Bernard Mannes Baruch
1870–1965 American businessman
Samuel E. Wright
1946–2021 American actor
Florence Scovel Shinn
1871–1940 American writer, artist and book illustrator
Laura Kraut
born 1965 Equestrian
Sam Savage
1940–2019 American writer
Joseph B. Kershaw
1822–1894 Confederate Army general
Larry Doby
1923–2003 American baseball player
James Chesnut Jr.
1815–1885 American politician
Lane Kirkland
1922–1999 American labor leader
John C. West
1922–2004 South Carolina politician
Robbie Robinson
born 1998 American soccer player
O'Brien Schofield
born 1987 American football player
William McWillie
1795–1869 American politician
De Lancey Gill
1859–1940 American painter and photographer
Michael Kohn
born 1986 American baseball player
Vincent Sheheen
born 1971 American attorney and politician
John Carter
1792–1850 U.S. Representative from South Carolina
John Kershaw
1765–1829 American politician
Maurice Fountain
born 1982 American football defensive lineman
Tyronne Drakeford
born 1971 American football player
Andre Cooper
born 1975 American football player
Charles Bennett
born 1983 American football player
Laurie Funderburk
born 1975 American politician
Robert L. McFadden
1929–2010 American lawyer
Bill Clyburn
born 1941 American politician
Cynthia L. Mahoney
1951–2006 American nun and chaplain
Richie Williams
born 1983 American quarterback
Ben Connell
born 1982 American politician
Benjamin Patterson DeLoache
1905–1994 American baritone singer
Eddie McGirt
1920–1970 Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
James M. Stoney
1888–1965 Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rio Grande
Lester P. Branham Jr.
1933–2023 American politician
Lois Rhame West
1921–2014 First Lady of South Carolina
Stephen Keep Mills
born 1947
David Read Evans Winn
1831–1863 Civil War physician and soldier
Frank Gardner Lesure
1927–2023 American geologist
John C. West Jr.
1948–2020 Son of former South Carolina governor John C. West Sr.; first recorded COVID-19 death in Kershaw County
Larry Cooke
1954–2012 American basketball player
M. Lucia James
1924–1977 Education professor; first African American full professor at the University of Maryland
Also called Camden home
Kathleen Parker
born 1951 American journalist
William Blanding
1773–1857 American naturalist