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This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Morgantown, West Virginia.
Athletics
edit- 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[1]
- Alan Henderson, professional basketball player
- Charlie Hickman, baseball player, made Morgantown his home[2]
- 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
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- Emily Calandrelli, TV host, actor, author, and engineer
- Jack Fleming, sports announcer
- Charles Wesley Godwin, musician
- Linda Goodman, astrologer and poet
- Eriko Hattori, painter
- Alicia Holloway, ballerina and television personality
- Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter/director
- Don Knotts, actor (city unveiled statue in 2016)[3]
- 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[4]
- Allison Williams, Miss West Virginia (2003)
Education
edit- 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
edit- 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[5]
- Riley Moore, U.S. representative for West Virginia[6]
- Francis Harrison Pierpont, 19th-century governor
- Waitman T. Willey, U.S. senator[7]
Other
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ↑ Pinella, Bill (September 14, 2013). "Almost Heaven... San Diego – Sports – The Charleston Gazette – West Virginia News and Sports". Wvgazette.com. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
- ↑ "Charlie Hickman – Society for American Baseball Research". Retrieved April 13, 2021.
- ↑ "Don Knotts Statue Unveiled in Morgantown". WVPB. July 25, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
- ↑ "Peter Franklin-White". News-Gazette.com. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ "KINKAID, ·Moses Pierce, (1856 - 1922)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- ↑ "MOORE, Riley M." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
- ↑ "Waitman T. Willey". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 22, 2012.