- John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10 1953), is an American politician who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 and a one-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina. On December 27 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election. Edwards was a trial lawyer before entering politics. - Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (born October 18, 1921) is a former five-term Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina and a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is considered one of the leading figures of the modern "Christian right". On April 2, 2006, Helms's wife of sixty-three years, Dorothy Jane "Dot" Coble Helms, announced that he is afflicted with multi-infarct dementia and had been moved to a convalescent facility near their Raleigh home. - Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was a U.S. Senator from Greeneville, Tennessee at the time of the secession of the southern states. He was the only Southern Senator not to quit his post upon secession, and became the most prominent War Democrat from the South. In 1862 Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of Tennessee, … - Mike Easley
Michael Francis (Mike) Easley (born March 23, 1950) is the current governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina. He is a Democrat and North Carolina's second Catholic governor. Thomas Burke was the first, though Easley is the first elected by popular vote. Easley was raised a Roman Catholic in otherwise overwhelmingly Protestant Nash County, North Carolina. His father, Alexander Easley, owned one of the two big tobacco warehouses in the area. - Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. novelist. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tyler grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, graduated at age nineteen from Duke University, and completed graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University in New York City. She worked as a librarian and bibliographer before moving to Maryland. In 1963, Tyler married Iranian psychiatrist and novelist Taghi Mohammad Modarressi, with whom she had two daughters, … - Marion Jones
Marion Jones (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American athlete of half Belizean and half African American descent. She is the winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She holds dual citizenship from the USA and Belize (her mother's home country). - Elizabeth Edwards
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (born July 3, 1949, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an attorney and the wife of John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee and a 2008 Democratic Party presidential candidate. - David Sedaris
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist and radio contributor. Much of his humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, homosexuality and his life as an expatriate in France with his partner, Hugh. - Frankie Muniz
Frankie Muniz (born December 5 1985, in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nominated American actor. He was the star of the Fox Network television situation comedy, "Malcolm in the Middle", as well as several films aimed at preteen and teen audiences, including "Big Fat Liar", "Agent Cody Banks" and "Stay Alive". By 2003, Muniz was considered "one of Hollywood's most bankable teens". - Amy Sedaris
Amy Sedaris (born March 29 1961, in Endicott, New York) is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is the younger sister of humorist David Sedaris. They grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. - Clyde Edgerton
Clyde Edgerton is an American author born on May 20, 1944 in Durham, North Carolina. He is a rock star, and his books are known for endearing characters, small-town Southern dialogue and realistic fire and brimstone religious sermons. His books are full of humor, while still respecting the characters' integrity. He grew up in the small, rural town of Bethesda, North Carolina. He was the only child of Truma and Ernest Edgerton, … - Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, … - Frank Porter Graham
Frank Porter Graham (14 October 1886 - 16 February 1972) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of North Carolina. Born in Fayetteville in south central North Carolina in 1886, Graham graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1909. He thereafter studied law and received his licence in 1913. He received a graduate degree in 1916 from Columbia University in New York City. - Cate Edwards
Cate Edwards is a 25 years old girl participating in the active campaign for the upcoming Presidential election in the US. She is committed to fulfill her parents dreams to build the country in a better a way. She is a board member of Generation Engage. Cate is spreading the awareness among the youth there and helping them to actively participate in the election campaigning process. - Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an important American novelist of the 20th century. He wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written during the Great Depression, depict the variety and diversity of American culture. - Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner was an Academy Award-nominated American screen actress who worked on film and television. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time. - Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program "American Idol" in 2003. After placing second, RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album "Measure of a Man" was released in October 2003. - Jim Baen
James Patrick "Jim" Baen was a noted U.S. science fiction publisher and editor. In 1983 he founded his own publishing house, Baen Books, specializing in the adventure, fantasy, and military science fiction / space opera genres. In late 1999 he started an electronic publishing business called Webscriptions, considered to be the first profitable e-book vendor despite not using encryption or DRM. He was considered a controversial figure during his own lifetime, … - Kaye Gibbons
Kaye Gibbons (born May 5, 1960) is an American novelist. Her 1987 debut, "Ellen Foster", received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and the The Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gibbons is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and two of her books, … - Emily Procter
Emily Mallory Procter (born October 8, 1968 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American actress best known for her roles of Ainsley Hayes in "The West Wing" and Calleigh Duquesne in "CSI: Miami" - 9th Wonder
9th Wonder (born Patrick Douthit, January 15, 1975 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is a Grammy Award winning hip hop producer from Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He began his career as the main producer for the group Little Brother, and has also worked with the likes of Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, and Destiny's Child. As part of Little Brother he gained widespread recognition and critical acclaim from hip-hoppers worldwide. He has recently left Little Brother - Bill Guthridge
