Famous People

Here is a list of famous people from South Carolina

  • John Rutledge jurist, Charleston
  • Charles Hard Townes physicist, Greenville
  • Bernard Baruch statesman, Camden
  • Ronald McNair astronaut, Lake City
  • Vanna White TV personality, North Myrtle Beach
  • John C. Calhoun statesman, Calhoun Mills
  • Whispering Bill Anderson songwriter, Columbia
  • Mary McLeod Bethune educator, Mayesville
  • Joe Frazier prize fighter, Beaufort
  • Charlayne Hunter-Gault journalist, Due West
  • William Westmoreland army chief of staff, Spartanburg
  • Strom Thurmond politician, Edgefield
  • James Godfather Brown singer, Barnwell
  • Andrew Jackson U.S. president, Waxhaw
  • Althea Gibson tennis champion, Silver
  • Jesse Louis Jackson civil rights leader, Greenville
  • DuBose Heyward poet, playwright, author, Charleston
  • Joseph H. Burckhalter inventor, Columbia
  • Eartha Kitt singer, North
  • Dizzy Gillespie jazz trumpeter, Cheraw