoy, attorney
• Gene Arden Vance Jr., Special Operations soldier with the West Virginia National Guard; killed in action in Afghanistan in 2002
• Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician

See also

• List of West Virginia University alumni
• List of presidents of West Virginia University

References