This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Athletics Walt Barnes, professional football player and actor Dick Biddle, college football coach Zac Boggs, soccer player Kim Caldwell, basketball coach Chase Fieler, professional basketball player Paul Goldsmith, member of Motorcycle Hall of Fame Dick Hoblitzel, outfielder in Major League Baseball Tom Lopienski, NFL player Tim Phillips (swimmer), U.S. National Team and world champion swimmer Macguire McDuff, NCAA champion swimmer Earle "Greasy" Neale (1891–1973), professional football and baseball player Harold Newhart, Olympic gymnast Mary Ostrowski, former U.S. National Team gold medalist, West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame Brenton Strange, NFL player for the Jacksonville Jaguars Nick Swisher, professional baseball player and Steve's son Steve Swisher, professional baseball player and Nick's father Gibby Welch, professional football player Deron Williams, professional basketball player
Arts & entertainment
Allen Appel, novelist Sybil Carmen, Ziegfeld Girl and silent film actress Edwin Catmull, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios Paul Dooley, Hollywood character actor Leah Bodine Drake, poet Linda Goodman, astrology author Tommy Hanlon Jr., Australian television presenter Cy Hungerford, political cartoonist for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Lily Irene Jackson (1848–1928), artist and daughter of John Jay Jackson Jr. Robert Lichello, author Leon Claire Metz, historian, author, documentary personality, lecturer on American West Gary Null, nutritionist and author Devon Odessa, actress and film producer Bill Robinson, jazz singer Morgan Spurlock, Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter, and political activist Richard Watts Jr., film critic for New York Herald Tribune and New York Post
Politics Edmund Burke Fairfield, 12th lieutenant governor of Michigan and chancellor of University of Nebraska Dave Foggin, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, born in Parkersburg John D. Hoblitzell Jr., U.S. senator, born and raised in Parkersburg Jacob B. Jackson, governor of West Virginia 1881–85 Hunter Holmes Moss Jr., Republican U.S. representative Buck Rinehart, Republican, mayor of Columbus, Ohio Mick Staton, Republican, U.S. representative William E. Stevenson, governor of West Virginia, 1869–71 Peter G. Van Winkle, Republican U.S. senator Albert B. White, governor of West Virginia, 1901–05 Jay Wolfe, West Virginia state senator and U.S. Senate candidate
Other Harman Blennerhassett, ally of Aaron Burr and owner of Blennerhassett Island Jim Dawson, cultural historian Homer A. Holt, justice of West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals John Jay Jackson Jr., U.S. federal judge Felix Stump, admiral in U.S. Navy and commander, United States Pacific Fleet
See also List of directors and presidents of West Virginia University at Parkersburg
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