This is alist of people from Charlottesville, Virginia, or from areas nearby toCharlottesville, who were either born, lived or presently live in the city.

Since the city's early formation, it has been the home of numerous notable individuals, including US presidentsThomas Jefferson andJames Monroe and authorWilliam Faulkner. In more recent times, Charlottesville has been the home of movie starSam Shepard and musicianDave Matthews.

• Kathleen Clifford – silent film, vaudeville and Broadway stage actress; born in Charlottesville
• Miriam Cooper –silent film actress; known for her role inThe Birth of a Nation; spent her last years here
• Kate Higgins – voice actress,Naruto
• Rob Lowe – Hollywood actor; born in Charlottesville
• Camila Mendes – actress; born in Charlottesville toBrazilian parents

• Rita Dove – poet and essayist
• William Faulkner – writer-in-residence at the university, to which he bequeathed all of his original manuscripts
• Elmer L. Gaden – biochemical engineer
• Steven M. Greer – ex-physician best known for founding the Disclosure Project
• Henry Hoke – author of hybrid books
• Wythe Leigh Kinsolving – Episcopal priest, writer, poet, political advocate; lived here in the 1940s through 1964
• Don Kiraly – linguist
• Julia Magruder – novelist
• William McDonough – environmental architect, planner, author; former dean of architecture at the university
• William McGuffey – lived in Charlottesville while serving as a professor at the university; buried nearby
• Arthur T. Prescott – educator and founding president ofLouisiana Tech University, 1894–1899; lived in Charlottesville 1887–1893, as commandant of cadets at the University of Virginia^[1]
• Monica Richardson – editor
• Sara Rittenhouse Brown – professor, author, musician
• Rob Sheffield – author ofLove is a Mix Tape, a memoir that takes place in Charlottesville
• Hawes Spencer – editor, foundedThe Hook

• Coran Capshaw – manager of theDave Matthews Band; real estate developer
• Nannie Cox Jackson – prominent African American educator, wealthy property owner and businesswoman; likelyAfrican American descendant ofThomas Jefferson
• John Kluge – businessman and philanthropist; lived in Charlottesville for a number of years and built the Albemarle House
• Halsey Minor – entrepreneur, foundedCNET

• Richard Burr – U.S. senator from North Carolina
• Chilton Allan –United States Congressman fromKentucky
• Thomas Jefferson – third president of the United States (1801–1809); principal author of theDeclaration of Independence (1776); one of the most influentialFounding Fathers
• Meriwether Lewis – explorer, soldier, and public administrator; best known for his role as the leader of theCorps of Discovery, whose mission was to explore the territory of theLouisiana Purchase
• James Madison – fourth president of the United States
• Christopher Henderson Clark –United States congressman
• James T. Farley –United States senator fromCalifornia
• James Monroe – founding father of the United States; fifth president of the United States; lived at Ash Lawn-Highland, adjacent to Jefferson's Monticello
• Nicholas Philip Trist – author of theTreaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War

• 7th Grade Girl Fight
• Terri Allard
• Hush Arbors – folk and experimentalguitarist
• Don Barnes – member of38 Special
• Carter Beauford – percussionist (drummer) and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band
• Eli Cook
• Bella Morte
• David Berman – member ofSilver Jews
• Paul Curreri
• John D'earth
• The Falsies
• Schuyler Fisk
• Brennan Gilmore
• The Hackensaw Boys
• Happy Flowers
• Corey Harris – blues and reggae musician and teacher; winner of aMacArthur Fellowship in 2007
• Greg Howard – Chapman Stick player
• Maxine Jones – an original member of the R&B singing group En Vogue
• The Landlords
• Kara Leona
• Stephen Malkmus – member ofPavement
• Dave Matthews – musician^[2][3]
• James McNew – member ofYo La Tengo
• Pauline Oberdorfer Minor – singer, one of the founders ofDelta Sigma Theta sorority
• LeRoi Moore – saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band
• Parachute
• Tom Peloso – member ofModest Mouse
• Wendy Repass
• Devon Sproule
• Boyd Tinsley – violinist and backup singer for the Dave Matthews Band
• Sarah White

• Kenny Arena – soccer player and coach^[4]
• Ashby Dunbar – baseball player in theNegro leagues
• Charlie Ferguson – formerMLB pitcher for thePhiladelphia Phillies
• Larry Haney – former Major League Baseball player for theBaltimore Orioles,Seattle Pilots/Milwaukee Brewers,Oakland Athletics andSt. Louis Cardinals
• Ralph Horween – Harvard Crimson and NFL football player
• Chris Long – graduate ofSt. Anne's-Belfield School; award-winningfootballdefensive end on the2007 Virginia Cavaliers football team; drafted 2nd overall by theSt. Louis Rams in the2008 NFL draft
• Howie Long – father of Chris Long; TV sports personality; former footballdefensive end for theOakland Raiders
• Tommy Toms – former Major League Baseball pitcher for theSan Francisco Giants, 1975–1977; born in Charlottesville
• Eric Wilson – formerNFL football player for theBuffalo Bills andWashington Redskins

• Anna Anderson – claimed to be theGrand Duchess Anastasia of Russia; lived out her final years in Charlottesville
• Eva Roberta Coles Boone – African-American educator and missionary to Congo
• William D. Gibbons – Baptist minister
• Fountain Hughes – former slave interviewed by theWorks Progress Administration to recordslave narratives
• Abby Kasonik – artist
• Khizr and Ghazala Khan – political activists and speaker at2016 Democratic National Convention
• Robert Llewellyn – Earlysville photographer
• Eduardo Montes-Bradley – writer and filmmaker
• John Mosby – known as the "Gray Ghost", a Confederatepartisan ranger in the American Civil War
• Alexander Vandegrift – Medal of Honor recipient, first active-duty four-star general in the U.S. Marine Corps

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