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Other famous historic figures from Virginians

• Patrick Henry (“Give me liberty or give me death!”)
• Pocahontas
• John Marshall (Chief Justice of Supreme Court)
• Robert E. Lee
• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
• Booker T. Washington
• The Carter Family (pioneers of country music)
• Patsy Cline
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
• George C. Scott
• Arthur Ashe
• Sam Sneed

Famous people you might be surprised are from Virginia

• Sam Houston
• Henry Clay
• Nancy Langhorne – Lady Astor (first female member of British Parliament)
• Cyrus McCormick
• Russell Baker (Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist)
• Warren Beatty
• Shirley MacLaine
• Wayne Newton
• Katie Couric
• Tim Reid
• Joseph Jenkins Roberts (first president of Liberia)
• Earl Hamner, Jr. (creator of “The Waltons”)
• Tom Wolfe (novelist – “The Right Stuff,” “Bonfire of the Vanities”)

Media Contacts

Tamra Talmadge-Anderson
Director of Public Relations
804-545-5573
ttanderson@virginia.org

Richard Lewis
Public Relations Manager
804-545-5574
rlewis@virginia.org