List of Famous people born in Charlottesville, United States of America

Bonita Friedericy is an American actress, best known for her role as Diane Beckman in the NBC series Chuck. Her husband is actor John Billingsley.

Ronald Björn Jensen is an American mathematician who lives in Germany, primarily known for his work in mathematical logic and set theory.

Sam Hamm is an American screenwriter and comic book writer. Hamm is known for co-writing the screenplay for Tim Burton's Batman and the story for Batman Returns. As a result of his work, he was invited to write for Detective Comics. The result was Batman: Blind Justice, which introduced Bruce Wayne's mentor, Henri Ducard, who later appeared in Batman Begins. Hamm's other screen credits include Never Cry Wolf and Monkeybone. Hamm also wrote unused drafts for Planet of the Apes and Watchmen adaptations.

Kate Higgins is an American voice actress, singer, and jazz pianist.

Kenneth Scott "Kenny" Arena is an American former soccer defender who is currently an assistant coach for Los Angeles FC. Arena is the son of current New England Revolution and former United States coach Bruce Arena.

William Frischkorn is a former professional road bicycle racer, who finished his career with UCI ProTour team Garmin–Slipstream. He retired from professional cycling in September 2009 to take up a non-racing role with the team.

Gill Dennis was an American director and screenwriter. He was the son of psychologist Wayne Dennis, author of "The Hopi Child."

Nicholas Philip Trist was an American lawyer, diplomat, planter, and businessman. Even though dismissed by President James K. Polk as the negotiator with the Mexican government, he negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, which ended the Mexican-American War. The U.S. conquered Mexican territory and vastly expanded the United States. All or part of ten current states were carved out of former Mexican territory.

George Rogers Clark was an American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer from Virginia who became the highest-ranking American patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the militia in Kentucky throughout much of the war. He is best known for his celebrated captures of Kaskaskia (1778) and Vincennes (1779) during the Illinois Campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory. The British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and Clark has often been hailed as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest".