PW Patrick Wilson
born 1973 American actor
Grant Gustin
born 1990 American actor and singer
Scott Travis
born 1961 American drummer
LB Lewis Binford
1931–2011 American archaeologist
Eddie Holman
born 1946 American singer and musician
Pernell Whitaker
1964–2019 American boxer
Barbara Perry
1921–2019 American actress
Tim Reid
born 1944 American actor and film director
Marc Vann
born 1954 American actor
Keyshawn Davis
born 1999 American boxer
Lawrence Johnson
born 1974 American pole vaulter
Crystal Cox
born 1979 American track and field athlete
Curtis Strange
born 1955 American professional golfer
Gary Fleder
born 1965 American film director
Rachelle Boone-Smith
born 1981 American sprinter
Eleanor Jones
1929–2021 American mathematician
Paul van Buren
1924–1998 Christian theologian
Ray Copeland
1926–1984 American musician
Veanne Cox
born 1963 American actress
Cliff Gallup
1930–1988 American guitarist
Leah Ray
1915–1999 Singer
BJ McKie
born 1977 American basketball player
Charlotte Zolotow
1915–2013 Author
Elizabeth Jordan Carr
born 1981 First person born in the United States of an in-vitro fertilisation
Jimmy Archey
1902–1967 American musician
Joe Garland
1903–1977 American musician
Joshua Bryant
1940–2024 American actor
Loren Coleman
born 1947 American cryptozoologist
Minnie Gentry
1915–1993 American actress
Robert Walter Johnson
1899–1971 American tennis player
Sebastian
born 1977 American rapper and songwriter
Sharon Redd
1945–1992 American musician
Stacy Horn
born 1956 American author, businesswoman and occasional journalist
Also called Norfolk home
TB Thomas Bayne
1824–1888 American dentist and politician
Maurice Jones
born 1964 United States government official
Michael Pearson
born 1949 American writer
Bertha Louise Douglass
1895–1980 Second African American woman admitted to practice law in the state of Virginia
Lula Lowe Weeden
1918–2013 American poet and activist
Isaac Hildreth
1741–1807 British architect
Lawrence Miller
Fan letter writer
Barbara Mann
Female ceramicist at Mann Made Designs, Norfolk, VA
Cecelia Hagen
born 1951 American poet
Charles Mantinband
1895–1974 American Jewish rabbi
Cullen Johnson
born 1971 Miss Virginia 1994
Dick Ruffin
American defense analyst and Moral Re-Armament activist
F. Gerard Errante
American clarinetist
Idelia W. M. Johnson Bagnall
1872–1931 African-American civic leader
Julia Anna Pope Delk
1878–1951 United Holy Church of America minister
Quinta Funderburk
American football wide receiver, Syracuse
Solomon Melvin Coles
1844–1924 American minister, educator, and community leader