This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Morgantown, West Virginia.
Athletics Jeff Bowden, NCAA football coach Terry Bowden, NCAA football coach Tommy Bowden, NCAA football coach Rich Braham, professional football player Necro Butcher, professional wrestler Lowell Cowell, NASCAR Cup Series driver Albert Gwynne, former United States national basketball team and West Virginia Mountaineers athletic trainer Jedd Gyorko, baseball player Alan Henderson, professional basketball player Charlie Hickman, baseball player, made Morgantown his home Bob Huggins, West Virginia University head basketball coach Dwayne Jones, professional basketball player Josh Judy, professional baseball player Paul Mainieri, LSU baseball coach Lee Patton, WVU basketball coach Xavier Proctor, football player Dale Ramsburg, NCAA baseball coach Zach Spiker, college basketball coach Michael Wardian, marathoner and ultra-marathoner Kim Weaver, astrophysicist
Arts and entertainment
Emily Calandrelli, TV host, actor, author, and engineer Jack Fleming, sports announcer Charles Wesley Godwin, musician Linda Goodman, astrologer and poet Eriko Hattori, painter Alicia Holloway, ballerina and television personality Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter/director Don Knotts, actor (city unveiled statue in 2016) Hoda Kotb, broadcast journalist Blanche Lazzell, modern artist, printmaker, and painter Frank Lovece, journalist and author Ellie Mannette, father of the modern steel drum, musician William Matheny, singer-songwriter Herbert Morrison, journalist Asra Nomani, journalist, political activist Freddy Quinn, German film star and singer David Selby, actor Kimberley Starr, novelist Michael Tomasky, journalist and author Franklin White, British ballet dancer Allison Williams, Miss West Virginia (2003)
Education Earl Lemley Core, botanist and local historian John Douglas, conductor and educator Walter Hough, curator of United States National Museum John Laidley, a founder of Marshall University Duncan Lorimer, astrophysicist noted for discovering the first fast radio burst Alexander Wade, educational reformer Israel C. White, geologist and professor
Politics John O. Bennett, New Jersey state senator Marion Cannon, U.S. representative from California Edgar F. Heiskell III, West Virginia secretary of state and lawyer Moses Kinkaid, congressman, sponsor of Kinkaid Land Act Riley Moore, U.S. representative for West Virginia Francis Harrison Pierpont, 19th-century governor Waitman T. Willey, U.S. senator
Other Earl E. Anderson, ret. general, youngest active-duty Marine to become general Thomas Bennett, U.S. Army medic and conscientious objector, awarded Medal of Honor William Easterly, economist Shelia Eddy, convicted of murdering Skylar Neese Robert C. Frasure, first U.S. ambassador to Estonia following its independence from Soviet Union Robert P. George, founder of American Principles Project Elliott Portnoy, attorney Gene Arden Vance Jr., Special Operations soldier with the West Virginia National Guard; killed in action in Afghanistan in 2002 Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician
See also List of West Virginia University alumni List of presidents of West Virginia University
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