List of Famous people born in Virginia, United States of America
Corey Reynolds
Corey Reynolds is an American musical theatre, television, and film actor known for originating the role of Seaweed in the Broadway adaptation of Hairspray, and for the TNT crime show The Closer.
Ehren Kruger
Ehren Kruger is an American screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for writing three of the five installments in the Transformers film series: Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, and Age of Extinction.
Emily Peachey
Emily Anne Peachey is an American actress. She is perhaps known for her role in the film The Fault in Our Stars (2014).
Gary Hudson
Gary Hudson is an American-Canadian actor.
Gregory Allen Howard
Gregory Allen Howard is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing the screenplay to Remember the Titans (2000), a Disney film about an undefeated high school football team credited with healing the racial divide in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971.
Jamelle Bouie
Jamelle Bouie is an American columnist for The New York Times. He was formerly chief political correspondent for Slate magazine. David Uberti, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, called Bouie "one of the defining commentators on politics and race in the Trump era."
Maurice Greene
Maurice Darnell Greene is an American mixed martial artist (MMA). He appeared on The Ultimate Fighter 28 TV series and currently competes in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Arto Lindsay
Arthur Morgan "Arto" Lindsay is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer.
Joey Mercury
Adam Birch, better known by the ring names Joey Mercury and Joey Matthews, is an American professional wrestler who is best known for his two tenures in WWE. Birch was most recently signed to Ring Of Honor (ROH) as a producer, trainer, and member of the creative team.
Schieffelin Claytor
William Schieffelin Claytor was an American mathematician specializing in topology. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, where his father was a dentist. He was the third African-American to get a Ph.D. in mathematics, and the first to publish in a mathematical research journal.