This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Wheeling, West Virginia.
Athletics John Bluem, soccer player and coach Jesse Burkett, Hall of Fame baseball player Gene Freese, baseball player Jack Glasscock, Major League Baseball player Michael Grove, baseball player Chuck Howley, NFL linebacker for Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys Eugene Lamone, former NFL player, West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame Bill Mazeroski, Hall of Fame second baseman Cy Morgan, Major League Baseball pitcher Joe Pettini, former shortstop for the San Francisco Giants Mark Prosser, college basketball coach Andy Tonkovich, basketball player selected first in the 1948 BAA draft Dave Wojcik, college basketball coach Doug Wojcik, college basketball coach
Arts and entertainment Jodi Applegate, TV news anchor Leon "Chu" Berry, jazz saxophonist Leo Brady, playwright, novelist, and director Bobby Campo, actor Jack Canfield, motivational speaker John Corbett, actor Billy Cox, bassist Jesse Cox, internet personality Henrietta Crosman, actress Belle Caldwell Culbertson, author and philanthropist Faith Daniels, network broadcaster Rebecca Harding Davis, author Joyce DeWitt, actress Joanne Dru, actress Doug Fetherling, writer Mike Florio, sportswriter Kelsey Fowler, Broadway actress Virginia Fox, actress Rob Garrison, actor Lois Kibbee, actress Everett Lee, orchestral conductor Slim Lehart, country music singer Keith Maillard, writer Harry Nickerson, criminal and murderer Mollie O'Brien, Grammy-winning bluegrass singer Tim O'Brien, Grammy-winning bluegrass musician, brother of Mollie O'Brien Rick Schneider-Calabash, animation producer, writer, and director Eleanor Steber, operatic soprano associated with Metropolitan Opera Chris Stirewalt, digital politics editor for NewsNation Edith Lake Wilkinson (1868–1957), artist Nan Wynn, big band singer and actress
Politics Thais Blatnik, West Virginia journalist and politician Joseph M. Devine, governor of North Dakota, 1898–1899 Christine Hamm, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives Bob Ney, U.S. representative from Ohio
Other Derrick Anderson, lieutenant colonel Adelbert R. Buffington, U.S. Army general William Burrus, president of APWU 2001–2010 Annie Sinclair Cunningham (1832–1897), religious worker, Wheeling Hall of Fame William L. Elkins, 19th-century business tycoon Walter L. Fisher, U.S. secretary of the interior Rosemary Front, disability rights advocate Cynthia Germanotta, philanthropist and businesswoman, mother of Lady Gaga George Herbig, astronomer Alvan Macauley, president of Packard 1916–1939 William J. Mitsch, Stockholm Water Prize laureate, ecology professor and author Marion Moses, physician, labor activist Bob Nutting and family, principal owners of the Pittsburgh Pirates Ewald Over, entrepreneur and American Civil War veteran Austin E. Renforth, major general, USMC Jesse L. Reno, Civil War general; namesake of Reno, Nevada Walter Reuther, president of United Auto Workers 1946–1970 and Congress of Industrial Organizations 1952–1955 Robert E. L. Strider, president of Colby College John Yarnall, naval officer during War of 1812
See also List of mayors of Wheeling, West Virginia
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