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

Jacob Evans III is an American professional basketball player for the Erie BayHawks of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Cincinnati Bearcats. As a junior in 2018, he earned first-team all-conference honors in the American Athletic Conference (AAC). He was selected by the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the 2018 NBA draft with the 28th overall pick.

Austin Proehl is an American football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at North Carolina.

Anna Elizabeth Wood is an American film, stage, and television actress, known for her recurring role on the short-lived NBC television drama series Deception and starring as attorney Jamie Sawyer in the short-lived CBS legal drama series Reckless. She also played "The Woman in Red" in the USA supernatural drama series Falling Water.

Gianluca Cristiano Busio is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City.

Peyton Tucker Reed is an American television and film director. He directed the comedy films Bring It On (2000), Down with Love (2003), The Break-Up (2006) and Yes Man (2008), as well as the superhero films Ant-Man (2015) and its sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).

Christopher Eric Lane is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has released one album as front-man of the Chris Lane Band, a second album, Girl Problems, and a third album, Laps Around the Sun. via Big Loud Records. Lane has charted six singles on Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay, two of which went to No. 1.

Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore is an American convicted murderer from Alamance County, North Carolina. Moore is awaiting execution in North Carolina for the 1986 arsenic poisoning of her boyfriend. She is also suspected in the death of a mother-in-law and her first husband, and the attempted murder of her second husband in 1989.

Coy Randall Gibbs is a former NASCAR driver and assistant coach with the Washington Redskins. His father is Joe Gibbs, five-time NASCAR Cup Series championship-winning owner and Pro Football Hall of Famer. Originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Gibbs lives in Cornelius, North Carolina with his wife Heather and their four children, sons Ty, Case and Jett, plus daughter Elle.

Perry Fewell is an American football coach. He currently serves as the senior vice president of officiating administration for the National Football League's officiating department. Previously, he served as the defensive backs coach or defensive coordinator for eight NFL teams between 1998 and 2019. He also served as the interim head coach for the Buffalo Bills in 2009 and for the Carolina Panthers in 2019. Fewell won Super Bowl XLVI as the defensive coordinator of the New York Giants, a position he held for five seasons.

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. His sister is Sloan Wainwright. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche, and is the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle.