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State flag of North Carolina Location of North Carolina on the U.S. map The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or closely associated with the U.S. state of North Carolina . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Ben Elbert Douglas, Sr., mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina 1935–1941; Anthony Foxx, 17th United States Secretary of Transportation, and mayor of Charlotte (2009–2013) Jim Gulley, member of the North Carolina General Assembly [14] Richard Hudson, United States Representative for North Carolina's 8th congressional district
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
Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney’s Real-Time Billionaire ranking. Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games in Cary, ranked No. 508 with a net worth of $4.7 billion in the April list.. His real-time net worth ...
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 ...
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]
North Carolina’s Armando Bacot tops the list of 2022’s most influential people in Triangle sports. Also on the list: the fastest of the fast, new champions and departing legends.
Jim Broyhill, a Republican politician; served North Carolina in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate; Ted Budd, former United States Representative and United States Senator from North Carolina [27] Richard Burr, United States Senator; Irving E. Carlyle, North Carolina lawyer and state leader; R. Thurmond Chatham, U.S. House of ...