Bill Guthridge (born July 27, 1937 in Parsons, Kansas) is a retired American basketball coach. He gained recognition after serving for 30 years as Dean Smith's assistant. He coached the Tar Heels for three seasons before retiring in 2000 - David Drake
David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre. Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin. His studies at Duke University School of Law were interrupted for two years by the U.S. Army, … - Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20, 1949) is a children's author who wrote the Magic Tree House book series for children. She has written more than one hundred books for children and teenagers. The Magic Tree House series is illustrated by Salvatore Murdocca. Mary Pope Osborne grew up in a military family. Her father, William Pope, was a Colonel in the United States Army, and as such his family frequently moved from one military base to another. - André Leon Talley
André Leon Talley is the editor-at-large for "Vogue" magazine and has been a front-row regular at fashion shows in New York, Paris, London and Milan for over 25 years. He uses his influence to promote dozens of young fashion designers. He mentors young talent in other fields as well. His most famous pairings of late have been with designers Tracy Reese, Rachel Roy, and singer/actress Jennifer Hudson. He is known as a very close friend of pop diva Mariah Carey. - James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Belmont, Massachusetts. Taylor's career began in the mid-1960s, but he found his audience in the early 1970s, singing sensitive and gentle acoustic songs. He was part of a wave of singer-songwriters of the time that also included Joni Mitchell, Tom Rush, Cat Stevens, Carole King, John Denver, Elton John, Jackson Browne as well as Carly Simon, whom Taylor later married. - Seth Wescott
Seth Wescott (born June 28, 1976 in Durham, North Carolina) is an American snowboarder. Wescott lives near Farmington, Maine and has trained in the mountains near Cordova, Alaska at times, along with Sugarloaf/USA in Maine. He began skiing at age eight, before turning to snowboarding at age ten. In 1989, after competing in both sports for a few years, he stopped skiing to focus mainly on snowboarding. - Mia Hamm
Mia Hamm-Garciaparra (born Mariel Margaret Hamm on March 17,1972 in Selma, Alabama) is a former American soccer player. Playing for many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team, she scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female. Hamm eventually became one of the most famous women athletes in the world, an iconic symbol of women's sports, … - Lee Smith
Lee Smith (born on November 1, 1944) is an American fiction author who typically incorporates much of her home roots in the Southeastern United States in her works of literature. She has received many writing awards, such as the O. Henry award and the Academy Award For Literature. Her recent book The Last Girls was listed on the New York Times bestseller's list. - Evan Rachel Wood
Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987) is an American film, television and theater actress, and singer. She began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, including "American Gothic" and "Once and Again". Wood made her debut as a lead film actress in 2002's "Little Secrets", and became well known after her Golden Globe-nominated role in "Thirteen", which garnered her critical praise. - Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. - Michael Iver Peterson
Michael Iver Peterson (born October 23 1943 near Nashville, Tennessee, USA to Eugen Iver Peterson and Eleanor Bartolino) is a fiction writer and politician. In 2003, he was convicted of the murder of his wife, Kathleen Peterson. - Chris Sligh
Charles Christopher Sligh (born April 13 1978) was a finalist on the sixth season of "American Idol". He was eliminated from the competition on March 28, 2007 finishing in tenth place. - Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell (born 1953 in Raleigh, North Carolina), is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and served as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, USA from 1994 to 2002. Campbell was the fifty-seventh mayor in the city's history and the third African American to hold the office. In 1960, a seven-year-old Bill Campbell was the first black student to attend an all-white school in Raleigh, NC. - James Crawford Biggs
James Crawford Biggs was born in Oxford, North Carolina, on August 29 1872, to William and Elizabeth Arlington (Cooper) Biggs. Biggs was a student at the Horner Military School in Oxford from 1883-1887 before attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of North Carolina (UNC) in 1893 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. He was a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity as well as the scholastic honors fraternity, … - Mike Dean
Mike Dean (born Thomas Michael Dean on August 24, 1963) is the bassist for American metal band Corrosion of Conformity. He sang on the band's early recordings from their crossover thrash era before leaving the band in 1987. He rejoined C.O.C. as the bass player and occasional vocalist in 1993 and collaborated with Dave Grohl on the Probot song "Access Babylon", a return to the punk/metal fusion of old. - Jeff Macnelly
Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, the creator of the immensely popular comic strip, "Shoe", and an artist whose fine art paintings, prints and sculptures manage to convey both his superb draftsmanship and his unique view of the world in which he lived. Jeff’s talents generated both admiration and respect. In June 2000, Lawrence Van Gelder wrote in the NY Times, “Mr. - Brian Roberts
Brian Michael Roberts (born October 9, 1977 in Durham, North Carolina), nicknamed "B-Rob", is a switch hitting second baseman who plays for the Baltimore Orioles in the MLB. He has spent his entire professional career with the Orioles organization and made his major league debut in 2001. Bold text HOTTEST MAN ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NICEST GUY EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! - Roger Craig
Roger Lee Craig (born February 17, 1930 in Durham, North Carolina) is a former pitcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. During an 11-year playing career, Craig won 10 or more games in 1956, 1957, and 1962. A master at the split-finger fastball, Craig started his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and closed out his career with the Philadelphia Phillies. Craig was best known as a player for being an original New York Met. - Woody Weatherman
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