This is a list of notable people who were born in, lived in, worked in, or otherwise have a documented connection to Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Athletics
Babe Barna – Major League Baseball player (1937–1943); born in Clarksburg Rex Bumgardner – professional football player for the Buffalo Bills and Cleveland Browns; born in Clarksburg Mike Carey – college basketball coach and longtime head coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers women's basketball team; from Clarksburg Jim Crutchfield – college basketball coach and two-time NCAA Division II national champion; from Clarksburg Jimbo Fisher – college football coach who led Florida State to the 2013 national championship; born in Clarksburg Pat Flaherty – football coach and two-time Super Bowl champion with the New York Giants; born in Clarksburg Bert Hamric – Major League Baseball player; born in Clarksburg Dave Jamerson – professional basketball player and first-round NBA draft pick; born in Clarksburg Tuffy Knight – Canadian university football coach and member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame; born in Clarksburg Frank Loria – Virginia Tech All-American and College Football Hall of Fame inductee; born in Clarksburg Willis Moody – Negro league baseball player; born in Clarksburg and attended Kelly Miller High School Ken Moore – professional football player for the New York Giants; born in Clarksburg Rich Newbrough – Canadian university football coach; born and raised in Clarksburg John Rokisky – professional football player and 1946 AAFC champion; attended Washington Irving High School in Clarksburg Tommy "Franco" Thomas - American heavyweight boxer from Clarksburg, West Virginia
Arts, architecture, and entertainment
Julia Davis Adams – novelist and children's writer; born in Clarksburg Tony Anthony – actor, producer, director, and screenwriter Gray Barker – writer and publisher known for early UFO books; worked in Clarksburg for much of his career Phyllis Curtin – operatic soprano and music educator; born in Clarksburg William Demby – novelist; grew up in Clarksburg Frank Gaylord – sculptor best known for the soldiers of the Korean War Veterans Memorial; born in Clarksburg Ernest C. S. Holmboe – architect whose firm, Holmboe & Lafferty, was based in Clarksburg Pare Lorentz – documentary filmmaker known as "FDR's filmmaker"; born in Clarksburg Peter Marshall – actor, singer, and longtime host of Hollywood Squares; born in Clarksburg Bumps Myers – jazz saxophonist; born in Clarksburg Gloria Plevin – painter; raised in Clarksburg Melville Davisson Post – author of the Uncle Abner detective stories (1911–1928) Emily Shaffer – actress; born in Clarksburg Clyde Ware – screenwriter, director, and producer; born in Clarksburg Patty Weaver – actress known for The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives; born in Clarksburg Meredith Sue Willis – novelist and educator; born in Clarksburg Sherilyn Wolter – television actress; born in Clarksburg Kirsten Wyatt – Broadway actress; grew up in Clarksburg
Journalism and broadcasting
Hugh Aynesworth – author and journalist; born in Clarksburg Mike Patrick – longtime ESPN sportscaster; born and raised in Clarksburg Christi Paul – television journalist; began her broadcasting career at WDTV in Clarksburg Jay Randolph – sportscaster; began his broadcasting career in Clarksburg
Politics, law, and government
Percy Ashcraft – former Clarksburg city manager and West Virginia state delegate; later Virginia county administrator W. Robert Blair – Illinois politician Gideon D. Camden – judge and politician; early Clarksburg leader Sam Cann – former West Virginia state senator and delegate; born in Clarksburg Fred H. Caplan – justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia John S. Carlile – U.S. senator; prominent figure in the movement that created West Virginia William W. Chapman – politician in Iowa and Oregon John J. Davis – U.S. representative; helped establish West Virginia John W. Davis – Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in 1924; born in Clarksburg Joseph S. Farland – U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Panama, Pakistan, and Iran; born in Clarksburg Ron Fragale – former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates; born in Clarksburg Guy D. Goff – U.S. senator; son of Nathan Goff Jr. Nathan Goff Jr. – U.S. senator, representative, secretary of the Navy, and federal judge; born in Clarksburg