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George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...
Actresses by populated place in North Carolina (2 C) Pages in category "Actresses from North Carolina" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total.
Susan C. Fisher, North Carolina House of Representatives; D. Bruce Goforth, North Carolina House of Representatives; V. Lamar Gudger, United States House of Representatives; Bill Hendon (1944–2018), author, POW/MIA activist, and two-term U.S. Congressman from North Carolina; Patricia Hollingsworth Holshouser (1939–2006), First Lady of North ...
Male actors by populated place in North Carolina (2 C) Pages in category "Male actors from North Carolina" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total.
Frank P. Graham, president of University of North Carolina and U.S. senator; Moonlight Graham, Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder for New York Giants; Naomi Graham, middleweight boxer, first female active duty service member to compete for U.S. at Olympics
Franklin McCain, one of The Greensboro Four, African-American student from North Carolina A&T State University who in 1960 started the first civil rights sit-in; action eventually led to lunch counters and restaurants being desegregated throughout the Southern United States; attended Dudley [79] Courtney McClellan, interdisciplinary artist [80]
Calvin Jones (1775–1846), Mayor of Raleigh, Adjutant General of North Carolina, and founder of Wake Forest College [19] I. Beverly Lake, former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court; Clarence Lightner (1921–2002), mayor (1973–1975); Raleigh's first popularly elected African-American mayor and first of any major Southern city
19th-century governor of North Carolina, governor of Florida, and U.S. representative from North Carolina David Lowry Swain: Did not graduate: 19th-century governor of North Carolina John Swainson: Grad. Law: Former governor of Michigan William B. Umstead: 1916: Former governor of North Carolina, U.S. representative from North Carolina Zebulon ...