List of people from Arlington, Virginia
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The following is a list of notable individuals who live or have lived in Arlington County, Virginia.
- Jerry Coyne, biologist, University of Chicago[citation needed]
- Harry Lee Morrison, former physicist, University of California, Berkeley
Arts and entertainment
- Danny Ahn, musician, g.o.d[citation needed]
- Dave Bautista, actor and former professional wrestler[citation needed]
- Warren Beatty, actor and director[1]
- Gordon Bess, cartoonist[citation needed]
- Steve Buckhantz, sports announcer, Washington Wizards[citation needed]
- Sandra Bullock, Academy Award-winning actress[1]
- Alyson Cambridge, classical music, jazz, and popular song singer[2]
- Zach Cregger, director
- George Washington Parke Custis, orator and playwright; stepgrandson and informally adopted son of President George Washington
- Roberta Flack, jazz, soul, R&B, folk music singer, songwriter, and musician[3]
- Greg Garcia, television writer, producer and director[citation needed]
- Zac Hanson, musician[4]
- Julia Kwon, visual artist[5]
- Shirley MacLaine, actress[1]
- Jim Morrison, rock musician, song writer, and lead vocalist, The Doors[6]
- DeStorm Power, Internet personality
- Natalie Wynn, YouTube personality[7]
Astronauts
- David M. Brown, astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster[8]
- John Glenn, former U.S. senator and NASA astronaut[9]
Business
- Frank Lyon, lawyer, newspaper publisher and land developer[10]
- Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO and co-founder of Yelp[citation needed]
Civil rights
- Esther Cooper Jackson, African-American civil rights activist and social worker[11]
- Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, activist known for helping plan the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and taking part in Freedom Rides[12]
Crime
- Aldrich Ames, Central Intelligence Agency agent convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union[13]
- Nidal Hasan, sole suspect in the November 5, 2009, Fort Hood shooting[14]
- Mikhail Kutzik and Natalia Pereverzeva, accused spies[citation needed]
Journalism
- Katie Couric, television journalist and talk show host[1]
Medicine
- Patch Adams, physician[1]
- Charles R. Drew, physician, most prominent African-American researcher in the field of blood transfusions in the 1940s; namesake of Drew School in San Francisco[15]
Military
- George M. Browning Jr., United States Air Force lieutenant general[16]
- Holmes E. Dager, U.S. Army major general, lived in Arlington during his retirement[17]
- Grace Hopper, pioneering computer scientist, and United States Navy rear admiral[18]
- George Juskalian, decorated member of the United States Army; served for over three decades; fought for three wars, including World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War[citation needed]
- Robert E. Lee, Confederate Army general who lived at Arlington House[19]
- George S. Patton, Jr., U.S. Army general during World War II[20]
- Blake Wayne Van Leer, commander and captain, United States Navy, led the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze
Politics and government
- W. Sterling Cole, former U.S. congressman[citation needed]
- Al Gore, former vice president[21]
- Betty Heitman, co-chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1983–1987; ran the Heitman Group consulting firm in Washington, D.C.; resided in Arlington[citation needed]
- Mary Landrieu, former U.S. senator; raised in Louisiana[citation needed]
- Ilhan Omar, U.S. representative for Minnesota[22]
- Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission[citation needed]
- James Walkinshaw, U.S. representative for Virginia[23]
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