List of Famous people born in North Carolina, United States of America
Julianna Guill
Julianna Guill is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Bree in the 2009 film Friday the 13th, as Scarlet Hauksson in the web series My Alibi, as Becca Riley in Bravo's Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, and as Jessie Nevin on FOX's The Resident, as well as Christie on the TBS series Glory Daze.
Ricky Hickman
Richard Marciano Hickman, Jr. is an American-Georgian professional basketball player who last played for Pallacanestro Trieste of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He represents the Georgian national basketball team in international competitions. Standing at 6 ft 2.5 in (1.89 m), he plays at the shooting guard and point guard positions. Hickman helped lead Maccabi Tel Aviv to a EuroLeague title in 2014, earning an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in the process.
Emily Procter
Emily Mallory Procter is an American actress. She played Ainsley Hayes in the NBC political drama The West Wing and Det. Calleigh Duquesne in the CBS police procedural drama CSI: Miami (2002–2012).
Christine Darden
Christine Darden is an American mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. She had an M.S. in mathematics and had been teaching at Virginia State University before starting to work at the Langley Research Center in 1967. She earned a PhD in engineering at George Washington University in 1983 and has published numerous articles in her field. She was the first African-American woman at NASA's Langley Research Center to be promoted into the Senior Executive Service, the top rank in the federal civil service.
Kelley Earnhardt Miller
Kelley King Earnhardt Miller is an American businesswoman. She is the vice-president of JR Motorsports which she co-owns with her brother, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and she is the daughter of Dale Earnhardt. The team's driver Chase Elliott won the 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series title. In 2018, Tyler Reddick, another driver for JR Motorsports, won the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship.
Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Since the early 1990s, he has toured under his own name.
Dustin Ackley
Dustin Michael Ackley is an American former professional baseball second baseman and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees.
Dennis Mitchell
Dennis Allen Mitchell is a former American college and international track and field athlete, who was a member of the gold medal-winning team in the 4 x 100 meters relay race at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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Walter Davis
Walter Pearl Davis is an American former professional basketball player. He was a forward/guard for 15 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA), spending the majority of his career with the Phoenix Suns. A six-time NBA All-Star, his No. 6 was retired by the Suns.