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Famous People From South Carolina |
Ever wonder if anyone famous came from your hometown in South Carolina?
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Bill Anderson
singer, songwriter, Columbia |
Althea
Gibson tennis champion, Silver |
Robert
Evander McNair governor, Cades |
| Bernard
Baruch statesman, Camden |
Dizzy
Gillespie jazz trumpeter, Cheraw |
Ronald
McNair astronaut, Lake City |
| Mary
McLeod Bethune educator, Mayesville |
DuBose
Heyward poet, playwright, author, Charleston |
John
Rutledge jurist, Charleston |
| James
Godfather Brown singer, Barnwell |
Charlayne Hunter-Gault journalist, Due West | Strom
Thurmond politician, Edgefield |
| Joseph
H. Burckhalter inventor, Columbia |
Andrew
Jackson U.S. president, Waxhaw |
Charles
Hard Townes physicist, Greenville |
| James
F. Byrnes senator, jurist, Charleston |
Jesse
Louis Jackson civil rights leader, Greenville |
William
Westmoreland army chief of staff, Spartanburg |
| John
C. Calhoun statesman, Calhoun Mills |
Eartha
Kitt singer, North |
Vanna
White TV personality, North Myrtle Beach |
| Joe
Frazier prize fighter, Beaufort |
Francis Swamp Fox Marion general, Berkeley County | |
