List: People from Charlottesville, Virginia

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•  Edgar Allan Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.

  

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•  Thomas Jefferson

  Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and—for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States—one of the most influential Founding Fathers. Jefferson envisioned America as the force behind a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism and counter the imperialism of the British Empire.

  

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•  John Grisham

  John Ray Grisham (born February 8, 1955) is an American author, best known for his popular legal thrillers. Before becoming a writer, he was a successful lawyer and politician. As of 2008, his books have sold over 250 million copies worldwide.

  

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•  Sissy Spacek

  Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Carrie White in Brian de Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie. In 1980, she won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter. She has been nominated a total of 6 times. Spacek is known mainly as a dramatic actress, but has also made comedies. The films Spacek has starred in have earned over $700 million world wide.

  

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•  Dave Matthews

  David John "Dave" Matthews (born January 9, 1967) is a South African-American musician, and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band.

  

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•  Meriwether Lewis

  Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark, whose mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.

  

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•  Anna Anderson

  Anna Anderson (16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984) was the best known of several impostors who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. The real Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Nicholas II and Alexandra, was murdered with her parents and siblings on 17 July 1918 by Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg, Russia, but the location of her body was unknown. In 1920, Anderson was institutionalized in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt in Berlin.

  

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•  John Kluge

  John Werner Kluge (born September 21, 1914) is a German-American entrepreneur. He is best known as a television industry mogul in the United States.

  

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•  John S. Mosby

  John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916), also known as the "Gray Ghost," was a Confederate cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, 1st Virginia Cavalry was noted for its lightning quick raids, partisan or ranger-like tactics and his ability to successfully elude his Union Army pursuers and disappear with his men, blending in with local farmers and townspeople.

  

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•  William Holmes McGuffey

  William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) was an American professor and college president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, one of the nation's first and most widely used series of textbooks. It is estimated that at least 122 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.

  

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•  Alexander Vandegrift

  Alexander Archer Vandegrift, CB, KBE (March 13, 1887 – May 8, 1973) was a General in the United States Marine Corps. He commanded the 1st Marine Division to victory in the first ground offensive of World War II — Battle of Guadalcanal; for his actions during the Solomon Islands campaign, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Vandegrift later served as the 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps; and was the first U.S. Marine to hold the rank of four-star general while on active duty.

  

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•  Rosey Brown

  Roosevelt "Rosey" Brown, Jr. (October 20, 1932 – June 9, 2004) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the New York Giants from 1953 to 1965. Brown was drafted by the Giants out of Morgan State University in the 1953 NFL Draft after being noticed by the Giants in the Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper that named him to their 1952 Black All-American team. On the offensive line, Brown pass blocked for quarterbacks Charlie Conerly and Y.

  

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•  Alex Michel

  Alex Michel is an American businessman, producer, and television personality, who appeared in The Bachelor during its premiere season in 2002.

  

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•  S. S. Van Dine

  S. S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 - April 11, 1939), a U. S art critic and author. He created the once immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio.

  

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•  Stephen Malkmus

  Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966) is an indie rock musician and a member of the band Pavement. He and his band currently perform as Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.

  

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•  Richard Burr

  Richard Mauze Burr (born November 30, 1955) is the senior United States Senator from North Carolina. A Republican, Burr represented North Carolina's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for five terms, and was elected to represent North Carolina as a U.S. Senator in the 2004 election. He defeated the Democratic Party nominee, former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, in the open seat contest.

  

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•  Maven Huffman

  Maven Klint Huffman (born November 26, 1976) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) between October 2001 and July 5, 2005 under the name Maven. In 2008 he became a guest expert on the Home Shopping Network.

  

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•  Carrie Buck

  Carrie Buck (1906–1983) was a plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927), and was ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded" as part of the state of Virginia's eugenics program while a patient at Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. Carrie Buck was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Emma Buck. After her birth, Carrie was placed with foster parents, John and Alice Dobbs.

  

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•  Kenny Arena

  Kenneth Scott "Kenny" Arena is a former soccer defender who is currently an assistant coach with the UCLA Bruins. Arena is the son of former United States men's national soccer team coach Bruce Arena. Arena played for the United States Under-20 team at the FIFA World Youth Championship in Argentina in 2001. He was drafted as a Project-40 32nd overall in the 2003 MLS SuperDraft by the MetroStars after a distinguished career at the University of Virginia. He was traded to D.C.

  

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•  James Lindsay Almond, Jr.

  James Lindsay Almond, Jr. (June 15, 1898 – April 15, 1986) was a United States federal judge and politician. He served as the 58th Governor of Virginia from 1958 until 1962.

  

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•  Howie Long

  Howard Michael "Howie" Long (born January 6, 1960 in Charlestown, Massachusetts) is a former American football player and actor. Long, who played as a defensive end, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000.

  

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•  David Berman (singer)

  

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•  Richard Arlen

  Richard Arlen (September 1, 1900 – March 28, 1976) was an American actor.

  

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•  Schuyler Fisk

  Schuyler Elizabeth Fisk (born July 8, 1982) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.

  

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•  David Dillehunt

  David Nelson Dillehunt (born April 5, 1984) is an American film director, television producer and composer. He is most known as director and co-writer of the official reunion episode of the classic children's program, You Can't Do That on Television, entitled Project 131. Other notable works include his 2003 independent film debut, Eviternity, the DVD specials for the 2002 and 2004 SlimeCon conventions and the 2008 feature-length comedy, Craptastic.

  

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