Sam Thompson
1860–1922 American baseball player
James Hurst
born 1991 American football player
John Millikin
1888–1970 American general
Crawford F. Parker
1906–1986 American politician
Christin Baker
American producer and director
Huron Herbert Smith
1883–1933 Botanist
John W. Jordan
1926–2021 American politician
Chester Piersol Barnett
1887–1948 United States Army officer
Travis Steele
born 1981 American basketball coach
John Milton Lee
1890–1958 Founder of Kappa Alpha Psi
Orion Alexander Bartholomew
1837–1919 American Civil War general
Also called Danville home
PG Philip Gulley
born 1961 American Quaker writer