List of Famous people born in South Carolina, United States of America
Danni Ashe
Danni Ashe, is a retired American nude model, former erotic dancer and pornographic actress who is the founder and former CEO of Danni's Hard Drive, a pioneering adult web site. Ashe started her adult Internet site in 1995. She has been an industry advocate and testified before a government panel. She is retired from modeling.
Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Floyd is an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he has based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect.
Shane Beamer
Shane Beamer is an American football coach and former player who is currently the head coach at the University of South Carolina. He is the son of long-time Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer.
A'ja Wilson
A’ja Riyadh Wilson is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Wilson played for the South Carolina Gamecocks in college, and helped lead the Gamecocks to their first NCAA Women's Basketball Championship in 2017, and won the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player award. In the 2018 WNBA Draft, she was drafted first overall by the Aces. That same year, she won a record 3rd straight SEC Player of the Year award, led South Carolina to a record 4th straight SEC Tournament Championship, became the all-time leading scorer in South Carolina women's basketball history, and was a consensus first-team All-American for the 3rd consecutive season. Wilson swept all National Player of the Year awards as the best player in Women's College basketball for 2018.
Kris Jenkins
Kris Jenkins is a retired American basketball player who last played for Eisbären Bremerhaven of the ProA. He played college basketball for the Villanova Wildcats and is best known for hitting the buzzer-beating three pointer to win the 2016 NCAA Championship game.
Bob Bowman
Robert Bowman is an American swimming coach who is the current head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils swimming and diving teams of Arizona State University. Bowman is best known as the coach of record-breaking American swimmer Michael Phelps. From 2005 to 2008, Bowman served as the head coach for the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team of the University of Michigan men's swimming & diving team. From 2008 to 2015, he worked as the CEO and head coach for North Baltimore Aquatic Club.
Allison Munn
Allison Munn is an American actress. She played Caroline Dupree in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, Tina Haven in The WB sitcom What I Like About You, Lauren in The WB/CW drama One Tree Hill, and Anne Harper on the Nickelodeon series Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn.
Manish Dayal
Manish Patel, better known as Manish Dayal, is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Raj Kher in The CW hit teen series 90210 in the films The Hundred Foot Journey (2014) and Viceroy's House (2017). Since 2018, he has featured as a main cast member of the Fox medical drama series The Resident.
Trevor Booker
Trevor Fitzgerald Booker is an American former professional basketball player who played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted 23rd overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2010 NBA draft, but was immediately traded to the Washington Wizards. Booker primarily played the power forward position.
Bobbie Phillips
Bobbie Phillips is an American actress, and animal advocate.