List of people from North Carolina

The following is a list of famous people born in North Carolina, USA.

• Clay Aiken, (born 1978), singer
• Frances Bavier, (1902 - 1989), actress
• George Clinton, (born 1940) funk musician
• John Coltrane, (1926 - 1967), Jazz musician
• Charlie Daniels, (born 1936), singer/songwriter
• Dale Earnhardt, (1951 - 2001), stock car driver
• Roberta Flack, singer
• Ava Gardner, actress
• Andy Griffith, (born 1926), actor
• Richard Jordan Gatling, M.D., inventor of the Gatling gun
• Jim "Catfish" Hunter, (???? - 1999), baseball player
• Andrew Jackson, (1765-1845), President of the United States
• Andrew Johnson, (1808 - 1875), President of the United States
• Charles Kuralt, journalist and television personality
• Sugar Ray Leonard, (born 1956), boxer
• Thelonious Monk, (1917 - 1982), Jazz pianist
• Edward R. Murrow, journalist
• Kyle Petty, (born 1960), stock car driver
• James K. Polk, (1797 - 1849), President of the United States
• Hiram Revels, (1822 - 1901), first African-American member of the United States Senate

See also Lists of people