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The following is a list of notable people associated with the U.S. state of North Carolina. ==Public or military figures== ;A–I *Alma Adams (born 1946), U.S Congresswoman 2014-present (High Point) *Samuel Bason (1894-1986), Yanceyville banker and businessman; attended Oak Ridge Military Academy; member of the North Carolina State Senate, 1948-1956 *William Blount (1749–1800), first North Carolina signatory of the United States Constitution; played a role in the creation of the State of Tennessee (Windsor) *Erskine Bowles (born 1945), White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton, currently President of the University of North Carolina system (Greensboro) *William G. Boykin, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under George W. Bush and retired Lieutenant General for the U.S. Army (New Bern) *Braxton Bragg (1817–1876), General in the Confederate States Army; led the Confederate Army of Tennessee in the battles of Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, and the Third Battle of Chattanooga against Union General Ulysses Grant (Warrenton) *Jim Broyhill (born 1927), Republican former U.S. Representative and Senator from North Carolina; youngest son of furniture magnate J. E. Broyhill. *James Burnley (born 1948), U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan (Greensboro) *Robert Byrd (1917–2010), U.S. Senator from West Virginia; longest-serving Senator in American history (North Wilkesboro) *Julius L. Chambers (born 1936), civil rights attorney who successfully argued the 1971 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education school busing case before the US Supreme Court (Mount Gilead) *Levi Coffin (1798–1897), abolitionist and educator known as the "President" of the Underground Railroad; credited with helping over 2,000 slaves escape to freedom in the North before the Civil War (Greensboro) *Josephus Daniels (1862–1948), US Secretary of the Navy 1913-1921 under President Woodrow Wilson; journalist and founder of the ''Raleigh News and Observer'' newspaper (Washington) *William Dodd (1869–1940), ambassador of the USA to Nazi-Germany 1933-1938 under Franklin Roosevelt (Clayton) *Elizabeth Dole (born 1936), former U.S. Senator and former Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan; wife to former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (Salisbury) *Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut; tenth man to walk on the moon *Sam Ervin (1896–1985), four-term U.S. Senator and Chairman of the Senate Watergate Investigation Committee; started the legislative process which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon (Morganton) *Charles A. Gabriel (1928–2003), US Air Force General, 11th chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force (Lincolnton) *Richard Jordan Gatling (1818–1903), physician and inventor of the Gatling gun (Hertford County) *The Greensboro Four, male African-American students at the North Carolina A&T State University who in 1960 started the first civil rights sit-in; their action eventually led to lunch counters and restaurants being desegregated throughout the Southern United States *John H. Hager (born 1936), Lieutenant Governor of Virginia *Caleb V. Haynes, USAF major general, air pioneer *Jesse Helms (1921–2008), retired five-term Senator from North Carolina and national spokesman for right-wing causes (Monroe) *James Pinckney Henderson (1808–1858), United States and Republic of Texas lawyer, politician, soldier, and the first Governor of the State of Texas (Lincolnton) *Robert Hoke (1837–1912), Major General, Confederate States Army and a Director of North Carolina Railroad, (Lincolnton) *James B. Hunt, Jr. (born 1937), former NC governor who served a record four terms, also engaged Jesse Helms in a race for the U.S. Senate in 1984 that was the most expensive Senate campaign up to that time (Wilson) ;J–Z *Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), seventh President of the United States, 1829-1837 (Waxhaw) (It should be noted his birth records are not complete and he may be from the South Carolina side.) *Andrew Johnson (1808–1875), seventeenth President of the United States, 1865-1869 (Raleigh) *Joseph Lane (1801–1881), United States Army general and member of the United States Senate from Oregon (Buncombe County) *Dolley Madison (1768–1849), wife of President James Madison (Guilford County) *Daniel McFadden (born 1937), economist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in economics (Raleigh) *Walter Hines Page (1855–1918), U.S. ambassador to Britain during the First World War (Cary) *William Dorsey Pender (1834–1863), Major General, one of the youngest generals in the Confederate States Army, mortally wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, (Edgecombe County) *James K. Polk (1797–1849), 11th President of the United States, 1845-1849 (Mecklenburg County) *Eliza Jane Pratt (1902-1981), U.S Congresswoman 1946-1947 (Anson County) *Stephen Dodson Ramseur (1837–1864), Major General, Confederate States Army; mortally wounded at the Battle of Cedar Creek Virginia (Lincolnton) *Hiram Revels (1822–1901), first African-American member of the United States Senate (Fayetteville) *Hugh Shelton (born 1942), retired US Army General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1997-2001 (Tarboro) *Edward Snowden (born 1983), former NSA contractor who leaked top-secret documents regarding the NSA worldwide spying program (Wilmington) *Richard Dobbs Spaight Sr (1758–1802), second NC signatory of the US Constitution and the eighth NC Governor (New Bern) *Don Vaughan (born 1952), former member of the North Carolina State Senate from Greensboro, who pushed for Susie's Law in 2010 *Robert F. Williams (1925–1996), civil rights activist who advocated using black armed guards to protect African-American neighborhoods from white supremacist groups (Monroe) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of people from North Carolina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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