List of Sons and Daughters of the City of Charleston, South Carolina

This is a list of public figures that American US in the city of Charleston ( South Carolina ) were born. The list does not claim to be complete.

18th century

1701-1760

Henry Laurens
(1724–1792)

John Laurens
(1754–1782)

Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), trader, officer and politician
Henry Laurens (1724–1792), political leader in the War of Independence
William Moultrie (1730–1805), politician and governor of South Carolina
Isaac Motte (1738–1795), politician
Thomas Bee (1739–1812), lawyer and politician
Benjamin Guerard (1740–1788), politician and Governor of South Carolina from 1783 to 1785
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825), politician; Signatory to the United States Constitution
Nicholas Eveleigh (≈1748–1791), politician
Edward Rutledge (1749–1800), British-American politician and one of the American founding fathers as one of the signatories of the United States' Declaration of Independence
Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828), soldier, politician and diplomat
John Laurens (1754–1782), soldier in the War of Independence
Charles Pinckney (1757–1824), politician and governor of South Carolina
John Parker (1759-1832), politician

1761-1800

William F. De Saussure
(1792-1870)

Hugh S. Legaré
(1797-1843)

Alexander Juhan (1765–1845), composer, pianist and conductor
Benjamin Huger (1768–1823), politician
William Johnson (1771–1834), lawyer and US Supreme Court Justice
John Geddes (1777–1828), politician and Governor of South Carolina from 1818 to 1820
Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851), physician, botanist and politician
John Linscom Boss (1780-1819), politician
Thomas Bennett (1781–1865), politician and Governor of South Carolina from 1820 to 1822
Robert Mills (1781–1855), architect and cartographer
James Hamilton junior (1786–1857), politician and Governor of South Carolina from 1830 to 1832
Jehu Jones (1786–1852), Lutheran minister
James Gadsden (1788–1858), diplomat and officer
Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873), abolitionist, writer, civil rights activist and feminist
William F. De Saussure (1792–1870), politician
Charles James McDonald (1793–1860), politician and Governor of Georgia from 1839 to 1843
Henry L. Pinckney (1794–1863), politician
Isaac E. Holmes (1796-1867), politician
Hugh S. Legaré (1797–1843), lawyer, diplomat, politician and Minister of Justice

19th century

1801-1830

Wade Hampton
(1818-1902)

Henry Timrod
(1828–1867)

Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879), political activist and women's rights activist
Benjamin Huger (1805–1877), major general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Theodore Gaillard Hunt (1805-1893), politician
William Aiken (1806–1887), politician and governor of the state of South Carolina from 1844 to 1846
Henry M. Hyams (1806–1875), politician and Confederate Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1860 to 1864
William Valk (1806–1879), doctor and politician
Philip Phillips (1807–1884), lawyer and politician
George Alfred Trenholm (1807–1876), politician of the Confederate States of America
Thomas Fenwick Drayton (1808-1891), Brigadier General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and president of a railroad company
Lewis Charles Levin (1808-1860), politician
Daniel Payne (1811–1893), Methodist bishop and college president
Stephen A. Hurlbut (1815–1882), politician, diplomat and commander
William Waters Boyce (1818–1890), politician
Wade Hampton III. (1818–1902), Confederate Army general in the American Civil War
Thomas Caute Reynolds (1821-1887), politician
Hamilton Prioleau Bee (1822–1897), politician and brigadier general in the Confederate Army in the Civil War
William Porcher Miles (1822–1899), politician
William H. Hunt (1823-1884), politician
Barnard Elliott Bee (1824–1861), Brigadier General of the Confederate Army in the Civil War
James Skivring Smith (≈1825–1884), American-Liberian doctor and politician; sixth President of Liberia
Henry Timrod (1828–1867), poet and journalist

1831-1900

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
(1831-1924)

Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1831-1886)

Burnet R. Maybank
(1899-1954)

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1831–1924), classical philologist
Paul Hamilton Hayne (1831-1886), poet
Stephen Dill Lee (1833–1908), General in the Confederate Army in the Civil War and politician
Samuel Wragg Ferguson (1834–1917), Brigadier General of the Confederate Army in the Civil War
Lawrence Ludlow Cohen (1836–1918), genre, landscape, still life and portrait painter
Ellison Capers (1837–1908), Confederate Brigadier General in the Civil War and Bishop of the Episcopal Church
William Aiken Walker (1839–1921), genre and portrait painter
Henry Pinckney Northrop (1842–1916), Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston
Edmund William McGregor Mackey (1846-1884), politician
Frazelia Campbell (1849–1930), ancient historian and teacher
Martin F. Ansel (1850–1945), politician and governor of South Carolina from 1907 to 1911
Alexander Campbell King (1856–1926), lawyer and Solicitor General of the United States
William A. Moffett (1869-1933), Admiral
William Robert Shepherd (1871–1934), historian and historical cartographer
Richard S. Whaley (1874–1951), lawyer and politician
Leigh Whipper (1876–1975), actor
Alfred L. Bulwinkle (1883–1950), politician
Ernest Just (1883-1941), biologist
DuBose Heyward (1885-1940), writer
Tom Delaney (1889–1963), blues musician
Octavus Roy Cohen (1891–1959), lawyer and writer
Lottie Hightower (1891 – after 1957), jazz musician
Arthur Freed (1894–1973), musical producer and songwriter
William Lawrence (1895–1981), pianist, singer and music teacher
Arthur Briggs (1899–1991), trumpeter, orchestra conductor and jazz musician
Burnet R. Maybank (1899–1954), politician and Governor of South Carolina from 1939 to 1941

20th century

1901-1940

Fritz Hollings
(1922-2019)

Arthur Ravenel
(* 1927)

Alexandra Ripley
(1934-2004)

Gus Aiken (1902–1973), jazz trumpeter and cornet player
Pete Briggs (1904 – unknown), tubist and bassist
Bertha Hill (1905–1950), blues, jazz and vaudeville singer and dancer
Ellsworth Johnson (1905-1968), African American bully
Helen Chandler (1906–1965), actress
Fud Livingston (1906–1957), jazz musician, arranger and composer
Frances Fuller (1907–1980), actress
Willie Smith (1910-1967), jazz alto saxophonist
Freddie Green (1911-1987), jazz guitarist
Hal Jackson (1915–2012), radio and television presenter
Elbert Root (1915–1983), water diver
Julian Dash (1916–1974), swing tenor saxophonist
Robert Francis Furchgott (1916–2009), scientist
Cliff Smalls (1918–2008), jazz band leader, trombonist, pianist, arranger and composer
Alice Childress (1920–1994), playwright, actress and writer
Sidney Rittenberg (1921–2019), interpreter and scholar
Fritz Hollings (1922–2019), politician
James L. Holloway III. (1922-2019), naval officer
Burnet R. Maybank Jr. (1924-2016), politician, lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina
Arthur Ravenel (* 1927), politician
Robert Ferguson (1929-2006), blues singer and pianist
Elsa Raven (born 1929), actress
Eugene Figg (1930-2002), civil engineer
Alexandra Ripley (1934-2004), writer
Mr. Wrestling II (born 1934), wrestler
Ronnie Free (* 1936), jazz drummer
Rufus Jones (1936–1990), drummer

1941-1970

Lauren Hutton
(born 1943)

Andy Dick
(* 1965)

Bobbie Phillips
(born 1968)

Thomas F. Hartnett (* 1941), politician
Lauren Hutton (born 1943), actress and model
Earl Manigault (1944-1998), basketball player
Art Shell (born 1946), American football player and coach
Glenn F. McConnell (born 1947), politician
Joe Wilson (born 1947), politician
Robert Jordan (1948-2007), writer
Alphonse Mouzon (1948–2016), drummer, composer and producer
Frank Lee Culbertson (born 1949), astronaut
Charles Marvin Green, Jr. (1950-2017), known as "Angry Grandpa", internet personality
James D. Bissell (* 1951), production designer
Mo Brooks (* 1954), politician
Will Patton (born 1954), actor
Bob Belden (1956-2015), jazz musician
Catherine Coleman (* 1960), astronaut
Thomas Gibson (born 1962), actor
Maylon Hanold (* 1963), canoeist
Andy Dick (born 1965), actor
Sallie Krawcheck (* 1965), bank manager
Kevin Davis (born 1966), Turner
Darius Rucker (* 1966), rock and country musician
Melanie Thornton (1967-2001), pop and R&B singer
Lonnie Bradley (born 1968), boxer
Bobbie Phillips (born 1968), actress
André Bauer (* 1969), politician
Shepard Fairey (* 1970), street artist, graphic artist and illustrator from the skateboard scene