Famous South Carolinans 
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Whispering Bill Anderson - songwriter, Columbia

Bernard Baruch - statesman, Camden

Mary McLeod Bethune - educator, Mayesville

James Godfather Brown - singer, Barnwell

Joseph H. Burckhalter - inventor, Columbia

James F. Byrnes - senator, jurist, Charleston

John C. Calhoun - statesman, Calhoun Mills

Joe Frazier - prize fighter, Beaufort

Althea Gibson - tennis champion, Silver

Dizzy Gillespie - jazz trumpeter, Cheraw

DuBose Heyward - poet, playwright, author, Charleston

Charlayne Hunter-Gault - journalist, Due West

Andrew Jackson - U.S. president, Waxhaw

Jesse Louis Jackson - civil rights leader, Greenville

Eartha Kitt - singer, North

Francis Swamp Fox Marion - general, Berkeley County

Robert Evander McNair - governor, Cades

Ronald McNair - astronaut, Lake City

John Rutledge - jurist, Charleston

Strom Thurmond - politician, Edgefield

Charles Hard Townes - physicist, Greenville

William Westmoreland - army chief of staff, Spartanburg

Vanna White - TV personality, North Myrtle Beach


 
 
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