Famous People Born in North Carolina
- Aiken, Clay (Chapel Hill)
- Amos, Tori (Newton)
- Bakker, Jay (Charlotte)
- Barrino, Fantasia (High Point)
- Bell, Art (Camp Lejeune)
- Butterfield, Valeisha (Wilson)
- Byrd, Robert C. (North Wilkesboro)
- Coltrane, John (Hamlet)
- Dhue, Laurie
- Dole, Elizabeth (Salisbury)
- Earnhardt, Dale (Kannapolis)
- Earnhardt, Dale Jr. (Concord)
- Fargo, Donna (Mount Airy)
- Flack, Roberta (Black Mountain)
- Galifianakis, Zach (Wilkesboro)
- Gardner, Ava (Grabtown)
- Graham, Billy (Charlotte)
- Graham, Franklin (Asheville)
- Grier, Pam (Winston Salem)
- Griffith, Andy (Mount Airy)
- Hall, Michael C. (Raleigh)
- Helms, Jesse (Monroe)
- Johnson, Andrew (Raleigh)
- Jones, Star (Badin)
- Madison, Dolley (Piedmont)
- Mitchell, Joseph (Near Iona)
- Monk, Thelonious (Rocky Mount)
- Moore, Julianne (Fayetteville)
- Murrow, Edward R. (Polecat Creek)
- O. Henry (Greensboro)
- Petty, Richard (Level Cross)
- Polk, James (Mecklenburg County)
- Pressly, Jaime (Kinston)
- Roach, Max (New Land)
- Simone, Nina (Tryon)
- Travis, Randy (Marshville)
- Watson, Doc (Deep Gap)
- Wolfe, Thomas (Asheville)