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Timothy Z. Mosley (born March 10, 1971), better known as Timbaland, is an American musical composer, R&B record producer and rapper whose style blurs the distinction between R&B, hip-hop, pop and dance music. With partner Magoo, he is a member of hip-hop duo Timbaland & Magoo. Timbaland has been considered similar to producers such as Brian Eno, … - David Wright
David Allen Wright (born December 20, 1982 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an All-Star Third Baseman in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets. Wright attended Hickory High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. In high school, he was a three-time All-State selection and, as a senior, was named the Virginia All-State Player of the Year. He finished his high school career with a .438 batting average, 13 home runs, and 50 RBI. - Paul D. Fraim
Paul D. Fraim is the current mayor of the city of Norfolk, Virginia. He was born in Norfolk, and graduated from Norfolk Catholic High School, completed undergraduate studies at Virginia Military Institute, received his Master of Education from the University of Virginia and his law degree from the University of Richmond. A member of Norfolk City Council since 1986, he was elected mayor on July 1, 1994. - Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith (born June 18, 1963 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a former NFL football player who currently holds the NFL record for most career quarterback sacks with 200. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He was named in honor of his fathers' idol, Bruce Brewington. - Michael Cuddyer
Michael Brent Cuddyer is a Major League Baseball player. He is currently the starting right fielder for the Minnesota Twins. He bats and throws right-handed and wears number 5. Cuddyer is a 1997 graduate of Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, Virginia, where he was a standout athlete in baseball, basketball, and football. Cuddyer was named Virginia's Player of the Year and Gatorade National baseball Player of the Year in 1997. - Joe Smith
Joseph Leynard Smith (born July 26 1975, in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls in the NBA. His height is listed as 6'10". Smith attended Maury High School and played at the University of Maryland. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors as the first overall pick of the 1995 NBA Draft. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 1995-96 season. Smith is a power forward. - Frank Batten
Frank Batten (1927-) is a communications entrepreneur who began his career when he assumed leadership of his uncle Samuel L. Slover's newspaper, "The Virginian-Pilot" and "The Ledger-Star" in Norfolk, Virginia at age 27 in 1954. Batten grew his uncle's business by acquiring additional newspapers, radio stations, and television stations, as well as founding a new cable station The Weather Channel. - B.J. Upton
Melvin Emanuel "B.J." Upton, (born August 21, 1984 in Norfolk, Virginia) (The B.J. is short for "Bossman Junior", his father's nickname was Bossman). Upton was drafted second overall in the 2002 amateur draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays out of Greenbrier Christian Academy in Chesapeake, Virginia. He is considered to be one of the top prospects that the Tampa Bay organization is building around. He currently leads the team in Batting Average, Homeruns and Runs Batted In. - Henry Howell
Henry Evans Howell, Jr. (September 5, 1920 - July 7, 1997), nicknamed "Howlin'" Henry Howell, was an American politician from the U.S. state of Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in both houses of the state legislature, was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia as an Independent, and made several runs for Governor. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Howell grew up in Norfolk. - Rob Estes
Robert Estes (born July 22 1963 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American actor. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Estes is a graduate from the University of Southern California where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He caught the acting bug while training to be a stunt double. One of his first acting jobs was in the daytime drama "Days of Our Lives" playing "Glenn Gallagher". - Doris Eaton Travis
Doris Eaton Travis, also known as Doris Eaton (born March 14 1904 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a retired Broadway and film performer, dance instructor and author. She is also the last surviving Ziegfeld girl. - Keely Smith
Keely Smith (born Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, 9 March 1932, in Norfolk, Virginia, of part Cherokee & Irish descent) is an American jazz and popular music singer, who enjoyed great popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. Her collaborations with Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra were highly rated. Smith was much admired for her exquisite singing style and her great beauty. In recent years, Smith resumed her career to critical acclaim. - Margaret Sullavan
Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an Oscar-nominated American actress. - Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons (born January 11, 1942 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American musician, best known as the saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Known as "The Big Man", Clemons has been playing with Springsteen since 1972; his sax parts are an easily recognized feature of the E Street sound, with the most famous being his long elegiac solo during the song "Jungleland". With the band Clemons plays mostly tenor saxophone, … - Tim Reid
Tim Reid (born December 19 1944 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American actor and film director best known for his roles in prime time television programs. - Levi Brown
Levi James Brown III (born March 16, 1984 in Jacksonville, North Carolina) is an American football left tackle for the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. - Stephen Furst
Stephen Furst is an American actor and film and television director. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, he is best known for his roles as "Flounder" in the feature film "Animal House" (1978), as Gonzer in the feature film "Up the Creek" (1984), as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in the television series "St. Elsewhere" (1983–1988), and as Vir Cotto in the science fiction television series "Babylon 5" (1993–1998). - D. J. Dozier
William Henry Dozier Jr. is a former professional baseball outfielder and American football running back star, especially at Penn State. He played one season of Major League Baseball—1992 with the New York Mets—following three seasons in the minor leagues. He played 5 seasons in the National Football League (1987-1992), playing for the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. He currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia. - Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress (born August 12, 1977 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American football wide receiver for the NFL's New York Giants. After being drafted in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft (8th overall) out of Michigan State, Burress became a full-time starter for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2001. Burress is a "big-play" threat and was considered to have been a good balance to the Steelers' other starting wide receiver, Hines Ward, … - Lefty Driesell
