List of people from Wheeling, West Virginia
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This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Wheeling, West Virginia.
- John Bluem, soccer player and coach[1]
- Jesse Burkett, Hall of Fame baseball player
- Gene Freese, baseball player
- Jack Glasscock, Major League Baseball player[2]
- Michael Grove, baseball player
- Chuck Howley, NFL linebacker for Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys
- Eugene Lamone, former NFL player, West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame[3]
- Bill Mazeroski, Hall of Fame second baseman
- Cy Morgan, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Joe Pettini, former shortstop for the San Francisco Giants.
- Mark Prosser, college basketball coach
- Andy Tonkovich, basketball player selected first in the 1948 BAA Draft
- Dave Wojcik, college basketball coach
- Doug Wojcik, college basketball coach
Arts and entertainment
- Jodi Applegate, TV news anchor
- Leon "Chu" Berry, jazz saxophonist
- Leo Brady, playwright, novelist, and director
- Bobby Campo, actor
- Jack Canfield, motivational speaker
- John Corbett, actor
- Billy Cox, bassist
- Jesse Cox, internet personality
- Henrietta Crosman, actress
- Belle Caldwell Culbertson, author and philanthropist
- Faith Daniels, network broadcaster
- Rebecca Harding Davis, author
- Joyce DeWitt, actress
- Joanne Dru, actress
- Doug Fetherling, writer
- Mike Florio, sportswriter
- Kelsey Fowler, Broadway actress
- Virginia Fox, actress
- Rob Garrison, actor
- Lois Kibbee, actress
- Everett Lee, orchestral conductor
- Slim Lehart, country music singer
- Keith Maillard, writer
- Harry Nickerson, criminal and murderer
- Mollie O'Brien, Grammy-winning bluegrass singer
- Tim O'Brien, Grammy-winning bluegrass musician, brother of Mollie O'Brien
- Rick Schneider-Calabash, animation producer, writer, and director
- Eleanor Steber, operatic soprano associated with Metropolitan Opera
- Chris Stirewalt, digital politics editor for the NewsNation
- Edith Lake Wilkinson (1868–1957), artist[4]
- Nan Wynn, big band singer and actress
Politics
- Thais Blatnik, West Virginia journalist and politician
- Joseph M. Devine, Governor of North Dakota, 1898–1899[5]
- Bob Ney, U.S. Representative from Ohio
