List of Famous people born in North Carolina, United States of America

Thomas Wade Brennaman is an American television sportscaster. He is the son of former Cincinnati Reds radio sportscaster Marty Brennaman.

Joe Jackson Gibbs is an American auto racing team owner and former professional football coach. In football, he was the 20th and 26th head coach in the history of the Washington Redskins in the National Football League (NFL). During his first stint in the NFL, he led the Redskins to eight playoff appearances, four NFC Championship titles, and three Super Bowl titles over 12 seasons. Gibbs is the only head coach to have won Super Bowls with three different starting quarterbacks.

Aubrey Lafell Dawkins is an American basketball player for BG Göttingen of the Basketball Bundesliga. He played college basketball for the UCF Knights. He transferred to UCF after he completed his sophomore season for the 2015–16 Michigan Wolverines. He is the son of Johnny Dawkins who became the UCF coach following the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Dawkins was raised in North Carolina until spending his high school years in Northern California at St. Francis High School and Palo Alto High School and a post graduate year in New England at New Hampton Prep. As a collegiate freshman for the 2014–15 Wolverines, he began the season on the bench, but became a starter when injuries plagued the team in January 2015. In his more prominent role later in the season, Dawkins led the 2014–15 Big Ten Conference in effective field goal percentage and true shooting percentage during conference play.

Rhiannon Giddens is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country, blues and old-time music band Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she is the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player.

Bellamy Young is an American actress and singer, best known for her role as Melody "Mellie" Grant in the ABC drama series Scandal (2012–2018). In 2014, for her portrayal of Mellie, Young won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Young currently stars in the Fox series Prodigal Son.

Allison Blair Jones Rushing is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She was nominated for the position by President Donald Trump in August 2018 and confirmed by the Senate in March 2019.

Scott Cooke McCreery is an American country music singer. He won the tenth season of American Idol on May 25, 2011.

Stoya is an American pornographic actress, actress, model, and writer.

Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. For her role as Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, Pressly won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and garnered nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in films such as Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Joe Dirt (2001), I Love You, Man (2009), and A Haunted House 2 (2014). Since 2014, she stars as Jill Kendall in the sitcom television series Mom, for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

James Leonard Hamilton is an American basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at Florida State University. He is a former head coach at Oklahoma State University, the University of Miami, and for the National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards. In his 30 years as a collegiate head coach, his teams have qualified for nine NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournaments and 11 National Invitation Tournaments, highlighted by appearances in the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight (2018) and Sweet 16 with Florida State, as well as a Sweet 16 appearance with Miami (2000). Other career benchmarks include the Big East Conference regular season championship in 2000, the ACC Tournament title in 2012 and the ACC regular season championship in 2020. While with the NBA's Wizards his team posted a 19–63 record during his sole season with the franchise in 2000–01.