Tori Amos
born 1963 American singer-songwriter
Hoke Smith
1855–1931 American politician
Cherie K. Berry
born 1946 American politician
BH Bobby Hicks
1933–2024 American musician
Eddie Yount
1915–1973 American baseball player
James Lore Murray
1919–2004 United States general
Brock Long
born 1975 Director of the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency
Buz Phillips
1904–1964 American baseball player
Dennis Setzer
born 1960 American stock car racing driver
Jerry Punch
born 1953 American football player
Shane Lee
born 1993 American stock car racing driver
Wilson Warlick
1892–1978 United States federal judge
Rashad Coulter
born 1981 American mixed martial arts fighter
Arthur Bunyan Caldwell
1873–1944 American publisher
Jacob F. Blackburn
1918–2014 Ph.D. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1953
William McWhorter Cochrane
1917–2004 Employee of the United States Senate
Also called Newton home
SW Shane Watts
born 1972 Australian motorcycle racer