The following is a list of notable people who were born or who live or formerly lived in the city of St. Augustine, Florida.
Notable people Arts and entertainment
Steve Berry, bestselling author, resides in St. Augustine Richard Boone, actor James Branch Cabell, novelist Doug Carn, jazz musician Ray Charles, pianist, singer, composer Earl Cunningham, artist Frederick Delius, composer Martin Johnson Heade, artist Zora Neale Hurston, novelist and folklorist Jacob Lawrence, artist Andrew Nagorski, journalist and author David Nolan, author and historian Tom Pearson, multidisciplinary artist, poet, choreographer Steph Post, author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, novelist Marcus Roberts, musician Gamble Rogers, folk singer Steven L. Sears, television writer, screenwriter, producer, actor, author Kurt St. Thomas, author and filmmaker Nathan Sturgis, former soccer player who last played for Seattle Sounders FC
Athletics
Cris Carpenter, major league baseball pitcher Willie Galimore, football star Willie Irvin, Philadelphia Eagles football player Scott Lagasse, race car driver Scott Lagasse Jr., race car driver Bill Snowden, race car driver Steve Spurrier, college/pro (American) football coach
Religion, service and politics
Andrew Anderson, physician, St. Augustine mayor Jorge Biassou, Haitian revolutionary and black Spanish general Albert Boyd, member of National Aviation Hall of Fame George J. F. Clarke, surveyor general of Spanish East Florida Nicholas de Concepcion, escaped slave who became a Spanish privateer and pirate captain Alexander Darnes, born a slave, became a well-known physician Edmund Jackson Davis, governor of Texas Kathleen Deagan, archaeologist Frederick Dent, general and brother-in-law of Ulysses Grant Audrey Nell Edwards, civil rights hero Henry Flagler, industrialist Michael Gannon, historian William H. Gray, U.S. congressman and president of the United Negro College Fund Martin Davis Hardin, Union general in the Civil War Robert Hayling, civil rights leader Stetson Kennedy, author and human rights activist William W. Loring, Confederate general Albert Manucy, historian, author, Fulbright Scholar Howell W. Melton, United States district judge Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, founder of St. Augustine in 1565 Prince Achille Murat, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte Osceola, Seminole War leader (held prisoner at Fort Marion, now Castillo de San Marcos) Verle Pope, state legislator Richard Henry Pratt, soldier and educator John M. Schofield, Union general Edmund Kirby Smith, Confederate general John B. Stetson Jr. philanthropist and diplomat Felix Varela, Cuban national hero Augustin Verot, first bishop of St. Augustine Patty Wagstaff, member of National Aviation Hall of Fame DeWitt Webb, physician, St. Augustine mayor, state representative Herbert E. Wolfe, businessman, banker, and mayor of St. Augustine, Florida. David Levy Yulee, first Jewish U.S. senator, Levy County and Yulee, Florida namesake Agustin V. Zamorano, pioneer printer and provisional governor of California
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