Howard Mason Gore – U.S. secretary of agriculture and governor of West Virginia Danny Hamrick – former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates; born in Clarksburg William S. Haymond – U.S. representative from Indiana and Union Army surgeon; born near Clarksburg Virgil L. Highland – banker, newspaper publisher, and Republican political figure based in Clarksburg. Lynn Hornor – U.S. representative from West Virginia; born in Clarksburg Edward B. Jackson – U.S. representative from Virginia John G. Jackson – U.S. representative and federal judge; prominent Clarksburg figure D. Rolland Jennings – West Virginia state delegate Louis A. Johnson – U.S. secretary of defense under President Harry S. Truman Irene Patricia Murphy Keeley – federal judge; practiced law in Clarksburg Patrick Lane – former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates; born in Clarksburg George Hay Lee – Virginia Court of Appeals judge; practiced law in Clarksburg Charles S. Lewis – U.S. representative Lloyd Lowndes Jr. – governor of Maryland and U.S. representative; born in Clarksburg Edwin Maxwell – West Virginia attorney general and Supreme Court justice; lived and practiced law in Clarksburg Haymond Maxwell – justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; born and practiced law in Clarksburg JB McCuskey – West Virginia attorney general and former state auditor; born in Clarksburg John F. McCuskey – former justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and state delegate; born and raised in Clarksburg Tim Miley – former speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates Joseph M. Minard – former West Virginia state senator, delegate, and Senate clerk; born in Clarksburg Alan Mollohan – U.S. representative from West Virginia Elliott Northcott – U.S. diplomat and federal judge; born in Clarksburg Dave Nutter – member of the Virginia House of Delegates; born in Clarksburg Roy Earl Parrish – West Virginia politician James Pindall – U.S. representative from Virginia; practiced law in Clarksburg Ben Queen – West Virginia state senator and former state delegate; born in Clarksburg Stuart F. Reed – U.S. representative from West Virginia Mike Romano – former West Virginia state senator; born in Clarksburg Harry Clay Smith – Ohio state legislator, newspaper editor, and civil rights advocate; born in Clarksburg John Curtiss Underwood – federal judge and abolitionist; taught in Clarksburg for about two years Cyrus Vance – U.S. secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter; born in Clarksburg Bob Williams – former West Virginia state senator; born in Clarksburg Benjamin Wilson – U.S. representative; practiced law in Clarksburg
Military
Joe Bartlett – U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general and longtime U.S. House of Representatives official; born in Clarksburg Stonewall Jackson – Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War; born in Clarksburg William Lowther Jackson – Confederate general during the American Civil War; born in Clarksburg Emisire Shahan – Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient; accredited to Clarksburg Sam Wetzel – U.S. Army lieutenant general; born in Clarksburg
Religion, civil rights, and public service
Mary Garard Andrews – Universalist minister and suffragist; born in Clarksburg Gordon Battelle – Methodist minister, educator, abolitionist, and West Virginia statehood leader; taught and served as a minister in Clarksburg Robert Graetz – Lutheran clergyman and civil rights activist; born in Clarksburg Mabel Grouitch – philanthropist and Red Cross volunteer nurse during World War I; born in Clarksburg
Education and scholarship
Martha Gandy Fales – art historian, museum curator, and author; born in Clarksburg Virginia Lacy Jones – librarian and library-school dean; spent much of her childhood in Clarksburg Victorine Louistall Monroe – educator and librarian; first Black woman to earn a graduate degree from West Virginia University; grew up and worked in Clarksburg Frederick Mosteller – statistician and founding chairman of Harvard University's statistics department; born in Clarksburg
Business
Porter Jarvis – president and chairman of Swift & Company; born in Clarksburg Clarence Moore – businessman and sportsman who died aboard the Titanic; born in Clarksburg Jean Yancey – entrepreneur, small-business consultant, and motivational speaker; born in Clarksburg
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