Charles "Lefty" Driesell (born December 25, 1931) is a retired college basketball coach. Driesell grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, where he attended Granby High School. The famous left-hander attended Duke University from 1950 to 1954, playing basketball under coach Harold Bradley. He began his coaching career as a junior varsity coach at Granby High School in Norfolk in 1954, and then took over as varsity coach the next year. - Jake E. Lee
Jakey Lou Williams (born February 15, 1957 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA), better known as Jake E. Lee is a heavy metal guitarist best known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne. - George Brown
George Brown (1835-1913) was an American naval officer. He was born in Indiana, and entered the navy as a midshipman in 1849. He served throughout the Civil War, especially distinguishing himself on the night of February 24, 1863, when, in command of the Indianola at Palmyra Island, he defended himself for an hour and a half against four Confederate gunboats. Finally he was wounded and taken prisoner, and his vessel was destroyed. - Dexter Reid
Dexter Reid (born March 18, 1981) is a safety currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Patriots in the 4th round of the 2004 NFL Draft after four years playing for the North Carolina Tar Heels. When Colts linebacker Rocky Calmus was injured, the Colts signed Reid, who had recently been released by the Patriots. On February 21, 2007, the Colts waived Reid. - Ernie Watts
Ernie Watts (born Ernest James Watts on October 23, 1945 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone (tenor, alto and soprano) and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist. He has also toured with the Rolling Stones, joining them on their 1981 tour. - William H. Face
William H. Face was the son of Edward Face (1808-1840) and Catherine Heffley Face (1805-1876). Edward Face was the chief carpenter at Fortress Monroe while 1st Lieutenant Robert E. Lee was stationed there (1831-34). Lee played a major role in the final construction of both Fortress Monroe and its opposite, Fort Calhoun, later renamed Fort Wool. Both forts would later provide great vantage points for the Battle of Hampton Roads but neither played an important part in the action. - Naomi Long Madgett
Naomi Long Madgett (born July 5, 1923) is an African American poet, born Naomi Cornelia Long in Norfolk, Virginia. Madgett was a teacher and an award winning poet, she is also the senoior editor of Lotus Press, which is a publisher of poetry books by black poets. - Chuck Swirsky
Chuck Swirsky, a.k.a. "The Swirsk is the television play-by-play voice of the Toronto Raptors of the NBA, alongside colour commentators Leo Rautins and Jack Armstrong. He also hosts an afternoon sports radio show, “The Chuck Swirsky Show”, from 1–4 p.m. on The Fan 590 radio and writes a daily blog for Raptors.com called “Chuck Checks In”. Though born in Virginia, Swirsky grew up in Bellevue, … - Samuel Face
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Patrick Wilson (born July 3 1973) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American theater and film actor and singer. Wilson was born in Norfolk, Virginia to Mary K. a voice teacher and professional singer, and John Wilson, who works as FOX news anchor for WTVT-TV in Tampa, Florida (as does Wilson's brother, Mark). Wilson graduated from Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. - Kentuckyfriedcruelty.Com
KentuckyFriedCruelty.com was the legal name of Christopher Garnett, a youth outreach worker for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). He had changed his name to protest the explicit animal abuse to chickens by the American fast-food chain KFC, also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken. The PETA website shows a copy of KentuckyFriedCruelty.com's drivers license bearing what was his legal name. PETA member Pamela Anderson expressed her support for the name change, … - Cathy St. George
Cathy St. George (born August 23, 1954 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American model, actress, and make-up artist. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the August 1982 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. After working for "Playboy" as a make-up artist, she was chosen to be a Playmate herself. - William Couper
William Couper (1853-1942) was an American sculptor. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Couper returned from the studios of Munich and Florence and established himself in New York in 1897 as a portraitist and sculptor of busts in the modern Italian manner. He was the son-in-law of sculptor Thomas Ball (1819-1911) and colleague of Daniel Chester French. Couper is well known for his winged figures, such as the Recording Angel in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, … - Fred Ottman
Fred Ottman (Born August 10 1956 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a retired American professional wrestler best known for his stints in both the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. - Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr.
Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr. (born 1955, Norfolk, Virginia) is the first African American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, currently completing his second four-year term in that office. A 1973 graduate of Norview High School of Norfolk, Virginia, where he was voted "most likely to succeed," he is the fifth of six children. Both his parents were educators. His father, who died three months before Hassell was appointed to the Supreme Court, … - David Lamotte
David LaMotte, born on April 25, 1968 in Norfolk, Virginia is a singer-songwriter currently based in Black Mountain and Montreat, North Carolina. His work includes original folk music, children's music, and peacemaking. He currently divides his time between touring and a non-profit corporation he created to aid Guatemalan schools, PEG (Proyecto para las Escuelas Guatemaltecas). Recently, while playing at the Montreat Conference Center, … - Lin Dawson
James Linwood "Lin" Dawson (born June 24, 1959 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a former professional American football player who played tight end for nine seasons for the New England Patriots. He started in Super Bowl XX, but suffered torn knee ligaments on the Patriots' first play. - Lonnie Perrin
Lonnie Perrin (born February 3, 1952 in Norfolk, Virginia) was an American football running back in the NFL for the Denver Broncos, the Chicago Bears, and the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the University of Illinois. - George Esser
George Hyndman Esser, Jr. (born c. 1921 in Norton, Virginia - died November 5, 2006 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was a civil rights advocate and a crusader against poverty who led the North Carolina Fund at the request of then-governor Terry Sanford in the 1960s. - Charles H. Schneer
Charles H. Schneer is a film producer most widely known for working with special effects pioneer, Ray Harryhausen. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1920. - Paul Hines
Paul Lorenzo Hines is a beloved football coach and was the inspiration for Denzel Washington's character in the Disney film "Remember the Titans".
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