History · Penhook
Close to home
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Penhook yet, but 33 notable people were born within 35 miles. Here they are, nearest first.
Rocky Mount · 14 mi
Dwaine Board
American football playerWillie Lee Rose
American historianLillie Barbour
American suffrage activist and labor advocateClaudia Emerson
American academic, writer and poet
Archibald Thomas Robertson
Baptist New Testament scholarBarbara Hall
American television producer
Dan Daniel
American politicianEllen Bryant Voigt
American poetWyatt C. Hedrick
American architect
Guy Gardner
American astronaut
Juan Thornhill
American football player
David Huddleston
American actor
Edward James Gay
American politicianMike Neill
Baseball player
Carol M. Swain
American political scientistHarvey Cloyd Philpott
American politician
David Hubbard
American politician
Randy Hundley
American baseball player and coachVivian Louise Aunspaugh
American painter
Ward Armstrong
American politicianAbram Trigg
18th-century American politicianCharles Shufford
American boxerJohn Johns Trigg
American politicianRabih Abdullah
Professional football running backTodd Hundley
American baseball playerWally Burnette
American baseball player
John C. Mather
American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Henrietta Lacks
American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line
John Payne
American actor
Lynn Bari
American actress