List of Famous people born in Virginia, United States of America

James Edward Maceo West is an American inventor and acoustician. He holds over 250 foreign and U.S. patents for the production and design of microphones and techniques for creating polymer foil electrets.

Chad L. Coleman is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Dennis "Cutty" Wise on the HBO crime drama series The Wire (2004–2008), the voice of Coach in the video game Left 4 Dead 2 (2009), Tyreese Williams on the AMC post-apocalyptic horror series The Walking Dead (2012–2015), Mingo on the History Channel's re-imagining of Roots (2016), and Z on the FX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2010–2019). He later starred in the science fiction series The Expanse (2015–2020) as Fred Johnson and plays a recurring role as the alien Klyden on the Fox series The Orville (2017–present).

Jeffrey Norman Rouse is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events.

Bruce Bernard Smith is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for the Buffalo Bills and the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He was a member of the Buffalo Bills teams that played in four consecutive Super Bowls as AFC champions. The holder of the NFL career record for quarterback sacks with 200, Smith was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009, his first year of eligibility. Smith was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

Fred McLeod Wilcox was an American motion picture director. He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for many years best remembered for directing Lassie Come Home (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956). These films were entered in the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry in 1993 and 2013 respectively.

Michael William Hagee is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 33rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from 2003 to 2006, succeeding General James L. Jones on January 13, 2003. He stepped down as Commandant two months before the end of his four-year term, and was succeeded by General James T. Conway on November 13, 2006. On that date, Hagee had his retirement ceremony just prior to the passage of command ceremony. Hagee retired from the Marine Corps on January 1, 2007.

Kenneth Dwane "Sox" Bowersox is a United States Navy officer, and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five Space Shuttle launches and an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. When he launched on STS-73 at the age of 38 years and 11 months, he became the youngest person ever to command a Space Shuttle vehicle.

John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot.

Charles Edward Hugo is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. With close friend Pharrell Williams, he formed the production duo the Neptunes in the early 1990s, with whom he has produced songs for many recording artists. He is also a member of the band N.E.R.D, alongside Williams and Shay Haley.

Joe Frank Edwards Jr., , is an American aerospace engineer, and former naval officer and aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut.