Mountain Mama’s
legion
All of these
well-known people have one thing in common: They are West Virginians.
I knew about
most of them. But a few surprised me.
Brad Paisley – Country Musician
Chuck Yeager – Aviator
Steve Harvey – TV Personality
Little Jimmy Dickens – Country Musician
Johnnie Johnson – Musician
Kathy Mattae –
Country Musician
Chris Sarandon – Actor, “The Princess Bride”
Bill Withers – Musician
Chief Logan – 18th Century Native American Leader
Jay Rockefeller III – Former Governor and US Senator
Conchata Ferrell – Actress, “Two and a Half Men”
Homer Hickam – Author, “Rocket Boys”
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones – Labor Leader
Patsy Paugh Ramsey – former Miss West Virginia and mother of
JonBenét Ramsey
Hoda Kotb – Journalist, Today Show Host
Bob Huggins – WVU Basketball Coach
Jerry West – Former NBA Star
Giles Snyder – Journalist, NPR
Joe Manchin – Former Governor and US Senator
Hasil Adkins – Musician
Bill Mazeroski – Former Pittsburgh Pirate
Don Knotts – Actor
Hazel Dickens – Folk Musician
Bill Stewart – Former WVU Football Coach
Pearl S. Buck – Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Nobel Laurete
John Knowles – Author, “A Seperate Peace”
Jimbo Fisher – Florida State Football Coach
John Corbett – Actor, “Sex in the City”
Shannon Larkin – Drummer for Godsmack
Robert Byrd – Former US Senator
Lesli Kay – Actor, “The Bold and the Beautiful”
Frankie Yankovic – America’s Polka King
Booker T. Washington – Politican, Educator, Author
Soupy Sales – Actor
Morgan Spurlock – Documentarian
Ted Cassidy – Actor, “The Addams Family”
Mylan Puskar – Founder of Mylan Pharmaceuticals
Stonewall Jackson – Civil War General
Joyce DeWitt – Actor, “Three’s Company”
Nick Swisher – MLB Star
Peter Marshall – Host, “Hollywood Squares”
David Selby – Actor, “Falcon Crest”
Josh Stewart – Actor, “Criminal Minds”
Tommy Bowden – Former Clemson Football Coach
Randy Moss – Former NFL Player
Mary Lou Retton – Olympic Gymnast
Sam Trammell – Actor, “True Blood”
Nick Saban – Alabama Football Coach
George Preston Marshall, former owner the Washington Redskins
Michael Cerveris – Broadway Actor
Aaron Staton – Actor, “Mad Men”
Bob Denver – Actor, retired to Mercer County
Morgan Morgan – Frontiersman
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – Historian
Jessica Lynch – Prisoner of War
Cyrus Vance – Former Secretary of State
John Forbes Nash – Mathematician
Larry Gibson – Environmentalist
Jennifer Garner – Actress
Anna Jarvis – Founder of Mother’s Day
Jesse “Jesco” White
– The Best Tap Dancer There Is
Cecil Roberts –
UMWA President
Jon McBride – NASA Astronaut
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