Shawn Weatherly
born 1959 American beauty queen, actress (active 1980–)
Jim Clyburn
born 1940 American politician
Jay Ellis
born 1981 American actor
Virginia Capers
1925–2004 American actress
Gloria Conyers Hewitt
born 1935 American mathematician
John Gayle
1792–1859 American politician
Clara Louise Kellogg
1842–1916 American opera singer
Bobby Richardson
born 1935 American baseball player
Nancy O'Dell
born 1966 American television host and entertainment journalist
James Gathers
1930–2002 Athletics competitor
Pete Chilcutt
born 1968 American basketball player
Desmond Richardson
born 1968 American choreographer
Eddie Edwards
born 1954 American football player
Freddie Solomon
1953–2012 American college football player, professional football player, wide receiver
Ray Davis
1940–2005 American bass singer
Dexter Wynn
born 1981 American football cornerback
Larry Kellner
born 1959 American businessperson and corporate director, former CEO of Continental Airlines
Steven Jackson
born 1982 American baseball player
Derrick Witherspoon
born 1971 American football player
Jonnie Barnett
1945–2002 American musician
Larry Weldon
1915–1990 American football player
Marcia G. Cooke
1954–2023 American judge
Nicole Gamble
born 1977 American athletics competitor
Ralph Dennis
1931–1988 American novelist
Ronnie Burgess
1963–2021 Player of American football
Tim Jones
born 1962 American baseball player
Cleveland Pinkney
born 1977 American football player
Frank Bradford
1941–2022 American lawyer and politician
James Felder
born 1939 American politician, lawyer, and civil rights activist
John Stefero
born 1959 American baseball player
Pete Tinsley
1913–1995 American football player
Ramon Schwartz, Jr.
1925–2017 American lawyer
Terry Vaughn
born 1971 Player of American and Canadian football
Thomas McElveen
born 1978 American politician
William Ephraim Mikell
1868–1944 American legal scholar
William T. Andrews
1898–1984 American politician in New York
Brittany Starling
born 1994 American-Cameroonian basketball player
Daniel R. McLeod
1913–1985 American politician
Emilie Virginia Haynsworth
1916–1985 American mathematician
James Huling
born 1984 American recruiter
Karyn de Laine Bennett-Lund
1952–2009 Norwegian journalist
Miller F. Whittaker
1892–1949 American architect, university president
Paul Dombroski
born 1954 American football defensive back
Sarah Ann Haynsworth Gayle
1804–1835 Diarist who kept a journal from 1827 to 1835
Tim Groves
born 1959 American football player
Vic Dabney
born 1958 American politician
Charles Hatfield Dickerson
born 1862
Corrie Parker McCallum
1914–2009 American artist
Elizabeth White
1893–1976 1893 - 1976 | American | Painter, Printmaker
Helen Gertrude Walker Haltiwanger
1918–2014 American artist
James Covington Parham, Jr.
1930–2023 American lawyer and civil rights activist
James Ward Seabrook
African American educator and North Carolina state leader
John Peter Broun
1806–1895 Enslaver from South Carolina and Alabama
Josephine Lawrence
1904–1985 American artist
Justin Glenn Kennemur
born 1979 Junior biochemist
Leroy Robinson
1934–2015 Television writer and producer
Robert McCants Andrews
1891–1932 African American lawyer and biographer
Robin Brabham
1946–2024 Librarian and founder of J. Murrey Atkins Library's Special Collections & University Archives at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Tiffani Mayes
born 1983 American basketball player
Yoyo Lander
born 1986 Collagist
Also called Sumter home
IW Inez Nathaniel Walker
1911–1990 African American artist
Nikky Finney
born 1957 American poet from South Carolina
James E. King
1914–1988 American military specialist
Minnie Deschamps
born 1907 American painter