List of people from Morgantown, West Virginia

This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Morgantown, West Virginia.

Athletics

• Jeff Bowden, NCAA football coach
• Terry Bowden, NCAA football coach
• Tommy Bowden, NCAA football coach
• Necro Butcher, professional wrestler
• Rich Braham, professional football player
• 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 & Entertainment

• Emily Calandrelli: TV host, actor, author, and engineer
• Jack Fleming, American sports announcer
• Charles Wesley Godwin, musician
• Linda Goodman, astrologer and poet
• Alicia Holloway, ballerina and television personality
• Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter/director
• Hoda Kotb, broadcast journalist

Don Knotts

• Don Knotts, actor (city unveiled statue in 2016)^[3]
• 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), 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

• 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
• Alexander Wade, educational reformer
• Israel C. White, geologist and professor

Politics

• 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]
• Francis Harrison Pierpont, 19th century Governor
• Waitman T. Willey, U.S. Senator^[6]

Other

• 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
• Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician
• Gene Arden Vance Jr., a Special Operations soldier with the West Virginia National Guard that was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2002

See also

• List of West Virginia University alumni
• List of presidents of West Virginia University

References

1. Pinella, Bill (September 14, 2013). "Almost Heaven... San Diego – Sports – The Charleston Gazette – West Virginia News and Sports". Wvgazette.com. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
2. "Charlie Hickman – Society for American Baseball Research". Retrieved April 13, 2021.
3. "Don Knotts Statue Unveiled in Morgantown". WVPB. July 25, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
4. "Peter Franklin-White". News-Gazette.com. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
5. "KINKAID, ·Moses Pierce, (1856 - 1922)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
6. "Waitman T. Willey". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 22, 2012.