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State flag of Virginia Location of Virginia in the U.S. map. This is a list of notable people who were born in the U.S. state of Virginia, were raised or lived in Virginia, or for whom Virginia is a significant part of their identity. Those not born in Virginia are marked with §.
Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Vintage, 2012) Warren M. Billings (Editor), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005)
B. Bertrand Badré; François Claude du Barail; Jacques Bardoux; Charles-Louis Barreswil; Aimée Batier; Jean Bayet; Adolphe Bazaine-Vasseur; François Achille Bazaine
Ashe was born in Richmond, Virginia. Other greats from the state : Sam Snead, Allen Iverson, Lawrence Taylor, Moses Malone, Michael Vick Washington: John Stockton
Ingalls Wilder, whose family moved from state to state like nomads for much of her life, was born in the "big woods" of Wisconsin, where her 1935 children's classic "Little House on the Prairie ...
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
This category is for people from the United States state of Virginia Classification : People : By nationality : American : By state : Virginia Also: Countries : United States : States : Virginia : People
In two ways the brief period of the commonwealth in England had a marked effect on the history of Virginia. For the first and only time during the colonial period, Virginia enjoyed absolute self-government. The assembly, governorship, and council were all elective for the time, and the people never forgot this taste of practical independence.