List of people from Morgantown, West Virginia
This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Morgantown, West Virginia. == Athletics == Jeff Bowden, NCAA football coach Terry Bowden, NCAA football coach Tommy Bowden, NCAA football coach Rich Braham, professional football player Necro Butcher, professional wrestler Lowell Cowell, NASCAR Cup Series driver Albert Gwynne, former United States national basketball team and West Virginia Mountaineers athletic trainer Jedd Gyorko, baseball player Alan Henderson, professional basketball player Charlie Hickman, baseball player, made Morgantown his home Bob Huggins, West Virginia University head basketball coach Dwayne Jones, professional basketball player Josh Judy, professional baseball player Paul Mainieri, LSU baseball coach Lee Patton, WVU basketball coach Xavier Proctor, football player Dale Ramsburg, NCAA baseball coach Zach Spiker, college basketball coach Michael Wardian, marathoner and ultra-marathoner Kim Weaver, astrophysicist == Arts and entertainment == Emily Calandrelli, TV host, actor, author, and engineer Jack Fleming, sports announcer Charles Wesley Godwin, musician Linda Goodman, astrologer and poet Eriko Hattori, painter Alicia Holloway, ballerina and television personality Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter/director Don Knotts, actor (city unveiled statue in 2016) Hoda Kotb, broadcast journalist Blanche Lazzell, modern artist, printmaker, and painter Frank Lovece, journalist and author Ellie Mannette, father of the modern steel drum, musician William Matheny, singer-songwriter Herbert Morrison, journalist Asra Nomani, journalist, political activist Freddy Quinn, German film star and singer David Selby, actor Kimberley Starr, novelist Michael Tomasky, journalist and author Franklin White, British ballet dancer Allison Williams, Miss West Virginia (2003) == Education == Earl Lemley Core, botanist and local historian John Douglas, conductor and educator Walter Hough, curator of United States National Museum John Laidley, a founder of Marshall University Duncan Lorimer, astrophysicist noted for discovering the first fast radio burst Alexander Wade, educational reformer Israel C. White, geologist and professor == Politics == John O. Bennett, New Jersey state senator Marion Cannon, U.S. representative from California Edgar F. Heiskell III, West Virginia secretary of state and lawyer Moses Kinkaid, congressman, sponsor of Kinkaid Land Act Riley Moore, U.S. representative for West Virginia Francis Harrison Pierpont, 19th-century governor Waitman T. Willey, U.S. senator == Other == Earl E. Anderson, ret.
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