List of Famous people born in North Carolina, United States of America
Pep Hamilton
Alfonza "Pep" Hamilton is an American football coach who is the quarterbacks coach for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the quarterbacks coach for the Los Angeles Chargers and served as the head coach and general manager of the DC Defenders of the XFL.
Reggie Bullock
Reginald Ryedell Bullock is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels before being selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the 2013 NBA draft with the 25th overall pick. Bullock has also played for the Phoenix Suns, Detroit Pistons, and Los Angeles Lakers.
Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott Folds is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and record producer. Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five from 1993 to 2000, and again in the early 2010s during their reunion. Apart from the band, Folds has recorded several albums and performed live as a solo artist. He has also collaborated with musicians such as William Shatner, Regina Spektor, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and yMusic and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. He has frequently performed arrangements of his music with uncommon instrumentation, including symphony orchestras and a cappella groups. In addition to contributing music to the soundtracks of the animated films Hoodwinked!, and Over the Hedge, Folds has produced several albums, including Amanda Palmer's first solo album.
Darby Camp
Darby Eliza Camp is an American child actress, known for her roles in the Netflix holiday film The Christmas Chronicles and the HBO television series Big Little Lies.
Dave Odom
George David Odom is a retired American men's college basketball coach who most recently coached at the University of South Carolina. He had previously held the same position at East Carolina University and Wake Forest University, and was an assistant coach at the University of Virginia.
Jerrod Carmichael
Jerrod Carmichael is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer. Carmichael co-created and starred in the semi-biographical NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show, which ran from 2015 to 2017.
Anna Kooiman
Anna Brooks Kooiman is an American news anchor and television panelist, currently working for Australia's Network Ten. From 2011 to 2016, she served as anchor and reporter for Fox News based in New York City. Kooiman's last position with Fox News was as co-host on the weekend edition of Fox & Friends. Since then, she has been with the News Corp's Australian division as a substitute anchor and panelist on various news programs for Network Ten.
Kennedy Meeks
Kennedy Rashod Meeks is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for North Carolina. He is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina.
William Byron
William McComas Byron Jr. is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE for Hendrick Motorsports. He won the 2015 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Championship and the Sunoco Rookie of the Year award in the 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. The following season he won both the 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship and 2017 Sunoco Rookie of the Year. Byron also won the 2018 MENCS Sunoco Rookie of the Year award.
John Skipper
John Skipper is an American television executive, current executive chairman of DAZN Group, and former president of ESPN.