List of people from Roanoke, Virginia
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The following is a list of notable people who were either born in, raised in, or were one-time residents of Roanoke, Virginia. Roanoke natives are also referred to as Roanokers.
- Tony Atlas, wrestler[1]
- Ronde Barber, NFL player[2]
- Tiki Barber, NFL player
- Beth A. Brown, NASA astrophysicist
- George E. Bushnell, Michigan Supreme Court justice
- Tai Collins, model and actress
- Lew DeWitt, founding tenor and guitarist of the Statler Brothers
- Henry H. Fowler, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Dorothy Gillespie, artist, sculptor
- Antoinette Hale, painter
- Luke Hancock, basketball player
- Jim Harrell, professional wrestler
- K. J. Hippensteel, tennis player
- James Hylton, racing driver
- Louis A. Johnson, United States Secretary of Defense
- Danny Karbassiyoon, soccer player
- Henrietta Lacks, medical patient[3]
- Tosca Lee, author
- George Lynch, NBA player
- John C. Mather, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
- John Alan Maxwell, artist
- Walter Muir, International Master of Correspondence Chess
- John Payne, actor
- Don Pullen, jazz pianist
- Billy Sample, MLB player
- John St. Clair, NFL player
- Curtis Staples, basketball player[4]
- Lee Suggs, NFL player
- Nicholas F. Taubman, former United States ambassador to Romania
- Lois Weaver, artist, activist, writer, director, and professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London
- Eric Weinrich, NHL player
- Zach Zimmerman, comedian and author[5]
- Rainey Bethea, the last american criminal to have been publicly executed